Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Mobile

2007-05-05 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
I've just had a really cool idea. Imagine Ubuntu PDAs and stuff, if Canonical went into the actual hardware side of things. I'm literally drooling! James Dalley wrote: > > Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:21:22 +0100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > Subject: [ubuntu-uk]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets

2007-05-05 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Well, it does take a bit of research before hand. Hauppauge USB freeview receivers work out of the box in Linux. It all depends on the market. Manufacturers are starting to put out Linux code now, so things like that will change. norman wrote: > To keep the discussion alive, here is an example of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GIMPshop

2007-04-28 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Very interesting, I will have to test it out. The one thing that came to mind though, is GIMP gives good reasons for not using the Photoshop menu structure: efficiency of code and use. Chris Rowson wrote: > I've just come across this. I thought I'd share it in case anyone > hadn't seen it before.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What manufacturer wireless access point to buy?

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
On Thursday 08 March 2007 21:59:53 Adam Bagnall wrote: > Adam McMaster wrote: > > On 08/03/07, Adam Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm using a Belkin router and it's forever crashing. My Dad has a > >> netgear router, which I believe is running Linux as it came with a copy > >> of the gpl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Tories want open source Whitehall"

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Don't trust the tories to do this. Mr Cameron will promise miracles for another vote. These are the same people who just promised to put a border police around all of Britain's costline remember. On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:20:38 Andrew Price wrote: > I usually stay away from politics as much

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thinking about switching to linux

2007-03-04 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
On Sunday 04 March 2007 21:53:17 Benjamin Webb wrote: > So, I've got a hardware firewall in my router, so I shouldn't need a > software one. > > What about anti-virus software though? Is there any software that > scans for Linux viruses, or do they all just check for windows ones? > > I'll make sur

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Security on Ubuntu

2007-03-04 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
ClamAV is the preferred antivirus, firestarter is a good firewall. Anyone who told you not to have a firewall is pretty foolish, antivirus is pointless though. I use it on my server to protect Windows machines on the network. Benjamin Webb wrote: > I know that Linux is supposed to be much more se

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netgear WPN111 on ndiswrapper

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Anything from here http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/ Andrew Gee wrote: > What one do you recommend to work straight away? > > On 13/02/07, *Roberto Sarrionandia* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I couldn't g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netgear WPN111 on ndiswrapper

2007-02-13 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
I couldn't get mine working, I bought a new one. Andrew Gee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I've converted my mate to linux when his windows install kept mucking > up. He's very impressed so far, especially with the installer! But he > has a problem. > > He

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu CNR deal

2007-02-09 Thread roberto sarrionandia
Would it be fesible to only offer the packages in CNR that aren't available in Universe? It would make a good way for users to obtain 'paid-for' software, such as Cedega. - Original Message From: Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Friday, 9 February, 2007

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firefox

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Do you log out with it open? London School of Puppetry wrote: > Can someone make a suggestion? Since switching to Ubuntu- whenever I > start up Firefox a warning comes up telling me that my previous > Firefox session ended unexpectedly and that I can opt to continue the > previous session or st

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 21:26 +, Toby Smithe wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:47 +, baza wrote: > > But when people buy a new computer you will be getting Vista in it, like > > you did with XP. Where linux wins is when people start to discover what > > a pain all the built in DRM in Vista is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Though this is probably true it should not discourage members from trying. Marketing Linux has a 'snowball' effect, more users == faster expansion On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:43 +, Benjamin Webb wrote: > On 30/01/07, John McCourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No offense, but Linux is not gonna h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Battle of the Operating Systems

2007-01-24 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
It does need a firewall, but one is built in (I prefer a hardware firewall anyway) to prevent malicious access through ports. Viruses aren't really a threat to any Linux distribution, it is fundamentally more secure than Windows, because of the way it is built very few viruses have managed to affec

[ubuntu-uk] BBC anti-Vista article

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
This is a surprise, the BBC have written an article critical of Vista. Furthermore, it actually seems to be quoting the FSF's www.badvista.org and the commotion they made when the original BBC article didn't mention anything negative. This is great, the Beeb are waking up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi there!

2007-01-18 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Tsmithe, have you written to your MP? Has he already signed the early-day motion? On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 23:00 +, Toby Smithe wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 22:01 +0000, Roberto Sarrionandia wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > I'm also nearing the end of secondary school. If o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi there!

2007-01-18 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
kscape, Firefox, Filezilla, and a few other bits installed. > I just left VI Form at my secondary school, was a shame not to see Linux > on the desktop at all, but we did run some servers. > > Roberto Sarrionandia wrote: > > I'm also nearing the end of secondary sch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi there!

2007-01-18 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Hi Ben, I'm also nearing the end of secondary school. If only we were a little younger to see if OSS gets implemented at all. Welcome to Ubuntu-UK, the schools discussions are very active at the moment. On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:57 +, Benjamin Webb wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm new to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC parliament

2007-01-15 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
installed as well as the > win32codecs. > > If that channel doesn't work yet I will try and get it > working. > > John McCourt > > > --- Roberto Sarrionandia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to get the BBC parliament > &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC parliament

2007-01-15 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
ress for the download is > http://steeky.com/stvlinux > > You need to have gmbas installed as well as the > win32codecs. > > If that channel doesn't work yet I will try and get it > working. > > John McCourt > > > --- Roberto Sarrionandia <[EMAIL PROTECT

[ubuntu-uk] BBC parliament

2007-01-15 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Does anyone know how to get the BBC parliament streams working in Edgy? It seems I can watch all of the recorded video, but I can't access the live feeds. I can't access any of the realplayer video either, just the WMV. Has anyone had any luck? I've got all of the win32 codecs.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OSS on BBC Radio 4, 9.30pm Sunday 14th Jan 2007

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
I just listened to that link and it was fine On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:28 +, Andy wrote: > On 14/01/07, John McCourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shuttleworth > > should organise an event for them to attend too or > > appear on the Breakfast program to talk about his > > space trip and really