nationwide - are they reliable?
How does one find out who the more reliable suppliers are?
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On Nov 4, 2007 2:01 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 23:05 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On 02/11/2007, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If so could you please vote in this poll?
> > >
are referring to
the help wiki, even though you've put the url in the title.
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has improved since they abandoned the
"free broadband" offer?
They appear to give an estimate of when it will be possible to
activate the connection, is that likely to be unrealiable, do you
think?
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lute crap.
Second this - Tiscali are rubbish!
I'm with them at the moment but am considering a move to TalkTalk,
which appears to be outstanding value and available in my area: any
horror stories with them?
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required/encouraged in order to
better interact with the international community. You can read more at
the following pages:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamContact
It's not (necessarily) a position of leadership, that's why the term
"contact&qu
ib libraries, and getting stuck! That's very useful, thanks!
> To make connecting easier I use this script:
Do you do anything to bring screen/irssi back up after the machine is
rebooted? Or, is there a way to get notified when that happens?
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now how you did it. Fancy posting a guide? :)
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er/009733.html
For a relatively low-specification solution, I'd recommend Dreamhost,
who are very cheap and (in my experience) give good service. They run
Debian. It's even cheaper if you use a referral code - mine is here:
http://www.mdke.org/?page_id=54
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Ubuntu, with respect I think your post was taken
seriously: yes, a few people (rightly) pointed out that the article
was deficient from a technical perspective, and others (myself
included) suggested that ideas be put forward about how to respond to
the article. You're welcome to con
On 16/08/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd check out partimage. (www.partimage.org). I've not used it the way
> > you want but the WEB page implies it will do the job.
Have a look at http://www.mondorescue.org/ too
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* Josh Blacker:
> My personal favourite, on a bookmark trying to be witty:
> "Never try to replace windows on your computer"
Not specifically Windows related, and only vaguely on topic, but by one
of the photocopiers at work we have a sign like this:
http://www.hilarious-pictures.com/content/30
* Alan Pope:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 17:24 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I notice that people aren't really using launchpad and bazaar for
>> ubuntu-uk marketing stuff.
>>
>
> If it aint broke.. We already have the wiki, it works, multiple people
> have managed to
> Matthew East wrote:
>
>> The creation of leaflets, for example, is
>> pretty clearly something that should be shared over the whole Ubuntu
>> community, and isn't UK specific.
>
> You might find that there can be differences. It depends to what level
&
> Matthew East wrote:
>
>> The creation of leaflets, for example, is
>> pretty clearly something that should be shared over the whole Ubuntu
>> community, and isn't UK specific.
>
> You might find that there can be differences. It depends to what level
&
On Wed, July 11, 2007 9:43 am, alan c wrote:
> Matthew East wrote:
>
>> The creation of leaflets, for example, is
>> pretty clearly something that should be shared over the whole Ubuntu
>> community, and isn't UK specific.
>
> You might find that there can be di
Hi,
* Chris Rowson:
> * Create a new section on the wiki for ubuntu-uk-marketing and move
> the current work on leaflets to it.
>
> * Create a new group on launchpad called ubuntu-uk-marketing and allow
> people to join. Utilise launchpad to more efficiently organise ideas
> and assign work among
Hiya
* Mac:
> Matthew East wrote:
> That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected
> inversion of copyright law.
A "beautiful inversion of copyright law" isn't a legal concept.
The extract you've cited from Eben isn't addressing the mechanis
: it's
> anti-matter!
This isn't accurate. The GPL is a license (hence the "L") by which (among
other things) the licensor and copyright holder grants the licensee the
right to use and redistribute the program subject to certain conditions.
A license is a type o
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* Alan Pope:
> So my questions are, do we have anyone who can write good copy (or know
> where to blag it from the wiki) to make a good leaflet or two?
> Should this be done by the marketing team and not us?
It's a good idea. Definitely it's imp
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 09:21 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > Not really a turnaround. The trademark policy is quite clear on
> > modifying the logo.
> >
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
> >
> > Those have been the same since at least 2005, probably longer.
