On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 13:59 +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
Hi all,
On Wed 25th Oct and Thu 26th Oct 2006, the LinuxWorld Expo and
Conference will be happening at Olympia 2 in London. The two event is
packed with stands, exhibitions, a .org village and more.
So, I am proposing we meet in the
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 00:34 +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
I have created a page at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LinuxWorldLondon2006 to help organise the
booth. If everyone who is interested can keep that page up to date, that
would be great. :)
Ok, updated with my info. I can probably do all
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 19:47 +0100, Adam Bagnall wrote:
I was thinking earlier that as far as I'm aware the LoCoTeam has no
female members. There must be some women in the UK who use Ubuntu?
Oh of course there are, but using it is one thing, spending time
advocating the use of it is
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 17:08 +0100, Gary Kearley wrote:
All this talk of Scottish LUG meets makes me feel left out.
Do we have any such meets in the Essex area?
I believe the East London LUG [0] (which would be the closest) shut
down some time ago.
If you would like to take on the mantle
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:00 +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote:
So there I was, about to write yet another blog article, my first since
returning from my short break and BAM!
A sudden realisation of things I have taken for granted. Currently i am
sitting here on my Games PC ( Windows XP Pro
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:27:11PM +0100, Nik Butler wrote:
More people have signed up to help out on the stand. You can expect me
to be asking the commitment question next week to ensure we can start
planning who will be where and if equipment will need to be moved and
how we can start to
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:07:38AM +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
On the subject of Kubuntu/Ubuntu/Xubuntu, I dont mind installing
kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop on my ubuntu laptop and logon 3 times
to
allow us to quickly switch between desktops for demos
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:51:57PM +0100, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
On 25/09/06, Neil Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Various people mentioned TV Detector Vans.
These can certainly pick up computer monitor output (I'm not sure
about LCD screens, but CRTs work the same way if they're for
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 08:46:23PM +0100, alan c wrote:
nik wrote:
The original batch of CDs have arrived im still waiting on a conference
pack though.
I will now post again and ask for the following quantities
200 Kubuntu CDs
200 Edubuntu CDs
If someone feels we should do
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:03:11AM +0100, nik wrote:
Just a reminder from Brian Teeman who is the point of contact for the
.ORG village for us.
--
Promoting the Expo
Can I remind you all that part of the deal in participating in the .Org
Village is that you promote the Expo within your
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:19:51PM +0100, David Morley wrote:
Also if you wish to partition the Hard Drive the you will need 2
things Smart Boot Manager and Gparted live cd available here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843package_id=173828
Not really. Gparted is on
Hi,
It's a minor thing really, but the name of this list is Ubuntu-UK and the
descriptive text says For organising Ubuntu stuff in the UK., but the
banner at the top (and the description in mails from the list) says British
Ubuntu Talk.
I don't want to start a semantic argument but UK != GB.
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:14:52PM +0100, David M wrote:
Alan Pope wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british
about: This list name/description
It's a minor thing really, but the name of this list is Ubuntu-UK and the
descriptive text says For organising Ubuntu stuff in the UK
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:28:31PM +, STONE COLD wrote:
well it appears ive already instsalled that!
Ubuntu installed it for you, it *knew* what you wanted.
Yeah, it's THAT good! :D
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:50:55AM +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
Matthew Saunders wrote:
My working menu.lst shows:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash
I don't know if it will help your problem, but you don't have the word
splash on that line? I'm
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:36:24AM +0100, Bill wrote:
Hi,
I'm struggling with Ubuntu and Kubuntu and have encountered different
insoluble (to me) problems in both. I hope to stay with a Linux system, I'm
on XP at present, but am very discouraged.
Is there anybody out there in
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:14:05AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surely the only way to demonstrate it would be to knowingly infect
your own machine? how stupid do you think I am I ain't about to do
that!
qemu/vmware can provide you with a safe environment in which to practice.
Safe
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:56:30PM +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
I believe this to be a Mailman list, hence do we not already have a way
of reading the list threaded?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
Linked at the bottom of every mail.
Cheers,
Al.
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:53:43PM +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
Hey,
I think the group may want to look at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved to get approved. I have just
started optimising the approval process and wrote that page. There is
some good work going on here so think the
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:41:38AM +0100, Gary Kearley wrote:
Hi folks,
Great day out yesterday at LinuxWorld. It was good to meet some of you,
even if it was quite briefly, it seemed rather busy there and the booths
were pretty cramped.
