Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launch Party

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Swift
Hello, I'm sorry but which launch party are you referring to? You said 9.04 which is a year off, why not wait until 8.10 for Jaunty? To my knowledge, the costs of CDs, labels, printers etc are all paid by the person who contributed it and not some mainstream organisation. Can you elaborate on whic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launch Party

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Swift
ms in place to raise cash for Ubuntu posters and CDs etc for advertising even if it is just locally. Perhaps a donation system would be best since Canonical ain't out to make money from Ubuntu. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Paul Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Swi

[ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher Swift
Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is off-topic for Ubuntu-UK but it relates to Ubuntu and I think it would be of some interest to you, just as it was to myself. As fellow /.ers may have heard, the Windows demo version of Left 4 Dead has some Linux binaries included in the directory, most notably "stea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Steam & Linux

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher Swift
gning, every little helps! Regards, Chris. On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Paul Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Swift wrote: > > Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is off-topic for Ubuntu-UK but it > > relates to Ubuntu and I think it would be of some interes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Re: [LUG] moving /home]

2008-12-13 Thread Christopher Swift
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/ Paul, perhaps the above link would've been helpful. I'm not sure if you are forwarding a solution or if you are forwarding your error (I didn't take the time to read the entire message). On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Paul Su

[ubuntu-uk] The "I'm Linux" Video Contest

2008-12-21 Thread Christopher Swift
oundation.org/category/video-category/-linux-foundation-video-contest Have fun and I hope that Ubuntu-UK can participate guys, Regards, Christopher Swift -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The "I'm Linux" Video Contest

2008-12-21 Thread Christopher Swift
an, but you can get started with your ideas now if you feel like contributing. I'm looking forward to it personally even if I ain't a media guru! On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > In message of 21 Dec, "Christopher Swift" > wrote: > > > &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] graphics problem on Ubuntu 8.04 Dell laptop

2009-01-02 Thread Christopher Swift
Alan C, it was preinstalled by Dell, probably OEM so I doubt that they used the safe graphics mode. My sister has the same issue regarding Penguin Racer. I too have disabled Compiz on her laptop which is an Acer (do not the model) btw. An old one at least 2yrs+. The only way for me too was a hard r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unsuscrib

2009-01-15 Thread Christopher Swift
Heh classic, that reminds of my school days and this kid whose surname was Samuel hated being called Samuels, he said no S so we asked him, 'Amuel? Anyway back to the point, it is Humour!! (Ironically firefox spellchecker doesn't recognise humour.) On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Martin Meredith

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
I am the same issue with a Prolectrix Digitial Keyring. It's a 1.5inch screen to but does not appear to be mounted anywhere. This is my lsusb output below: ch...@chris-laptop:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1 Bus 005 Device

[ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
wRWO =z8hf -END PGP SIGNATURE- On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/20 Christopher Swift : > > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1908:1320 > > Via google I found > > http://tppl.net/cgi-bin/avantify.cgi?url=08/12/29/0155249&threshold=3 > > Second op

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
wRWO =z8hf -END PGP SIGNATURE- On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/20 Christopher Swift : > > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1908:1320 > > Via google I found > > http://tppl.net/cgi-bin/avantify.cgi?url=08/12/29/0155249&threshold=3 > > Second op

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Brum Bug Jam

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Swift
Lucy there's no problem if can only make it for one day or if you're gonna be a bit late; it's all for the fun and that. You're not going to be told off for skipping sessions ;). Yeah we will be having an IRC channel on FreeNode however called #ubuntu-uk-bugjam and of course you're more than welcom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug Jam!

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher Swift
If anyone has eeebuntu 2.0 standard and/or nbr (NetBook Remix) that would be awesome. I'm currently downloading them but I may not finish the torrent in time for bugjam, if I do however, I'll have the ISOs on my thumb-drive if anyone wants a copy? If you want a copy and you are in London just lemme

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A relatively quick £100 for anyone i n London who can do this

2009-02-22 Thread Christopher Swift
Minnie Business Systems Finsbury House 23 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7UH Come here if you want a little help with your driver issues; to the address above. There are about 10 of us, who are Ubuntu users here who may be able to help you. 2009/2/22 Rowan > As I have explained, I have a brand ne

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A relatively quick £100 for anyone i n London who can do this

