On 14/10/10 06:27, Traveller wrote:
My experience installing 10.04 does not support this claim, Alan. In my
case, on a system with on-board nVidia graphics, X not only failed to
start, the monitor went to sleep after claiming No input. Fortunately
for me, I still had a working WinXP available,
On 14/10/10 08:21, Will Bickerstaff wrote:
The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd,
a company registered in England and Wales #05868943.
VAT Registration #GB 901 4715 55
Lord Bell would have been a much cooler name
Nah - would be confusing and is not in alphabetical order
Wow! That's a really good turnout :)
I'm hoping there might be some kind of Ubuntu open day somewhere in
north Kent soon. It will give me a chance to get my hands dirty and muck
in in the hands-on area instead of bug triage/fixing.
Does anyone know if there are plans for anything like this in the
On 13/10/10 18:25, Rob Beard wrote:
John, have you tried maybe contacting your local Linux User Group
(assuming there is one near you?). You can find a list of LUGs here:
http://lug.org.uk/listings
If you can find a local LUG which is active (seems like some of them
aren't so active) then
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:59 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
Hi Rob, Unfortunately, its my pc, that is the main problem, and I dont
have transport to pick up my pc, and take it to a lug meeting.
Ubuntu folk are (for the most part) really helpful people. If you
happened to live close to Nottingham
Why not give your
approx. location and see who responds off-list?
You might also find that someone is willing to pick you up and give you a
lift to a lug met. Kent Lug members often do this
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On 14/10/10 11:26, Barry Drake wrote:
Ubuntu folk are (for the most part) really helpful people. If you
happened to live close to Nottingham I would happily pop around and
spend a couple of hours, especially if you were to offer a beer! I'm
sure the same goes for many of us around the
On 13/10/10 17:55, Colin Law wrote:
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Baileymelvbai...@googlemail.com wrote:
If you're a power user of any platform and you change platform, the
experience feels very dis-empowering and frustrating. This isn't
necessarily related to the relative merits of
Oh yes, and I meant to mention - we're starting informal drop-in help
sessions for Ubuntu and FOSS on the first Friday of every month if
anyone wants to help out (let me know) - or come and get help:
http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=362
We're also running a free introductory session on
On 14/10/10 09:58, Roy Jamison wrote:
Wow! That's a really good turnout :)
I'm hoping there might be some kind of Ubuntu open day somewhere in
north Kent soon. It will give me a chance to get my hands dirty and muck
in in the hands-on area instead of bug triage/fixing.
Roy - I have a
On 14/10/10 11:31, John Matthews wrote:
Hi Barry,
thank you, I really appreciate it, unfortunately, I live in London.
Thank you any way. :)
John.
GLLUG meets fairly regularly and they do this kind of thing.
http://www.gllug.org.uk/
We have drop-ins starting soon, these are aimed at
Hi John,
I would be happy to help out another time if you run something similar.
Of the back of this, I was wondering if ubuntu-uk could maybe have a
volunteer list by area or is that already in place?
Cheers
JT
#selinuxium
On 13 October 2010 23:05, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
** Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com [2010-10-13 15:14]:
snip
I will probably get it to work on one of my PCs eventually when I can
trawl the bug lists and forums for a solution, but my Win 7 on an Athlon
XP2500+ and Nvidia 6800 that took less than an hour to setup is working
it will
On 14 October 2010 14:33, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote:
I would be happy to help out another time if you run something similar.
Of the back of this, I was wondering if ubuntu-uk could maybe have a
volunteer list by area or is that already in place?
** Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com [2010-10-14 14:34]:
snip
With my brand new build for my dad I have the joy of sorting out his scanner,
which has no Windows 7 driver. It does, however, have a transparency adaptor
that he wants to use, and I don't think new scanners have this feature - so if
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking
questions on Windows forums. The first one that comes to mind is Experts
Exchange (now a pay site and abandoned), but there have been others.
snip
Seen http://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and it
seems quite popular.
Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking
On 14/10/10 19:39, Alan Bell wrote:
Seenhttp://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and
it seems quite popular.
Something wrong with link, wont work.
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John,
http://askubuntu.com/
Paul
(peejay1977)
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 19:44 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
On 14/10/10 19:39, Alan Bell wrote:
Seenhttp://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and
it seems quite popular.
Something wrong with link, wont work.
typo I think its http://askubuntu.com
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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 19:44 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
On 14/10/10 19:39, Alan Bell wrote:
Seenhttp://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and
it seems quite popular.
Something wrong with link, wont work.
Should be http://askubuntu.com/
Josh
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http://askubuntu.com/ sorry, was typing on a phone using an email
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** Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net [2010-10-14 18:51]:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking
questions on Windows forums. The first one that comes to mind is Experts
Exchange (now a
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:06 +0100, pmgazz wrote:
Oh yes, and I meant to mention - we're starting informal drop-in help
sessions for Ubuntu and FOSS on the first Friday of every month if
anyone wants to help out (let me know) - or come and get help:
http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=362
Hi Paula,
On 14/10/10 19:52, Paul Jones wrote:
John,
http://askubuntu.com/
Paul
(peejay1977)
That one works, dont know why the other one didnt. :( Thank you.
John
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On 14/10/10 11:26, Barry Drake wrote:
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:59 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
Hi Rob, Unfortunately, its my pc, that is the main problem, and I dont
have transport to pick up my pc, and take it to a lug meeting.
Ubuntu folk are (for the most part) really helpful people. If
I am based in South London SW16 and am often in the City.
I am happy to cycle around the area if there is somewhere safe to leave my
bicycle.
Happy to help out with basic support issues when I can.
Thank you
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On 14/10/10 22:11, John Stevenson wrote:
I am based in South London SW16 and am often in the City.
I am happy to cycle around the area if there is somewhere safe to leave
my bicycle.
Happy to help out with basic support issues when I can.
Thank you
I presume the idea of this thread is
On 14/10/10 22:19, Rob Beard wrote:
On 14/10/10 22:11, John Stevenson wrote:
I am based in South London SW16 and am often in the City.
I am happy to cycle around the area if there is somewhere safe to leave
my bicycle.
Happy to help out with basic support issues when I can.
Thank you
I
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