It was indeed a top couple of days. My legs ache
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:17:45AM +, Jono Bacon wrote:
In my mind, I believe LUGs offer a strong structure for general Linux
discussion, support and community growth, but Ubuntu UK is here to help
advocate and grow the Ubuntu community.
I totally agree. LUGs are there for any Linux user
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:23:11PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
Can someone remind me of the two screencast packages that were mentioned
at our meeting last week?
There's quite a few
Istanbul, recordmydesktop, xvidcap, screenkast, ffmpeg, gstreamer,
demorecorder, vncrec, vnc2swf.
I've used
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:27:47PM +0100, Stuart Parkington wrote:
^^^
Possible date issue there. We only went an hour back at the weekend, not a
whole month! :D
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:03:14PM +, alan c wrote:
presumably the host OS and the app have to be fully running so an
install sequence needs special approaches?
Depends how you do the recording. I'm in the middle of writing up how you do
it, will let you know when it's done.
Cheers,
Al.
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:43:17AM +, David Morley wrote:
for those unsure how to get on to irc here is a short how-to
www.davmor2.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gaimopen.html
Alternatively you can watch a video about it :)
I made this
http://quickones.org/videos/20061031_xchat.ogg
It's 5 mins
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:44PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
That is really brilliant! As I've not really used IRC much before, I
actually learned a few things too!
That worked then :)
Thanks very much.
* Run xwininfo to find out the xwindows window-id of the qemu window
Presumably this
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:47:41PM +, Nik Butler wrote:
Awesome!
\o/.oO( Yay! )
( )
|'|
Can someone do a couple of open office impress slide for us?
One that basically says who we are and some URLs, logos and suchlike. It needs
to leave room for
the Subject of the talk, the name of
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:19:16AM +, tim matthews wrote:
kewl spam! nice to see the list well protected.
To be fair this mail was initiated by someone who is actually a member of this
list. They
probably just signed up for some service and then submitted their entire
address book to
Guys,
I had a go at creating a title page which would appear for ~10 seconds before a
video, and an
outro page that would appear for a similar duration at the end of the video.
Anyone with more artistic skills fancy having a go at making this look better?
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:32:03PM +, Stuart Parkington wrote:
Stuart Parkington wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Guys,
I had a go at creating a title page which would appear for ~10 seconds
before a video, and an
outro page that would appear for a similar duration at the end
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:44:43PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running my desktop computer completely off a USB hard drive with no
problems. As long as you have a USB2.0 port and drive then the maximum
transfer rate is 480MBPs. When you consider a standard PATA connection is
only
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:25:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Does anyone know a quick way of getting a hundred or so Edgy disks
without using SHIP-IT or copying them myself?
Given you currently can't get them from shipit, the answer would be to get
someone else to do
it.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:30:33PM +, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
On 01/11/06, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:18:29PM +, Nicholas Butler wrote:
What I am thinking is if we got a whole load of instructional video
clips together we
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:48:53PM +, Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
With the discussion about the BBC and open standards, I noticed someone
mentioned Dirac. Its been a while since I looked at their pages and I
see there are packages on Edgy for Dirac. I have installed the packages
and
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:48:08AM +, Matthew Saunders wrote:
I have turned off the screen saver (removed the tick from Activate
screensaver when computer is idle from the Screensaver settings) and
set the display sleep time to Never in power management. I have set
the BIOS to not manage
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:56:21PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
Nik,
Nicholas Butler wrote:
My personal preferences are to use the Mailing list, however if a Forum
exists I will make sure I drop in and keep an eye on it and let people
know about the mailing list and the archvies and the
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:45:12PM +, Paul Mellors wrote:
I've no problem with Nik leading the group, however perhaps there should
be a more formal voting system so we don't actually leave anyone out?
[dont know what or how]
Of course the obvious question is how do the other loco teams
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:57:17PM +, Pete Ryland wrote:
Currently, Nik Butler is doing a fantastic job as our interim leader.
However, in the spirit of democracy, it has been suggested that this
should be confirmed (or denied) by a vote.
By who? Where?
Might I suggest a deadline of
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 06:10:53PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
I've added a few notes to Alan's notes on this page, FYI.
Alan, did you mean 'meatspace' or 'meetspace'?
There's quite a few Alans on this list :) As I was the one who typed the main
chunk of the
rebuttals to the LUGs are dying
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:18:04AM +, Sean Miller wrote:
Tony Arnold wrote:
I didn't use the term meatspace however I understand it to mean in the
real world. i.e. meat
== bodies == humans. Rather than in the virtual world or cyberspace it
talks about LUGs being
meatspace
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:39:01PM +, Paul Mellors wrote:
Just because people want it, although not everyone, i'm setting up an
unnoficial ubuntu-uk forum.
