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Phil Bull wrote:
Hi Caroline,
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 00:10 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
Was having a chat with a neighbour the other dayshe said that she
has a local chap who comes from a nearby town to see to her computer
which
Caroline
Sorry for your troubles. Just looked up LUG for West Cornwall only to find
that there is no active group in Devon, let alone Cornwall, let alone West
Cornwall. If all these experts really want Ubuntu to take off, they must
realise that ivory towers exist in all walks of life. Location
On Jan 29, 2007 at 12:46, James Tuthill praised the llamas by saying:
Hi,
I have installed Ubuntu on around 8 friends and family machines all
round the country. Until now I have never needed to provide remote
desktop help but recently I wanted to do this.
Is there a program or a way for
On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face to face help is a
very important type of help which is
Hi James
Just the thought that there is someone like you out there who is happy to
help me out of trouble if needed is absolutely wonderful. Not that I
totally useless (started with a Commodore Pet and Fortran 4) but now aged 75
I just cannot keep up with progress, and I know how devestatingly
Hi all,
I've just seen the following pledge, which is a rather good idea IMO.
http://www.en-gb.pledgebank.com/linuxday
Can't hurt, might do a lot of good.
Hwyl,
Neil.
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On 29/01/07, Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Caroline
Sorry for your troubles. Just looked up LUG for West Cornwall only to find
that there is no active group in Devon, let alone Cornwall, let alone West
Cornwall. If all these experts really want Ubuntu to take off, they must
realise
David Pashley wrote:
On Jan 29, 2007 at 12:46, James Tuthill praised the llamas by saying:
Hi,
I have installed Ubuntu on around 8 friends and family machines all
round the country. Until now I have never needed to provide remote
desktop help but recently I wanted to do this.
Is there a
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From: Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:03 pm
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Battle of the Operating Systems
To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:49:56PM +, London School of
Puppetry wrote:
Hi
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Ratfans!
We're a good week away from our next meeting and the agenda page [0] is
somewhat blank.
:( Looks like I won't make it; we record ep 11 of hashlugradio on the
same night :P
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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face
Ok then, you have to earn a living. What about the retireds doing it on
flexitime ? Some protection would have to be provided against the
no-hopers, who might just have to be told this, whether they liked it or
not.
On 1/29/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:33
Adam Funk wrote:
On 2007-01-29, Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
Fact is the people who would likely take up this challenge and go to
store probably already know the answers to the questions they are
asking. Why not flip it around and instead of asking the stores the
third degree, *give* them the
In our area, there are at least two experts who travel around the area
giving help, installing repairing etc on the spot face to face- there are
many computer literate elderly who benefit enormously from this service
(Windows only)- pay is roughly £30.00 per hour. These 'experts' come with
no
Very aptly described.
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:23 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:33 +, Matthew East wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:45 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of
Yes Robin- Great idea? Are you one of them? Anyone in North Yorks?
Caroline
On 29/01/07, Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok then, you have to earn a living. What about the retireds doing it on
flexitime ? Some protection would have to be provided against the
no-hopers, who might
Dear Leon, We tried- but I am not savvy enough- though I aim to be! The
problem is sorted now -seemed to be something to do with not shutting the
computer down properly..But that is not the point- I think the general
public need face to face help when threatened with a black and white screen
I'd just like to ask everyone to take a moment to have a look at the
guidelines for Ubuntu mailing lists:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
I'd like to draw people's attention especially to the guidelines about
top posting and proper quoting.
Please take a look at it - it will
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:23 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:33 +, Matthew East wrote:
What I had in mind was more something by way of freely available
community support.
I always find that a little tricky.
For me (whether right or wrong) I like to choose how and
Yorkshire is so big...have checked my local LUG and there is nothing nearer
than York...but I'll keep an eye on the list thanks.I think that is an
excellent idea. However for the local elderly- they still would expect the
same kind of service that you get with Windows. Caroline
On
Hi all,
I haven't been following the list too closely lately but I've just a
quick look through some of the comments about this subject. I hope
this hasn't already been said but I'd suggest people join their local
LUG! I've found the people in mine to be very helpful and are quite
willing to come
And that was a top post. I'm going to stop spamming now. I know as being
fairly new to mailing lists that there are rules
that you should adhere to for everyones sake, but most web based
email clients automatically set you up to write at the top. So i think it
is important if you are new to
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 21:19 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
I understand exactly what you are saying. But no-one would expect
anything for nothing. If my neighbour is paying for a local Windows
chap to do an hour's work sorting her crashing computer out then
surely there has to be the
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:57 +, Robin Menneer wrote:
Ok then, you have to earn a living. What about the retireds doing it
on flexitime ? Some protection would have to be provided against the
no-hopers, who might just have to be told this, whether they liked it
or not.
The retireds are
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:20 +, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hi all,
I haven't been following the list too closely lately but I've just a
quick look through some of the comments about this subject. I hope
this hasn't already been said but I'd suggest people join their local
LUG!
I
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:30 +, James Dalley wrote:
And that was a top post. I'm going to stop spamming now.
I know as being fairly new to mailing lists that there are rules
that you should adhere to for everyones sake, but
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:48 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:30 +, James Dalley wrote:
And that was a top post. I'm going to stop spamming now.
I know as being fairly new to mailing lists that there are
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:48 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Works fine here*. Get a decent mail client ;)
(*Evolution in Ubuntu).
That's what I use. Click Reply, trying to reply to the author, not the
list. Read the link. :)
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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:51 +, Matthew East wrote:
Erm no: he's right. Reply-to is set to the list address on list emails.
Personally I don't mind it, myself.
I mind it because it makes me look stupid.
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Sounds ok £30.00 an hour- but that hour could be quite a long hour if you
have to travel for another hour to get to the customer. Caroline
On 29/01/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 21:15 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
In our area, there are at least two
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