Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any LEGO MINDSTORM NXT users here?

2008-03-28 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 02:40 +, Ronnie Tucker wrote: > One file is in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and the other is in > /etc/security/console.perms.d (I had to create the console.perms.d > folder myself) > > The two files were taken from: > http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/doc/index.html > (bottom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any LEGO MINDSTORM NXT users here?

2008-03-28 Thread Ronnie Tucker
James Westby wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 00:34 +, Ronnie Tucker wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just got me a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit from eBay (£130, good price I >> thought) but I'll be damned if I can get my Kubuntu Gutsy to recognise >> the NXT brick via USB. >> >> I've followed the instr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any LEGO MINDSTORM NXT users here?

2008-03-28 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 00:34 +, Ronnie Tucker wrote: > Hi all, > > Just got me a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit from eBay (£130, good price I > thought) but I'll be damned if I can get my Kubuntu Gutsy to recognise > the NXT brick via USB. > > I've followed the instructions from the NXC site to put

[ubuntu-uk] Any LEGO MINDSTORM NXT users here?

2008-03-28 Thread Ronnie Tucker
Hi all, Just got me a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit from eBay (£130, good price I thought) but I'll be damned if I can get my Kubuntu Gutsy to recognise the NXT brick via USB. I've followed the instructions from the NXC site to put a rules and perm file onto my PC but when I plug the brick (switched

Re: [ubuntu-uk] adding a guest user

2008-03-28 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah you can't have uppercase characters in username. By the way Stephen I could not find your key to verify signature. Have you published it to a key server? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH7X40IfDtEE/1weQRA

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Steve Cook
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:48 +, London School of Puppetry wrote: > Hi there Craig, I think Richmond School in North Yorkshire witched > completely to Open Source. There was also stuff said in Parliament > about the benefits of OS too - you might have to have a hunt for the > info. I'd heard th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread London School of Puppetry
On 25/03/2008, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have been an Ubuntu user for not very long (since around > October) and > have been amazed at the stability, compatibility and usability amongst > many other things. I think it really shows what a community can do if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 5-a-day

2008-03-28 Thread Matt Daubney
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:30:29PM +, James Westby wrote: > Hi, > > You might have already heard about 5-a-day. It's the effort to > get more people triaging and working on bugs. The idea is that > everyone tries to work on a small number of bugs a day. > No I haven't! But I would like to get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] adding a guest user

2008-03-28 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 London School of Puppetry wrote: | I used the word Guest for the | name then Guests as the password. When I tried to do that in my Gutsy setup I got a message saying that the username needed to consist of lower case letters. Maybe you could just try

[ubuntu-uk] adding a guest user

2008-03-28 Thread London School of Puppetry
Can someone help. I am trying to open a guest account. I went into Users and Groups, clicked on add New User, filled in the form that popped up, then pressed okand nothing happened. I used the word Guest for the name then Guests as the password. Caroline -- --- London School of Puppetry www

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Rob Beard
Dianne Reuby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:19 +, Stephen O'Neill wrote: > >> I hear that a number of network admins are teachers that fell into the >> role part time through a coincidence of knowing how to use a computer, >> not because of their being specialists. I imagine that it's only

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Rob Beard
Stephen O'Neill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Iain Lane wrote: > | How odd. A school wouldn't expect to hire a teacher who couldn't teach, > | so why would it hire a network admin who can't run the software on its > | machines? If this is happening, then there is a p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Rob Beard
Iain Lane wrote: > Stephen O'Neill wrote: >> Dianne Reuby wrote: >> | So we need to emphasis the availability of paid support from Canonical >> | when "selling" to customers such as schools and small businesses. >> >> >> Good point. If someone walked into a job managing an Ubuntu network with >> on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Rob Beard
Alistair Crust wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 21:30 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: >> Skegness Grammar use Linux - you can find their IT department case study >> of the advantages here: >> http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Skegness_Grammar >> > and their contact details bellow, If you have any

[ubuntu-uk] 5-a-day

2008-03-28 Thread James Westby
Hi, You might have already heard about 5-a-day. It's the effort to get more people triaging and working on bugs. The idea is that everyone tries to work on a small number of bugs a day. You don't need to fix the bug, you don't even have to understand what is going on, for instance the first line

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Domains

2008-03-28 Thread Dave Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shouldn't the planet one point to the, well, planet? I would be > willing to take it and point it there. > > MJ With or without adding google adsense? :) Kind Regards, Dave Walker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk ht

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Domains

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Mellors
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shouldn't the planet one point to the, well, planet? I would be > willing to take it and point it there. > > MJ > > Quoting Paul Mellors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Any body want > > > > planetubuntu.org - Expiry 04-08-08 > > ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Domains

2008-03-28 Thread matt
Shouldn't the planet one point to the, well, planet? I would be willing to take it and point it there. MJ Quoting Paul Mellors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any body want > > planetubuntu.org - Expiry 04-08-08 > ubuntu-men.org - Expiry 27-04-09 > > > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https:

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Domains

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Mellors
Any body want planetubuntu.org - Expiry 04-08-08 ubuntu-men.org - Expiry 27-04-09 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good printed reference books for FOSS applications?

2008-03-28 Thread norman
> > Any more? In particular I'm after a good GIMP manual. > > -- > Andrew Oakley > > > http://meetthegimp.org/ is a pretty good GIMP videocast explaining > about all the functions and how to do things. > I am learning a lot from it. I agree with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Dianne Reuby
My daughter's college started using Moodle in an emergency, when a tutors work permit expired and she had teach them from Paris! Dianne On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 07:57 +, Craig wrote: > As far as I know, we haven't even bothered with Moodle. I'm still > trying > to remember the name of the VLE th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I spamming the mailing list replying separately or do you want me to > put it all in one email? Tell me if I am... In my opinion, what you're doing is fine. It's better to answer emails in context. My only suggestion is to c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Craig
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:11 +, Matt Jones wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > The final thing I can think of is Moodle (which is included with > > Karoshi) which is a complete Virtual Learning Environment. It's free > > and runs on Ubuntu and most other flavours of Linux. I've had a bit of > >