I'd strongly recommend against that. Not because of my opposition to forums -
but if we have
them then IMO they should be on the
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:30:54PM +, Alan Pope wrote:
I am also currently uploading the video to Google, as I believe this can help
raise the
It's live already:-
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=453662309640788290hl=en-GB
Cheers,
Al.
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https
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:37:25PM +, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hey,
I've just watched the screen cast and thought it was really good! Don't
really think you need to make any changes to the splash screen, although
with the idea of pretty as a feature being thrown around by Mark
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:27:31PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
I certainly think we should find an Ubuntu branded home for these screen
casts, if only so we all have a single place to look for such things and
don't have to remember/bookmark different URLs.
I have no idea where the right place
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:18:38PM +, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
Are you hosting them on your own server (bandwidth)? If so, you may
want to look at using coralcache ( Apache rewrite rules) to reduce
your bandwidth a little.
Yes, currently they're on my own paid for hosting. This is fine
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:59:05PM +, alan c wrote:
Nicholas Butler wrote:
[...]
In my mind I feel that we could do with something like a new member
information pack something which at first does not intimidate with a
plethora of things to know but also can serve as a jumping off
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:43:03PM +, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
On 09/11/06, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:59:05PM +, alan c wrote:
Cool, don't forget to make suggestions as to what you think should go in
them. I'm basically
working through my own
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:07:07PM +, alan c wrote:
charity calendar pictures in swimsuits? :-)
I suspect we'd get paid *not* to release that! :)
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:11:47PM +, alan c wrote:
agreed yes, an da topic I discuss with real newcomers is about the
wonders of installation and partitions. There are many different
circumstances, and each can be handled with some text and some screen
shots. Install is the biggest
Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie.
Tonight is Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu.
http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!)
http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.ogg (23.1MiB)
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:30:54PM +, Alan Pope wrote:
http://quickones.org/videos/20061108_installing_updates.ogg (10.7MB)
http://quickones.org/videos/20061108_installing_updates.mpeg (34.4MB)
Added:-
http://quickones.org/videos/20061108_installing_updates_audio_only.ogg (3.1MiB)
audio
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:30:43PM +, Alan Pope wrote:
Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie.
Tonight is Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu.
http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!)
http://quickones.org/videos
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:05:27PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I am most impressed by your work in producing these videos and I would
find them most useful as a learning tool. Just a thought. Would it be
possible to have a means of pausing and restarting the video? This would
then enable
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:49:33PM +, Andy wrote:
If you use mPlayer in FireFox you may need to right click on the video
while it is playing and check 'show controls', it should provide you
with play and pause at the bottom of the page
Ooo, never knew that.
I think I'll have a go at
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:34:56PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote:
All that I have done so far is to click on the URL given. This then
starts the video. Perhaps there is another way to open the video, I must
investigate.
Yes, that's as I suspected you might.
Over the weekend I'll put a web
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:11:19PM +, Andy wrote:
On 10/11/06, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you using the kqemu (non-free kernel module) accellerator with qemu? It
makes a
tremendous difference to the performance.
no, I just used qemu on its own. This is my first time
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:06:37PM +, Andy wrote:
I think Al said something about making a webpage with the links on
them at some point, when that page exists you can right click on it in
FireFox.
Correct. It's done. http://quickones.org/
Click the title of one you want to download (or
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 01:19:54PM +, Andy wrote:
Just had a quick go at a screencast myself.
How to change the desktop background (yes I know its simple, but I
thought I would start out small).
All I need to do is find some way of editing the mpeg file, there's
some stuff at the
Right, I've written up what I did to create the screencasts.
http://popey.com/Creating_Screencasts
Comments here or on the blog welcome.
Initial reaction I suspect will be of the order of WTF! or You did *how*
much for a 5 min
video!?. However a lot of it is prep, the actual recording is
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:39:55PM +, Andy wrote:
you seem to have a lot of qemu images, first you create 1, then copy
it and make read only.
Yes, that becomes the master image which I backup. The reason for that is that
in the past I
have made changes to the master which are difficult to
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 10:50:46PM +, Alan Pope wrote:
The one I made was a kind of demo. It's still available at
http://quickones.org/videos/20061031_xchat.ogg but I have remade it and am
uploading to Google
right now. Will let you know when done.
