As I understand it, OP wants to, in effect, be able to get Meld
running on another person's machine without them having to select the
documents.
Or to put it another way, he's got the comparisons between the 2 (3?)
files, and wants to share those in a GUI.
John, the only solution I can think of
Edubuntu is still going. Also GNOME runs perfectly on my 1GHz desktop,
so I don't think you *need* to look at Xubuntu. Just make sure you
have a decent amount of RAM.
Cofion,
Neil
P.S. Sorry for the top post.
On 8/7/10, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 06/08/10 23:41, Chris Rowson wrote:
On 7 August 2010 07:49, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Sorry for the top post.
Has anybody ever told you that it's worse to top post and (by saying
sorry IN THE SAME POST reveal that you are aware that people will be
upset (yet you do it!)) than to simply be unaware (as
Has anybody ever told you that it's worse to top post and (by saying
sorry IN THE SAME POST reveal that you are aware that people will be
upset (yet you do it!)) than to simply be unaware (as many people are)
of how irritating top posting can be.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, WHOA!
Ease Up - I know some
One thing to remember is that a lot of people are replying using mobile
phones, so it's not as easy to chose whether you top or bottom post.
Replying on my Android phone, the quoted text is in a separate input box
with replies appearing to automatically default to top posting.
So, apologies if
My objection was to the apologies for top posting thing... it shows
that he knows it is an issue, yet does nothing about it.
Clearly he has never tried to read an e-mail list on Daily Digest
where people top post by default... you get the first post, then below
it the second post then the first
On 7 August 2010 08:18, David Jones djones.dan...@googlemail.com wrote:
Replying on my Android phone, the quoted text is in a separate input box
with replies appearing to automatically default to top posting.
Can't you just tell it to not quote the post at all?
So, apologies if this top
On 7 August 2010 08:14, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
For reference, for anyone that is actually bothered by mailing list
etiquette, here is the Ubuntu Mailing List
Guidelines: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists
Which says...
---quote---
Proper quoting:
On 7 Aug at 8:14, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
Has anybody ever told you that it's worse to top post and (by saying
sorry IN THE SAME POST reveal that you are aware that people will
be upset (yet you do it!)) than to simply be unaware (as many people
are) of how
Which says...
---quote---
Proper quoting:
Yes, I know what the guidelines say. As do at least 50% of the mailing list
posters.
I respect that some may not, but they can read it in their own time.
And we've now had one person do it several times this morning (and
apologise for it in
On 7 August 2010 08:33, Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com wrote:
Or think of a book. Do writers normally put the end of a conversation
first and the beginning last? Never!
The principal problem is actually with digests, rather than with those
of us who get individual posts... we can
On 7 August 2010 08:44, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
Excuse Me? He never ONCE said I can't be bothered to cut from this second
window.
Well, he effectively did... he said that there were two windows... and
to reply without top posting he'd probably have to click something in
For the record, on my android phone I cache choose to quote the entire
message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting. If you happen to
know who in Google wrote this great
Anton Piatek
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On 7 August 2010 08:54, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
For the record, on my android phone I cache choose to quote the entire
message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting. If you happen to
know who in Google wrote this great
Well, then there is a solution.. quote none
Sean,
You are getting too pernickety about bloody top posting.
Take a breather and calm down, and then try and solve the world by getting
phone manufacturers to add mailing list functionality.
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Let's absolutely take it to Google. Where do we email?
While we are at it on my phone the tick box to not quotes the message is
hidden by the reply box, so you have to scroll down and may not have even
known about it.
Anton Piatek
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Hi Sean,
Can we please keep this conversation civil.
On 7 Aug 2010, at 08:45, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
It is not rocket science, and if Google are creating Android phones
that are impossible to not top post (or Android apps, assuming it may
be GMail at fault) then surely
On 7 August 2010 09:00, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
You are getting too pernickety about bloody top posting.
That is an opinion... I think that the discussion needs to be had,
because it is becoming more and more of a problem.
Take a breather and calm down, and then try and
On 7 Aug at 8:54, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
For the record, on my android phone I cache choose to quote the entire
message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting. If you
happen to know who in Google wrote this great
Obviously: an android.
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Tim Powys-Lybbe
Because top posting all the time results in people LEAVING mailing
lists, because they simply can't understand what's going on. And we
want to be INCLUSIVE, surely?
No, things like this result in people leaving mailing lists.
I have never left a mailing list because of top posting, because
On 7 August 2010 09:02, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Can we please keep this conversation civil.
I believe I have endeavoured to do that, but the conversation should
be had because it IS a problem.
Joe disagrees, clearly, and thinks it's just stirring up things -
but why should I do that? I
On 7 August 2010 09:07, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have never left a mailing list because of top posting, because I don't
actually see a problem with it.
Presumably you don't get the Digest option? If you did, you might...
We should endeavour to make life simple for
One of the baddies in this whole discussion is, indeed, Google...
because GMail does this show quoted text/hide quoted text thing.
So people don't even notice the myriad of information they are
appending to their messages, because Google conveniently filters it
out... problem is, when you're on a
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 09:15 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
One of the baddies in this whole discussion is, indeed, Google...
because GMail does this show quoted text/hide quoted text thing.
So people don't even notice the myriad of information they are
appending to their messages, because Google
On Saturday 07 Aug 2010 09:15:47 Sean Miller wrote:
And we have yet to get the opinions of a large percentage of the group.
I don't see the point of getting a large discussion going, and I certainly
don't see this as a vote. When topics like this come up, it is unfortunate
that the mailing
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 08:57:48 +0100, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net
wrote:
On 7 August 2010 08:54, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
For the record, on my android phone I can choose to quote the
entire message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting.
