Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic dual monitor problems...

2009-11-03 Thread Dean Sas
tim.ritt...@doctors.org.uk wrote: How many people out there use dual monitors? Is the general poor support for dual monitors a conequence of the closed source nature of the graphics drivers? I would ideally like to use kde, but this doesn't support dual screens at all. I don't know if it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!

2009-10-27 Thread Dean Sas
Sean Miller wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine? Come to think of it, why isn't Wine installed by default?? I don't know if there are any official reasons, but here are some possibilities * It's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-27 Thread Dean Sas
Daniel Drummond wrote: 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls /Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by design, he said./ Just doesn't make sense at all. Surely as it is an open-source system, there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-27 Thread Dean Sas
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:57, Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote: Dean Sas wrote: Daniel Drummond wrote: 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls /Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by design

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaws - text to speech

2009-10-16 Thread Dean Sas
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:35, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Dean Sas wrote: Rik Boland wrote: There is a programme named Jaws it runs under windows it will basically read text from a scanner so it great for people that may be blind or like me have episodic sight  issue's that affect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaws - text to speech

2009-10-15 Thread Dean Sas
Rik Boland wrote: There is a programme named Jaws it runs under windows it will basically read text from a scanner so it great for people that may be blind or like me have episodic sight issue's that affect reading and typing. So there should really be some thing out there can any one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Right way to completely remove Evolution?

2009-10-08 Thread Dean Sas
Rob Beard wrote: Gordon wrote: I hate it! Apart from the fact that it won't synch properly with Google calendar, even though it's supposed to What's the correct procedure for completely removing Evolution from Remix 9.04? I vaguely remember reading something that Evolution is part

Re: [ubuntu-uk] information manager for ubuntu / gnome

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Sas
Ian Pascoe wrote: Problem is that there is not one standard especially when you want to start synch to mobiles etc. There is the caldav and the related iCalendar format. The problem is the lack of good implementations I think. This is how you can synchronise mozilla sunbird and google calendar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] information manager for ubuntu / gnome

2009-08-09 Thread Dean Sas
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/7/27 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: Is there an equivelent of a calender / personal information manager (so I can store what I am doing at a time / date and get reminders) for gnome as I am usign ubuntu, Evolution is preinstalled and does exactly this. There's also the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email: default keyring, tray icon

2009-07-15 Thread Dean Sas
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 04:23, Rowan Berkeleyrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: However, the symbiosis between the e-mail notifier and the Evolution client is still far from perfect, I would say; an exorbitant number of clicks are required to get from the appearance of an e-mail notification

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email: default keyring, tray icon

2009-07-14 Thread Dean Sas
Rowan Berkeley wrote: (1) Logging in manually instead of automatically does not remove the Evolution prompts to unlock the default keyring. This latter is located at usr/bin/seahorse, and is really only for OpenPGP and SSH keyring controls. I do not want to create keyrings, and I would like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] website backup

2009-06-30 Thread Dean Sas
alan c wrote: After reading the horror stories about 'website hacked' and the like I wanted to check my understanding about backing up. I am aware of simple methods such as Copying files directly presumably with say, filezilla , after logging in as admin is what first come to mind. But

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home partitions do I need one?

2009-06-14 Thread Dean Sas
Graham Smith wrote: Is it still considered good practice to have a home partition, I have seen it mentioned in the forums that its no longer required. But it still seems to make sense to me. I don't bother any more, but then most of my data is stored on a NAS. When reinstalling Ubuntu there is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Dean Sas
Tony Pursell wrote: If the EU Competition Commission really had teeth they would make MS offer all browsers from a 'Install a browser' link on the desktop. A link that worked as you mentioned would probably be better be labelled as Make the internet work. Is it a good idea to force the user

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-13 Thread Dean Sas
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:29, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/12 Alan Pope a...@popey.com: 2009/5/12 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com: The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly. Not really. You

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu one

2009-05-13 Thread Dean Sas
John Levin wrote: Anyone got an invite and tried this out yet? https://ubuntuone.com/ (Something I've been wanting for a while, a 'dotMac' equivalent, and I hope there will be more features added to it.) I have, my laptop tends to stay at home where it's in wifi distance of my home server,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Dean Sas
David M wrote: Dean Sas wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british I think the idea is that it is confusing to have shutdown options from the quit applet and in the System menu. That doesn't make sense to me Hmm, I agree that does seem a pretty silly policy. I gather that kind of thing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-03 Thread Dean Sas
David M wrote: I've just upgraded both of my boxes to 9.04, and it seems (so far) to have gone reasonably smoothly, which is a great reassurance as a couple (only a few, mind you) of the previous Ubuntu upgrades have been a little hairy.. However, 9.04 has removed the Logout/Shutdown

Re: [ubuntu-uk] getting my Jaunty working again....