> >
>
> In which case nowt
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* Tony Arnold:
> Chris,
>
> Chris Rowson wrote:
>>> Organisations have to be very protective about their trademarks. If they
>>> are allowed to be used freely as is or modified, then they can lose
>>> their trademark status through general usage. Th
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > It's likely that they were approved because Canonical have been quite easy
> > in the past about this. However Matthew's email shows that they are now
> > (rightly, in my opinion) looking to have more consistent logos used.
>
> Ah OK - So
On Tue, March 27, 2007 2:55 pm, Dave Murphy wrote:
> Chris Rowson wrote:
>> Also - when looking at the Demos https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Templates The
>> two sites showcasing the new theme are still using their own logos
>> ;-)
>
> ...and I'm willing to guess (but happy to be proved wrong) that ne
On Tue, March 27, 2007 1:09 am, Dave Murphy wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>> I was under the impression that we can't "use" a logo derived from the
>> Ubuntu one without it getting approval first. We have been through that
>> process for the current logo.
>
> The details are here: http://www.ubuntu.co
See attached for all those in the area of Oxford this weekend.
Matt
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Hi Matthew,
I hope you recall me from my brief contribution to the renovation of the
Ubuntu website. I've not been doing a lot in the Ubuntu community for
Hi,
On Sun, February 11, 2007 11:12 pm, Philip Wyett wrote:
> On 09/02/07, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Philip Wyett wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have been reading about the Ubuntu / Linspire CNR deal and I have
>> > some serious reservations about it.
>> >
>> > Will CNR be part of
On Tue, February 6, 2007 8:46 am, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:04 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> If somebody comes up with a good text I'm happy to put it in
>> mailman's post to new subscribers.
>>
How about the following:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:57 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:51 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > Erm no: he's right. Reply-to is set to the list address on list emails.
> > Personally I don't mind it, myself.
>
> I mind it because it makes me look
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:48 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:30 +, James Dalley wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And that was a top post. I'm going to stop spamming now.
> > > >
> > > I know as being fairly new to mailing list
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:23 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:33 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > What I had in mind was more something by way of freely available
> > community support.
>
> I always find that a little tricky.
>
> For me (whether right
I'd just like to ask everyone to take a moment to have a look at the
guidelines for Ubuntu mailing lists:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
I'd like to draw people's attention especially to the guidelines about
top posting and proper quoting.
Please take a look at it - it will help
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:45 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
> > > is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
> >
> > There isn't such a list
On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
> is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face to face help is a
very important type of help which is muc
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:28 +, Andy wrote:
> On 14/01/07, John McCourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Shuttleworth
> > should organise an event for them to attend too or
> > appear on the Breakfast program to talk about his
> > space trip and really talk about Linux ;-)
>
> I _think_ he was on
u 6.10 (and 6.06?) as
well. Caroline - if you do an update to your system, it should install a
new version of Openoffice.org and the problem should be resolved.
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getting a forum there.
Asking people to keep up with two media would be major overkill for this
community. If they can be integrated, that is cool, but otherwise, we
should pick one or the other.
By the way, this has been discussed quite recently on this list, see the
archive.
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ersforcharities.co.uk/. I wrote to
them offering to help out in any way I could, but despite promising much
on their recruitment page, they haven't responded.
Google also finds http://www.computersforcharity.org.uk/
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Hi,
* Dave Briggs:
> I want to get the latest version of FireFox running in 6.10 - all the
> docs I can find online are for updating it in previous versions.
>
> I tried running FF in root (with no tabs open!) to see if I could check
> for updates th
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* Matthew East:
>
>
> * Tony Arnold:
>>> Baz,
>>>
>>> baza wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did that without problems using the apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
>>>> apt-get dist-upgrade (twi
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* Tony Arnold:
> Baz,
>
> baza wrote:
>
>> I did that without problems using the apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
>> apt-get dist-upgrade (twice the latter) and it worked fine.
>
> Thanks. When I'm feeling brave, I'll give it a try. The risk is if
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Hi,
* Robert McWilliam:
> I don't know what the procedure is for getting events added to this
> calendar, emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] might find that out
> though.
Yeah, that will do it - just email your event and a link to the agenda
or whatever to t
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Hi,
* Ashley Hooper:
> Here's my letter:
{snip}
> I'm a Southwark resident of 5 1/2 years
Hey, way to go, that's my constituency too! I'll copy your letter, if
that's ok!
M
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Hi there,
I've noticed lots of screencasts being produced on this list. I think it
would be really cool if the discussion could move to an international
list, because these are things which could benefit all English speakers,
and aren't limited in any
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* Andy:
> Although it has been requested that the subject of forums be dropped,
> I was thinking (yes dangerous I know), is it possible to build a forum
> style front end onto mailman? It already holds archives of every
> message made to the list. If
alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does this list actually have any published etiquette, I would be
> interested to know, but have not seen it mentioned.
Guidelines here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
Matt
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* Nik Butler:
> Just a few thoughts.
>
> When external groups ,lets call them the press or exhibition organisers
> or agencies want to contact the UK Loco team it will be helpful to have
> someone as a point of contact.
Definitely. There is a bi
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Hi,
* Alan Pope:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:45:12PM +, Paul Mellors wrote:
>> I've no problem with Nik leading the group, however perhaps there should
>> be a more formal voting system so we don't actually leave anyone out?
>> [dont know what
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Hi,
* Paul Mellors:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
>> Pete,
>>
>> Pete Ryland wrote:
>>> On 03/11/06, Joseph Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also is there anyone who has assumed the lead of ubuntu-uk?
>>> Are you putting your hand up for the job? :-)
>>>
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* Joseph Price:
> I've just seen this annoucement:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290685
>
> I remember lots of discussion which just petered out about whether its a
> good idea.
>
> This could be a very quick and easy way for us to get
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Hi,
* Nik Butler:
> Before we get to far from the story I thought the following might be a
> suitable submission.
Can you send submissions to the Fridge to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
please? (Note that Linux World got covered already, including a mention
of
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* Alan Pope:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/microsoft_novell_linux/
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116249026689311557.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
> http://news.google.com/?ncl=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/microsoft_novell_linu
Hi,
* Steve Smith:
> On 08/09/06, Jono Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [..] Its better have updates on a slightly less sexy
>> wiki than have no updates on an uber-sexy site. :)
>
> Yes, I agree!
>
> As for the map, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/GetUbuntu for ideas
> so far. I think Gr
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Hi,
* Jono Bacon:
> * Website. Get the website up and running. Would be nice for the
> website to match the look and feel of existing sites, and maybe we could
> work with another LoCo team to borrow their design.
The thing about this is that the l
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Hi,
* Matthew Revell:
> I've heard back from Carl at System76 and he can send us 1,000 or
> 2,000 stickers. He needs an address, though, that people can send
> their SAE to.
>
> I don't have a business address I can use for this, so does anyone
> hav
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* Keith Bowerman:
> There was an update of the above announced on my machine this morning
> and I dutifully went ahead and downloaded it. I was running Dapper and
> Linux 2.6.15-26-386.
>
> On returning home and booting up after lunch I find that I
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Hi,
* Robert Schumann:
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:26 +0200, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
>> 2006/7/12, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> We've started a wiki page of Ubuntu-compatible hardware that is
>>> available in the UK. If you have bought anyth
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* Grant:
> Very well said Mark, I couldn't have got anywhere near as close as that.
> You make a really compelling argument as to why we need support points on
> the website. I would appreciate it if the UK project head for the website
> could get t
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* Gordon Burgess-Parker:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 18:06, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>> As I said, there seems to be NOTHING in the Kubuntu help files for this,
>>> and a google search didn't turn up much either.
>> Add
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Hi,
* Gordon Burgess-Parker:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 16:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
[...]
> A breakthrough. I've FINALLY managed to sort it. It would be a good idea if
> there was a definitive HOWTO on this in the Kubuntu wiki. I did it by
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Hi Steve,
* Steve Smith:
> We seem to be wasting a lot of effort at
> the moment building duplicate infrastructure for something for which
> we have no content! If and when the time comes that we're ready to
> branch off further we can.
Agreed.
>
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Hi Grant,
First of all, your mailing list etiquette is making it really difficult
to follow this discussion (and it is quite disconcerting that you don't
use your full name).
