Club Linux Coffs Harbour

Oh! No! a Bug on Linux.  I am still with Ubuntu6.06, Yes I know a bit behind the times, but it has been good enough for my skill (I laugh) level.

The Bug is designated #276640

Having trouble attaching to a Brother printer, I cleverly decided to use another small computer and have XP loaded, to run the printer, and then to set up a KVM switch between my Linux computer and the XP one.

I do not know if it was coincidence or not, but I opened the Linux computer, ready to play with my new gadgets to find that all the pages are much too big for the screen resolution.

I just had to respond to a windows user who is temporarily using Ubuntu (Karmic) until they can get Windows back. They were concerned about the lack of Antivirus software. Apart from my hopeless grammar what do you think? Am I right? How would you have responded? Here is my response:

This year I ran a trial at a primary school in Lismore where all the year Year 5 and 6 students had a HP 2140 Netbook running Ubuntu. The trial has been a huge hit and will be continued next year. All computers in the school are now running Ubuntu KK. I have been asked to role out the same system at SFX Woolgoolga next year. Please let me know if you would like to know more about the pilot program.

I just spent more than ten minutes trying to figure out how to change the default audio player on my Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. I think the fault is my brain not Ubuntu. Now if I write this down I may actually remember such a simple procedure....

Charlie O'Sullivan just posted this comment on another thread, which I thought was worth promoting to a thread of it's own:

Hi, I'm helping a primary school in Lismore where all Year 5 and 6 kids have a HP 2140 Minibook each. They are using Jaunty. We have tried the following video editors:

Kino, Kdenlive, Lives, Avidemux, Open Movie Editor.

All of them crash at some point when importing, adding effects or whatever. There is no pattern to it. Kino for example, which is supported by and comes with Edubuntu, crashes any time you move / advance the movie or if you right click anywhere on the screen. We are not sure if it is a video driver problem or what. I loaded all the programs on a HP 8430 (with 4GB ram - the minis have 2GB) and have similar problems. Is there anyone in your group who can help with this? I really want to promote Ubuntu to schools but it is difficult when a basic requirement isn't up to scratch and the kids cant use the webcam.

As the problem happens across different applications it looks to be a hardware issue.

Hi everyone.  After reading a bunch of doc over the last couple of weeks in my holiday to give myself a good understanding of how this OS works, as of this morning, I seem to have joined the ranks of GNU/Linux users.  It wasn't quite what I expected; it was definitely more awesome.

Could some kind soul explain the steps in changing from Evolution mail to Thunderbird, Please, and without losing emails.

Thank you in advance 

A while ago we got this query via the contact form on the site, and as it's a question so often asked, I think it's worth putting the answer somewhere Google can see it.

I have loaded Ubuntu 8.04 and all is well except when I download other programs eg Banshee I have no idea how to install it or any other app. This is generally a very easy task in windows.

Those of you who have used GNU/Linux for a while are now doubtless spraying the screen with bikkie crumbs as you shout "It's EASIER than in Windows!!!", but there are good reasons why a new Ubuntu user wouldn't know that.

It is a few years now that David Chapman and I talked about trying a Linux Club in Coffs Harbour.

The original plan was to have a club so that we could encourage more and more people to the many advantages of Linux operating systems.

 With David's generosity we did set up a once a month, Sunday afternoon session at his shop in Ocean Parade Coffs and on occasion we did have a good and interested attendance. 

Help! Help! I have purchased a HPC5280 printer and cannot get the following. A Scan program for scan to computer, a Disc Labeler Program. I asked at the retail outlet and was assured that it would work with Linux, and it does as a printer but that is all.