I've been using freenx which used to do the job perfectly but doesn't work with
unity. Waiting to see if it'll work on 12.04
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> On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote:
> > I set
Don't suppose anyone's around on the afternoon of Friday 1st? We've got
more people than usual registered and each person tends to need a fair
bit of time.
If anyone's able to make it, you'd be very welcome :)
Details and reg here: http://foss-dropin.eventbrite.com/
Best wishes,
Paula
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On 08/11/10 22:46, Bruno Girin wrote:
Thanks for the epubbooks link, I shall definitely have a browse! Not
sure about your tinyurl though :-)
Ooops - here's one that works: **http://tinyurl.com/krlta **- I got
bored trying to figure out how to actually find and download free epubs
thou
On 05/11/10 21:33, Simon Greenwood wrote:
There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect what is
visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg but its name
escapes me at the moment. Have a search for 'hardware' in Software Centre.
Try lspci for pci devi
Open standard epub format works great on Ubuntu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
I use FBReader as a client - works fine both on my Ubuntu laptop and my
N900, reads epubs, txt and html books. It's a bit basic but perfectly
useable.
In addition to Gutenberg, which is publishing some of its
We launched the free advice and support sessions today, the workshop was
filled to capacity and lots of Ubuntu (well, and Puppy Linux) users'
problems solved! Really nice atmosphere and lots of fun.
We'll definitely be doing another on December 3rd, probably at the
earlier time of 12 noon, so
My response was how to get the monitor recognised _without_ logout or reboot.
Colin
I'll shut up till I'm off the medication ;)
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Hello Barry,
I have been using PiTiVi recently, after a great course run at Fossbox. We
used an MP4 container with a DivX codec. Output of this was great and was
relatively quick to render and is accepted by Vimeo and YouTube. I really
liked the editing options in PiViTi and found it very eas
Plug in the monitor then go to System> Preferences> Monitors (or
Displays I think, dependent on Ubuntu version) then click Detect
Monitors and it should then recognise it.
Colin
Unless I'm missing something here (recovering from 'flu and groggy) this
should be pretty straightforward. So
W00t! Let me know if you need any more info :) Let's hope they all turn
up, but it'll be nice to meet you anyway!
Cheers,
Paula
On 28/10/10 14:50, James Thomas wrote:
Hi Paula,
I can do this one!
:)
JT
On 28 October 2010 14:45, alan c wrote:
On 28/10/10 12:40, pm
We're running an Ubuntu sociable help session on the 5th November at 1pm
to 7pm near Tower Bridge (Central London). We've got half a dozen people
signed up, which isn't much - but they're all bringing their tech issues
with them and I think each one will need a fair bit of time.
We could use so
On 22/10/10 14:23, Glen Mehn wrote:
A quick search has given me some hint that it may be possible to get
his sage stuff in to either of these apps so thanks again.
I use GNUCash myself, but some of my clients who're used to Quickbooks
or Sage swear by this: http://www.accountz.co
On 20/10/10 12:28, Paul Sutton wrote:
What license are the other help sheets under? If you could let me know
please. I will try and add an appropriate link.
Thanks
Hi Paul - we mostly use the
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ - although
sometimes we use the commercial sha
On 20/10/10 12:28, Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi
I have created a quick how to, in order to explain how to take a few
photos and print these on 1 sheet of paper, using gthumb,
http://www.zleap.net/how-to/howto.htm
I am using 10.04 but I am guessing the procedure is the same for 10.10
the above link
On 20/10/10 10:46, Andy Partington wrote:
On 20 October 2010 10:42, jakewc2 wrote:
Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help,
willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people.
I think we might want to stop feeding the troll?
Paula
I've just got around to putting some pics from our ICT for Resilience
workshop on Facebook - which was basically an Ubuntu installation, tour
and maintenance basics workshop:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fossbox/246451092550#!/album.php?aid=237905&id=246451092550
The Lottery funded us to advo
Try the usual suspects (192.168.1.1 / 192.168.0.1 / 192.168.1.254 etc
etc). If that doesn't work, google the model for it's default IP and
hope no-one changed it ;)
Paula
On 19/10/10 16:54, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
Hi
The scenario is as follow:
1. You have permission to work as Admin on a La
Yes.
At least three in this picture alone.
http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK#5418430093759282834
Al.
What a relief! Missed that one . . .
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On 19/10/10 10:42, Alan Bell wrote:
Here are some of the pictures from the event last year:
http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK
Alan.
OMG were there any women at all?
