Rob Beard wrote:
> A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
> 800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in ram on this class of
machine will make a vast difference in performance
--
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #1039
Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
> We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I
> wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be
> somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about
> Ubuntu Hours around the UK.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
Hour
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>
> Sods law though, after having hardly any work over the past couple of
> months, I've just started contracting, so I've had to put my plans on
> hold somewhat.
>
> Rob
>
>
I am sure once we get this rolling though (when you are free) then we
Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>
>> Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our
>> local LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a
>> small fee to cover room hire we were looking at pro
Isabell Long wrote:
> Okay, Doodle poll created, please indicate when you will be available!
> http://doodle.com/46hbbd6gz4s5kmtr
>
> Thanks,
>
I've just added my name to the poll. Saturdays are probably best for
me, although I could possibly make a Sunday. I'd rather not do a
weekday unl
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
[snip]
> Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our local
> LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a small fee
> to cover room hire we were looking at providing a free PC running Ubuntu.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:28:51PM +, Alan Bell wrote:
> Isabell Long wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
> > Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
> > that their website did in fact say that th
Isabell Long wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
> Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
> that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours,
> then they gave me another number to
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:16:23PM +, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:00 +, Isabell Long wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
> > Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
> > that
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:00 +, Isabell Long wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
> Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
> that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours,
>
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours, then
they gave me another number to ring and that went to message s
>
> Ahh I wish I'd heard about this earlier, it would have been the sort of
> thing I would have loved to have gone to. Oh well, maybe next year.
There are still tickets but not super theatre tickets. Only the 8th and 9th
are available still.
http://www.gadgetshowlive.net/page.cfm/Link=31/t=m/go
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>> My old school recently got 100+ new laptops, so the old ones may also
>> be "free to a good home" - I shall email and see!
Indeed, laptops are good for mobile training, :)
are you looking at getting all 100+ laptops. Not that I need another
Joe O'Dell wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> Just wondered if anyone was going the "The Gadget Show Live" at the NEC in
> Birmingham. It's on the 8th-11th April this year, although I, personally,
> will only be attending on the 8th.) - However, all tickets have now sold out,
> sorry!
>
> Perhaps we cou
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I've got an old XP laptop on the shelf, and I've got live CDs for Ubuntu
> 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04, but I can't figure out how to set the BIOS to boot
> from CD on startup, because it's a Sony VAIO, and the bottom right hand
> part of the screen is broken, so I can't see which k
Joe O'Dell wrote:
>
>> Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the
>> positive press, maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old
>> PCs from businesses as they upgrade. Just a thought.
>
>
> Rob, that sounds a great idea
> The best place to ask would be local schools
On 21 Jan 2010, at 17:48, Ashley Whetter
wrote:
> I take it that you are going this year - just out of query, what day
> shall you be descending on the NEC?
>
> I am going this year, on the 9th. We need a list of people so we
> know how is going when and to keep this organised somehow.
> Fo
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On this, as mentioned before there is a manual availble from the ubuntu
site
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
its in pdf, Its also for 8.04 I assume (and hope) it will be updated
for 10.04 as that is the next lts release.
any comments on update we
> I am going this year, on the 9th. We need a list of people so we know how is
> going when and to keep this organised somehow.
There is a Doodle poll set up, ( http://doodle.com/fsm46vwinihs5zdf ), but I
shall enquire as to whether this could be posted to the ubuntu-uk wiki, as most
people wo
>
> I take it that you are going this year - just out of query, what day shall
> you be descending on the NEC?
>
> I am going this year, on the 9th. We need a list of people so we know how
is going when and to keep this organised somehow.
For now the list is just:
Thursday 8th: Joe
Friday 9th: Ash
Hey - good idea!
>
> I was also there last year and saw no linux stalls but it's twice as big
> this year. There are a list of stall for this year here:
> http://www.gadgetshowlive.net/page.cfm/action=ExhibList/ListID=1/t=m/goSection=2
>
I've just looked through the exhibitor catalogue, but t
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:14 +, Dianne Reuby
wrote:
> Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using
> an older machine. Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a
> new one? Why should they upgrade from XP when it does what they want,
> but isn't supported with up
>
> I was there last year and am going again this year. As far as I could
> tell there were no Linux-themed stalls last year, anyone know if there
> will be this year?
I was also there last year and saw no linux stalls but it's twice as big
this year. There are a list of stall for this year here
>
> >Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive
> press, maybe some of >us may be able to get donations of old PCs from
> businesses as they upgrade. Just a >thought.
If needed, we have a load of old computers at college that are not being
transferred to our new build
> Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive press,
> maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old PCs from businesses as
> they upgrade. Just a thought.
>>
>
> Rob
>
Rob, that sounds a great idea
The best place to ask would be local schools and busin
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:08:31PM +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
>
> Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using an
> older machine.
