Link to formal statement
http://gadgetfairs.com/plug-pulled-bracknell-computer-fair
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Hi All
Bracknell Computer Fairs (BCF) Cease
I have just received this from the organiser:
It is with regret that must tell you that Bracknell Computer Fair is
closing down. Long story short the council are putting pressure on the
leisure centre because of way
On 30/09/12 10:08, Tony Whitmore wrote:
On 29/09/12 08:20, john lewis wrote:
I am biased towards Debian as you all know and make no apologies for
promoting the Debian Way A large majority of HantsLUG members were
Debian users a few years back but for some reason chose to go with the
new kid on
On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote:
How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way?
In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar
with top-level headings like Graphics, Programming and so on.
1)Dash
2) click on Apps (lens??) [the icon at the bottom of
On 27/09/12 22:32, Gordon Scott wrote:
I thought it searched for 'function related' things. It seems to with
'player', as it finds a number of applications that are players, e.g.,
Timidity++.
It found nothing for 'transparency', nothing for 'glass', nothing for
'jpeg' and nothing for a number
On 27/09/12 19:52, Jack Knight wrote:
As it happens, after I discovered some love for Unity, popey posted this:
http://youtu.be/xA9EHaNc2VI
Which for me added the icing on the cake. Enjoy.
+1
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On 28/09/12 16:08, john lewis wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:43:32 +
Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote:
I may well give it a try, though part of this was to try and tolerate
Unity as it's Ubuntu's default environment.
An awful lot of people seem to dislike Unity, though, so it may just
On 05/07/12 11:16, Gordon Scott wrote:
Not so long ago the login screen had an 'desktop chooser' option on it,
so if you preferred a different WM than the 'standard', you just chose
it there. I was disappointed that that had gone (I'm sure I could find
how to restore it, but didn't .. life's too
On 11/05/12 14:40, Freaky Clown wrote:
Sorry for the cross post but im lazy... (talk to my lawyer if you have
a problem!)
Anyway a few of us folks are looking at a possibility of a Hackspace
based in aldershot - working on the basis that membership would be
about £20/month to start with
how
On 06/02/12 19:10, Isaac Close wrote:
On 06/02/2012 18:09, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD
died. Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems
ranging from install failing to complete with another HDD error to the
Gareth France who has begun a 'Ubuntu machines here' table at computer
fairs (Bracknell and Bristol I think) is also doing spares and repairs
of misc laptops so it might become a useful spares resource for him?
Geographic location is a factor I guess, for any handover. I am in
Bracknell, so I
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Defective laptop
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:31:32 +
From: Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com
To: alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com
How is it that I have seen the reply to this post but not the original?
Strange... Yes Alan, I
On 22/01/12 18:55, Vic wrote:
The PHBs had decided that they didn't care about copyright,
and if anything did happen, they'd just buy a licence.
There really is no reasoning with some people...
ROFL
(and then crying...)
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On 19/01/12 09:44, Daniel Pina wrote:
My ubuntu doesn't react to ctrl + alt + * either
my ubuntu 10.04.3 does not react either
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On 16/01/12 16:34, Stephen Davies wrote:
[...]
Jacqui is right, they might have answered as they did because you have
to remember that the MS Offices are less than half a mile away as the
crow flies.
Anyone read '1984' lately?
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On 14/01/12 08:45, Ian Grody wrote:
they had fedora, mandriva and Ubuntu live CDs for those few of us that
wanted to poke
Come on, folks, let's make the 'few of us' into a few more?
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On 12/01/12 22:05, Samuel Penn wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2012 17:28:41 Paul Tansom wrote:
On a related note, does anyone have any experience of the laptops sold by
Novatech? I'm considering whether to use them for a no-OS installed laptop
to put Linux on, so if anyone knows of hardware
On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said:
real
people using GNU/Linux operating systems.
Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux
You are pretty well correct in this, the cause is probably already
lost. Any
On 22/12/11 19:09, Mike Austin wrote:
Should anyone be interested, you can apply to join at
http://groups.google.com/group/linux-answers
Hi Mike and well done for the new group.
