Re: [Dorset] Hi from a new ubuntu user in wimborne

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 30 Jan 2011, laurie ransom wrote: hi guys, my name's laurie, I'm 17 (18 on march 29th) I live in wimborne and I recently went from having just windows xp to having a dual boot of xp and ubuntu 10.10 Welcome Laurie. Good move. i'm very at home on computers generally, spending

Re: [Dorset] Hi from a new ubuntu user in wimborne

2011-01-30 Thread C A Wills
Hi Laurie Don't worry abput geing a newbie there's several around including me! I also live in Wimborne along with two others, there's room in my car if your stuck as I'll be taking Steve and possibly Peter on Tuesday. Reply 'off list' to me with your address and phone number so we can

Re: [Dorset] Hi from a new ubuntu user in wimborne

2011-01-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Laurie, welcome aboard. so I embarked on partitioning and installation, finally got ubuntu running, and lo and behold, I'm COMPLETELY out of my depth. If there's any particular thing causing a hold up to you using it, feel free to ask on the mailing list before Tuesday. There's also IRC

Re: [Dorset] Hi from a new ubuntu user in wimborne

2011-01-30 Thread DJ Lonsdale
Hi Laurie; so I embarked on partitioning and installation, finally got ubuntu running, and lo and behold, I'm COMPLETELY out of my depth. I have been using Ubuntu for a few years and find it works well. There are usually two ways of doing things in Ubuntu ; One is to use cryptic commands in

[Dorset] Hi from a new ubuntu user in wimborne

2011-01-29 Thread laurie ransom
hi guys, my name's laurie, I'm 17 (18 on march 29th) I live in wimborne and I recently went from having just windows xp to having a dual boot of xp and ubuntu 10.10 i'm very at home on computers generally, spending countless hours weekly using my laptop. I mainly use windows (specifically