On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 09:46:40 Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
I've been following up 7 days of this guy fighting a change to Ubuntu
from Windows7.
Sadly he is finding loads of contradictory messages, rants about
linux, rants about mint, rants about nvidia drivers...
But a very
Just been to look at the website of my daughter's school -
https://slp3.somerset.gov.uk/schools/hps/Default.aspx. Is this similar to
other school websites in the UK where everything is in either Word, Excel or
PPT format both old and new with the help section giving links to viewers?
I've
On 11 June 2011 09:32, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
Just been to look at the website of my daughter's school -
https://slp3.somerset.gov.uk/schools/hps/Default.aspx. Is this similar to
other school websites in the UK where everything is in either Word, Excel or
PPT format
On 11/06/11 09:40, Alan Pope wrote:
On 11 June 2011 09:32, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
Just been to look at the website of my daughter's school -
https://slp3.somerset.gov.uk/schools/hps/Default.aspx. Is this similar to
other school websites in the UK where everything is
On 11/06/11 09:32, Mark Fraser wrote:
Just been to look at the website of my daughter's school -
https://slp3.somerset.gov.uk/schools/hps/Default.aspx. Is this similar to
other school websites in the UK where everything is in either Word, Excel or
PPT format both old and new with the help
I think schools have a lot to answer for... they're supposed to be
educational establishments, yet they seem to fundamentally misunderstand the
whole concept of the web...
PDFs are fine, for documents that need to be printed consistently (eg.
posters for school events) but ALL other information
On 11/06/11 11:01, Sean Miller wrote:
I think schools have a lot to answer for... they're supposed to be
educational establishments, yet they seem to fundamentally misunderstand
the whole concept of the web...
PDFs are fine, for documents that need to be printed consistently (eg.
posters
On 11/06/11 09:27, Mark Fraser wrote:
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 09:46:40 Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
I've been following up 7 days of this guy fighting a change to Ubuntu
from Windows7.
Sadly he is finding loads of contradictory messages, rants about
linux, rants about mint, rants about
On 11 June 2011 11:30, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
Perhaps we need more people in schools to help out who can actually do
web design and help out without charging hundreds of pounds for the job.
nProblem is most people out of college may not have these skills, I have
seen web design
On 11 June 2011 11:33, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
Have you seen Matt Daubneys' attempt at going from Ubuntu to Windows for
30
days? http://daubers.co.uk/2011/06/09/from-linux-to-windows-for-30-days/
It is a nice idea.
The elephant in the room is that almost nobody I know who
On 11 June 2011 11:40, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
I am SORRY but if this is the state of our education system then I
despair...
And this is largely irrelevant in many cases, because they are using CMS
systems.
It's their CHOICE to attach a PDF rather than merely type the
My sons school is not great. Most things are in PDF, Newsletters,
prospectus, ofsted reports etc, I like the way Mark's school links directly
to the ofsted site for the HTML version of the report rather than the way
ours provides a PDF version. However we have no word excel or ppt files yet.
The
On 11/06/11 11:40, Sean Miller wrote:
On 11 June 2011 11:30, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net wrote:
Perhaps we need more people in schools to help out who can actually do
web design and help out without charging hundreds of pounds for the job.
nProblem is most
Sean Miller wrote:
It's their CHOICE to attach a PDF rather than merely type the
information into (in many cases) a WYSIWYG editor such as fckeditor
or tinymce.
Interesting use of 'merely' there. It's hardly surprising that they
choose to attach an already-extant document rather than 'merely'
On 11 June 2011 11:40, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
No, that is not the point at all... schools would not take on somebody to be
their secretary who had no concept of what a word processor was, or could
not use a spreadsheet... they are meant to be educational establishments...
are
On Saturday 11 Jun 2011 09:32:31 Mark Fraser wrote:
Just been to look at the website of my daughter's school -
https://slp3.somerset.gov.uk/schools/hps/Default.aspx. Is this similar to
other school websites in the UK where everything is in either Word, Excel
or PPT format both old and new with
On 11 June 2011 13:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
Collect dinner money, enter register data, phone parents, send out
letters - and one of the other tasks is to post newsletters onto the
school website. When you think about school secretaries you don't
think about people with
On 11 June 2011 14:08, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Erm, this is a SCHOOL!
Sparta?
If they've got an even remotely competent IT Teacher
Ha, nice one. See previous discussions. :) Plus, primary schools don't
have IT teachers, they have class teachers (who might have a
specialism,
On 11/06/11 14:18, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 11 June 2011 14:08, Sean Millers...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Erm, this is a SCHOOL!
Sparta?
If they've got an even remotely competent IT Teacher
Ha, nice one. See previous discussions. :) Plus, primary schools don't
have IT teachers, they have class
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.comwrote:
I know I slate the state of teaching quite often, but it's not
teachers who upload stuff onto websites - it's admin staff. Primary
schools, for example, have a school secretary who normally has to do
pretty much
Hi all --
I am getting rid of some surplus equipment from home, and rather than
fuss with Ebay, I thought perhaps someone on the list would be interested.
Current techie toys littering the flat include:
O2 Joggler (works, briefly used, still in box, replaced with Nook Color
Tablet for kitchen
Surely schools could use something like WordPress?
Disclosure - I organise WordCamp UK ;-)
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From: Will
No I haven't that's a good one! i'll follow it up!
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On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 09:46:40 Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
I've been following up 7 days of this guy fighting a
On 11/06/11 11:42, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Maybe someone should write a linux
installer that backs up the complete HDD state before install onto one
of these disks now they're becoming inexpensive.
Hi Matt
A special version of say, clonezilla live would probably suffice. In
its native state
alan c wrote:
On 11/06/11 11:42, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Maybe someone should write a linux
installer that backs up the complete HDD state before install onto
one of these disks now they're becoming inexpensive.
Hi Matt
A special version of say, clonezilla live would probably suffice.
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:30 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote:
I would be very interested in the women's FOSS advocacy network - keep
me posted on that as well
Hi Sarah - we hope to have this up and running in the next couple of
weeks so will post something here :)
Paula
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On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:24 +0100, john beddard wrote:
Hello Gazz,Sarah :
I'm also interested in developing materials in the area of introducing
Ubuntu, as a non-profit. So please keep me in the information loop. I
would like to contribute.
Hi John - yes, that's exactly what we've
I know people with PhDs who won't write HMTL onto an open access
academic site I run. It's not that people are too stupid, it's that
they're too busy and don't do it often enough to be able to remember the
markup between times - and they don't have time/skills to find their own
errors when they
On 11/06/11 16:51, gazz wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:24 +0100, john beddard wrote:
Hello Gazz,Sarah :
I'm also interested in developing materials in the area of introducing
Ubuntu, as a non-profit. So please keep me in the information loop. I
would like to contribute.
Hi John -
On 11/06/11 16:51, gazz wrote:
I dunno if we should do another list for people interested in
education/non-profit stuff? Is it on-topic for this list?
yes, advocating Ubuntu in the UK education sector is totally on topic
for this list.
Alan
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On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 17:40 +0100, alan c wrote:
On 11/06/11 16:51, gazz wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:24 +0100, john beddard wrote:
Hello Gazz,Sarah :
I'm also interested in developing materials in the area of introducing
Ubuntu, as a non-profit. So please keep me in the
This might be a bit out of subject or opening a completly new can of worms but
can't libreoffice save in html format? It can definatly save in pdf. Without
installing cutepdf or whatever the schools are using.
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On 11/06/11 14:51, Tony Scott wrote:
Surely schools could use something like WordPress?
Disclosure - I organise WordCamp UK ;-)
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On 11/06/11 17:48, Alan Bell wrote:
On 11/06/11 16:51, gazz wrote:
I dunno if we should do another list for people interested in
education/non-profit stuff? Is it on-topic for this list?
yes, advocating Ubuntu in the UK education sector is totally on topic
for this list.
Alan
Which list
Hi,
I've been using Ubuntu on and off for a couple of years now and have learned
a lot from reading the UK Ubuntu Talk emails. I've install Xubuntu many
times on older (+5 to -10 years) laptops and I've given these laptops to
people to borrow for community projects that I'm working on.
It takes
Windows is a familiar word. It's releases have progressive names, Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7. They sound cool.
Mac OS X 'sounds' cool. Its big cat release names sound powerful. Lion is soon
to be released and is very cheap. This is cool.
In my experience people use these OSs not
These are valuable lessons that we need to take on board Tony.
However we are dealing across an international community, where Ubuntu
can have different meanings. Not forgetting that Microsoft Windows has
very negative image across the world. To the point that most users had
to begin using it,
Teachers have enough on their plate teaching 2-3 subjects. So on top of
teaching subjects they didnt do a degree, they now by your standards have to
learn HTML etc? Give me a break.
School websites are only done as a means to advertise and make the school
have an online presence. They do not in
On 11 June 2011 21:44, Dino T. d...@dinot.co.uk wrote:
Teachers have enough on their plate teaching 2-3 subjects. So on top of
teaching subjects they didnt do a degree, they now by your standards have to
learn HTML etc? Give me a break.
Few build web pages in raw html nowadays. No-one
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 21:42 +0100, john beddard wrote:
These are valuable lessons that we need to take on board Tony.
However we are dealing across an international community, where Ubuntu
can have different meanings. Not forgetting that Microsoft Windows has
very negative image across the
On 11/06/11 21:06, (:techitone:) wrote:
Windows is a familiar word. It's releases have progressive names,
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. They sound cool.
not to me, they sound confused. 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP,
Vista, 7. That is a complete and utter mess, far from
On Jun 11, 2011 2:40 PM, Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com
wrote:
[snip]
aren't going to spend the time reformatting a newsletter in HTML
format once they've made it in Word (or even worse, Publisher). Hence,
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:13:03 +0100
Alan Bell wrote:
On 11/06/11 21:06, (:techitone:) wrote:
Windows is a familiar word. It's releases have progressive names,
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. They sound cool.
not to me, they sound confused. 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME,
XP,
On 11/06/11 21:06, (:techitone:) wrote:
In my experience when I speak with people about trying, or even switching
to, Ubuntu there is always a stumbling block with the name 'Ubuntu' and the
names of all the releases, Dapper Drake, Hardy Heron, Karmic Koala, Lucid
Lynx, Maverick Meerkat, Natty
Usually when I log in I have the keyring password pop-up to request my
password. Normally I would write this once and it would mean that chats,
email, diffusion, cloud,... password would be set.
It now asks for the password 3 times in a row. I do not remember doing
anything special. but I have a
What sort of power usage do these microserver have?
Lee
On 10/06/11 10:06, Roger Lancefield wrote:
On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hansond...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote:
Morning all,
I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web
server on. (potentially more) I
I'm using evolution to read ubuntu lists that I have set-up in a digest.
This shows first the list of emails and then the emails in a sort of
sub-email format. But some of my emails are missing and I cannot see a
pattern. I was suggested it might be spam but I have looked at my
personal spam box
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