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This arrangement has a couple of advantages in that it doesn’t modify the
windows drive, so no fiddling with fdisk /mbr or what ever if you wish to move
it later. and if there are boot problems you can just choose which drive to
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e or less what I did those years ago. The only part I did not
> know about was update-grub. Does this work with the current version of
> grub?
>
Yes, it was done with Karmic and XP. I couldn’t believe how easy it was, I was
expecting to be editing assorted grub config files. Having
weight of the weight
> of the UK a little less, or wait for the release of the Medium weight font.
>
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/logo.svg
>
> What do you think?
>
Sorry Alan, but, the 'UK' bit looks out of place to me.
...or the 'UK' bit may be right but, the rest is out of place :D
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unbalanced?) to me
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:54:36 +0100
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>
> just for completeness, and to show how totally wrong it looks here it is
> with uk in lower case.
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/logo4.svg
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Seriously, I rather like the lower case uk.
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How about if it said 'your local community team' instead?
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up.
> >
> > JT
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/logo10.svg
> hmm, not sure that really works. What do you think?
>
Works for me. Zooming in and out shows it to work at different sizes as well.
Good work.
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nybody that wants to see the show and tell sessions, they are here
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rewired-state the sound was a bit dodgy but you
get the general gist of things.
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eather down there tomorrow, I shall be sat in the conservatory
with my cucumber sandwiches :)
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Heads up for those running Maverick. With the arrival of the new X-server
things could go a bit awry, if you are not careful. I’ve already messed one
installation up.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195
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Joe O'Dell wrote:
>
> Is it possible to have a Ubuntu UK Community Event Banner?
>
Suppose you had the banner on Sunday. What would you have done with it?
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are there going to be and who’s going to store them? If
somebody organises an event out side London how’s a banner going to get to them?
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ts about the speeds shown on this site. It shows my street at
less than 1Mb, despite the fact had an upgrade three months ago and now get
3-3.5 Mb. My friends village shows speeds only available with fibre-optic,
which it doesn’t have. It even shows suppliers that are not available t
Just been pointed here, on another list, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UruguayTeam
Some nice ideas there. Maybe worth using for a bit of inspiration.
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cel give any hint as to what the
progam does.
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ant, it would just be a nice feature. As long as I can
> make a digital copy of my notes easily it would do!
>
I’d just get any old scanner, you could probably get one free from Freecycle,
although they are dirt cheap these days. My experience of sheet feeders is
that they will only work
ised you’ve got no responses to this.
Why will your old scanner not be good enough? I use a 10+ year old Agfa
Snapscan 1212µ for this sort of thing with out any problems.
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purchase. So thanks Norman for bringing this up, I wouldn’t have
enquired today it you hadn’t.
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not another.
Good luck in your endeavours with the local historical society.
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byte Loco Team might
be just as confusing. :)
Is there a good reason why we are the UK and not GB team?
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al which remained part of Southern Ireland on Partition.
> >
>
> My apologies, I used Ulster as short hand for NI. My point still stands.
>
I thought that may be the case, wasn’t sure if IE covered all of Ireland or
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might be a good place to have it unless you
> guys would rather have it somewhere else?
>
> How many of you would be able to attend?
>
> Daniel
>
I think Manchester/Liverpool are already planning something, so this side of
the country is better and as I said on IRC Leeds is eas
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:36:15 +0100
Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> don't worget the south-west, what about Bristol as well?
>
I think you know how to solve that problem ;)
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r at the time. As is usual with this sort of thing, the
conversation continues long after the results are in. These ideas can be
forgotten or maybe used at a later date.
Thank you Alan, and everybody else that contributed.
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re I saw something about Locos
receiving a banner (along with other promo stuff). If this is the case,
anybody know what it looks like and can we make a copy or two?
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ntu - Linux for Human Beings
>
Good Work!
One question.
What exactly has been OK'd. The colours, font, placement of the
circle-of-friends thing.
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On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:37:41 +0100
Alan Bell wrote:
> On 06/09/10 19:53, Yorvyk wrote:
> > Good Work!
> > One question.
> >
> > What exactly has been OK'd. The colours, font, placement of the
> > circle-of-friends thing.
> >
> >
>
&g
rs :-)
>
>
> So, thanks for harming the spread of Free software.
>
>
Negative publicity is still publicity, panning somebody else’s product rarely
works. I’m (nearly :) always very careful about the claims I make about what
OOo can do. It is not a drop in replacement for Office.
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I had machine with 256MiB RAM and on board video which did as you describe,
the installation of an add on video card allowed it to be installed. It ran
slowly but quite happily when the video card was removed and the on board video
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now you know what bank I'm talking
> about)
> * Click the "Log on" button in the "Business" box on the right
>
Works with FF here 'Step 1 of 2: Enter username'
If I enter a a (fictitious) user name I get an error message.
Try
help was excellent.
There is 30 day a trial version available on the site, long with the penguins.
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work or from a maker that
> > has a reputation of monitors that work with Linux would be very useful.
> >
>
I’ve had a couple of LCD monitors from here,
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/products2.asp?CategoryID=407&SubCategoryID=490
that were OK and functioned with out problems.
install, etc.
