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Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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I should have included contentious excerpts for those with things to do.
Ubuntu's own website isn't much help either. It suggests
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Stephen O'Neill wrote:
I should have included contentious excerpts for those with things to do.
Sorry for the spam, I should contemplate before clicking 'send'.
A point that I agree with the author on is:
But I'm completely stumped by the
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 07:23 +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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Yeah, this one has been done over a bit in #ubuntu-uk on IRC. :-) A
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:21 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Stephen O'Neill
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Sorry for the spam, I should contemplate before clicking 'send'.
What spam? Not everyone logs into IRC so I wouldn't worry. Personally,
I found the article
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Sean Miller wrote:
It actually annoys me when people misrepresent the situation so -
installing from a terminal only happens in exceptional circumstances
these days.
The BBC shouldn't be advocates, but should sit on the fence. Examples
like this
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Stephen O'Neill wrote:
I did empathise with his line about knowledge being a barrier to entry,
hopefully that will be addressed naturally over time as the product matures.
Obviously, before I'm jumped on, I forgot the whole argument about
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:00 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
It actually annoys me when people misrepresent the situation so -
installing from a terminal only happens in exceptional circumstances
these days.
The BBC seem to like doing this - if you recall on Click a few months
ago they had a piece
The new Mini Inspiron 9 is out.
Thanks to Engadget, the link to the Ubuntu flavoured US version is here:
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=19kc=6f961oc=dnpcxw1x=7y=8
But only a WinXP version on the UK site:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Philip Wyett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This article also does similar misrepresentation. Paragraph 5 of the
'Text based' section.
It's probably worth mentioning one other important point about Linux
here. It's a text-based operating system, which means that a
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:33:59PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Lets crack on and get something there double quick then ;-)
I've already sent a suggestion about Ubuntu but I don't see why we can't
send another. I did it before I
Disregarding any debatable elements of the article, I think it was a
_fairly_ positive review from an obvious Linux novice. Do not get me
wrong, I am all for supporting Ubuntu and Linux, however; let's face
it, it isn't perfect, and articles such as this go a long way to
providing insight into
You're right, Philip, the real issues were actually few in number but my
real objection is the way Linux is portrayed in articles such as this by the
BBC. It seems to me the BBC are more concerned with looking cool in
presenting it's insightful articles investigating such official entities
as
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Beardall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right, Philip, the real issues were actually few in number but my
real objection is the way Linux is portrayed in articles such as this by the
BBC. It seems to me the BBC are more concerned with looking cool in
I will not surrender!
Yeah, OK, I will. Just wanted to wave my flag from my soapbox.
I'm still smiling.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Philip Newborough
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Beardall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right, Philip, the real issues
Bruce Beardall wrote:
The new Mini Inspiron 9 is out.
Thanks to Engadget, the link to the Ubuntu flavoured US version is here:
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=19kc=6f961oc=dnpcxw1x=7y=8
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=19kc=6f961oc=dnpcxw1x=7y=8
Sounds great fun!
Can we ensure they portray a relatively positive image of
Ubuntu/Linux, or doesn't it matter?
Sean
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Sean Miller wrote:
Sounds great fun!
Can we ensure they portray a relatively positive image of
Ubuntu/Linux, or doesn't it matter?
*cough* So what would the Ubuntu equivalent of Have you tried turning
it off then turning it on again? be?
Perhaps, 'Have you tried sudo apt-get upgrade -f
You know what I meant, John!
They can ridicule computer techs as a concept, but to ridicule Linux
over Windows would not necessarily be good - would it?
For instance, they decide to try installing Ubuntu instead of Windows
on a machine because the fella's got the t-shirt (would that be the
weird
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:11:45AM +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
Sounds great fun!
Can we ensure they portray a relatively positive image of
Ubuntu/Linux, or doesn't it matter?
It's unlikely that Ubuntu/Linux will feature in the story line. The only
reason for the mail to them was regarding
For those who haven't seen it, The Free Software Foundation has released
a video featuring Stephen Fry, explaining free software and GNU to those
who might otherwise find it difficult to understand.
The video, published at http://gnu.org/fry
has caused quite a stir across the the F/LOSS
On Thursday 04 September 2008 07:23:57 Stephen O'Neill wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm
This bit:-
True to form when I'm too stupid to figure out how to do something in five
minutes, I phone an expert.
Geek Squad, [...]
came to me as a surprise, I would have expected
Colin Murphy wrote:
On Thursday 04 September 2008 07:23:57 Stephen O'Neill wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm
This bit:-
True to form when I'm too stupid to figure out how to do something in five
minutes, I phone an expert.
Geek Squad, [...]
came to me as a
On Friday 05 September 2008 00:09:03 alan c wrote:
Colin Murphy wrote:
Does anyone know what the Geek Squad
official position is on Linux?
In my local carphone warehouse they have an elonex web book (with
ubuntu installed) on display as a free gift with one of their deals.
the default
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