Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shock announcement

2017-04-05 Thread TT Mooney
Not all that surprising -- Phone/Touch never took off. Killing Unity is a surprise, and I like the UI, but understandable. There was just too much of a disconnect from the community. I still believe in convergence, but I don't pretend to know how it's going to happen (I'm hoping my next-gen Psi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Dell XPS Dev Edition?

2016-11-02 Thread TT Mooney
Probably not, other than the lack of a license, £50 cheaper, and terrible support on anything other than the shipped release. Typed on an XPS Ubuntu edition which has never worked well under anything after 12.04. travis On 02/11/16 21:16, Steve Mynott wrote: > I can't find either the 6th gen (

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train 2016 - date poll

2016-03-14 Thread TT Mooney
Well, 10 September is my birthday, so that gets my vote! On 14/03/2016 10:22, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: > Good evening everybody, > > Who likes beer, steam trains, beer, card games, more beer, and a bloody > good time? > > Yes! It's time to think about the Ubuntu UK RAT for 2016! > > As it's such a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

2015-03-06 Thread TT Mooney
So. I have a LOT of phones. For my 'testing'. The list is below, but the end result is that I'm using an iPhone 6 now (mostly for the vertical in-house IT stack that Apple provides, and testing my new IOS app). I 'upgraded' from a Nexus 5 running CM. My favourite phone of all time is still the N

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-06 Thread TT Mooney
On 06/01/15 14:26, Bill B. wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 18:40 +0000, TT Mooney wrote: >> BTW, most of my 5-6 year old equipment still works without any issue. >> In >> fact, my Thinkpad X220 is still going strong, running Ubuntu. But I >> thought it would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 05/01/15 17:58, Gibbs wrote: > > On 05/01/15 16:46, TT Mooney wrote: >> On 05/01/15 16:12, Gibbs wrote: >>> >> I love the freedom of Linux, especially on the desktop. The software is >> mature (albeit there are problems, like at the end of Gnome 2). But >&

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 05/01/15 16:46, TT Mooney wrote: > I'm in the process of founding a startup, and even though I've kept my > current company as Linux on the desktop shop for 10 years, the startup > is going Mac. Because it's easier to maintain -- because the hardware > vendor cares

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 05/01/15 16:12, Gibbs wrote: > > On 05/01/15 15:25, TT Mooney wrote:> So, just getting Ubuntu > preinstalled is not enough. And this is why I >> see Linux Devops people carrying Macs all the time now. It's a bit sad. > > Seriously? As a devop myself I wouldn'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 08/12/14 13:53, Alan Pope wrote: > On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp wrote: >> I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to >> provide PC / laptops which are definitely compatible with Ubuntu. > > Canonical does. For example there are around 300 different lin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-08 Thread TT Mooney
overall marketing plan. Travis On 8 December 2014 10:23:28 GMT+00:00, Alan Pope wrote: >On 7 December 2014 at 23:35, TT Mooney wrote: >> I attended the 14.10 launch party at the Lion and Unicorn, and there >was >> only one person there who didn't come with me (hey, Avi!). S

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-07 Thread TT Mooney
Hey folks -- I've been thinking about this for a while. As someone who used to work on Apple higher education marketing and a big fan of Guy Kawasaki, I think there are a lot of things that are possible. Probably we are talking about two things: 1) Advocacy/marketing to possible new users. 2) M

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choice of laptop

2014-11-04 Thread TT Mooney
Guys -- Just FYI, like a lot of other people, I bought a Dell with Ubuntu pre-loaded. In my case, it's the Sputnik 3 (XPS 13 9333) 'Enterprise' with HD5000 graphics. It shipped with a Dell-approved build of 12.04, which worked well enough, but had a funky boot process during which it was pretty m

[ubuntu-uk] Paging Alan Lord

2014-09-02 Thread TT Mooney
All -- Please forgive the paging post! Alan -- Drop me an email from your work account, to tra...@talia.net, please. I might have an OpenERP job for you. travis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Anyone going to Linuxcon/Cloudopen in Chicago?

