Public bug reported:
Ubuntu on Wayland crashes when you try to change the resolution even if your
display supports the
Version: 3.38.0-1ubuntu2
Release: 20.10 Groovy Gorilla (development branch)
What I expected to happen
1. Login to Wayland
2. Change the resolution
3. Go on with my day
What
If anybody can educate me how to snip posts you're replying to on an iPad
I'd be VERY grateful!
I have tried and tried, but generally it seems to take hours to get rid of
the surplus text (and even then I normally end up leaving a bit of it).
Hence, when I reply from iPad (today I'm not - so you
On 21 July 2013 14:07, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
There is an important difference between speaking honestly and being
disrespectful.
No, that was disrespectful. And I had to re-read it as I thought maybe I'd
misinterpreted it, but it was... and it was uncalled for.
This is meant
On 21 July 2013 15:02, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
Generally, I'm more concerned that the bit of the mail I want to read
(the reply) is on-screen as I open the email than where it is.
I think quoting inline, as I am doing here, is the ideal... that said,
there are some pedants who feel
Really? (Wifi drops to lowest device speed)
I've never encountered this... why and how does this happen?
Sean
On Saturday, 20 July 2013, Rob Beard wrote:
On 20/07/13 20:52, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Hello all,
The heaviest use of internet I do is for some video streaming at home.
At
I think it'll all be largely irrelevant in a few years... with more and
more functionality moving from OS to browser/cloud the operating system is
becoming less and less important.
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On 10 May 2013 09:51, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry? You don't seem to understand what I'm saying. No I don't trust my
data with a stranger, that's one of the reasons I won't send the hard drive
off. I already have a server to back up to, it's the good internet
connection
On 10 May 2013 10:01, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Also, regarding 0845 a simple Google search pulls up this website
http://www.weq4u.co.uk/ which allows you to call a landline number (0333
5432111) and then when it answers type in an 0845 number and it'll
connect... so it isn't
On 10 May 2013 10:09, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't you mount your hard drive as an external one on your desktop PC
(as you are suggesting you will do whilst the laptop is away) and then copy
the data directly onto the fixed hard drive on that PC... then re-install
On 10 May 2013 10:12, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't found any reasons for them not to help me. The issue mostly is
with the phone numbers, where many companies use these non-geographic
numbers, creating a barrier between them and some of their customers. It
really
On 10 May 2013 10:12, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't found any reasons for them not to help me. The issue mostly is
with the phone numbers, where many companies use these non-geographic
numbers, creating a barrier between them and some of their customers. It
really
On 10 May 2013 10:40, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
After the way you spoke to me last time Alan, I'd rather run over my hard
drive with my car! Rude was not the word.
Watch out, Alan, you'll be the next subject of his blog ;-)
That seemed a very kind gesture to me...
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On 10 May 2013 10:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Sean, perhaps it's a little unfair to judge the outcome of a
conversation you didn't witness. Perhaps it's time all this was put to bed.
It's not getting anyone anywhere.
If you want to hold a grudge about something that has
On 10 May 2013 11:05, Laura Czajkowski la...@lczajkowski.com wrote:
bah I meant Alan Pope - shall stick to using Alan. More often than not
I'll be right then :)
Always the best option :-)
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If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every washing
machine should have alternative operating systems.
No, it's not something I subscribe to.
If a manufacturer wishes to go with Windows, then that's fine.
If Ubuntu wants to become the OS of choice then let's PERSUADE rather
I have not had any great issues with Wifi on any of the laptops I've
installed on... I suspect that the find a laptop that Ubuntu will work on
is becoming less and less of a factor these days, as not only does wireless
hardware become more generic but the OS continues to support more and more.
WUBI is fine with Windows 8
I'm running it here...
Just install it from Windows.
