Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread Rob Beard
James Grabham wrote: > Haha, the cheapest one on there was the same spec as my main PC!! > > And 1.4GHz would probs do btw... > > Oh, and the board has to be mATX to fit the case. =[ How about this board at £28.28 from eBuyer.com http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126138 This CPU at £21.99 also f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread Rob Beard
James Grabham wrote: > Righty ho > > With my recent offer of a 17-inch monitor which runs at 1400 x 800 for > free from a mate, I decided Its finally time to cough up some dough, and > build that multimedia PC that Ive wanted to build for ages. > > I found a great desktop case for 24 pounds. A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread Tom Bamford
On 25/02/2008, Joshua Scotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 19:23 +, Andrew Barber wrote: > > Does sage maybe work with wine? > > Probably, but do you really want to trust your financial data to what > would be an emulated (hence buggy, as most wine emulated programs do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:54 PM, James Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WOW > > Small desktop case (inc PSU) > AM2 motherboard (Nforce, with geforce 6100 (Which I know is a great setup) > Sempron - 2Ghz > 512MB RAM > inc del and vat > > 85 quidish > > I maight wait a few weeks and do this, ess

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread James Grabham
WOW Small desktop case (inc PSU) AM2 motherboard (Nforce, with geforce 6100 (Which I know is a great setup) Sempron - 2Ghz 512MB RAM inc del and vat 85 quidish I maight wait a few weeks and do this, esspecially since then when I upgrade my main pc, I can shove my Athlon X2 in this Thanks!!!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:25 PM, James Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haha, the cheapest one on there was the same spec as my main PC!! > > And 1.4GHz would probs do btw... > > Oh, and the board has to be mATX to fit the case. =[ > > > On 2/25/08, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread James Tait
Hi Joshua, Joshua Scotton wrote: > I'm sorry to say that GNUCash is nowhere near an alternative to Sage. > It is a very good program and can be used for personal or sole trader > accounts, but it hasn't been any good for my needs when preparing UK > Limited Company Accounts. > As I haven't found

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread James Grabham
Haha, the cheapest one on there was the same spec as my main PC!! And 1.4GHz would probs do btw... Oh, and the board has to be mATX to fit the case. =[ On 2/25/08, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:08:49PM -0800, James Grabham wrote: > > I was thinking 1.8GHz wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread Joshua Scotton
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 19:23 +, Andrew Barber wrote: > Does sage maybe work with wine? Probably, but do you really want to trust your financial data to what would be an emulated (hence buggy, as most wine emulated programs do not work perfectly) and completely unsupported and non-guaranteed pro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:08:49PM -0800, James Grabham wrote: > I was thinking 1.8GHz with 512MB RAM and geforce 5ish... > Any Ideas. > > Ebays the obvious option, but anywhere else? Novatech have some bundle deals but they're out of your price range. http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/bundles.

[ubuntu-uk] Half decent Motherboard (With on-board graphics, if not Id need a card included in this), RAM and CPU for 50 quidish?

2008-02-25 Thread James Grabham
Righty ho With my recent offer of a 17-inch monitor which runs at 1400 x 800 for free from a mate, I decided Its finally time to cough up some dough, and build that multimedia PC that Ive wanted to build for ages. I found a great desktop case for 24 pounds. Awesome. Ill order it on the 1st (whe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Barber
Does sage maybe work with wine? --- Andrew A. Barber On 25 Feb 2008, at 16:31, Joshua Scotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:09 +, David wrote: >> GNU Cash might be what you're looking for: http://www.gnucash.org/ >> >> I haven't personally used it so I can't comment

[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu Hardy swirly wallpaper - wow!

2008-02-25 Thread alan c
I really like the Hardy (alpha 5) Kubuntu curly swirly wallpaper. 6.06 (misty bubbles) was not bad, it had a level of subtlety and mystery which I appreciated, but since then I have been a bit unhappy with the un inspired defaults - which live CD users get. This Kubuntu alpha 5 has what looks l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread Rob Beard
andy wrote: > They are proprietary, but... > > - From their site: > > Business model > > When we say free we mean free. The only thing that will cost you money > is dialling our voice conferencing service, but even that is cheap (its > 90% cheaper than BT over the UK for example). We have some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stage6 shutting down!!!

