Hi people,
I just thought I'd say hi to y'all.
I'm a long-time Linux user (mainly Gentoo and SUSE), based in Birmingham (and
invovled in the LUG there), but new to *buntu... I'm a big KDE fan, so got
Kubuntu Feisy (last RC, at least) running quite happily and I have to say
that I'm impressed.
Hi all,
Inspired by the previous thread, I thought I'd try again to get my Nokia N80
to sync with Kontact in Kubuntu Feisty over bluetooth.
I can do OBEX's of files back and forth, but that's all so far...
Has anyone had any success with this?
TIA,
Pete.
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On Thursday 03 May 2007 at 17:49:20 Chris Rowson wrote:
> I created this entry on the Dell IdeaStorm site. Please vote for it
> and or comment.
Good work... it seems that there are already a couple of duplicates on the
site, but more can't do any harm! Vote for all three!
http://www.ideastorm.c
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 08:37:55 Alan Pope wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:31:41AM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > One thing that does strike me however is the banner across the top.
> >
> > I'm not sure the ubuntu-uk logo needs repeating again in the banner.
> > I'm not that fond of the pictur
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:09:26 Alan Pope wrote:
> FYI. Software Freedom Day are taking registrations.
This looks really interesting. I'm glad that Ubuntu is co-sponsoring it.
> Are we (Ubuntu-UK loco) going to do something, or should we do stuff at the
> LUG level?
I'd be really interested in
On Monday 14 May 2007 at 11:56:45 Tony Arnold wrote:
> I'm about to order a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and I will, of course, be
> putting Ubuntu on it!
>
> I'm wondering about support for some of the hardware. If anycone can
> confirm or otherwise if this kit works out of the box, I'd be grateful.
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> > Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of
> > resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a
>
> It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English,
> and to pluralise in Engli
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 11:49:45 norman wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:15 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> > > > Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of
> > > > resources and get vi
Hi Lou,
Welcome to the group.
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 at 13:42:39 Louis Gidney wrote:
> Only just got round to joining this list although I have been using
> Ubuntu Dapper for about four months, to assess whether it will serve my
> purposes. I like it. After all, unix was a mature OS long befo
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 at 13:16:42 Chris Rowson wrote:
> Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new
> product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it
> looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd
> be hard to compete in a lot o
On Monday 04 June 2007 12:18:55 Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Eddie,
>
> :( HTML formatted mail :(
I was about to say the same thing :-)
Apart from the many other valid reasons why HTML email is a "bad idea" (see
http://www.tcrlist.com/Configuring_Plain_Text.htm as a start...), I often
read email on my
Hi all,
This isn't in any way intended to be a gripe, but I was wondering what it is
with the mails that come through on this list - very often the formatting is
completely messed up. I've never experienced this on any other mailing list
(I use quite a few), but this kind of thing is what I'm t
On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:33:01 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Peter Lewis wrote:
> > This isn't in any way intended to be a gripe, but I was wondering what it
> > is with the mails that come through on this list - very often the
> > formatting is completely messed up. I'v
On Monday 18 June 2007 at 13:43:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My one-year-old son has a new favourite game - pressing the power button
> on his Dad's PC.
Sounds like fun!
> I am running Gnome on Fiesty and whenever the power button is pressed it
> pops up a modal dialogue box asking if I want to
On Monday 18 June 2007 at 13:54:00 Alan Pope wrote:
> Yup, and it's configurable. Right click Gnome Power Manager and choose
> Preferences. In the "General" tab there is a "when the power button is
> pressed..", change the drop down from "Ask me" to "Do nothing". Job done.
Ahem, that'll be the "pr
On Friday 13 July 2007 at 13:50:20 Kirrus wrote:
> I use html emails all the time: Our customers request headers, and emails
> that have a bit more style than just text on a page. If I want to eat, then
> we provide what the customer wants, not what we'd prefer to do. There is
> only so far, and on
On Friday 13 July 2007 at 13:24:35 Kirrus wrote:
> - "Peter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Josh's mail seemed to me to have been sent twice - once in HTML and
> > once in
> > plain text.