2009-04-23 Thread Dean Sas
Rob Beard wrote: If it was me, I'd backup /home (this is why it's good idea to have /home on a separate partition ;-) and reinstall. Your bookmarks etc should be kept then. You don't need /home on a separate partition to preserve it on reinstall. See

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hello

2009-03-29 Thread Dean Sas
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 17:11, Barry Titterton barry_titter...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does anyone know of a LUG that meets on a regular basis near Derbyshire? I have tried the LUG UK website but have not had any response. I would like to meet some fellow users face-to-face to get some inspiration

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

2009-03-15 Thread Dean Sas
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 22:06, red rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote: To follow on with a thought from Paul. No 10 website has a place where you can put a petition up for the government to read and others can sign it. As the BBC is a publicly funded organization and it is answerable to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hooking up a machine running Ubuntu to a Mark 1, BT HomeHub

2009-02-19 Thread Dean Sas
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:23, Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: well - thank you for all your advice, gentlemen. I shall get back to you as soon as I have digested and applied the apprpriate sections of this: https://help.ubuntu.com/ I realise that it would be impractical to provide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing over Failed Upgrades

2009-02-17 Thread Dean Sas
Ian Pascoe wrote: Before starting the process using the Live Ubuntu CD, is the installer intelligent enough to see the existing partitions and use them, or will I still have to define each one? Is it better to install direct from the CD, or launch the Live CD and install from there? I think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....

2009-02-05 Thread Dean Sas
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 13:23, John jake...@sky.com wrote: I got my little netbook, but I managed to find one in Curries instead, slightly different specs, but the same as the one I mentioned. Acer Aspire. If I install Ubuntu eee, via the stick, is it an easy install, and will it install over

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slightly OT: GeForce 4 MX support fixed?

2008-11-03 Thread Dean Sas
Dianne Reuby wrote: Launchpad has more info: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/251107 Beta drivers are now available from the repos. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for how to enable them, please report back your testing to the above

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread Dean Sas
Chris Coulson wrote: To enable Apport, edit /etc/default/apport and change enabled=0 to enabled=1. Apport should then generate a crash report next time the application crashes, which you will find in /var/crash. I think you need to also start apport by running sudo /etc/init.d/apport start

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Ubuntu Wiki] Update of UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20071118Meeting by PhilWyett

2008-08-08 Thread Dean Sas
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 05:06, Ubuntu Wiki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on Ubuntu Wiki for change notification. The following page has been changed by PhilWyett: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20071118Meeting The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Ubuntu Wiki] Update of UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20071118Meeting by PhilWyett

2008-08-08 Thread Dean Sas
Johnathon Tinsley wrote: Dean Sas wrote: | | Why are meeting archives for the ubuntu-uk team being deleted? It's | hardly as if Canonical are crying out for the few kilobytes of disk | space each takes up. It wasn't really deleted ... the history was still there. I've reverted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone from Derby on the list?

2008-07-30 Thread Dean Sas
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:07, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Back from cd distribution duties at Lug Radio. Met someone who is interested in doing a Linux install fest in Derby. Anyone on this list from there? I'm about 30 minutes away (by junction 29), I can perhaps make

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Post install additions

2008-06-24 Thread Dean Sas
Alan Pope wrote: Hi, Here's a question for the group. If you install a clean Ubuntu system for yourself (or perhaps someone else), what are the key things you add to the system after, to get a works for me desktop? Here's my list:- Add the following repo(s):- * gnome-do ppa Install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fresh Installs

2008-06-23 Thread Dean Sas
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have various periphials that get attached / detached , as you do, and was trying to figure out whether the best way was to have them all connected during the installation process so that any necessary drivers / packages are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Politics, Finance and corruption proofing.

