I had a bash with graphics now ;-)
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My one-year-old son has a new favourite game - pressing the power button
on his Dad's PC.
I am running Gnome on Fiesty and whenever the power button is pressed it
pops up a modal dialogue box asking if I want to restart, log out, switch
off, etc. I assume this happens via Gnome Power
Hi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have googled around the problem, but everything I have found seems to
relate to laptops. Does a desktop system use ACPI as well?
if the hardware supports it, yes.
You could always just unplug the power button from the motherboard and
set the bios to switch on
Hi Stuart,
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:43:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My one-year-old son has a new favourite game - pressing the power button
on his Dad's PC.
Haha. My daughter took to yanking out USB keys a while ago. Kids eh, gotta
love 'em.
I am running Gnome on Fiesty and
On Monday 18 June 2007 at 13:43:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My one-year-old son has a new favourite game - pressing the power button
on his Dad's PC.
Sounds like fun!
I am running Gnome on Fiesty and whenever the power button is pressed it
pops up a modal dialogue box asking if I want to
On Monday 18 June 2007 at 13:54:00 Alan Pope wrote:
Yup, and it's configurable. Right click Gnome Power Manager and choose
Preferences. In the General tab there is a when the power button is
pressed.., change the drop down from Ask me to Do nothing. Job done.
Ahem, that'll be the proper (tm)
Oh yeah - sorry heres a link
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf
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Hi Jim,
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Yup, and it's configurable. Right click Gnome Power Manager and choose
Preferences. In the General tab there is a when the power button is
pressed.., change the drop down from Ask me to Do nothing. Job done.
No such option on
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Yup, and it's configurable. Right click Gnome Power Manager and choose
Preferences. In the General tab there is a when the power button is
pressed.., change the drop down from Ask me to Do nothing. Job done.
No such option on my
hey thats pretty nifty, definatly getting there. Some of the wording I
feel could be changed however, things like 'The Demo mode' could be
replaced with: What you see is a trial version of ubuntu which lets
you play with it without installing to see if you like it. The bit
about keeping your
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:11 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
hey thats pretty nifty, definatly getting there. Some of the wording I
feel could be changed however, things like 'The Demo mode' could be
replaced with: What you see is a trial version of ubuntu which lets
you play with it without
Quoting Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Oh yeah - sorry heres a link
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf
Damn... that's good.
I agree about the wording points that have been raised, but I'm
printing these for SFD and
Damn... that's good.
I agree about the wording points that have been raised, but I'm
printing these for SFD and using them in Thanet!
Wow thanks :-D
I used OO.org Draw but it was on Windows (I'm at work and the ubuntu
box was in use) so I cheated a bit.
Just go to the leaflets page in
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:36 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Oh yeah - sorry heres a link
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf
Nice. Showed it to a friend whose first reaction was
It needs capital letters.
Also note the URL
Nice. Showed it to a friend whose first reaction was
It needs capital letters.
Yeah, my friend said that too - I was trying to be funky and
unconventional :-P I could put 'em in though!
Also note the URL broken over two lines. URLs could legitimately be in a
smaller font I suspect, and you
Hi Chris (and since it's my first post to the list, a general hello to
all too)
I like your pretty version but have a few very minor (proofreading-y)
niggles.
Panel 2 'why bother?'
- point 3 - there seems to be a comma issue here - I'd either add one
after run on it (ubuntu, and the programs
Quoting Louisa Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip /
Also I couldn't help but notice that the word 'linux' isn't used at all
in the leaflet. Is this intentional because it's a bit too scary/geeky
sounding? Personally I would think it would be more important to
mention that in the 'why is it
On 18/06/07, Louisa Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Chris (and since it's my first post to the list, a general hello to
all too)
I like your pretty version but have a few very minor (proofreading-y)
niggles.
Thanks :-)
Hi Louisa, I'll go through it when I get home and make some
Hi there, welcome to the list :-)
Firstly thanks for the spelling mistake point-outs, however we are
only at the initial stages of making this thing and havn't even
decided on its content yet so I am personally forgiving any mistakes
like that until we have a final draft.
About linux not being
Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
You can confirm that this setting does not exist?
http://daviey.mooo.com/powersettings.jpg
The drop-down is there for me, but I only have options to Ask me,
Suspend, Hibernate or Shutdown.
JT
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Some time ago I wanted a CRM tool for linux, and it still comes up in
conversation sometimes.
There was a report that sugar crm is in ubuntu repositories but I have
not found it.
Looking at the debianhelp pages, there are a number of actions to
install it and its dependencies.
I think all I
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:24 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Over the last few years, I've discovered that many people get confused
if I mention Linux as they want to know what it is and why it is
owned by a large number of companies but mainly by people who make
very little (if
Chris Rowson wrote:
Oh yeah - sorry heres a link
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf
Brilliant!