>
> Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a new one? Why should
> they upgrade from XP when it does what they want, but isn't supp
2010/1/21 Joe O'Dell :
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> Hey Everyone,
>
> Just wondered if anyone was going the "The Gadget Show Live" at the NEC in
> Birmingham. It's on the 8th-11th April this year, although I, personally,
> will only be attending on the 8th.) - However, al
to build an Atom based PC in a small case and chuck a couple
>> of hard drives in.
>>
>> But I guess not everyone would want to go down that route, although
>> I'm sure it's possible to get an adaptor to turn a couple of USB
>> external hard drives into a NAS an
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Hey Everyone,
Just wondered if anyone was going the "The Gadget Show Live" at the NEC in
Birmingham. It's on the 8th-11th April this year, although I, personally, will
only be attending on the 8th.) - However, all tickets have now sold out, sorry!
Quoting Bruno Girin :
> What I would really like to do eventually is basic programming
> workshops, a bit like the old computer clubs of when I was a child (at a
> time when the home computer was called Amstrad CPC or Commodore C64): it
> was a great way to get people (kids especially) intereste
Quoting Matthew Daubney :
>> 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".
> I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff on
> these already, and people who want to
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 09:04 +, Alan Bell wrote:
> Overall this is a great idea. I think we need to clarify who this is
> aimed at. Off the top of my head I can think of three broad
> categories:
>
> Individuals wanting to run a proper operating system at home
> People wanting to introduce Ubun
Quoting Sean Miller :
> Presumably if you got a coach together you'd be coming fairly close to
> the Linux User Group of Glastonbury area -- perhaps people in my LUG
> would be interested in coming too and (this is pure speculation, but
> worth exploring as a possibility) there could be two or thr
Quoting Dianne Reuby :
> Rob Beard wrote:
>> Personally I'd like to go to a trip to the Museum Of Computing in
>> Swindon :-)
>
> You're always welcome! Bring your friends :) We'll be celebrating
> PacMan's 30th birthday on the Big Screen in May. Not sure if the
> Science Museum are having an even
Looks pretty good. I've been looking for a NAS lately actually so that I can
stop leaving my computer constantly turned on to act as the multimedia
server for my Squeezebox.
I think the price is a bit much though since it has wireless capability that
isn't *really* necessary considering that if yo
Quoting Matthew Daubney :
> Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
> are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
> created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
> use this, and even create more if we pass it back up t
Quoting Dave Morley :
> Is anyone looking for a wireless nas box if so try
> http://www.serversplus.com/product.asp?s=NPACE-STEASUK642&utm_source=SP_Eshot&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NasBox&utm_campaign=sp_nasbox_eshot
>
> Looks like a nice box, I don't know though. Maybe people in the know
> ca
Quoting Thomas Ibbotson :
> I've registered too, but looking at the stats it looks a bit outdated,
> according to the website there are still 13368 machines running
> Dapper...
>
> Tom
I gather it's up to the individual users to update their own entries,
and I bet a fair few of those users are
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:08 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
> Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
> are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
> created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
> use this, and
Sorry, script should be:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir output
for movie in *.* ; do
echo Processing $movie
ffmpeg -i $movie -ab 192kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv -cmp 2
-subcmp 2 -s 320x240 output/$movie.mp4
done
Thunderbird mangled one of the lines.
Once again, sorry.
Michael
mi
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:34 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2010/1/16 Matthew Daubney :
> > I've put up an idea in the ideas pool[0], and started an etherpad[1].
> > Does anyone else have any experience of running these kind of things who
> > would like to lend their expertise? What do people think woul
2010/1/21 Thomas Ibbotson :
> I've registered too, but looking at the stats it looks a bit outdated,
> according to the website there are still 13368 machines running
> Dapper...
>
> Tom
>
Possibly just means that people (like me!) haven't updated their details...
/me goes to update his details n
2010/1/21 Dave Morley :
> Is anyone looking for a wireless nas box if so try
> http://www.serversplus.com/product.asp?s=NPACE-STEASUK642&utm_source=SP_Eshot&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NasBox&utm_campaign=sp_nasbox_eshot
>
> Looks like a nice box, I don't know though. Maybe people in the know
> c
Is anyone looking for a wireless nas box if so try
http://www.serversplus.com/product.asp?s=NPACE-STEASUK642&utm_source=SP_Eshot&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NasBox&utm_campaign=sp_nasbox_eshot
Looks like a nice box, I don't know though. Maybe people in the know
can tell if it's any good :)
--
On 20/01/10 16:45, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> I need to buy a new laser printer and am wondering whether to get a
> wireless or network one. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and there are 4
> computers which will need to access the printer. I understand that HP
> equipment is Linux friendly and wondered a
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