Re: [ubuntu-uk] getting help - UK List

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:38:11PM +, baza wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:30 +, alan c wrote: London School of Puppetry wrote: Hi Jonathan, I agree but I think the problem is wider than just us isn't itI'm concerned that non-groupy typeslike most of the ordinary

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread William Anderson
Benjamin Webb wrote: I was having a look at how the BBC was covering the launch of Vista and found this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6310599.stm I was reasured that it did mention Linux, albeit only briefly and has a quote from a satisfied Linux user. Is that anyone here btw? Not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread David Pashley
On Jan 31, 2007 at 11:38, William Anderson praised the llamas by saying: Not a single mention of Linux from Maggie Philbin, who for some unfathomable reason was BBC Breakfast's expert talking about the release of Vista on yesterday morning's programme. Awful. Just be thankful that they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread Martyn
Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:09:17 + From: paul mellors [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed John McCourt wrote: No

Re: [ubuntu-uk] getting help - UK List

2007-01-31 Thread baza
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 08:38 +, Alan Pope wrote: The best advice anyone can give, IMHO, is to burn your 'home' directory to CD or DVD every month, that way if you system does the big firework you can reinstall and keep (most) of you data. Heh, that might not be quite so easy for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] getting help - UK List

2007-01-31 Thread London School of Puppetry
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 experts who travel around the area giving help, installing repairing etc on the spot face to face- there are many computer literate elderly

[ubuntu-uk] Green Party vs Vista

2007-01-31 Thread john levin
As featured on Slashdot, the Greens have issued a (somewhat hyperbolic) statement against Vista: Green Party asks: who has the key to your Vista PC? http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2851 Nice to see Free Software getting mentioned: Consumers, businesses and government bodies should protect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 21, Issue 61

2007-01-31 Thread Lee Tambiah
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] getting help - UK List

2007-01-31 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:38:11PM +, baza wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:30 +, alan c wrote: London School of Puppetry wrote: Hi Jonathan, I agree but I think the problem is wider than just us isn't itI'm concerned that non-groupy typeslike most of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread alan c
Martyn wrote: Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:09:17 + From: paul mellors [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread Leon Barker
I disagree, I think it would be more realistic to say windows users will never swap until you can walk into a shop and buy a Linux PC that's already been set up for you, I think that by far most of the Windows PCs are bought 'as is' and most users never go near an O/S installation or pugrade.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation

2007-01-31 Thread Andy
On 31/01/07, Scrase, Eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BBC are running a consultation about introducing on-demand services (for example, replaying shows over the internet). Noticed this as well, was half way through writing an email about it when yours arrived in my Inbox, great minds think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread Andy
On 31/01/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah I clicked on customise, went to OS and see Linux is not there! I will poke around further if I still can't find it Dell will be getting a strongly worded email. OK my fault I should have read it thoroughly, you actually have to contact your Dell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation

2007-01-31 Thread Toby Smithe
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:34 -0500, Scrase, Eddie wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.html Well I've replied very damningly. -- Help me get to Venezuela! http://tibsplace.co.uk/venezuela -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [guadec-list] Guadec Planning Meeting Notes - 20th January 2007]

2007-01-31 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Sas wrote: For anyone interested in GUADEC in Birmingham this summer here's the latest meeting notes. Keynotes * Invitations have been sent, and four have already accepted The four key noters who have accepted so far are: * Ari

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation

2007-01-31 Thread Caroline Ford
On 31/01/07, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:34 -0500, Scrase, Eddie wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.html Well I've replied very damningly. So have I. Even the Apple Mac fan base will be unhappy about this one -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [guadec-list] Guadec Planning Meeting Notes - 20th January 2007]

2007-01-31 Thread paul mellors
Dean Sas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For anyone interested in GUADEC in Birmingham this summer here's the latest meeting notes. - Original Message Subject: [guadec-list] Guadec Planning Meeting Notes - 20th January 2007 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Green Party vs Vista

2007-01-31 Thread Ashley Hooper
--- john levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As featured on Slashdot, the Greens have issued a (somewhat hyperbolic) statement against Vista: Green Party asks: who has the key to your Vista PC? http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2851 On this subject: The environmental impact of each new

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation

2007-01-31 Thread London School of Puppetry
On 31/01/07, Scrase, Eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BBC are running a consultation about introducing on-demand services (for example, replaying shows over the internet). Question 5 of the consultation asks How important is it that the proposed seven-day catch-up service over the internet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread Garry Knight
Martyn wrote: pugrade. That describes Vista quite well, from what I've read... -- Garry Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread Garry Knight
Andy wrote: So where are the ones that I don't have to phone a guy for? You always have to phone Dell. That's how they work. -- Garry Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/