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On 6 January 2013 10:33, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
But I get exactly the same result: it seems to complete the installation
process and tells you to restart, you get a screen asking whether you want
to boot into Windows or Ubuntu, and when you try to boot into Ubuntu you
On 6 January 2013 10:33, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I've tried that, but not with the disk; I've tried it with
what I called the 'self installer'. This is the procedure Ubuntu offer as
the easy way because it skips the CD stage altogether, it just downloads
On 5 January 2013 18:48, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
I 'design'(*) templates and then write text marked up in either 'markdown'
or 'textile' markup formats. A couple of bash scripts convert my
markdown/textile to html and add the resulting marked up snippet to a page
template. I also use
On 5 January 2013 19:28, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
Hello Sean and all
While Markdown/textile are pretty light, my personal site isn't pretty :-)
http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/
(The Llamas are a family joke). The method currently in use is described
here
On 5 January 2013 20:33, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
I was replying to Alan Lord, who was suggesting direct editing of xhtml
markup. Do you not see the replies in threaded mode? I suggested using a
'light' markup with script based conversion to html and my point was that
this reduces the
Here's a good example, from your page produced in Open Office...
H1Probability Summary/H1
Right, so we're going to go for uppercase tags? That's fine - perfectly
fine in HTML 4.
pemThis handout was producted *snip*
...or, perhaps lowercase. Would be nice if it made up its mind.
IMG
On 5 January 2013 20:48, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote:
affiliation with the project I use Vim for absolutely everything; in
fact, I'm writing this in Vim :-)
Good man.
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On 5 January 2013 21:06, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
The only XML errors on other pages on the site are in the bits I didn't
use markdown or textile to generate. Which was my original point :-).
XML? I have not seen any XML on your sites at all...
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On 5 January 2013 21:13, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
XML? I have not seen any XML on your sites at all...
And the generated HTML is HTML 4 at best, probably more like HTML 3
nothing like XHTML.
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On 5 January 2013 21:14, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
And the generated HTML is HTML 4 at best, probably more like HTML 3
nothing like XHTML.
That is the OpenOffice generated HTML to which I refer.
Still don't quite understand the stuff generated by your shell scripts.
Sean
On 5 January 2013 21:45, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
Which brings me, in a rather roundabout way, to the point I made in my
reply to Alan Lord. Hand coded (x)html, viewed in a browser, and checked
with a validator, is great but takes ages. I find that banging my text into
an editor then
On 5 January 2013 21:49, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
I could write an entire page of XHTML in about 2 minutes.
Especially if you use CSS, as you should.
These tags that you find so troublesome would only, generally, have one
or two attributes at most.
div id=header/div
p class
On 5 January 2013 21:45, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
I will use your feedback to correct the markup on the OpenOffice generated
page by hand, just as a matter of principle.
There is no necessity to do it... I am merely illustrating how generated
markup is ALWAYS inferior to written
On 5 January 2013 22:59, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote:
I'll do some googling and start another thread if I get nowhere.
Yeah, good idea.
if I get nowhere is a clear admission that you didn't give a damn about
Mike and his problem, but rather wanted to explore things on your own.
I,
XHTML is markup... there is not really such a thing as a WYSIWYG...
anything you use is gong to, ultimately, give you an inferior end result to
simply writing the XHTML from scratch.
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It's moved...
http://linuxcounter.net/
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On 6 October 2012 19:10, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote:
Feel free to submit articles, we're always on the look out for new
articles and columns. ANYONE can help.
I could, but I don't understand that New Guy article.
Could you elaborate on what it was meant to achieve?
On 6 October 2012 20:09, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote:
Tiz a bit harsh to judge all 65 issues on one particular article...
I was not doing so, I was merely saying that as the person was asking for
concise advice on Ubuntu/Linux this might not be the best place to go as
that
On 5 October 2012 21:03, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote:
Well, I obviously must recommend the amazingly awesome (and free) Full
Circle Magazine (http://fullcirclemagazine.org**).
FULL DISCLAIMER: I'm the editor.
That New Guy column makes the Dummies Guide series look to
On 3 October 2012 15:53, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
Generally, a good book on the topic will be relatively user-interface
agnostic, since that's just an interface to the interesting bits and
pieces you'll be twiddling. Those change incredibly slowly.
I agree.
The desktop is
On 29 July 2012 12:12, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
Not to mention that if you get a Debian user, a KDE user on another
distro, a Gnome user and a Ubuntu together in one room there is
guaranteed to be fireworks. We have the challenge of evangelism,
people not trying to help but
On 25 July 2012 09:33, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
I was wondering if anybody on the list can recommend any hosted shell
accounts?
I have used sdf in the past.
Don't quite understand why somebody would want a hosted shell account,
especially a Linux user.
Surely shell comes for
On 25 July 2012 10:13, Robert McWilliam r...@allmail.net wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 01:46 AM, Joe Alam wrote:
I was wondering if anybody on the list can recommend any hosted shell
accounts?
Webfaction's[1] shared hosting accounts come with shell access for you
to pretty much do whatever
On 24 March 2012 19:41, Pete Smout psmo...@live.com wrote:
It is about personal choice but Unity is not mine! Xubuntu here I come!
That's how I feel too.
Do Canonical take any notes of these lists?
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On 18 March 2012 15:22, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
What's the game what are the system requirements?
I'm actually quite intrigued as to what this game might be too...
Was going to suggest installing VMWare or something and installing DOS.
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I think there's something I'm missing...
My wireless card seemed to work fine up until the last couple of versions
of Ubuntu, and now it seems it won't work with ANY distros (well, I've
tried PCLinuxOS, Mint, Knoppix and Sabayan to no avail).
It works okay on Windows, obviously.
It's an Realtek
No, I don't think that's it... no file like that.
:-(
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On 9 March 2012 21:56, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
Not at 78 quid a ticket, no.
That was my reaction too ! Would have liked to have gone, but FAR too
expensive.
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On 22 February 2012 13:43, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote:
Why is it that Unity requires the user to be an expert. A picture of
the ubuntu logo means a lot to us, but to someone who goes and buys a
cheap computer it means jack all. They wouldn't think to click there
there is no hit
I have two laptops that are both Currys brands (Advent and e-Machines) and
they always used to run Ubuntu fine.
Lately, though, there's no wireless at all... doesn't detect anything at
all, so I assume it's a driver issue of some sort.
As I am not currently anywhere near a wired connection I
On 15 February 2012 11:24, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
need either ndiswrapper or the firmware loading for them - I seem to
recall that this has been taken out of Ubuntu recently.
That was the sort of thing I thought it would probably be... the developers
making things
On 31 January 2012 21:43, Daniel Case danielcas...@gmail.com wrote:
Just thought I would show you guys this, was just watching the IT Crowd
(hadn't got round to Season 4 until now!) when I saw this:
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4205/mossu.jpg
Wasn't that organised by one of our
You could just pretend to set up the printer that you're thinking of
buying (as per this guide
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/printing_ubuntu ) and see if
it comes up...
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This isn't strictly Ubuntu, but more a generic Open Source question.
I am looking for a WYSIWYG editor for my own bespoke CMS that I have
written, and have until now been using FCKEditor.
I have found this one, however, which looks very nice but it isn't
generic... it's specifically written as a
On 25 December 2011 10:21, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Santa brought my daughter her first laptop for Christmas. In common with
most 11-year olds she appears to never listen to a word I say, but almost
her first comment after opening the box was has it already got Linux on
Personally I think Unity is fairly awful on the desktop, but - let's face
it - the future of computing is not the desktop it's mobile devices,
tablets etc. etc.
Ubuntu is positioning itself so that when the next generation of machines
come around it'll be right up there with Windows etc. - if
This might sound really patronising, but there's no chance that your
keyboard is playing up is there?
So when you type ubuntu you get uuntu or similar?
Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd been
locked out... in reality, it was a duff 9 key which needed to be hit
On 8 August 2011 13:38, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Patrick who said they would be delighted to supply pre-installed. I
guess they don't want to advertise so that folk come to them and then
need support with the OS.
Not sure that qualifies them to be linked to, does it?
The
On 8 August 2011 13:59, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Not impressed, and I'm going to fire off an e-mail to them to tell them so.
I've asked them... their attitude sounds really bad, to be honest...
significantly worse than the PCWorld guy with the memory sticks that did
seem a breath
Do you need to, perhaps, put the shell executable in front of
/media/runInstaller ?
Perhaps you're running bash and it needs ksh etc. etc. ?
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Isn't WUBI an option?
I have a dual boot of this sort (no partitioning at all) and it seems to
work quite well.
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On 3 July 2011 12:32, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
I presume you mean well but I do not really understand what or why you
are asking and I am not really sure if I care.
Calm down, everybody... it really is not worth it.
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On 24 June 2011 08:45, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
As an example - in a quoted UK IT sector company, we (the Group Finance
Dept) decided that we wanted a reporting tool to sit on top of JD Edwards,
our ERM software. After research we decided on Hyperion which is (or was 15
On 24 June 2011 10:03, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
**
Not so. How can the IT dept evaluate a FINANCIAL reporting application?
