rticles about Ubuntu in mainstream press
> * Official Ubuntu "shipit" CDs
> * Overhearing people talking about Ubuntu
> * Spotting references to Ubuntu on other peoples computers
> * (suggestions?)
>
does this count? http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/22937913
can't do graphics for crap though (making them in blender/gimp or
whatever), if we can get a graphics guy on board (2d/3d) we should
easily be able to make *something* in a week at least ;).
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> RPGs:
> Captain Senaris Vlenn, CO, USS Sarek
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all the questions the interviewer wants to ask are always sent before
the interview to microsoft so they can vito anything like what we kind
of people would want to ask with this type of thing.
s by nvidia for setting driver
settings for its geforce line of cpus, does not touch the bios at all.
you can achieve much the same functionality with the nvidia-settings
program that's included with the nvidia binary driver
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tux) frozen bubble, tux racer and Super Tux among others. generally
though there arn't many games made with an actual christmas'y theme for
the pc (such as.. iruno, saving Santa from evil reindeer's or som't?)
because pc games are generally played by 'older&#
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few things in progress for ioquake3, what openarena/tremulous n stuff
are based on, that should be good) so anything i can do to help from
that perspective :) although iruno if thats really needed. these things
are pretty well established.
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everyone and their cat knows where that names from :P
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On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:18 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Well different colours would have been good, could spray paint them,
> lol.
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> Daniel
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5428/ubuntuue4.jpg ;)
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lot of people would appreciate it if you helped out and its a great
way to get started on helping ubuntu (and other new people) if you have
been sitting on the fence for a while.
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(dapper is a bit old now but the process is basically the same)
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ct point for anyone and everyone.
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> So Bravely step forward and volunteer for this most prominent role and
> enjoy the adulation you receive.
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Go on then, thought i might as well volunteer :)
I'm gord, been around in ubuntu-uk for quite
e a community of people who use and support Ubuntu in
their own ways maybe.. Thoughts and suggestions?
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at the bottom of a video stream it has 'open in a standalone
player' you could try copying that link into a standalone realplayer and
playing from there.
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up the preferences menu (edit->preferences) you can enable extra volume
controls. you might want to check that there are non muted that should
not be. i don't have a digital output myself but i would guess you would
need to enable some sort of 'digital' control to
t use the loki games installer
( http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=51 )
you could technically just use the installer to install the ut linux
files and then copy over the already installed files to your linux
install location (careful about overwriting). its quite dodgy though.
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though as the
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On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 02:05 +0100, Michael Wood wrote:
> There are other boot loaders (like window's own) so it would be
> incorrect to say that your computer would not boot without grub.
It would not boot at all until another boot loader had been loaded into
the master boot record, there is no
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:16 +0100, Robin Hall wrote:
> I have Windows XP and Ubuntu running as a dual boot system on my
> computer. The system worked perfectly up until yesterday when Windows
> loaded and continues to load without giving me choice. I understand
> this could be because the Grub bo
the ubuntu-uk team on launchpad if you have
not already, visit https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk to do that :)
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ase of Ubuntu :) if you have a
64-bit computer though you'll need
http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
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On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:56 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
>
> Your average user isn't to bothered about how something works, they
> just want it to have spangly flashy whizzy buttons and a cool
> reputation.
>
> It'd be a great idea if Ubuntu was to set up a site where users could
> contribute video
just to throw in my two pennies, any Ubuntu-UK radio would be
representing Ubuntu and thus should be held up to the same Code of
Conduct as you would in any other Ubuntu related situation, which
generally extends to no swaring. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
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On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 12:18 +, Kirrus wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm a newbie onto this list.. thought I might as well say a bit about
> me. I'm a trainee web designer in Wales. My Primary home and work O.S.
> is Ubuntu. I switched to Ubuntu in summer last year, and haven't
> looked back. (Apart from
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:20 +, Andrew Price wrote:
> I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this
> interesting:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm
>
> "The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more
> open source software
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:42 +, Chris Wright wrote:
> Hope you lot are a friendly lot.
