Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-06 Thread Norman Silverstone
We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage of good SF? Norman --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-06 Thread Jim Kissel
Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage of good SF?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Good SciFi was: What would Linus Pauling think about 'LinuxCertified'?

2009-08-06 Thread Matt Daubney
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:22:50 +0100, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote: Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 06/08/09 00:51, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full of those really annoying popups at all. a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Gordon
Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote in message news:h5dvv8$ra...@ger.gmane.org... Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 :-) Getting mine for £44 Still thinking of using it in a VM. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Dave Morley
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:34 +0100, Gordon wrote: Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote in message news:h5dvv8$ra...@ger.gmane.org... Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 Surely that a description of Kubuntu?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Sean Miller
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat. If you pay £219.99

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary OS with virtually no applications

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary

[ubuntu-uk] Yahoo login page hang and VirginMobile internet usb dongle

2009-08-06 Thread alan c
I have a friend who is just beginning to use ubuntu (9.04), and she is using VirginMobile internet from a usb dongle. The webmail she uses is yahoo. However, just the last few days there have been considerable problems. The yahoo login page has not been completing, but hangs when only half

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unison and .prf files

2009-08-06 Thread Tony Arnold
JOn, Jon Taylor wrote: thanks for replying to my problem on the Ubuntu forum and I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly. No problem, although you stand a better chance of getting help if we keep this on the mailing list as you get more than just me looking at your problem. I think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Good SciFi was: What would Linus Pauling think about 'LinuxCertified'?

2009-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:49:27AM +, Matt Daubney wrote: On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:22:50 +0100, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote: There is some good SF available? I must live a sheltered life. The SF I've been exposed to on the small screen seems to be Cowboys and Indians c1950