2008-02-25 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Russell Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sad news, I was sorta expecting for them to be shutdown soon anyway because > of the content on it. > > Russell > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread norman
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:59 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Norman you mean turbocash, which has now got a much nicer looking port > called osfinancials, however neither run on linux(not even in wine) > although they are opensource, I have spent many hours searching for an > alternative to sage

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread daniel . lamb
Norman you mean turbocash, which has now got a much nicer looking port called osfinancials, however neither run on linux(not even in wine) although they are opensource, I have spent many hours searching for an alternative to sage and have never found anything suitable, the best I have found is osfi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stage6 shutting down!!!

2008-02-25 Thread Russell Green
Sad news, I was sorta expecting for them to be shutdown soon anyway because of the content on it. Russell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread norman
> l'm interested to know whether there is a Linux alternative to Sage.. l > might be able to get my wife to start using Ubuntu if there's something > available that will allow her to import customers data properly. I asked this question when I first started Ubuntu what now seems years ago. So f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread Joshua Scotton
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:09 +, David wrote: > GNU Cash might be what you're looking for: http://www.gnucash.org/ > > I haven't personally used it so I can't comment on it, sorry. > > David. > > On 25/02/2008, Andy Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi People > > l'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stage6 shutting down!!!

2008-02-25 Thread Mark Fraser
On Monday 25 February 2008 15:28:32 Javad Ayaz wrote: > http://www.stage6.com/ > > Im devastated!!! :( So am I now, I hadn't heard about that site until you just told me :( -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread andy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Quoting andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I just thought I'd give a heads up on Remote Desktop. A >> Manchester-based company are going to release their remote desktop >> connection software on ubuntu. It's already got mac and window

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:42:38PM +, andy wrote: > > www.yuuguu.com > Looks like you can pick apart the windows version, grab the java jar file and run it under linux already.. http://www.yuuguu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=259 Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just thought I'd give a heads up on Remote Desktop. A > Manchester-based company are going to release their remote desktop > connection software on ubuntu. It's already got mac and windows clients > in BETA - and they're currently working on the installer fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread andy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:22:42PM +, andy wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Guys, >> >> I just thought I'd give a heads up on Remote Desktop. A >> Manchester-based company are going to release the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:22:42PM +, andy wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Guys, > > I just thought I'd give a heads up on Remote Desktop. A > Manchester-based company are going to release their remote desktop > connection software on ubuntu. It's already got ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread Javad Ayaz
something that will work from a browser without having to install anything (im at work!!dont want the man to find out :) )will be nice Regards Javad On 25/02/2008, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Guys, > > I just thought I'd give a he

[ubuntu-uk] Stage6 shutting down!!!

2008-02-25 Thread Javad Ayaz
http://www.stage6.com/ Im devastated!!! :( -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Remote Desktop Sharing

2008-02-25 Thread andy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys, I just thought I'd give a heads up on Remote Desktop. A Manchester-based company are going to release their remote desktop connection software on ubuntu. It's already got mac and windows clients in BETA - and they're currently working on the i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Freedom Day 2008

2008-02-25 Thread andy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Mellors wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ciaran Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "British Ubuntu Talk" > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:48 PM > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Freedom Day 2008 > > > Hi, > > I'll organise

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Oakley
Andy Watts wrote: > Chris Rowson wrote: > l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with > Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon > and rebooting with either of the 2 hard drives powered. Sadly it doesn't > seem to work so l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread David
Oh, I also meant to say GNU Cash is available in the Ubuntu repositories, along with another money program called Grisbi. You can find them both in Add/Remove. David. On 25/02/2008, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GNU Cash might be what you're looking for: http://www.gnucash.org/ > > I haven

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread David
GNU Cash might be what you're looking for: http://www.gnucash.org/ I haven't personally used it so I can't comment on it, sorry. David. On 25/02/2008, Andy Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi People > > l'm interested to know whether there is a Linux alternative to Sage.. l > might be able t

[ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?

2008-02-25 Thread Andy Watts
Hi People l'm interested to know whether there is a Linux alternative to Sage.. l might be able to get my wife to start using Ubuntu if there's something available that will allow her to import customers data properly. __ Andy - Salisbury The wrong side of 40 but having fun with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives

2008-02-25 Thread Andy Watts
Chris Rowson wrote: Hi people l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before.. l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon and rebooting with either of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: (Nanny) OGG Files

2008-02-25 Thread Andy
On 23/02/2008, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to try > and find a plug in for eithre Windows Media or REAL that will play (Nanny) > OGG audio files - anyone know of any and where to get them? Try: http://vorbis.com/ Windows setup details: http://vorbis.com/setup_windows/ WMP use