2007-05-23 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 christopher chatfield wrote: Where can I read up on the financial footing and political manifesto of ubuntu? Ubuntu is pretty much 100% financed by Canonical Ltd [0]. Which is a private company owned by multi-millionaire Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-19 Thread Dean Sas
Robin Hall wrote: Hi Many thanks for the reply. This what I wrote in the command line: sudo w3m -dump_source http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh /tmp/alsa-info.sh chmod +x /tmp/alsa_info.sh/tmp/alsa_info.sh In return I got pages of a great deal of stuff that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Newbie Question: best quick backup method - please!!

2007-04-23 Thread Dean Sas
Passive PROFITS wrote: Hi All, Anyway. Having just fully set up my desktop (LAMP installation of server running fine!), I've just trashed it by misconfiguring x.org config. I perhaps could have tried some neat boot CD to fix it, but thought better, and have just started completely

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fiesty Fawn Formally Freed for Future fetching !

2007-04-19 Thread Dean Sas
Tony Arnold wrote: Robin, Robin Menneer wrote: Wouldn't it be better for us thickies to wait until we are offered an automatic update in the usual way ? I'm not sure you will be offered an update to Feisty from Edgy. You have to do something specific to go from one release to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spread Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TheVeech wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 01:07 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:02:48PM +0100, Rob Stent wrote: If you have any comments or suggestions about the site I'd love to hear them. I do occasionally check this list but if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UKTeam meeting update

2007-04-11 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David M wrote: Hi Nik, Nik Butler wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british So who are the team ? Well theres no real definitive answer on that one. We dont actually have a leader but we do have a number of people whom you could consider a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UKTeam meeting update

2007-04-11 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David M wrote: Alan Pope wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british [decision-making on IRC versus list] Instead? I don't think so. Of the top 30 posters to the list (as in the url I linked to above) I recognise many of the names from the irc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GetGNULinux.Org

2007-04-11 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Kissel wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:57:36AM +0100, Jim Kissel wrote: So do I, but some people at the local LUG have taken exception to it. Heh. Linux User Groups are a great melting pot of opinions. They're great for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Forums software recommendations

2007-03-23 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Tansom wrote: OK, this isn't strictly on topic for a Ubuntu forum, but since there has been a good discussion related I thought I might get some good answers here. It will probably be considered an odd request given my last post relating to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free penguin with every purchase... (WAS Re: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 23, Issue 41)

2007-03-23 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Menneer wrote: On 3/23/07, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Personally, I'd keep Tux and drop the GNU. The GNU foundation are an excellent organisation and have a very important part to play in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Greetings...

2007-03-19 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddie Ruddick wrote: On 19/03/07, Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried to use the gconf.editor but got a 'comnand not fournd' response. The command is gconf-editor, not gconf.editor. The easiest way to open it is to go Applications

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Server - KPF - unwanted icon (?)

2007-03-18 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 alan c wrote: After a so far unsuccessful effort to get samba file sharing between two kubuntu machines, I have postponed the attempt. However, I notice that I now have a new icon in the taskbar panel (Kubuntu) (next to the Kontact Icon).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu used in the fight against AIDS

2007-03-16 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: [1] Who's responsible for getting this out to the press anyway? is there anyone, or is it up to the community? I think Canonical have some kind of press officer type person, but aside from that there's no reason

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi / Forum

2007-03-11 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Barber wrote: It does bring up the question.. should we start a fora? I can theme phpBB pretty well, I would not mind giving some time to starting one if we thought it was worth while. We've discussed this a lot previously, and decided that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bug report

2007-03-05 Thread Dean Sas
London School of Puppetry wrote: The report said that they have no record of the kind of bug it is- so to save it then forward it to someone..but I saved it, then the info disappeared leaving me in the dark. I have another one of these from 16th January. I thought there might be someone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] repository screwup!!!

2007-03-05 Thread Dean Sas
STONE COLD wrote: hi, i need some help. I accidentaly deleted some repositories and now im getting this error message.. and a constant little red box on the top toolbar ( informing me of an error). here is the error message: E: Type ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’ is not known on line 30 in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] repository screwup!!!

