Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Matthew Saunders
> A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago Ouch! I have heard bugs can make a program crash but this is a little more extreme. > I put it all together, turned the PC on, and it booted into Ubuntu straight > away - with everything working. We had a lightning strike where I work last week.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Oliver Maunder
> This lead me to wonder what we in the Ubuntu - Uk Team might describe as> things which in hindsight we have taken for granted but have proved a > positive boon for productivity.>A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago, taking the graphics card, motherboard and power supply with it. After ro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:00 +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote: > So there I was, about to write yet another blog article, my first since > returning from my short break and BAM! > > A sudden realisation of things I have taken for granted. Currently i am > sitting here on my Games PC ( Windows XP

[ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Nicholas Butler
So there I was, about to write yet another blog article, my first since returning from my short break and BAM! A sudden realisation of things I have taken for granted. Currently i am sitting here on my Games PC ( Windows XP Pro 64 ) trying to take a screen capture of the Save Search as a F