Re: [ubuntu-uk] Postcards from Ubuntu

2006-09-14 Thread ac
Alan Helmore-Simpson wrote: How about Ubuntu Christmas cards? A Linux/Ubuntu orientated picture on the front in christmas scene, and the marketing information on the back. Many other organisations use this as a way to spread the word. Wonderful, if this were to be done, perhaps we should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LinuxWorld planning - Update 14th Sept.

2006-09-14 Thread nik
Since I wont get a chance to post this over the weekend, here is your end of week update, 1: Thank You to Adam Bagnall, Alan Pope, Alan Helmore-Simpson,Stuart Parkington and Ashley Hooper whom have all volunteered to aid in Setup and Attendance. We believe Jono Bacon may even make an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LinuxWorld planning - Update 14th Sept.

2006-09-14 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
I'll do some picture taking, but I dont have a website or blog to upload them. Also I've got a big HP Laserjet printer although it's only bw, so if needed I can print out loads of handouts maybe? As for interviewing visitors are we going to have some sort of short questionnaire I have a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: UK Free Software Network broadband

2006-09-14 Thread Billy
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:42:13PM +0100, Sean Hammond wrote: Anyone here getting broadband from the UK Free software network? http://www.ukfsn.org/ I switched to them last week from Pipex. Had a bit of a billing hitch - but it seemed to be to do with entanet who provide the actual dsl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: UK Free Software Network broadband

2006-09-14 Thread Tony Arnold
Billy, On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 16:44 +0100, Billy wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:42:13PM +0100, Sean Hammond wrote: Anyone here getting broadband from the UK Free software network? http://www.ukfsn.org/ I switched to them last week from Pipex. I'm curious to know why you moved away

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: UK Free Software Network broadband

2006-09-14 Thread William Anderson
Sean Hammond wrote: Anyone here getting broadband from the UK Free software network? http://www.ukfsn.org/ They are (very slightly) cheaper than the Phone Coop or Zen (6 month period plus connection fee). Their cheapest broadband package gives you a 3GB peak time cap, and 30GB off peak

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: UK Free Software Network broadband

2006-09-14 Thread john levin
Sean Hammond wrote: Anyone here getting broadband from the UK Free software network? http://www.ukfsn.org/ They are (very slightly) cheaper than the Phone Coop or Zen (6 month period plus connection fee). Their cheapest broadband package gives you a 3GB peak time cap, and 30GB off peak

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: UK Free Software Network broadband

2006-09-14 Thread Billy
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:04:51PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: I switched to them last week from Pipex. I'm curious to know why you moved away from Pipex? Horrific customer service and a download speed that went from 200k/sec down to 20 and for which I couldn't get an explanation other than

[ubuntu-uk] Help in setting up demo for LinuxWold

2006-09-14 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
Hi, I have a couple of tablet PCs (Google for 'TC1100') they are sexy looking machines and I would like to bring them along to the show for demo machines (Trust me, they will turn a few heads, despite their age) trouble is I have not had time to make Ubuntu work on them, would anyone like to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help in setting up demo for LinuxWold

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Alan Helmore-Simpson wrote: I have a couple of tablet PCs (Google for 'TC1100') they are sexy looking machines and I would like to bring them along to the show for demo machines They should work out-of-the box. The wifi is ipw2100 and the pen input is a wacom. The most

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help in setting up demo for LinuxWold

2006-09-14 Thread Nik Butler
Paul Sladen wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Alan Helmore-Simpson wrote: I have a couple of tablet PCs (Google for 'TC1100') they are sexy looking machines and I would like to bring them along to the show for demo machines They should work out-of-the box. The wifi is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help in setting up demo for LinuxWold

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Nik Butler wrote: Paul Sladen wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Alan Helmore-Simpson wrote: I have a couple of tablet PCs (Google for 'TC1100') They should work out-of-the box. The wifi is ipw2100 and the pen input is a wacom. So Paul, can you accept one and get it