Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Bea Groves
Hi! As an 'amateur' in this area, I can say that DaDaBik is truly excellent for producing database front ends, and I have used it in a number of production contexts with great success. Highly recommendable! On 20/10/11 14:07, Bob Giles wrote: > On 20/10/11 15:26, George MacLeod wrote: >> >> You c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Bob Giles
On 20/10/11 15:26, George MacLeod wrote: You could consider DaDaBik http://www.dadabik.org/ which provides a web based Open Source PHP front end which has been tested on MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and MS SQL Server. I use it at both home and work. It's very easy to import spreadsheets

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread George MacLeod
On 20 October 2011 08:29, Bob Giles wrote: > ** > Hi listers, > > Firstly, I read on a tweet today that it's Ubuntu's 7th birthday today. > Happy birthday Ubuntu! > > Now for the real reason for the post. > > I want to create a simple database that I can distribute to others and was > hoping to c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
On 20 October 2011 12:52, paul sutton wrote: > > > In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended > period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser.  If you go > to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a > lot of flash plu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 October 2011 12:52, paul sutton wrote: > ** > > In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended > period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser. If you go > to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a > lot of flas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread paul sutton
> > In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an > extended period of time can lead to slow response times for your > browser. If you go to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with > Chrome / Chromium then that's a lot of flash plugin that can leak > memory and potentially caus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 October 2011 11:33, Kris Douglas wrote: > Hello, I am coming back to post my findings, I have been experiencing > this problem with the last two releases of Ubuntu. > > Currently Compiz is using 247MB of RAM, which is a lot, but as a > percentage of my current system RAM, it's negligible. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight

2011-10-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 20.10.11 11:09, Alan Bell wrote: > On 20/10/11 10:55, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> Good to be reminded about the meeting, one I might have been able to >> attend. >> Sadly, I shall be in Birmingham watching The Ukulele Orchestra of >> Great Britain instead. >> >> For those attending

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
On 18 October 2011 14:37, Colin Law wrote: > Can you clarify that, do you mean that you saw the same issue on an > earlier version of Ubuntu?  Your first post gave the impression this > was a new problem. Hello, I am coming back to post my findings, I have been experiencing this problem with the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight

2011-10-20 Thread Alan Bell
On 20/10/11 10:55, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: Hi Alan, Good to be reminded about the meeting, one I might have been able to attend. Sadly, I shall be in Birmingham watching The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain instead. For those attending via IRC, what is the time of the meeting? The content

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight

2011-10-20 Thread Iain Cuthbertson
Hi Alan, Good to be reminded about the meeting, one I might have been able to attend. Sadly, I shall be in Birmingham watching The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain instead. For those attending via IRC, what is the time of the meeting? The content on the event URI still details last month's m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Tony Pursell
On 20 October 2011 09:51, Bob Giles wrote: > ** > Thank you all who have taken the trouble to respond so quickly. > > I have put together a combined response to the suggestions received so far. > Please, if anyone has any further observations or suggestions, I would like > to here them. > > Am no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Bob Giles
On 20/10/11 11:39, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 20/10/11 09:23, Avi Greenbury wrote: In any case, if the users will have internet access or similar, the easiest way to do it (and probably the only way to get guaranteed cross-platform) is to use a web interface and host it somewhere they can all

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.10 Oniric Ocelot CDs

2011-10-20 Thread Alan Bell
The new batch of CDs for the team have arrived, I have 250 Ubuntu, 50 Kubuntu, 50 Server If you want a free CD then please follow the procedure at http://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/ if you want lots then tell me why, and tell me how you plan to get them from me :) Alan. -- The Open Learning Ce

[ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight

2011-10-20 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, We have a LoCo team meeting tonight in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on freenode, all are welcome. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ubuntu-uk-meeting or use your favourite IRC client. agenda is here, feel free to add items: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda For those in the gen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Bob Giles
Thank you all who have taken the trouble to respond so quickly. I have put together a combined response to the suggestions received so far. Please, if anyone has any further observations or suggestions, I would like to here them. Am now no more than a 'hobbyist' and so have time to consider w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 20/10/11 09:23, Avi Greenbury wrote: In any case, if the users will have internet access or similar, the easiest way to do it (and probably the only way to get guaranteed cross-platform) is to use a web interface and host it somewhere they can all get at. This was my thought too. Joomla!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Avi Greenbury
Bob Giles wrote: > I want to create a simple database that I can distribute to others > and was hoping to come up with a solution that just allowed me to > distribute it as a standalone package in much the same way that MS > users can with Access. I want it to run under linux. If it was cross > pla

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
A spreadsheet package would be ideal, multiple sheets in a workbook so you have your "tables". Can be distributed as ods,xls,csv... Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 On Oct 20, 2011 8:30 AM, "Bob Giles" wrote: > ** > Hi listers, > > Firstly, I read on a tweet today that it's Ubuntu's 7th birthd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 October 2011 08:29, Bob Giles wrote: > ** > Hi listers, > > Firstly, I read on a tweet today that it's Ubuntu's 7th birthday today. > Happy birthday Ubuntu! > > Now for the real reason for the post. > > I want to create a simple database that I can distribute to others and was > hoping to c

[ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

2011-10-20 Thread Bob Giles
Hi listers, Firstly, I read on a tweet today that it's Ubuntu's 7th birthday today. Happy birthday Ubuntu! Now for the real reason for the post. I want to create a simple database that I can distribute to others and was hoping to come up with a solution that just allowed me to distribute it