On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:58:54 +
paul sutton wrote:
Hi
I am using Ubuntu 11.04. I was using the system earlier today logged
out as I usually do, when i went back to the system later on, the
actual desktop appearance had changed, I know I can change this using
system - preferences -
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:26:46 +
Alan Bell wrote:
On 05/12/11 11:16, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there Received a reply from my MP this morning about open
standards in schools. In the reply was the following link which
you might find of interest: http://opensourceschools.org.uk
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:32:50 +
Gareth France wrote:
Recently I decided to do my part by starting up a small business
selling machines with Ubuntu pre-installed and offering support. My
bank have refused to offer me a business account at all 'because it's
too risky to open an account for
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:47:28 +
Tony Pursell wrote:
On 12 November 2011 15:20, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
On 12/11/11 15:13, Neil Perry wrote:
On 12 November 2011 15:10, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
On 12/11/11 14:57, Colin Law wrote:
On 12
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:37:31 +
Gareth France wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com
wrote:
Yesterday I spent time with someone who was interested in using
Ubuntu. The Live CD ran well in her laptop. However, the live
session disc utility showed
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:47:29 +0100
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 11/06/2011 11:43, Sean Miller wrote:
The key is that we need to EDUCATE the educators that
accessibility is important, and Word/Excel files disempower those
without the software to read
I think the key point is not so much
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:44:32 +0100
Avi Greenbury wrote:
Grant Sewell wrote:
I would dispute this. Not the part that says that people won't turn
to Linux - I agree (at the moment) with that wholesale. I disagree
that people will turn to Mac.
I thought it was generally accepted
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:15:57 +0100
Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi Guys
It's been very interesting to read all the different takes on the
Ubuntu name. Whatever the wisdom of its original selection,
everyone's familiar with it, and to change now would probably be a
retrograde step. However, the
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:54:15 +0100
LeeGroups wrote:
Secondly, the majority of children don't care
about how a computer works (any more than they care how a car works)
- they just want to use it.
Yes, this is very true. Even my own kids aren't bothered despite the
prodding from me. The kids
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 Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local
computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs.
snip?
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run
native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android?
Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:13:29 +0100
J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 June 2011 17:57, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote:
I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel,
but I thought I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on
the last one (over the weekend), with a
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:19:25 +0100
J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 June 2011 21:07, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Maybe Ubuntu-UK would like to propose 'adopt a school / college' -
It would certainly get the LoCo about 2,000,000 brownie points for
'all the good things we do' for
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Alan Bell
alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
On 24/05/11 08:27, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Oh yes, how about all those Mobile phones that run Android? Even Apple's
OS X is built on Open Source core technology (although they chose the most
liberally
On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:07:08 +0100
Dino T. wrote:
Hi
A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to
Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and
show students that they can save money using free/open source
software. This is scheduled for
On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:58:43 +0100
Sean Miller wrote:
This is not strictly a Ubuntu question, but I know there are quite a
few web people here so I wondered if anybody had any suggestions.
Have a customer who wants a gallery page similar to this one...
On Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:23 +0100
Sean Miller wrote:
On 20 May 2011 07:00, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
My advice - open the document if you can. If it's something that
depends on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf.
Actually, it's got significantly better of
On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:40:31 +0100
Sarah Chard wrote:
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 20/05/11 00:01, Daniel Case wrote:
know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can
I educate these people, especially if they are willing to cancel a
On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:56:36 +0100
Toby Satchell wrote:
Hi,
We have a number of Ubuntu servers 10.04.
They join to active directory run by Windows Server 2008 R2 very well.
However it seems they appear to fall off or loose a connection with
the AD servers. It took 9 days last time.
On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:41:47 +0100
Alex Cockell wrote:
Umm - there's this talk about middle-clicking. What is this
middle-clicking you talk about?
I use Saitek notebook mice... I see two buttons, and a mousewheel. On
my Ideapad, I see two buttons under the trackpad.
I understand
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:51:04 +
Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev),
debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a
shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for
doing so would be so that
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:34:28 +
John MM wrote:
Ok, to cap, I had an error this morning, and was advised to delete my
/var/lib/dpkg/status, which I did. Problem is, it left with me a
worse error, and me being unable to update anything. Suffice to say,
I now have an error saying
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:06:00 +
John MM wrote:
On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and
(as far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it.
Essentially it holds details of each package that's installed
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:39:31 + (GMT)
George Tripp wrote:
Up to now I've put Ubuntu on ancient PCs I already had. Currently I'm
thinking about getting a laptop but don't want to spend my hard
earned cash find I've bought something that can't run the operating
system I wish to.
Looked at
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 +
bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft have
made significant changes to the UI recently, it would be no harder to
learn how to navigate Ubuntu's UI than it would be to learn how to
use that bloody ribbon in
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:23:50 +
alan c wrote:
On 28/12/10 09:53, Barry Drake wrote:
In fact they will be very surprised not to
be asked to pay!
This is a recurring and apparent problem. A free app here or there
from an enthusiast group is one thing, maybe used in Windows, but a
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:33:10 +
Bill Cumming wrote:
Think its best to keep it simple, at first at least
I'm thinking of a tag line like
Get things done... Simply
Use it to emphasise how easy it is to start, get work done,
entertainment etc...
I like the tag line, but I'm not sure
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:42:55 +
alan c wrote:
On 17/11/10 22:20, Daniel Case wrote:
That's true, but out of the 10,000 people who Google for it. There
have to be some people having problems with Linux? And as it grows
it will rank for other certain problems and keywords.
I would
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:33:12 +
Alan Bell wrote:
On 31/10/10 21:27, Dianne Reuby wrote:
Thanks for all the advice. I have my file in my Dropbox, but I'd
like to run from my own laptop if I can so I can learn how.
