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- Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:54 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Videos on Website
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14574
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:42 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: desktops in action room
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18888
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: desktops in action room
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18888
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:38 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: desktops in action room
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18888
If we want to stop people from installing programs we can just take away the necessary permissions. As for user quotas, depends on the size of the hard drives and the number of users, I think they might be 80GB drives. I would go for no enforced quotas, but then if one user fills up the whole disc i...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:02 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: desktops in action room
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18888
I think we are using the computers wrong. Thing is, Ubuntu is designed to be a mulit-user system in which each user has an account and logs into that account when they use the computer. You're not meant to have everyone using one login like we do. Ubuntu thinks that all of us are one person and beha...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:50 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: desktops in action room
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18888
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:38 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Goodbye Windows..hello Ubuntu
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20983
The Linux Emporium sells linux compatible wireless cards in the UK, either buy one from them or find the same model somewhere else:
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:53 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Big Fauz Pas Friday July 4th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4544
Big Fauz Pas Friday July 4th
We gave them a grant to do their performance. These guys want to be shown how to use the lights and sound system in the hall. I don't know. Who should I put Jose in touch with this time? As far as I know there is no permanent sound system in the hall, so it sounds like they want to move the PA upsta...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:48 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Goodbye Windows..hello Ubuntu
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20983
Sounds like you're doing the right thing. Ubuntu will detect your Windows installation and offer to resize it for you and install Windows alongside. Just make sure you choose the 'Resize partition whatever and used freed space' option instead of the 'use entire hard drive' option. It is very easy th...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:49 am
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Goodbye Windows..hello Ubuntu
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20983
Well, Premiere not withstanding, I was just over at my friends place, they use Windows virtual machines on Ubuntu a lot. They say it is really easy to setup and then pretty much works just as if you had Windows installed. Their only caveat was accessing external hardware, if you connect a bluetooth ...
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Goodbye Windows..hello Ubuntu
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20983
I don't think Adobe Premiere will work in Wine, that's my guess. In general, not all programs work under wine, some do, some don't. My advice is to avoid it. Trying to force programs from one proprietary system to work on a completely different open system is ugly. Your best bet for getting stuff li...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:05 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: July 4th event poster -- can this go up?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6175
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Event listings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4746
Event listings
You know, those little paper ones we've had for the last few weeks. Great stuff. Who makes them? I think Olivier was doing it but it's been someone else recently. Jose is organising an event for a week on Friday and has a poster for it, which he requests goes in the listings. The poster is here: htt...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:00 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: July 4th event poster -- can this go up?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6175
July 4th event poster -- can this go up?
I don't have access, but Jose sent me this poster. Someone put it on the site?
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:28 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Behind the scenes working group meet, TOMORROW (Thurs) 8.30
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6155
Behind the scenes working group minutes, 19 Jun 2008. I want to apologise about the faciliation for this meeting. I was sort-of-not-officially facilitating, basically it wasn't really facilitated, but it needed to be because when we all just have a conversation and talk at once the European voluntee...
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:57 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Behind the scenes working group meet, TOMORROW (Thurs) 8.30
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6155
One more for the £100: short film about volunteers building accommodation for street children in Peru.
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:15 am
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Behind the scenes working group meet, TOMORROW (Thurs) 8.30
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6155
Behind the scenes working group meet, TOMORROW (Thurs) 8.30
Add your agenda points here. Mine: The monthly £100 grant. We have had a number of exciting applications: blind cider date , Voices of the Wilderness , Bosnian folk music . Ryan, did you receive a CD from two clowns? If so that is another £100 application, and also a guy called JM told me he was gon...
- Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:39 pm
- Forum: Workshops
- Topic: Basic Bike Maintenance - Saturday 14th June 2pm.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10778
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:25 am
- Forum: Front of House/Gallery
- Topic: mural in downstairs hall way for august
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16166
This seems to be the overriding rift within the forest that in order to exude control on quality (or rather - maintain a unified theme or style) we seem to believe this negatively affects "openness". Does it? Not necessarily, I think a balance can be struck. For example, if we saw the benefit of ha...
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:04 am
- Forum: Make/Sell
- Topic: The SHOP NEW LOGO COMPETITION
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20569
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:31 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: meadows tent
- Replies: 25
- Views: 25480
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:55 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: meadows tent
- Replies: 25
- Views: 25480
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:48 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: meadows tent
- Replies: 25
- Views: 25480
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:52 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: meadows tent
- Replies: 25
- Views: 25480
So is there a rota yet? I'm happy to do a whole day at the bar, or half of one day then half on the next, or maybe all or most of both days if pushed. Depends how many other people want to be on the bar and how many we need on the bar at a time. I like the idea of serving beer on the meadows all day...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:35 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: for all you open source fans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5594
Nice Swithun. I went to a film showing/talk from the Scottish Zapatista Solidarity Campaign at the weekend. Did you know that this Scottish group is twinned with a Zapa autonomous municipality in Mexico? They have direct communication with them, send representatives to visit them, and raise money fo...