> This is standard functionality of most advanced
On Friday 13 July 2007 at 12:54:03 Josh Blacker wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Paul Mellors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't know about everyone, but i've turned off HTML mail in my email
> > client so can't actually read your emails. Is there any reason people
> > use HMTL enabled email instead of pl
On Sunday 30 September 2007 17:46:06 Matthew Larsen wrote:
> PS I noted, Lord and master, you called us citizens: Your not turning
> Ubuntu-UK into a fascist dictatorship are you? :S
Better than being "subjects" which I think all of us in the UK technically
are :-(
Well done Alan!
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Hi,
On Monday 01 October 2007 20:37:05 Chris Rowson wrote:
> As I'm sure that most of you are aware a discussion has taken place on
> the mailing list as to the legitimacy and accuracy of the PoC election
> process.
> The question is quite simply do you want the election to be held
> again, yes
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:39, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > I am AMAZED at how much MORE traffic something relatively simple, like
> > electing a well-respected, experienced Ubuntu Advocate to be PoC has
> > generated... relative to stuff like, say, the launch coming up in 2
> > weeks time.
> >
> >
>
On Thursday 04 October 2007 11:28, STONE COLD wrote:
> sorry i forgot bout the topposting!
>
> thank you for answering my q!
> cool
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Thu, 4
> > Oct 2007 11:13:30 +0100> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythbuntu- stable
> > release> > > On
On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote:
> Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would probably
> me able to help out.
Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy to come along and
help out.
Pete.
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On Friday 05 October 2007 10:40:28 alan c wrote:
> Peter Lewis wrote:
> > On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote:
> >> Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would
> >> probably me able to help out.
> >
> > Likewise, I'
On Friday 05 October 2007 15:40:38 andylockran wrote:
> We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard
> Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
> installed.
>
> Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
> something to
On Friday 05 October 2007 16:38:56 andylockran wrote:
> by the way - the current leader is popey with 0 non free packages on his
> server.
>
> I only have 1 non free on my server - something to do with rar - and I
> can't get rid :(
I just checked my server too, but it says that the default ubuntu
On Sunday 07 October 2007 17:32:54 Chris Rowson wrote:
> > I think one of my favorite tag lines involving ubuntu was coined by Arron
> > finnon (President of The Abertay Linux Society) while atending the debian
> > confrence." Ubuntu: is an old african word for Cant Install Debian"
>
> I heard a si
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 21:49, Darren Mansell wrote:
> Just to let everyone know the SBLUG (Birmingham) is having a release
> party for Gutsy a week tomorrow on launch date (18th Oct)
>
> I'm booked to do a small talk and demo of the new features of Gutsy so
> everything is likely to go wrong
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 11:11:41 Stephen Garton wrote:
> I went to KDE that time because I
> wanted to use Quanta and Amarok natively (Quanta on recommendation for
> web development, Amarok as it is the ONLY audio player I can find that
> does everything I want, but that's for another flamewar
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 11:13:58 Tony Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:08 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote:
> > I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:)
> > Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions all the
> > time.
>
> I heard a recent podcast of an
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 10:54:18 Wulfy wrote:
> I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms
> of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to
> the plain Ubuntu...
>
> I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@)
Yep, Kubu
Hi Jai,
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 09:39:38 Jai Harrison wrote:
> Well I'm interested in York Uni. What other Universities are good for
> Computer Science and would you generally recommend? What University
> are you at?
York is a good university for CS, and it's also a really nice uni. I'd a
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 10:05:48 Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Go and see them both, don't only go to a uni due to their rankings. Make
> sure you will be happy there as well.
Couldn't agree more - you do have to live there for 3+ years!
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On Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 00:58:06 Alan Pope wrote:
> Flash :(
>
> Not download, stream only :(
>
> Mind you, most flash sites can be worked around with tools like
> http://keepvid.com/ but it shouldn't be that way. We (along with Mac
> users) shouldn't be second-class citizens.
Well said.
