I have a single-user system, and - while playing / investigating - I
tried changing my user password. I was interested to notice that this,
rather than root's password was then the one required by 'sudo...'.
I suppose I'd sort of expected that 'sudo' would require the root
password, and that w
Alec Wright wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 21:16 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
>> Is there a page on the wiki / ubuntu main for links to these manufacturers?
>>
>> Regards,
> Do you mean of companies who sell pcs with ubuntu preinstalled? If so, I
> just started one: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/U
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 21:16 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
> Is there a page on the wiki / ubuntu main for links to these manufacturers?
>
> Regards,
Do you mean of companies who sell pcs with ubuntu preinstalled? If so, I
just started one: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/UbuntuPreinstalled
--
Alec
Is there a page on the wiki / ubuntu main for links to these manufacturers?
Regards,
On 21/10/2007, Daniel Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Maybe someone should actually mention esys are making the pcs and laptops:
>
> http://www.esysglobal.com/contents/products/epc-with-linux.html#lapto
oh wow, that oem-install thing is a fantastic idea.
On 21/10/2007, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 20/10/2007, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ian Pascoe wrote:
> > > Hey, I like this more and more!
> > >
> > > Just so that I've got it straight in my mind
> > >
> > >
Hey Mark,
Nice idea, I think it works well. However I think you need to
highlight the free aspect of Ubuntu more.
Also try and keep to one type of user, I got a bit confused reading
'user', 'home user', 'web user'. maybe just repace user with 'people',
sounds less formal.
Apart from that, love i
Dougie Richardson wrote:
> 1. How would the cost of travel be covered? I'm all for volunteering
> but not if it starts to cost my significantly in expenses.
>
Well, I have to say, I'd considered that this wasn't really us doing
anything new beyond what we're already doing... More us realising
Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 19:53 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
>> London, 21st October 2007
>>
>> The UK Ubuntu community is pleased to announce that, effective
>> from 1st November, it will be offering free technical support to
>> users of selected Tescos PC, at centres
Hi Kris,
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:49 +0100, Kris Marsh wrote:
> 1) Ensure ASDA is in the press release too
> [http://www.asda-electricals.co.uk/shop/product/esys/linux.html]
Good plan.
> 2) Suggest we also point users to the forum and IRC, if they're not
> interested in face-to-face.
Well, we
On 10/21/07, Kris Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IMPORTANT NOTE I am acting like a typical "PR Flack" in this. As
> > far as I'm aware, NONE of the quotes I've made up for Alan have actually
> > been said... Normal practice with PR
Hi Alan,
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:35 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> There is nothing that says "we" have to do site visits at all. "Free"
> support could be via the traditional methods such as forums, irc and
> mailing list.
>
> If you built a relationship with a customer and said you would like to
>
On 10/21/07, Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMPORTANT NOTE I am acting like a typical "PR Flack" in this. As
> far as I'm aware, NONE of the quotes I've made up for Alan have actually
> been said... Normal practice with PR stuff is for the PR flack to make
> them up, then ask the p
On 10/21/07, Josh Blacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/20/07, David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > That's interesting. On my X31 (great laptop) the Fn-F5 combo does
> > >
> > > nothing, I have read that it should operate the bluetooth adapter - I
> > > have to switch it manually if i
Hi Dougie,
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:24 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> I agree with this, although I'm not aware of the distribution of members
> of the group, if this was to prove popular then there are two problems:
>
> 1. How would the cost of travel be covered? I'm all for volunteering
> b
Hi Chris,
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:02 +0100, Chris Oattes wrote:
> I would be concerned that people may think of this as some sort of
> "contract", and that we would have to support them no matter what. We
> would have to have some people who can guarantee that they can travel to
> visit people
Mark Harrison wrote:
> The UK Ubuntu community is pleased to announce that, effective from 1st
> November, it will be offering free technical support to users of
> selected Tescos PC, at centres up and down the country.
Mark >>> Great press release - and exactly the right tone.
One small poin
Hi Mark,
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 19:53 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> London, 21st October 2007
>
> The UK Ubuntu community is pleased to announce that, effective from 1st
> November, it will be offering free technical support to users of
> selected Tescos PC, at centres up and down the country.
>
Hi all,
> I would be concerned that people may think of this as some sort of
> "contract", and that we would have to support them no matter what. We
> would have to have some people who can guarantee that they can travel to
> visit people to support them etc. - The time constraints may be too m
Mark Harrison said the following on 21/10/07 19:53:
> IMPORTANT NOTE I am acting like a typical "PR Flack" in this. As
> far as I'm aware, NONE of the quotes I've made up for Alan have actually
> been said... Normal practice with PR stuff is for the PR flack to make
> them up, then ask the
> I thought the article was excellent.
I agree, I couldn't do it. I am not creative but I can, if required, do
a reasonable editing job.
> I did notice one small spelling
> mistake, I wouldn't mention it but for the reason for writing the
> article. "Ancestory" should read "ancestry". Sorry
IMPORTANT NOTE I am acting like a typical "PR Flack" in this. As
far as I'm aware, NONE of the quotes I've made up for Alan have actually
been said... Normal practice with PR stuff is for the PR flack to make
them up, then ask the person being quoted if that's OK :-)
ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE
Interested? Well, here are some of those other reasons. Firstly,
because
of Linux?s ancestory it is considerably more secure than Microsoft?s
Window
I thought the article was excellent. I did notice one small spelling
mistake, I wouldn't mention it but for the reason for writing the
articl
On 21/10/2007, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Following on from Chris's post last week, I decided to have a bash at
> writing one myself. Nothing wrong with Chris's, but I wanted to put a
> slightly different spin on it.
