Luke - just to let you know how much your team's work will be
appreciated by the voluntary sector who really need manuals but can't
afford to pay the earth for them. It really makes a difference.
Paula
On 11/05/10 07:19, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Monday 10 May 2010 19:04:34 Luke-Jennings wrote:
>
I'd like to help with this.
Paula
On 13/05/10 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
> let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
>
> During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
>
I've got spare PCs, can do either and both :)
On 13/05/10 09:29, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 May 2010 10:21, Hugh Saunders wrote:
>
>> I'd be happy to help with that.
>>
>>
> Excellent, thanks.
>
>
>> Is this testing done with KVM/test drive or actual boots?
>>
> Either and both
Keyboard shortcuts seemed to have been broken since somewhere around
9.04 - there were various bug reports but it's only just got fixed . . .
Paula
On 13/05/10 19:20, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 13/05/10 13:59, Guy Thouret wrote:
>
>>
>>> although I sometimes wish I could
>>> tweak it to Win
I like #1 too :)
On 03/06/10 17:09, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 03/06/10 13:34, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>
>> #1 is pretty good. The rest, not so much, I'm afraid, at least for me.
>>
> +1.
>
> Al
>
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Details of an Ubuntu-UK/Canonical event in London on the 13th July
focussed on Ubuntu in Business. . . .
Exhibiting at non-tech events, such as car boot sales and goat festivals (there
is a link to that but you will have to read the minutes to find it)
How about VCS (aka NGOs)? I already
I work with the voluntary sector as a community interest company
providing paid support (and end up also giving a lot of free support).
Among the networks of orgs who provide MS and proprietary software
support to VCS (I think I'm one of 2 providers who seriously supports
Ubuntu) there have bee
On 05/06/10 14:32, Alan Bell wrote:
>
> where? and do join #ubuntu-uk.
>
#fossbox - but it's not really used
>>
>>
> I don't tend to see joins and parts happening, but it is perfectly
> possible to have a bot in a channel that greets people the first time it
> has seen them. (not sure w
> sounds just fine, send them in.
>
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On 07/06/10 10:49, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> On 7 June 2010 08:51, Neil Perry wrote:
>
>> Hello Guys,
>> I've just been pointed out, that for Maverick they have removed aptitude
>> being install by default. I don't wan
On 23/06/10 15:53, Andy Partington wrote:
are found in C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Again not sure how well it imports them, pretty sure Thunderbird can handle
them but not 100%
Andy
I've done this loads of times,
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The
IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly?
Paula
On 28/06/10 23:48, Steve Flynn wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:26 PM, javadayaz wrote:
I agree. The it crowd is really quite good
Like I said,
An excellent point - which I probably should've noticed ;)
Paula
On 29/06/10 11:32, Steve Garton wrote:
On 29/06/10 11:29, Alan Pope wrote:
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT
Crowd. Bit silly bu
n 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT
Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly?
I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having
Me too!
On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's not nearly as
I sent the publicity out to voluntary sector networks.
Paula
On 30/06/10 11:26, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick note to say if you haven't already collared a co-worker
and ordered a ticket for the Ubuntu in Business event then you'd
better hurry. There's currently only 32 tickets left for th
Hi - Linux Emporium is out of stickers (and, anyway, I want more than
4). Is there anywhere I can just buy a few sheets of them?
Thanks,
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Doh! Sorry - Just found some on the Ubuntu site . . .
On 09/07/10 13:02, pmgazz wrote:
Hi - Linux Emporium is out of stickers (and, anyway, I want more than
4). Is there anywhere I can just buy a few sheets of them?
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Environmental events are good, foreground stuff like how to refurbish
their XP kit and keep perfectly good electronic kit out of landfill . . .
Paula
On 19/07/10 11:53, Alan Pope wrote:
Hey!
We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG
meetings, technical conferences
g OS and I find that being able to
help the environment and save money at the same time is a powerful
incentive to consider something new.
Paula
On 19/07/10 13:42, Rob Beard wrote:
On 19/07/10 13:21, pmgazz wrote:
Environmental events are good, foreground stuff like how to refurbish
their X
On 19/07/10 15:24, Dianne Reuby wrote:
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 13:42 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
if it wasn't for another guy on our local Freecycle list who gets old
machines, refurbishes them and sticks Windows XP and Office 2003 on
them (I think he's either got a whole load of Office 2003 lic
Happy to do what I can, count me in. GLLUG is also thinking of doing
something.