Especially an internationally-recognised market leader? The IT dept is a
SERVICE dept. If the MD says I want such and such a software because I
On 22 June 2011 08:59, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
Jon Reynolds wrote:
1. Why on Earth did they choose to put Vista on there??
Perhaps because a new board supposedly means a new install of Windows and
you're not supposed to be using XP licenses any more. Perhaps they're also
tired of
On 22 June 2011 09:14, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
Is XP no longer sold (now I think about it that may be obvious!)? What
about all the people and businesses who are not ready/capable of
supporting/running Win7? Are existing XP license holders not able to have
their PCs
On 22 June 2011 09:16, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
I thought when pressed for a definition, MS decreed that the part of the
computer the license was tied to was the motherboard, but I've never had
cause to find out for sure.
No, the automatic online activation may not work (due to the
By the way, the official line with regard to sales of Windows XP and Vista
is that both are now past their sell by date, as XP officially end of
retail sales was June 30th 2008, and Vista October 22nd 2010.
Which makes me wonder why, if this PC shop wanted to move your dad
forward, they didn't
Mr. D. Archer Y4 Beech Curriculum, Racist Incidents, Literacy, Music,
Mentor, KS2 liaison
^^ as above, from website!!
I think I commented too on the fact that having a teacher responsible for
racist incidents suggested that they must have some history in that school
with such is it a very
Yikes... !!
Recognised for ICT? Perhaps that was due to being pioneers and setting
up their website at a time most others didn't have one... alas, I think it's
rather overdue for an upgrade.
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I think the year.month release numbers are very useful... if somebody says
to me I have OS-Something Version 1.5 I have absolutely NO idea whatsoever
whether that release is bleeding edge or deprecated. If I read Ubuntu
11.04 I know that is up-to-date: on the other hand, if I have somebody
saying
I think schools have a lot to answer for... they're supposed to be
educational establishments, yet they seem to fundamentally misunderstand the
whole concept of the web...
PDFs are fine, for documents that need to be printed consistently (eg.
posters for school events) but ALL other information
On 11 June 2011 11:30, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
Perhaps we need more people in schools to help out who can actually do
web design and help out without charging hundreds of pounds for the job.
nProblem is most people out of college may not have these skills, I have
seen web design
On 11 June 2011 11:40, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
I am SORRY but if this is the state of our education system then I
despair...
And this is largely irrelevant in many cases, because they are using CMS
systems.
It's their CHOICE to attach a PDF rather than merely type
On 11 June 2011 13:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
Collect dinner money, enter register data, phone parents, send out
letters - and one of the other tasks is to post newsletters onto the
school website. When you think about school secretaries you don't
think about people with
We always used to do a daily backup, but Sundays we did a weekly one.
Daily backups (ie. Mon-Sat) were kept 7 days, Sunday backups were on a
4-week cycle.
And, of course, we actually backed up to somewhere else... not to the same
system, as your script appears to do.
You could make it 8-weekly
If you don't consider you are going to have a huge turnover then merely
register as a Sole Trader.
You will have to pay additional National Insurance Contributions on a
quarterly basis (I think it's about £10/month) and will have to complete an
additional page on your Self Assessment Tax Return
This is not strictly a Ubuntu question, but I know there are quite a few web
people here so I wondered if anybody had any suggestions.
Have a customer who wants a gallery page similar to this one...
http://visualartistsuk.com/marcel-christ
I cannot find any evidence that this is a script that
What worries me more is this one...
http://visualartistsuk.com/js/maine.js
It looks bespoke, and therefore (presumably) not something can use or -
indeed - find out who to ask if I can as there is nothing in the code saying
who wrote it.
The JQuery plug-in is a relatively small piece of
On 23 May 2011 20:17, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
There are a few nice JQuery based galleries that are pretty much plug and
play but there'd still be some back end functionality. It's not an out of
the box solution though.
Don't expect out of the box.
I've written the CMS,
No, you're not understanding... I already have my gallery script... but they
want a SPECIFIC presentation...
As close to this one, which they like, as possible...
http://visualartistsuk.com/marcel-christ
Single image on screen, then when you mouse over it a long scrolling bar of
all the images
On 20 May 2011 07:00, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
My advice - open the document if you can. If it's something that depends
on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf.
