Re: [ubuntu-uk] LOLKittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Matthew Larsen: >> Surely a LolCats style caption competition is needed? > > no. no it really isnt. :s > > Nonetheless, i can haz freedum? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Downgrading Ubuntu

2007-10-25 Thread Dave Walker
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 23:05 +0100, Tony Travis wrote: > Ian Pascoe wrote: > > All > > > > Having upgraded to Gutsy through Update Manager and established that a > > number of the ATSPI packages are somewhat flakey, I'd like to revert back to > > 7.04 until things stableise. > > > > Is this an ea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Downgrading Ubuntu

2007-10-25 Thread Tony Travis
Ian Pascoe wrote: > All > > Having upgraded to Gutsy through Update Manager and established that a > number of the ATSPI packages are somewhat flakey, I'd like to revert back to > 7.04 until things stableise. > > Is this an easy thing to do without doing a total re-install? Hello, Ian. I used t

[ubuntu-uk] Downgrading Ubuntu

2007-10-25 Thread Ian Pascoe
All Having upgraded to Gutsy through Update Manager and established that a number of the ATSPI packages are somewhat flakey, I'd like to revert back to 7.04 until things stableise. Is this an easy thing to do without doing a total re-install? E -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-25 Thread Ian Pascoe
Well, I'm with BT so there! OK, the download speed is not sparkling at 6.7Mb max, but that's more than enough for what I need. Billing's been a dream as well as reliability. Up until a fortnight ago, I'd have said that the Indian call centre was a downer due to the way they keep to scripts, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LOLKittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Matthew Larsen
> Surely a LolCats style caption competition is needed? no. no it really isnt. :s -- Matthew G Larsen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Beard
Peter Lewis wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007 at 15:37:51 Rob Beard wrote: >> The top one looks a lot like my kitten Guybrush*. >> >> * Bonus points if you can work out where the name is from. :-) > > Is he a pirate cat? > > http://www.localshed.com/images/PirateCat.jpg > > :-) > LOL thats a

[ubuntu-uk] LOLKittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Harrison
Surely a LolCats style caption competition is needed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcats (for those who have no idea what I'm talking about). So, your starter captions: I is not paying Microsoft Now We is Shuttleworths kittenz We is huntin that red rat wot you told us of M. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Eh still got the other 2, the plan would have been to keep all three, one got hit on the road, was a month ago yesterday I think. The top one is totally black now, very affectionate(they should be I fed them by hand, were given them at 4 weeks old and told any we didn't take would be killed), if y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 25 October 2007 at 15:37:51 Rob Beard wrote: > The top one looks a lot like my kitten Guybrush*. > > * Bonus points if you can work out where the name is from. :-) Is he a pirate cat? http://www.localshed.com/images/PirateCat.jpg :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Dave Morley
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 15:37 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Quoting Daniel Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > They were probably 6 weeks then, they are 20 weeks old now I think, one has > > died now though, was just looking through old phones and kind of saw a > > little resemblance, if anyone wants to pl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread gord
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 15:37 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Quoting Daniel Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > They were probably 6 weeks then, they are 20 weeks old now I think, one has > > died now though, was just looking through old phones and kind of saw a > > little resemblance, if anyone wants to pl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Daniel Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > They were probably 6 weeks then, they are 20 weeks old now I think, one has > died now though, was just looking through old phones and kind of saw a > little resemblance, if anyone wants to play with it please do. > > Regards, > Daniel > Aww poor thing.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Daniel Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lol well feel free, you can use it for whatever you like. > What link do you mean? > Daniel > I was thinking either www.ubuntu-uk.org or www.ubuntu.com That way anyone looking at it will most probably check out the url. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Tony Arnold
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:47 +0100, gord wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:18 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > > Well different colours would have been good, could spray paint them, > > lol. > > > > > > > > Daniel > > http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5428/ubuntuue4.jpg ;) That just looks weird!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Cool, a bit less dangerous than I had in mind. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gord Sent: 25 October 2007 14:47 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:18 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Wood
gord wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:18 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > >> Well different colours would have been good, could spray paint them, >> lol. >> >> >> >> Daniel >> > > http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5428/ubuntuue4.jpg ;) > you have too much time on your hands gord :p kitty

