Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 18/04/11 11:17, Ian Pascoe wrote: Thanks all, appreciated. Ian, you appear to have something messed up with the time on your computer. "On 18/04/11 11:17..." Or of course my PC is just being really slow at pulling in your messages. Cheers Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Ian Pascoe
Thanks all, appreciated. I glanced at Picasa and from initial inspection thought this was a cloud based solution - so I'll now go back and actually read some of the background and see what it can do as a client based piece of software. Ian. -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@l

[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu in schools

2011-06-28 Thread john beddard
There was an interesting discussion about the promotion of Ubuntu to schools. I don't recall having seen the following case study presented. http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/Andalusia-deploys-22-Ubuntu-desktops-in-schools-throughout-the-region Could be wrong, maybe interesting. Joh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

2011-06-28 Thread Rob Beard
On 28/06/11 13:21, Ross Mounce wrote: Dear list, I recently bought a fairly new Samsung N150 Plus netbook off a friend. Dumped the windows crippleware 'Starter' OS, and installed Ubuntu 64-bit 11.04 Two questions: A) Why does it show as 4 processors? Are these all real? It uses a technol

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu South west loco team page

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Fraser
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 20:59:36 Rob Beard wrote: > On 27/06/11 16:17, Mark Fraser wrote: > > On Sunday 26 Jun 2011 23:08:10 Paul Sutton wrote: > >> As the following site relating to the UK south west loco team page is > >> only being edited by myself > >> > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SouthWe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 28 June 2011 15:51, Alan Pope wrote: > On 28 June 2011 15:22, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> The first one (about getting TinyCore running in QEMU) is here: >> http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2011/06/28/experimenting-with-tiny-core-linux-on-qemu/ > "In response to a post on the Ubuntu UK Loco mailing list tod

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Alan Pope
On 28 June 2011 15:22, Jon Spriggs wrote: > The first one (about getting TinyCore running in QEMU) is here: > http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2011/06/28/experimenting-with-tiny-core-linux-on-qemu/ > "In response to a post on the Ubuntu UK Loco mailing list today, I thought the perfect way to produce a c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

2011-06-28 Thread Ross Mounce
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N550 @ 1.50GHz > stepping : 10 > cpu MHz : 1000.000 > cache size : 512 KB > physical id : 0 > siblings : 4 > core id : 1 > cpu cores : 2 > apicid : 3 > initial apicid : 3 > fpu : yes > fp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MeeNee Notebook preinstalled Ubuntu £225

2011-06-28 Thread alan c
On 25/06/11 20:05, alan c wrote: Purchased new notebook laptop 'MeeNee' brand (?) PRE Installed Ubuntu 10.10 netbook and desktop sessions £225 :-) http://amzn.to/l8WX51 My summary of Ubuntu related things: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10980805#post10980805 Comment: I love it bein

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MeeNee Notebook preinstalled Ubuntu £225

2011-06-28 Thread alan c
On 27/06/11 18:39, Tony Pursell wrote: On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 18:14 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 25 June 2011 20:05, alan c wrote: > Purchased new notebook laptop 'MeeNee' brand (?) > I managed to blag one from the manufacturer to review on the podcast. If there's any specific things people

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 28 June 2011 11:27, Jon Spriggs wrote: > To make it portable, consider installing a > thin linux distribution (such as Puppy) in a VM (like QEMU) or > natively booting from the media storage device. I'm just looking into > how easy or hard that is! :) I had some time in my lunch break to take

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

2011-06-28 Thread Liam Gallear
Hi there, In your output check out the Core ID, you have two 0's and two 1's. So you CPU has threading enabled. Thanks and Regards, Liam Gallear On 28 Jun 2011, at 13:26, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 28 June 2011 13:21, Ross Mounce wrote: >> Dear list, > >> I believe the processor is a dual co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

2011-06-28 Thread J Fernyhough
On 28 June 2011 13:21, Ross Mounce wrote: > Dear list, > I believe the processor is a dual core Atom > N550 http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=50154 > Two questions: A) Why does it show as 4 processors? Are these all real? Have > I somehow 'unlocked' another couple *hopes*? It's a dual-core pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

2011-06-28 Thread Alan Pope
On 28 June 2011 13:21, Ross Mounce wrote: > Dear list, > I recently bought a fairly new Samsung N150 Plus netbook off a friend. > Dumped the windows crippleware 'Starter' OS, and installed Ubuntu 64-bit > 11.04 > which works very nicely/speedily. > Rather curiously the GUI system monitor shows it

[ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

2011-06-28 Thread Ross Mounce
Dear list, I recently bought a fairly new Samsung N150 Plus netbook off a friend. Dumped the windows crippleware 'Starter' OS, and installed Ubuntu 64-bit 11.04 which works very nicely/speedily. Rather curiously the GUI system monitor shows it as having 4 CPUs (?) This appears to be confirmed by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-28 Thread Norman Silverstone
My thanks to those who replied to my original questions. I shall just assume that my hardware is not suitable and be satisfied with GNOME. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Books and Butties at the British Library

2011-06-28 Thread Alan Pope
On 28 June 2011 11:47, gazz wrote: > Ahhh, but is it gay friendly? > We're friendly to everyone. Even straight people. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Books and Butties at the British Library

2011-06-28 Thread gazz
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:00 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > We now have a signup sheet on the LoCo directory for the visit to the > British Library Science Fiction exhibition and geeknic > > http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/1032/detail/ > > Would be great to get an indication of numbers so put yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Jon Spriggs
On 18 April 2011 08:33, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi all > > I have, very foolishly in hindsight, offered to help my partner to bring > order to her tens of thousands of digital pictures.  You can guess what the > main problem is, one of being able to find that picture of the cute whatever > she took on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Tony Arnold
Simon, On 28/06/11 10:29, Simon Greenwood wrote: > EXIF data is the only data that is stored in the file itself, and the > fields are fairly arbitrary - you end up storing in the description > field, which some photo managers use for tags and geodata and the like. > There isn't a lot of space in

[ubuntu-uk] meeting tonight

2011-06-28 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, our regular team meeting is tonight at 8PM in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on freenode, the agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda and you can join using an IRC client or by pointing your favourite web browser at http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=ubuntu-uk-meetin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 18 April 2011 08:33, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi all > > I have, very foolishly in hindsight, offered to help my partner to bring > order to her tens of thousands of digital pictures. You can guess what the > main problem is, one of being able to find that picture of the cute > whatever > she took

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-28 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 18:13 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 11.04 simply:- > sudo apt-get install unity-2d And you'll get it. Ah! Sorry, I thought you meant that 11.04 included it on the cd iso. Thanks. 11.10 does include it, and video cards that won't work with 3d work by default with 2d on boot

[ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi all I have, very foolishly in hindsight, offered to help my partner to bring order to her tens of thousands of digital pictures. You can guess what the main problem is, one of being able to find that picture of the cute whatever she took on holiday a couple of years ago. All the pictures are

[ubuntu-uk] The Leading Cause Of The Recent Linux Kernel Power Problems [Phoronix]

2011-06-28 Thread mac
Power usage has been an issue with 11.04. This article may mean more to some of you folks than it does to me. (Apologies if this is old news!) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=1 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u