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In terms of linux support...both ati and nvidia are fully supported now,
I believe. But, if you want totally cool open-source 3d drivers for your
card then get an ATI, or get an nvidia and wait 6 months (yes, they are
coming...).
So, in essence, what
Hi there,
I currently have an Xpress 200 ATI integrated graphics card and am
looking to upgrade to something better (i dual-boot so that i can play
Windows games under Windows)
What graphics cards would you recommend for both Windows gaming, and
full linux support so that i can use compiz without
On 4 June 2010 19:28, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At work we're looking at server virtualization, both to give us a bit
> more redundancy against hardware failure and also to try and cut down on
> our power requirements a bit by getting shot of some older servers (P3,
> early P4's).
>
> Now w
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 22:19 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 22:14 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> > On the other hand, Dell could very well sell their hardware with
> > Ubuntu
> > on it but say that they will only support the hardware, not the
> > software
>
> My son's friend bough
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 22:14 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On the other hand, Dell could very well sell their hardware with
> Ubuntu
> on it but say that they will only support the hardware, not the
> software
My son's friend bought a Dell with Win 7 recently - now everything he
tries to run crashes
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:59 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> Hi Dianne .
>
> On 4 June 2010 11:45, Dianne Reuby wrote:
>
>
> Great work! What email address did you use? I can only find
> phone/chat/postal contacts for them.
>
> Someone on this list suggested writing to Dell C
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:59 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> I wonder if an official communication from Ubuntu UK asking to partner
> with Dell UK would help? "We'll support the OS - you supply the
> hardware to our folk" kind of approach might work I'm willing to
> write something, what do the
On 4 June 2010 21:43, Daniel Case wrote:
> Alan,
>
> I was not aware either that it was copyright theft to use another CD
> with your original license.
>
> Infact, i thought the following was true:
> ttp://download.microsoft.com/download/9/A/9/9A90E11E-43A3-4E7E-A919-961AF15820CA/Refurbished%20PC%
On 4 June 2010 22:43, Daniel Case wrote:
> (2) The original recovery media or hard-disk based recovery image
> associated with the PC.
How is a "burnt Windows XP Home CD" (your words) sent via post to
someone either 'original recovery' or 'hard-disk based recovery
image'?
I'm not after an argume
Alan,
I was not aware either that it was copyright theft to use another CD
with your original license.
Infact, i thought the following was true:
ttp://download.microsoft.com/download/9/A/9/9A90E11E-43A3-4E7E-A919-961AF15820CA/Refurbished%20PC%20License%20Guide.pdf
According to this, any PC that
Hi Everyone
Please accept my apologies, I posted to the list as I reckoned most
were experienced computer users and would probably have an old copy of
windows floating around which they were no longer using seeing as they
were Ubuntu users.
Alan, please note I was not fully aware of the copyright
Rob
In all honesty, you will stand a better chance of saving your friends 38 GiB
of music by using an Ubuntu Live CD (or similar) than you will with a Win XP
disc. Personally I would boot the machine from the live CD and then copy the
data off to a safe media. Then you can re-install Windows once
Hi Dianne .
On 4 June 2010 11:45, Dianne Reuby wrote:
Great work! What email address did you use? I can only find
> phone/chat/postal contacts for them.
>
Someone on this list suggested writing to Dell CEO - Michael Dell (
mich...@dell.com) and my email was answered quickly by the guy in th
On 4 June 2010 19:35, Daniel Case wrote:
> With your original question, it is possible to use the partition which
> stores everything.
>
> It is located on:
> /dev/mmcblk0p4
I is not a good idea to use it as 'swap' space though is it? I
understood that using flash for swap was not a good idea as
On 04/06/10 19:38, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Daniel/all
>
> On 4 June 2010 19:33, Daniel Case wrote:
>> As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
>> can post it if you like as i no longer
>> have a need for it.
>>
>
> Ugh. Remember where you are. This is an Ubuntu list and
Hi Daniel/all
On 4 June 2010 19:33, Daniel Case wrote:
> As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
> can post it if you like as i no longer
> have a need for it.
>
Ugh. Remember where you are. This is an Ubuntu list and it's not
really the done thing for us to be dis
With your original question, it is possible to use the partition which
stores everything.
It is located on:
/dev/mmcblk0p4
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100
>> From: Alan Pope
>> Sub
Michael, i have a burnt Windows XP Home CD due to the fact that mine
actually snapped
As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
can post it if you like as i no longer
have a need for it.
An OEM copy of XP will work, its just a case of having the drivers. If
it has a S
Hi folks,
At work we're looking at server virtualization, both to give us a bit
more redundancy against hardware failure and also to try and cut down on
our power requirements a bit by getting shot of some older servers (P3,
early P4's).
Now we already have two IBM x Series servers which are g
On 04/06/10 19:11, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
>> What make is his laptop?
>>
>> Rob
>
> A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-(
>
> I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I
> logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again. I can get
> into th
> What make is his laptop?
>
> Rob
>
> --
A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-(
I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I
logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again. I can get
into the safe-mode with command prompt, and tried to insta
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 07:33 +0100, ByteSoup wrote:
> On 03/06/10 20:06, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > I'm getting this error on update:
> > W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/
> > lucid/partner Packages
> > (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_par
On 04/06/10 17:47, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Haven't been on the list in ages! Hope everyone is well and enjoying
> 10.04 as much as I am :-)
>
> I'm trying to fix a Computer of a friend of mine and it has Windows XP
> Home edition on it. I only have a copy of Windows XP Professional
Hi Guys
Haven't been on the list in ages! Hope everyone is well and enjoying
10.04 as much as I am :-)
I'm trying to fix a Computer of a friend of mine and it has Windows XP
Home edition on it. I only have a copy of Windows XP Professional.