2007-03-05 Thread Dean Sas
Dean Sas wrote: STONE COLD wrote: hi, i need some help. I accidentaly deleted some repositories and now im getting this error message.. and a constant little red box on the top toolbar ( informing me of an error). here is the error message: E: Type ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’ is not known

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another petition: Open Document Format

2007-02-24 Thread Dean Sas
Greg Dash wrote: I really do question how effect these petitions are. Blair did after all ignore the opinion of 1.7million people over Road pricing :( I fully agree, They ignored the 2million people who walked around London protesting over the Iraq war. What effect is a online petition going

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-uk and GUADEC

2007-02-23 Thread Dean Sas
Hi All, A few people have mentioned attending Guadec this year in Birmingham. Following the example set by the lugradio wiki page I've wrote https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Guadec2007 so we can see which of us are planning on going and plan what we want to do when we're there. Thanks, dsas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost again

2007-02-22 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Menneer wrote: On 2/22/07, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin, Robin Menneer wrote: I'm not sure if this is a complete description, but items on the desk top require a double click in a default Ubuntu set-up. Menus and stuff on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost again

2007-02-22 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Menneer wrote: On 2/22/07, *Dean Sas* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once nautilus is in single click mode, the only double click items are the open/save dialogues and the odd thing such as playing a selected music track

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adept

2007-02-21 Thread Dean Sas
Keith Harris wrote: I've been trying to add other programs but when I try to use Adept it tells me it is being used by another program and to close that program down first. Can't find any other program being used. Can anyone help a novice please It could be the software updater (not sure

Re: [ubuntu-uk] linuxoperation

2007-02-12 Thread Dean Sas
gbas wrote: I am interested in using the Linux system, however after accessing your site and spending some considerable time in going round in circles I am emailing as a desperate last measure to try to finnd out how to get thinge going after installing Ubuntu. I would like to know for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [guadec-list] Guadec Planning Meeting Notes - 20th January 2007]

2007-02-09 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 paul mellors wrote: Dean Sas wrote: For anyone interested in GUADEC in Birmingham this summer here's the latest meeting notes. snip If there's an ubuntu-uk stand or something similar, and i'm available i'd love to help out :) I'm not sure

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [guadec-list] Guadec Planning Meeting Notes - 20th January 2007]

2007-01-31 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Sas wrote: For anyone interested in GUADEC in Birmingham this summer here's the latest meeting notes. Keynotes * Invitations have been sent, and four have already accepted The four key noters who have accepted so far are: * Ari

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for meeting agenda items

2007-01-23 Thread Dean Sas
Alan Pope wrote: Could everyone have a little think and add to that list anything they would like to talk about at the meeting? Thanks for the reminder Popey, I've added a few things. Could I just ask people to either a) turn up to the meeting theirselves or b) Explain the agenda item in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] House of Parliament tours.

2007-01-18 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nik Butler wrote: Out of interest would Ubuntu-UK members like to do a tour of the Both Houses of Parliament ? Dependant on dates and stuff, sure. dsas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] open office paste crash

2007-01-15 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Sas wrote: London School of Puppetry wrote: Sorry to change the subject- I have Ubuntu 6,10 installed. Open Office crashes if I try to copy or cut and paste into an email. I have re-installed Open Office, but it is still happening. Does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu sophisticated

2007-01-05 Thread Dean Sas
London School of Puppetry wrote: Robin Thanks I will try-Can I ask someone something else- why does open Office crash when I try to paste something out of it into an email? Sorry I am so new to this and I appreciate all you with so much practical knowledge. Caroline Hi Caroline, It's a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu sophisticated

2007-01-04 Thread Dean Sas
alan c wrote: Robin Menneer wrote: Surely in the 21st century we do not need an install person You said you got someone else to install for you. Installs are about as easy as I could imagine now. Insert cd, say yes take over hard drive, ok, english ok, then have a few cups of tea. Knowing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meeting clash

2007-01-03 Thread Dean Sas
://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20070109Meeting [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda I also note that our very own Dean Sas is going for Ubuntu Membership so it is of course our duty to pop in and support him at the Community Council Agenda. Thanks Popey. I'll be greatful

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [guadec-list] Key Note Speakers]

2006-12-22 Thread Dean Sas
Alex Latchford wrote: Is anyone else interested in getting a speaker on something like Metacity's compositing features, the future of desktop-effects in Gnome? I am not someone who is involved very heavily with Gnome, but I do plan on attending QUADEC07 for at least a day. I think that this is

[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [guadec-list] Key Note Speakers]

2006-12-21 Thread Dean Sas
More words from our friends at gnome-uk, has anyone got any ideas for people they would like to see as keynote speakers at GUADEC07? Original Message Subject: [guadec-list] Key Note Speakers Hi all, Just a quick reminder to say we had hoped to get a list of possible key

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules Banned Starting January 2008 (??)

2006-12-14 Thread Dean Sas
Gargoyle wrote: On 14 Dec 2006, at 20:33, Pat wrote: On 14/12/06, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules Banned Starting January 2008 ... I note Linus' response which I find a bit reassuring, but I do hope the more 'common' end of common sense can prevail,

[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: GUADEC is looking for help from Brummies]

2006-12-12 Thread Dean Sas
I don't know if we have any Brummies around, but if so can anyone give a hand to a small guide to Birmingham for GUADEC? Thanks, Dean Original Message Subject: GUADEC is looking for help from Brummies From: Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: GUADEC is looking for help from Brummies]

2006-12-12 Thread Dean Sas
Andy Ferguson wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:05 +, Dean Sas wrote: I don't know if we have any Brummies around, but if so can anyone give a hand to a small guide to Birmingham for GUADEC? Not a problem. I'll have a look, and will also forward this mail on to the Birmingham LUG

Re: [ubuntu-uk] And now my MP reply...

2006-11-30 Thread Dean Sas
Andrew Gee wrote: My MP says that he is making enquiries of the House of Commons' Library about the points I raised and he has also made specific representations to the Minister responsible because there are now so many EDMs that the Government pays not the slightest attention to them He

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tomorrows Meeting

2006-11-30 Thread Dean Sas
Philip Wyett wrote: Something that could be OK for discussuion is government certification programmes. One specifically is Certified Open: http://www.opensourceacademy.gov.uk/solutions/products_and_services/co/certified-openTM Hmm, I've just looked at this, it seems it costs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tomorrows Meeting

2006-11-30 Thread Dean Sas
alan c wrote: This weeks agenda is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20061127Meeting All are welcome to participate. Dean (I am away then I think) The meeting was on Monday. Am I just getting these emails late? A special plea: With postings such as yours, which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] help

2006-11-27 Thread Dean Sas
Damien Owen wrote: Hi Damien, What is it you want help with? Dean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Tomorrows Meeting

2006-11-26 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, We've got a meeting scheduled for tomorrow at 2130 in #ubuntu-uk, though we have nothing recorded to discuss, that doesn't mean people don't have things to discuss, it just means we don't know if people have things that they want to discuss,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!

2006-11-24 Thread Dean Sas
Cool, it's always nice to see people putting effort into the political process. I mailed Natascha Engels (North East Derbyshire) the other night. I've also added this news to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Education. Dean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Early bird motion in parliament

2006-11-23 Thread Dean Sas
Hi all, Some of you may have seen this circulating on various LUG lists already. This particular version is from Iain Roberts from the Open Source Consortium, via Dave Neary on the gnome-uk list. dsas John Pugh MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons entitled Software in

[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Children In Need fund raising, following Linux World Expo.]

2006-11-19 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forwarding to sounder, see if we can get more bidders. To provide a bit more info: This is an auction of a Ubuntu t-shirt signed by sabdfl, Jon 'maddog' Hall and various other developers, as well as some of the UKTeam. All proceeds will go to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Children In Need fund raising, following Linux World Expo.

