On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:45, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
> However, my main wish now is either to get my Sony Ericsson 910i phone
> contacts synced or to change the phone for one where this can be done with
> Edgy (I'm due an upgrade after all). Therefore, my question is this: has
> anyone on this
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:47 +, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > Are you confusing free as in beer with free as in freedom? FOSS does not
> > have to be free as in beer!
>
> I find this very confusing. If I buy an application to run in Ubuntu
> what sort of freedom is represented?
>
> Norman
Fre
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:07:40PM +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
> No ,they're extra buttons above the function keys, (On/Off, DVD, fast
> replay, play, fast forward, stop, mute, volume) They're meant to be used to
> control the DVD without having to boot into XP. In fact this seemed a false
> promis
No ,they're extra buttons above the function keys, (On/Off, DVD, fast
replay, play, fast forward, stop, mute, volume) They're meant to be used to
control the DVD without having to boot into XP. In fact this seemed a false
promise since if I loaded a DVD, whatever HP installed software booted to
pl
On 16/11/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The DVD quick launch buttons
> don't work but then I didn't expect them to.
Do you mean the buttons on your keyboard? There is a handy tool in the
system/preference menu to customise extra buttons.
Leon
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I've recently, since the Novell/MS marriage of convenience un-installed my
SLED trial (which worked well enough) from my laptop and installed Edgy Eft.
It's excellent, everything works out of the box with the latest software
versions, even the WLAN card works first time (it's a HP Pavilion DV2045e
nicholas butler wrote:
> Ive called the Event co-ordinator and left a message . I'll chase this
> up tommorow though unless someone else wants to hassle them as well ?
>
> Nik
It is probably best done through a single contact unless you want
different?
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Tony Arnold wrote:
> Alan,
>
> alan c wrote:
>
>> a further thought - I have a deep and penetrating appreciation of open
>> source software, but I sometimes reflect on the future of the software
>> industry. I often get the impression that foss authors frequently have
>> a programming day job,
On 16/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting nicholas butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Okay im prempting the friday but im thinking about this now.
>
> I know we all love to neticorrect each other on the various issues
> related to etiquette and manners so why not lets see if
Norman,
Norman Silverstone wrote:
>> Are you confusing free as in beer with free as in freedom? FOSS does not
>> have to be free as in beer!
>
> I find this very confusing. If I buy an application to run in Ubuntu
> what sort of freedom is represented?
If it is FOSS that you have bought, then th
> Are you confusing free as in beer with free as in freedom? FOSS does not
> have to be free as in beer!
I find this very confusing. If I buy an application to run in Ubuntu
what sort of freedom is represented?
Norman
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Quoting nicholas butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Okay im prempting the friday but im thinking about this now.
>
> I know we all love to neticorrect each other on the various issues
> related to etiquette and manners so why not lets see if we can make a
> news story from it ?
>
> Top or Bottom ?
>
>
Alan,
alan c wrote:
> a further thought - I have a deep and penetrating appreciation of open
> source software, but I sometimes reflect on the future of the software
> industry. I often get the impression that foss authors frequently have
> a programming day job, not always in foss areas. In
Okay im prempting the friday but im thinking about this now.
I know we all love to neticorrect each other on the various issues
related to etiquette and manners so why not lets see if we can make a
news story from it ?
Top or Bottom ?
Posting on a Email that is.
Should we ?, could we ?, can
Ive called the Event co-ordinator and left a message . I'll chase this
up tommorow though unless someone else wants to hassle them as well ?
Nik
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Caroline Ford wrote:
> http://www.bettshow.com/bett/show_home1.asp
>
> "BETT is the world's leading educational information & communications
> technologies (ICT) event, attracting 600 educational suppliers and over
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Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if I could get peoples general opinion on free vs
> non-free drivers etc.
I have just attended a BCS talk/discussion on Open vs Closed:
http://berkshire.bcs.org.uk/
==
Title: The ‘Open versus Closed’ Debate 14th
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:39:35 +
> From: "David Morley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free vs non-free drivers etc
> To: "British Ubuntu Talk"
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, Rob Beard wrote:
> I just wondered what others thought. How I see it, we're in a perfect
> position to be talking up and demonstrating Linux as an alternative to
> users moving over to Vista and potentially dumping a perfectly good
> computer. I am get
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:39:35PM +, David Morley wrote:
> On 15/11/06, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I was wondering if I could get peoples general opinion on free vs
> > non-free drivers etc.
> >
>
I have a pragmatic view. In a utopian world all software would
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