- Tue May 27, 2008 12:02 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: the vegan endless "war on burritos"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15943
A lot of customers seem to look at our wraps and think they are the burritos. It's an understandable mistake. Then they will ask for it to be heated up, or sometimes silly volunteers will offer to microwave wraps. I hadn't heard of someone actually ordering a burrito and getting a grilled wrap on a ...
- Tue May 20, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Screen hinges for old thinkpad
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4724
Screen hinges for old thinkpad
Anyone know anything about fixing or replacing these?
I've got an old X22, a super portable thinkpad, not a bad little machine, but the screen hinges are so nackered that it just falls all the way open, you have to prop the screen up against something.
I've got an old X22, a super portable thinkpad, not a bad little machine, but the screen hinges are so nackered that it just falls all the way open, you have to prop the screen up against something.
- Sun May 18, 2008 7:19 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Behind the Scenes Working Group: thurs. 15th may ---8.30
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13668
Hey Nix, if you want some sort of mobile zine publishing, a laptop and a desktop printer and scanner seems like the way to go, because they are mobile, they are designed more to be moved around easily and not break. They are slower, but how much printing are you expecting to do? A desktop computer a...
- Thu May 15, 2008 11:42 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Behind the Scenes Working Group: thurs. 15th may ---8.30
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13668
- Thu May 15, 2008 11:41 pm
- Forum: Minutes
- Topic: Behind the Scenes Working Group: thurs. 15th may ---8.30
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13668
I didn't finish these minutes off properly before I got Ryan to post them for me. Here is the better version. This is the working group meeting to come to -- no action points actually assigned to people! Action Points * Next Behind The Scenes meeting: We need to decide what to do about the tax situa...
- Wed May 14, 2008 7:13 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: meadows tent
- Replies: 25
- Views: 25480
- Wed May 14, 2008 2:36 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: EVS Party
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14200
- Wed May 14, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Tranquility Team
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2776
- Mon May 12, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: Warning - our printer has a watermark
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7372
- Sat May 10, 2008 10:42 pm
- Forum: Facilities
- Topic: 'Working' in the cave
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9211
'Working' in the cave
I just remembered I was night managing on Thursday night and I had a number of people try to take free sandwiches and cakes because they said they were 'working' in the cave. Instead of asking, they just walk into the kitchen and try to take the food. Then when I stop them they give me a story desig...
- Sat May 10, 2008 5:22 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Licence to kill cafe culture
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2247
- Fri May 09, 2008 1:50 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: Personal Plea: Hi-Fi Equiptment Needed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2198
You can also put a request out on freecycle. I have an old, not very good hifi that I don't want. It's a CD player, but it skips a lot, maybe that can be fixed, and a pair of speakers. We have another pair of speakers in our basement too. They're not very good though, I'm not sure you would want any...
- Tue May 06, 2008 1:34 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Meeting about tranquility implementation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9558
- Mon May 05, 2008 12:39 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Meeting about tranquility implementation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9558
Meeting about tranquility implementation
Not a proper forest meeting but I'm meeting a couple of people in the cafe tomorrow who are interested in doing this tranquility thing. We want to discuss how to implement it and hopefully come up with some sort of proposal for the cafe & events working group. If you're interested, why not come along?
- Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: File server setup
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16136
Well if all we want is remote accounts on the server SSH will do the trick. GNOME programs in general, the file browser, the text editor, the PDF viewer, etc., can work over SSH, though for some programs you will doubtless have to copy the file locally to work on it then copy it back (I'm thinking o...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:57 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Tranquility Team!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9541
I don't have the fonts I used at home here at work, so it's writing the meeting time on by hand. Here's a 4*a5 version for printing flyers of it. I got an email from tranquility people, they are trying to organise a meeting of the Scottish climate activists group about forming a tranquility team for...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:34 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Opening times
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9948
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:35 pm
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Tranquility Team!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9541
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:45 am
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Opening times
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9948
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:44 am
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Opening times
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9948
Opening times
From Alex. Alex will print these.
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:43 am
- Forum: Kitchen
- Topic: Tranquility Team!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9541
Tranquility Team!
So. James is talking to someone about training. Someone is gonna make a rota. Apparently there are people around who don't volunteer in the kitchen who would be up for doing this tranquility thing. But, we don't just want randoms signing up for tranquility shifts. We need to work out the details. So...
- Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:46 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: File server setup
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16136
The easiest kind of file sharing to setup is SSH. Give each user an account on the server, then from any client they can login to their server account over SSH and browse the files graphically. You just need to instal openssh server on the server and openssh client on the clients, no setup needed. F...
- Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:17 pm
- Forum: Website/Online
- Topic: File server setup
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16136
No it looks like you're onto it. Do you know how to setup this NIS stuff? I was talking to Erik Chakravarty, who's a computing consultant who's helped out a bit at the forest before. We thought that perhaps you just make a shared /home partition on the server, shared with NFS (which is not the same ...
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:32 pm
- Forum: The People's Forum
- Topic: How to order an XO laptop
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18789
Thought people might be interested in this. Edlug are hosting a live demo of a pair of XOs and what you can do with them: "One Laptop Per Child" by Arron Finnon The next meeting of EdLUG is on Thursday 1st May at 7.30pm at The Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, St Marys Street Edinburgh. There...