I had agreement to switch to dual-boot from my IT rep a few months ago - mainly on the grounds that the machine in question was struggling to run what i needed in Windows properly, let alone handle a Linux VM as well. I didn't actually do that as the machine died right on cue, and the new one has significantly more power.<div>
<br></div><div>Of course, reasonable conditions applied.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I know the instructions are actually there - but the Linuces aren't. They would have been written for Ubuntu 8.04 or thereabouts. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As I say, I reckon community support is the *right* way here: then someone would not only care enough but also have a machine running something which allowed him/her to experience what worked and so reliably update all the instructions as Linux/iOS/BBOS/Android changes....</div>
<div><br></div><div>David Aldred<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 May 2012 18:18, Cat Clarkson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:envengcat@googlemail.com" target="_blank">envengcat@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Taking a step back from support, itd be quite nice for IT to let us have linux installed on our PCs, but locking bios makes that impossible (right?).. That definitely bothered me more than knowing id be unsupported.</p>
<p>I also seem to remember a couple of years ago when netbooks got big there being ubuntu guides to connect to uon-secure etc? Do these no longer exist?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2012 5:58 PM, "David Aldred" <<a href="mailto:davidaldred@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidaldred@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 24 May 2012 17:24, Barry Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu-advertising@gmx.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-advertising@gmx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">
<div>On 24/05/12 17:11, David Aldred wrote:<br>
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It's really not as easy as that, in the real world.<br>
Yes, they are all University students and staff. No, that doesn't mean they necessarily have much of a clue about<br>
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Actually , I do live in the real world. Anyone with half a brain at <a href="http://nottingham.ac" target="_blank">nottingham.ac</a> support should have realised that pointing students towards the Ubuntu <a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu" target="_blank">https://answers.launchpad.net/<u></u>ubuntu</a> will get them their answer with no knowledge or expertise require on their part. Pride says much!.<br>
</blockquote><div class="im"><div><br></div><div>Ok, so I went there and typed in 'How do I connect to University email'. No answers. Then I tried "set a proxy server', and didn't get the right answer in the first four hits (or not for my version of Ubuntu). Those are likely to be the biggest questions when all the new students arrive in September. (So yes, they will be covered in welcome guides, but we know that well under half of students read much of the welcome guide before connecting up a computer).</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="im"><div>Launchpad is great if you have loads of patience and a fair bit of technical know-how already. That's not the helpdesk marketplace. </div><div> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
And, if there are a lot of question like this, there are hundreds of folk like me who would run a seminar for free.</blockquote><div class="im"><div><br></div><div>Seminars are great, but they don't answer the question now. And by the time they've got to the seminar, they've presumably sorted out enough of their problems to have been able to connect, find details of useful seminars, and get email confirmation that they are registered for them - so help desk have already done their work. </div>
<div><br></div></div><div>David</div></div><div class="im">
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