Paula
On 19/07/10 14:49, Alan Pope wrote:
Anyone fancy doing something for Software Freedom Day?
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From: Frederic Muller
Date: 19 July 2010 14:45
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gig is more like it if you ask
me. Again, you can get away with Xubuntu standalone on P4 with 256 MB
RAM as long as no-one's going to try to get much more ambitious than
surfing the web.
Older than that and it's Puppy . . . or a custom Debian desktop.
Paula
On 19/07/10 15:50, Rob
Totally agree -- really important to stay positive and focus on
benefits. Also agree that speed and relief from 'drive by' downloads etc
is a major selling point :)
Paula
One thing I've learned after years of attending trade and techie exhibitions is
that knocking the opposition doesn't ac
Also takes a lot of fiddling about to set up a custom Debian desktop and
I don't have time to make a habit of it. It's a while since I reviewed
all the packaged lightweight desktops and there's been a lot of
development since then, I'll have a look at Peppermint. There was an
Ubuntu-lite versio
Thanks - I'll have a look at Lubuntu when I get a minute :) Crunchbag
looks interesting but interface needs to be for beginners when dealing
with non-techies . . .
On 20/07/10 14:51, Liam Proven wrote:
That is what Ubuntu Lite tried to be - later rebadged U-Lite. We never
got the critical ma
Sounds like I ought to revisit Debian installation . . .
On 20/07/10 16:20, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and
faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It
w
This is interesting - but last time I tried to work with a school they
were stuck with a preferred MS supplier by the LA and there was also a
problem with electronic whiteboard drivers for Ubuntu/Linux? Obviously,
this doesn't stop them from using FOSS on MS Win but I wonder if anyone
knows abo
inux.htm>
On 22 July 2010 12:22, pmgazz wrote:
This is interesting - but last time I tried to work with a school they
were stuck with a preferred MS supplier by the LA and there was also a
problem with electronic whiteboard drivers for Ubuntu/Linux? Obviously, this
doesn't stop them
Thanks, I'll have another look at this. :)
On 26/07/10 13:18, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 26/07/10 12:36, pmgazz wrote:
I'm getting a 404 on that url?
Try this:
http://www.smarttech.com/us/Support/Browse+Support/Download+Software
They all seem to have a Lin
Besides the obvious issues with privacy and proprietary etc - small orgs
have all sorts of practical problems with Google - stuff just not
working very well and being frustrating. Also sync not working properly
etc. Better to pay an expert (and opensource) provider of groupware
services? But it
Years ago, a user complained that Win 98 wasn't booting properly - in
the C: root I found a user-created folder called 'scary stuff' with the
.bat and config.sys files in it ;)
Paula
On 27/07/10 09:14, Alan Pope wrote:
I had a user rename c:\windows once. Just once.
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Great!
By the way, just bought some Ebuyer extra value (Clevo) laptops which
they're selling without preinstalled OS (Pentium Dual Core T4300 2.1GHz,
2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 15.6" HD*)*. I put Lucid on without any hassle -
touchpad a bit annoying but overall a nice sturdy machine with OK
keyboard
Think I must be looking at the wrong thing? A couple of their software
products seem to have Linux versions, but I can't see any hardware drivers?
Paula
On 26/07/10 13:18, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 26/07/10 12:36, pmgazz wrote:
I'm getting a 404 on that url?
Try
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] An 'open source manifest
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more striking?
On 01/08/10 11:30, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 31/07/10 17:32, Andy Braben wrote:
And I prefer the lower case as well. However I think the logo would
look better if it is bottom aligned.
here's my take on the discussion.
I think you could probably do it with xwinwrap, but it's not exactly
user-friendly . . .
On 31/07/10 17:35, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 31/07/10 13:08, Jack Leigh wrote:
Hey guys,
I recently came across this awesome demo of using the tag in
HTML to do 8-bit color cycling
(http://www.effec
If I get a minute later, I'll have a go in Inkscape (and hope there's no
'ewweeuuurrrghhh') . . . when does it have to be done by?
Paula
On 02/08/10 13:28, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 02/08/10 13:08, pmgazz wrote:
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more
OK withdrawing opinion on paint for shed ;)
On 02/08/10 13:38, Alan Pope wrote:
On 2 August 2010 13:28, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 02/08/10 13:08, pmgazz wrote:
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more striking?
No, but it's an SVG, open it with Inkscap
On 20/08/10 12:31, John Stevenson wrote:
On 5 August 2010 18:32, Alan Bellwrote:
Could I be cheeky and ask you for the source file so I can create a tailored
poster? Otherwise I will have a go from scratch.
