[ubuntu-uk] research required...

2011-01-08 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Yep, had seen that page, most of the projects seem dead. or close to death. On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:08 +, Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella wrote: In those lines, I would like to work on a Mech CAD program (use and if I can develop): I was going for freeCAD but if any of you have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2011-01-06 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
suggestions that would be great. * Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... Message-ID: aanlkti=2gd6v82yfgrv7fyadt2mmre3hz+xzk8tgy...@mail.gmail.com2gd6v82yfgrv7fyadt2mmre3hz%2bxzk8tgy...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On 4 January 2011 15:08

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2011-01-06 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:08 +, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: In those lines, I would like to work on a Mech CAD program (use and if I can develop): I was going for freeCAD but if any of you have suggestions that would be great. Never used CAD myself, but this link suggests a whole lot of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2011-01-05 Thread Sean Miller
On 4 January 2011 15:08, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: Also had a problem with father in law: HDD broke windows wasn't loggin it. It was an IDE HDD so not something you can easyliy find it seems. He was content with waiting a while longer and booting from an Xubuntu live CD.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard Stallman use it). If you are a good cook and you make your soup for free at home to your friends and/or give the recipie so others can improve on it will it mean that it will be worst than at a michellin star soup. There

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Jon Spriggs
That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first OggCamp called Programming explained to non-techies -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs On 4 January 2011 14:44, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard

[ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
explaining gwibber but was not convinced. Chat with facebook (empathy) failed but that happens to me as well.. quote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 + From: Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required Message-ID: aanlktim9qb5nea9jjjxmcscx89=1ir0djrq8uwwlx...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first OggCamp called

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-02 Thread Nigel Verity
Dear All It's been very interesting to read comments about my description of setting up Ubuntu for a non-techie Windows user. It's very hard to disagree with any of the points raised, both for and against. My overall view, reflected in the approach I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Sutton
On 29/12/10 21:07, Yorvyk wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 + Colin Lawclan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Veritynigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as not to complicate matters with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:12 +, Paul Sutton wrote: How about being consistent and saying Ubuntu is a free and open source alternative to windows and office. Or is that an out of date tag line. When that was suggested, it was (rightly IMO) pointed out that 'alternative' implies, 'well of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread bodsda
-Original Message- From: Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:07:05 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 +

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread Grant Sewell
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 + bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft have made significant changes to the UI recently, it would be no harder to learn how to navigate Ubuntu's UI than it would be to learn how to use that bloody ribbon in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread bodsda
Yeah :) Bodsda --Original Message-- From: Grant Sewell To: Ubuntu-Uk Cc: bod...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required Sent: 30 Dec 2010 11:28 On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 + bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2010-12-29 Thread Paul Sutton
On 28/12/10 13:14, Patrick Bulteel wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 + From: Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: 1293451578.2118.38.ca...@pcspecialist Content-Type: text/plain; charset

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-29 Thread Yorvyk
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 + Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. I

[ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2010-12-28 Thread Patrick Bulteel
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 + From: Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: 1293451578.2118.38.ca...@pcspecialist Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Those of you on the advertising

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2010-12-28 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27 December 2010 15:32, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 16:09 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: You don't need admin access to create a wiki page, just browse to the pagename you want, then start editing. Thanks for that.  There is now a Wiki page at:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-28 Thread Nigel Verity
Dear All This question has been raised at an opportune moment. Literally yesterday I answered a cry for help from a friend whose 1 month-old HP desktop had been completely trashed by viruses which had taken over all administrator rights and installed massive amounts of malware. Having come

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-28 Thread Barry Drake
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 19:45 +, Nigel Verity wrote: I decided to create a system that would be as familiar to her as possible. I created desktop icons for the following basic applications: Sorry about the silly post when I pressed the wrong button. I really like your approach. Maybe we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All [snip] I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. You should change the number of workspaces to 1, in case the keyboard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. I moved the top task bar to the bottom of the screen, then added the task list applet

[ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2010-12-27 Thread Barry Drake
Those of you on the advertising list will know that Danté Ashton and I have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of the average Windows user. Please consider helping with this research. The aim is to pick a particular 'need' and to follow through whether this need can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2010-12-27 Thread bodsda
Talkubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Reply-To: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... Those of you on the advertising list will know that Danté Ashton and I have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of the average

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2010-12-27 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 20:45 +, Mark wrote: Not sure if this helps: http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html Thanks for that. It is going to be very useful especially in ideas to solve the problems our research shows up! Regards,Barry. -- What do you see