Paula
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On 19/10/10 10:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 13/10/2010 12:08, John Matthews wrote:
On 13/10/10 11:49, chris cundy wrote:
Installing Ubuntu IS as easy as installing Windows and a darn sight
faster to get a fully-functioning machine.
Once you have installed Windows you THEN have to inst
On 18/10/10 19:54, Alan Bell wrote:
I would rather not do a pub evening for this (but we should do
one some other time).
Agree, Hub much nicer :)
Paula
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kind of, yes the API changed, but Canonical had a premium subscription
allowing them to do Google maps over https this expired about a year
ago and mysteriously kept on working. Apparently it is rather
expensive to renew the https deal and as launchpad is always https and
not http (for reason
we could
do worse than the odd meet-up and mini installathon, perhaps...?
I'm up for that - and can provide a central space with broadband and a
kitchen (unless people prefer pubs).
Paula
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I live in North London and work in London Bridge. I've been using Ubuntu
since 7.04 and I'm happy to help with basic support issues too.
As my day job I design enterprise software solutions so I'm also happy
to help out anybody interested in programming.
Cheers,
Bruno
It's really good g
I'm near Tower Bridge in central London, we're a small independent
Community Interest Company and we do a lot of FOSS advocacy and
training, digital inclusion projects and also Ubuntu support and LAMP
development for charities and SEs. We run Ubuntu servers (LAMP and LTSP)
and desktops for trai
On 14/10/10 21:03, John Matthews wrote:
On 14/10/10 19:52, Paul Jones wrote:
John,
http://askubuntu.com/
Good resource, thanks :)
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ep in touch - and
if you like you can sub to our newsletter which has updates about our
training sessions:
http://fossbox.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce_fossbox.org.uk
Cheers,
Paula
On 14/10/10 21:03, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:06 +0100, pmgazz wrote:
Oh yes, and I mea
On 14/10/10 11:31, John Matthews wrote:
Hi Barry,
thank you, I really appreciate it, unfortunately, I live in London.
Thank you any way. :)
John.
GLLUG meets fairly regularly and they do this kind of thing.
http://www.gllug.org.uk/
We have drop-ins starting soon, these are aimed at VC
On 14/10/10 09:58, Roy Jamison wrote:
Wow! That's a really good turnout :)
I'm hoping there might be some kind of Ubuntu open day somewhere in
north Kent soon. It will give me a chance to get my hands dirty and muck
in in the hands-on area instead of bug triage/fixing.
Roy - I have a work
On 13/10/10 23:35, Rob Beard wrote:
That's great to hear, after the discussion that has been going on today
on the list it's great to have some positive news. I'd be interested to
have a read of the report. I'd like to do some sort of Ubuntu workshop
down here in Devon (albeit on a much smal
Oh yes, and I meant to mention - we're starting informal drop-in help
sessions for Ubuntu and FOSS on the first Friday of every month if
anyone wants to help out (let me know) - or come and get help:
http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=362
We're also running a free introductory session on podcasting
On 13/10/10 23:05, John Stevenson wrote:
I'll add this also to the report if someone can remind me where to put it,
cant find a link on the Ubuntu-UK site...
Thanks John - it really was amazing!
I'll put up the feedback from the Fossbox session on Tuesday too, we had
a lot of enthusia
On 13/10/10 17:55, Colin Law wrote:
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Bailey wrote:
If you're a power user of any platform and you change platform, the
experience feels very dis-empowering and frustrating. This isn't
necessarily related to the relative merits of the two platforms.
Know
On 11/10/10 13:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote:
I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it
will be good practice for my own session.
Hello Paula,
I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release pa
On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello Paula,
I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release party, so I will see you
tomorrow at your event. I should get there around 12 noon.
See you then.
Thanks John - look forward to seeing you :)
Paula
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On 09/10/10 13:30, Ashley Whetter wrote:
Hi,
Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in
Stockport, Cheshire. It will take place every other Saturday starting 23rd
October 2010 at 3pm-4pm at Fresco (The cafe in the middle of Merseyway
Shopping Centre).
I've put this
On 06/10/10 13:58, Alan Pope wrote:
But if everyone just says "music player X is broken with large music
collections" and then _nobody_ files a bug about it, how will that
status quo ever change?
Cheers,
Al.
OK OK, I'll try to be less of a slob ;)
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On 06/10/10 13:44, Alan Pope wrote:
On 6 October 2010 13:43, Dan Attwood wrote:
Still not in the repos though?
songbird stopped linux support didn't they?
Yup!
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/songbird-leaving-linux-behind
Al.
Whaaat? That's not nice :(
Paula
On 06/10/10 13:14, Alan Pope wrote:
Be nice to find out why banshee is crashing rather than just jump ship
and use something else though.