I'm desperately in need of a XP Home Edition CD. Does
On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100
> From: Alan Pope
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My
> success and a quick question please!
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk
> Message-ID:
>
> Content-Typ
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100
> From: Alan Pope
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My
> success and a quick question please!
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk
> Message-ID:
>
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>
> On
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:13 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> The e-mail I sent to Michael brought a reply from a guy (In Delhi?)
> asking for full details. I have this morning received the attached.
> I think it clarifies Dell UK position quite well. At least they state
> in writi
On 04/06/10 16:13, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> The e-mail I sent to Michael brought a reply from a guy (In Delhi?)
> asking for full details. I have this morning received the attached. I
> think it clarifies Dell UK position quite well. At least they state in
> writing that they ARE
Hi Barry,
On 4 June 2010 16:13, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> The e-mail I sent to Michael brought a reply from a guy (In Delhi?) asking
> for full details. I have this morning received the attached. I think it
> clarifies Dell UK position quite well. At least they state in writing that
> they ARE p
Hi there ...
The e-mail I sent to Michael brought a reply from a guy (In Delhi?) asking
for full details. I have this morning received the attached. I think it
clarifies Dell UK position quite well. At least they state in writing that
they ARE prepared to honour the hardware warranty when we ha
Hi
On 4 Jun 2010, at 13:49, Rhys Morgan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted with
> a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu event.
>
> I have been offered a venue free of charge on a selection of dates -
On 4 June 2010 15:42, Dave Hanson wrote:
>
> For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running
> Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds
> £9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than the
> Netbook Remix image tha
For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running
Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds
£9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than
the Netbook Remix image that is floating around, and leaves enough space
on the di
On 4 June 2010 12:53, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>> On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift wrote:
>> >
>> > Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at
>> > lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme
On 4 June 2010 05:37, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Matt Wheeler wrote:
>> This is mostly fixable these days using @font-face (supported by
>> current versions of all the major browsers) -- the font can simply be
>> embedded into the site and downloaded by the browser ⢁).
On 4 Jun 2010, at 14:10, Alan Pope wrote:
> I'm sure we can put a call out to the community, business types and
> Canonical.
I'm sure given this weeks Linaro announment that we can get someone to
come along from Canonical/Linaro to talk about Ubuntu-on-ARM.
> Cheers,
> Al.
Regards,
Jamie.
On 04/06/10 13:49, Rhys Morgan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted
> with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good
> Ubuntu event.
We ("The Alans" of The Open Learning Centre) would almost certainly be
delighted to
All the dates I have been given are in July, I have a choice of any
Saturday/Sunday 7am - 3.30pm
I am open to suggestions subject to key people's availability
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[mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Liam Proven
S
Hi Rhys,
Awesome opportunity!
On 4 June 2010 13:49, Rhys Morgan wrote:
> This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted
> with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu
> event.
>
Sounds like it!
> · We have to provide a section de
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Rhys Morgan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted
> with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu
> event.
>
> I have been offered a venue free of charge on a selection of dates -
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 13:49 +0100, Rhys Morgan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been
> confronted with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings
> of a good Ubuntu event.
>
>
>
> I have been offered a venue free of charge on a sel
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:31 AM, ByteSoup wrote:
> On 03/06/10 15:36, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> In case of minor APT problems, the first things I do are a clean
> followed by purging the cache. This means:
>
> apt-get clean
> apt-get autoclean
>
> If that doesn't help then I also nuke the APT package
Hi All,
This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted
with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu
event.
I have been offered a venue free of charge on a selection of dates -
Ferneham Hall in Fareham, Hants
The venue has capacity
Hi all,
I recently installed OpenERP and as I struggled to find documentation
that was really up to date for Lucid, I thought I'd write an how-to
article myself once I had worked it out [1]. So I'd be very interested
in any feedback on that article: is it clear, does it say everything it
needs to
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift wrote:
> >
> > Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at
> > lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and
> > there's seems to have been no revisions
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:23 +0100, Joe O'Dell wrote:
> Hi
>
> > I was wondering if maybe we could have pictures of places from across
> > the UK?
>
> Why not have a list on the Wiki of places people can take pictures of local
> landmarks (CC-BY or PD licensed, of course) and then have a communi
On 4 June 2010 12:09, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> As a design this gets my vote. This would likely mean using Drupal but
> hey - it might make things easier in the long term.
>
Ooh, that is pretty.
Cheers,
Al.
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
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h
On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift wrote:
>
> Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at
> lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and
> there's seems to have been no revisions yet but then again that branch
> was only made 10 days ago. I have jus
Ar Gwe, 2010-06-04 am 09:48 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alan Pope:
> On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift wrote:
> > I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily
> > the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules
> > for Drupal which can design a wonder
How about doing something like this instead of the skyline picture... just with
more faces?
http://barbaragretter.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/faces_collage_30.jpg
"Joe Metcalfe" wrote:
>Hi,
>Of these I liked 1 best. I don't think you should use 'interesting' menus (3
>- 6) for the general publ
Hi,
Of these I liked 1 best. I don't think you should use 'interesting' menus (3
- 6) for the general public. I don't dislike London skyline, though I don't
live there. Other iconically British pictures - oak tree?
Joe
_
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[mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...
On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift wrote:
> I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily
> the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules
> for Drupal which can design a wonderful website. Here's a mockup of the
> site http://img2.pict.com/3e
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