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rm, maverick hasn't been released yet, the window buttons were changed
in lucid, new ground? plenty. have you not been paying attention to all
the new indicator work? global menus? unity? shotwell? a flutter with
chromium, then chromium promoted to main? new sound menu? multi-touch?
please, f
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 16:51 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the
> local area shows something... suspicious.
> http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn
t
I know that I used to live in the same area and got around 3mbit, until
it dropped to 2mbit. eventually suddenly shifting to 1mbit one day.
Thanks, Gord.
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aybe that is the machine with the
> bad GPU?) getting something new.
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> A very slow race.
>
I think you mean Mini 10v. not 10n. thats an old netbook, it works
wonderfully with ubuntu (i have one) but it seems its not offered in the
uk anymore
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hat! right now dell are only selling the mini 10
netbook which is a terrible terrible machine that won't work well on
ubuntu because of the nasty gpu (closed source drivers, only works with
old kernels). the last word i heard on it was that dell are spinning up
a new line of netbooks or something and
el if you can get
a mobo with intel graphics onboard
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balJam for more info
What you need to bring:
* A computer of some kind that can access the internet via Ethernet or
wifi, you can even bring your desktop if you need to.
* A mug for tea!(for cups of tea)
* A Smile and the will to make Lucid Lynx the best Ubuntu version yet :)
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cy or
anything else, that could possibly do a small presentation to get the
rest of the people up to speed? does anyone want to make a presentation
about anything else?
Also if there is anything you would like to ask or bring up, now would
be the time/place.
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my netbook and my netbook uses about 8 watts of power
and thats with running an LCD display + gpu stuff so not bad.
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:)
If anyone interested would like to bring up any specific skill-sets they
might have that would be great, if your a great packager for example it
would be wonderful to spend some time teaching others about the
mysteries and conundrums of debian packaging ;)
What are peoples thoughts on these?
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centre).
oh and be careful with blu-ray players, they may look cheep but chances
are they won't work with some newer blu-rays if the disk key's get
changed and it doesn't update, generally the ps3 is recommended as the
best blu-ray player out there from my more film buf
est voice is never of the people who
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On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:30 +, Lucy wrote:
> 2009/10/30 Gordon Allott :
> > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 09:50 +, Lucy wrote:
> >> 2009/10/28 Tim Dobson :
> >> > Lucy wrote:
> >> >> This is a reminder that Manchester will be celebrating the release
and HTTP
> server and bring a mini-switch with 3 client CAT5s and one to hook
> into my eeePC to serve these images off that.
>
> Of course, if I get busy, I'll give it a shot when I get there tonight.
Just to note, netbook remix images are only of use to that rare breed of
;m not even sure where my last
batch of them are so no promises unfortunately.
i will however be bringing about a billion ubuntu stickers (some *very*
nice ones also)
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the name suggests, i *think* that the svg has the bitmap bits embeded
in it but not 100% on that
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added to the ubuntu wiki
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseParties
added to http://houseparty.cx
If we could all post to the local LUGS as well that would be
fantastic :)
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e and I can change
it, I'm not from Manchester'
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its just half an hour of me sitting infront of a tv with a laptop but I
think its not too bad :) I just put down 6pm as the time but obviously
that can be changed easily
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worked a treat last time, very quick downloads so i'll get a few images
on my laptop too
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> able to make the costs back in drinks.
>
That would be fantastic :)
Also i agree that we should make it Friday really, most people are
available then and on Saturday just mixes in with Halloween which is
making thinks awkward for people.
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there are will be too many people for that again. The
> BBC is great for smaller meet ups, but not so practical for the larger
> ones.
>
Ideally i would hope that the bbc could be a backup if we can't find
anywhere else, I would rather pack out a small venue than have an empty
large one
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:57 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sooo its that time of year again when we need to start organising release
> parties and since I am closest to Manchester.. :)
>
> So yeah this thread is a good place for discussion on that, venues? dates?
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ggestions I'd be glad to hear them.
I have really no idea about venues, being from outside of town and all,
someone suggested BarCampManchester but that's at least a week later.
Honestly I am happy enough as long as there are chairs, a bar, some
tables and wifi :)
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On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 11:05 +0100, Gordon wrote:
> Gordon Allott wrote:
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> > Karmic is released on thursday (always a thursday) the 29th october
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> Interesting! A week after Windows 7...the comparison should be great!
>
>
I think it would also be int
Hi,
Sooo its that time of year again when we need to start organising release
parties and since I am closest to Manchester.. :)
So yeah this thread is a good place for discussion on that, venues? dates?
ideas?