Thank you.
I'm not sure yet whether I'll organise something for the VCS (I've
There's been some work to tune up Linux kernels to ensure they run as
efficiently as possible - I think the bigger gains are in extending the
life of computer equipment though.
As we all know, Ubuntu can run on anything up to 6 years old and you can
re-use pretty much any old kit with an LTSP
We're doing a day of demos and presentations for the voluntary sector on
Software Freedom Day, details on our website:
http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=216
Everyone welcome whether individuals or representing organisations, if
anyone else works with VCS organisations, please do pass it on to them
I couldn't get the tool to work either, I haven't experimented with
Meercat yet, I installed 4 on a Lucid installation - finally, I copied
over my old manually-typed smb.conf and it sorta worked OK ;) Gotta
say, my brush with it inspired me with trepidation but I'm sure it'll
get sorted out an
Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
*http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
*Paula*
*
On 06/09/10 13:59, Jon Farmer wrote:
Hi
I have Empathy configured with my Yahoo and MSN accounts. I am constantly
get bombarded by 2 people who request adding as a contact or want to chat.
How do I b
th all the major chat protocols, loved it but couldn't get anyone else
to use it and now it's gone :(
Paula
On 06/09/10 14:53, Liam Proven wrote:
On 6 September 2010 14:49, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
It does seem a pretty basic requirement for a chat client!
On 06/09/10 15:46, Jon Farmer wrote:
On 6 September 2010 14:49, pmgazz wrote:
Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
Hmm, that's not good. Especially as it is a s
On 06/09/10 18:06, John Matthews wrote:
On 05/09/10 17:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 05/09/10 16:27, John Matthews wrote:
Sorry, dont know why I asked you really, should know better. Sorry to
bother you all. I know you are busy.
John
It's not that people don't want to hel
On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window
spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this?
On 10/09/10 11:53, Jon Farmer wrote:
Hi
I tried to install from CD on a machine running Windows 7 Enterprise.
I booted from the CD and told the insta
y from Ubuntu?
Paula
On 11/09/10 12:09, Liam Proven wrote:
On 10 September 2010 12:08, pmgazz wrote:
On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window
spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this?
I am getting this as well; I don't
On 13/09/10 10:52, alan c wrote:
Although I wished they had contacted me, because I guessed such a
problem might simply be that a downloaded binary might have needed an
executable permission set (maybe)
I think it's that the BBC hasn't updated the Adobe platform version. BBC
knows about
Deleted the Twitter account and it seems to have worked. Thanks :) But
since I now can't use Twitter or Facebook with it, it's just got
identi.ca and doesn't really word as an aggregator.
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FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then
make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back
Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I
check Twitter is unauthorised again. Have had to remove Gwibber as it's
t
I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with
non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue
badly-constructed pdf forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is
still a work in progress. I can manage to do it because I know Evince
fairly well and what it can a
To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a
recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to
'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and
make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The installer will go through
/bin, /usr, /var, /etc, /lib and s
Reinstalling using the existing home folder is a fabulous idea thanks!
But you still need to back up in case of problems. And I back up
constantly anyway in case I accidentally delete files myself or am
struck by lightning etc etc.
I use rsnapshot, which keeps rotating timed backups in a very
Don't understand, Lucid64 install, flash works (10.1.82.76) and BBC iPlayer
works (Air not installed) what am I missing?
I mean the Desktop version, the browser version works OK.
Paula
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On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote:
The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have
it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit.
Alan.
Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said only works up to Karmic.
Paula
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You can install 32 bit air on 10.04, even 64-bit. Essentially, you need
to download the .bin (not the .deb) version.
It's really easy to install Air onto Lucid, as I understand it, problem
is the iPlayer doesn't work with the version of Air in the repos. You
might be able to sort it out y
On 16/09/10 22:53, Grant Sewell wrote:
O
I'm sure the BBC have thoroughly tested it in all versions of
everything available to have come up with this statement.
Umm, well that's not exactly what they said lol - I'd already
established that it didn't work on Lucid and figured it o
I like Novatech and have one of their laptops - the laptop chassis is
great overall, however the case is stylish but a bit flimsy - spongy
keyboard and the battery fell out after a couple of months (a regular
occurrence according to the forums). That's why I got my latest batch
from eBuyer (als
It would be a lovely little machine if we could get it running some
Linux system or other.
It won't run Ubuntu but Puppy should be OK on it. Puppee has drivers for
the Intel Celeron and wifi chip in the early eeePCs, better check how
easy it is to install on this particular laptop though.