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Jim Kissel
Dave Morley wrote: > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? Thunderbird under ubuntu -- People choose Microsoft Windows for their PC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Kirrus
- "Daniel Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool, a bit less dangerous than I had in mind. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gord > Sent: 25 October 2007 14:47 > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Kirrus
- "Jim Kissel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Morley wrote: > > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the > release > > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > > pleasure. > > > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? > > Thunderbird

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
They were probably 6 weeks then, they are 20 weeks old now I think, one has died now though, was just looking through old phones and kind of saw a little resemblance, if anyone wants to play with it please do. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 25 October 2007 13:01, Dave Morley wrote: > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? KMail. Aside from being part of KDE, its t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread gord
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:18 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > Well different colours would have been good, could spray paint them, > lol. > > > > Daniel http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5428/ubuntuue4.jpg ;) -- gord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Lol well feel free, you can use it for whatever you like. What link do you mean? Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 25 October 2007 14:39 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose Qu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread norman
> I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? I use Evolution mainly because it was there when I changed to Ubuntu. The only thing that I wou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Daniel Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just realised my kittens are kind of doing the Ubuntu sign, maybe not > though, check it out http://www.openyourwindows.com/ubuntu.JPG. > > Daniel > Aww thats so cute. What we need is someone to put an Ubuntu logo (and link) on there, then we can e-ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Tansom
** Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-25 13:28]: > Hi Dave, > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:01 +0100, Dave Morley wrote: > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? > > This is clearly a Friday question :) > > Evolution when I am at home connecting via IMAP to my mail server in > telehouse.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Well different colours would have been good, could spray paint them, lol. Daniel _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Douglas Sent: 25 October 2007 14:07 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose On 25/10/2007, A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] motherboard q!

2007-10-25 Thread STONE COLD
thats great news...thank you very much for confirming this! > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:56:17 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] motherboard q!> > > Quoting STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> > > Hi,> >> > A technical question > really..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] motherboard q!

2007-10-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On 25/10/2007, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > A technical question really...My motherboard ( an ASUS > > ANM2HD)...will this be able to display all the desktop goodies with > > the builtin Nvidia chipset! > > > > I dont really want

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On 25/10/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:58 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > > Just realised my kittens are kind of doing the Ubuntu sign, maybe not > > though, check it out http://www.openyourwindows.com/ubuntu.JPG. > > > > 404 > > http://www.openyourwindows.co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Tony Arnold
Dave, On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:01 +0100, Dave Morley wrote: > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. I used Evolution when I first started using Ubuntu with Warty but then got frustrate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:58 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > Just realised my kittens are kind of doing the Ubuntu sign, maybe not > though, check it out http://www.openyourwindows.com/ubuntu.JPG. > 404 http://www.openyourwindows.com/ubuntu.jpg works though :) Cheers, Al. signature.asc Descripti

[ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubuntu pose

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Just realised my kittens are kind of doing the Ubuntu sign, maybe not though, check it out http://www.openyourwindows.com/ubuntu.JPG. Daniel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] motherboard q!

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > A technical question really...My motherboard ( an ASUS > ANM2HD)...will this be able to display all the desktop goodies with > the builtin Nvidia chipset! > > I dont really want to install a graphics card! > > Regards > Javad From what I un

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
I use evolution, think its brilliant, wish someone would do a decent port of it to windows(I know about markybobs one) so I can give it to clients as well. Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 25 October 2007 13:23 To: ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Harrison
Dave Morley wrote: > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? > I use Thunderbird, so I have a consistent "mail experience" whether I'm o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Dave, On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:01 +0100, Dave Morley wrote: > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? This is clearly a Friday question :) Evolution when I am at home connecting via IMAP to my mail server in telehouse. If I am away from home and don't have my laptop, or have no connectiv

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Dave Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? > -- > Seek That Thy Might Know > I generally use Thund

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:04 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > Why not use qemu? > USB support is somewhat lacking in QEMU compared to some other VM systems. Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? It's probably totally irrelevant but I use nail & vi. The one true path to idiosyncrasy :-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Keith Cleaver
Dave Morley wrote: > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? > I use Thunderbird, mainly because it's the default in Xubuntu, and also b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mono display in cshell konsole window etc..

