[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename “evan”

2008-11-09 Thread Alan Pope
FYI: See below. If you have any marketing materials, please consider uploading it to the new spread ubuntu site. Cheers, Al. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rubén Romero y Cordero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/10 Subject: Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename "evan" To: "U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

2008-11-09 Thread Ted
alan c wrote: > Ted wrote: > >> I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error >> when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and >> that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the usb port should >> other distros boot from it ? >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

2008-11-09 Thread alan c
Ted wrote: > I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error > when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and > that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the usb port should > other distros boot from it ? I guess you are using the 8.10 ve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/11/8 alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> It seems that some problems are associated with xorg and its (now) >> lack of visible configuration. I could usually stumble in the right >> direction when xorg.conf was meaningful, even using vi, but I am >> quite lost in the current sit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread alan c
Lucy wrote: > On 08/11/2008, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> one of the elderly people I help with ubuntu/Kubuntu (aged 85) did on one >> occasion click the Version upgrade innocently going from LTS 6.06 to >> the next version, and there were a few problems - which I later caught >

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] eee 901 with ubuntu - issue

2008-11-09 Thread Michael G Fletcher
Hi Guys, I picked up an eee 901 last Monday. I charged it and immediately installed Ubuntu and adamm's kernel from array.org. Everything works brilliant! However, I appear to be having an issue with the sensor from the lid. it appears to think that it opens and closes randomly. see an image here

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 8 Nov, "gav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +, Bruce Beardall wrote: > > I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't > > really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4 > > but I think this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] editing gnome keyring access

2008-11-09 Thread mac
Tony Arnold wrote: > Go to Applications->Accessories->Passwords and Encryption Keys > Select the tab Passwords and then right click on the password and select > properties. There's an Applications tab there. Tony >>> Thanks very much! (Easy when you know where to look; not at all obvious if y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread John Atkinson
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Pascoe Sent: 09 November 2008 12:58 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster I think we've actually got three different types of user to accommodate. T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread Robin Menneer
2008/11/9 Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think we've actually got three different types of user to accommodate. > > Those who will upgrade pre release, those who will upgrade at the release > date, and those who will upgrade a period of time into the release. > > The first type are normally do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] editing gnome keyring access

2008-11-09 Thread Tony Arnold
Mac, mac wrote: > I mistakenly allowed nm-editor automatic access to the gnome keyring. I > can't find out how to edit the keyring settings to revoke that decision. > I'm using Hardy, so the gui is seahorse, and there's no obvious way of > changing program access permissions. > > Any sugges

Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

2008-11-09 Thread Ted
Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Andrew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ted wrote: >> >>> I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error >>> when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and >>> that boots ok..My

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire

2008-11-09 Thread keith
Further to my previous posts on this subject I have now installed Ubuntu eee on my Acer and it seems to have gone completely without hitch. I got online immediately and networked with my other machines with a single mouse click. Despite the disparaging remarks about the Acer Aspire made by Coli

[ubuntu-uk] editing gnome keyring access

2008-11-09 Thread mac
I mistakenly allowed nm-editor automatic access to the gnome keyring. I can't find out how to edit the keyring settings to revoke that decision. I'm using Hardy, so the gui is seahorse, and there's no obvious way of changing program access permissions. Any suggestions? TIA Mac -- ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread Ian Pascoe
I think we've actually got three different types of user to accommodate. Those who will upgrade pre release, those who will upgrade at the release date, and those who will upgrade a period of time into the release. The first type are normally done by those who have a bit of savvy in dealing with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

2008-11-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Andrew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted wrote: >> I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error >> when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and >> that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the us

Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

2008-11-09 Thread Andrew Jenkins
Ted wrote: > I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error > when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and > that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the usb port should > other distros boot from it ? > > > Regards >Ted Wager

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread steve
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 18:06 +, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/11/8 Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sean Miller wrote: > > > We now seem to have a relatively stable system for him, but I've told > >> him to leave NVDIA graphics out for the time being. That REALLY > >> screws everything. > >> > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread Lucy
On 08/11/2008, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > one of the elderly people I help with ubuntu/Kubuntu (aged 85) did on one > occasion click the Version upgrade innocently going from LTS 6.06 to > the next version, and there were a few problems - which I later caught > up with ok, but i

[ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

2008-11-09 Thread Ted
I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the usb port should other distros boot from it ? Regards Ted Wager High Peak UK -- u