>
I know a couple of people that are quite happy with their refurbished Acer One
they got from here http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/
One friend ended up getting 4 in different colours so the family each know whos
is whos. I don’t think any of them run Edubuntu on the so don’t kn
Quick question, for research.
Anybody have a Rubbish Bin icon on their desktop and if so, why?
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> No Sprouts
>
Top selling job there Alan :D Sadly I won’t be able to make it but, I see many
are already on their way to the venue http://bit.ly/eV9axG
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t complexity though.
>
This I don't agree with as multiple workspaces are one of the best ways of
organising oneself.
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up etc. How does one get in, I have normal visitor tickets
for both days available to me, are there exhibitor passes.
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gt; Desktop suits me well as it syncs both computers nicely.
> >
>
> Gmail works in the browser offline.
>
How?
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Interesting story, £98 PCs target UK digital divide. "The cheap computers will
run open-source software, such as Linux..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12205412
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nd all, would -work-.
>
This is the reason I tend to use a couple of local shops. Although slightly
pricier than online or the likes of PC World, I actually get customer service.
I'm surprised http://www.system76.com/ haven't been mentioned, unless I've
missed it .
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it.
Ta.
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i.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdverts/Research
>
> Hope this helps.
>
Thanks for those Barry, but it was these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHzP7mxRFJE is was thinking of.
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hat I am running Natty?
>
> Thanks...
>
Known bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/690248
one of many reports.
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w
> do I get the 64 bit version of Lightening?
>
I'm told this works http://nenacarina.ilahas.com/?p=21 not tried myself though.
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On some notebooks/laptops there is a function key that enables WiFi. I've
found with upgrades that this sets it's self to disable the WiFi, but doesn't
with a clean install.
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ll you it's Android. People just want to connect to face book, ebay,
whatever. Don't get all 'religious' on them.
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It would be nice if they did stick a respectable amount of RAM in them but, if
they haven't got it they can't.
Lubuntu works very well on the low spec machine, I've been running a similar
set up for a while now, and it looks similar to XP.
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silly, given many Mac
users don't know what the OS is called. Many call it 'oh es ex' not 'oh es
ten'. If it ever gets to version eleven will it be called 'oh es exy' :)
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".
>
Which of the following sets of code names would you prefer?
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/05/27/the-developer-obsession-with-code-names-114-interesting-examples/
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27;m never sure
whether it's Wine or the program playing up when things go wrong.
Both GTK and QT are cross platform so I would have thought that is the way to
go. No idea how easy/hard it would to to convert to them or just how
crossplatform they are though.
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ook good ;)
> Dan
>
I think you're all being rather mean about the site, look at the increase in
hits it's had over the last few days :) At least it doesn't have 'Best viewed
in IE4 or Netscape 2 at 1024X768'.
Looking at the 'Our Staff' page, though, I would
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:32:20 +0100
Avi Greenbury wrote:
> On 20/06/11 08:26, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:04:42 +0100, Yorvyk wrote:
> >> I wouldn't send kids there, as Mr Archer seems to be rather nasty.
> >> He's responsible for racist in
t; Sean
>
> No, not
> at all really. Surprised. Its only a Lower school, Reception and
> Infants, not as far as Juniors. Its a small village school.
>
Apparently all schools have to to have somebody responsible for "racist
incidents"
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int of attack when trying to get
FLOSS into these places. As an example, when he put forward Open Office. One
of the excuses given was that people were familiar with Microsoft Office and
that was what they got taught at college. The college says it teaches MS
Office because that&#x
he things I noticed as not best were the small (therefore light
> weight) battery capacity, and the two (only) usb slots, no card slots
> either. Display looks good to me. I am delighted with it.
>
Just out of interest, why would you need more than 2 USB ports.
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t;
> Looks like neat little device.
>
For me the most important thing is how long the batteries last in 'normal'
usage. From what I can gather most are rather useless in this respect.
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text-google-plus/
http://xkcd.com/918/
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> 'The adoption of compulsory open standards will help government to
> avoid lengthy vendor lock-in'
>
What does this mean? Are the government's open standards the same as we would
understand them? Is open source and open standards the same thing?
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If using a proprietary driver try the open one or try updating or reinstalling
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gh it to get to a
> destination...but that's another story entirely..)
>
Either will do for me.
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w minutes later or forget they had it open and open another instance.
I think Canonical/Ubuntu is really on to something with Unity.
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ave no connection to Staples, in fact I've never been to keen on shopping
there.
[1]
http://www.staples.co.uk/technology/printers-scanners-and-fax/printers-scanners-and-fax/ml-1865-mono-laser-printer?r=bf
[2] http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/
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compared to Gnome 2.
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have two network cards in my computer, one of which the internet connection
> goes into, the other I can use to connect the xbox.
> I already have a crossover cable, too.
> So if anyone knows how to do it, that would be great!
>
The last time I did this, a few years back, I used firestart
On 10/11/12 09:39, scoundrel50agmail wrote:
I give up, way too complicated
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On 15/05/13 10:41, Liam Proven wrote:
On 14 May 2013 13:34, J Fernyhough wrote:
The C3 doesn't have PAE support [1]. This means the more recent
kernels (IIRC quantal and up) won't boot as their config has PAE
as a requirement. You'll either need to compile your own, or use a
distro that retains
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