Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-19 Thread Pete Ryland
On 19/11/06, Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/11/06, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Also, you should be using make rather than shell scripts, and > > ideally autoconf/automake for portability's sake. > > Yes, good advice, and I'm with you on that. Though, up until recently, > I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Tony Arnold
Robert K. Day wrote: > On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:46, Tony Arnold wrote: > [snip] >> As it is, there is no guarantee the site is owned by >> who you think it it > [snip] > > Well, there is; it's a .gov.uk address, which isn't publically registerable > and is only used for government webs

[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Children In Need fund raising, following Linux World Expo.]

2006-11-19 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forwarding to sounder, see if we can get more bidders. To provide a bit more info: This is an auction of a Ubuntu t-shirt signed by sabdfl, Jon 'maddog' Hall and various other developers, as well as some of the UKTeam. All proceeds will go to Children

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new podcast

2006-11-19 Thread Norman Silverstone
> I thought you all might be interested in my new podcast, > http://questionsplease.org The first episode is yet to be recorded but > will be on Thursday and will feature Richard Stallman, Jeff Waugh and > Jeremy Allison as guests. The idea is that people in the community send > in questions a

[ubuntu-uk] new podcast

2006-11-19 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Hi, I thought you all might be interested in my new podcast, http://questionsplease.org The first episode is yet to be recorded but will be on Thursday and will feature Richard Stallman, Jeff Waugh and Jeremy Allison as guests. The idea is that people in the community send in questions and the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Robert K. Day
On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:46, Tony Arnold wrote: [snip] > As it is, there is no guarantee the site is owned by > who you think it it [snip] Well, there is; it's a .gov.uk address, which isn't publically registerable and is only used for government websites. Robert -- rkd on irc.freenode

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-19 Thread Pat
On 19/11/06, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why bother with gvim? It's less convenient than running vim in a > shell. You know, I really can't answer that! There's no logical reason for it, it just seems to depend on where I am when I start editting. If I'm on the desktop, I click the g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-19 Thread Pete Ryland
On 15/11/06, Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Talking of IDEs, I'd be interested in hearing any opinions on the free Linux > development tools. > > I haven't used anjuta much, I found the way it sets up its compile options > confusing ! It seemed to behave very bizarrely with the pkgconfig for gtkm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:23:55AM +, Matthew East wrote: > Could the people who are working on these maybe post to the ubuntu-doc > list and show off their work? That way, we can discuss whether they > might be suitable for us in one of those ways, give some feedback, and > maybe get some more

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Norman Silverstone
> > Just a thought - lots of folk, like myself, do not use 6.10 but the > > previous issue. Also, from what I have read, 6.10 is not yet as stable > > as Dapper. More about that some other time. > > > > That's a good point. Most of the stuff so far actually isn't very different > between dapper

[ubuntu-uk] Screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Matthew East
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I've noticed lots of screencasts being produced on this list. I think it would be really cool if the discussion could move to an international list, because these are things which could benefit all English speakers, and aren't limited in any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:05:04AM +, Norman Silverstone wrote: > > > That entirely depends on which CD you rip as you point out in your own mail. > > Of course it does. For example, my wife teaches French and uses CDs as > part of the course. It is perfectly legal to copy these CDs and to >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone any ideas on running a distro from an external USB drive?

2006-11-19 Thread Albert Vilella
> > I now have Edgy running on my main drive, but would like to be able to > > install various different distros on external USB drives but I seem to > > be coming up against the problem that at the time grub runs the USB > > drivers have not been loaded so it can't be seen... > > > > ...it's obvio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone any ideas on running a distro from an external USB drive?

2006-11-19 Thread Toby Smithe
In recent BIOSes, there should be an option for "legacy USB support". This, and the ability to boot from USB. GRUB should recognise external USB drives as extra hard drives, ie (hd0) is the main drive, (hd1) the first USB. On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 06:24 +, Sean Miller wrote: > I now have Edgy ru

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Norman Silverstone
> That entirely depends on which CD you rip as you point out in your own mail. Of course it does. For example, my wife teaches French and uses CDs as part of the course. It is perfectly legal to copy these CDs and to distribute them to the students. > > > >* Burning ripped audio to CD > > As abo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Friday afternoon thread: What *should* be in feisty?

2006-11-19 Thread Toby Smithe
What a great e-mail. I do hope you aren't paying a licence fee, however. :) On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 02:09 +, Anthony Vickers wrote: > Toby Smithe wrote: > > Forwarded to wrong list! Oops! > > > > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:22 +, Dean Sas wrote: > > > >> Toby Smithe wrote: > >> > >>> H

Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts

2006-11-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:33:24PM +, Andy wrote: > On 18/11/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Ripping an audio CD > > Is that a wise thing to do? Isn't it kind of stupid to record yourself > committing a crime, especially if your going to say 'Hi I'm Alan Pope' > at the beginning.