Re: [ubuntu-uk] File copying problem to USB flash drive

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Travis
Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David King wrote: >> When trying to copy video files to a USB flash drive, once the file has >> copied over, the original gets smaller, down to either 96 bytes or 0 >> bytes. The copy also sometimes shrinks to the same size

Re: [ubuntu-uk] File copying problem to USB flash drive

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David King wrote: > When trying to copy video files to a USB flash drive, once the file has > copied over, the original gets smaller, down to either 96 bytes or 0 > bytes. The copy also sometimes shrinks to the same size. > > What could be causing t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the >> end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks >> was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Isabell, 2010/1/18 Isabell Long : > I would like to hear your views on this, the general consensus was that it > was a good idea from what I caught up on of last night's meeting... if anyone > feels the need to > elaborate on what I've said or contribute some more ideas/information, please >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Josh Holland
http://xkcd.com/320/ is a handy one too. -- Josh "dutchie" Holland http://www.joshh.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread YaManicKill
Can I suggest http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720 if you need more hours in the day? ymk On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Rob Beard wrote: > I would but there's not enough hours in the day, I'm thinking of putting > up a petition to have days extended to 40 hours :-) > > Rob > -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Josh Holland
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:07:49PM +, Rob Beard wrote: > What I would like to arrange is a trip down to Goonhilly in Cornwall, I > went a couple of years back when I went to Cornwall on holiday. Not > sure if it's still open though, I heard rumors that it was closing. > Saying that though,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Beard
James Thomas wrote: > > > 2010/1/18 Rob Beard mailto:r...@esdelle.co.uk>> > > Isabell Long wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list > about my idea of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at > Easter. > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-18 Thread YaManicKill
Sounds fantastic. I love the idea. With such large loco areas, lots of people would feel like they don't feel really as "included" as others. Such as in UK, a lot of stuff is London central, which is fine, but this sort of thing would allow a lot more "local" stuff to happen. Sounds great. Ymk On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread James Thomas
2010/1/18 Rob Beard > Isabell Long wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list about my > idea of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at Easter. > > > > So, as I just mentioned, I was thinking of things to do at Easter and > came up with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Beard
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi, > > I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the > end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks > was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabián discussed > the problems of organising major events with venues and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Beard
Isabell Long wrote: > Hello there, > > As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list about my idea > of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at Easter. > > So, as I just mentioned, I was thinking of things to do at Easter and came up > with Science Museum! As there is fr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Bell
well that sounds like a cracking idea to me :-) Looks like the Easter holiday dates are from the 1st to the 18th of April. Maybe a doodle poll would reveal a good date for everyone. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Bruno Girin
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:47 +, Isabell Long wrote: > Hello there, > > As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list about my idea > of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at Easter. > > So, as I just mentioned, I was thinking of things to do at Easter and came up >

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabián discussed the problems of organising major events with venues and other facilities, and dilute

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

2010-01-18 Thread Ged Byrom
I'll have that, dates and times permitting of course. Ged. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Isabell Long
Hello there, As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list about my idea of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at Easter. So, as I just mentioned, I was thinking of things to do at Easter and came up with Science Museum! As there is free entry to museums in London at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

2010-01-18 Thread Steve
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:23:25 -, Tommy Pyatt wrote: > > 2010/1/18 Simon Wears > >> Hello everyone! >> >> This is an announcement of plans for an Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam in >> Manchester. >> >> As the Ubuntu Wiki puts it, *"an Ubuntu Jam is a local event, where >> people >> meet to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

2010-01-18 Thread Tommy Pyatt
Hi, I'd be interested in this. Sounds like fun, Tommy Pyatt Ubuntu user 2010/1/18 Simon Wears > Hello everyone! > > This is an announcement of plans for an Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam in > Manchester. > > As the Ubuntu Wiki puts it, *"an Ubuntu Jam is a local event, where people > meet to do

[ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

2010-01-18 Thread Simon Wears
Hello everyone! This is an announcement of plans for an Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" Jam in Manchester. As the Ubuntu Wiki puts it, *"an Ubuntu Jam is a local event, where people meet to do something with Ubuntu. The point is to have fun, meet great people, learn something new and make Ubuntu better

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tweeta into thunderbirds?

2010-01-18 Thread YaManicKill
If in doubt, you can get an RSS feed of your followers tweets, and add that. Wouldn't allow you to reply to it, but I'm sure there are addons that let you tweet. > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Alan Bell < > alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote: > >> red wrote: >> > Hi all >> > >> > Is t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tweeta into thunderbirds?

