On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:58:54 +
paul sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using Ubuntu 11.04. I was using the system earlier today logged
> out as I usually do, when i went back to the system later on, the
> actual desktop appearance had changed, I know I can change this using
>
> system - preferen
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:26:46 +
Alan Bell wrote:
> On 05/12/11 11:16, Barry Drake wrote:
> > Hi there Received a reply from my MP this morning about open
> > standards in schools. In the reply was the following link which
> > you might find of interest: http://opensourceschools.org.uk
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:32:50 +
Gareth France wrote:
> Recently I decided to do my part by starting up a small business
> selling machines with Ubuntu pre-installed and offering support. My
> bank have refused to offer me a business account at all 'because it's
> too risky to open an account f
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:37:31 +
Gareth France wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:31 PM, alan c
> wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I spent time with someone who was interested in using
> > Ubuntu. The Live CD ran well in her laptop. However, the live
> > session disc utility showed some errors, numerica
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:47:28 +
Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 12 November 2011 15:20, alan c wrote:
>
> >
> > On 12/11/11 15:13, Neil Perry wrote:
> > > On 12 November 2011 15:10, alan c
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 12/11/11 14:57, Colin Law wrote:
> > >> > On 12 November 2011 14:47, alan c
> >
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:47:29 +0100
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 11:43, Sean Miller wrote:
> > The key is that we need to EDUCATE the "educators" that
> > accessibility is important, and Word/Excel files disempower those
> > without the software to read
> I think the key point is no
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:44:32 +0100
Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Grant Sewell wrote:
> > I would dispute this. Not the part that says that people won't turn
> > to Linux - I agree (at the moment) with that wholesale. I disagree
> > that people will turn to Mac.
>
> I t
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:54:15 +0100
LeeGroups wrote:
>> Secondly, the majority of children don't care
>> about how a computer works (any more than they care how a car works)
>> - they just want to use it.
>
> Yes, this is very true. Even my own kids aren't bothered despite the
> prodding from me. T
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:15:57 +0100
Nigel Verity wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
>
> It's been very interesting to read all the different takes on the
> Ubuntu name. Whatever the wisdom of its original selection,
> everyone's familiar with it, and to change now would probably be a
> retrograde step. However,
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:13:03 +0100
Alan Bell wrote:
> On 11/06/11 21:06, (:techitone:) wrote:
> >
> > Windows is a familiar word. It's releases have progressive names,
> > Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. They sound cool.
> not to me, they sound confused. 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME,
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J Fernyhough wrote:
> On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>> My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local
>> computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs.
>>
> >
>> Just maddened me a bit because he was willin
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:19:25 +0100
J Fernyhough wrote:
> On 6 June 2011 21:07, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Maybe Ubuntu-UK would like to propose 'adopt a school / college' -
> > It would certainly get the LoCo about 2,000,000 brownie points for
> > 'all the good things we do' for re-election of the
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:13:29 +0100
J Fernyhough wrote:
> On 6 June 2011 17:57, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel,
> > but I thought I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on
> > the last one (over the weekend), with a mention of Ubu
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
>> Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run
>> native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android?
>> Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the de
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Alan Bell
wrote:
> On 24/05/11 08:27, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>
>> Oh yes, how about all those Mobile phones that run Android? Even Apple's
>> OS X is built on Open Source core technology (although they chose the most
>> liberally licensed code - MIT/Apache - so t
On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:58:43 +0100
Sean Miller wrote:
> This is not strictly a Ubuntu question, but I know there are quite a
> few web people here so I wondered if anybody had any suggestions.
>
> Have a customer who wants a "gallery page" similar to this one...
>
> http://visualartistsuk.com/ma
On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:07:08 +0100
Dino T. wrote:
> Hi
>
> A friend and I are brainstorming on a 2 hour presentation to give to
> Universities and Colleges across Liverpool. To increase awareness and
> show students that they can save money using free/open source
> software. This is scheduled for
On Sun, 22 May 2011 13:36:07 +0100
Chris Rowson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a number of Ubuntu servers 10.04.
> >
> > They join to active directory run by Windows Server 2008 R2 very
> > well.
> >
> > However it seems they appear to fall off or loose a connection with
> > the AD servers. It too
On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:56:36 +0100
Toby Satchell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a number of Ubuntu servers 10.04.
>
> They join to active directory run by Windows Server 2008 R2 very well.
>
> However it seems they appear to fall off or loose a connection with
> the AD servers. It took 9 days last ti
On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:40:31 +0100
Sarah Chard wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> > On 20/05/11 00:01, Daniel Case wrote:
> > > know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can
> > > I educate these people, especially if they are willing to ca
On Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:23 +0100
Sean Miller wrote:
> On 20 May 2011 07:00, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
>
> > My advice - open the document if you can. If it's something that
> > depends on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf.
>
>
> Actually, it's got significantly better of late...
>
On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:41:47 +0100
Alex Cockell wrote:
> Umm - there's this talk about "middle-clicking". What is this
> "middle-clicking" you talk about?