2009-02-22 Thread Christopher Swift
Oops, I forgot to include; bring your laptop too! 2009/2/22 Christopher Swift > Minnie Business Systems > Finsbury House > 23 Finsbury Circus > London > EC2M 7UH > > Come here if you want a little help with your driver issues; to the address > above. There are about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A relatively quick £100 for anyone i n London who can do this

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher Swift
Don't worry Rowan, you didn't hurt anyone at London bugjam's feelings, at least from what I could see anyway! If you had emailed one of us in private, I and/or others would've happily came around to help you out. Unfortunately now however I am back in Wales and thus cannot attend London to help fix

[ubuntu-uk] Welsh Jaunty Release Party

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher Swift
omewhere up North which I wouldn't mind attending if I save up some money by then for a train fare :-). Well I would appreciate your feedback, I look forward to hearing from you all, Chris [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chris [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WelshTeam/JauntyReleaseParty - -- Christop

[ubuntu-uk] Welsh Release Party Meeting

2009-03-28 Thread Christopher Swift
appreciated if you could make it tonight, sorry for the short notice! We will be discussing both Northern and Southern parties depending on the turnout in IRC. With kind regards, Chris (or ianto in IRC) - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

[ubuntu-uk] Welsh Release Party IRC Meeting

2009-03-31 Thread Christopher Swift
pe to see some new people there :), With kind regards, Chris. - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Welsh Release Party IRC Meeting

2009-03-31 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/3/31 Christopher Swift : >> For those who are able to be in Wales on April 25th there is an IRC >> meeting this Saturday (04/04/2009) at 7pm GMT. The last meeting however > > You sure about that time? >

[ubuntu-uk] [Welsh] Confirmed Welsh Release Party

2009-04-12 Thread Christopher Swift
momentarily. With kind regards, Christopher Swift. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkniogAACgkQYckxdhCgq46Y1QCePo4WrZnpCcGRdjyu8fInvTGa MIkAnjYoiyy412C+vGgbrEPIqNuxNe34 =6oyx -END PGP SIGN

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Welsh] Confirmed Welsh Release Party

2009-04-13 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 03:22 +0100, Christopher Swift wrote: > > >> I'd like to get a general headcount for the day, so if possible could >> you email me back to this address either directly or throu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release: Welsh Party - Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm

2009-04-14 Thread Christopher Swift
England are you traveling from? With kind regards, Christopher Swift. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknkopoACgkQYckxdhCgq46WzQCfUTq7paRLrz6bo65uyQILsq4q LHYAni5Vu8NhAduNR7Bo8RULHo0/sr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release: Welsh Party - Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm

2009-04-15 Thread Christopher Swift
> Thanx Ah that's very interesting, I've never came across a surname similar to yours before hence why I asked. I am one of those people who gets interested by far too much and heritage is one of those things. I hope this has helped, Christopher Swift. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

[ubuntu-uk] Cardiff Release Party

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Swift
om SWLUG, could you please cc ch...@chrisswift.eu in your response. Regards, Chris. - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enig

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release: Welsh Party - Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm

2009-04-24 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As I have forgotten to say elsewhere in my emails, in the Central Bar, we will be upstairs. To get upstairs one must walk into the bar, go roughly 5 metres forward and the stairs will be on your right. If there are any problems, then you are able to te

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release: Welsh Party - Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm

2009-04-25 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Swift wrote: > As I have forgotten to say elsewhere in my emails, in the Central Bar, > we will be upstairs. To get upstairs one must walk into the bar, go > roughly 5 metres forward and the stairs will be on your right. If there

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Cymru!

2009-04-26 Thread Christopher Swift
finding or promoting technological conferences in which new users could find it. To make this email not be taken as an essay, I'll leave it here, can people who are interested in -cym, could you email back some feedback via the lp group contact user, to this email address or via the -uk ma

[ubuntu-uk] Call For Leadership -- Ubuntu-Cym

2009-05-03 Thread Christopher Swift
y 17th May. All members are urged to vote. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WelshTeam/Election [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/March2009#Welsh%20Team [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-conduct [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cym - -- Regards, Christopher Swift http://launchpad.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem

2009-05-29 Thread Christopher Swift
me. > > James > > On 29 May 2009, at 15:49, Harry Rickards wrote: > > On 05/29/09 15:46, Christopher Swift wrote: >>>> Harry Rickards wrote: >>>>> For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC >>>>> (81.174.154.*** IP) th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem

2009-05-29 Thread Christopher Swift
e wiki is working fine for me and at the moment I am really throttling my bandwidth downloading an ISO so I would actually expect a time-out even if it was functioning perfectly on the server end. Regardless I have no problems with it thus far. Perhaps it's an issue on your end? - -- Christop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus and Microsoft sitting in a tree....