Please follow a few simple rules:
1. Specify who wrote the email you are r
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Hi,
Grant wrote:
> I will be happy
> to pay for the domain registration and put it in ubuntus name.
ubuntu-uk.org is registered and indeed already in use by this team. It
is being hosted on the server of Matthias Urlichs, the locoteams' contact.
I'd
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Hi Grant,
Grant wrote:
> I can draft up a script that will make it easy to add. I would suggest
> using something like NINg.com to do it however they don't support UK
> postcodes at all.
I think this is about the Ubuntu support points email... But
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Steve Smith wrote:
> They do?! Is this just since Dapper? What's on it?
In fact I think that they have just stopped having Windows free software
on them, since Dapper. A number of items from the Open CD were on there.
You can get the Open CD here:
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Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:38:19 +0100, "Baza"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Edit etc/apt/sources (think that's right) and change the word,
>> 'breezy' for 'dapper'. The run, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-
>> get dist-
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:37 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > Perhaps somebody needs to set the ball rolling in suggesting ways in
> > which we can promote Ubuntu in the UK? At present, my feeling on this
> > list (due to its very low traffic) is that we are more of a disparate
> > bunch of user
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:18 +0100, Robert Schumann wrote:
> > > If you run into real installation problems, the best contact for fast
> > > help is the ubuntu user help IRC channel, so make sure you have a spare
> > > machine handy with IRC access.
>
> Another possible source of help - not specifi
Hi Grant,
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:53 +0100, Grant wrote:
> Guys, Can we restrict the use of this mailing list to its original purpose
> that is promoting/localising ubuntu in the UK.
I don't think there is a problem with dealing with advocacy and user
support on this mailing list. First of all,
For information. If interested, see the gnome-uk-list
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> From: Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: GUADEC 2007 in the UK?
> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:57:13 - (GMT)
>
> To every GNOME user and developer in the UK,
>
> Around Feb
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:06 +, Caparo wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:57, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > > Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > > I've set Thunderbird as the preferred mail reader, but if I right-click
> > > > on a document or file and choose "Send to" the only option avail
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:07 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> When I receive my copy of this mailing list, I have a rule set up in
> Evolution to move it to a folder. When the mail is moved by the rule,
> the Date Received field is a "?". If I move the mail to another folder,
> the date receive
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 15:24 +, Peter Hooper wrote:
> RE: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BadgerBadgerBadgerTour
>
> Does anyone have any further details about when/where this will actually be.
There are very precise dates, with places, on that wiki page that you've
cited.
UK things are here:
https:
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:06 +0100, Nick Mcmahon wrote:
> baza wrote:
>
> >The October 3 update seems to have broke suspend to RAM on my Inspiron
> >2200. It was working, 'out of the box' up til that point. Is anyone else
> >finding this?
> >
> >Baza
> >
> not that specifically, but the same updat
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:29 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> Does anyone know a date for the final release? (Or have an estimate?)
October 13. For more details see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyReleaseSchedule
Matt
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On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:01 +0100, Geoffrey Ready wrote:
{snip}
> My question involves whether this group is the right place for people
> from Northern Ireland to be. It's called "ubuntu-UK" but the website
> (HYPERLINK http://www.ubuntu-uk.org/ http://www.ubuntu-uk.org/) refers
> to "Ubuntu and
For everybody's information!
A list of UK based teams for Software Freedom Day can be found here:
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/United_Kingdom
Pass on to your linux user groups and any other interested parties
M
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Martin Meredith writes:
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However, because of the Version Freeze, Ubuntu is stuck at version 1.0.2
of Firefox, unless you use Backports
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports gives you instructions on how to
use backports
However, it is import
simon baker writes:
Hello from Deutschland,
yes,I live here,believe it or not.!
I am trying to migrate from windoze
at the moment,and have the internet
up and running,but the browser given
is Firefox 1.02.
I have downloaded version 1.04 ,so,
next how do I upgrade the old one?
John Levin writes:
Last call for the Ubuntu stall at Lug Radio Live.
LugRadioLive is this coming weekend (June 26th) - for more details see:
http://www.lugradio.org/live/2005/
I'm running the Ubuntu stall and need volunteers to man it during the
day.
Can you spare an hour or so? Then ap
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