On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Jeff Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> PS Upon raising this issue on Ubuntu Users list recently, I was amazed
> to see how many dozens of highly-charged comments there were on the
> subject. Only to be lampooned for raising the subject, I see today
> someone post
Jeff Fisher wrote:
> Lack of comment equals lack of influence - the consequence of which is chaos!
and forgot to include:
PS Upon raising this issue on Ubuntu Users list recently, I was amazed
to see how many dozens of highly-charged comments there were on the
subject. Only to be lampooned for
W. Canis wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>
> Thanks for the link. One is never finished with learning.
> But you are shooting with cannon on sparrows.
>
> Have fun,
Communication requires that all parties understand a common language
that is exchanged. It is not a point
my question was quite similiar to what the posters idea was!
i guess for people who dont have a wifi...or a laptop...a bluetooth
connection with something like this could benefit them. e.g using in the
garden or anywhere in the house where your pc isnt in the room and yu can
quickly check your
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:48:16PM +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
> ... You wouldn't gain anything from using such a system, if there was
> one. There is specialised hardware etc that already does things like
> that (see a cheap tesco's cordless phone, or a PDA from any fairly
> large shop like PC Worl
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:33:22PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> Thoughts?
I think what's being asked there, is as you can use a mobile phone as a data
connection for a computer, via bluetooth, can you reverse the process and use
a computer as a data connection for a phone.
Perhaps with some special
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Javad Ayaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had this crazy thought about my phone, ubuntu and bluetooth!! so i did a
> search and found the thread below/:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=364642
>
> I just wanted to bring this to everyones att
Hi all,
I had this crazy thought about my phone, ubuntu and bluetooth!! so i did a
search and found the thread below/:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=364642
I just wanted to bring this to everyones attention.
Thoughts?
Regards
Javad
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Alan Pope wrote:
> As you've probably figured out from Godwins Law wiki page, as soon as
> you start talking about WW2/Nazis you lose the argument.
Quote from the FAQ:
Godwin's Law FAQ
-or-
"How to post about Nazis and get
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 17:16 +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:08 +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
> >> leads, is, I think, known. Ignorance starts always in small steps and
> >> after a while you have a really worse situation. The worst example is
> >> surely WW2.
>
Alan Pope wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:08 +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
>> leads, is, I think, known. Ignorance starts always in small steps and
>> after a while you have a really worse situation. The worst example is
>> surely WW2.
Alan please, do you don't think that the quote is
now a little bi
James Dalley wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I know there was talk about a monthly info email of how to post, so here is
> my bug bear:
> Top Posting, I know it's sad about arguing how to argue or the like, but when
> people top post it's like saying hear me first
> then see whats gone on before. May be sad
We don't want to rule this list with an iron fist, so could everyone
bear this in mind:-
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette
Thanks,
Al.
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Look guys
The only thing I want to see in my inbox is constructive debates
I don't want to see whinging I didn't subscribe to this!!!
John
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James Dalley wrote:
Hiya,
I know there was talk about a monthly info email of how to post, so
here is my bug bear:
Top Posting, I know it's sad about arguing how to argue or the like,
but when people top post it's like saying hear me first
then see whats gone on before. May
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:08 +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:
> leads, is, I think, known. Ignorance starts always in small steps and
> after a while you have a really worse situation. The worst example is
> surely WW2.
Epic fail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Cheers,
Al.
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Alan Pope wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 00:44 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
>> I have to agree with you on that one. Maybe it's because new members
>> who come from the world of Windows/Outlook and it's top posting that
>> they just reply with their comments on the top. I've never understood
>> why
Hi,
I have a problem with modinfo, it can't seem to find the b43 kernel
module.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and kernel 2.6.24-16-generic and modinfo b43 fails
with:
$ modinfo b43
modinfo: could not open b43: No such device
However if I use the full path it works fine:
$ modinfo /lib/modules/`uname
Sean Miller wrote:
> [...]
> I have always tried to quote only the bare minimum that's required to
> put my comments in context and I have great difficulty understanding why
> others do not appear to feel it's sensible to do the same.
Hello, Sean.
I agree with you, but I also think it's importa
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Alan Pope wrote:
| http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/05/pointless-battles-for-geeks.html
I saw that from a LUG planet blog the other day... have to say that
sadly I'm very much inclined to agree.
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> as if in English at least that you read from the bottom up, more top to
> bottom so it's good to read the original message at the top and then
> read down to the reply :-)
Whilst top posting has to be the most irritating qu
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