Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-13 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I already tried both and SWFdec doesn't even appear under Synaptic, which is what I meant when I said it had disappeared into the innards of the firefox configuration. Evidently, just like Alan said, I shall need some code, to find it from the terminal. On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 21:34 +, Rob Beard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Beard
On 13/03/2009 18:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube > videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two > plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them > can be disabled (though not uninstall

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Beard
On 13/03/2009 17:27, David King wrote: > The attraction of the netbook is the small size. The 1000H model would > be too big, the 904 would be a good size and with a hard disk would > provide plenty of storage that is missing on the SSD-based netbooks. > > David King > Fair enough. If I see an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-13 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox > Tools > Add-ons, namely Gnash 0.8

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Beard
On 13/03/2009 12:54, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Ubuntu 8.10 now up and running apparently normally. > Thank you, Michael Fletcher! > > > That's good. So everything is working out of the box? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-13 Thread David King
The attraction of the netbook is the small size. The 1000H model would be too big, the 904 would be a good size and with a hard disk would provide plenty of storage that is missing on the SSD-based netbooks. David King Rob Beard wrote: > On 13/03/2009 11:59, David King wrote: > >> I recent

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Beard
On 13/03/2009 11:59, David King wrote: > I recently found out that Asus now do an EEE PC netbook with a hard > drive, the 904 version, but although the Asus website says it is > available with Windows XP or Linux, I can only find XP versions for sale > in the UK. > > Anyone know a place selling the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zut, alors!

2009-03-13 Thread Tony Travis
Liam Proven wrote: > [...] > Embarrassingly, for a one-time biologist, it took me years to work out > /why/ Microsoft became "Vole". > > The British common field vole, you see, is technically called > /Microtus agrestis/. > [...] Hello, Liam. Well, I'm a biologist turned bioinformatician and I

[ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-13 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Ubuntu 8.10 now up and running apparently normally. Thank you, Michael Fletcher! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] French Police save millions switching to Ubuntu

2009-03-13 Thread mac
Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/3/13 Paul Sladen : > >> Pardon, Je n'pas parle Français. Nulle part, L'Angleterre. > > Er, what is that meant to mean? It's certainly not French... Comes out > as something like "sorry, I nonot speak French. Nothing part, the > England." "QED", I'd say! mac -- ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-13 Thread James Milligan
Local independant stores will probably sell them. The one I work at do anyway - Fathom IT, south Manchester. James On 13 Mar 2009, at 11:59, David King wrote: > I recently found out that Asus now do an EEE PC netbook with a hard > drive, the 904 version, but although the Asus website says it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] French Police save millions switching to Ubuntu

2009-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
2009/3/13 Paul Sladen : > Pardon, Je n'pas parle Français.  Nulle part, L'Angleterre. Er, what is that meant to mean? It's certainly not French... Comes out as something like "sorry, I nonot speak French. Nothing part, the England." -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamprov

[ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-13 Thread David King
I recently found out that Asus now do an EEE PC netbook with a hard drive, the 904 version, but although the Asus website says it is available with Windows XP or Linux, I can only find XP versions for sale in the UK. Anyone know a place selling them with Linux? If I buy one with XP, I can of c

[ubuntu-uk] anti piracy works two ways

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems MS got in hot water over piracy http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2118681/microsoft-convicted-software-piracy Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux Use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] French Police save millions switching to Ubuntu

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Chris Rowson wrote: > "Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. ... Zut alors(!) -Paul -- Pardon, Je n'pas parle Français. Nulle part, L'Angleterre. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.