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

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Perhaps it was a little tactless of me to say this: "I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all independently tickable, then there is the

[ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

2009-03-14 Thread red
To follow on with a thought from Paul. No 10 website has a place where you can put a petition up for the government to read and others can sign it. As the BBC is a publicly funded organization and it is answerable to the folk of this country or them whom watch any form of T.V? Shalom Rik Ch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Rowson
> > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Chris Rowson wrote: > >> My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from the > BBC > >> on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for Windows XP > >> however: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/adventurerock/hints/faq.shtml > >> > >> I'm going to give

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Harry Rickards
On 14 Mar 2009, at 18:32, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Rowson wrote: >> My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from the BBC >> on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for Windows XP >> however: http://www.bb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: > My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from the BBC > on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for Windows XP > however: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/adventurerock/hints/faq.shtml > > I'm going

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Rob Beard
On 14/03/2009 14:24, Chris Rowson wrote: > My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from > the BBC on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for > Windows XP however: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/adventurerock/hints/faq.shtml > > I'm going to give it a bash on W

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

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all independently tickable, then there is the choice between 'remove' and 'complete remove'. Is ther

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

2009-03-14 Thread Tony Pursell
On 14 Mar 2009 at 7:23, Sean Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a > > typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he > > just uninstalls and re-installs en bl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-14 Thread Matt Jones
That isn't always the case. In many models the fast SLC type SSD is soldered on, this is around 4GB, then the larger capacity, slower storage is mounted in a Mini PCI-e socket. Not sure about the other models, this was the case for the 900 and 901, as well as the 8GB 701. The base 701 only have the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Rowson
> > It doesn't surprise me at all that they do, though: I think it is a > typical Establishment expression of the sticky Anglo-American 'special > relationship' (incidentally, Britain is not the only entity claiming a > 'special relationship' with the USA). > > On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:24 +, Ch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
It doesn't surprise me at all that they do, though: I think it is a typical Establishment expression of the sticky Anglo-American 'special relationship' (incidentally, Britain is not the only entity claiming a 'special relationship' with the USA). On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:24 +, Chris Rowson wr

[ubuntu-uk] BBC's CBBC game 'Adventure Rock'

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Rowson
My little lad wants to play the new CBBC game 'Adventure Rock' from the BBC on my laptop. It seems that game is available for only for Windows XP however: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/adventurerock/hints/faq.shtml I'm going to give it a bash on Wine but I'm not sure I'll have much luck. I find it in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus EEE pc 904

2009-03-14 Thread James - SJ Computers
The SSDs in the EEE PCs are actually IC's that are mounted directly onto the motherboard. Therefore it is almost impossible to change them. Regards James SJ Computers -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Rob

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

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
oh, quite so, Al, but I am merely trying to remove the things I myself added yesterday - not items that were on the LiveCD, or that came with the automatic updates that I received when I went online after running the LiveCD and installing ubuntu 8.10 from it. In fact, I chose these two add-ons, gna

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

2009-03-14 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/14 Rowan Berkeley : > In fact I think I have managed to locate the gnash 0.8.4 and swfdec > 0.8.0 packages in synaptic and remove them after all, so I won't have to > re-install the whole of firefox. Re-installing applications actually rarely "fixes" anything. There are a few exceptions to

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

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
In fact I think I have managed to locate the gnash 0.8.4 and swfdec 0.8.0 packages in synaptic and remove them after all, so I won't have to re-install the whole of firefox. They have their own little dependencies, which are still in there but non-removable, so maybe I should have used the 'complet

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

2009-03-14 Thread Sean Miller
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a > typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he > just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed > issues...) Nah there

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

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed issues...) On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 07:11 +, Sean Miller wrote: > Just uninstall and re

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

2009-03-14 Thread Sean Miller
Just uninstall and reinstall Firefox itself, from Synaptic... then when you have it re-installed don't add that particular plug-in to it! Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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

2009-03-14 Thread Rowan Berkeley
You may recall I said yesterday: "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 which helped at all One of them can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox >