[ubuntu-uk] Desktop Advice

2008-09-05 Thread John Levin
Hi all, I'm considering getting a new desktop. I'm considering one from Dell, but can't find any reviews of their ubuntu-ized Inspiron (everyone seems to be talking about the laptops). Does anyone on this list have one? Can they tell me 1: if it can handle two monitors? 2: how loud it is?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desktop Advice

2008-09-05 Thread Rob Beard
John Levin wrote: Hi all, I'm considering getting a new desktop. I'm considering one from Dell, but can't find any reviews of their ubuntu-ized Inspiron (everyone seems to be talking about the laptops). Does anyone on this list have one? Can they tell me 1: if it can handle two

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desktop Advice

2008-09-05 Thread Roger Lancefield
2008/9/5 John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I'm considering getting a new desktop. I'm considering one from Dell, but can't find any reviews of their ubuntu-ized Inspiron (everyone seems to be talking about the laptops). Does anyone on this list have one? Can they tell me 1: if it can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What the Dell?

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Tansom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Levin wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] keyboards

2008-09-05 Thread Farran
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:31 +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Miller wrote: What is quite useful is a wireless keyboard. Got some Logitech one that is invaluable if giving presentations etc. where the laptop needs to be close to a

[ubuntu-uk] gracenote

2008-09-05 Thread Farran
can gracenote be connected to rhythmbox to download track info in any way? the one it uses at the moment doesn't always return the right info, and there isn't much there anyway. I'd like the whole ID3 tag filled in, not just the basic stuff :/ Sorry, I'm awkward. - (is that spelt right?) thanks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] keyboards

2008-09-05 Thread Farran
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 17:37 +0100, Farran wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:31 +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Miller wrote: What is quite useful is a wireless keyboard. Got some Logitech one that is invaluable if giving

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Windows Dual Boot

2008-09-05 Thread Andrew Nixon
Ok strange question but i have a ubuntu system that is running only ubuntu, and i could do with doing a dual install with windows, however i am not keen to have to format. I really need the dual boot with windows for performance reasons on this project and am struggling to think of a way to do it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] keyboards

2008-09-05 Thread Roger Lancefield
2008/9/1 Farran [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi all [image: :D] has anyone got any suggestions for a new keyboard? I've got a horrendously old one, and i'm looking to replace it. i know a lot of shortcut buttons, for example, don't always work, and i don't know which keyboards are good anyway, so i