Norman Silverstone wrote:
We are the borg. You will be assimilated.
Now, now you are starting to show your age.
That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al
all the time :)
My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage
of good SF?
doug livesey wrote:
Surely that can't be right?
I'm running Jaunty on a Macbook 3,1 w/ 2gig RAM -- hardly the most recent
machine, but still!
This isn't a one-off, though -- copying to this drive is always slow
(currently 3.2 MB/Sec).
Is there something I'm not doing right?
Something I
John wrote:
Has anybody seen this today? It seems MS is at it again.
Because of the multi-value nature of the English language, your
statement does have more than one interpretation. Since the web site
referenced in the URL contains a graphic that reads C:\Blog.exe I'll
take anything
Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
Hello All,
For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament?
Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or
yahoo's online chess system?
Johnathon
Is there a similar service for Go with a Linux Go board?
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Paul Sutton wrote:
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Interesting, but the Intel Atom x86-based Asus Eee 901 can already
provide 8 hours of battery life.
Michael Holloway wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:14 +, alan c wrote:
I trust it will not be long before I can feel just a little safer?
comments welcomed.
Personally, I would say that this is a very long article stating that
social engineering is platform independent. Anybody can
Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
Okay so all this talk of Windows free laptops got me thinking about
plumping for a cheapo netbook to tide me over until next year when I can
afford something a bit more powerful.
Most of the latest generation of netbooks have 1.6 Ghz Atom processors
of which
John Levin wrote:
Hi all,
A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find
out about applications?
Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds
interesting, then look it up in synaptic?
If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how
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using 8.04 LTS. Being a cautious type, I've been investigating what
might go wrong (forewarned is forearmed!). I came across the comments
below (slighted edited) from someone who's reasonably tech-savvy,
James Dalley wrote:
Hiya,
I know there was talk about a monthly info email of how to post, so here is
my bug bear:
Top Posting, I know it's sad about arguing how to argue or the like, but when
people top post it's like saying hear me first
then see whats gone on before. May be sad
James Grabham wrote:
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there. I
started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
and It's really interesting, Im learning about
Chris Rowson wrote:
Hi people,
I was checking out this page http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid and I wonder
if anyone could explain it more fully to me?
The prices for server support, $2750 (USD) for 24x7 support
If I had ten servers, would that support fee cover me for advice on
to use MS products don't, but
there are people out there that do so let em.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3723131
I'd say I'm Mainstream Advocate, how about you?
Microsoft hating, Bargain hunting, Open Source Programmer, that is a
Soft/Mainstream Advocate
as R.A.H. said, specialization if for insects.
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Alan Pope wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:25:44AM +, Pete Stean wrote:
The price is a bit silly though... $1 does not equal £1, especially
not at the moment :|
Not quite sure what you're on about there, but the EeePC is 400 USD in the
US, and 200 GBP (roughly) in the UK, that's
Philip Newborough wrote:
On Nov 24, 2007 9:38 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Just noticed that Efficient PC are selling Asus Eee PCs with a 2GB RAM
upgrade and Ubuntu pre-installed. Looks like a nice deal.
http://efficientpc.co.uk/laptops/eeepc701b-ubuntu/
Cheers,
Al.
I
James Grabham wrote:
If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards,
Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be
slow?
I want to keep the 15s boot OS
I've run Ubuntu 7.04 (Gnome) on a VIA 600 Mhz PII with 512M of memory
and a relatively
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote:
If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards,
Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be
slow?
Yes. Not sure
Chris Rowson wrote:
Chris Rowson wrote:
On 11/24/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote:
If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards,
Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be
Tom Bamford wrote:
I like it, it's a nice piece of kit for the money, especially if you
factor in a built-in 3G modem/phone. If you're looking to splash out a
No build in 3G modem/phone in the Asus 701. There may/may not be a
mini-PCI slot which there may be a 3G modem Upgrade. Rumour has
Alan Pope wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:13:32PM +, Andrew Loughran wrote:
Is there a way to download the OS of the EEE PC?
Unlikely given Xandros is payware.
I guess if you have an Eee PC there will be a recovery CD with it?
The DVD that comes with it has a linuxiso on it, so I
Alan Pope wrote:
snip
I probably won't put Ubuntu on it initially, but leave the existing
software install for Sophie Clare.
Then maybe I'll buy the 10 version when it comes out next year for
myself :)
Al,
Have you seen this?
Alan Pope wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 08:19 +, Jim Kissel wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
snip
I probably won't put Ubuntu on it initially, but leave the existing
software install for Sophie Clare.
Then maybe I'll buy the 10 version when it comes out next year for
myself :)
Have you
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Jim,
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 08:44 +, Jim Kissel wrote:
Should be here today. Where did
you order your's from?
RM.
Have they delivered? If not have the given any indication of when they
will deliver? Why? I've noticed eBuyer and Dabs are sold out. Dabs
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Tony Arnold wrote:
Jim Kissel wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
You're all really old, I cant remember before my familys 486 with DOS
6.22 and win 3.11 for workgroups (I was born in 1992!!) lol I know
my Mum had a computer before that, but I cant remember it - I found
its dot matrix printer
Party during the cold war.
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Keith Cleaver wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 13:53 +0100, David M wrote:
Anybody having any luck downloading a Ubuntu 7.10 CD image?
[big snip]
Hi guys, I'm a new user of Ubuntu (I was a Puppy Linux user for a while,
and Red Hat a long time ago), and have been impressed with it.
Anyway,
taufanlubis wrote:
Hi all.
I suddenly lost my /var/run/apache2.pid
Now, I can't run my apache2.
Have any of you ever deal with it?
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
or
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
depending on the state of your machine. The start-up script should/will
create a new
Lucy wrote:
On 17/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should setup an [Ubuntu-UK][Jobs] list.
There's always the UK LUG Linux jobs mailing list at:
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs/
A hotbed of activity ;-)
Last updated 27 Sept. 2007
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Alan Pope wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:26 +0100, philip taylor wrote:
hi
i was discuusing in the irc ubuntu-uk about having a more local ubuntu
launch meeting, and suggest anybody who lives in banbury, oxfordshire,
or anywhere near, to contact us and or me, abour this, as many people
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Chris,
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:00 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Ubuntu Linux, Kills 100% of viruses. Dead. (along the lines of
Domestos advert)
Ubuntu Linux, Does exactly what it says on the tin. (Ronseal)
Ahh, now if we're parodying other peoples adverts then we
Philip Newborough wrote:
Hello list
I'm working on some web based adverts to do a little Ubuntu advocacy.
Now I know you 'orrible lot are a talented bunch [FYI - that was some
flattery] so I thought I'd ask for your ideas and opinions.
blatanly plagiarized
Ubuntu: Because life's
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:14 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk/+poll/ubuntu-uk-point-of-contact
Can anyone Name that tune?
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*** Please stop Top-Posting ***
Two is fine
How many sugars?
I'd rather have coffee if possible.
Coffee or tea?
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Mark Fraser wrote:
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 18:58:49 Alec Wright wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:55 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
*** Please stop Top-Posting ***
Two is fine
How many sugars?
I'd rather have coffee if possible.
Coffee or tea?
I was just about to ask what this list's
Chris Rowson wrote:
Scrase, Eddie wrote:
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a
problem, you can always move everything from the top bar down to the
bottom and then delete the top bar (which is what I have done on my
installation). You can also replace the Gnome
Scrase, Eddie wrote:
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a
problem, you can always move everything from the top bar down to the
bottom and then delete the top bar (which is what I have done on my
installation). You can also replace the Gnome
Chris Rowson wrote:
It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts ;-)
Right now I'm not doing much with it (Perl, most web technologies but
not Java, sometimes sysadmin, and occasional C/Bash/Awk/Sed), due to
lack of gainful employment. Until this changes, I'm open to
Josh Blacker wrote:
What time is the final iso released? Just thinking if you could
install a new operating system on your laptop over breakfast it would
make good press. A windows installation would take until at least
brunch to finish, without all the extra drivers and programs...
You
Matthew Larsen wrote:
Well thats the biggest threat to linux: If Microsoft charged
reasonable licenses for their software (ie £20 for Vista Ultimate),
FOSS would be blown out of the water.
But MS is a monopoly and that won't happen unless they really need to
Sorry to rain on your parade,
Any recommendations or a GUI view/editor for the files in
/usr/share/icons/Human/cursor ?
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Quoting Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Rob Beard wrote:
Quoting Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Any recommendations or a GUI view/editor for the files in
/usr/share/icons/Human/cursor ?
It's a long shot but could you try the gcursor package (which is the
Gnome cursor
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Neil Greenwood wrote:
On 06/08/07, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
find /your/path/to/a/directory -name '*.lck' -print
Find trawls the files system but appears to cache when re-run with a
short (hours) time. I've ever used locate. It has a db where it
'locates' files. BTY, if you
Is there a Ubuntu/Linux application that has the functionality of my old
Lotus Organiser.
I realise that I am asking this in the wrong place (sorry)
Would welcome any assitance may be available.
Regards Bill...
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. Unix UD was
a monthly but apparently has switched to 6x per year. The local WHS
informed me that the next issue of Unix UD will be out 29th of June.
We live in hope
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norman wrote:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install and uninstall and generally work
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Jim,
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 19:05 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
James Tait wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
You can confirm that this setting does not exist?
http://daviey.mooo.com/powersettings.jpg
The drop-down
James Tait wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
You can confirm that this setting does not exist?
http://daviey.mooo.com/powersettings.jpg
The drop-down is there for me, but I only have options to Ask me,
Suspend, Hibernate or Shutdown.
I can
to
view/download Click? (ubuntu 7.04 FF)
Thanks.. Alex.
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Cheers,
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What do you think?
A bit of old hat. The sanest comment I've seen was:
Wow, an electric Ouija board - and probably just as reliable!
...considering the source.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
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After years of having a mute computer, I finally wired up the speakers
to the sound card and decided to have a look at some the on line media.
Googled up some old videos of T-REX, the Doors.which entertained
for a few minutes but I found the sound appeared to trail the images by
1/2
I was just watching a Flash video about Ubuntu which I found amusing and
decided to download a copy. Found the videodownloader plugin for
Firefox and downloaded it and tried to play it back with the default
Movie Player Toten 2.16.2 (xine-lib 1.1.2 Ubuntu Edgy 6.10) Playback
is fine, but
in advance for any advice,
Matt
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A good, non-technical review/article of Ubuntu
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/05/ubuntu_review.html
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should pirate a copy of Windows instead of using Linux?
- Because you like breaking the law and being prosecuted.
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, and wanted to play up (as I
did again later about applications working together) Ubuntu as a good
choice :-)
Regards,
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The wow really starts now!
http://news.com.com/Dell+picks+Ubuntu+for+Linux+PCs/2100-7344_3-6180419.html
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Anyone have a good document template/sytle/example document for layout
of a FAQ?
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Toby Smithe wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:30 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Every time I get sucked into this debate, I reflect back that John Q.
Public/Joe Sixpack calls it Linux. You may not like it, and probably
don't, but that's not going to change the general public's mind as to
it's
Alan Pope wrote:
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So do I, but some people at the local LUG have taken exception to it.
Heh. Linux User Groups are a great melting pot of opinions. They're great
for just this kind of zealotary stuff. :) and :(
Even worse, I
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