On 20/09/10 21:46, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
no cd drive to load *nix
It must have USB? Make a bootable USB with Unetbootin (I don't know if
it's just me, but the Ubuntu CD Creator only seems to work with Ubuntu
isos?) Or just borrow a USB external CD drive?
Paula
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On 23/09/10 09:20, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
Have a look at Crunchbang as an option. My wife is running it on her
EEEPC701 and it's stable and fast :)
Thanks, looks good - I'll try it out over the weekend,
Paula
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It's not on the right day and has a different 'slant' (the VCS wouldn't
'get' an install fest) but we're doing a day workshop showing charities
and community orgs how to install Ubuntu and do basic admin tasks on the
12th. http://fb-resilience.eventbrite.com/
We're providing laptops for peopl
On 29/09/10 13:44, James Thomas wrote:
Hi Paula,
Trying to find where this event is happening...
Am I missing something? (quite possible)
:)
Sorry guys, I've now added address details to the EventBrite page.
There's also info on our blog: http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=210
Directions and fu
I seem to remember it being in Swindon somewhere - either that or I am
going slightly mad.
Vince
No, this is London :) http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=210 - there's
another one in Swindon :)
Paula
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I realised after that yes I was going mad.
Good luck with the event - I would help but am not in the area
unfortunately.
Vince
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On 29/09/10 13:35, pmgazz wrote:
It's not on the right day and has a different 'slant' (the VCS wouldn't
'get' an install fest) but we're doing a day workshop showing charities
and community orgs how to install Ubuntu and do basic admin tasks on the
12th.
On 29/09/10 19:59, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello Paula,
I should be able to come along and help out for the day, I can confirm
nearer the date.
I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it
will be good practice for my own session.
Are you planning to use Ubuntu 10
I have no idea how many people will turn up, so I could be there practicing my
Inkscape skills or be
swamped by rampaging students all wanting Ubuntu !! - Hopefully some middle
ground would be good (for me).
I know - same for us, you never know with the VCS ;) Sure, I'll come
along and
My event details are now on the LoCo site at:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/427/detail/
Thank you
Thanks, will try to make it as close to noon as I can - shall I bring
one of our laptops with me?
Paula
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On 04/10/10 13:55, javadayaz wrote:
would the thermal gel really be exhausted after a few years...wasnt long ago
when i applied it, it seems.
One of mine's making a noise like an idling black cab - I've reseated
the heat sink and messed around with it - only way to get it to stop for
a w
On 05/10/10 12:33, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird
On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod wrote:
Strange that you've had problems with these players I have used all three
but have stuck with Rythmbox and Songbird. Rythmbox can play MP3 files,
makes
On 05/10/10 16:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of
music
On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz wrote:
I have 97 GB of music, works fine for me - must be another reason why it's
crashing. You could try gmusicbrowser, I
On 06/10/10 12:17, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
songbird is great, took me a little while to sort out banshee's mess but it
works briliently
Still not in the repos though?
Paula
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On 06/10/10 13:14, Alan Pope wrote:
Be nice to find out why banshee is crashing rather than just jump ship
and use something else though.
Al.
Good point! But all the music browsers are a bit temperamental with big
collections except gmusicbrowser - so if I can't get anything else to
run
On 06/10/10 13:44, Alan Pope wrote:
On 6 October 2010 13:43, Dan Attwood wrote:
Still not in the repos though?
songbird stopped linux support didn't they?
Yup!
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/songbird-leaving-linux-behind
Al.
Whaaat? That's not nice :(
Paula
On 06/10/10 13:58, Alan Pope wrote:
But if everyone just says "music player X is broken with large music
collections" and then _nobody_ files a bug about it, how will that
status quo ever change?
Cheers,
Al.
OK OK, I'll try to be less of a slob ;)
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On 09/10/10 13:30, Ashley Whetter wrote:
Hi,
Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in
Stockport, Cheshire. It will take place every other Saturday starting 23rd
October 2010 at 3pm-4pm at Fresco (The cafe in the middle of Merseyway
Shopping Centre).
I've put this
On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello Paula,
I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release party, so I will see you
tomorrow at your event. I should get there around 12 noon.
See you then.
Thanks John - look forward to seeing you :)
Paula
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On 11/10/10 13:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote:
I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it
will be good practice for my own session.