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Bell
red wrote: > Hi all > > Is there any add ins for thunderbirds that I can collect my twitters > like I can rss feeds? > > Shalom > Hi red, yes, there are quite a few twitter related things in the addon directory https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search?q=twitter&cat=all&advancedsear

[ubuntu-uk] Tweeta into thunderbirds?

2010-01-18 Thread red
Hi all Is there any add ins for thunderbirds that I can collect my twitters like I can rss feeds? Shalom Alan Bell wrote: > Alistair McKinlay wrote: > >> Did we not decide to trial using #ubuntu-uk-meeting for the next >> meeting? Maybe I got that wrong... >> >> YaManicKill >> > sorry,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread Dave Etheridge
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread Steve
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:42:32 -, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>> >> >> I believe that the course content and arrangements are an issue that >> can be solved as required. I think the major question is - Who is >> going to, or wants to, attend? >> May

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meeting minutes

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Bell
Alistair McKinlay wrote: > Did we not decide to trial using #ubuntu-uk-meeting for the next > meeting? Maybe I got that wrong... > > YaManicKill sorry, my mistake, will fix shortly . . . -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meeting minutes

2010-01-18 Thread Ashley Whetter
I agree. It was also put as an action in IRC. I say next meeting in #ubuntu-uk-meeting unless anyone objects. Someone needs to update wiki as well please. gadget3000 2010/1/18 Alistair McKinlay > Did we not decide to trial using #ubuntu-uk-meeting for the next meeting? > Maybe I got that wron

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread Steve
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:13:34 -, John Matthews wrote: > Steve wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:50:56 -, John Matthews >> wrote: >> >> >>> I would like to be part of it. I am learning on my own, but it would be >>> good to have taught lessons. >>> >>> John. >>> >>> >> So what would you l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meeting minutes

2010-01-18 Thread Alistair McKinlay
Did we not decide to trial using #ubuntu-uk-meeting for the next meeting? Maybe I got that wrong... YaManicKill On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Alistair McKinlay wrote: > > Hi All, >> >> Minutes of last nights meeting are now available at >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting thanks to

[ubuntu-uk] Meeting minutes

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Bell
Hi All, Minutes of last nights meeting are now available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting thanks to all who attended and thanks to Mez for chairing. One of the action items from the meeting was for me to come up with an improved format for the agenda, in particular so that action ite

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread Ged Byrom
2010/1/18 John Matthews > Steve wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:50:56 -, John Matthews > wrote: > > > > > >> I would like to be part of it. I am learning on my own, but it would be > >> good to have taught lessons. > >> > >> John. > >> > >> > > So what would you like to be taught? > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> > > I believe that the course content and arrangements are an issue that > can be solved as required. I think the major question is - Who is > going to, or wants to, attend? > Maybe this is a chicken and egg situation with 'marketing'? > There i

[ubuntu-uk] HELP: Flashing a Dell 9200 bios

2010-01-18 Thread Ken Robson
I am trying to update the bios in this Dell that I have just been given. The Dell page suggests using :- sudo dellBiosUpdate -u -f ./bios.hdr this runs but I get a crash on line 185:- Performing BIOS update... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/dellBiosUpdate", line 185, in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread etali
On 18/01/2010 16:06, Bruno Girin wrote: > > Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest > starting with some moderately advanced topics like "how to package an > app for Ubuntu". That would enable us to rehearse the process with > trainees who already know the environment, kno

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread Bruno Girin
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: > On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote: [snip] > > In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide > > deck as trainees will promptly forget the content. Furthermore it > > requires a projector, which is more equipmen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kline'd from Freenode following yesterday's clone bot attack

2010-01-18 Thread Isabell Long
2010/1/18 Jacob Williams : > Hi there, > > I frequent the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel on freenode and was foolish enough to > click the link in yesterday's clone bot attack (is that right?) and now > appear to be Kline'd from Freenode. Is anybody else affected? How do I > resolve this? Hi, Basically,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-18 Thread John Matthews
Steve wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:50:56 -, John Matthews wrote: > > >> I would like to be part of it. I am learning on my own, but it would be >> good to have taught lessons. >> >> John. >> >> > So what would you like to be taught? > > Installation stuff, using the Terminal, pro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kline'd from Freenode following yesterday's clone bot attack

2010-01-18 Thread David Jones
Jacob Williams wrote: > Hi there, > > > I frequent the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel on freenode and was foolish enough > to click the link in yesterday's clone bot attack (is that right?) and > now appear to be Kline'd from Freenode. Is anybody else affected? How do > I resolve this? > > > Thank

[ubuntu-uk] Kline'd from Freenode following yesterday's clone bot attack

2010-01-18 Thread Jacob Williams
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