Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

2011-06-07 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 07/06/2011 07:24, alan c wrote: There is an overwhelming swirl and momentum of the broader establishment which pulls (I was going to say 'sucks'...) into Microsoft products. Absolutely. there was a question in the Daily Telegraph Tech column only yesterday about opening attachments - the r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

2011-06-07 Thread alan c
On 07/06/11 14:58, Bea Groves wrote: Hi! You may be interested to know that I'm an adult education tutor, ICT being one of my subject areas. Just recently I've managed to get our local adult education service (on North Tyneside) to put on a courses this autumn dealing with both FOSS and GNU-Linu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity & gimp

2011-06-07 Thread John Stevenson
On 7 June 2011 06:55, Philip Stubbs wrote: > There seems to be a lot of Unity bashing going on. Just for balance, I > have been getting on fine. I accept that it is still very young and > has some maturing to do, but overall, I like it. > > The big test for me was how the wife would get on. I was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

2011-06-07 Thread Bea Groves
Hi! You may be interested to know that I'm an adult education tutor, ICT being one of my subject areas. Just recently I've managed to get our local adult education service (on North Tyneside) to put on a courses this autumn dealing with both FOSS and GNU-Linux (specifically Ubuntu), with me teachi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity & gimp

2011-06-07 Thread Philip Stubbs
There seems to be a lot of Unity bashing going on. Just for balance, I have been getting on fine. I accept that it is still very young and has some maturing to do, but overall, I like it. The big test for me was how the wife would get on. I was expecting all sorts of wailing and mumbling along the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

2011-06-07 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Still haven't seen the BBC click video that started this but I like where it is going! I did give a slight thought as how to engage a class to learn a bit of programming or open (free) software culture. I came up with a silly idea but I'll just say it. 1) Get the kids to agree what they would lik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rating software in software centre (richard)

2011-06-07 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Thanks! I'll give it ago tonight! There was an update but only on Gwyddion end so it must have been fixed through gwyddion! -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/