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: Hell! It had a 4

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 above

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

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] 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 and edgy,

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] 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 gvim

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

[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

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 and

[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

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 websites.

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 not done