[ubuntu-uk] Today! Fwd: [UCLP] Announcing Ubuntu User Day - January 23, 2010
This is happening online in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat starting at 12:00 midday today. Find out more here:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Johnston Date: 14 January 2010 04:13 Subject: [UCLP] Announcing Ubuntu User Day - January 23, 2010 To: ubuntu-news-t...@lists.ubuntu.com, loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-classr...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-learn...@lists.ubuntu.com Greetings; The Ubuntu User Days Team would like to announce the first Ubuntu User Day, on January 23, 2010. This will be a very informative one day session geared towards beginner and intermediate Ubuntu users, as well as people who are interested in using Ubuntu. We have 14 classes covering topics ranging from installing Ubuntu, finding help, equivalent programs, using IRC, getting involved in the Ubuntu Community and more. We have enlisted the help of many talented people to lead these classes throughout the day. These classes will be taught in #ubuntu-classroom with questions being asked in #ubuntu-classroom-chat on irc.freenode.net. Please visit http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays for a complete class list and schedule of classes. There is also a Spanish version of Ubuntu User Days being offered on January, 23, 2010. Please visit Día Del Usuario Ubuntu at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiaDelUsuarioUbuntu for more information on the Spanish Ubuntu User Day! Please take a few minutes over the next week or so to promote the Ubuntu User Day to people you know, in your LoCo Team, in your blog, or any other resources you may have access to. Respectfully Submitted, Chris Johnston Ubuntu Member chrisjohns...@ubuntu.com www.chrisjohnston.org cjohnston on irc.freenode.net -- Ubuntu-Learning mailing list ubuntu-learn...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-learning -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Today! Fwd: [UCLP] Announcing Ubuntu User Day - January 23, 2010
On 23/01/2010 11:23, Alan Pope wrote: > This is happening online in #ubuntu-classroom and > #ubuntu-classroom-chat starting at 12:00 midday today. > > Find out more here:- > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Chris Johnston > Date: 14 January 2010 04:13 > Subject: [UCLP] Announcing Ubuntu User Day - January 23, 2010 > To: ubuntu-news-t...@lists.ubuntu.com, loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com, > ubuntu-classr...@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-learn...@lists.ubuntu.com > > > Greetings; > > The Ubuntu User Days Team would like to announce the first Ubuntu User > Day, on January 23, 2010. This will be a very informative one day > session geared towards beginner and intermediate Ubuntu users, as well > as people who are interested in using Ubuntu. We have 14 classes > covering topics ranging from installing Ubuntu, finding help, > equivalent programs, using IRC, getting involved in the Ubuntu > Community and more. We have enlisted the help of many talented people > to lead these classes throughout the day. > > These classes will be taught in #ubuntu-classroom with questions being > asked in #ubuntu-classroom-chat on irc.freenode.net. Please visit > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays for a complete class list and schedule > of classes. > > There is also a Spanish version of Ubuntu User Days being offered on > January, 23, 2010. Please visit Día Del Usuario Ubuntu at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiaDelUsuarioUbuntu for more information on > the Spanish Ubuntu User Day! > > Please take a few minutes over the next week or so to promote the > Ubuntu User Day to people you know, in your LoCo Team, in your blog, > or any other resources you may have access to. > > Respectfully Submitted, > > Chris Johnston > Ubuntu Member > chrisjohns...@ubuntu.com > www.chrisjohnston.org > > cjohnston on irc.freenode.net > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Learning mailing list > ubuntu-learn...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-learning > > Nice :-D I'll definitely remember this in the future - my birthday!!! James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events
> > I'm guessing it's down to WEEE, under which many companies are scared > of their kit being found irresponsibly disposed of and being traced > back to them. > > This is why I can't get any from college. There are numerous health and safety reasons why they can't give them away as well though. I will persist with asking though and see if they will give them to a charitable cause. Gadget3000 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] PS3?
Hi I am wanting to get a media centre. Ubuntu Wine to run spotify Blue tooth Wifi Blue Ray Store my music and torrent on Possible burn media card reader Would PS3 do this> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS3?
