Re: [ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!

2006-11-23 Thread Matthew Saunders
On 24/11/06, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ashley Hooper: > > Here's my letter: > {snip} > > I'm a Southwark resident of 5 1/2 years > Hey, way to go, that's my constituency too! I'll copy your letter, if > that's ok! I have emailed my MP for Chelmsford, Essex with a similar letter t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!

2006-11-23 Thread David Pashley
On Nov 24, 2006 at 07:53, Matthew East praised the llamas by saying: > > Hi, > > * Ashley Hooper: > > Here's my letter: > > {snip} > > > I'm a Southwark resident of 5 1/2 years > > Hey, way to go, that's my constituency too! I'll copy your letter, if > that's ok! > > M I really recommend tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!

2006-11-23 Thread Matthew East
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[ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!

2006-11-23 Thread Ashley Hooper
Here's my letter: - Date:Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:16:39 + (GMT) From: "Ashley Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:EDM 179 : SOFTWARE IN SCHOOLS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Simon Hughes, I'm a Southwark resident of 5 1/2 years, and recently

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Hi, I've made the change so hopefully! Sorry it takes me so long to do these things, I only get this on a digest so it's a while before replies come in, Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox v2.0 and spell checker file

2006-11-23 Thread Llywelyn Owen
Yes that's the file (persdict.dat, in the .mozilla directory), thanks to all who helped out. I think I'll start backing this up and combining with other user dictionaries. -- Hwyl/Regards Llywelyn Owen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wik

[ubuntu-uk] oops

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for my rude departure from irc...my laptop went for repair and just isn't the same now!! Didn't want to come across as rude and didn't know where else to explain myself! Jon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS

2006-11-23 Thread Toby Smithe
And here is the letter: Dear Greg Clark, I am a pupil at the Judd School in Tonbridge, and I feel that the school abuses Microsoft's monopoly, and fails to benefit from the wonders of free and open source software. I feel v

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS

2006-11-23 Thread Toby Smithe
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:13 +, Nik Butler wrote: > Can I ask , if you have written a letter to your MP in relation to > anything open source would it then be possible that you might post the > text of your letter somewhere appropriate on this Wiki ? I think theres > many of us for whom lett

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS

2006-11-23 Thread Nik Butler
Can I ask , if you have written a letter to your MP in relation to anything open source would it then be possible that you might post the text of your letter somewhere appropriate on this Wiki ? I think theres many of us for whom letter writting is not the first skill and having something with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS

2006-11-23 Thread Toby Smithe
I am writing to my MP. This is a very important step. I hope my school takes note. On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 16:25 +, Andy wrote: > I thought the following could be of interest to Ubuntu-uk. > Its from the Free Software Foundation Europe's UK List > > One thing it doesn't provide is a link to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up

2006-11-23 Thread Andy
Jonathon Roberts Wrote: > Thanks, I didn't realise this was necessary so I've been and added the > enclosure tag to the feed so hopefully it will work now!? It sees that there is an episode but won't download it > I this doesn't work any advice on how to change the feed > will be appreciated! You

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 64

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:12:44 + > From: Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:02:01PM +, Jonathan Robe

[ubuntu-uk] Early bird motion in parliament

2006-11-23 Thread Dean Sas
Hi all, Some of you may have seen this circulating on various LUG lists already. This particular version is from Iain Roberts from the Open Source Consortium, via Dave Neary on the gnome-uk list. dsas John Pugh MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons entitled Software in Edu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-11-23 Thread Andy
On 23/11/06, Colin Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to linux and to ubuntu Welcome I am not an expert but will try to offer any advice I can, till someone more knowledgeable gets around to answering. > and would like to > have an ubuntu machine running as a server to > communicate w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-11-23 Thread Daniel Quarte
Hi Colin, I'm afraid i can't offer much help with your server problem, as i also need more information (maybe read more books, wikis and tutorials) about servers, but i can, i hope, point the way to find your answers. Visit the english ubuntu forum (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/) and also do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-11-23 Thread tim matthews
Do you need something like a samba system? Samba is used in open source systems to communicate with Windows systems. Samba can even act as a server on Windows based networks. Ubuntu can do this rather well. t. Colin Humphrey wrote: > Dear all > > I am new to linux and to ubuntu and would like

[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

2006-11-23 Thread Colin Humphrey
Dear all I am new to linux and to ubuntu and would like to have an ubuntu machine running as a server to communicate with a windows xp machine, I have not been able to do this because of network issues. Just before I start I would like to say that I've been reading about your screen casts

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS

2006-11-23 Thread Andy
I thought the following could be of interest to Ubuntu-uk. Its from the Free Software Foundation Europe's UK List One thing it doesn't provide is a link to the EDM (Early Day Motion), it can be found at: At this time only 11

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up

2006-11-23 Thread Andy
On 23/11/06, Jonathan Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully you'll give it a listen and enjoy it! I would listen, but my podcatcher (CastPodder) claims there is no episodes You haven't put in an enclosure tag The enclosure tag is in the RSS spec:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up

2006-11-23 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:02:01PM +, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I recorded the interview with Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison and Jeff > Waugh last night and it went really well. It's a bit rough around the > edges but it's my first try at something like this so I hope you'll >

[ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up

2006-11-23 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Hi all, I recorded the interview with Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison and Jeff Waugh last night and it went really well. It's a bit rough around the edges but it's my first try at something like this so I hope you'll forgive me! Hopefully you'll give it a listen and enjoy it! http://question

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox v2.0 and spell checker file

2006-11-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 23/11/06, David Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > find $HOME/.mozilla -type f | xargs -I {} grep -H word {} > Quick simplification of the above command: since the filenames being passed from xargs to grep are needed at the end of the grep command, you can replace it with find $HOME/.mozil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting cold call to (sussex) re linux

2006-11-23 Thread David Hopkins
> Anyway, after explaining I had not called to ask for his 'services' > but had a question about what he used - I asked if he ever offered > open source software or 'non-windows' things - such as linux? He said > he did use linux a bit, more for interest than anything - 'people tend > not to ask fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox v2.0 and spell checker file

2006-11-23 Thread David Hopkins
On 21/11/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am bowled over by Firefox V2.0 on my Edgy installation. Of particular > interest for me is the web form spell checker which does what Google does > not and that is add new words to a dictionary. Where is this dictionary file > kept so that I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting cold call to (sussex) re linux

2006-11-23 Thread David Pashley
On Nov 22, 2006 at 22:29, Nicholas Butler praised the llamas by saying: > alan c wrote: > > In summary, it went well! > > (any Sussex area ubuntu users out there?) > > > with the validation of experience and perspective . Im one of the > Lugmasters for Sussex Linux User Group ( www.sussex.lug.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 19/11/06, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Robert K. Day wrote: > > On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:46, Tony Arnold wrote: > > [snip] > >> As it is, there is no guarantee the site is owned by > >> who you think it it > > [snip] > > > > Well, there is; it's a .gov.uk address, which is