On 27/08/2008, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> There, the girls were encouraged to sit at the
> keyboard and, those that did, soon realised that nothing drastic or
> terminal was going to happen.
>
> This was about 25 years ago and bears no comparison with schools today
> but I won
Many years ago, when my wife was a teacher of modern foreign languages
and schools had very few computers, the question of girls versus boys in
the use of computers was often discussed at some length. As a
generalisation, it was very obvious that boys were very keen to get
there hands on the few ma
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:48:47PM +0100, Scrase, Eddie wrote:
> While Pidgin is a good IM client, it fails #2 above. aMSN tries to be
> clone of Messenger, but it still has some way to go. I use Messenger to
> talk to my two teenagers. A while ago I tried aMSN, but quickly went
> back to Messen
Seb Ward wrote:
> Are you sure Ubuntu was on it? Because their website says its shipped with
> XP.
Very sure, yes. I checked again today with a different staff member,
and had used it previously in store myself.
The reason I talked to the manager yesterday was because the (ubuntu)
webbook wou
Jai Harrison wrote:
> What we really need is a multiplatform messaging protocol + client to
> cut into the Microsoft instant messaging market - the younger
> generation of Microsoft Windows users.
Alan cocks wrote:
> Isn't that what Pidgin is for or have I misunderstood?
>From my experience of
Just for the record, I'm a 28 year woman (my username is BinaryDigit on the
forums) and a HUGE tech geek. I've always been interested in computers,
electronics, linux, and hardware. I think it's just something that you are
born with...being technically inclined. I know only 2 girls from college
(
>> In Bracknell, the Carphone Warehouse Webbook (Elonex) with
>> preinstalled Ubuntu which is included in one of CPW's deals is in such
>> extraordinary demand that the recent display item in CPW Bracknell
>> Princess Square shopping mall was stolen last week by desperate people
>> using *bolt cutt
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:44:40PM +0100, alan c wrote:
> In Bracknell, the Carphone Warehouse Webbook (Elonex) with
> preinstalled Ubuntu which is included in one of CPW's deals is in such
> extraordinary demand that the recent display item in CPW Bracknell
> Princess Square shopping mall was stol
It does say that on the website but when I've had a peek inside my local
CPW, the model they had on display was definitely running Linux.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Seb Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you sure Ubuntu was on it? Because their website says its shipped with
> XP.
>
>
>
2008/8/7 London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
> techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
> Out of interest, as a middle-aged woman- I rarely see any other female
> names on the forum- but I really like
Are you sure Ubuntu was on it? Because their website says its shipped with
XP.
> - Original Message -
> From: alan c
> Sent: 27/08/08 11:35 am
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - withBolt
> Cutters!
>
> Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jai Harrison wrote:
>
>> What we really need is a multiplatform messaging protocol + client to
>> cut into the Microsoft instant messaging market - the younger
>> generation of Microsoft Windows users.
>
> Isn't that what Pidgin
Jai Harrison wrote:
> What we really need is a multiplatform messaging protocol + client to
> cut into the Microsoft instant messaging market - the younger
> generation of Microsoft Windows users.
Isn't that what Pidgin is for or have I misunderstood?
--
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
Linux user
Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
> In message of 26 Aug, "Ian Pascoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Remarkable! Presume the miscreants were from the local Vista Users
>> Sanitorium?
>
> I am surprised that this local, for I too am local to Bracknell,
> sensation was not made into banner headlines in the
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've tried to convert girls before but the problem is they're focused
>> on things like Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger" and social use of
>> their operatin
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've tried to convert girls before but the problem is they're focused
> on things like Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger" and social use of
> their operating system. Whilst this can (and is) done with GNU/Linux
>
Hey,
I've tried to convert girls before but the problem is they're focused
on things like Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger" and social use of
their operating system. Whilst this can (and is) done with GNU/Linux
they don't have Windows Live Messenger. No, it does not run in Wine
(http://appdb.wi
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