>
> I use Saitek notebook mice... I see two buttons, and a mousewheel. On
> my Ideapad, I see two buttons under the trackpad.
>
> I underst
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:51:04 +
Matthew Daubney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev),
> debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a
> shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for
> doing so would be so tha
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:06:00 +
John MM wrote:
> On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and
> > (as far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it.
> > Essentially it holds details of each pac
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:34:28 +
John MM wrote:
> Ok, to cap, I had an error this morning, and was advised to delete my
> /var/lib/dpkg/status, which I did. Problem is, it left with me a
> worse error, and me being unable to update anything. Suffice to say,
> I now have an error saying 'Install
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:39:31 + (GMT)
George Tripp wrote:
> Up to now I've put Ubuntu on ancient PCs I already had. Currently I'm
> thinking about getting a laptop but don't want to spend my hard
> earned cash find I've bought something that can't run the operating
> system I wish to.
>
> Look
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 +
bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft have
> made significant changes to the UI recently, it would be no harder to
> learn how to navigate Ubuntu's UI than it would be to learn how to
> use that bloody ribbon
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:23:50 +
alan c wrote:
> On 28/12/10 09:53, Barry Drake wrote:
>
> > In fact they will be very surprised not to
> > be asked to pay!
>
> This is a recurring and apparent problem. A free app here or there
> from an enthusiast group is one thing, maybe used in Windows, b
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:33:10 +
Bill Cumming wrote:
> Think its best to keep it simple, at first at least
>
> I'm thinking of a tag line like
> "Get things done... Simply"
>
> Use it to emphasise how easy it is to start, get work done,
> entertainment etc...
I like the tag line, but I'm not s
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:42:55 +
alan c wrote:
> On 17/11/10 22:20, Daniel Case wrote:
> > That's true, but out of the 10,000 people who Google for it. There
> > have to be some people having problems with Linux? And as it grows
> > it will rank for other certain problems and keywords.
>
> I wo
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:33:12 +
Alan Bell wrote:
> On 31/10/10 21:27, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > Thanks for all the advice. I have my file in my Dropbox, but I'd
> > like to run from my own laptop if I can so I can learn how.
> >
> > I've installed the presenter package, and checked my hardware -
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:42:20 +0100 (BST)
dianne reuby wrote:
> I've got an Open Office slide show on my laptop (running Ubuntu
> 10.10) and I want to use it with a digital projector. I've looked at
> grandr, but I can't find a lot of info - is this the best option? Or
> does it depend on my laptop
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:12:37 +0100
Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Hello All,
> New to this mailing list, just wanted to ask a quick question for the
> moment. Anybody know of active ubuntu (or plain Linux) communities in
> the southwest london area? Richmond or Kingston?
>
> Would be nice to meet
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:35 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:
> On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote:
> > Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,.
> > is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't
> > running X on the server (stock ubuntu server, right?)
> >
> > I kn
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of the scope of Ubuntu, so long as it is reasonable to do so.
And for the purposes of completeness, since you seem to be somewhat
preoccupied with personal details:
Name: Grant Sewell
Primary Occupation: Lecturer of ICT
Secondary Occupation: Self employed IT Consultant
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:11:03 +0100
Liam Proven wrote:
> What? That's not true! What's with the FUD?
>
> Mint /is/ still based on Ubuntu and no plans to leave it have been
> announced.
>
> Mint 9, which the question was about, is Ubuntu 10.04 with a facelift.
>
> Mint 10, whose beta has currently
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:35:10 +0100
Matt Darcy wrote:
> On 23/10/2010 21:24, Ronnie Tucker wrote:
> > I have my EEE PC (with Mint 9) hooked up to a Windows 2000 server at
> > work. The server is set to force the user to change their password
> > every 30 days and the new password mustn't be the sam
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:04:27 +0100
Barry Drake wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:38 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote:
> > I am a Management Accountant, I dislike Sage with a vengeance. I
> > prefer Opera my self, but I am an xBase programmer :)
>
> My wife and I rand a business for years until I retire
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:25:38 +0100
Paul Sutton wrote:
> On 14/10/10 22:19, Rob Beard wrote:
> > On 14/10/10 22:11, John Stevenson wrote:
> >> I am based in South London SW16 and am often in the City.
> >>
> >> I am happy to cycle around the area if there is somewhere safe to
> >> leave my bicycle.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:03:43 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> could anybody recommend a good music player/manager, I've just spent
> 4 hours clearing up after banshee, amorak and rhythmbox and I'm not
> happy. it has to be able to consolidate my music library using move,
> NOT COPY. use 'smart play-l
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:34:05 +0100
javadayaz wrote:
> Hi.
> For the past two days my pc has been mysteriously shutting down. Not
> powering down!! Straight power off.
> My thoughts are that this probably because of heating issues...but
> that's just an uneducated guess. It might as well not be.