2009-06-01 Thread Christopher Swift
something like Silverlight? Perhaps something like the Hyper-Video part of Silverlight would be a real plus when mentioning XP direct to the MS site, when mentioning the eee, direct to ASUS' site. There isn't even a single link to asus.com nor microsoft.com neither. In short it looks like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus and Microsoft sitting in a tree....

2009-06-01 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 01/06/09 20:52, Christopher Swift wrote: > >> Lets not jump ahead of ourselves here. I highly doubt that either ASUS >> nor Microsoft are officially behind this campaign. Really guys do a >> whoi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Image Hosting

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Swift
if anybody knows of an Image Hosting that works with > Ubuntu. I did use Photobucket and Webshot, but neither work with Linux. > I tried Imageshack, but cant get that to work either. > > Anyone? > > Thank you. > > John > - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Global BugJam UK

2009-09-21 Thread Christopher Swift
2009/9/21 Daniel Drummond : > linux wrote: >> Johnathan, >> >> When I spoke to Dave Walker last night three venues where confirmed one >> in Birmingham the other in London and my one in Southend on Sea a two >> day weekend event >> >> This was called the Ubuntu Global Jam and I am struggling to get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-22 Thread Christopher Swift
2009/10/22 Alan Lord (News) : > On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote: >> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote: >>> That page got right up my nose >>> >>> -- >>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a >>> "television programme".

Re: [ubuntu-uk] anyone know which version of ubuntu is on preorder 64 or 32

2009-10-28 Thread Christopher Swift
Hello Simon, If I recall correctly, the discs packaged and distributed by Canonical are as follows: Ubuntu (GNOME) Desktop Live CD - 32bits only Kubuntu (KDE) Desktop Live CD - 32bits only Ubuntu Server Edition - 64bits only It is possible to download other architectures and burn them by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Routers, open source firmware and IPv6

2009-12-23 Thread Christopher Swift
If you wish to enable ipv6 on your computer, just do "sudo apt-get install miredo" which will automatically give your Ubuntu system a ipv6 address that just works with no more hassle. There is no need to buy any new hardware since you now have an ipv6 tunnel setup on your machine. Regards, Chris

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building .deb packages

2010-02-11 Thread Christopher Swift
On 10 February 2010 21:40, Anton Piatek wrote: > On 10 February 2010 21:11, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 10 February 2010 20:58, Liam Wilson wrote: >>>  Out of curiosity, can I ask why it's worse to package software in a .deb >>> file in the long run? >>> >> >> I think Anton was saying that it's worse

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Python Books

2010-03-11 Thread Christopher Swift
On 11 March 2010 19:19, Neil Perry wrote: > Thank you all! Two great ideas, going to have a flick through! > Thanks Again! > Neil Perry > > > On 11 March 2010 19:11, Tommy Pyatt wrote: >> >> and free, that is >> >> On 11 March 2010 19:10, Tommy Pyatt wrote: >>> >>> 'A byte of Python' is good too

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Mer, 2010-05-26 am 14:46 +0100, ysgrifennodd Rowan Berkeley: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood > wrote: > > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney > > > > > wrote: > > >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Christopher Swift
landmarks as Big Ben, Stadiwm y Mileniwm, the houses of the parliaments and assemblies of the UK and whatever else takes your fancy. Chris. -- Christopher Swift -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Christopher Swift
On 4 June 2010 00:19, James Tait wrote: >  Chris Swift:  Nice, but needs some content to see how well it works. >                Also scope for a rotating image here. A test site by the Ubuntu Drupal designers/coders is setup at the following URL: http://staging.profarius.com/ . This is where I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-04 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Gwe, 2010-06-04 am 09:48 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alan Pope: > On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift wrote: > > I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily > > the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules > > for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-04 Thread Christopher Swift
On 4 June 2010 12:53, Bruno Girin wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >> On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift wrote: >> > >> > Actually just scrap the above,  I've checked their bzr branch at >> > lp:~ubuntu-webs