Tis done.
http://quickones.org
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:13:08AM +, Stuart Parkington wrote:
Ok, I gave this whole screencast thing a go, it's on upgrading packages,
like Alans last one, but for Kubuntu.
It's not what you'd call in-depth but I tried to cover the same stuff Alan
went over in his one.
It's about
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:39:27PM +, Albert Vilella wrote:
Samba to Novell:
http://lwn.net/Articles/208958/
Can anyone explain/point to an explanation on why is people so worried
about the Microsoft/Novell deal?
Groklaw is usually the place for that.
Hope you guys don't mind me mentioning them here, tell me if you do.
http://quickones.org/Customising_Ubuntu_Desktop
It covers the basics of changing the look of the desktop from the background,
theme,
position of panels and so on to the gdm logon screen.
As always, comments here or there
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:12:18AM +, Neil Greenwood wrote:
Nice guide, but you don't say when you need to, nor how to, quit QEMU.
Added, thanks.
I'd pitch it at someone who hasn't used QEMU before, which you did
with the command-line analysis when installing into the disk image.
Ok,
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:15:10PM +, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Have you dugg all of these?! I haven't looked at the latest one but I
did take a peak at quickones.org and you've got quite a good collection
now! Might be a good to digg/slashdot it and get a bit more awareness of
it out?
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:39:35PM +, David Morley wrote:
On 15/11/06, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I was wondering if I could get peoples general opinion on free vs
non-free drivers etc.
I have a pragmatic view. In a utopian world all software would be free and
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, Rob Beard wrote:
I just wondered what others thought. How I see it, we're in a perfect
position to be talking up and demonstrating Linux as an alternative to
users moving over to Vista and potentially dumping a perfectly good
computer. I am
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:07:40PM +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
No ,they're extra buttons above the function keys, (On/Off, DVD, fast
replay, play, fast forward, stop, mute, volume) They're meant to be used to
control the DVD without having to boot into XP. In fact this seemed a false
promise
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:58:14PM +, Sean Miller wrote:
STONE COLD wrote:
Heres what i want to do..i want to log in to my ubuntu enabled pc via a
windows terminal over an internet connection...can it be done..and if so
how?
You'll need a static IP first to enable you to connect
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:26:57PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I wonder if some instruction on how to copy files from the PC to a CD or
DVD would be useful. Especially how to set up so that the CD or DVD can
be used on a session by session basis. Also such things as copying
CDs or DVDs
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:05:04AM +, Norman Silverstone wrote:
That entirely depends on which CD you rip as you point out in your own mail.
Of course it does. For example, my wife teaches French and uses CDs as
part of the course. It is perfectly legal to copy these CDs and to
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:23:55AM +, Matthew East wrote:
Could the people who are working on these maybe post to the ubuntu-doc
list and show off their work? That way, we can discuss whether they
might be suitable for us in one of those ways, give some feedback, and
maybe get some more
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:02:01PM +, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hi all,
I recorded the interview with Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison and Jeff
Waugh last night and it went really well. It's a bit rough around the
edges but it's my first try at something like this so I hope you'll
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:22:10PM +, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:09 +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
Any of this list's members know of a Freeview TV USB stick that works
with Ubuntu (edgy), I stay away a lot in hotels with poor TV reception
and one of these would seem a
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 02:30 +, John Watson wrote:
On Saturday 02 December 2006 16:47, Alan Pope wrote:
I have two freeview USB DVB-T sticks and they work just fine. There are
also good reports of Twinhan sticks working well too.
You don't really need much to watch DVB - xine will do
Hi again,
A second one goes live today. Technically this one should go before the
other one as this is designed for people who don't have an Ubuntu CD but
want to download and burn the ISO.
http://quickones.org/Downloading_and_Burning_an_Ubuntu_ISO
The content is partially based on the content
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:05 +, Dean Sas wrote:
I don't know if we have any Brummies around, but if so can anyone give a
hand to a small guide to Birmingham for GUADEC?
Forwarded to WolvesLUG also.
Cheers,
Al.
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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 22:36 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
Alternatively ssh to her machine and setup a tunnel with -L and then get
her to enable remote desktop and use rdesktop at your end to view her
desktop via the ssh tunnel. Then run the update manager.
Don't I get my own desktop if I do
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 12:19 +, Rob Beard wrote:
Sorry for the late posting on this, I've just had a look at the
screencast and I think it is very good.
Thank you for your kind words.
