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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users (Martin)
2. Re: Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game) (Katie Dumont)
3. Re: Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users (Alex Butcher)
4. Re: Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users (Keith Edmunds)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:14:11 +0100
From: Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users
Message-ID: <1404476051.9089.686.camel@raphael>
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On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 11:10 +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> On 2014-06-20 21:32, Bob Ham wrote:
>
> > I
> > just got off the phone with my parents as their computer is having
> > trouble in that it keeps locking up (requiring a hard reset)
>
> > I Love My PC, a shop on Gloucester Road
>
> > So, is there anyone here who might be able to help me and my
> > parents? :-)
>
>
> As a post-script to this call for help, there are people at the
> aforementioned shop who provide support for GNU/Linux so my parents are
> having their problems sorted.
>
> However, I received no responses regarding commercial support from this
> list, which is disappointing. I was labouring under the impression from
> the times I came to meetings, that there were a number of professionals
> offering support for GNU/Linux in the LUG. I specifically recall
> Assursys but looking at their website, it appears they are no longer
> trading. Alas. Is this decline a consequence of the state of the
> economy, I wonder?

Try asking for people to spend 6 months to 1 year supporting a server
farm :-) I think it's more a reflection of the demand for Linux
support. There are people on the list who support Linux boxes but they
are generally part of IT support teams at larger organisations rather
than being focused on private end-users. I think there is a market for
consultancy / on demand support there but my impression is that it is
smaller than the market for permanent / long term contract support
staff.

Cheers,
- Martin





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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 13:14:43 +0100
From: Katie Dumont <hifromkatie@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Bluetooth keyboard (+free Pokemon game)
Message-ID:
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It is a UK layout, although at first it was typing as US, but in Android
settings you can select the keyboard layout so I just changed it to English
UK and now the ? key works fine.

Unfortunately the home key doesn't take you to home, unsure if it's
configurable somehow though, still trying to see what I can do to make it
work.
Pressing Escape (on a function key) goes back, so you can keep pressing
that until you get to the home screen.

I've also just found that Alt Tab takes you to a recently used apps
selector. Other keys like cursors, tab, home, end, page up and page down
(some of these are on Fn keys) work whilst typing as you'd expect.

Other handy features are that Fn and Control is volume down, whilst Fn and
Alt is volume up.

I've just typed this out on it.

In my opinion it's really good for the price, although I'm planning to use
mine mainly for RPi stuff once I get back into that.
I have the Motorola Android keyboard and mouse for my Moto Xoom, and the
keyboard is better than this, which all the Android keys you could
possibly want, but for the mark up I don;t think it'd be worth it (Unless
the Moto keyboard has ridiculously dropped in price over the last 3 years)

Katie
(Ah no key for sending an email though either, I'll have to tap the screen
for that!)
On 4 Jul 2014 10:23, "Alex Butcher" <lug@assursys.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Katie Dumont wrote:
>
> The Bluetooth keyboards we had at the lug meeting are on sale again. now
>> down to ?6.99 in Argos, a whole pound cheaper than when I got ours.
>>
>> Thought there might be people who are interested in getting one:
>>
>> http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/learn-with-pok-mon-
>> typing-adventure-for-6-9
>> 9-argos-includes-wireless-bluetooth-keyboard-1945383
>>
>> Katie
>>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up; duly put one on reserve for collection.
>
> Before I do so, however, how well do they work with Android devices? You
> (or Nathan) mentioned a US key layout, any missing keys (e.g. home, back,
> task switch)?
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 14:46:56 +0100 (BST)
From: Alex Butcher <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Bob Ham wrote:

> On 2014-06-20 21:32, Bob Ham wrote:
> As a post-script to this call for help, there are people at the
> aforementioned shop who provide support for GNU/Linux so my parents are
> having their problems sorted.
>
> However, I received no responses regarding commercial support from this list,
> which is disappointing. I was labouring under the impression from the times
> I came to meetings, that there were a number of professionals offering
> support for GNU/Linux in the LUG. I specifically recall Assursys but looking
> at their website, it appears they are no longer trading. Alas. Is this
> decline a consequence of the state of the economy, I wonder?

No, I shuttered Assursys back in 2004 as the economy improved and permanent
public sector work paid far better than being a small business.

Also, I was focused on providing IT security services to medium and large
sized businesses, who increasingly prefer to deal with larger suppliers.

Best Regards,
Alex



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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 21:54:37 +0100
From: Keith Edmunds <kae@midnighthax.com>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] Commercial GNU/Linux support for home users
Message-ID: <20140704215437.672cfd83@web2py.the.cage>
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On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:10:07 +0000, rah@settrans.net said:

> However, I received no responses regarding commercial support from this
> list, which is disappointing.

My company provides commercial support, but only to businesses rather than
home users, which is why I didn't reply.
--
Blog: http://goo.gl/iOwv1w

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone
who will never be able to repay you."



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