[ubuntu-uk] Education technology show

2006-11-15 Thread Caroline Ford
http://www.bettshow.com/bett/show_home1.asp "BETT is the world's leading educational information & communications technologies (ICT) event, attracting 600 educational suppliers and over 28000 visitors, and bringing together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-15 Thread Pat
On 15/11/06, Greg Dash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I already have pkg-config installed, could it be a config problem? On 15/11/06, Andrew Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On 15/11/06 15:24, Greg Dash wrote: > > gcc `gtk-config --cflags` -Wimplicit " gtk2.c" -lgtk` gtk-config > > --libs` -o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free vs non-free drivers etc

2006-11-15 Thread David Morley
On 15/11/06, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if I could get peoples general opinion on free vs > non-free drivers etc. > I have two views on this number one I play games on my machine so I want 3d, which is only available via non-free drivers. Number 2 I belie

[ubuntu-uk] Free vs non-free drivers etc

2006-11-15 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, I was wondering if I could get peoples general opinion on free vs non-free drivers etc. We have been having a discussion on our LUG about Flash on PPC. It eventually turned into a proprietary is bad argument with the usual suspects preaching that everyone should use just free softwa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-15 Thread Greg Dash
I already have pkg-config installed, could it be a config problem? On 15/11/06, Andrew Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 15/11/06 15:24, Greg Dash wrote: > gcc `gtk-config --cflags` -Wimplicit "gtk2.c" -lgtk` gtk-config > --libs` -o "gtk2" gtk-config is provided in libgtk1.2-dev but you wan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew Price
On 15/11/06 15:24, Greg Dash wrote: > gcc `gtk-config --cflags` -Wimplicit "gtk2.c" -lgtk` gtk-config > --libs` -o "gtk2" gtk-config is provided in libgtk1.2-dev but you want to use libgtk2.0-dev, which provides .pc files for pkg-config to use. Hence you probably need to use pkg-config instead of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New screencast for today

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:15:10PM +, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Have you dugg all of these?! I haven't looked at the latest one but I > did take a peak at quickones.org and you've got quite a good collection > now! Might be a good to digg/slashdot it and get a bit more awareness of > it out?

[ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-15 Thread Greg Dash
Hello, my proper post :-) I am quite new to Linux and C/C++ programming but I wanted to try and create some GUI with GTK as they have good tutorials with C, I just Anjuta to write and compile the application. I have GTK Libs and GTK Dev packages installed, I install them via Synaptic. The program

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New screencast for today

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Have you dugg all of these?! I haven't looked at the latest one but I did take a peak at quickones.org and you've got quite a good collection now! Might be a good to digg/slashdot it and get a bit more awareness of it out? Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

[ubuntu-uk] Dell gives refund for unused Windows licence

2006-11-15 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, I thought you might be interested in this. I found it in a local LUG mailing list. It seems that a Sheffield man got a refund for an unused copy of Windows XP Home as he was planning on installing Linux when he got his laptop. Looks like he got £50 back! Details are here: http://n

[ubuntu-uk] Creating a partition at end of the disk

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Saunders
Hi, I am installing Ubuntu Server 6.10 for the purpose of creating an installation environment for our 700 computers. It will be a small linux partition that has scripts to connect to the image store and reimage the Windows partition and will include other support tools like backing up files for