[ubuntu-uk] the UKTeam Approval page.

2006-11-01 Thread Nik Butler
Good morning sales force ( whoops sorry I had my Corporate Head on [1] ). So Im looking at the Approval Page and wanting to add some great links and content to the Page but since this requires detailing the experience and skills of all the members in the Team I am loathe to just copy up other

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line editing

2006-11-01 Thread Keith Bowerman
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 05:05 +, alan c wrote: Can you say what the PC model is etc? Hello Alan, I had the machine built to my own spec and then added an extra hard drive, more memory, etc. It is entirely Microsoft free, although I do run other flavours of Linux on it, apart from my

[ubuntu-uk] Fredy has Tagged you! :)

2006-11-01 Thread Fredy Gumarus
Title: Time for Tagged Fredy G, 27 Fredy has added you as a friend on Tagged. Is Fredy your friend? Please respond or Fredy will think you said no :( Click here to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fredy has Tagged you! :)

2006-11-01 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:19:16AM +, tim matthews wrote: kewl spam! nice to see the list well protected. To be fair this mail was initiated by someone who is actually a member of this list. They probably just signed up for some service and then submitted their entire address book to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line editing

2006-11-01 Thread alan c
Keith Bowerman wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 05:05 +, alan c wrote: Can you say what the PC model is etc? Hello Alan, I had the machine built to my own spec and then added an extra hard drive, more memory, etc. It is entirely Microsoft free, although I do run other flavours of Linux

[ubuntu-uk] First go at title page for screencasts

2006-11-01 Thread Alan Pope
Guys, I had a go at creating a title page which would appear for ~10 seconds before a video, and an outro page that would appear for a similar duration at the end of the video. Anyone with more artistic skills fancy having a go at making this look better? http://bishop.popey.com/temp/20061101

Re: [ubuntu-uk] the UKTeam Approval page.

2006-11-01 Thread alan c
Nik Butler wrote: Good morning sales force ( whoops sorry I had my Corporate Head on [1] ). Just come to mind that I am also in th eubuntu marketing team list inter list-relationship is going to be relevant I expect. So Im looking at the Approval Page and wanting to add some great links and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First go at title page for screencasts

2006-11-01 Thread Stuart Parkington
://bishop.popey.com/temp/20061101-ubuntu-uk-covers.odp Cheers, Al Alan The URL produces a 404 error here. Stuart -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some PC builder advice please

2006-11-01 Thread Rob Beard
Neil Winters wrote: Hi, I haven't posted here before although I've been using Linux since 2000 and Ubuntu for about a year. To be honest my question isn't directly related to Ubuntu but I'm hoping someone will help. I'm looking to replace the PC my kids use this Christmas with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First go at title page for screencasts

2006-11-01 Thread Alan Pope
of the video. Anyone with more artistic skills fancy having a go at making this look better? http://bishop.popey.com/temp/20061101-ubuntu-uk-covers.odp Cheers, Al Alan The URL produces a 404 error here. Stuart Would it be this? http://bishop.popey.com/temp/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] fast external hard drive

2006-11-01 Thread Albert Vilella
Hi, I am in the market for a fast external hard drive that I could potentially use to have more than one Linux distro/version on my laptop. Has anyone had good experiences with firewire devices? My idea would be to put the most essential IO-intensive parts of the OS in the internal hard-drive,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fast external hard drive

2006-11-01 Thread ajb35
I'm running my desktop computer completely off a USB hard drive with no problems. As long as you have a USB2.0 port and drive then the maximum transfer rate is 480MBPs. When you consider a standard PATA connection is only 133MBPs it's more than enough. Firewire connections are also faster then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fast external hard drive

2006-11-01 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:44:43PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running my desktop computer completely off a USB hard drive with no problems. As long as you have a USB2.0 port and drive then the maximum transfer rate is 480MBPs. When you consider a standard PATA connection is only

