Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Matthew, On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:08:55AM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: I work on a helpdesk as a day job supporting windows 2K/XP and an AS/400. Most of our users know how to use a computer to get their job done and that's it. Any errors at all (from my computer won't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Al, I realise that this isn't personal, so I'll jump in with my thoughts again... ;) Quoting Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Matthew, On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:08:55AM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: I work on a helpdesk as a day job supporting windows 2K/XP and an AS/400. Most

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Odd behaviour of system clock

2007-05-16 Thread I C McNab
John Levin wrote: This is a known problem; Ubuntu presumes your system clock is set to UTC; windows presumes it to be local time. Solution is to tell Ubuntu to take system clock as local time: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2939 John Thanks for very helpful - and very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Nicholas Butler
I have managed to convince a number of Clients, Friends and Contacts who are considered Non-Techie to do a Video Broadcast chat with me about what they perceive as their needs and concerns are in relation to Open source and computer usage. The first one occured last Monday and Suzy Miller of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Matthew, On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:26:14AM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: I realise that this isn't personal, so I'll jump in with my thoughts again... ;) Phew. I realised that someone could take my last mail badly if they read it before

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Nicholas Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have managed to convince a number of Clients, Friends and Contacts who are considered Non-Techie to do a Video Broadcast chat with me about what they perceive as their needs and concerns are in relation to Open source and computer usage. Nik, Is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Nik Butler
I will ask , I really dont think it will be a problem though since all my Clients like to use it as a platform to promote themselves so they tend to approve of the concept of free advertising. Nik -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Marketing to the Small and Medium sized business

2007-05-16 Thread Nik Butler
Following on from a previous thread regarding What Non-techies like about Ubuntu Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote A few short video clips about how Linux has helped small businesses and non-technical people would be a real boost to anyone's marketing arsenal... As a few ( or many ) may know I

[ubuntu-uk] PHP5 PEAR and HTTP-Upload

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi all, A Quick question, is there a way of installing HTTPUpload from PEAR using apt-get or do I need to run the PEAR interface? I've done an apt-cache search for php, pear and http and can't see it, so any pointers are welcomed. I'm trying to use http://www.phpaga.net/ and I'm having a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread Robin Menneer
On 5/15/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it'd be interesting to find out what it is that impresses new non-techie users the most about Ubuntu. For people who are 'into' IT it may be engineering, adaptability or the politics of FOSS. For the large majority though it's likely

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introductions and Init script bug query

2007-05-16 Thread Tony Arnold
Chris, christopher chatfield wrote: I have a question about init and sendmail. It seems that in the default configuration that the init script tries to load sendmail before the right run level has started as sendmail tries to write to a filesystem that is read only. Does anyone know how

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-16 Thread David Morley
Depends business/self employed an accounts app. Home users more of the same as newer better apps become available drop them in. Brasero in main would be good. More stuff for rhythmbox and better integration i.e. It's the main music player but totem plays a track if you click on it (it's just

[ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution

2007-05-16 Thread fatma oymak
Dear all, I have one problemI couldnt find right answer...do you have any idea? please please let me know many thanks fatma Consider the behaviour of two machines in a distributed system. Both have clocks that are supposed to tick 1000 times per millisecond. One of them ticks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution[Scanned]

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Brunt
Hi, I'm not 100% sure but this would make sense as the first answer to me: the machine with 990 ticks should be experiencing time at (990/1000) of real time the machine with 1015 ticks should be experiencing time at (1015/1000) of real time The length of time it would take the two systems to go

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Harrison
fatma oymak wrote: Dear all, I have one problemI couldnt find right answer...do you have any idea? please please let me know many thanks fatma Consider the behaviour of two machines in a distributed system. Both have clocks that are supposed to tick 1000 times per

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution[Scanned]

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Harrison
Paul Brunt wrote: Hi, I'm not 100% sure but this would make sense as the first answer to me: the machine with 990 ticks should be experiencing time at (990/1000) of real time the machine with 1015 ticks should be experiencing time at (1015/1000) of real time The length of time it would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:43 +0100, fatma oymak wrote: Dear all, I have one problemI couldnt find right answer...do you have any idea? please please let me know Haha. 1 point for effort for getting other people to do your school/college/uni assignments - minus 10 points to everyone who

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Rowson
Haha. 1 point for effort for getting other people to do your school/college/uni assignments - minus 10 points to everyone who has answered so far :) Cheers, Al. I didn't think anyone else had noticed :-P Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution

2007-05-16 Thread baza
Chris Rowson wrote: Haha. 1 point for effort for getting other people to do your school/college/uni assignments - minus 10 points to everyone who has answered so far :) Cheers, Al. I didn't think anyone else had noticed :-P Chris I had: You have to admire her initiative in posting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] regarding for solution

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Harrison
Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:43 +0100, fatma oymak wrote: Dear all, I have one problemI couldnt find right answer...do you have any idea? please please let me know Haha. 1 point for effort for getting other people to do your school/college/uni assignments -

[ubuntu-uk] PHP Apache2

2007-05-16 Thread Colin Humphrey
Hi all - I have a bit of trouble with PHP and Apache2, I have posted a thread at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2654531#post2654531 The thread is longish so I have not posted it here. If anyone is a LAMP developer and has about five mins spare on a lunch break to take a look, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introductions and Init script bug query

2007-05-16 Thread Colin Humphrey
Hello I am newish to ubuntu myself, sounds like you've got a head start on me. There are good English speaking forums at: http://ubuntuforums.org/ You can also get to an ubuntu IRC using an IRC client(I use the hydra irc client), the node is: irc.freenode.net Hope that helps - though the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP Apache2

2007-05-16 Thread Paul RJ Mellors
Colin Humphrey wrote: Hi all - I have a bit of trouble with PHP and Apache2, I have posted a thread at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2654531#post2654531 The thread is longish so I have not posted it here. If anyone is a LAMP developer and has about five mins spare on a lunch

[ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-16 Thread Robin Hall
I have a dual boot system on my computer; Windows XP and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. In Windows while using Skype I have no problem with my microphone but in Ubuntu I receive the request from the lady in Skype when she invites me to record a message while making a test call, but I get no sound

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-16 Thread Andy
On 16/05/07, Robin Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be most grateful to anybody who can suggest a solution to this problem. Going to need to know more than that ;) What sound card do you have? I had a problem with my sound card which caused mic problems and fixed it as follows: Open the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-16 Thread Toby Smithe
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:03 +0100, Robin Hall wrote: I would be most grateful to anybody who can suggest a solution to this problem. Could you run http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh and give us the link to the pastebin produced? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP Apache2

2007-05-16 Thread Colin Humphrey
Hi Paul Thanks for the info I will be looking into it. _ Could you be the guest MSN Movies presenter? Click Here to Audition http://www.lightscameraaudition.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com