I've installed the presenter package, and checked my hardware - I
have
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:42:20 +0100 (BST)
dianne reuby wrote:
I've got an Open Office slide show on my laptop (running Ubuntu
10.10) and I want to use it with a digital projector. I've looked at
grandr, but I can't find a lot of info - is this the best option? Or
does it depend on my laptop
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:12:37 +0100
Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
Hello All,
New to this mailing list, just wanted to ask a quick question for the
moment. Anybody know of active ubuntu (or plain Linux) communities in
the southwest london area? Richmond or Kingston?
Would be nice to meet up
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:35 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:
On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote:
Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,.
is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't
running X on the server (stock ubuntu server, right?)
I know of a
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:11:03 +0100
Liam Proven wrote:
What? That's not true! What's with the FUD?
Mint /is/ still based on Ubuntu and no plans to leave it have been
announced.
Mint 9, which the question was about, is Ubuntu 10.04 with a facelift.
Mint 10, whose beta has currently just
and will be viewable by all and sundry, comes across
as someone stating the we should be happy to answer questions outside
of the scope of Ubuntu, so long as it is reasonable to do so.
And for the purposes of completeness, since you seem to be somewhat
preoccupied with personal details:
Name: Grant
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:35:10 +0100
Matt Darcy wrote:
On 23/10/2010 21:24, Ronnie Tucker wrote:
I have my EEE PC (with Mint 9) hooked up to a Windows 2000 server at
work. The server is set to force the user to change their password
every 30 days and the new password mustn't be the same as
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:04:27 +0100
Barry Drake wrote:
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:38 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote:
I am a Management Accountant, I dislike Sage with a vengeance. I
prefer Opera my self, but I am an xBase programmer :)
My wife and I rand a business for years until I retired.
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:25:38 +0100
Paul Sutton wrote:
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
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:03:43 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
could anybody recommend a good music player/manager, I've just spent
4 hours clearing up after banshee, amorak and rhythmbox and I'm not
happy. it has to be able to consolidate my music library using move,
NOT COPY. use 'smart
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:41:13 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
On 22 September 2010 14:28, Neil Greenwood
neil.greenwood@gmail.comwrote:
On 21 September 2010 21:29, Daniel Case
danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hmmm, just trying to set up the Windows binary, however I get a
lot of
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:05:49 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
On 20 September 2010 20:52, Mark markymo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 September 2010 20:23, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On 20 September 2010 18:46, Mark markymo...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
As a Acer Revo user (attached to
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:51:36 +0100
Daniel Case wrote:
I'm not quite sure where this should be asked as it is a
cross-platform thing. I am fed up of listening to my (Windows XP)
gaming computer through headphones so I want to get it hooked to the
stereo.
Rather than use a heck of a lot of
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:45:31 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:
On 20/09/10 21:18, Grant Sewell wrote:
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=6203
;)
Grant.
B Windows CE!!!
Anyone know if this can be coaxed into running Ubuntu (ARM version)?
Rob
Hence
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:03:25 +0100
pmgazz wrote:
On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote:
The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I
have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64
bit.
Alan.
Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said only works
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:58:13 +0100
Eddie B wrote:
Hi everyone
Sorry this isn't the right place to ask this... but I've spent the
whole day reading articles about how to setup networks and routing
tables and such like and still failing miserably. I'm hoping there's
something I'm missing
Further to the other replies...
I've had a look through the KS3 and the KS4 curricula and, in my
opinion, there's nothing in there that is necessarily bad. So if it
isn't the subject itself that's turning people away, perhaps it is the
people who teach it.
In my experience, all too often a
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:31:35 +0100
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 26/08/2010 22:27, Kris Douglas wrote:
On 26 August 2010 22:24, Gordon Burgess-Parkergbpli...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 26/08/2010 19:25, Kris Douglas wrote:
but said because of the computer contract with Research Machines,
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:06:33 +0200
John Davis wrote:
Hi,
I have done a clean install of ubuntu 10.4
I have 3 problems
No web cam
and no DV capture with kino and I am unable to configure a wired
internet connection,I am only able to use the wireless dongle to
connect. Unable to use
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:51:02 +0100
Simon Wears wrote:
On 18 August 2010 19:02, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 18/08/10 18:25, Simon Wears wrote:
Heyhey everybody!
I'm looking at investing in a scanner so I can digitise my
university notes this coming academic year. I was
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:41:03 +0100
Will Bickerstaff wrote:
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Hi folks,
I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after
school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and
after school and during
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:39:49 +0100
gazz wrote:
The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now
using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the
network manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to
remove the network manager and put wicd
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:35:39 +0100
Barry Drake wrote:
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 14:09 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
From Slashdot
(http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/24/0241204/Dell-Drops-Ubuntu-PCs-From-Its-Website):
I had a lengthy and unsatisfactory exchange with Dell over this issue.
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:22:49 +0100
Gordon wrote:
I installed Blogkt on my 10.04 Netbook remix, no errors reported, but
when I click on the icon, nothing happens.
Any one had this, and is there a way to fix it?
Try opening a command line session and running blogtk2 (without the
quote marks)
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:22:42 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:
On 06/07/10 16:03, Barry Drake wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 07:32 +0100, Andy Dixon wrote:
I myself have created videos using Ubuntu, and found it to be as
easy as doing it on a Mac.
That interests me. I'm thinking of doing a
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:25:30 +0100
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
On 5 July 2010 14:16, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
Not sure about Bluetooth, but with a second wifi adapter you should
be able to configure an ad-hoc network from the Ubuntu machine.
You'd need to configure the Ubuntu
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