Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Wireless Toshiba Portege PP041E

2010-06-29 Thread daveg
Message: 5 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:28:07 +0100 From: John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Wireless Toshiba Portege PP041E To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: aanlktingtj_zhliarjlotfcz6oxqjpoxx5b8unb-v...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread pmgazz
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? Paula On 28/06/10 23:48, Steve Flynn wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:26 PM, javadayazjavada...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. The it crowd is really quite good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one female lead character who is portrayed as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Garton
On 29/06/10 11:29, Alan Pope wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread pmgazz
An excellent point - which I probably should've noticed ;) Paula On 29/06/10 11:32, Steve Garton wrote: On 29/06/10 11:29, Alan Pope wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazzpmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Jon Spriggs
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29 June 2010 11:35, Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29 June 2010 11:32, Steve Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote: I would argue that Jen (in ITC) was portrayed as ditzy clueless too (remember the episode where she won Employee of the Month?) I don't think she likes the IT Crowd either, for much the same reason. Cheers, Al. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread pmgazz
I thought Leslie Winklier was great. There's also Raj's childhood friend who prefers Sheldon. Not to mention Leonard's mother who has me in stitches. Penny sort of represents Middle America rather than any idiocy specifically of womankind, I thought. She had to be a woman, the geeks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Tony Arnold
On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread pmgazz
Me too! On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Popea...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazzpmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Lucy
On 29 June 2010 11:29, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Tony Arnold
Matt, On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 14:41 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Matt, On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Wireless Toshiba Portege PP041E

2010-06-29 Thread daveg
Message: 5 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:49:09 +0100 From: da...@boavon.plus.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Wireless Toshiba Portege PP041E To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: 1eb6b7d3bbe753c5f550abd7e9a619c8.squir...@webmail.plus.net Content-Type:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Chris Rowson
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one female lead character who is portrayed as ditzy and clueless. I suspect that marrs her

[ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

2010-06-29 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, Further to my post a couple of days ago about Shoutcast and streaming radio, I've decided to bite the bullet and go for Icecast, mainly because it appears to be better supported on Ubuntu 64-bit. Now I've got Icecast running, I can run multiple Icecast sessions (there's about 6 in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

2010-06-29 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 29/06/10 20:08, Rob Beard wrote: Now running one of these streams is fine, it starts fine and goes into the background. If I run a second stream (basically start the next init.d script) it will start to run the script but then come up with an error about it already running. PIDs. The

[ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-29 Thread Roy Jamison
Hi all. Have been looking at the Ubuntu wiki and googled around for quite a while trying to find an answer but there doesn't appear to be anything concrete for linux regarding speech recognition programs. I mean, there are developer-only orientated things like sphinx and julius in our repos, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-29 Thread Steve
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:08:45 +0100, Roy Jamison xtee...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all. Have been looking at the Ubuntu wiki and googled around for quite a while trying to find an answer but there doesn't appear to be anything concrete for linux regarding speech recognition programs. I mean,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-29 Thread Alan Bell
Roy Jamison wrote: Hi all. Have been looking at the Ubuntu wiki and googled around for quite a while trying to find an answer but there doesn't appear to be anything concrete for linux regarding speech recognition programs. I mean, there are developer-only orientated things like sphinx and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-29 Thread Roy Jamison
Actually in its defense, I have found Dragon NS to be quite surprisingly accurate after 10-15 minutes of training, so I don't think the perfect model is too far away, at least for closed-source payware. Open-source I'm not too sure but there's always a negative spin every time this subject pops

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Optional headless server...

2010-06-29 Thread Timothy Rittman
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:19:24 +0100 From: John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Optional headless server... To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: aanlktinsikjq8belb1kbj6ii4fnplkbsni593yvdk...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-29 Thread Roy Jamison
@Alan: Exactly my thought! It's a shame that if there are any, that they weren't released (or at least not without public knowledge). I suppose contacting Universities would be a futile attempt ;) (saying that if I thought it would bring results I would do it!) If anything can be found I would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

2010-06-29 Thread Rob Beard
On 29/06/10 20:20, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 29/06/10 20:08, Rob Beard wrote: Now running one of these streams is fine, it starts fine and goes into the background. If I run a second stream (basically start the next init.d script) it will start to run the script but then come up with an