British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>
> In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
> Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
> turn yo
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>
> In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
> Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop fr
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>
> In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
> Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
> turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of
> your normal tasks
On 21/06/07, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
> Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
> turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of your
> normal tasks to
On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:56, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > A most interesting mail Ian. To familiarise myself with the issues I
> > decided to take up the challenge of installing gnome-orca!
>
> Me too, I tried installing it too and the installation finishes with
>
> You need to configure ORCA by chan
> Me too, I tried installing it too and the installation finishes with
>
> You need to configure ORCA by changing /etc/orca.conf.
> Once you're happy with that setup, you can start the
> daemon by typing /etc/init.d/orca start''.
>
>
> When I try to configure /etc/orca.conf there's nothing there!
>
>
> A most interesting mail Ian. To familiarise myself with the issues I decided
> to take up the challenge of installing gnome-orca!
Me too, I tried installing it too and the installation finishes with
You need to configure ORCA by changing /etc/orca.conf.
Once you're happy with that setup, you
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
>
> In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
> Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
> turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of
> your normal tasks
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Sent: 21 June 2007 17:29
To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see
It's really great to read about all the applications that folk use with
Ubuntu. It makes a wonderful change from kicking Windows and expounding
on its
I enjoy using Ubuntu because, like many others on the list I'm really
impressed with the ability to quickly get and install good quality
free programs!
I use Dapper servers at work where I can (internet/intranet mostly),
because unlike my Windows Server 2003 servers, I can just set them up
and lea
Hi
Mark Jose wrote:
> Incidentally, Icculus also wrote the installers used on the official UT2003/4
> Linux installs and wrote the installers which the now defunct Loki Games
I'm not sure if he is solely responsible for the Loki installer, but I'm
pretty sure he ported UT2k4 to Linux (along wit
On Thursday 21 June 2007 17:30, Josh Blacker wrote:
> On the leisure side of things, I've played around with a few games but
> the only one I have really played with is Wormux, mainly for the
> nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
> wouldn't mind being able to play i
Hi,
On 6/21/07, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Josh Blacker wrote:
> > nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
> > wouldn't mind being able to play it from Ubuntu...
>
> Isn't it available? I have the Linux version of UT2004 and it works fine
> (shame i
It's really great to read about all the applications that folk use with
Ubuntu. It makes a wonderful change from kicking Windows and expounding
on its problems. Every time that that OS is mentioned it is drawing
attention to it and this, all good and true Ubuntu users, do not want.
The motto should
On 6/21/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
>
> Norman
Being fairly new to Ubuntu (a couple of months now?), I've not had
that long to look around too much. I've used FF
Hi
Josh Blacker wrote:
> nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
> wouldn't mind being able to play it from Ubuntu...
Isn't it available? I have the Linux version of UT2004 and it works fine
(shame it's not much fun ;)
Cheers,
--
Chris Jones
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norman wrote:
>
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
>
> Norman
>
>
Well on my desktop I'm still running Ubuntu Edgy (x86 version on an
Athlon 64 3000+). I have a couple of Cron jobs setup to record so
norman wrote:
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
Thunderbird, Gaim, Skype for comms
Firefox (of course) and Liferea for info
Rhythmbox for downloading podcasts
GnomeBaker for CD burning
EasyTag
But my ki
norman wrote:
> It's really great to read about all the applications that folk use with
> Ubuntu. It makes a wonderful change from kicking Windows and expounding
> on its problems. Every time that that OS is mentioned it is drawing
> attention to it and this, all good and true Ubuntu users, do not
Firefox (with 'Scrapbook' extension excellent for collecting data for
research etc), Thunderbird (with 'Lightning' calendar extension),
Scribus, Kate, OOo
Audacity, Amarok
DigiKam, free version of Lightzone, Gimp, Inkscape
Netbeans & Java, just starting Quanta (for web dev)
and, on a seperate par
On 21/06/07, norman < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install a
On 21/06/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install and un
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 12:53 +0100, norman wrote:
> One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
> us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
> free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
> these are easy to install
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
As a music lover, Amarok is the killer app on Linux for me. Even to the
extent of running it (a KDE app) on Ubuntu's Gnome desktop. However, Exaile
(a GTK app) is now be
norman wrote:
> One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
> us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
> free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
> these are easy to install and uninstall and generally work
This may seem odd, but on the "Feisty Laptop", I have precisely three
applications that I use:
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- OpenOffice.org
On the server, I have an awful lot more, but these days, it's the
servers that are doing all the "heavy lifting."
Two years ago, we used lots of applications
On Thursday 21 June 2007 12:53, norman wrote:
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
>
> Norman
As well as general things such as email, I use my systems for
Genealogy - using the excellent GRAMPS program an
Hi
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Automatix/Non-free codecs. At risk of getting a complete shoeing for
> this, I don't care about wether my computers are free of non-gnu
> software, I just want it to work. Automatix and the win32codecs give
well automatix is dangerous, and everything
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 12:53 +0100, norman wrote:
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
>
> Norman
>
Inkscape makes various bits of me tingle. In a good way.
So does Dasher.
I am also quite a fan of the v
Quoting norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
> us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
> free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
> these are easy to install and uninsta
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install and uninstall and generally work with the
hardware we ha
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