Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Rhodes
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 15:31 +0100, Ian wrote: Well as I'm in the UK and eager to get a good deal on broadband I signed with TalkTalk and they only supply a USB Sagem 8oo modem so its hooked to the BT plug.throiugh the usual fliter. I have lernt that Linux does not like USB to much, is that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EdUbuntu

2007-09-29 Thread Ron Rhodes
Ian Pascoe wrote: Will someone put me out of my misery Bang! Thanks, but what desktop does EdUbuntu come with? I'bve just scoured over the site and found what's included and I'm leaving towards KDE but can someone say for sure please? E It's Gnome, see

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Citizens rejoice! Your Lord and Master stands on high, playing track 3.

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Rhodes
Alan Pope wrote: According to this:- https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk/+poll/ubuntu-uk-point-of-contact Some people voted and by a nose I seem to have won the post of Point of Contact for the Ubuntu-UK LoCo Team. Yay! (I think). Firstly I'd like to thank Nik Butler for all his hard work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Voting Processes and Democracy

2007-10-02 Thread Ron Rhodes
Chris Rowson wrote: snip The question is quite simply do you want the election to be held again, yes or no? No Ron -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [IDEA] ICS calendar of meetings

2007-10-08 Thread Ron Rhodes
Alan Pope wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 00:23 +0100, Freddie Ruddick wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 00:04 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=meeting.ical Yes! That's perfect, thanks a lot. :) As long as you either

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [IDEA] ICS calendar of meetings

2007-10-08 Thread Ron Rhodes
Matthew Larsen wrote: Christ dont you guys have jobs you should be getting on with? Hi Matthew, Not me! been retired for 13 years come next month. Rgards, Ron. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

2007-11-08 Thread Ron Rhodes
Mac wrote: Friends Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops. So here's a quick poll: Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi? And, if you do, do you use no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems upgrading

2007-11-09 Thread Ron Rhodes
London School of Puppetry wrote: On 09/11/2007, *Kris Douglas* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/2007, *Lucy* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/11/2007, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to Hardy- Trying to make it easy!

2008-05-02 Thread Ron Rhodes
Javad Ayaz wrote: ok so i tried dpkg- l | awk '{print $2}' my_packages.txt but it doesnt do anything!! snip Try: dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' my_packages.txt HTH Ron -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Linux Sticker wanted

2008-11-10 Thread Ron Rhodes
Michael G Fletcher wrote: Hi Guys I remember awhile ago that someone mentioned they received the powered by... stickers that came with Linux Format. I am trying to get one of the powered by Linux stickers (the one with tux on it) If anybody has one and is happy to part with it, please let

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Java app (FreeMind) installed through Synaptic -- where is it?

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Rhodes
doug livesey wrote: Hi, I've installed the app FreeMind through Synaptic, so that should be all good canonical. However, I can't seem to find it in either the Applications tab or with Gnome-go. (I even tried a restart -- hang up from my M$ days!) Can anyone advise me on where it might be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wacom bamboo

2009-06-25 Thread Ron Rhodes
Mac wrote: Mac Why do you persist in sending blank posts? Ron -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wacom bamboo

2009-06-26 Thread Ron Rhodes
mac wrote: Why do you persist in sending blank posts? Ron Ron / ged / Mark I'm on holiday at the moment, and using web mail. Unfortunately, GMX webmail only uses HTML :-( So if you've got your mail client set to 'plain text only', you'll see nothing in my posts. However, I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] laptop batteries

2009-10-11 Thread Ron Rhodes
mac wrote: Snip Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Any more thoughts? mac I used http://www.budgetbatteries.co.uk/ some time ago, no problems, would use again if needed. HTH Ron -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Ron Rhodes
Alan Pope wrote: On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote: I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have a seperate mailing list to discuss this on? Why not use the resources we have. There is a marketing list and a marketing irc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 13/05/10 09:15, Alan Pope wrote: Hi all, I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help. During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the Italian LoCo Team have been doing some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-06-13 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 13/06/10 11:20, John Matthews wrote: On 26/04/10 11:45, Stephen Garton wrote: I gave up on both the Java uploader on the FB site and the F-spot plugin (this one was because I fell out with F-spot - the plugin itself worked fine!). I now usehttp://fbuploader.damoxc.net/ (standalone pyGTK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thunderbird 3 and ubuntu 10.04 (indexing)

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 18/07/10 15:51, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi Just to let people know that to turn off indexing in thunderbird 3 on ubuntu 10.04 do the following goto EDIT menu select PREFERENCES then select GENERAL tab then UNTICK engable global search and indexer should speed things up a bit, Paul You

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nouveau

2010-11-30 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 28/11/10 15:49, danteash...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is, I have no idea how to get into Ubuntu and install the driver. Nouveau leaves me with a failed X session (IE, at the command line) and I've little idea how to install the driver through that. :P Do you know which nvidia driver you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nouveau

2010-11-30 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 30/11/10 18:20, danteash...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, not really; it's referred to as NVIDIA-current by jockey... On 30 November 2010 17:26, Ron Rhodesowdronrho...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: On 28/11/10 15:49, danteash...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is, I have no idea how to get into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nouveau

2010-12-01 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 01/12/10 09:29, Colin Law wrote: On 1 December 2010 02:33, Ron Rhodesowdronrho...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: On 30/11/10 18:20, danteash...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, not really; it's referred to as NVIDIA-current by jockey... On 30 November 2010 17:26, Ron Rhodesowdronrho...@tiscali.co.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Increasing number of displayed documents in Recent Documents?

2010-12-17 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 17/12/10 13:32, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I cannot believe that there seems to be NO way of increasing the number of documents displayed in Places-Recent Documents! An extensive Google search comes up with nothing! Is there a way? If not where do I make a suggestion for a future release?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

2011-12-02 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 02/12/11 17:45, Barry Drake wrote: Snip Granted it's awkward to edit, but anyhow, I've added you to it. Often wondered if anybody actually finds it though. Same with the 'barebones' site. Be nice if there were links from the Ubuntu site that were prominent enough. I can't help there though.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9

2013-01-07 Thread Ron Rhodes
On 06/01/13 09:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Whoops no, I'm sorry, this machine is still Windows 8. Win 9 will be out later this year. But anyway, reliable instructions. On 06/01/2013 10:19, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hello again, Can anybody recommend a reliable set of online instructions for