Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

2011-02-18 Thread mac
On 19/02/2011 06:05, Hassan "Haz" Williamson wrote: @Mac, Thanks for that. Interesting read. Personally I'm going where the developers are, I have a feeling that Oracle might try to swing things to their favour and might close down some aspects of OOo - either that or try to incorporate their own

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

2011-02-18 Thread Hassan "Haz" Williamson
@Mac, Thanks for that. Interesting read. Personally I'm going where the developers are, I have a feeling that Oracle might try to swing things to their favour and might close down some aspects of OOo - either that or try to incorporate their own proprietary database system in somehow. I could be wr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

2011-02-18 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:44 AM, mac wrote: > Just to follow up the recent thread - I guess some but not all of us may > have come across this: > > http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/open-office-dilemma-openofficeorg-vs-libreoffice-716 Interesting - thanks for that. I have LibreOffice 3.3 r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unable to share files over network.

2011-02-18 Thread ian pettitt
On 18/02/11 11:35, John MM wrote: I am running Ubuntu 1-0.10 on both my machines. I have tried a few thigns already to get the network to wowk, but I cant. If I go to Places>Network I see just a windows Icon with no Ubuntu Icon there to share, and when i click on it, it says unable to mount. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unable to share files over network.

2011-02-18 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the fact that the line you added has a # at the start indicates that it is a comment and will not effect the configuration of samba. try this - http://tinyurl.com/645hsq2 Jacob Mansfield Programmer CyberKing Solutions™ www.cyberkingsolutions.co.uk - I do know the database is down "When Windows™ is

[ubuntu-uk] Unable to share files over network.

2011-02-18 Thread John MM
I am running Ubuntu 1-0.10 on both my machines. I have tried a few thigns already to get the network to wowk, but I cant. If I go to Places>Network I see just a windows Icon with no Ubuntu Icon there to share, and when i click on it, it says unable to mount. I have gone into Nautilus and clic