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 15:55:25 Steve Flynn wrote:
> heh! I had a stunningly brilliant time at University - virtually none of it
> was to do with the course or the location though - it was all about meeting
> new people, becoming independent, living away from home, etc. Perhaps
> that's why I
Hi all,
I'm sorry, I don't generally like to ask for hardware recommendation on these
lists, but I'm a little confused about the compatibility and software options
of the current lot of graphics cards, and figured that you guys might have
some more up-to-date knowledge of this than me.
I curre
On Monday 22 October 2007 at 20:41:45 Matthew Larsen wrote:
> Currently the best money / performance ratios go to either the GeForce
> 8600GTS 320mb or the Radeon X1950XT. Both will perform well with UT3
> running at 1280 at max settings. I myself plan on investing in an
> 8600GTS very soon :o)
>
>
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 at 14:00:45 Kirrus wrote:
> ATI are releasing details which means that there is likly to be free
> drivers for ATI cards. Till then my preference will always be with Nvidia
> for high-powered graphics cards, as their proprietary drivers actually work
> (and they don't see
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 at 14:12:38 Stephen Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:01 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
> > > I presume that the nvidia cards rely on proprietary drivers though. Is
> > > there a decent free one?
> >
> > Not really.
>
> It's in the process of being reverse engineered,
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 at 15:38:58 Alan Pope wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:36 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > I can't help thinking that if there isn't even an interest in nvidia
> > opening up their drivers / specs, then I really don't want to be buying
>
On Thursday 25 October 2007 13:01, Dave Morley wrote:
> I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release
> in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a
> pleasure.
>
> So I just wondered what everyone else uses?
KMail.
Aside from being part of KDE, its t
On Thursday 25 October 2007 at 15:37:51 Rob Beard wrote:
> The top one looks a lot like my kitten Guybrush*.
>
> * Bonus points if you can work out where the name is from. :-)
Is he a pirate cat?
http://www.localshed.com/images/PirateCat.jpg
:-)
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On Friday 26 October 2007 13:21, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > > Looks like they've changed the options, we've got a "No - Linux is my
> > > OS of choice" now.*
>
> ** WARNING - lolcats/topic crossover ***
>
> BBC r belong to de Linux peoplz now
aagh..
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On Friday 09 November 2007 10:49, Andrew Barber wrote:
> I think gmail is quite superior to anything else.
I've always stayed away from Gmail as I heard that Google read your email in
order to target ads at you. Even if it is just a machine rather than a
person, it's overstepped the privacy line
On Friday 09 November 2007 15:55, Gaurav Patel wrote:
> To all the Hindu, Sikh and Jain subscribers of the Ubuntu-UK mailing list!
Yep, happy Diwali!
Enjoy the evening!
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Hi all,
I've been living with this for a while, but it's starting to annoy me a
little. I wonder if anyone can help.
So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought up when I log in to my
Kubuntu box, through the network manager tray icon. This connects me to my
wireless network.
Howev
On Sunday 02 December 2007 15:21:34 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Peter Lewis wrote:
> > I've been living with this for a while, but it's starting to annoy me a
> > little. I wonder if anyone can help.
> >
> > So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought u
Hi Mac,
On Sunday 02 December 2007 14:55:30 Mac wrote:
> Peter Lewis wrote:
>
>
> > So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought up when I log in
> > to my Kubuntu box, through the network manager tray icon. This connects
> > me to my wireless network.
>
Hi again folks,
On Sunday 02 December 2007 14:55:30 Mac wrote:
> Pete >>> Does your /etc/fstab refer to these shares by their full IP
> address on the LAN or by a share name? I use the LAN IP addresses, and
> my shares mount automatically when the wireless network is up. (Tho' I
> use Gnome rath
On Monday 03 December 2007 09:11, Michael Holloway wrote:
> i use SMBFS to mount network shares, but (and this has been happening
> since i started with ubuntu, 5.10) sometimes it seems to half mount
> them, and the machine runs really slowly and cant connect and becomes
> unstable as soon as i try
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