Al.
Good point! But all the music browsers are a bit temperamental with big
collections except gmusicbrowser - so if I can't get anything else to
run
On 06/10/10 12:17, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
songbird is great, took me a little while to sort out banshee's mess but it
works briliently
Still not in the repos though?
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On 05/10/10 16:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of
music
On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz wrote:
I have 97 GB of music, works fine for me - must be another reason why it's
crashing. You could try gmusicbrowser, I
On 05/10/10 12:33, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird
On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod wrote:
Strange that you've had problems with these players I have used all three
but have stuck with Rythmbox and Songbird. Rythmbox can play MP3 files,
makes
On 04/10/10 13:55, javadayaz wrote:
would the thermal gel really be exhausted after a few years...wasnt long ago
when i applied it, it seems.
One of mine's making a noise like an idling black cab - I've reseated
the heat sink and messed around with it - only way to get it to stop for
a w
My event details are now on the LoCo site at:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/427/detail/
Thank you
Thanks, will try to make it as close to noon as I can - shall I bring
one of our laptops with me?
Paula
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I have no idea how many people will turn up, so I could be there practicing my
Inkscape skills or be
swamped by rampaging students all wanting Ubuntu !! - Hopefully some middle
ground would be good (for me).
I know - same for us, you never know with the VCS ;) Sure, I'll come
along and
On 29/09/10 19:59, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello Paula,
I should be able to come along and help out for the day, I can confirm
nearer the date.
I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it
will be good practice for my own session.
Are you planning to use Ubuntu 10
On 29/09/10 13:35, pmgazz wrote:
It's not on the right day and has a different 'slant' (the VCS wouldn't
'get' an install fest) but we're doing a day workshop showing charities
and community orgs how to install Ubuntu and do basic admin tasks on the
12th.
I realised after that yes I was going mad.
Good luck with the event - I would help but am not in the area
unfortunately.
Vince
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I seem to remember it being in Swindon somewhere - either that or I am
going slightly mad.
Vince
No, this is London :) http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=210 - there's
another one in Swindon :)
Paula
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On 29/09/10 13:44, James Thomas wrote:
Hi Paula,
Trying to find where this event is happening...
Am I missing something? (quite possible)
:)
Sorry guys, I've now added address details to the EventBrite page.
There's also info on our blog: http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=210
Directions and fu
It's not on the right day and has a different 'slant' (the VCS wouldn't
'get' an install fest) but we're doing a day workshop showing charities
and community orgs how to install Ubuntu and do basic admin tasks on the
12th. http://fb-resilience.eventbrite.com/
We're providing laptops for peopl
On 23/09/10 09:20, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
Have a look at Crunchbang as an option. My wife is running it on her
EEEPC701 and it's stable and fast :)
Thanks, looks good - I'll try it out over the weekend,
Paula
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On 20/09/10 21:46, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
no cd drive to load *nix
It must have USB? Make a bootable USB with Unetbootin (I don't know if
it's just me, but the Ubuntu CD Creator only seems to work with Ubuntu
isos?) Or just borrow a USB external CD drive?
Paula
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It would be a lovely little machine if we could get it running some
Linux system or other.
It won't run Ubuntu but Puppy should be OK on it. Puppee has drivers for
the Intel Celeron and wifi chip in the early eeePCs, better check how
easy it is to install on this particular laptop though.
I like Novatech and have one of their laptops - the laptop chassis is
great overall, however the case is stylish but a bit flimsy - spongy
keyboard and the battery fell out after a couple of months (a regular
occurrence according to the forums). That's why I got my latest batch
from eBuyer (als
On 16/09/10 22:53, Grant Sewell wrote:
O
I'm sure the BBC have thoroughly tested it in all versions of
everything available to have come up with this statement.
Umm, well that's not exactly what they said lol - I'd already
established that it didn't work on Lucid and figured it o
You can install 32 bit air on 10.04, even 64-bit. Essentially, you need
to download the .bin (not the .deb) version.
It's really easy to install Air onto Lucid, as I understand it, problem
is the iPlayer doesn't work with the version of Air in the repos. You
might be able to sort it out y
On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote:
The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have
it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit.
Alan.
Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said only works up to Karmic.
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Don't understand, Lucid64 install, flash works (10.1.82.76) and BBC iPlayer
works (Air not installed) what am I missing?
I mean the Desktop version, the browser version works OK.
Paula
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Reinstalling using the existing home folder is a fabulous idea thanks!
But you still need to back up in case of problems. And I back up
constantly anyway in case I accidentally delete files myself or am
struck by lightning etc etc.
I use rsnapshot, which keeps rotating timed backups in a very
To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a
recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to
'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and
make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The installer will go through
/bin, /usr, /var, /etc, /lib and s
I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with
non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue
badly-constructed pdf forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is
still a work in progress. I can manage to do it because I know Evince
fairly well and what it can a
FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then
make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back
Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I
check Twitter is unauthorised again. Have had to remove Gwibber as it's
t
Deleted the Twitter account and it seems to have worked. Thanks :) But
since I now can't use Twitter or Facebook with it, it's just got
identi.ca and doesn't really word as an aggregator.
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On 13/09/10 10:52, alan c wrote:
Although I wished they had contacted me, because I guessed such a
problem might simply be that a downloaded binary might have needed an
executable permission set (maybe)
I think it's that the BBC hasn't updated the Adobe platform version. BBC
knows about
y from Ubuntu?
Paula
On 11/09/10 12:09, Liam Proven wrote:
On 10 September 2010 12:08, pmgazz wrote:
On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window
spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this?
I am getting this as well; I don't
On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window
spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this?
On 10/09/10 11:53, Jon Farmer wrote:
Hi
I tried to install from CD on a machine running Windows 7 Enterprise.
I booted from the CD and told the insta
On 06/09/10 18:06, John Matthews wrote:
On 05/09/10 17:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 05/09/10 16:27, John Matthews wrote:
Sorry, dont know why I asked you really, should know better. Sorry to
bother you all. I know you are busy.
John
It's not that people don't want to hel
It does seem a pretty basic requirement for a chat client!
On 06/09/10 15:46, Jon Farmer wrote:
On 6 September 2010 14:49, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
Hmm, that's not good. Especially as it is a s
th all the major chat protocols, loved it but couldn't get anyone else
to use it and now it's gone :(
Paula
On 06/09/10 14:53, Liam Proven wrote:
On 6 September 2010 14:49, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
*http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
*Paula*
*
On 06/09/10 13:59, Jon Farmer wrote:
Hi
I have Empathy configured with my Yahoo and MSN accounts. I am constantly
get bombarded by 2 people who request adding as a contact or want to chat.
How do I b
I couldn't get the tool to work either, I haven't experimented with
Meercat yet, I installed 4 on a Lucid installation - finally, I copied
over my old manually-typed smb.conf and it sorta worked OK ;) Gotta
say, my brush with it inspired me with trepidation but I'm sure it'll
get sorted out an
We're doing a day of demos and presentations for the voluntary sector on
Software Freedom Day, details on our website:
http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=216
Everyone welcome whether individuals or representing organisations, if
anyone else works with VCS organisations, please do pass it on to them
There's been some work to tune up Linux kernels to ensure they run as
efficiently as possible - I think the bigger gains are in extending the
life of computer equipment though.
As we all know, Ubuntu can run on anything up to 6 years old and you can
re-use pretty much any old kit with an LTSP
On 20/08/10 12:31, John Stevenson wrote:
On 5 August 2010 18:32, Alan Bellwrote:
Could I be cheeky and ask you for the source file so I can create a tailored
poster? Otherwise I will have a go from scratch.
Thank you.
I'm not sure yet whether I'll organise something for the VCS (I've
OK withdrawing opinion on paint for shed ;)
On 02/08/10 13:38, Alan Pope wrote:
On 2 August 2010 13:28, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 02/08/10 13:08, pmgazz wrote:
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more striking?
No, but it's an SVG, open it with Inkscap
If I get a minute later, I'll have a go in Inkscape (and hope there's no
'ewweeuuurrrghhh') . . . when does it have to be done by?
Paula
On 02/08/10 13:28, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 02/08/10 13:08, pmgazz wrote:
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more
I think you could probably do it with xwinwrap, but it's not exactly
user-friendly . . .
On 31/07/10 17:35, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 31/07/10 13:08, Jack Leigh wrote:
Hey guys,
I recently came across this awesome demo of using the tag in
HTML to do 8-bit color cycling
(http://www.effec
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more striking?
On 01/08/10 11:30, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 31/07/10 17:32, Andy Braben wrote:
And I prefer the lower case as well. However I think the logo would
look better if it is bottom aligned.
here's my take on the discussion.
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Think I must be looking at the wrong thing? A couple of their software
products seem to have Linux versions, but I can't see any hardware drivers?
Paula
On 26/07/10 13:18, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 26/07/10 12:36, pmgazz wrote:
I'm getting a 404 on that url?
Try
Great!