If you happen to know who
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 09:08 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
So that's good... and, perhaps, we can put some pressure on Google as
a group to resolve this Android issue?!?!?
After a quick bit of searching through the android project hosting on
Google Code (isn't open source software wonderful?), I
On 07/08/10 09:07, Joe O'Dell wrote:
Because top posting all the time results in people LEAVING mailing
lists, because they simply can't understand what's going on. And we
want to be INCLUSIVE, surely?
No, things like this result in people leaving mailing lists.
I have never left a
I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with these
discussions.
No sooner has the same topic on the ubuntu-users list fizzled out (after
dozens of unneeded emails) but I have got it back on the ubuntu-uk list.
Thank heavens I have a Delete key and index finger poised over it to get
On 7 August 2010 11:07, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with these
discussions.
It's interesting, the way that people don't perceive Digest users
having no ability to participate in discussions because it's
impossible to
Edubuntu is still going. Also GNOME runs perfectly on my 1GHz desktop,
so I don't think you *need* to look at Xubuntu. Just make sure you
have a decent amount of RAM.
Cofion,
Neil
Thanks, loads of suggestions there for me to be going on with! I think I've
got a Lucid CD somewhere about so
On 7 August 2010 11:15, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Top posting out of spite, for those people, is a bit like going and
mugging an old lady in the street just to prove that muggings in the
street aren't an important issue... hmmm... did it give you a buzz to
top post out of spite,
This is just becoming a personal flame war. It is time to count to 10 before
replying.
Anton Piatek
On 7 Aug 2010 11:15, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
On 7 August 2010 11:07, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with
Top posting..
On 07/08/10 11:15, Sean Miller wrote:
On 7 August 2010 11:07, Tony Pursella...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with these
discussions.
It's interesting, the way that people don't perceive Digest users
having no
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as well, but sadly was
too young to fully take
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
based on government data. Joe O'Dell
On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:16, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and
On 7 August 2010 11:21, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Ok this is getting way to personal. Time to knock this on the head please.
Hmmm... I don't think a sentence like I'm going to top post out of
SPITE is actually particularly good, is it? In any debate things
should be kept civilised - to do
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:21:56 +0100
From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was Apps for kids)
To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID:
Hi
I have 3 IMAP accounts in Evolution and filtering is working for all but
my work account. All the messages stay in the INBOX. What is weird is if
I highlight the message and press Ctrl-Y it filters. Any ideas anyone
please.
Regards
Jon
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On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:20:38 +0100
Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 Aug 2010, at 12:16, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young
On 7 August 2010 12:06, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
based on
On 28th August, MadLab is hosting U^3 (U-Cubed) - an Ubuntu and
Upstream UnWorkshop day in collaboration with HacMan, ManLUG and
Manchester Free Software. The day is inspired by the Ubuntu Global Jam
event which is being held on the same weekend.
It's an opportunity to help show users how to get
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
based on government data
[...]
Isabell's application GovSpark won a special prize for
Hi There,
I would be quite interested in attending and helping around :)
I live in Yorkshire so i should be able to get to Manchester fairly easily.
Daniel
On 7 August 2010 14:13, Les lespoun...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28th August, MadLab is hosting U^3 (U-Cubed) - an Ubuntu and
Upstream
On 07/08/10 12:06, Alan Bell wrote:
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
based on government data. Joe O'Dell was along as
Hello All,
The GeekNic is Tomorrow, and as such, there are 2 final things to say!
1. Arrival Time
I shall be at Speakers' Corner from about quarter past 12, and we'll make our
way to somewhere in hyde park just after 1.
We will endeavour to post our location on twitter/the wiki as soon as we
I only joined this mailing list yesterday and already I've witnessed a
flame-war!
It's funny, I was reading through the emails one by one, thinking how
annoying it was to to scroll quoted messages for every single email. I
remember thinking: oh, that's nice, when Neil didn't top-post.
Edubuntu is still going. Also GNOME runs perfectly on my 1GHz desktop,
so I don't think you *need* to look at Xubuntu. Just make sure you
have a decent amount of RAM.
Cofion,
Neil
Thanks, loads of suggestions there for me to be going on with! I think I've
got a Lucid CD somewhere about
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 22:38 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
snip
Anyway I'm off to install the other apps folk suggested and then the
kids at the after school club can have a Linux laptop to muck about
on. Might be worth asking the school if they want one or two too?
I can't remember if it was
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:41:38 +0100
Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello All,
The GeekNic is Tomorrow, and as such, there are 2 final things to say!
1. Arrival Time
I shall be at Speakers' Corner from about quarter past 12, and we'll make our
way to somewhere in hyde park
I can't remember if it was mentioned but I would suggest installing
Extreme Tux Racer, it's always a lot of fun to race a penguin down a
mountain!
My daughter is 16 on Thursday, but when she was MUCH younger she used
to really enjoy Tux Racer... in fact, I had a Linux convert in her
BECAUSE of
On 07/08/10 22:38, Chris Rowson wrote:
I actually installed edubuntu and found it's pretty good. Unfortunately
I discovered that the CDROM was broken on the laptop, and it wouldn't
boot from USB so I ended up having to do a PXE install in the end :-S
Anyway I'm off to install the other apps
On 07/08/10 22:50, Sean Miller wrote:
I can't remember if it was mentioned but I would suggest installing
Extreme Tux Racer, it's always a lot of fun to race a penguin down a
mountain!
My daughter is 16 on Thursday, but when she was MUCH younger she used
to really enjoy Tux Racer... in fact,
On 6 August 2010 21:18, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I wonder
if anyone can suggest what kind of stuff I should put on this laptop that
might be interesting for the kids to play with.
SCRATCH!!!
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