Hello Paula,
I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release pa
On 13/10/10 17:55, Colin Law wrote:
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Bailey wrote:
If you're a power user of any platform and you change platform, the
experience feels very dis-empowering and frustrating. This isn't
necessarily related to the relative merits of the two platforms.
Know
On 13/10/10 23:05, John Stevenson wrote:
I'll add this also to the report if someone can remind me where to put it,
cant find a link on the Ubuntu-UK site...
Thanks John - it really was amazing!
I'll put up the feedback from the Fossbox session on Tuesday too, we had
a lot of enthusia
Oh yes, and I meant to mention - we're starting informal drop-in help
sessions for Ubuntu and FOSS on the first Friday of every month if
anyone wants to help out (let me know) - or come and get help:
http://fossbox.org.uk/blog/?p=362
We're also running a free introductory session on podcasting
On 13/10/10 23:35, Rob Beard wrote:
That's great to hear, after the discussion that has been going on today
on the list it's great to have some positive news. I'd be interested to
have a read of the report. I'd like to do some sort of Ubuntu workshop
down here in Devon (albeit on a much smal
On 14/10/10 09:58, Roy Jamison wrote:
Wow! That's a really good turnout :)
I'm hoping there might be some kind of Ubuntu open day somewhere in
north Kent soon. It will give me a chance to get my hands dirty and muck
in in the hands-on area instead of bug triage/fixing.
Roy - I have a work
On 14/10/10 11:31, John Matthews wrote:
Hi Barry,
thank you, I really appreciate it, unfortunately, I live in London.
Thank you any way. :)
John.
GLLUG meets fairly regularly and they do this kind of thing.
http://www.gllug.org.uk/
We have drop-ins starting soon, these are aimed at VC
ep in touch - and
if you like you can sub to our newsletter which has updates about our
training sessions:
http://fossbox.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce_fossbox.org.uk
Cheers,
Paula
On 14/10/10 21:03, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:06 +0100, pmgazz wrote:
Oh yes, and I mea
On 14/10/10 21:03, John Matthews wrote:
On 14/10/10 19:52, Paul Jones wrote:
John,
http://askubuntu.com/
Good resource, thanks :)
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I'm near Tower Bridge in central London, we're a small independent
Community Interest Company and we do a lot of FOSS advocacy and
training, digital inclusion projects and also Ubuntu support and LAMP
development for charities and SEs. We run Ubuntu servers (LAMP and LTSP)
and desktops for trai
I live in North London and work in London Bridge. I've been using Ubuntu
since 7.04 and I'm happy to help with basic support issues too.
As my day job I design enterprise software solutions so I'm also happy
to help out anybody interested in programming.
Cheers,
Bruno
It's really good g
we could
do worse than the odd meet-up and mini installathon, perhaps...?
I'm up for that - and can provide a central space with broadband and a
kitchen (unless people prefer pubs).
Paula
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kind of, yes the API changed, but Canonical had a premium subscription
allowing them to do Google maps over https this expired about a year
ago and mysteriously kept on working. Apparently it is rather
expensive to renew the https deal and as launchpad is always https and
not http (for reason
On 18/10/10 19:54, Alan Bell wrote:
I would rather not do a pub evening for this (but we should do
one some other time).
Agree, Hub much nicer :)
Paula
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On 19/10/10 10:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 13/10/2010 12:08, John Matthews wrote:
On 13/10/10 11:49, chris cundy wrote:
Installing Ubuntu IS as easy as installing Windows and a darn sight
faster to get a fully-functioning machine.
Once you have installed Windows you THEN have to inst
On 19/10/10 10:42, Alan Bell wrote:
Here are some of the pictures from the event last year:
http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK
Alan.
OMG were there any women at all?
Paula
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Yes.
At least three in this picture alone.
http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK#5418430093759282834
Al.
What a relief! Missed that one . . .
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Try the usual suspects (192.168.1.1 / 192.168.0.1 / 192.168.1.254 etc
etc). If that doesn't work, google the model for it's default IP and
hope no-one changed it ;)
Paula
On 19/10/10 16:54, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
Hi
The scenario is as follow:
1. You have permission to work as Admin on a La
I've just got around to putting some pics from our ICT for Resilience
workshop on Facebook - which was basically an Ubuntu installation, tour
and maintenance basics workshop:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fossbox/246451092550#!/album.php?aid=237905&id=246451092550
The Lottery funded us to advo
On 20/10/10 10:46, Andy Partington wrote:
On 20 October 2010 10:42, jakewc2 wrote:
Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help,
willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people.
I think we might want to stop feeding the troll?
Paula
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