I guess you intend the group to be for the linux based operating
systems rather than the kernel only. Unfortunately
On 18/10/11 13:35, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On 18 October 2011 11:48, Lisi hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 18 October 2011 11:01:47 Victor Churchill wrote:
if I bought snake oil I would feel sheepish
about letting the rest of the world know , unless of course I really
On 23/09/11 20:39, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
I think it would be nice if you could use the secure boot to protect a
Linux install, instead of just disabling secure boot if you wish to
run Linux.
Good strategy. Anyone know how to begin to arrange this?
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On 14/07/11 12:19, Chris Dennis wrote:
Hello folks
I find myself being tempted away from the reliable plainness of
UKFSN/Entanet broadband towards the glossy excitement of BT broadband.
For these reasons:
* I need a new wifi router anyway, and I'll get a free one with BT.
* It will
On 12/04/11 15:29, Paul Tansom wrote:
** Tony Whitmoret...@tonywhitmore.co.uk [2011-04-12 10:04]:
We (Ubuntu UK Podcast Linux Outlaws) have just announced that we'll be
holding another OggCamp this year. If you've not heard of it, it's the
biggest and best free (as in beer) community-run
I happen to be using UKOnline ISP and have just discovered they are
being shut down by their now owner, SKY. I am not sure how recently
the information became available, but I heard on the grapevine at
yesterday's Computer Fair, and was a bit surprised I had not received
information from the
On 10/11/10 23:44, John Cooper wrote:
http://www.groklaw.net/images/awardvideofinalwithcopyright.mov
She talks about free and open source software, inferring Linux, GNU et
al. I don't think you stating GNU/Linux, inferring GNU has some
hierarchy above Linux, is appropriate.
The 'freedom'
On 11/11/10 14:18, John Cooper wrote:
On 11/11/10 13:33, Vic wrote:
[snip]
has its own political baggage,
I buy fair trade tea, chocolate and other similar ethically good items
if I possibly can.
I make some significant effort to vote in elections. I am occasionally
active in one or other
On 11/11/10 17:38, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
Yeah, I worship at the altar of Saint Stallman.
I liked the bit where he said one advantage was the disciples do not
need to be celibate.
:-)
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On 10/11/10 18:58, Stephen Davies wrote:
to all HantsLug,
Many of you may well have heard of Groklaw. (http://www.groklaw.net)
At least two of HantsLug members are regular contibutors. I'm one and
'Vic' is another.
If you are a contributor like us then you will probably know of the
award
On 17/10/10 17:41, Tim wrote:
I have a PC that is failing to boot, it is giving 1 long and 3 short beeps.
According to sources on the net it is a memory failure above 64k, is that the
memroy modules I add to the motherbaord or is that some other base\cache memory
on the motherboard or CPU??
On 18/09/10 13:23, Samuel Penn wrote:
Completely off topic, but there's some clever people on this
list, so I'm hoping someone might have some ideas.
Playing around with my Android phone, I've noticed that
according to its compass application, East doesn't exist
around my house (near GU14
On 13/09/10 22:35, Leo wrote:
Does anybody know how to get ubuntu to show useful info when booting?
The reason I ask is that it keeps hanging when mounting disks every few
boots, but for all I know it could just be fscking them. Or failing,
that is it possible to get it to keep old /var/log/boot
On 16/08/10 10:22, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
One of my colleagues has broken his USB stick - as in physically
broken the metal bit that goes into the machine. It's snapped off -
buggered, FUBAR'd. He says there's some data on the USB stick that
he'd like back, and would be prepared to spend
Benjamin Ashton wrote:
Hmmm
I'm afraid my love affair with Linux is beginning to wane.
After finding that the spellcheck in OpenOffice was failing to work
(despite Hunspell being apparently installed), and that the OoHelp
was giving me blank pages, I decided to install Abiword. This
Alan Bell wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on
Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the
general election and in particular the http://votegeek.org.uk website.
At the moment it is suffering a bit of voter
Alan Bell wrote:
I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on
Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the
general election and in particular the http://votegeek.org.uk website.
At the moment it is suffering a bit of voter apathy and I don't
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
This may be interesting to some people.
- Forwarded message from Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org -
From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org
Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] Event - BCS OSSG 'Question time on Open Source'
http://ossg.bcs.org/
ââ¬ÅQuestion
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
Hi,
My current Dell laptop is really getting long in the tooth (~10 years old).
Novatech sell naked laptops so I don't have to pay the Windows tax on them.
