Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb wireless

2007-06-16 Thread Simon Elliott
michaelweaver wrote: > The device I now have is a USB stick. > Should this be supported under Ubuntu? > I ask as I have not been able to find any documentation which might tell > me if USB sticks for wireless are supported. I was recently helping a friend getting their laptop online - they'd bough

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Planets

2007-06-01 Thread Simon Elliott
Oh wow, I use Liferea too... I didn't know it did that though! It just gets better and better...! Brilliant! --Simon adrian wrote: > Simon, I use Liferea and I load in all the duplicate posts, but once I > have read one in ine feed, it marks all others duplicate posts as read. > So no problem.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Planets

2007-05-31 Thread Simon Elliott
Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an rss feed subscription to planet.ubuntu.com.. how much > duplication would I experience If I subscribed to the uk planet as well? Only 11 feeds, yes I counted them because I couldn't figure out how to make a shell script do it any quicker. Need s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Web forum software for Ubuntu (Edgy server) - recommendations wanted

2007-05-30 Thread Simon Elliott
Mark Harrison wrote: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PhpBB2 > > Now working fine > > M. > I would mention at this point to make certain you keep up to date with security updates for both PHP itself and phpBB - in the past, there have been many vulnerabilities found in the software

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread Simon Elliott
Chris Rowson wrote: > Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new > product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it > looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd > be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] planet.ubuntu-uk.org

2007-05-30 Thread Simon Elliott
Michael Wood wrote: > Hi All, > > Due to popular demand I've made planet.ubuntu-uk.org look a lot nicer > (hopefully) and it now has the facilities to have more information about > each author. > > Unless there are any objections to the design can I ask that people who > wish to fill in extra in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] document template/layout query

2007-04-13 Thread Simon Elliott
Google throws up http://webpage-tools.com/faqmaker.asp and a few similar "plug in your questions and answers" websites. (Keywords searched: FAQ template). Is that the sort of thing you were after?? --Simon Jim Kissel wrote: > Anyone have a good document template/sytle/example document for layo