No problem at all mate. It's my intention to encourage people to wr
Yo Ian, nice article, my notes are in the quote:
>
> An Alternative to Windows?
> By Ian Pascoe, Ubuntu UK Loco Team Member
Does anyone outside of us lot know what Loco means? Hows about
something like Ubuntu UK representative or something
>
> Anyone reading this article will more than likely h
i have a laptop using the
sis 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display adapter
when it boots i get all these white lines and then the screen goes dark
i've tried vga=normal
and set vga=xxx various ones
also tried video=sisfb:mode:800x600x24,mem:65536,rate:70 in grub
and video=sisfb:mode=800x600x24,mem:65536,
Hi Keith,
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 13:44 +0100, Keith Cleaver wrote:
> >
> You could think about maybe pointing people in the direction of the list
> of LUGs on the UKLUG site (http://www.lug.org.uk/lugs/all.php) when you
> mention them, as that will allow people to find their local LUG easily.
>
Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Following on from Chris's post last week, I decided to have a bash at
> writing one myself. Nothing wrong with Chris's, but I wanted to put a
> slightly different spin on it. Copy follows:
>
>
>
> An Alternative to Windows?
> By Ian P
Following on from Chris's post last week, I decided to have a bash at
writing one myself. Nothing wrong with Chris's, but I wanted to put a
slightly different spin on it. Copy follows:
An Alternative to Windows?
By Ian Pascoe, Ubuntu UK Loco Team Member
Hmmm maybe it does matter, maybe its gnome anyone else had problems?
Cheers,
Daniel
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Holloway
Sent: 21 October 2007 12:34
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy,evolution problems
AMD
AMD 3800x2 2GB... more than enough to run an email client :) For what
its worth though, i am running in KDE... not that that should make a
difference.
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 12:30 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Yeah using pop3 so no real reasons for it being slow, what specs are your
> machine?
>
>
Yeah using pop3 so no real reasons for it being slow, what specs are your
machine?
Regards,
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Holloway
Sent: 21 October 2007 12:24
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy,evolutio
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 11:38 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Ok, then its almost freezing going into the address book which is weird.
>
> Anyone with any ideas?
>
> Daniel
>
Are you using evolution-exchange? I know there are problems with that...
waiting ten minutes for something to happen. Unfortun
Maybe someone should actually mention esys are making the pcs and laptops:
http://www.esysglobal.com/contents/products/epc-with-linux.html#laptop
http://www.esysglobal.com/contents/products/epc-with-linux.html
These are selling in Tesco, Asda and PC World, or at least the brand is,
don't k
On 20/10/2007, David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi, I've just noticed whilst looking at the mailing list site and viewing
> this months emails sorted by thread, that emails sent by me aren't threading
> under the message I'm replying to.
>
> Can anybody help me with this? I'm using gmail
On 20/10/2007, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ian Pascoe wrote:
> > Hey, I like this more and more!
> >
> > Just so that I've got it straight in my mind
> >
> > A. Install Ubuntu on computer
> > B. Set up computer with various apps and configs as required
> > C. Issue appropriate
http://direct.tesco.com/search/default.aspx?search=esys&confirm.x=0&confirm.y=0
It seems that Tesco has started selling Ubuntu machines, at a respectable
price. Maybe something like this should be mentioned somewhere, it's as good
as dell doing the same thing..
--
Kris Douglas
Softdel Limi
Ok, then its almost freezing going into the address book which is weird.
Anyone with any ideas?
Daniel
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Morley
Sent: 21 October 2007 11:10
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy,evolutio
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 01:29 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone else having problems with the speed of evolution on Gutsy?
>
> I have checked, it is not the most up to date version,
>
> I have just managed to get my parents converted to ubuntu and would love
> this to work.
>
> Reg
On 10/20/07, David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's interesting. On my X31 (great laptop) the Fn-F5 combo does
> >
> > nothing, I have read that it should operate the bluetooth adapter - I
> > have to switch it manually if it should get turned off by accident. I
> > don't have the stand
Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Sunday 21 October 2007 07:59:17 Stephen Garton wrote:
>
> Same here too, think it's got something to do with still having
>
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main
> multiverse universe
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-pro
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 09:39 +0100, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Sunday 21 October 2007 07:59:17 Stephen Garton wrote:
> > Morning All,
> >
> > Woke up this morning to have my laptop I needed to download ~133mb of
> > updates. This seems a lot for 3 days after release! Any one know if
> > there has been
On Sunday 21 October 2007 07:59:17 Stephen Garton wrote:
> Morning All,
>
> Woke up this morning to have my laptop I needed to download ~133mb of
> updates. This seems a lot for 3 days after release! Any one know if
> there has been a muck-up somewhere, or have I dropped unlucky and have
> all the
It seems to me that the days of wireless cards not working on Linux are
becoming a distant memory...after months of using a BT Voyager 1020 PCMCIA
card in my laptop, with Gutsy the onboard wireless has suddenly clicked into
gear and is now working fine.
Sean
--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
https://
Morning All,
Woke up this morning to have my laptop I needed to download ~133mb of
updates. This seems a lot for 3 days after release! Any one know if
there has been a muck-up somewhere, or have I dropped unlucky and have
all the packages that need updates ;)?
--
Steve Garton
www.sheepeatingtaz.c
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