On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Neil Greenwood <
neil.greenwood@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Apparently, it's not a problem with the installation process of either
> Windows or Ubuntu. There are some recent Vista and Windows 7 programs
> that implement their copy-protection by writing to an "unused
Hi all,
The minutes from the team meeting this evening are here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting
The main topic for discussion was the open source expo next week
http://www.opensourceexpo.co.uk/
where we are exhibiting. As well as those on the stand it would be great
to see others f
On 27 January 2011 19:57, Barry Drake wrote:
> Windows 7 and dual boot is going to be a problem anyway unless you
> re-format and re-install Windows before installing Ubuntu. But in any
> case it isn't difficult to reinstate a boot sector before installing
> grub... I would have thought there is
On 26 January 2011 21:06, wrote:
> On the subject of crapware, my boss decided to try ubuntu on his new dell
> latitude laptop running win7, he installed it by himself, and came to me the
> next day when it was broken. Turns out dell wrote a dock-like application
> for win7, which they preinstall
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 19:43 +, Barry Titterton wrote:
> Does anyone else find this something of a coincidence after Dell
> suddenly stopped shipping Ubuntu pre-loaded? Or have I got carried away
> with my conspiracy theories?
Dell has brought back the pre-loaded Inspiron laptop (only one model
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 21:06 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On the subject of crapware, my boss decided to try ubuntu on his new dell
> latitude laptop running win7, he installed it by himself, and came to me the
> next day when it was broken. Turns out dell wrote a dock-like application fo
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:41 +, Patrick Bulteel wrote:
> I agree - I have a LOT of pdfs and whenever I open that particular
> directory it takes a few seconds to display all the files - it's not
> regenerating thumbnails, it just seems to be ordering the files. I too
> had to disable the preview
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>
> The thumbnails are only generated once AFAICT. Look in your ~/.thumbnail
> directory ;-)
>
> Al
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I agree - I have a LOT of pdfs and whenever I open that particular directory
it takes a few seconds to display all the files - it's not regenerating
thumbnails, it just seems to be orderi
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:38:39 +, "Alan Lord (News)"
wrote:
> On 27/01/11 11:35, Paul Sladen wrote:
> >"Just takes a second" in the background is fine, as long as it does
> > not block your getting on with things. If it is impeding your
> > ability to click-ahead and get on with things, or pus
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:22:18 +, Colin Law
wrote:
> On 27 January 2011 09:01, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time
> > I open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager
> > starts whooshing around trying to coll
On 27/01/11 11:35, Paul Sladen wrote:
"Just takes a second" in the background is fine, as long as it does
not block your getting on with things. If it is impeding your ability
to click-ahead and get on with things, or pushing the computer's
response time above the 100-millisecond time allowed b
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 27 January 2011 11:11, Paul Sladen wrote:
> I don't think there is much to fix, it is perfectly quick. It's just
> the process of generating an icon from a PDF takes a second. If there
> is a lot of them,
"Just takes a second" in the background is fin
On 27 January 2011 11:11, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, mac wrote:
>> On 27/01/11 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> > ...There is a simple preferences box which
>> You mean you only want to turn off thumbnails for pdfs,
>
> It would be good to get to the root cause here. Is the desire f
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, mac wrote:
> On 27/01/11 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > ...There is a simple preferences box which
> You mean you only want to turn off thumbnails for pdfs,
It would be good to get to the root cause here. Is the desire for
turning off the icon previews because rendering is
On 27/01/11 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
...There is a simple preferences box which allows
the usual modifications of what gets displayed in a file list, but I
can't see how to deactivate this particular feature. Does anyone know a
way?
You mean you only want to turn off thumbnails for pdfs, bu
On 27 January 2011 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time I
> open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager starts
> whooshing around trying to collect tiny icon-sized copies of the front
> pages of every pdf in t
Hi,
I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time I
open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager starts
whooshing around trying to collect tiny icon-sized copies of the front
pages of every pdf in the sub-folder and display them next to the file
details in t
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