Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread Bruno Girin
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 17:24 +0100, Dave Smith wrote: > Long time listener, first time caller > > > > Have acer aspire one netbook with 9.10. > > > > I have until now been using a phone with an app to convert 3G to > 802.11g but the cost per MB through a phone just isn’t comparable to > th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread Steve
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:29:08 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > It's a shame that I can't get the Metro newspaper down here, at least I > haven't seen it (last time I saw it was when I was working in Sheffield). > > Rob > > http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/820835-digital-economy-bill-passes-as-critics-warn-of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread paul morgan-roach
> I would like to use Orange and they say the dongle does not support > Linux.  I suspect the dongle does, and orange are choosing not to > (whereas another of the big five have set up a repository to support > their dongles). From what I have read online, some folk have had some > success with som

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gadget Show Live Meet-Up

2010-04-09 Thread Ashley Whetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those of you who still haven't gone, the show was great! There were 2 stalls with linux that I saw. One was from the Open University showing that you can run Ubuntu on a 5 year old PC with the same speed as modern windows. The other was just a pda

[ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread Alistair Munro
I have exactly the same arrangement. I have used dongles from BT, Vodafone and 3 without much difficulty. But there is a clear winner in terms of being OSS/Linux friendly. Vodafone have the Betavine project which is fully backed by the company and produces open source device support - including

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread A J Binnie
On 9 April 2010 17:24, Dave Smith wrote: > Anyone using a dongle from orange with an ubuntu netbook? Which model > dongle did you use? Or which service provider seems the most Linux > friendly? > I bought a Huwei dongle from 3 and Linux handles it significantly better than windows does. Plug i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread Tony Pursell
On 9 Apr 2010 at 17:24, Dave Smith wrote: > I would like to use Orange and they say the dongle does not support > Linux. My wife's got a Vodaphone dongle which works OK on my Ubuntu powered EEEPC. I think the 'does not support Linux' comes mainly from the bundled Windows app that comes with th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 09/04/10 17:24, Dave Smith wrote: > Long time listener, first time caller Hello Dave, > Anyone using a dongle from orange with an ubuntu netbook? Which model > dongle did you use? Or which service provider seems the most Linux friendly? Most recent dongles will work out of the box with Ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread Rob Beard
On 09/04/10 17:06, jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote: > Andy: >> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). > > The majority of whom weren't present at the debate. You might very well think > the bill was railroaded through by whatever MPs the whips could round up and > herd into the chamber to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] iPhone software....

2010-04-09 Thread John Matthews
Hi everybody, I just wanted to say sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I wanted to be sure I had done verything I cuold to get this working before I posted. Not had much success to get it working on Karmic, I can get Rhythmbox to see the phone, but I cant get anything else to work. T

[ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

2010-04-09 Thread Dave Smith
Long time listener, first time caller Have acer aspire one netbook with 9.10. I have until now been using a phone with an app to convert 3G to 802.11g but the cost per MB through a phone just isn't comparable to the cost per MB through a dongle. So I want to switch to a dongle. (As a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread jim.cameron
Andy: > 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). The majority of whom weren't present at the debate. You might very well think the bill was railroaded through by whatever MPs the whips could round up and herd into the chamber to vote the party line without even hearing it; I couldn't possibl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 9 April 2010 16:58, mac wrote: > Andy wrote: > >> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). >> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote. > > Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not > attend the preceding debate. > > mac Granted this i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 09/04/10 16:58, mac wrote: > Andy wrote: > >> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). >> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote. > > Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not > attend the preceding debate. Most of the voters were Lab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread mac
Andy wrote: > 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). > There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote. Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not attend the preceding debate. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread Andy
On 8 April 2010 11:25, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/32.htm I got an error loading that URL, given it has "cmtoday" in it I guess it may only be valid on the day the debate is held. The following link has the list of who voted Yes and who

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-09 Thread John Stevenson
Just bought my Joggler online. Talking to assistant in O2 shop, she was saying they are sold out in all the shops in London. New deliveries are expected on Thurdsay apparently. -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com Tel: 07909 835 008 Excellent BDD immersion workshop at Skills Mat

[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [backstage] Open Source Show And Tell]

2010-04-09 Thread Tim Dobson
I don't know if people have already seen this but it might be cool to go to for people in the south east. Original Message Subject: [backstage] Open Source Show And Tell Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:50:42 +0100 From: Phil Whitehouse Reply-To: backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk To: backst...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-09 Thread Bob Clough
Knew i wouldnt be able to hold out for long, just bought one! On 8 April 2010 21:28, Daniel Case wrote: > I have sent the email, its currently awaiting approval, the alsa sh file > asked me if i wanted to upload it the second time round, so it is now > located here: > http://alsa-project.org/db/