2014-08-15 Thread TT Mooney
Hey Y'all -- I purchased my tickets and made my hotel reservation. Is anyone else going? I am OB on Virgin Tuesday 19 August, returning Sunday 24 August (love that stay a Sunday rule, huh?). Kind regards, travis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] RAT

2014-08-02 Thread TT Mooney
ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > >You can reach the person managing the list at > ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." > > >Today's Topi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

2014-08-02 Thread TT Mooney
Hey all -- First time joining up for the RAT! Looking forward to it. What time does everyone intend to meet up at Alton? Meeting at Farnham first is a nice idea, but I don't think I can make it. It'll be nice to put some faces to the names on the list. travis On 31/07/14 13:00, ubuntu-uk-requ..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-02 Thread TT Mooney
ervices > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 2 April 2014 19:13, TT Mooney wrote: >> > Any chance of releasing the server source, now that the project is being >> > discontinued? >> > > " Additionally, we contin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

2014-04-02 Thread TT Mooney
Al -- I would like to come along, and since I've never been to the Canonical offices, I'd be very happy to join y'all there. Kind regards, travis On 02/04/14 15:22, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:33:55 +0100 > From: Alan Pope > To: British Ubuntu Talk > S

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-02 Thread TT Mooney
Hi Al -- Any chance of releasing the server source, now that the project is being discontinued? Kind regards, travis On 02/04/14 15:22, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:07:51 +0100 > From: Alan Pope > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting

[ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

2013-05-07 Thread TT Mooney
Hi all - I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and they were mostly useless. There is a bit of bittorent going on, so I'm looking for an uncapped adsl2 se

[ubuntu-uk] Tablets announcement: Skype for Arm Linux?

2013-02-19 Thread TT Mooney
So, the tablets announcement wasn't really surprising, but it did raise a question. On the features page, it talks about: Take calls in Skype while you work in a document, make notes on the side while you surf the web, tweet while you watch a movie. And, of course, most of the target tablets are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government IT spending outrageously high... anyone surprised?

2011-07-28 Thread TT Mooney
wrote: >On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM, TT Mooney >wrote: > >> From the Register: >> > >[snip] > >Why are you telling an Ubuntu mailing list? > >-- >Steve > >When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many >people >suffer fr

[ubuntu-uk] Government IT spending outrageously high... anyone surprised?

2011-07-28 Thread TT Mooney
>From the Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/28/mps_slam_government_it_spend/ And the actual report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubadm/715/71502.htm Fun reading! Not surprising in the least, though. And we haven't even talked about the Defence Spendin

[ubuntu-uk] Further Decluttering

2011-06-13 Thread TT Mooney
Hi all -- I am getting rid of some surplus equipment from home, and rather than fuss with Ebay, I thought perhaps someone on the list would be interested. Current techie toys littering the flat include: O2 Joggler (works, briefly used, still in box, replaced with Nook Color Tablet for kitchen co

[ubuntu-uk] Decluttering

2011-06-11 Thread TT Mooney
Hi all -- I am getting rid of some surplus equipment from home, and rather than fuss with Ebay, I thought perhaps someone on the list would be interested. Current techie toys littering the flat include: O2 Joggler (works, briefly used, still in box, replaced with Nook Color Tablet for kitchen co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

2011-03-22 Thread TT Mooney
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton wrote: > Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read > normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the > case it would be useful. I have a Kindle 3G (the new one with both GSM and WiFi) and it is great for rea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice

2010-05-12 Thread TT Mooney
>> I have a budget of around ?300 for a media box which will be directly >> connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy a pre-built system, something like >> Acer Aspire Revo (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172706) would be good and >> then install Lucid. > >That's exactly the hardware I was going to r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-06 Thread TT Mooney
Hey all -- Long time listener, first time caller. With my obcession for small Linux devices (man the N800 was COOL, but not terribly useful) I couldn't resist the Joggler. Went down to Oxford Street -- apparently they sold out in store on 2 April, and may have more in on Thursday. Online seems th