Karmic is released on thursday (always a thursday) the 29th october but there's
nothi
Roger Lancefield wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I'm running a dual-head Nvidia 7600 GS on Jaunty with the proprietary Nvidia
> driver.
>
> Does anyone know if the driver supports 2048x1152? In particular (probably
> not a common combination) does anyone happen to know if it will support this
> resolution t
k, have an idea about some sort of event,
post it and see if anyone is interested :)
I'm not sure what the plans are for release party's next month but It
would be interesting to get things going on that front too
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a ppa, that would be fantastic also.
[1] https://edge.launchpad.net/rtmpdump
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> and
> bits and pieces) and I'd love to print some more but I haven't got
> the
> original files anymore.
>
> I just wondered if anyone had any material?
>
Hi Rob,
The data here should be of some help to you,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Materials
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logy will support gtk, gstreamer
and things like that.
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he software. Once you get
out of the mindset that the software is a "holy grail" of sorts and
realise that we are all a bunch of people in the same boat then it feels
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chat and
tried to tell everyone who didn't know about Ubuntu-uk to check us out,
hopefully they will :) Roll on 9.10!
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On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:14 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> Also, due to the numbers of people expected, BBC security have asked
> people to try to arrive by 7pm sharp,
>
I'll have to hop on an earlier train then and be slightly early, 20 mins
early or so isn't a problem right?
all tonight (I'll be the guy in the two
ubuntu shirts with the ubuntu lappy bag with long hair ;))
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Crewe, give me a poke :) always nice to share an hour trains
ride with other like minded people.
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x27;d like
> to know what else myself or others can do?
added to the Google maps Ubuntu release party... thing.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=112900338016548907693.00046760d5a846168dd04
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clock are bugged out (on jaunty at least).
I'm gonna guess the rectangles of white are supposed to be glares,
see: http://i41.tinypic.com/bg7ib8.png
I took the output of pdf2svg and fixed it (hopefully).
http://uploader.polorix.net//files/153/JackalopeReleaseParty.svg.gz
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hine you can run nvidia-settings (system ->
administration -> nvidia x server settings) to setup a 'second screen',
either a copy of your current desktop, an extension of it, or a
completely separate one. it should show up on your tv and you can play
video from there. I'm not sure a
this stuff happens at the R&D department, its just a matter of
the higher ups taking notice hopefully.
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s that an actual list? (I'm not familiar with
the address).
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ich in turn means the only people that see it are the ones who dugg
it.
Someone might want to put it up on the ubuntu-uk part of the forums, I
don't have an account there myself.
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=274
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/Shopping_delivered_to_Great_Grandma_by_Ubuntu_Linux
digg it up people :)
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you have the virtualbox debian repository enabled,
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) but have synaptic set
up to always prefer official repository versions over the latest version
available, thus even though 2.1 is available to you, it will keep
offering to install the earlier vers
en source short film made with open
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Just a thought, but if we are going to be at the BBC bar, does anyone
think it might be a good idea to send that bbc Click! show a message? -
Its been quite a while since I have seen that show but I assume its
still going http://www.bbc.net.uk/click
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Question is, are people interested and where and when could we have the
> > party?
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> So, are people happy with this idea or would people prefer to meet up
> in a normal bar like Revolution (which may get crowded on a friday or
> saturday night, which seem to be the most popul
ewhere I don't know
very well; so somewhere close to a train station would be great as I am
rather adept at getting lost :)
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Hellooo,
Its that time of year again and ubuntu launchpad answers is absolutely
flooded with people asking for help with the new release, if we all on
this list here take the time out to just answer one support request that
gets asked I'm sure that would help a lot :)
https://answers.launchpad.net
A friend poked me towards
http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/be-my-hive-brain/
today, which is the blog of graham linehan (creator/writer of the it
crowd), basically the jist is that normally he designs the look of the
it crowd, all the t-shirts and stickers and such but doesn't
Nevermind its all fixed now :)
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Okay so I have a blog, its on wordpress.com as I don't have any hosting
setup to speak of (I'm not a web developer, I use flickr to host images,
and wordpress to host blog, that's all I need, I don't use either enough
to justify a whole hosting setup).
Basically the rss feed that goes to the pla
London School of Puppetry wrote:
In a conversation recently someone said to me that Ubuntu is only for
techies.and blokes at that- and young blokes at that!
We get all shapes and sizes in the ubuntu community, from the 13 year
old to the 70 year old we have them all. And i think its the fa
Louisa Parry wrote:
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Apologies for my 'Geeks and nerds' message been sent twice - Evolution
gets a bit carried away sometimes. Anyone know why?
I only received one message, that might be the mailing list server being
clever though
Any i
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