Has anyone used any of their recent kit, e.g X10, Xplora E16 or V13? I
basically want a small/light box
Sounds like good news to me
White House goes Open Source
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/10/27/white_house_goes_open_source.html
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Chris Aitken wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm
Thanks, interesting.
I have tried, and failed, to capture the video on this, maybe
technology has changed?
any thoughts?
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James Ashburner wrote:
John Cooper wrote:
After all the dirty tricks from M$ and Intel to derail the one laptop
per child programme, Uruguay becomes the first country to supply a
laptop to every child at primary school (362,000). This is with the
Sugar interface and Fedora based Linux
If any one is available to help, please let me know? Even if not
please visit!
10.00am - 4.00pm
Bracknell Bandstand
Saturday Sept. 19th 2009
FYI:
press release:
===
Software Freedom Day 2009, Bracknell:
Saturday September 19th will see Bracknell
Peter Brooks wrote:
Hi all,
After a friend has had his full spec macbook pro 15 stolen from his
house, I'm considering beefing up my laptop security.
My initial thoughts are to encrypt /home,/tmp and swapspace. But to
ideally that when the computer is locked (gnome) then the volume is
Stephen Rowles wrote:
On 08/13/2009 01:16 PM, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
As gparted seems not to want to allow me to shrink/move anything, do I
have any option but to back everything up and start again?
Chris.
gparted won't let you adjust or move any partition that is currently
(Surrey LUG list, Hampshire LUG list)
Just to let you know that I have booked and registered for Software
Freedom Day 2009 in
Bracknell town centre - the Bandstand.
The date is September 19th (Saturday)
place:
http://www.bracknelltowncouncil.gov.uk/bandstand.htm
john wrote:
Hi All
I could not resist the itch to say something.
More than once the use of Microsoft software has save my bacon.
I have the greatest respect for the windows system provided it has
no contact with the Internet. I have seen well
[...]
As you may be aware, one reason to
Andy Smith wrote:
Linus Torvalds recently had something to say about Microsoft
bashing:
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same
time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. I believe
in open
Chris Dennis wrote:
[...]
Free software is a secret from most people -- they only hear about the
stuff that's advertised on the telly.
Well said!
The 'retail therapy' is consumed relentlessly and most people are
completely hooked into it. We are deeply immersed in a retail
environment. It is
Victor Churchill wrote:
Hello, I am in a silly situation.
My laptop hard disk was as follows:
40GB:
4 GB Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
36GB WinXP:
20GB Wubi installation of Hardy 8.04 under WinXP
The reason for the odd setup is that I needed a working install this
time last year and 8.04 would
How does that work please?
Luke Stutters wrote:
Yeah, generate 45 minutes of silence, select it and hit record.
2009/7/25 Rob Malpass l...@getiton.myzen.co.uk
Hi all
Anybody know if it's possible to get Audacity to record and stop recording
after a fixed length of time?
I'm trying to
I forward this from the leicester lug:
This looks like a worthy cause, hope you find it useful?
alan cocks
Original Message
From: - Thu Jun 4 16:39:15 2009
[snip]
From: Steve Brown steve.stevebr...@gmail.com
To: Leicester Linux User Group Mailing List
James Ashburner wrote:
Hi all,
We've had an unusual problem with a particular model laptop at work
recently (HP 6710b). The network card stops working, though it still
reports network cable as being plugged in and the lights flash away
merrily. The card will not pick up an IP address
Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
Hi,
My old Dell Inspiron is coming to the end of it's life, I mostly use a
desktop
system so I don't need an all dancing notebook. I want a small/cheap
computer, for presentations at meetings and the occasional use away from
home.
I can get a Dell Inspiron
Lisi wrote:
I have been trying for weeks now to record a simple file in Linux, and
getting
almost nowhere. (I recorded 2 words yesterday, but now can't do it again.
And anyhow, 2 words is not enough.) I just don't know enough about sound
mixing to understand the instructions,
Have just posted a blog item on a silver surfers site and thought you
might enjoy knowing about it?
I am reminded of the DAD project that I saw from Adam Trickett a
while ago. At the time I was most envious of his (for me) way out
skills. I still am. (However I keep at it!)
