Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Advocacy

2006-03-10 Thread Alistair Crust
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:19 +, john levin wrote: > Adrian Mitchell wrote: > > Hi > > I'm looking for suggestions about spreading the use of Ubuntu. > > > > I'm very impressed with Ubuntu and I would like to do my best to > > encourage the UK Voluntary Sector to make more use of FOSS - and Ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OO2 won't email document

2006-03-10 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Not sure whether this is an Ubuntu problem or an Open Office one, so I'm > sending this to both lists! > I have Open Office 2.01 on Ubuntu 5.10. I use Thunderbird 1.5 as my > email client, and have uninstalled Evolution. > > If I open a document, and click on the "Ma

RE: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Advocacy [Scanned]

2006-03-10 Thread Adrian Mitchell
Thanks John I'll investigate those links I did attend a short (1 hour) session at last years Charityfair that was billed as an introduction to Linux for the voluntary sector - and used Ubuntu as it's example. I enjoyed the session, but it was a bit vague - with plenty of enthusiasm, but not a lot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firestarter

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Golightly
Right thanks. I was just following what I thought was a useful tutorial on installing firestarter on Ubuntu (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=121596). In that tutorial they enabled ICMP filtering. But I guess a mistake according to you.. I'll disable it. cheers Paul, A Paul S

[ubuntu-uk] Lug Radio Live BOF sessions

2006-03-10 Thread john levin
Lug Radio Live 2006 is being held on Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd July 2006 at Wolverhampton University Students' Union, Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton WV1 1LY From the blurb, for those who haven't heard of it: "LUGRadio Live is an annual event driven by, and for the Open Source community. The event i

[ubuntu-uk] OO2 won't email document

2006-03-10 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Not sure whether this is an Ubuntu problem or an Open Office one, so I'm sending this to both lists! I have Open Office 2.01 on Ubuntu 5.10. I use Thunderbird 1.5 as my email client, and have uninstalled Evolution. If I open a document, and click on the "Mail" icon, a compose window is opened in T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Advocacy

2006-03-10 Thread john levin
Adrian Mitchell wrote: Hi I'm looking for suggestions about spreading the use of Ubuntu. I'm very impressed with Ubuntu and I would like to do my best to encourage the UK Voluntary Sector to make more use of FOSS - and Ubuntu in particular. Trouble is, other than fairly casual conversations,

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Advocacy

2006-03-10 Thread Adrian Mitchell
Title: Message Hi I'm looking for suggestions about spreading the use of Ubuntu.   I'm very impressed with Ubuntu and I would like to do my best to encourage the UK Voluntary Sector to make more use of FOSS - and Ubuntu in particular. Trouble is, other than fairly casual conversations, I'm n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firestarter

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Andrew Golightly wrote: > However, on disabling ICMP filtering, this problem goes away. That's hardly surprising... ICMP stands for "Internet *Control* Messaging Protocol" and funnily enough stuff breaks when idiots^W people block it. You seem to have found the answer on you

[ubuntu-uk] firestarter

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Golightly
Hi everyone, I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this query, so if it's not please let me know and I'll send it elsewhere. For the policy under firestarter I have allowed all the bittorrent ports. (6881-6889). However, under my events tab, I still find that connections from