Re: [ubuntu-uk] Intel PRO 3945BG Wireless card under Dapper

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:55 +0100, Llywelyn Owen wrote: > I have tried Wireless Assistant and Networking (under the Admin menu) > but neither with any success. I'm trying to connect to a WEP network > and the card sees it OK (at least it shows its ESSID) but I can't > configure it to actually conne

[ubuntu-uk] Intel PRO 3945BG Wireless card under Dapper

2006-09-21 Thread Llywelyn Owen
I'm hopeful that I can get WLAN up and running on my HP Pavillion notebook since the blue light shows it is active and it flickers when I try to connect. However, that's as far as I get setting it up. I have tried Wireless Assistant and Networking (under the Admin menu) but neither with any success

[ubuntu-uk] Touchpad problem with Dapper

2006-09-21 Thread Llywelyn Owen
I've a strange problem with a new Dapper install on a new HP Pavillion notebook. The sensitivity is way over the top, but worse, it only allow horizontal cursor movement, and ssems to not even need to be touched, hovering above it is sufficient to get it to move. It's fine during the log-in stage,

[ubuntu-uk] Activities for the two days ...

2006-09-21 Thread Nicholas Butler
Ive mentioned in previous comments that we could possibly run some type of short one hour Q & A sessions where people ( pre scheduled ) can arrive in time to ask one or two questions of an Ubuntu Virtuoso .. They could book a UVA .. Ubuntu Virtuoso Appointment to dicuss an aspect of Ubuntu they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-21 Thread Llywelyn Owen
Hmm, "white man speaks with forked tongue" me thinks. It's beyond my understanding, I'll ignore the errors and wait for it to get better!Thanks.On 21/09/06, Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Llywelyn Owen wrote:> I'm having trouble with updating some packages,> Setting up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Llywelyn Owen wrote: > I'm having trouble with updating some packages, > Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ... > usage: update-rc.d ... > dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-21 Thread Matthew Saunders
> I think this is a major different between higher education and further > education colleges. My college is a deprived area of south east London > and has all new, shiny equipment. I'm guessing they got grants etc for > it all and the suppliers have photos for marketing purposes. > > Also the qual

[ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-21 Thread Llywelyn Owen
I'm having trouble with updating some packages, updates notified via synaptic Package manager, which won't install. I don't understabd why. Synaptic proposed running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade in a terminal, and the results are pasted below my signature on this email. Any ideas?-- Hwyl/RegardsLlywel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
On 21/09/06, Caroline Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:06 +0100, Nik Butler wrote: > > > > Mad or Bad Idea ? > > > > You decide. I quite like the idea. Nice & personal. > I think the problem will be that the average LUG is all/majority white > men which is pretty un-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread Caroline Ford
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:06 +0100, Nik Butler wrote: > The competition requires you to recreate the Ubuntu Shipit CD Cover ( > the one with the Five people on it ) using members of your local Linux > User group. > > The catch is that you must get a 100 Word comment from each member in > the pho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-21 Thread Caroline Ford
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 13:11 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > On 16/09/06, ana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We had a college IT teacher in the > > hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free > > software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by whi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-21 Thread Eamonn Sullivan
On 9/21/06, Alan Helmore-Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We had a college IT teacher in the > >> hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free > >> software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which > >> they can not install any other software on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread nik
> > Come to mention it, perhaps they might be interested in doing something with > ubuntu-uk for the upcoming show (Nik)? > Um, I think that was my plan .. but yes please lets put a dead line on it since 4 weeks seems enough notice to see what people can create... and how ! -- ubuntu-uk ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
From: "Jono Bacon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Personally, I don't think you should charge - if there is a charge, > no-one will enter. If the primary aim is to get great content from the > competition, you need the barrier to entry to be non-existent, > particularly as entering involved a reasonable am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
>> We had a college IT teacher in the >> hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free >> software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which >> they can not install any other software on the machines. > > Is that legal? I would have thought it was anti-co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-21 Thread stude . list+ubuntuuk
Hi On 16/09/06, ana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had a college IT teacher in the > hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free > software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which > they can not install any other software on the machines. Is that l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread Glenn J . Mason
> Personally, I don't think you should charge - if there is a charge, > no-one will enter. If the primary aim is to get great content from the > competition, you need the barrier to entry to be non-existent, > particularly as entering involved a reasonable amount of effort (i.e. > not just ticking

[ubuntu-uk] Introduction

2006-09-21 Thread David Morley
Hi my name is Dave Morley, I'm 33 and live in Wolverhampton. I am informed that I'm not a newbie any more, so class myself as a novice in both computing in general and using Linux. I tried just about every combination of Linux desktop/distro I could get my hands on, but kept going back to Ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread Jono Bacon
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Helmore-Simpson wrote: > > > The competition requires you to recreate the Ubuntu Shipit CD Cover ( > > > the one with the Five people on it ) using members of your local Linux > > > User group. > > I like this idea; you could perhaps raise prize money by re

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How about a Competition .... Prior to the Show.

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:17 +0100, Adam McMaster wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:06 +0100, Nik Butler wrote: > > The competition requires you to recreate the Ubuntu Shipit CD Cover ( > > the one with the Five people on it ) using members of your local Linux > > User group. > I like this idea; y