Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 30 Jan at 0:28, Steve wrote: > The Danish proposal sounds very positive, unlike some of the > wishy-washy bits in ours. I wonder if the wishy-washy bit is because the native lot are not prepared to throw out buying licences to proprietory systems as that may be the only economic source of c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Steve
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:05:11 -, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 30/01/10 00:02, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > >> >> This has been discussed at length. The Action Plan itself is pretty >> good, but unfortunately the Cabinet Office seem to have little or no >> power to actually police or enforce it.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 30/01/10 00:02, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > This has been discussed at length. The Action Plan itself is pretty > good, but unfortunately the Cabinet Office seem to have little or no > power to actually police or enforce it. > > If you are interested follow some of the links on my blog post her

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email url

2010-01-29 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 01:41 +, Matthew Wild wrote: > 2010/1/28 red : > > On the Microsoft browser I can email the page straight to some one. How > > do I do this in firefox? > > > > Firefox: File->Send Link... > Epiphany: File->Send link by email...: Alternatively, if you need to send a cop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 29/01/10 22:14, alan c wrote: > A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more > like it means business than the preceding ones. > > Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan > http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf This has bee

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Steve
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:13:30 -, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>> >> I fear it may take a long, long time for things to get moving. They >> still >> haven’t got round to sorting a minor problem on the Job Centre systems. >> They can’t print £ and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The requested plugins are:,,text/html decoder

2010-01-29 Thread Luke-Jennings
Doing a google search for "Premier Radio" gets thee main websites www.premiereradio.com and www.premier.org.uk and www.premierradio.org.uk The last two may be the same I am not sure. I could only find a feed on the last one mmsh://twofour-PremierRadio-01.wm.llnwd.net/twofour_PremierRadio-01?MSWME

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> > I fear it may take a long, long time for things to get moving. They still > haven’t got round to sorting a minor problem on the Job Centre systems. > They can’t print £ and haven’t for nearly ten years. > Talking of jobcentre plus the new

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Steve
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:55:27 -, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve wrote: >> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:14:28 -, alan c >> wrote: >> >>> A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more >>> like it means business than the prec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Rowson
As much as I'd like to see a greater take up of OSS within Government, I don't think we're there yet. It's interesting that the document mentions Birmingham City Council's forays into the Linux desktop. I wrote about this some time ago: http://www.justuber.com/blog/2006/11/20/how-to-spend-half-a-m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:14:28 -, alan c > wrote: > >> A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more >> like it means business than the preceding ones. >> >> Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Governme

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Steve
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:14:28 -, alan c wrote: > A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more > like it means business than the preceding ones. > > Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan > http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_sou

[ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread alan c
A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more like it means business than the preceding ones. Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf Forward (extract) Whe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The requested plugins are:,,text/html decoder

2010-01-29 Thread Josh Holland
At a guess, the radio site is trying to serve you up an error page instead of the music stream. I'd suggest making sure that the URL you've got is right. -- Josh "dutchie" Holland http://www.joshh.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com ht

[ubuntu-uk] The requested plugins are:,,text/html decoder

2010-01-29 Thread red
I am trying to get premier radio to work with/on music player but it keeps telling me that I need text/html decoder I searched for one but with no joy, please help! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/