> Seems fairly low traffic at the moment and not too much SN/R
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
we're more friendly than you could shake a stick at! mailing list
traffic comes and goes but if you want a more activ
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:32 +, STONE COLD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im experiencing choppiness when video playback. its fine in a smaller screen
> but in a bigger screen the choppiness occurs. Previously ive changed the
> video card name after doing something in terminal. I had to change it from
>
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:11 +, Benjamin Webb wrote:
> I thought I'd point out
> http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11077.asp , the response to the
> petition to stop software patents. Apparently software patents are
> already illegal in the UK.
>
> Does this mean that it is legal for us to
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:10 +, ged byrom wrote:
> I am having problems at start up. I am using kubuntu edgy. My problem is
> that sometimes it starts up and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I get
> "pc out of frequency" with some numbers in khz and hz. These numbers can
> change. Sometimes I
> john levin wrote:
> > "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to promote
> > the use of Open Document Format within the UK government."
> > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OpenDocument/
I would also like to bring the following petition to the groups
attention, i feel its a very important goa
>
> Unfortunately Ubuntu isn't going to be promoted by high profile
> advertising anytime soon, so we are going to have to fall back on word
> of mouth, stickers, and so on.
>
to be honest if the whole word of mouth and such things worked then we
wouldn't have a problem right now. For example y
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:51 +, norman wrote:
> The only application I have found which will give me all of the few
> things I use is Gimp. I know there are those who say Gimp is too
> complicated but, by a bit of judicious selection, a relatively few key
> presses, plus patience. gives me my e
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:44 +, Benjamin Webb wrote:
> It seems as if schools in France will be distributing Open Source
> Software - http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707.
> Its a shame that our government isn't trying to do anything like this.
>
and they won't unless
Snippet:
"UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's
academic licensing programs face the 'significant potential' of being
locked in to the company's software, according to an interim review by
the UK government agency responsible for technology in education.
The Briti
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 08:23 +, Dave Briggs wrote:
> One thing that confused me though is that many of the packages say
> they are not compatible with my system (stating that it is a i386 or
> something). This includes standard fare like Gnumeric and Abiword, so
> I really don't understand why t
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:30 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie.
>
> Tonight is "Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu".
>
> http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!)
> http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.
Sounds encouraging, don't forget to let anyone that needs to know that
there are many people (us included) who are willing to help with any
questions they might possibly have :).
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:02 +, Ben Lovell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First let me state I work for BBC Worldwide, i've b
Sounds encouraging, don't forget to let anyone that needs to know that
there are many people (us included) who are willing to help with any
questions they might possibly have :).
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:02 +, Ben Lovell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First let me state I work for BBC Worldwide, i've b
Just to say, last night I couldn't sleep for various reasons, so i flick
on my tv and see whats on, end up on BBC News24's business report
program. It happened to be reporting on Microsoft allowing Linux to be
run via virtualisation, all seemed OK but then the news ticker decided
to put a small amo
I have also been badgering the BBC for quite some time to use open
formats and also about the awful bias nature of their programs (news and
'click', their technology related show) towards big business and
completely ignoring floss, however seeing how Dirac (the beebs own foray
into the free softwar
I would say that their are a few large problems to overcome for anyone
wanting to create such an alternative. Science in general is a rather
large field, everything from ringing bells at dogs to quantum physics,
fitting all the software that such a wide range of people would need
onto a single CD m
you might want to take a look at this article
( http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/09/1434251 ) to see how
thunderbird escaped the wrath of trademark issues.
"If any of this sounds faintly familiar, it may be because a similar
issue arose prior to the last Debian version release, Sarge, and
Long term support generally just refers to how long Canonical will be
supporting it, the long term is because dapper is supported by Canonical
for a much longer time than the other releases. Unless, however, you are
a business this isn't going to mean much, businesses generally can't
jump to a new
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 09:36 +0100, Bill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling with Ubuntu and Kubuntu and have encountered different
> insoluble (to me) problems in both. I hope to stay with a Linux
> system, I'm on XP at present, but am very discouraged.
>
> Is there anybody out there in Ubuntu-UK,
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 13:19 +0100, Adam McMaster wrote:
>
> I've been looking for something like this too recently. Rhythmbox seems
> good, but the problem I have is video support. Rhythmbox produces an
> error message upon downloading video podcasts (or when importing video
> files). This also
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