Hiya Colin,
Are you in the UK? I have a spare one i could ship to you for £49.99 +P&P :)
Could do it over ebay if you wanted/have an account so that we both get
paypal protection.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Daniel Case wrote:
> Hiya Colin,
>
> Are you in the UK? I have a spare one i could
On 29 May 2010 23:20, Nigel Verity wrote:
> the user. There is no reason, of course, why the installation procedure
> should not present a list of recommended applications, from which the user
> can make a selection.
There are plenty of reasons, you just can't think of them :)
> It would enable
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 23:20 +0100, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am inclinded to sympathise with Roachy's view. Apart from a very
> brief flirtation with Fedora I have nothing to compare Ubuntu with.
> However, I feel that the ideal approach for any distro should be to
> install the OS and manage
Hi
I am inclinded to sympathise with Roachy's view. Apart from a very brief
flirtation with Fedora I have nothing to compare Ubuntu with. However, I feel
that the ideal approach for any distro should be to install the OS and
management utilities from the live CD, then leave the rest to the cho
On 29/05/10 12:04, Travis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks
> they know everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest
> enough to admit when you don't know. Corne
I just want to get my Joggler story off my chest. It may make me feel better.
I ordered one shortly after the initial price cut. Unfortunately by
then they were out of stock but a few weeks later it arrived. I
started it up and all seemed well. Off it went to download the latest
software which
A few days ago I said I had got Ubuntu working, with some help from
several here, and this was in fact in a graphics mode with no keyboard
or mouse: I just had the 4G USB stick plugged direct in to the Joggler's
sole USB socket.
So I started to try to get a keyboard working. I had an old, probabl
On 28/05/10 18:09, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> Hi there .
>
> I'm staying with friends in the US at the moment, so although I've been
> following the list, I haven't been writing of late. I just made a lengthy
> effort to research Dell on their web sites. First it seems to be impossible
> to cont
On 29 May at 15:23, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Saturday 29 May 2010 15:10:40 Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Dianne Reuby
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:18 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> > > > On 28 May 2010 14:21, Bruno Girin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
Paul Sutton wrote:
> does this matter that much given how hard it is to find venues
> anywhere, I don't drink alcoholic drinks anyway, so it does not bother me.
>
> Paul
>
>
I've not yet been to any meetings (I WILL make time, dammit).
When I do come, it will involve a longish drive, so the ab
Hello, Sean.
Sorry, to Jon and Cornelius: I'm top-posting from M$ Outlook OWA, so you can't
take my comments seriously ;-)
Tony.
--
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and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK
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On 29 May 2010 10:51, Paul Roach wrote:
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> The other day, I decided to rebuild one of my desktop machines, and
> thought i'd see what was happening with Debian now (with a Desktop
> environment), and was truly amazed - the boot times and resp
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On 29/05/10 14:29, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> < snip >
>
>> Firefox bookmarks are a simple HTML file located in
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox//bookmarks.html
>> I'm not sure if you can import it but at worst, you can always open it
>> in Firefox as a normal
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 15:10 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> As far as I can see, they do, and your actions are very unhelpful.
>>
>> Here are the results of going to www.dell.co.uk and searching for the
>> single word "ubuntu":
>>
>> http://searc
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 15:10 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> As far as I can see, they do, and your actions are very unhelpful.
>
> Here are the results of going to www.dell.co.uk and searching for the
> single word "ubuntu":
>
> http://search.euro.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=uk&l=en&cs=&k=ubuntu&ca
On Saturday 29 May 2010 15:10:40 Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:18 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> >> On 28 May 2010 14:21, Bruno Girin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> There you go:
> >> http://www.connectotel.com/marc
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:18 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 28 May 2010 14:21, Bruno Girin wrote:
>>
>>
>> There you go:
>> http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html
>>
>> Wonderful! Thanks for that. I've e-ma
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:18 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
>
>
> On 28 May 2010 14:21, Bruno Girin wrote:
>
>
> There you go:
> http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html
>
> Wonderful! Thanks for that. I've e-mailed Michael Dell with a very
> polite e-mail, and I've book
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> Firefox bookmarks are a simple HTML file located in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox//bookmarks.html
> I'm not sure if you can import it but at worst, you can always open it
> in Firefox as a normal HTML file and add all entries to your bookmarks.
>
> The evolution address book is in ~/.evolution/
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:04 +0100, Travis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks
> they know everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest
> enough to admit when you
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:55 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 11:52, Paul Roach wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately it wasn't a scientific test...but on Ubuntu I'd estimate
> > about 50 seconds to login screen and a further 20 seconds to get GDM
> > up. Debian seems to get to the login screen
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On 29/05/10 11:55, Harry Rickards wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 11:52, Paul Roach wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately it wasn't a scientific test...but on Ubuntu I'd estimate
>> about 50 seconds to login screen and a further 20 seconds to get GDM
>> up. Debian seem
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Travis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks
> they know
> everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest
> enough to
> admit when y
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 09:24 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > > > My rather ancient desktop PC has stopped working due, I think, to a
> > > > faulty MBoard and I am now using a laptop running 10.04. I would like to
> > > > be able to transfer a variety of files such as Firefox Bookmarks and
> >
Hello, Jon.
Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks they
know everything about IT is a fool.
The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest
enough to admit when you don't know. Cornelius is right about the RTFM, of
course, but the
On 29 May 2010 11:52, Paul Roach wrote:
> Unfortunately it wasn't a scientific test...but on Ubuntu I'd estimate
> about 50 seconds to login screen and a further 20 seconds to get GDM
> up. Debian seems to get to the login screen in about the same time
> (maybe a little less), but then only take
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On 29/05/10 11:15, Daniel M. Drummond wrote:
> Tom's Hardware had an interesting articles comparing Lucid with
> Hardy
> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-10.04-lucid-lynx,2634.html
>
>
and this showed a general trend of an increase in perfor
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:14 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> >Seems to be working.
> >/s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P
>
> You could laugh but event the best Diesel technician might struggle on
> a petrol or electric engine
True, but he might think to RTFM :-
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:51 +0100, Paul Roach wrote:
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> First of all, let me say this isn't a troll, but a genuine question
> with regard to the direction of the project as someone who's been
> on-and off using Ubuntu since Dapper...
>
> I've use
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First of all, let me say this isn't a troll, but a genuine question
with regard to the direction of the project as someone who's been
on-and off using Ubuntu since Dapper...
I've used a fair few distros over the years and have enjoyed some more
than o
> > > My rather ancient desktop PC has stopped working due, I think, to a
> > > faulty MBoard and I am now using a laptop running 10.04. I would like to
> > > be able to transfer a variety of files such as Firefox Bookmarks and
> > > email addresses in Evolution from the old HDD to the new compute
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