On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough wrote:
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> I know I slate the state of teaching quite often, but it's not
> teachers who upload stuff onto websites - it's admin staff. Primary
> schools, for example, have a school secretary who normally has to do
> pretty much everything (and quite o
My sons school is not great. Most things are in PDF, Newsletters,
prospectus, ofsted reports etc, I like the way Mark's school links directly
to the ofsted site for the HTML version of the report rather than the way
ours provides a PDF version. However we have no word excel or ppt files yet.
The ca
I'll try my best to get there (though very close to baby due day) and would
hope a few more from your neighbours in Worcestershire will be to.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Sarah Chard wrote:
> Hi everyone
> Herefordshire LUG is organising an Open Source Day on Sat March 26 as a
> follow on f
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Neil Greenwood <
neil.greenwood@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Apparently, it's not a problem with the installation process of either
> Windows or Ubuntu. There are some recent Vista and Windows 7 programs
> that implement their copy-protection by writing to an "unused
Another request if anyone has a spare invite going please.
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Neil Greenwood <
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> I use Workrave to do something similar. Is that what you were thinking of?
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No but certainly looks worth looking at. It was the typing break option in
Gnome keyboard preferences. I knew I never had to
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Alan Bell <
alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:
> Tuxpaint and Gcompris!
>
> great fun apps to play with.
> To be honest I wouldn't worry too much about parental controls for a few
> years, just put the cbeebies website as the browser home page and you
> ar
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
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> I have no idea what "FruitLoops" is. AutoCAD I can believe would be
> difficult, but then, the only way to open an AutoCAD file is to have a
> copy of AutoCAD, isn't it? IOW, 99.99% of Windows PCs can't open
> AutoCAD files anyway.
>
> Frui
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Josh Holland wrote:
> Worcester proper for me, though I'm in Oxford during term time. All of
> you folks should be coming along to get WorcsLUG going again. There is a
> pub meet arranged for the 7th in Worcester, and I'll most likely be
> going along. The more th
Apologies, I did mean to add that in general I agree with everything you
say.
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Glen Mehn wrote:
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> The bank analogy doesn't exactly make sense as banks are replacing
> something expensive for them (employees, time, and physical space) with
> something very scalable and well-understood (web apps). Books switching
> to ebook is replacing so
Thanks all,
I'll spend the weekend looking at some of these. Put a couple on his
machine and leave him with it for a few weeks and see what he thinks.
Glenn, I'll definitely come back with some feedback from him once he's
had time to acclimatise to whatever he settles with.
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> For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/
>
> For larger organisations I'd go with something like OpenERP:
> http://www.openerp.com/
>
> Al
Thanks Alan, I'll have a look at these two and find out which Sage
he's using, I'll probably give him both and let him dec
A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which
his windows install has been bricked by his AV.
I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time
messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've agreed to
look and get it working again for him, prov
you could do 'aspell dump master' and direct the output to a file.
Then you could pass it through quick script to remove all new lines,
apostophes etc and add your commas.
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There is an open streetmap plugin for wordpess that can place multiple
markers using a flat file.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/osm/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wp-osm-plugin#adding_a_list_of_markers
How manageable would something like that be?
Not looked at it too closely but I'd
Pretty much what I was getting at I think, something like
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Map
Centred and zoomed to the uk.
Mary, if a template wiki page was created, that you could fill in the gaps
with stuff like what you can help with, the area you can provide help and
when you are most likely
something like the opensuse user map would be a cool idea. Of course anyone can
create a wiki page and we should encourage everyone willing to offer support to
create one and link to those pages.
On a side note, just discovered the swype keyboard on android. Much easier to
write with.
Now just
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Vince Marsters wrote:
> I'm in Evesham, Worcestershire and will help out where I can, although I
> would not suggest I am an expert with Ubuntu.
>
> Vince
Also in Evesham. Vince the Worcestershire lug is running again! you
should join us.
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typo I think its http://askubuntu.com
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> The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd,
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Lord Bell would have been a much cooler name
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM, azmodie wrote:
> in the meantime i think new and general users should run the more stable
> Long Term Support release (LTS). as it is generally the most stable release
> compared to the 6 monthly release. tends to upgrade to next LTS more
> reliably than the 6 mo
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 13/10/10 16:30, Roy Jamison wrote:
>> Do all of these machines have nVidia graphics cards?
>> Just a thought, but there's a known issue with the new Xorg 1.9 ABI that
>> breaks the older nVidia drivers, and I'm guessing the 6800 would be one
>
>
> That wasn't an option for me - the whole program had hung and the mouse
> wasn't responding properly. I actually connected via ssh from my laptop
> to fix it, as I was working on that machine whilst the upgrade was
> taking place on the desktop.
>
Both machines I upgraded did exactly this. A r
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> any suggestions for a cheep laptop
>
I'm using a Dell D410 daily, which is still a more than capable small
laptop, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, 1.86 Celeron or pentium M, not quite as
small as a netbook but not as big as the monster portable desktop
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> All good questions and I think we should provide you a decent answer
> that is a foolproof as can be.
>
> Wiki?
Definitely a topic worth a wiki page. As you say Alan, these are all
good questions that don't have obvious answers to those t
In my experience hibernate is a pain, it takes an absolute age to
restore and is often slower than booting from off.
Suspend works well though and I use it all the time. The difference
being, at least as far as I understand it, that suspend stores all
currently open data to RAM, and then powers of
Excellent, can't remember which way I voted but I like this one
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Thought this might be of interest to the geeky types
Diamond Light Source is the UK national synchrotron facility. Located
in South Oxfordshire, it generates brilliant beams of light, from
infra-red to X-rays, which are used in a wide range of applications,
from structural biology through fundamen
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:53 AM, SW Wootton wrote:
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> Good Morning.
> I am quite new to ubuntu being an emigre from SuSe. Just thought I
> should make a comment on your email. It would appear to me that in
> view of the response to the issue of a change in the logo it should
> certainly not be ch
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
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> There were quite a few peeps last night on IRC saying the mail went into
> their gmail junk folder.
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> It worked for me.
yep, thats where mine was
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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 and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to
> 12/13 or so.
>
>
Alan,
I really like this, all your designs are just too cool!
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Hmmm, Then we have what looks like the upper case K (which I prefer). I'm
liking logo 11
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 22:55 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
> > On 02/08/10 22:33, Bruno Girin wrote:
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> > > I like it but I'd drop the "your" and I'd make
Going back to the Different Uu shapes how about a bolder lower Case u made
to match the K weight similar to this:
http://will.thebickerstaffs.net/logo.svg
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James,
bringing launchpad to the desktop is a really cool idea. When I think
about what would motivate me more to help, finding things I can help
with is probably top of the list. There are a hundred different places
to help out, forums, irc, launchpad etc. And I can spend hours trawling
them all
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