Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-11 Thread Will Bickerstaff
My sons school is not great. Most things are in PDF, Newsletters, prospectus, ofsted reports etc, I like the way Mark's school links directly to the ofsted site for the HTML version of the report rather than the way ours provides a PDF version. However we have no word excel or ppt files yet. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-11 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.comwrote: I know I slate the state of teaching quite often, but it's not teachers who upload stuff onto websites - it's admin staff. Primary schools, for example, have a school secretary who normally has to do pretty much

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source Day - March 26

2011-01-28 Thread Will Bickerstaff
I'll try my best to get there (though very close to baby due day) and would hope a few more from your neighbours in Worcestershire will be to. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Sarah Chard sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk wrote: Hi everyone Herefordshire LUG is organising an Open Source Day on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell - was ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-27 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, it's not a problem with the installation process of either Windows or Ubuntu. There are some recent Vista and Windows 7 programs that implement their copy-protection by writing to an unused

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-15 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Another request if anyone has a spare invite going please. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old

2010-12-14 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: Tuxpaint and Gcompris! great fun apps to play with. To be honest I wouldn't worry too much about parental controls for a few years, just put the cbeebies website as the browser home page and you are done!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old

2010-12-14 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: I use Workrave to do something similar. Is that what you were thinking of? No but certainly looks worth looking at. It was the typing break option in Gnome keyboard preferences. I knew I never had to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

2010-12-06 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea what FruitLoops is. AutoCAD I can believe would be difficult, but then, the only way to open an AutoCAD file is to have a copy of AutoCAD, isn't it? IOW, 99.99% of Windows PCs can't open AutoCAD files

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!

2010-11-12 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Josh Holland j...@joshh.co.uk wrote: Worcester proper for me, though I'm in Oxford during term time. All of you folks should be coming along to get WorcsLUG going again. There is a pub meet arranged for the 7th in Worcester, and I'll most likely be going

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-10 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: snip The bank analogy doesn't exactly make sense as banks are replacing something expensive for them (employees, time, and physical space) with something very scalable and well-understood (web apps). Books switching to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-10 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Apologies, I did mean to add that in general I agree with everything you say. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which his windows install has been bricked by his AV. I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've agreed to look and get it working again for him,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ For larger organisations I'd go with something like OpenERP: http://www.openerp.com/ Al Thanks Alan, I'll have a look at these two and find out which Sage he's using, I'll probably give him both and let him decide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Thanks all, I'll spend the weekend looking at some of these. Put a couple on his machine and leave him with it for a few weeks and see what he thinks. Glenn, I'll definitely come back with some feedback from him once he's had time to acclimatise to whatever he settles with. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

2010-10-21 Thread Will Bickerstaff
you could do 'aspell dump master' and direct the output to a file. Then you could pass it through quick script to remove all new lines, apostophes etc and add your commas. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-18 Thread Will Bickerstaff
There is an open streetmap plugin for wordpess that can place multiple markers using a flat file. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/osm/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wp-osm-plugin#adding_a_list_of_markers How manageable would something like that be? Not looked at it too closely but I'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-17 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Pretty much what I was getting at I think, something like http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Map Centred and zoomed to the uk. Mary, if a template wiki page was created, that you could fill in the gaps with stuff like what you can help with, the area you can provide help and when you are most

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-15 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Vince Marsters vi...@marsters.co.uk wrote: I'm in Evesham, Worcestershire and will help out where I can, although I would not suggest I am an expert with Ubuntu. Vince Also in Evesham. Vince the Worcestershire lug is running again! you should join us. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread Will Bickerstaff
typo I think its http://askubuntu.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 13/10/10 16:30, Roy Jamison wrote: Do all of these machines have nVidia graphics cards? Just a thought, but there's a known issue with the new Xorg 1.9 ABI that breaks the older nVidia drivers, and I'm guessing the 6800

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Will Bickerstaff
That wasn't an option for me - the whole program had hung and the mouse wasn't responding properly. I actually connected via ssh from my laptop to fix it, as I was working on that machine whilst the upgrade was taking place on the desktop. Both machines I upgraded did exactly this. A reboot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc

2010-09-20 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: any suggestions for a cheep laptop I'm using a Dell D410 daily, which is still a more than capable small laptop, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, 1.86 Celeron or pentium M, not quite as small as a netbook but not as big as the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

2010-09-18 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: All good questions and I think we should provide you a decent answer that is a foolproof as can be. Wiki? Definitely a topic worth a wiki page. As you say Alan, these are all good questions that don't have obvious

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?

2010-09-02 Thread Will Bickerstaff
In my experience hibernate is a pain, it takes an absolute age to restore and is often slower than booting from off. Suspend works well though and I use it all the time. The difference being, at least as far as I understand it, that suspend stores all currently open data to RAM, and then powers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-08-31 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Excellent, can't remember which way I voted but I like this one -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo Vote

2010-08-28 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:53 AM, SW Wootton wootton@gmail.com wrote: Good Morning. I am quite new to ubuntu being an emigre from SuSe. Just thought I should make a comment on your email. It would appear to me that in view of the response to the issue of a change in the logo it should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo Vote

2010-08-25 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.comwrote: There were quite a few peeps last night on IRC saying the mail went into their gmail junk folder. It worked for me. yep, thats where mine was -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids

2010-08-06 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and after school and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to 12/13 or so. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests

2010-08-05 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Alan, I really like this, all your designs are just too cool! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-08-02 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Hmmm, Then we have what looks like the upper case K (which I prefer). I'm liking logo 11 On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 22:55 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: On 02/08/10 22:33, Bruno Girin wrote: I like it but I'd drop the your and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-07-31 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Going back to the Different Uu shapes how about a bolder lower Case u made to match the K weight similar to this: http://will.thebickerstaffs.net/logo.svg -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-06-07 Thread Will Bickerstaff
James, bringing launchpad to the desktop is a really cool idea. When I think about what would motivate me more to help, finding things I can help with is probably top of the list. There are a hundred different places to help out, forums, irc, launchpad etc. And I can spend hours trawling them all