Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

23 non-free packages, 1.4% of 1636 installed packages (laptop) -- Umbrella Corporation :- "They are the fear within all of us that there is a company. The Corporation controlling everything that is Umbrella. A combination of Microsoft and the US Military. At some level there is a board of director

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

Alan Pope wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:16 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote: >> andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages. >> pete lewis - 28 non-free packages, 1.5% of 1893 installed packages. > > gutsy laptop - 28 non-free packages, 1.7% of 1650 installed packages. > feis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems after update

Farran Lee wrote: > Hi Rob > just had that happen with my laptop. > Inside is a tiny battery that powers the BIOS memory (or something). My > laptop is awfully old, and the battery has finally gone flat. This means > that every time my laptop is disconnected from the mains, it forgets all > the set

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems afterupdate

I wish I knew what I know now at 57, which is precious little, when I was 14! James - Original Message - From: "Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "British Ubuntu Talk" Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems afterupd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems after update

> Inside is a tiny battery that powers the BIOS memory (or something). My > laptop is awfully old, and the battery has finally gone flat. This means > that every time my laptop is disconnected from the mains, it forgets all > the settings I have made in the BIOS. It complains at me a lot, Sounds l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems after update

Hi Rob just had that happen with my laptop. Inside is a tiny battery that powers the BIOS memory (or something). My laptop is awfully old, and the battery has finally gone flat. This means that every time my laptop is disconnected from the mains, it forgets all the settings I have made in the BIOS.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:38:04 +, andylockran wrote: > Unfortuantely it only counts packages installed with apt - (and maybe from > the official repos, but I haven't looked under the hood). > > It's not amazingly accurate, but I think goes a long way to show how close > we are to complete freed

[ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems after update

Hi folks, I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e notebook this evening with not much luck. Basically my dad's had his laptop for a year and the hard drive developed bad sectors just after the warranty ran out. To complicate things further, the installation files wer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

- "Mark Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/5/07, andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please append your results to the list below: > > > > andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed > packages. > > > > 24 non-free packages, 1.4% of 1672 installed packages. the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

On 05/10/2007, andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were > installed. > > Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for > something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking > for something to waste their time.. let's all take turns in > uploading our results. [...] > Please append your results to the list below: > > andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

On 10/5/07, andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please append your results to the list below: > > andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages. > > On my Ubuntu Server: -8<- linux-server Complete Linux kernel on Server Equipment. 1 non-free packa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

On Friday 05 October 2007 16:38:56 andylockran wrote: > by the way - the current leader is popey with 0 non free packages on his > server. > > I only have 1 non free on my server - something to do with rar - and I > can't get rid :( I just checked my server too, but it says that the default ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:16 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote: > andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages. > pete lewis - 28 non-free packages, 1.5% of 1893 installed packages. gutsy laptop - 28 non-free packages, 1.7% of 1650 installed packages. feisty desktop - 7 non-free p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

by the way - the current leader is popey with 0 non free packages on his server. I only have 1 non free on my server - something to do with rar - and I can't get rid :( On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:16:18 +0100, Peter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 05 October 2007 15:40:38 andylockran wrot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

Tom, Unfortuantely it only counts packages installed with apt - (and maybe from the official repos, but I haven't looked under the hood). It's not amazingly accurate, but I think goes a long way to show how close we are to complete freedom :). for most people it's the graphics & restricted m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

andylockran wrote: > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were > installed. > Please append your results to the list below: > > andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

andylockran wrote: > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were > installed. > > Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for > something to waste their time.. let's all take

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

On Friday 05 October 2007 15:40:38 andylockran wrote: > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were > installed. > > Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for > something to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

andylockran wrote: > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were > installed. > > Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for > something to waste their time.. let's all ta

[ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were installed. Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for something to waste their time.. let's all take turns in uploading our result

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Season - Shuttleworth

On 05/10/2007, Eddie Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought I'd bring this to everyones's attention > Open Season - Shuttleworth > > > and the Open Season > in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal

On Friday 05 October 2007 10:40:28 alan c wrote: > Peter Lewis wrote: > > On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote: > >> Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would > >> probably me able to help out. > > > > Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy t

[ubuntu-uk] Open Season - Shuttleworth

Just thought I'd bring this to everyones's attention Open Season - Shuttleworth and the Open Season in general Eddie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal

On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote: > Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would probably > me able to help out. Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy to come along and help out. Pete. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu

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--- alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Lewis wrote: > > On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder > wrote: > >> Excellent idea for a project. As I live in > Birmingham I would > >> probably me able to help out. > > > > Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than > happy to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal

Peter Lewis wrote: > On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote: >> Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would >> probably me able to help out. > > Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy to come > along and help out. > > Pete. > Do either of you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal

Chris Rowson wrote: >> I'll take this as a positive acceptance of the idea - thanks for all the >> offers of support up to and including the tea pot Matthew! > > Cool :-D This sounds like a very admirable project. Has anyone got any > ideas about how this could be funded? How does the loco usually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal (Sight Village)

Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi y'all > > Before I ask for Popey's help to put this onto his Ideas Pool, I > thought I'd run it by the list and see what your feed back was. > > Every year the Queen Alexandra College for the Blind in Birmingham > runs an exhibition called Sight Village, which is the "lea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows Home Server

Hi Colin, On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 07:57 +0100, Colin McCarthy wrote: > On 10/4/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where does Obuntu fit in with this (https://launchpad.net/~obuntu)? > Is UbuntuEasyBusinessServer the new name for Obuntu or are they two > different competing versions? > Fu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal

Chris Rowson wrote: >> What I was thinking of doing was running a stand there for the >> three days - starting Tues 15/07/08 I think - demonstrating >> Ubuntu together with it's Assistive Technologies in use. >> > > Hey there folks, > > Are the assistive technologies in Ubuntu any good? > > I s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal

Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would probably me able to help out. matt On 04/10/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:34 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > > I'll take this as a positive acceptance of the idea - thanks for all the > >