Re: [Scottish] Welcome to the wiki, Edlug

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:55:09PM +, William Anderson wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: : > > Scotlug wiki, as opposed to Edlug starting their own. It has "scot" in the > > name > > doesn't it? Anyway #scotlug is inhabited by people from all over > > Scotland. > > I suggested using ScotLUG as

Re: [Scottish] Welcome to the wiki, Edlug

2007-03-02 Thread William Anderson
Dan Shearer wrote: > Dear Edlug, > Cc Scotlug > > Others can confirm and expand on this, but anyway... > > During last night's edlug Faye, Alistair, me and maybe one or two others > dropped into #scotlug . Cut a long story short (such as when willie > dropped "apt-get dist-upgrade" into the conve

[Scottish] open source in business

2007-03-02 Thread Alastair Broom
I spoke to a number of people at the EdLug meeting last night about Open Source Software being used by Scottish companies, and thought I'd pass the same info onwards to ScotLug. I was talking about www.opensourcescotland.org, which has been set up by myself and Kevin Campbell: "OpenSourceScotl

[Scottish] Welcome to the wiki, Edlug

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Shearer
Dear Edlug, Cc Scotlug Others can confirm and expand on this, but anyway... During last night's edlug Faye, Alistair, me and maybe one or two others dropped into #scotlug . Cut a long story short (such as when willie dropped "apt-get dist-upgrade" into the conversation, followed by "oops") there

Re: [Scottish] Re: time spent on Linux stuff...

2007-03-02 Thread J.R. Seago
On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:13, babaguy wrote: >  Dear J.R., I *am* posting via microsoft, using an html enabled "myway" > webmail account, and I put in a lot of air and space so that it will be > readable - but too often whatever browser the slug is using just wipes > out my formatting... The

Re: [Scottish] Re: time spent on Linux stuff...

2007-03-02 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
babaguy wrote: William Anderson wrote: This is the Wrong Approach, imo. As Ben mentioned earlier, it's awfulto turn round and say to someone "the distro you have selected is tehwrongness". For general purpose personal computing, Ubuntu is just asappropriate as Fedora, Slackware, SuSE; more so

Re: [Scottish] Re: time spent on Linux stuff...

2007-03-02 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
William Anderson wrote: If I have a problem with my 2003 Fiat Punto, I really don't expect to be advised "tsk, you want a Ford Fiesta, that'll tidy up that disc brake problem you're having". *** resists temptation to make "Found On Road Dead" / "Fix Or Repair Daily" reference Gordon _