Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2009-11-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:38:08 -, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: I just remembered. Won't we going to try somewhere different? Did we get a consensus? I don't think one was ever reached. No. As someone else predicted I think. :-) It isn't

[Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
Anyone installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 yet? I've just run it from a USB stick to show my wife the differences between 9.04 and 9.10. It seems a step forward and if the boot speed on an installed system is enhanced as much as full blown Kubuntu was, then it's worth it for that alone. The

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Martin Settle
Hi Terry I've installed 9.10 but haven't yet tried putting Skype on (I'm mostly using SIP now). Unfortunately, my eee was stolen a few weeks ago. I've replaced it with an earlier model Aspire One. That said, assuming all the hardware works on both, there shouldn't be much difference in the

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/26 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk: So anyone got this combo working?  I've seen some stuff on the Internet about this, but nothing much that gives me confidence that it isn't going to be a real pain. Just grab Skype from their website. The new beta works nicely with pulse audio

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Alan Pope wrote: Just grab Skype from their website. The new beta works nicely with pulse audio too. I'd just like to know that this works *before* I trash her current installation. I'm using Skype Beta on Ubuntu 9.10 (standard, not

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/26 Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk: On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Alan Pope wrote: Just grab Skype from their website. The new beta works nicely with pulse audio too. I'd just like to know that this works *before* I trash her current installation. Backup, upgrade, test, if it fails,

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Alan Pope wrote: Backup, upgrade, test, if it fails, revert back, if it works, winner! Oh. I don't mind re-installing everything from scratch and she doesn't have much on her home directory (which is on a different partition anyway). I'm just reluctant to do the work

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Dominic Lonsdale
I have just installed skype on an ASUS ePC 900A, created an account and made a test call. Downloaded from www.skype.com/download Entire process was point and click apart from entering password. On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 14:25 +, Terry Coles wrote: Anyone installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 yet?

Re: [Dorset] UNR 9.10 and Skype

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 26 Nov 2009, Dominic Lonsdale wrote: I have just installed skype on an ASUS ePC 900A, running 9.10 NBR, created an account and made a test call. Downloaded from www.skype.com/download Entire process was point and click apart from entering password. I assume that you used the beta