> A
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:41:13 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> On 22 September 2010 14:28, Neil Greenwood
> wrote:
>
> > On 21 September 2010 21:29, Daniel Case
> > wrote:
> > > Hmmm, just trying to set up the Windows binary, however I get a
> > > lot of errors. Is there something I need to set up f
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:45:31 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:
> On 20/09/10 21:18, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> > http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=6203
> > ;)
> >
> > Grant.
> >
>
> B Windows CE!!!
>
> Anyone know if thi
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:51:36 +0100
Daniel Case wrote:
> I'm not quite sure where this should be asked as it is a
> cross-platform thing. I am fed up of listening to my (Windows XP)
> gaming computer through headphones so I want to get it hooked to the
> stereo.
>
> Rather than use a heck of a lot
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:05:49 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> On 20 September 2010 20:52, Mark wrote:
> > On 20 September 2010 20:23, Colin Law
> > wrote:
> >> On 20 September 2010 18:46, Mark wrote:
> >> >
> >> > As a Acer Revo user (attached to back of a Wharfdale TV @ £150
> >> > ebuyer)
> >>
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:03:25 +0100
pmgazz wrote:
>
> On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote:
> >
> > The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I
> > have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64
> > bit.
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they s
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:58:13 +0100
Eddie B wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Sorry this isn't the right place to ask this... but I've spent the
> whole day reading articles about how to setup networks and routing
> tables and such like and still failing miserably. I'm hoping there's
> something I'm missin
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:30:37 +0200
Martin Jernberg wrote:
>
> seen it before, its awesome :D
>
> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:57:35 +0100
> From: j...@jr0cket.com
> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] An interesting approach to advocacy videos
>
> Hello,
> I though you many enjoy
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:31:35 +0100
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 26/08/2010 22:27, Kris Douglas wrote:
> > On 26 August 2010 22:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker
> > wrote:
> >> On 26/08/2010 19:25, Kris Douglas wrote:
> >>> but said because of the computer contract with Research Machines,
> >> My
Further to the other replies...
I've had a look through the KS3 and the KS4 curricula and, in my
opinion, there's nothing in there that is necessarily "bad". So if it
isn't the subject itself that's turning people away, perhaps it is the
people who teach it.
In my experience, all too often a sch
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:06:33 +0200
John Davis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have done a clean install of ubuntu 10.4
>
> I have 3 problems
>
> No web cam
> and no DV capture with kino and I am unable to configure a wired
> internet connection,I am only able to use the wireless dongle to
> connect. Unable
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:51:02 +0100
Simon Wears wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 19:02, Rob Beard wrote:
>
> > On 18/08/10 18:25, Simon Wears wrote:
> > > Heyhey everybody!
> > >
> > > I'm looking at investing in a scanner so I can digitise my
> > > university notes this coming academic year. I was won
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:16:57 +0100
Liam Proven wrote:
> > Edgy Eft. Edgy, damned right it was. WTF is an Eft?
>
> A small newt. I thought everyone knew that.
>
> By the way, "an eft" became "an ewt" during one of English's many
> upheavals, then "an ewt" became a "a newt", in a reversal of the w
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:41:03 +0100
Will Bickerstaff wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after
> > school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and
> > after school a
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:39:49 +0100
gazz wrote:
>
> The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now
> using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the
> network manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to
> remove the network manager and put wi
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:18:52 +0100
Jim Price wrote:
> On 27/07/10 21:33, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:14:05 +0100
> > Jim Price wrote:
>
> >> It's all going to help at some point I suspect.
> >
> > You could go down the Google Ap
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:14:05 +0100
Jim Price wrote:
> On 27/07/10 19:24, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> > On 27/07/10 18:42, Jim Price wrote:
> >> I couldn't make the Ubuntu in Business meeting a couple of weeks
> >> ago, but is there a writeup of what happened there? Are there any
> >> other good star
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:35:39 +0100
Barry Drake wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 14:09 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
> > >From Slashdot
> > >(http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/24/0241204/Dell-Drops-Ubuntu-PCs-From-Its-Website):
>
> I had a lengthy and unsatisfactory exchange with Dell over this i
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:22:42 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:
> On 06/07/10 16:03, Barry Drake wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 07:32 +0100, Andy Dixon wrote:
> >> I myself have created videos using Ubuntu, and found it to be as
> >> easy as doing it on a Mac.
> >
> > That interests me. I'm thinking of doi
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:22:49 +0100
Gordon wrote:
> I installed Blogkt on my 10.04 Netbook remix, no errors reported, but
> when I click on the icon, nothing happens.
> Any one had this, and is there a way to fix it?
Try opening a command line session and running "blogtk2" (without the
quote mark
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:25:30 +0100
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> On 5 July 2010 14:16, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
> > Not sure about Bluetooth, but with a second wifi adapter you should
> > be able to configure an ad-hoc network from the Ubuntu machine.
> > You'd need to configure the Ubuntu machine as a
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