Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

2009-10-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/10/14 John Matthews : > [snip] The Other Software updates > didnt work, at least its showing they are all disabled on upgrade. > Problem is, I cant remember what software I added. Funny thing is > though, some of the things I did add seem to be working. How do i find > out what software I adde

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

2009-10-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/15 Neil Greenwood : > In the Software Sources applet, click on the Third Party tab. > > The repositories that were disabled by the upgrade will not be ticked > in this list. You can re-enable them by ticking the box next to each. > This might be unwise. Those repos will likely refer to jau

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

2009-10-15 Thread John Matthews
Thanks everybody for your help. I just dont remember going through this from upgrading. I have tried to go and update, and I dont recognise anything. Its opened pages with Folders, and it has me completely lost. I havent seen that before. I am going to have to see if I can find another way of d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

2009-10-15 Thread Matt Wheeler
(Sorry for top-posting, awkward mobile client) update-manager seems to update all of the ppa distro names for you. Not sure about other third party repos though -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org On Oct 15, 2009 9:36 AM, "Alan Pope" wrote: 2009/10/15 Neil Greenwood : > In the Software Sources

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Gordon Allott
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:17 +0100, Lucy wrote: > I suggest that we go with the Pitcher and Piano, and start planning > publicity and things. Unless anyone has any objections? > > Jon, do you happen to know what their policy is on under-18s? > Pitcher and Piano sounds good to me :) In terms of p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Lucy
2009/10/15 Gordon Allott : > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:17 +0100, Lucy wrote: > >> I suggest that we go with the Pitcher and Piano, and start planning >> publicity and things. Unless anyone has any objections? >> >> Jon, do you happen to know what their policy is on under-18s? >> > > Pitcher and Pian

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Jon Spriggs
OK, I'll confirm with them, probably on Saturday. There is a "if no-one turns up, we charge you £200" clause from the pub for whoever is confirming, so... erm, please make sure you tell everyone you think will be interested! :) -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Lucy
2009/10/15 Jon Spriggs : > OK, I'll confirm with them, probably on Saturday. > > There is a "if no-one turns up, we charge you £200" clause from the pub for > whoever is confirming, so... erm, please make sure you tell everyone you > think will be interested! :) Eeek! Thank you very much. That's c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Dobson
Hey Lucy, Thanks for CC'ing me in. Sorry! I had intended to be more proactive on this but due to me being occupied chasing Barcamp Manchester (whih is the 7th and 8th of november) Sponsorship stuff, I've been worked off my feet and unfortunately not been able to give this the energy I had hop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Gordon Allott
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:56 +0100, Lucy wrote: > It would be really nice to have some posters and some buttons to put > on blogs to publicise the event. Can someone volunteer to come up with > something? I took the jaunty poster and modified it for karmic: http://showsite-media.gordallott.com/stu

[ubuntu-uk] Jaws - text to speech

2009-10-15 Thread Rik Boland
There is a programme named Jaws it runs under windows it will basically read text from a scanner so it great for people that may be blind or like me have episodic sight issue's that affect reading and typing. So there should really be some thing out there can any one suggest anything please.

[ubuntu-uk] Networking.....

2009-10-15 Thread John Matthews
Hi I am trying to get my Laptop to see the windows partition and the pc and netbook, but it wont mount. How can I set up networking? John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Daniel Drummond
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:28 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:56 +0100, Lucy wrote: > > > It would be really nice to have some posters and some buttons to put > > on blogs to publicise the event. Can someone volunteer to come up with > > something? > > I took the jaunty poste

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Networking.....

2009-10-15 Thread Rob Beard
John Matthews wrote: > Hi I am trying to get my Laptop to see the windows partition and the pc > and netbook, but it wont mount. How can I set up networking? > > John. > You're trying to get the laptop to see the Windows partition on the laptop or another PC? If it's on the laptop itself then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Gordon Allott
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:32 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: > I love that the address for Pitcher and Piano is Arches 9-10 Deansgate > Locks. > > Dan > > I have absolutely no idea if thats the correct address, I just copied whatever google told me. if its not please correct me and I can change it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-15 Thread Gordon Allott
added to the ubuntu wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseParties added to http://houseparty.cx If we could all post to the local LUGS as well that would be fantastic :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaws - text to speech

2009-10-15 Thread Dean Sas
Rik Boland wrote: > There is a programme named Jaws it runs under windows it will basically > read text from a scanner so it great for people that may be blind or > like me have episodic sight issue's that affect reading and typing. > > So there should really be some thing out there can any one