Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

2011-02-22 Thread Michael Douglas
On 22 Feb 2011 16:28, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! Hassan, if you are replying to several people in one message then using @soandso is fine by me. :-) I do not think we need to be so prescriptive as to require rules about the syntax of how to reply. It's the same as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Minecraft

2011-02-03 Thread Michael Douglas
I've not been playing much MC in a while, but can I have a wee invite? I likely won't play much, but am happy to contribute to the world when I am on On 3 February 2011 17:57, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 3 February 2011 17:54, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote: Can I ask

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Douglas
Cbeebies as homepage and remove the address bar. (so not chrome for browser then) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Douglas
I would let someone else confirm, but off the top of my head, using full-upgrade rather than dist-upgrade does everything, including all packages held back? - Mehall Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: On Monday 07 Jun 2010 10:27:57 Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On Monday 07 June 2010

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Douglas
Liam, share me the file and I'll up it to my VPS, with a link from my frontpage ( http://mehall.co.cc ) meaning people can just share that link to access it. - Michael On 31/01/2010 11:41, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey everyone, I finished the poster, and I've put it on my Ubuntu one, as I can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Douglas
Poster, and the tarball, is now accessible from my site, http://mehall.co.cc , I'm going to add citations to Ubuntu/Canonical/this LoCo, and to Liam for making the poster. - Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Douglas
Using new thread, but replying to Liam: Negative reinforcement is much more effective than positive, ask any number of companies, or politicians/election campaigners. Do it right, so that you seem to have respect for your opponent, but make yourself seem better, and it's very popular (See: Mac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-01-31 Thread Michael Douglas
by putting other OS' down, we are in turn, giving Ubuntu a more positive image. To acheive this I guess we could use the aforementioned idea of someone bieng on hold and then somone getting an instant reply on the forums for free. On 31 January 2010 14:30, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-02 Thread Michael Douglas
javadayaz wrote: Dont take the Unlimited at face value. The unlimited is 3gb's worth of data. Although they do say if you go over your limit you will be informed. Im with Tmobile. I do occassionaly stream audio but not that much. T-Mobile are good with their plans. I don't know about the G1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] help please

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Douglas
Rob Beard wrote: JONATHAN TAYLOR wrote: Hi all, as a newbie I'm in the process of switching over to Ubuntu, and as I run a small business I use MS Visio for my site plans . My question is what is the equivalent in Ubuntu? Also I've just bought a Wacom Bamboo pad, and I've seen lots

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One - timescale?

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Douglas
alan c wrote: I recently decided to try the proposed Ubuntu One facility, and got myself on a waiting list. Any ideas of timescales please, anyone? I gave up waiting and managed to wangle an invite. I've not installed it yet (internet issues, and am on W7 atm) but when i do, i may invite

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

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Douglas
Rob Beard wrote: What I would love (not sure if something is available) is a addon for Firefox so I can save my bookmarks to a central server (ideally my own personal server) and have it shared between my many PCs, at the moment I must have about 5 or 6 different sets of bookmarks. Being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thanks!

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Douglas
James Milligan wrote: snip Now, regarding the sound. I have a Creative Soundblaster XFi Xtreme Gamer card, which wasn't picked up by default after installation. I've read on the forum somewhere that Creative drivers weren't available (back in 06) - I then found and downloaded the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Douglas
Stephen Garton wrote: I'd echo this, I saw it while picking something up for Wifey to read in hospital and thought about getting it myself. At that sort of price, I could (and did) buy 2 novels to read instead, so it does seem a bit steep to me. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Douglas
Rob Beard wrote: Michael Douglas wrote: Agreed. I understand why magazine's that come with DVD's of movies, or things like SLES on them, but why spend money printing a dual-sided DVD, when you could just use two single sided ones and bring the price down by a couple quid so more

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Douglas
Sean Miller wrote: Just to point out that the £25 subscription is only for 4 issues, so it's still over £6/copy which seems steep to me. All Linux magazines seem incredibly pricey - but this one seems to take the pricyness to a new level. Sean Yeah, apparently you've to pay for all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Douglas
Dell are also paid, as all OEMs are, to bundle crapware with windows installations. Trial versions of Symantec, etc. This cuts the cost of XP to nothing or often less than nothing. Paul Broadhead wrote: Alan Pope wrote: As I understand it (i.e. this may be factually inaccurate) any OEM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Douglas
Paul Broadhead wrote: Alan Pope wrote: As I understand it (i.e. this may be factually inaccurate) any OEM wishing to sell Ubuntu branded as Ubuntu needs to pay a license to Canonical for the use of the trademarked name. I believe there are also restrictions upon what you can do, for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Douglas
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: alan c wrote: I also use thunderbird with the view set to see threads. I also 'replay' the thread by clicking on each message in turn. I find that big threads can get quite unwieldly in thunderbird (i.e. when the subject line is indented past the end of the subject

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Douglas
mac wrote: Anyone seen a physical copy of this, yet? http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/linux_new_media_launches_ubuntu_user_magazine mac Yes. Hamilton, WH Smith's had a copy. I think Borders in Glasgow did too? I can't remember. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Douglas
mac wrote: Michael Douglas wrote: mac wrote: Anyone seen a physical copy of this, yet? Yes. Hamilton, WH Smith's had a copy. I think Borders in Glasgow did too? I can't remember. What did you reckon? Worth a look? Worth a 25GBP/yr subscription? mac Dunno, only

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

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Douglas
David M wrote: Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch users. I'm pretty sure the shortcut was in Jaunty and Intrepid as well.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Permanently disable Compiz

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
adding metacity --replace (w/o quotes) to session startup would also manage it, IIRC. Steve wrote: On Sat, 02 May 2009 22:18:43 +0100 Andrew Oakley and...@aoakley.com wrote: Liam Proven wrote: whatever as my WM. Completely turn off and disable Compiz and compositing, for all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
100 Mbit/s? Best guess inside of 3mins. Harry Rickards wrote: On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme Click broadcast this weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, they used it to download two

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
, at 21:25, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: 100 Mbit/s? Best guess inside of 3mins. Harry Rickards wrote: On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme Click broadcast this weekend. When they were

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta, or in 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing available!!! -- Mehall Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: On 3 May 2009, at 21:18,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
That was only one copy, and I was being conservative ;) -- Mehall Dave Walker wrote: Michael Douglas wrote: 100 Mbit/s? Best guess inside of 3mins. SNIP d...@virgo:~$ time wget http://ubuntu-releases.datahop.it/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso --21:43:00-- http://ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
Downloads to .mov by default, IIRC get_iplayer has options to have ffmpeg convert it. I don't bother, I just open up VLC and watch the damn thing. -- Mehall Harry Rickards wrote: On 3 May 2009, at 21:35, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
They also offer RD TV under the Creative Commons, and via torrent. One step at a time my friend :D -- Mehall Harry Rickards wrote: On 3 May 2009, at 21:52, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: Downloads to .mov by default, IIRC get_iplayer has options to have ffmpeg convert it. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Douglas
David King wrote: I find it only downloads in .mov format (QuickTime). David King Harry Rickards wrote: On 3 May 2009, at 21:35, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: