Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Joe O'Dell
disregard what I just sent - I checked deep down in my spam box and found the email! Regards, Joe --- Joe O'Dell bedsLUG Co-Ordinator bedslug.co.cc DFEY Member (SouthEast) dfey.org Ubuntu-UK Group Member (ascenseur) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/J

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Joe O'Dell
On 2 Feb 2010, at 22:23, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > > > ... In fact, a mail has already gone out to those who said they were > interesting, saying sign up to the marketing list... > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:53:30 -, Liam Wilson wrote: Me! -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Liam Wilson
Thank you Johnathon. I'm working on the wiki as we speak, should be done soon! Liam On 2 February 2010 22:23, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > > - "Ron Rhodes" wrote: > > > Alan Pope wrote: > > > On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > > > >> I'd be interested in helping wherever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
- "Ron Rhodes" wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > > On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > >> I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have > a > >> seperate mailing list to discuss this on? > >> > >> > > > > Why not use the resources we have. There is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Keith Powell
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > On 2 February 2010 17:27, Tony Pursell wrote: >> I have seen people with problems on Launchpad Answers. If GRUB >> is on the USB drive you will always need the USB drive attached to >> boot BOTH Ubuntu and Windows 7. If you have no way to put back >> the original MBR

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 17:57, Tony Pursell wrote: > > It all depends on how you do it. A standard dual boot installation will > overwrite the MBR with GRUB's MBR that points to the partition with > GRUB on it.  As I said, if you rely on the machines own boot menu, > you are OK.  Its all about which dr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Ron Rhodes
Alan Pope wrote: > On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have a >> seperate mailing list to discuss this on? >> >> > > Why not use the resources we have. There is a marketing list and a > marketing irc channel. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Joe O'Dell
I would help wherever I can too, This sounds like a great way to get Lucid spread across the world! Joe --- Joe O'Dell bedsLUG Co-Ordinator bedslug.co.cc DFEY Member (SouthEast) dfey.org Ubuntu-UK Group Member (ascenseur) https://wiki.ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 17:27, Tony Pursell wrote: > > I have seen people with problems on Launchpad Answers.  If GRUB > is on the USB drive you will always need the USB drive attached to > boot BOTH Ubuntu and Windows 7.  If you have no way to put back > the original MBR, you will have problems if, fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Pursell
On 2 Feb 2010 at 13:28, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > > On 2 February 2010 13:20, Rob Beard wrote: > > > > Does it install Grub on the USB drive bootloader? > > > > Rob > > > > It does if you tell it to. :) > > At this point: > http://www.23hq.com/23666/2589704_71fcf7da2c7eb3cf8c9b085bc69889c4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Keith Powell
Keith Powell wrote: > My new, rather expensive, computer has only one hard drive and that has > Windows7 pre-installed with a 'rescue partition'. > > Now, the insurance/support policy I have on the new computer (I didn't > bother with one on the old machine) states that I can't modify the > co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread James Milligan
On 02/02/2010 16:23, Bruno Girin wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote: > > [snip] >> Before this project actually gets to a head, I'd just like to know who >> would definitely be interested in contributing. And it wouldn't just >> be making videos, remember, we need people

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Alan Pope
On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards wrote: > I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have a > seperate mailing list to discuss this on? > Why not use the resources we have. There is a marketing list and a marketing irc channel. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote: [snip] > Before this project actually gets to a head, I'd just like to know who > would definitely be interested in contributing. And it wouldn't just > be making videos, remember, we need people to manage any web hosting > channels we have, p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Harry Rickards
On 2 Feb 2010, at 13:53, Liam Wilson wrote: > Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' (I.e; short videos > that I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have a seperate mailing list to discuss this on? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Andy Braben
On 2 February 2010 12:32, Keith Powell wrote: > In my previous computer (built locally and modified over the years by > me), I had fitted a second IDE hard drive. The first drive had XP > installed and the second had Linux installed. (I tried other distros on > it, but ended up with Ubuntu). > > M

