Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-14 Thread Daniel Case
Crap -removes second one from Ebay- :P Although i may get a third... On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 14 May 2010 08:27, David wrote: > > The O2 Joggler is back onto its deal. > > > > "Was £99.99. Now £49.99 until the end of May" > > http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-14 Thread Harry Rickards
On 14 May 2010 08:27, David wrote: > The O2 Joggler is back onto its deal. > > "Was £99.99. Now £49.99 until the end of May" > http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler > > Some ideas of how it could be used : > http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Main_Page > With or without Ubuntu. > Anyone know if loads

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 May 2010 20:47, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote: >> This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are >> several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using >> bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-14 Thread Rob Beard
On 14/05/10 08:27, David wrote: > The O2 Joggler is back onto its deal. > > "Was £99.99. Now £49.99 until the end of May" > http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler > > Some ideas of how it could be used : > http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Main_Page > With or without Ubuntu. > Oooh I am tempted to get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote: > This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are > several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using > bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that the packages are > often small and the overhead of p2

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-14 Thread Philip Billington
Hi Happy to help, add me to the list. - Phil On 13 May 2010 09:15, "Alan Pope" wrote: Hi all, I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help. During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid releas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Anton Piatek
On 14 May 2010 14:58, John Stevenson wrote: > On 14 May 2010 12:18, Samuel Toogood wrote: >> >> First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been >> lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. >> >> I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread John Stevenson
On 14 May 2010 12:18, Samuel Toogood wrote: > First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been > lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. > > I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if > packages could be distributed in a peer to peer m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Samuel, On 14 May 2010 13:18, Samuel Toogood wrote: > I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages > could be distributed in a peer to peer manner, as .isos can be? Unsurprisingly you're not the first person to think this is a good idea. There are a few project

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 14 May 2010 12:18, Samuel Toogood wrote: > First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been > lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. > > I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages > could be distributed in a peer to peer ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 14/05/10 12:18, Samuel Toogood wrote: > First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been > lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. > > I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if > packages could be distributed in a peer to peer manner

[ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages could be distributed in a peer to peer manner, as .isos can be? This would have several advanta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...

2010-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:55:02AM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > However it all sounds like a massive hassle and personally I would > > buy the computer online using a credit card making sure the store > > was aware it was for Ubuntu. > > You'd need to do more than ma

[ubuntu-uk] Netbook Remix - 2d option .....

2010-05-14 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Lucid Netbook Remix on Dell Inspiron Mini 10v. Since switching my Lucid logon to Netbook 2d (Netbook + Gnome desktop), I've experienced a couple of freezes. Once while writing a report in OpenOffice word processor, and the other while writing an e-mail. On both occasions the only

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-14 Thread David homer
Count me in as well have various hardware ,here to test on On 14 May 2010 10:10, "Robert Flatters" wrote: Hi Al, I have two machines, that need something to do. on is a window xp box that i should be able to us and setup a VMWare session. The other machine is running ubuntu 9.10 and could be us

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Flatters
Hi Al, I have two machines, that need something to do. on is a window xp box that i should be able to us and setup a VMWare session. The other machine is running ubuntu 9.10 and could be used as a test mule. its abit old but it would making an interesting test platform Count me in Kind Regards

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 64bit -- Firefox and Adobe flash

2010-05-14 Thread Matthew Ames
Download the flash plugin here, http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html, and then copy it into your mozilla plugins folder. Although this isn't the official ubuntu way, it's the method that Adobe support, so I figure why not? This plugin also works for Chrome. On 14 May 2010 0

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 64bit -- Firefox and Adobe flash

2010-05-14 Thread Markie
Hi Folks, I can see theres a lot of info on the forums and generally on the web about getting 64-bit flash working. It seems some sites work ok for me like you tube etc. but some sites like BBc iPlayer dont seem to. I installed the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package but Im wondering if Ive missed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
On 14 May 2010 01:26, Steve Pearce wrote: > I would like to participate in Ubuntu desktop and server ISO testing, > sign me up :) > > Steve. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > +1 Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-14 Thread Les Pounder
Sweet, I only got one last time, but I want a few more ;) Les "Quarter" Pounder On May 14, 2010 8:28 AM, "David" wrote: The O2 Joggler is back onto its deal. "Was £99.99. Now £49.99 until the end of May" http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler Some ideas of how it could be used : http://jogglerwiki.info

[ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-14 Thread David
The O2 Joggler is back onto its deal. "Was £99.99. Now £49.99 until the end of May" http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler Some ideas of how it could be used : http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Main_Page With or without Ubuntu. -- David Lutton e: david.lut...@gmail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.co