There’s a new version of the acpi-support package in Ubuntu Dapper today. At our recent special LUG meeting, Paul Sladen took a look at suspend on my ThinkPad R40 and we discovered that it had an unusual BIOS which wasn’t reporting the correct make. Hence suspend wasn’t being activated by default. Paul asked me to [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Fame at last!
May 23, 2006Network Manager on Ubuntu Dapper
May 17, 2006In preparation for the talk from Paul Sladen tomorrow, I have upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Dapper. Dapper is still two weeks from release and Paul is interested in seeing laptops that have problems with suspend and hibernate. I had problems with hibernating on Breezy, but everything seems to work great under Dapper. So it [...]
Special LUG meeting with Paul Sladen this Thursday evening
May 16, 2006I’m pleased to be able to confirm the details for our impromptu LUG meeting on Thursday evening. Venue: Jamie’s Computer Club, Southampton Date: Thursday 18th May 2006 Time: 7pm for 7:30pm. Approx finish at 9:30pm. Paul Sladen, a lead Ubuntu developer will start off with a talk on the Ubuntu project and what’s coming in [...]
OpenDocument is an ISO standard
May 3, 2006OpenDocument Format, the native format of OpenOffice.org and used by an increasingly large number of other applications is now an ISO standard. It is ISO/IEC 26300. This is really important for people who care about open standards, interchange of information and the longevity of data. So, have a drink to ODF tonight!
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