2007-10-25 Thread Julie Hodgkinson
Hi D. yep I tried what u said, thanks this is the output from doing that: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Which I take to mean it's happy with what it's got already. J In me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Why not use qemu? Is the ipod touch not supported on gutsy? Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 25 October 2007 12:25 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy Hi Kris, On Thu, 2007-10-2

[ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Dave Morley
I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a pleasure. So I just wondered what everyone else uses? -- Seek That Thy Might Know signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mono display in cshell konsole window etc..

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
As long as you searched for it and found it using that it should automatically install all the dependencies. What I could suggest is open the terminal and type "sudo apt-get install -f" which will fix any dependency errors you are having. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Kris, On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:29 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > Sorry about that, I was looking to install Virtual Box on my machine, > but I need to know whether it supports usb devices *cough* ipod touch > *cough*. I believe the non-Free version of VirtualBox supports USB devices, yes. Cheers

[ubuntu-uk] motherboard q!

2007-10-25 Thread STONE COLD
Hi, A technical question really...My motherboard ( an ASUS ANM2HD)...will this be able to display all the desktop goodies with the builtin Nvidia chipset! I dont really want to install a graphics card! Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mono display in cshell konsole window etc..

2007-10-25 Thread Julie Hodgkinson
Hi I used the Synaptic package manger to find and install.. I'm new to all this debian stuff not sure if that is using apt-get or notdo you think that's where the problem lies? Jools In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> British Ubuntu Talk writes: > Did you try installing using apt-get? >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mono display in cshell konsole window etc..

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Lamb
Did you try installing using apt-get? Or just dpkg? Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julie Hodgkinson Sent: 25 October 2007 11:05 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] mono display in cshell konsole window etc.. Sor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Difference between Admin and Root?

2007-10-25 Thread Scrase, Eddie
Mark Harrison wrote: > > Tony Travis wrote: > > [...] The reason I mention all this is that it is > > important to remember that Linux is 'just' the kernel. Most of the tools > > and utilities that people use is Gnu software and this is why the FSF > > call it Gnu/Linux (Gnu software + Linux ke

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On 25/10/2007, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 25/10/2007, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Pete, > > > > > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:28 +0100, Pete Stean wrote: > > > yes I can report that Virtualbox is much improved, and faster than > > > VMware (at least on my m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On 25/10/2007, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pete, > > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:28 +0100, Pete Stean wrote: > > yes I can report that Virtualbox is much improved, and faster than > > VMware (at least on my machine) - this product is maturing nicely, so > > it might be time for a swit

[ubuntu-uk] mono display in cshell konsole window etc..

2007-10-25 Thread Julie Hodgkinson
Sorry guys, forgot to put a subject line, that's not gonna help me get advice is it :-)! So am reposting with appropriate subject line and orginal message below! Thanks again Jools In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> British Ubuntu Talk writes: > Hi all, > > Have just installed Kubuntu 7.10 "gutsy".

[ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2007-10-25 Thread Julie Hodgkinson
Hi all, Have just installed Kubuntu 7.10 "gutsy". New to kubuntu and not an expert but have done linux instally before. I want to use cshell, it's what I am used to and the scientific community in which I work always give instructions for cshrc scripts. I've installed all relevant libraries as far

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Tony Arnold
Pete, On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:28 +0100, Pete Stean wrote: > yes I can report that Virtualbox is much improved, and faster than > VMware (at least on my machine) - this product is maturing nicely, so > it might be time for a switch. Why not check it out and see what you > think... I rather like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Ubuntu-UK] Article on theregister.co.uk regarding gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Pete Stean
Well I wouldn't suggest OpenDNS - for one thing how can something that has to go more hops than using your ISP's DNS be faster? I've also found that with OpenDNS selected, I can no longer reach the Ubuntu package repos for one thing nice :\ Pete On 24/10/2007, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare on gutsy

2007-10-25 Thread Pete Stean
yes I can report that Virtualbox is much improved, and faster than VMware (at least on my machine) - this product is maturing nicely, so it might be time for a switch. Why not check it out and see what you think... Pete -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubun