Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why | it would be so? The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread James Grabham
Doneroony On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also signed here, lets hope it makes a difference. > > Signed > > > > Jai Harrison wrote: > >> Signed :) > >> > >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Sorry - left ou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Jason Liquorish
Also signed here, lets hope it makes a difference. > Signed > > Jai Harrison wrote: >> Signed :) >> >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Sorry - left out the URL! >>> >>> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Rimicans
Signed Jai Harrison wrote: Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. I've just inst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Jai Harrison
Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry - left out the URL! > > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@list

[ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Mac
Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] ODF petition

2008-04-05 Thread Mac
You may be interested in signing this petition for the National Archive to use ODF and not M$ OOXML as planned. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 6

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Midgley
Hello I need help with my DVD writer, I cannot burn any cd or dvd and I get an error stating could not determine resulting image file. The following is from the debugging output. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Paul System --- K3b Version: 1.0.4 KDE Version: 3.5.

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

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Ask the user/audience "What do you want to do with your computer? Give me a particular task/function that you wish to perform!". Some bright spark will shout out "Get it to make me a cup of tea" or "I wanna play Unreal Tournament" but once you get a serious answer you can usually impress. Someone