Do you mean, use the PS3 hardware to run Ubuntu to turn into a media center? PS3s don't have CD burners, either. 2010/1/23 red > Hi > > I am wanting to get a media centre. > > Ubuntu > Wine to run spotify > Blue tooth > Wifi > Blue Ray > Store my music and torrent on > Possible burn media > card reader > > Would PS3 do this> > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Simon Wears http://MunkyJunky.com | http://Twitter.com/MunkyJunky MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS3?
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:29:19 -, red wrote: > Hi > > I am wanting to get a media centre. > > Ubuntu > Wine to run spotify > Blue tooth > Wifi > Blue Ray > Store my music and torrent on > Possible burn media > card reader > > Would PS3 do this> > The was a discussion last Nov about this see:- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-November/021927.html -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS3?
red wrote: > Hi > > I am wanting to get a media centre. > > Ubuntu > Wine to run spotify > Blue tooth > Wifi > Blue Ray > Store my music and torrent on > Possible burn media > card reader > > Would PS3 do this> > > Not very well. I got an 80GB PS3 for the kids for Christmas and decided to install Ubuntu on it. The problem is the PS3 hardware is limited when running Linux, you're limited to 256MB Ram and the video is via the framebuffer and very slow. It's not so bad for say, Firefox and possibly playing music but not much else. You could at a pinch I guess connect a USB DVD/CD writer and a USB card reader (I believe only the 60GB model has the card reader) but I wouldn't recommend it. You'll also struggle with Wine as the PS3 has a PowerPC based CPU not x86 as used on a PC. So I certainly wouldn't go out and buy a PS3 for just these things. If you were getting one say to play Bluray films and games then they are great. I tend to now do media playback on my PS3 using it in the PS3 mode using the Cross Media Bar (XMB) which is what the PS3 runs by default. I run PS3 Media Server on my laptop running Ubuntu and it will serve up media to the PS3, transcoding when necessary. I also play Bluray movies on it, and occasionally music and a little bit of BBC iPlayer and web browsing. It's worth also bearing in mind, the newer slimline PS3 won't run Linux. Only the original 'fat' PS3 consoles will run Linux. I settled on Xubuntu after trying Yellowdog. Although the fat PS3 consoles only tend to have 20GB, 40GB, 60GB or 80GB hard drives, it is possible to replace the hard drive with a bigger drive, although on the PS3 by default you can only either allocate 10GB to Linux and the rest of the drive to the PS3 OS, or 10GB to the PS3 OS with the rest to Linux. I hear from a friend it is possible to take drive out and repartition it manually but I haven't tried this, mainly because I'm finding 10GB is more than enough for what I want. So don't get me wrong, the PS3 is a great console, but if you don't want to play games, then you might be better off building a media PC or maybe getting one of the little Acer Aspire Net Top PCs and a separate Bluray player. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS3?
Steve wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:29:19 -, red wrote: > > >> Hi >> >> I am wanting to get a media centre. >> >> Ubuntu >> Wine to run spotify >> Blue tooth >> Wifi >> Blue Ray >> Store my music and torrent on >> Possible burn media >> card reader >> >> Would PS3 do this> >> >> > The was a discussion last Nov about this see:- > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-November/021927.html > > Yup, it was me who asked about it :-) The PS3 fits my needs fine at the moment, long term I'm probably going to build a dedicated media PC running MythTV, but for now the PS3 works great for games, Bluray movies and streaming media from PS3 Media Server. I was a bit disappointed with Linux but that wasn't the sole reason I got it (plus it was £50 cheaper than the Slimline console which meant I could get an extra couple of games for the kids). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On training something like this sounds good https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays Thanks for Isabell Long for finding this :) Perhaps we can use the training materials. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6, - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktbW5YACgkQaggq1k2FJq0EKACfQllmn+hvW1NmphbRGqy4RYeZ 9ksAmwfogcmVHPu1iSfVbOst/e2zx1cl =sb1J -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:27:09 -, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On training something like this sounds good > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays > > Thanks for Isabell Long for finding this :) > > Perhaps we can use the training materials. > I’ve been watching it, some of it is rather good and shows what can be covered in an hour and as most of the subjects will come up again and again with new starters I think the material would be very useful. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:27:09 -, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On training something like this sounds good >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays >> >> Thanks for Isabell Long for finding this :) >> >> Perhaps we can use the training materials. >> > I’ve been watching it, some of it is rather good and shows what can be > covered in an hour and as most of the subjects will come up again and > again with new starters I think the material would be very useful. I take it its possible to produce all training materials in open format and perhaps package up a set of videos (ogv, sound ogg, presentations impress etc) in say tar.gz format. so they can be downloaded as 1 module say for example a module on using the desktop, or networking. as there is already a ubuntu training course (ubuntu desktop training), perhaps all this needs to cross reference with each other, and then also cover items that appear in LPI or similar. Armed with presentation materials, perhaps a download iso to make a boot disk (flash drive) with just the right bits for the course, user account with files in the home directory designed to be used with the course, so a large text file can be used with grep, wc for example. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6, - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktbbHYACgkQaggq1k2FJq35JwCfYo7EhVIEfZZdzBEeNOR2Vwu1 7wgAoI4g8iMdz6eHTj3wXJvGEXp2n6n0 =xFpA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events
http://www.slideshare.net has a few Linux and Ubuntu presentations - haven't looked at them all, but that could be an additional place to make training available. Or is there already a similar service dedicated to Linux/Ubuntu? Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:39:09 -, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:27:09 -, Paul Sutton wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On training something like this sounds good >>> >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays >>> >>> Thanks for Isabell Long for finding this :) >>> >>> Perhaps we can use the training materials. >>> >> I’ve been watching it, some of it is rather good and shows what can be >> covered in an hour and as most of the subjects will come up again and >> again with new starters I think the material would be very useful. > > > I take it its possible to produce all training materials in open format > and perhaps package up a set of videos (ogv, sound ogg, presentations > impress etc) in say tar.gz format. so they can be downloaded as 1 > module say for example a module on using the desktop, or networking. > > as there is already a ubuntu training course (ubuntu desktop training), > perhaps all this needs to cross reference with each other, and then also > cover items that appear in LPI or similar. > > Armed with presentation materials, perhaps a download iso to make a boot > disk (flash drive) with just the right bits for the course, user > account with files in the home directory designed to be used with the > course, so a large text file can be used with grep, wc for example. > The stuff for the User Day is on a wiki with the log from the IRC channel so isn’t immediately available but, is still a rather useful resource. I’ve also been watching via Lernid, which looks very useful. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS3?
On 23 January 2010 19:19, Rob Beard wrote: > Steve wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:29:19 -, red wrote: >> >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I am wanting to get a media centre. >>> >>> Ubuntu >>> Wine to run spotify >>> Blue tooth >>> Wifi >>> Blue Ray >>> Store my music and torrent on >>> Possible burn media >>> card reader >>> >>> Would PS3 do this> >>> >>> >> The was a discussion last Nov about this see:- >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-November/021927.html >> >> > Yup, it was me who asked about it :-) > > The PS3 fits my needs fine at the moment, long term I'm probably going > to build a dedicated media PC running MythTV, but for now the PS3 works > great for games, Bluray movies and streaming media from PS3 Media > Server. I was a bit disappointed with Linux but that wasn't the sole > reason I got it (plus it was £50 cheaper than the Slimline console which > meant I could get an extra couple of games for the kids). > > Rob We have a media server with all our crap on, and mediatomb installed on it, which our ps3 can connect and stream from; works a treat. -- Kris Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting disconnected from wireless Launchpad bug 486869
Saikiran Madugula wrote: > Sorry for posting a bug report to the mailing list - my only intention is to > find out if anybody else is facing the same problem so that they might add > info > to the bug (link below) which would then help/motivate Ubuntu guys to help in > fixing it. > > The bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/486869 > > Brief description: My wireless connection frequently gets disconnected on my > laptop(HP Compaq 6735b) > > My wireless card : Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN > Controller (rev 01) > Ubuntu distribution: 9.10 > > Any help appreciated! > > Thanks, > Kiran. > Hmm no replies - should I assume that people using Broadcom are not seeing any wireless issues on their laptop ? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