I've recently installed Ubuntu
Edgy on a PCs for a couple of colleagues at work. The problem is, at
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:55:50AM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
Matthew,
Matthew East wrote:
You could try getting her to do the download the cd, put it in the
drive, follow the instructions approach, I believe that works.
Maybe I should be brave and get her to do this, however, you need
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:45:32PM +, David Pashley wrote:
On Dec 19, 2006 at 12:21, alan c praised the llamas by saying:
I have just discovered that /var/cache/apt/archives seems to contain
all the installed updates since original install. Is this a correct
belief please?
I do
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:53:11PM +, alan c wrote:
I am still rather failing at an early hurdle unfortunately.
I am working on the thought that the files I need are already in
/var/cache/apt/archives
and after burning these to CDR I have tried to then use
sudo apt-get -o update
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:30 +, Caroline Ford wrote:
I've heard from another email list that Canonical have a stand. Maybe
Jono can confirm?
Indeed, as I understand it there is going to be a joint Canonical /
Edubuntu stand.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BETTShow2007
Cheers,
Al.
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 04:38:10PM +, Dave Briggs wrote:
Hi guys
Can anyone recommend a good Ubuntu-friendly FTP client? I used to use
Filezilla on the other side...
gftp isnt bad.
Cheers,
Al
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On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 13:13 +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
I've a niggly problem with edgy. Sometimes during boot it stalls at
about 30-40% of the graphic progress bar and there's nothing I can do
to move it along except a hard reboot whereupon it boots as normal.
It's not a big problem but I
Our next online meeting is scheduled [0] for 21:30 on 9th Jan 2007. The
community council are meeting [1] at 21:00 on the same day.
Should we bump ours to another time date? So people who want to attend
both aren't splitting themselves between channels?
How about 21:00 on the 10th?
Cheers,
Al.
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:06 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Our next online meeting is scheduled [0] for 21:30 on 9th Jan 2007. The
community council are meeting [1] at 21:00 on the same day.
Should we bump ours to another time date? So people who want to attend
both aren't splitting themselves
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:03 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone looked into taking donations of old PCs, which businesses
throw out, and installing a form of Ubuntu on them. Then giving them
to schools, youth clubs etc who couldn't afford to buy them?
I am a member of Hampshire
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:50 +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
By the way I don't think I'm the type of person to supply the set up,
do the hard sell, or follow up!
Sounds like a great idea, I have added to the agenda [0] for the next
meeting for discussion.
Cheers,
Al.
[0]
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 23:28 +, john levin wrote:
Is anyone on this list considering going to Brussels for FOSDEM 2007?
http://www.fosdem.org/2007/
Yup. Hotel and Eurostar booked. A few (10+) of us from HantsLUG (and one
interloper from WatfordLUG) are going together. I say together in
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:52 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote:
Well it seems like this idea is possible, mabe it should be added to
the line up in the next discussion?
Added:-
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20070110Meeting
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On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:05 +, alan c wrote:
For the record,
I have just put a sticker on the rear bumper of two vehicles!
(yes, they are ours).
Heh, where'd you get them? Are they the ones we had at the Expo?
I put an Ubuntu sticker on the underside of a die-hard Debian fans
laptop
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 19:27 +, Kevin wrote:
This is very helpful, thank you. The only reason I wondered about the
integrated graphics was that I have a notebook with that and Linux won't
install on it, everything else about the notebook is better than the
desktop I have Ubuntu installed
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 00:12 +, Mr W. F. Vening wrote:
How about we get you a sandwich board saying Ubuntu and stick you in
the middle of TCR handing out ubuntu leaflets and CDS? That was half a
joke but actually it could be quite good lol!
Been there, done that :)
Software Freedom Day
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 23:05 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
But when I try to view video clip on the BBC site, the BBC player pops
up and tells me I need a realplayer plugin! Any ideas?
Do you have totem-xine, totem-mozilla and w32codecs?
I just opened firefox and looked at the URL about:plugins. It
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 23:34 +, Paul Tansom wrote:
I can almost hear Popey muttering oh no, who let him in here ;)
Now I can't quite figure if I am following you around mailing lists or
you're following me. I'd say it's a draw at the moment! :)
Cheers,
Al.
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On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:24 +, Leon Barker wrote:
I remember reading in one hospital's intranet that a copy of MS Office
was available for staff to install at home to do work related stuff.
Maybe you could point out to them that a copy of OpenOffice is also
available for staff to install
With the discussion on this list about doing work for charity, and reusing
computers I thought this mail on the UK LUGMaster list
might be interesting to the group.
Cheers,
Al.
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From: Mark
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face
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