Shopping delivered
Lisi wrote:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/extras.html?t=nbc=homer=E15s=NNB-710v=1
Has anyone put Linux on this laptop? If so, what worked and what didn't and
which version of which distro did you use?
for some months, novatech have added linux specific forums. Although
they are not
I have been trying to join up at these forums with no success.
http://linuxfreedom.com/forums/index.php
They have a nice name and seem like a good idea.
I have registered (or tried to) a new membership, however, the
confirmation (activation) email does not seem to get through to me,
and I have
do me a great favour and contact the admins and say that a
new member username candtalan email aecl...@candt.waitrose.com is
having this weird trouble confirming registration please?
I would be most grateful.
alan
Kev
alan c wrote:
I have been trying to join up at these forums
Kev
Kev wrote:
Of course - I would say that it might take a while - the only admin
hasn't been on the forum since the 4th :)
Of course - possibly he's on holiday
Kev
alan c wrote:
Kev wrote:
The only help that I can offer at the moment is that the e-mails do get
sent - I just
Kev wrote:
I didn't ask previously, but thought I would check - you have looked in
spam boxes I assume.
Anyway, pm sent to the admin regardless.
Tried again, still nothing in my waitrose mail account, however, I did
find one of my attempted memberships *did* get a response to my yahoo
Tony Whitmore wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:47:58 +, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
Stephen Davies wrote:
Well, Microshaft has gone and done it
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_sues_TomTom_over_patents_in_case_with_Linux_subplot_40305732.html
http
Hugo Mills wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:12:51PM +, Phillip Chandler wrote:
Microsoft filed suit against TomTom today, alleging that the in-car
navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents -- including
three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel.
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/2/27 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
So, what if Tom Tom suddenly found a huge amount of community cash?
..and what if they lost (or caved), and decided to spend that money on
licensing FAT instead?
As I understand it Microsoft charge something like $0.25 per
Stephen Davies wrote:
Well, Microshaft has gone and done it
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_sues_TomTom_over_patents_in_case_with_Linux_subplot_40305732.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/
Right,
time to get the beer in and settle down to
Paul Tansom wrote:
OK, somewhat prompted by my current state of mind and recent events, but
a valid question none the less.
For those that have non-technical other halves, relatives or etc. who
don't know other techies, what, if anything, have you in place for the
contingency of not being
Phillip Chandler wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 18:36 +, Sean Gibbins wrote:
Paul Tansom wrote:
OK, somewhat prompted by my current state of mind and recent events, but
a valid question none the less.
For those that have non-technical other halves, relatives or etc. who
don't know
I have heard that some banks are planning to issue, or have issued
customers with card readers for home use of chip and pin. Does anyone
know if there are any OS issue with any of them?
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Owain Clarke wrote:
I'm looking for a new broadband provider, having intended to escape
Tiscali ever since realising during a support call that I knew more about
networking than the person at the other end.
There are packages which depend on your level of usage, and I'm wondering
if there
Vic wrote:
Hi All.
I've acquired a Novatech Laptop - not sure of their designation, but the
label on the underside describes it as a L51A10.
It has an ATI chipset, including an audio device that reports itself as:
ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Stephen Davies wrote:
The £50.00 is even worse thn I thought.
1) It is FAR above the standard Amazon shipping rates for something that
size weight
2) And even worse, AMAZON US shipps to people in the US of A FREE.
Someone has commented to this on Groklaw earlier this afternoon. They
Stephen Davies wrote:
If you are tempted to buy one then just remember that you are going
to have to stump up an extra £50.00 for delivery.
IMHO, this is a bit steep and is well in excess of their normal
stated rates.
I was considering the offer but the delivery charge has made me
think
Peter Alefounder wrote:
Does anyone have any advice to offer on digital cameras? There are
a lot of web sites about this, but many appear to be out of date.
We have an old
canon powershot A200, a newer
canon powershot A540 and a more new
canon powershot A720 IS
all work in (PTP mode) in basic
Alan Bell wrote:
It is nothing to do with recycling! the cost of the XO laptop is about
$200 (yes, about twice what they were initially hoping for, partly
because the dollar fell in value thanks to Bush) They are selling them
on Amazon for $399 which is enough money to purchase 2 laptops.
Stephen Davies wrote:
Alan,
My Hummy is less han a year old but I had issues with the USB connection.
So, I remove the HDD and use humaxrw to get the .TS files.
Same for me, I have two units. the first will usually connect using
the son_t cables modification (ide cable to usb), if a powered
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