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread paul
Hi all The Nottingham Lug is having a LAN party / install fest in november [the 11th i think] Does anyone know a quick way of getting a hundred or so Edgy disks without using SHIP-IT or copying them myself? Cheers Paul [Voodoo] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Paul, The Nottingham Lug is having a LAN party / install fest in november Does anyone know a quick way of getting a hundred or so Edgy disks without using SHIP-IT or copying them myself? Ship IT is basically going to concentrate on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:25:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Does anyone know a quick way of getting a hundred or so Edgy disks without using SHIP-IT or copying them myself? Given you currently can't get them from shipit, the answer would be to get someone else to do it.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread Andy
On 01/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a quick way of getting a hundred or so Edgy disks without using SHIP-IT or copying them myself? Get someone else to copy them? :D Ship-it don't do edgy discs anyway. There are quite a few people who will ship you discs,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ogg playback problem

2006-11-01 Thread Will Cooke
On 01/11/06, Gary Kearley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael,thanks for your reply, sadly though opening a terminal and typinggmplayer, then trying to play the .ogg file gives me an error, as perthe attached .txt file.does this file offer any possible fixes to my problem? Regards,GaryTry:mplayer -vo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread Nicholas Butler
Just another thought for this. Could wet have an Ubuntu-Edgy CDLabel that can be screen printed onto bland CD and DVD media. The same for the CD Folder. Then we need to locate CD duplication and Printers who can take a bulk order and then start getting people focused on Term Limits for Bulk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] flashplayer 7

2006-11-01 Thread tim matthews
you could maybe use Flash 9. I'm using it under dapper and it's working very well. in my /etc/apt/sources.list I put: ## TREVINO?S FLASH REPOSITORY deb http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0 thus, the question ... would this work on edgy as well? under edgy there's no stuff yet for

[ubuntu-uk] Edgy update tip

2006-11-01 Thread Adam Bagnall
I've found updates on Edgy to be slow even using gb.archive.ubuntu.com. If you're having the same problem try substituting all references to http://(gb.)archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ in /etc/apt/sources.list with http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ It's a UK mirror so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] flashplayer 7

2006-11-01 Thread Eamonn Sullivan
On 11/1/06, baza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 18:17 +, Eamonn Sullivan wrote: On 11/1/06, baza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting annoyed at the number of websites that are 'failing' on Edgy because they want flashplay 7. What is the most up to date version for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Edgy problem with / not showing in df or mount

2006-11-01 Thread chris procter
Hi, Firstly the dmesg command should allow you to see the boot time messages which might let you see the mount errors Secondly mount and df seem to get confused when the fstab file doesn't tie up with reality Try: sudo vol_id -u /dev/hda1 which gives the UUID for your root filesystem device.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

2006-11-01 Thread Daniel Taylor
Hey, My biggest issue with the Ubuntu forums overall is this: vBulletin Version 3.6.2. ©2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. vBulletin is a proprietary project and as such I tend to avoided the use of the Ubuntu forums on the basis that its not good advertising for the ideals behind Ubuntu if

[ubuntu-uk] The next UK Charity event we can all take part in and make a difference towards.

2006-11-01 Thread Nicholas Butler
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/ Children In Need, which happens every year in the UK since Terry Wogan could first raise an eyebrow in interest,will again be occuring. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/fundraising/ I would very much like to see the UKTeam rally forth , as they had before at Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread William Anderson
Jono Bacon wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:44 +, Paul Sladen wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Paul, The Nottingham Lug is having a LAN party / install fest in november Does anyone know a quick way of getting a hundred or so Edgy disks without using SHIP-IT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

2006-11-01 Thread alan c
Joseph Price wrote: Hey there... i'm PriceChild, a moderator from ubuntuforums.org if you know of me... I've just seen this annoucement: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290685 I remember lots of discussion which just petered out about whether its a good idea. This could be a

[ubuntu-uk] BBC and open formats??

2006-11-01 Thread alan c
Something I heard at LinuxWorld recently suggested to me bbc were moving towards more open formats. However, this comments implies otherwise. Anyone know anything? Beeb breaks out with Windows WMA protection http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35282 -- alan c --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The next UK Charity event we can all take part in and make a difference towards.

2006-11-01 Thread alan c
Nicholas Butler wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/ Children In Need, which happens every year in the UK since Terry Wogan could first raise an eyebrow in interest,will again be occuring. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/fundraising/ I would very much like to see the UKTeam rally forth ,