By the way, just bought some Ebuyer extra value (Clevo) laptops which
they're selling without preinstalled OS (Pentium Dual Core T4300 2.1GHz,
2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 15.6" HD*)*. I put Lucid on without any hassle -
touchpad a bit annoying but overall a nice sturdy machine with OK
keyboard
Years ago, a user complained that Win 98 wasn't booting properly - in
the C: root I found a user-created folder called 'scary stuff' with the
.bat and config.sys files in it ;)
Paula
On 27/07/10 09:14, Alan Pope wrote:
I had a user rename c:\windows once. Just once.
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Besides the obvious issues with privacy and proprietary etc - small orgs
have all sorts of practical problems with Google - stuff just not
working very well and being frustrating. Also sync not working properly
etc. Better to pay an expert (and opensource) provider of groupware
services? But it
Thanks, I'll have another look at this. :)
On 26/07/10 13:18, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 26/07/10 12:36, pmgazz wrote:
I'm getting a 404 on that url?
Try this:
http://www.smarttech.com/us/Support/Browse+Support/Download+Software
They all seem to have a Lin
inux.htm>
On 22 July 2010 12:22, pmgazz wrote:
This is interesting - but last time I tried to work with a school they
were stuck with a preferred MS supplier by the LA and there was also a
problem with electronic whiteboard drivers for Ubuntu/Linux? Obviously, this
doesn't stop them
This is interesting - but last time I tried to work with a school they
were stuck with a preferred MS supplier by the LA and there was also a
problem with electronic whiteboard drivers for Ubuntu/Linux? Obviously,
this doesn't stop them from using FOSS on MS Win but I wonder if anyone
knows abo
Sounds like I ought to revisit Debian installation . . .
On 20/07/10 16:20, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and
faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It
w
Thanks - I'll have a look at Lubuntu when I get a minute :) Crunchbag
looks interesting but interface needs to be for beginners when dealing
with non-techies . . .
On 20/07/10 14:51, Liam Proven wrote:
That is what Ubuntu Lite tried to be - later rebadged U-Lite. We never
got the critical ma
Also takes a lot of fiddling about to set up a custom Debian desktop and
I don't have time to make a habit of it. It's a while since I reviewed
all the packaged lightweight desktops and there's been a lot of
development since then, I'll have a look at Peppermint. There was an
Ubuntu-lite versio
Totally agree -- really important to stay positive and focus on
benefits. Also agree that speed and relief from 'drive by' downloads etc
is a major selling point :)
Paula
One thing I've learned after years of attending trade and techie exhibitions is
that knocking the opposition doesn't ac
gig is more like it if you ask
me. Again, you can get away with Xubuntu standalone on P4 with 256 MB
RAM as long as no-one's going to try to get much more ambitious than
surfing the web.
Older than that and it's Puppy . . . or a custom Debian desktop.
Paula
On 19/07/10 15:50, Rob
Happy to do what I can, count me in. GLLUG is also thinking of doing
something.
Paula
On 19/07/10 14:49, Alan Pope wrote:
Anyone fancy doing something for Software Freedom Day?
-- Forwarded message --
From: Frederic Muller
Date: 19 July 2010 14:45
Subject: [SFD-announce] SFD 2
On 19/07/10 15:24, Dianne Reuby wrote:
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:42 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
if it wasn't for another guy on our local Freecycle list who gets old
machines, refurbishes them and sticks Windows XP and Office 2003 on
them (I think he's either got a whole load of Office 2003 lic
g OS and I find that being able to
help the environment and save money at the same time is a powerful
incentive to consider something new.
Paula
On 19/07/10 13:42, Rob Beard wrote:
On 19/07/10 13:21, pmgazz wrote:
Environmental events are good, foreground stuff like how to refurbish
their X
Environmental events are good, foreground stuff like how to refurbish
their XP kit and keep perfectly good electronic kit out of landfill . . .
Paula
On 19/07/10 11:53, Alan Pope wrote:
Hey!
We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG
meetings, technical conferences
Doh! Sorry - Just found some on the Ubuntu site . . .
On 09/07/10 13:02, pmgazz wrote:
Hi - Linux Emporium is out of stickers (and, anyway, I want more than
4). Is there anywhere I can just buy a few sheets of them?
Thanks,
Paula
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Hi - Linux Emporium is out of stickers (and, anyway, I want more than
4). Is there anywhere I can just buy a few sheets of them?
Thanks,
Paula
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I sent the publicity out to voluntary sector networks.
Paula
On 30/06/10 11:26, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick note to say if you haven't already collared a co-worker
and ordered a ticket for the Ubuntu in Business event then you'd
better hurry. There's currently only 32 tickets left for th
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