Ubuntu-eg Digest, Vol 26, Issue 12
Mohammed Gamal
m.gamal005 at gmail.com
Wed May 5 23:41:52 UTC 2010
I guess it's a better idea to use the same fonts used in Lucid Lynx for the
name tags. Anyone thinks the same?
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Iislam Al-Wazery <al.wazery at gmail.com>wrote:
> Here are the name tag templates to choose from
> http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8949/nametagt.jpg
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>> 3. Re: Freedom Toaster (Mohamed Saudi)
>> 4. Re: Freedom Toaster (Jonathan N. Hindi)
>> 5. Re: Freedom Toaster (Ahmed Toulan)
>> 6. our work progress (mahmoud mohamed)
>> 7. Re: our work progress (Mohamed Saudi)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:34:40 +0300
>> From: Hisham Kotry <hkotry at live.com>
>> Subject: Freedom Toaster
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>> As part of the group's efforts to promote Ubuntu I'd like to propose
>> building a Freedom Toaster and placing it somewhere convenient on a college
>> campus. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just an old PC with an optical
>> media writer in it. The idea came to me when I learnt that Mohammed
>> "Sensiva" Saudi was remastering an Ubuntu CD -one that ought to provide an
>> out of the box experience on-par with what MS Windows users are used to- for
>> distribution at an upcoming event because new users might not have the
>> necessary know-how or bandwidth to do it themselves. We could all chip-in to
>> buy the necessary hardware and I think that it's much cheaper on the
>> long-run than producing dozens of CDs/DVDs for every event.
>> You can find out more about Freedom Toasters at:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster .
>> Any takers?
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>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:10:47 +0300
>> From: "Mohamed Saudi" <Mohamed_Saudi at Hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Network & Mirror Issue
>> To: "Ubuntu Egypt" <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> The mirror will be on my computer, I will setup ftp server and also share
>> the mirror folder on samba. Installers have to do the following
>>
>> - add those lines in source.list (at the top)
>> deb ftp://192.168.1.230/ lucid main multiverse restricted universe
>> deb ftp://192.168.1.230/ lucid-updates main multiverse restricted
>> universe
>> deb ftp://192.168.1.230/ lucid-security main multiverse restricted
>> universe
>>
>> or ...
>>
>> mount the samba share to a local mount point. then add the following lines
>> in source.list (at the top)
>> deb file:/path/to/mnt/point lucid main multiverse restricted universe
>> deb file:/path/to/mnt/point lucid-updates main multiverse restricted
>> universe
>> deb file:/path/to/mnt/point lucid-security main multiverse restricted
>> universe
>>
>> then update apt, and start installing whatever you want. after finishing
>> installing, please remove those lines from sources.list then update apt
>>
>> Those steps are valid for both 32bit and 64bit installations
>>
>> If anyone can provide an empty 100GB IDE harddrive, I can make this even
>> easier
>>
>> Thank you
>> Mohamed Saudi
>>
>>
>> From: Ahmed Toulan
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:34 PM
>> To: Ubuntu Egypt
>> Subject: Re: Network & Mirror Issue
>>
>>
>> Mohammed Saudi, since you're the one responsible for the mirror can u
>> please answer this question ..
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Omar Mohamed <omarmohsenm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I need to know how the network infrastructure will be, although the
>> fact that it will be small. I personally believe that we will really
>> need the mirror, but we haven't talked about how it will be configured
>> in terms of network view, if we can host a BIND server in order for
>> the hosts to resolve default mirrors domain names to our mirror IP
>> address, I don't know much about BIND, I am not sure if it would take
>> time in order to configure, it will be easier in order to install
>> packages, especially if there are many people and many packages being
>> installed.
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>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:13:04 +0300
>> From: "Mohamed Saudi" <Mohamed_Saudi at Hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster
>> To: "Ubuntu Egypt" <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> I really like the idea, bas enta 3aref sa3b awi e7na el masreyeen ne7afez
>> 3ala 7aga public zay di, someone has to be watching for it. Join us next
>> Saturday wenzabbat'ha sawa
>>
>>
>> From: Hisham Kotry
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:34 PM
>> To: ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Freedom Toaster
>>
>>
>> As part of the group's efforts to promote Ubuntu I'd like to propose
>> building a Freedom Toaster and placing it somewhere convenient on a college
>> campus. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just an old PC with an optical
>> media writer in it. The idea came to me when I learnt that Mohammed
>> "Sensiva" Saudi was remastering an Ubuntu CD -one that ought to provide an
>> out of the box experience on-par with what MS Windows users are used to- for
>> distribution at an upcoming event because new users might not have the
>> necessary know-how or bandwidth to do it themselves. We could all chip-in to
>> buy the necessary hardware and I think that it's much cheaper on the
>> long-run than producing dozens of CDs/DVDs for every event.
>>
>>
>> You can find out more about Freedom Toasters at:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster .
>>
>>
>> Any takers?
>>
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:32:53 +0300
>> From: "Jonathan N. Hindi" <jonathan.hindi at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster
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>> Nice Idea
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>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:48:03 +0300
>> From: Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster
>> To: Ubuntu Egypt <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> I like the idea too but we have to think of the best way to implement it
>> as
>> Mohammed Saudi said.
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Jonathan N. Hindi
>> <jonathan.hindi at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > Nice Idea
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>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:46:44 +0300
>> From: mahmoud mohamed <eng.ma7moud.ebrahem at gmail.com>
>> Subject: our work progress
>> To: Ubuntu Egypt <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> AA,
>> how is the work going on :).
>> i wanna tell u that i began in burning the CDs after i downloaded the
>> customized CD from the torrent.
>> also today we manged to announce about the event in m.fawzy and my
>> department.
>> and the first poster to us have been putted in the announcement wall :).
>> .
>> plz every one achieve any thing of our work, write it here to us to be
>> updated by the last news.
>> like the name tags, CDs and so one.
>> thnx
>> in advance.
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>> Message: 7
>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:33:55 +0300
>> From: "Mohamed Saudi" <Mohamed_Saudi at Hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: our work progress
>> To: "Ubuntu Egypt" <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Message-ID: <COL107-DS212CADC4A89CD09E4E69E29DF40 at phx.gbl>
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>> Burning in progress, we need to burn more because some members aren't able
>> to burn.
>>
>> I am waiting for the name tags to be sent so I can get them printed
>>
>> The paper has been done by Mohamed Gamal, I will print them tomorrow.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: mahmoud mohamed
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:46 PM
>> To: Ubuntu Egypt
>> Subject: our work progress
>>
>>
>> AA,
>> how is the work going on :).
>> i wanna tell u that i began in burning the CDs after i downloaded the
>> customized CD from the torrent.
>> also today we manged to announce about the event in m.fawzy and my
>> department.
>> and the first poster to us have been putted in the announcement wall :).
>> .
>> plz every one achieve any thing of our work, write it here to us to be
>> updated by the last news.
>> like the name tags, CDs and so one.
>> thnx
>> in advance.
>>
>>
>>
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