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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:46 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
Firstly thanks for the spelling mistake point-outs, however we are
only at the initial stages of making this thing and havn't even
decided on its content yet so I am personally forgiving any mistakes
like that until we have a final
I have kept out of the way for a long time but I have now reached the
point where I must say something. Several years ago attempts were made
to get me interested in Linux with no success. After all, Linux was a
very complicated business, worse than DOS, well I thought so, which I
had left for
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Quoting Louisa Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
snip /
Also I couldn't help but notice that the word 'linux' isn't used
at all in the leaflet. Is this intentional because it's a bit
too scary/geeky sounding? Personally I would think it would be
more
Louisa Parry wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:24 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
[...]
If *I* was reading it, I would prefer just something more along the
lines of the last paragraph - thousands of people around the world,
including us at ubuntu-uk.org, give their time
free, as
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:36 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Oh yeah - sorry heres a link
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf
Another link you might want to add is http://screencasts.ubuntu.com -
Alan Pope's Ubuntu
James Tait wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
You can confirm that this setting does not exist?
http://daviey.mooo.com/powersettings.jpg
The drop-down is there for me, but I only have options to Ask me,
Suspend, Hibernate or Shutdown.
I can
Chris Rowson wrote:
Oh yeah - sorry heres a link
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf
I like the graphics on that one. Just out of interest, where did you
get the picture of the field from? (I'm assuming not that
Hi Jim,
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 19:05 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
James Tait wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
You can confirm that this setting does not exist?
http://daviey.mooo.com/powersettings.jpg
The drop-down is there for me, but I
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 19:05 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
James Tait wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:28 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
You can confirm that this setting does not exist?
http://daviey.mooo.com/powersettings.jpg
The drop-down is there for me, but I only have
I like the graphics on that one. Just out of interest, where did you
get the picture of the field from? (I'm assuming not that other OS
beginning with W?)
Rob
I was waiting for someone to ask that :-P
I got it from a stock photo site http://www.sxc.hu
Chris
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use of sudo working with speech but I am not sure how I actually go
about creating the necessary file before I log out and login again to
effect the changes to make things more accessible with Orca.
The commands I have to get
Latest revision with grammar, spelling, capitalisation and context
changes as discussed on the list:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_0.1_chris_rowson.pdf
Chris
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Chris Rowson wrote:
I like the graphics on that one. Just out of interest, where did you
get the picture of the field from? (I'm assuming not that other OS
beginning with W?)
Rob
I was waiting for someone to ask that :-P
I got it from a stock photo site http://www.sxc.hu
Chris
Here is my idea for the graphics and title page of the leaflet, I
based it on your's Chris. I didnt change any of the text (apart from
the title)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_matthewgraphicsversion.pdf
Regards,
Chris
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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 20:42 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Latest revision with grammar, spelling, capitalisation and context
changes as discussed on the list:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_0.1_chris_rowson.pdf
This gets better with
Don't worry about CMYK or that stuff for now, I have a bit of
experience with it so can deal with it when the need arises.
Good point though :)
Something to bear in mind is that it should look good in Gray scale
and colour. Easier to photocopy gray scale en-masse.
Regards.
On 18/06/07, Alan
Hi Rob,
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:16 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
Ahh thats good. When I saw it I thought... hmmm, that looks like Telly
Tubby land on XP. I'm sure lots of people will see that and think
Windows XP. In fact I tested it on my other half. I asked her what
computer related thing
Hi Matthew,
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 21:25 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
Here is my idea for the graphics and title page of the leaflet, I
based it on your's Chris. I didnt change any of the text (apart from
the title)
Wherever it comes from it needs to be licensed in such a way that we can
redistribute it freely of course :)
Licensing for the tellytubby image... (seems OK to me)
We hereby grant to You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to
use the Image on the terms and conditions explained in this
Nice. I love the fact that this is a real collaborative effort. With
input from multiple community members.
Yeah, I gotta agree with you there Alan, I'm also liking this
community working vibe :-D
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Hi Mike
Have you tried the Orbtrics (?) file as described on the Orca System Admin
help pages? Note only works in 7.0.4
For any other versions of Ubuntu you'll have to go into the terminal sudo
into root and launch the program from there. This of course is dependant on
the app in question
Chris, nice one mate.
Going back to the previous thread on this subject, we need to get a style
that everyone accepts and move on from there.
Maybe the next leaflet should be a What is Linux on one side and a What
is the Community on the other, or if there's sufficient to write about one
leaflet
Ah, Web 2.0 formatting!
Seriously though, nice one Matt and I agree with Alan.
To re-iterate one point though, think of it being printed grey scale, and
also aim to keep contrasts high between text and background. There's
nothing worse than getting to the juicy bit of a leaflet to find that the
Thanks for the feedback, It was just meant to be an idea for graphics
really. A bit of explanation: I kept the green and blue backgrounds
for 2 reasons: The blue represents the switching from Windows to Linux
(The title text implies this) and all the sections in blue are about
the switch. The
I am using Ubuntu 5.04 so I should be able to create that file. However
on the Orca page for administration from the accessible applications it
is not clear as to whether the file needs to be created in a text editor
so when I typed the commands into the Gnome terminal and rebooted I did
not get
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