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vinothan Shankar wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote: >> Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' > >> If you're interested, reply to this message. > > I'd be happy to help with any video projectv > If you do go a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote: > Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' > If you're interested, reply to this message. I'd be happy to help with any video projectv Vin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Perry
I would like to help whereever I can. Neil Perry On 2 Feb 2010 13:54, "Liam Wilson" wrote: Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' (I.e; short videos that can be posted on the bew. similar to the Wi project seems to be a better option to market Ubuntu than creating a TV ad for a numbe

[ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Liam Wilson
Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' (I.e; short videos that can be posted on the bew. similar to the Wi project seems to be a better option to market Ubuntu than creating a TV ad for a number of reasons; 1. It's cheaper - no cost of getting it on the air 2. Easier to spread - j

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Jonathon Fernyhough : > On 2 February 2010 13:20, Rob Beard wrote: >> >> Does it install Grub on the USB drive bootloader? >> >> Rob >> > > It does if you tell it to. :) > > At this point: > http://www.23hq.com/23666/2589704_71fcf7da2c7eb3cf8c9b085bc69889c4_standard.jpg > click on Adva

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 13:20, Rob Beard wrote: > > Does it install Grub on the USB drive bootloader? > > Rob > It does if you tell it to. :) At this point: http://www.23hq.com/23666/2589704_71fcf7da2c7eb3cf8c9b085bc69889c4_standard.jpg click on Advanced and you can choose where to install GRUB. Jo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Jonathon Fernyhough : > This should be trivial. Just choose the USB partitions during setup, > make sure not to set up any of the internal partitions with mount > points, and at the end just before Install choose to install the boot > loader to the correct drive (under Advanced). > > Reboo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 58, Issue 5

2010-02-02 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 02/02/10 12:09, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hallo all > > I am looking into Asterisk now and would like to know if anyone has any > experience with it. > Setting up, Installing, Hardware that works/Not works, etc We have experience with Asterisk, FreePBX and Trixbox. But you are probably better

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 02/02/10 12:32, Keith Powell wrote: > I don't want to try dual booting by putting Ubuntu on the same hard > drive as Windows7, but would rather keep it separate. My thoughts are to > install it on an external USB hard drive. Creating separate partitions on a physical HDD and dual booting (Whic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Bruce Beardall
I've done this too. Worked fine for me. Bruce On 2 February 2010 12:57, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > On 2 February 2010 12:36, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace > wrote: > > Quoting Keith Powell : > >> > >> To clarify, I would like to actually install Ubuntu on the drive, not > >> use the drive as a U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 12:36, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Quoting Keith Powell : >> >> To clarify, I would like to actually install Ubuntu on the drive, not >> use the drive as a USB version of a liveCD. > > I'm sure it's do-able, as long as you can boot from USB in the BIOS This should be tri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Keith Powell : > In my previous computer (built locally and modified over the years by > me), I had fitted a second IDE hard drive. The first drive had XP > installed and the second had Linux installed. (I tried other distros on > it, but ended up with Ubuntu). > > My new, rather expensive

[ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Keith Powell
In my previous computer (built locally and modified over the years by me), I had fitted a second IDE hard drive. The first drive had XP installed and the second had Linux installed. (I tried other distros on it, but ended up with Ubuntu). My new, rather expensive, computer has only one hard dri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 58, Issue 5

2010-02-02 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hallo all I am looking into Asterisk now and would like to know if anyone has any experience with it. Setting up, Installing, Hardware that works/Not works, etc thanx -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-02 Thread Liam Wilson
Well obviously Youtube, metacafe, dailymotion are some good places to start. On 1 February 2010 23:38, Craig Peden wrote: > Right, I think that someone needs to get down a list of places we can > upload to. > > On 1 Feb 2010, at 21:53, Steve wrote: > > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:01 -, Li