2006-11-17 Thread Dean Sas
Caroline Ford wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 22:04 +, Dean Sas wrote: Nik Butler wrote: Okay So , A little late but not out of time here is the link to the little Charity drive I suggested at Linux World Expo . https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/CharityWork/ChildrenInNeedTShirt I wonder

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Membership list on Launchpad

2006-11-13 Thread Dean Sas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-united-kingdom Perhaps these two teams could be merged? Hi Paul I created that team before i realised there was an ubuntu-uk, let me know what people want done with it. Assuming that there's people in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Sas
Andy wrote: On 04/11/06, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to this, [netiquette stuff snipped] You could have phrased that a little nicer, please is a nice word. Immediately greeting new users in such a way is one of the reasons mailing lists are seen as off putting and elitist. It's not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leader Vote

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Sas
Nicholas Butler wrote: or we could use that grin um how do we use that ? Maybe only LP team admins can do that - Michael Wood (x3n) is listed as ours at the moment. We need a list of nominees first though. Actually it leads to the interesting question of how many members are on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leader Vote

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Sas
Nicholas Butler wrote: Pete Ryland wrote: Currently, Nik Butler is doing a fantastic job as our interim leader. However, in the spirit of democracy, it has been suggested that this should be confirmed (or denied) by a vote. Might I suggest a deadline of tomorrow evening, Sunday the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leader Vote

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: Having a vote proposed with little or no notice and no thought for procedure is as good as no vote at all. I do support Nik in his current role but do not feel that this is an adequate way to vote. I suggest we leave

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-03 Thread Dean Sas
alan c wrote: Dean Sas wrote: alan c wrote: William Anderson wrote: Jono Bacon wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:44 +, Paul Sladen wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Paul, The Nottingham Lug is having a LAN party / install fest in november Does anyone know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uk Loco team forums

2006-11-03 Thread Dean Sas
Dominic Forrest wrote: I've no problem with Nik leading the group, however perhaps there should be a more formal voting system so we don't actually leave anyone out? [dont know what or how] Now if we have forums we could set up a vote ;-) We already have that facility anyway -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencasting was: for those unsure how to get on to irc..

2006-10-31 Thread Dean Sas
Nik Butler wrote: 6. someone write it up ( baggsy ! ) and someone posts a small fridge article ( Mr Sladen , can anyone post to the fridge ? ) Anyone can write things, but only the editors [0] can post them. To get your story considered you can email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dean [0]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UKTeam Meetings Minutes

2006-10-30 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Reply to Alan C here expanding on what Nik has already said... On 30/10/06, Nik Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since im an experienced user i never documented the process and now that I type it I find i make very many

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 6.10 beta released, anybody being brave?

2006-10-02 Thread Dean Sas
Albert Vilella wrote: I managed to install it on my old laptop. It runs mostly fine, although right now the firefox bon echo and the flash plugin don't come along very well: the later shuts down the former... even cleanly as no bug report is triggered. Does anybody know how to create a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction and question!

2006-05-07 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard A N Perrin wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 13:30 +0100, Baza wrote: is there a way of upgrading Evolution to 2.6 on Breezy? Don't! it's rubbish and full of bugs. It's made me move to Thunderbird. What's wrong with it? Importantly for me:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Squirrelmail

2006-05-06 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian McMenamin wrote: For the benefit of those who helped on irc last night, I eventually got Squirrelmail to work - though with substantial difficulties. If anybody here (or reading the archive) has had problems with Squirrelmail on Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RE: Introductions

2006-05-04 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Vickers wrote: Not to be left out, here's my introduction. I'm originally from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, where, I see, Andy Ferguson aka dsas lives. I now live in Port Talbot, South Wales though. That'd be Dean Sas aka dsas ;) dsas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re: Functions of this list

2006-05-02 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ferguson wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:06 +0100, Matthew East wrote: Introducing ourselves is a nice idea. Yes it is. I live in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, though I'll be moving to Stafford for the term time in 6 months. I'm a student at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: UK Team ubuntu

2006-04-02 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete Ryland wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:42:31 +0100, Grant wrote: Just wanted to see if there was a meeting point/ site for the ubuntu teams. Are you planning any sorts of issues etc. But otherwise I think this list is it! And it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution and Dapper?

2006-03-11 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Does anyone know whether the deep integration of Evolution in Breezy has been modified in Dapper? I'm not over keen on Evolution, but certainly in Breezy there's no way to set another client in the right-click send-to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password resetting

2005-07-24 Thread Dean Sas
Keith Bowerman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Sladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find the password hash in '/etc/shadow' and delete it Thanks Paul and Ralph, Most of what you advise is somewhat over my head. However, I can access Ubuntu from Xandros but, although I can open