Actually, it's got significantly better of late...
Presentations should not be a major issue... people
I'd be very wary of using somebody for IT services who didn't appear to know
that Openoffice would open those three file formats...
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On 15 April 2011 10:29, James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org wrote:
Some time, somewhere, someone has a spark of an idea. It might seem
ridiculous at the time, but things change, and the simple act of sharing
the idea and getting other minds thinking about it can be enough to make
it happen.
This is all very well and good, but how many people in this country have
greater than 1mbps upload speed on their broadband connections? I would
suggest it's a single figure in terms of percentages...
So, assuming you can get a high proportion of these people, there might be
some hope BUT let's
I've heard significantly more romantic descriptions of books in print than
dead tree version ;-)
I shall never, myself, be a great advocate of things like the Kindle... I
spend all day looking at a screen programming, or in my part time job at
Morrisons supporting self-scans and working on tills,
On 13 March 2011 08:06, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Ah, sorry — and not Google! :-(
I would have suggested Google too... what sort of mail server are you
after? And how much do you want to spend?
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Can I ask why you have ruled out Google?
Seems ideal, to me at least... has one of the best webmail interfaces out
there.
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Alas, work at Morrisons on Saturdays until 9pm so not going to happen :-(
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On 19 February 2011 07:00, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
On 19/02/2011 06:05, Hassan Haz Williamson wrote:
@Mac, Thanks for that. Interesting read. Personally I'm going where the
developers are, I have a feeling that Oracle might try to swing things to
their favour and might
On 17 February 2011 07:08, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
An email address would need to be provided by the people who you buy the
domain name from - 123reg are a good start
That's not strictly true... if you run a mail server on your home PC it's
just a case of ensuring that the MX record is
Google Apps is, indeed, very useful in this regard. I hadn't mentioned that
because I thought the project was to set up not only httpd but also mail.
Yes, I use Google Apps for seanmiller.net (ie. what I'm using here) and it
saves a lot of hassle.
See
ipconfig /flushdns ?
in run as administrator mode on cmd prompt? (right click)
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On 12 February 2011 19:46, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
Armed with my new knowledge I am recently in touch with my Councillor to
help make them aware that there is no real reason why they need to stay with
a paid-for OS on their corporate laptop. It may take a bit more time of
On 12 February 2011 12:15, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Hi any of you see 'Click' on BBC news this morning?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry It gives a brief but very
positive look at Linux. It advises trying a live-cd and specifically
says that Linux is not just for
On 7 February 2011 11:34, Steve Flynn anothermindb...@gmail.com wrote:
In the end I asked the landlady to set it to channel 6 for me and all
was good with both OS'es.
Wow! Not only a very generous landlady (I have yet to meet a BB proprietor
who would risk re-configuring anything that was
On 2 February 2011 12:29, gazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
I can get back in about 40 mins if needed - not sure there's any point in
lugging the laptops back there given the focus of the thing is elsewhere but
haven't unpacked and will bring them if needed.
Having initially said I would come to
PHP/HTML with MySQL works very well, if you're confident building a user
interface.
Just a case of building some viewing screens and some data entry screens.
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On 17 January 2011 09:53, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:29 +, Scrase, Eddie wrote:
Although I haven't bought a laptop from them, from past experience I can
recommend the Linux emporium (linuxemporium.co.uk).
I've heard very good reports about them,
On 17 January 2011 10:59, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote:
Less taxes, oh and paying the person who's installing Linux. And the HR
person who's making sure they're doing everything right by the person. And
electricity, to, you know, keep the building running while they're doing the
On 17 January 2011 11:15, Andy Braben andybra...@gmail.com wrote:
Advertising has certainly been missed which is expensive. And also who
would buy these products? Members on this list might, but as most people
know nothing different to Microsoft and even if they do, don't want it. It
is not
On 17 January 2011 11:34, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
It's more likely that they would have a deal with a maker of white label
laptops in China or Taiwan. It's not easy to build laptops from components.
In which case there is something amiss, is there not?
Because they could
On 17 January 2011 13:41, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
On 17/01/11 11:38, Sean Miller wrote:
And, to be honest, I'm not too worried about personalized attention when
installing if I am going to save £100 on the retail cost of the laptop...
it
will presumably work out
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