Re: Dumb Newbie KDE Pager Question

2003-06-03 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ummm, rightclick on the top bar of the window (or on the taskbar icon) there should be an option saying to desktop Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:46:20AM -0400, RB wrote: How do I move a window from one desktop to another in the

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to everyone who contributed. Emacs seems to have a very similar control structure to the ancient perfect writer on my fathers old kaypro, so i'll give it a shot as a happy return to my childhood. (BTW the tutorial sold it to me along with

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh. I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i can see where I'm going from here. I really liked the ispell interface. Thanks very much for all the suggestions. John John Griffiths

Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of remote locations. I

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a bunch of others. Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.) Yep, OK. what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Travis Crump wrote: Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer emacs. Both will suit your needs. No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are aimed at writers rather than coders, maybe they aren't, maybe the

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks very much. Tom Massey wrote: * John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-03 13:09]: what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. I've written

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric G. Miller wrote: IMHO, it is better to write in plain text, focusing on *content* first, and worry about *presentation* much, much later. I've seen people waste enormous amounts of time formatting draft word processor documents over and over

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a bunch of others. Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Waters wrote: If you haven't already tried it, you might like fte/sfte. Michael cool, it looks feature rich, what do you like about it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman details at: http://www.fsf.org/doc/book13.html maybe not gentle but certainly effective. stan wrote: | I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was |

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread John Griffiths
In this situation would a third party with a copy of the audio environment (say through bugging) be able to use that against the crypto? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the linux kernel?

Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread John Griffiths
surely serif and sans serif are about the limit of what you want for web-work? or are you talking about fonts for images? dave selby wrote: I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any idea

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread John Griffiths
Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line. You asked for that one :-) Wow, you're in a charming mood today dude. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: server side ftp

2003-02-24 Thread John Griffiths
Seneca wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box any ideas apt-cache search ftpd #apt-get install proftpd is my personal recommendation, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-17 Thread John Griffiths
You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the above, and perhaps even

good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) --

good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
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good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?)

Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and watching the computers go tick tick tick in time with the clocks is a source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life. (ok i'm exagerating about my life,

Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
oh with the use of it, have the timeserver addy you want handy, debconf will ask you the address just type it in and away you go, give it half an hour (to sync) and then set your other boxes to query the first one (avoids unnecessary traffic to the public servers) I use

can't make kernel for win4lin

2003-01-26 Thread John Griffiths
G'day guys, trying to compile a kernel with win4lin patches everything seems fine until halfway through the boot when it starts complaining about not being to access modules.dep can anyone think of anything obvious i should be doing to avoid this? thanks John

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-21 Thread John Griffiths
which module for the nic Alvin? At 02:05 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya have you been able to start sound and network I have a similar card A7N8X but I have hard time to have at least net installed any idea i played w/ and have working a7s-vm a7n266e and a7m266-vm sound,

ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
g'day all, I've got a new machine with an A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
if needs must I will, but i though X 4.2.1 supported geforce2? (4.2.1 comes in knoppix) At 09:04 PM 1/20/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya john you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com works good other than that bending over backwards c ya alvin On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: But that driver does not support highly accelerated display nor framebuffer. ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer for anything in particular? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
Whoops, missed a step converting a box to ext3 procedure i was using was: 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda* for all ext2 file systems. 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto 3) #touch/forcefsck 4) reboot only i forgot step 2 it rebooted fine and #cat /proc/mounts shows the

RE: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
Nope. ext3 is ext2 with a journal, basically. You might need to compile ext3 in, or have the module loaded from initrd. so could i skip re-running the tune? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
You don't need to redo the tune2fs -j commands. You already have journals; they're just not being used yet. Just edit /etc/fstab and reboot. I don't know why you're doing the touch/forcefsck. I don't think it's necessary. great, thanks. the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 Thread John Griffiths
Actually, I know several journos who use Debian. It makes testing and evaluating SW packages trivial. Further to that, in the non-tech press I know many political journo's with a love affair with abiword under windows. mostly because it doesn't play silly games with them. -- To

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote: A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me to somewhere that discusses it? It's a single file which is an image of the

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread John Griffiths
Can you give an example of CD burning software that doesn't support ISO images? There's some ugly windows gear that if it does support it doesn't give many clues as to how to use it. Been a few years since i burned a CD under windows tho, might be ubiquitous now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-08 Thread John Griffiths
icewm always made me very happy in lightweight environments. At 11:12 AM 1/9/03 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and fast window manager for some occasional work there. aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much.

windows apps under debian

2003-01-06 Thread John Griffiths
Hello all, I'm about to attempt a desktop linux trial in my office and need some advice on approaches to applicaiton portability. There are windows apps that are not, at this time optional so one way or another I'll have to get them to go, or stay off the linux desktop. the list of apps is:

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-05 Thread John Griffiths
Throw in MPlayer (MEncoder's more popular brother) to preview your creation. Also available at that site is avidemux, which has a gui that will let you do simple edits. Once you have converted the DivX to MPEG-1 (or 2, if you want an SVCD), you go much of the same route: vcdimager to create the

burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread John Griffiths
hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread John Griffiths
wow, lots of work to get all the bits i need, thanks for that I'll have another shot next week. At 04:46 AM 1/3/03 +, Travis Crump wrote: John Griffiths wrote: hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made

Re: Debian as a packet shaper

2002-12-30 Thread John Griffiths
in all my years of using linux I've only read/heard about a couple people that have tried/and or use the bridging features of linux. And all of those people were discussing IDSs on another mailing list recently. By contrast I've known many people over the years who use free/openbsd in bridged

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is still fairly easily

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? exim doesn't fetch mail fetchmail fetches mail. from the sound of it you don't really need exim (or

Re: MP3 to WaveConverter

2002-12-16 Thread John Griffiths
mpg123 read the man page At 02:22 PM 12/16/02 -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: hello, does anybody knowof any mp3 to wave converter's thanks suresh __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: problem converting and writing mp3 to CD

2002-12-15 Thread John Griffiths
at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion. in any event running 2 CPU heavy events, and one of them time critical (if the cd writer buffer empties you blow the burn) is not smart. At 01:05 AM 12/16/02 +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i found a script to convert mp3

Re: problem converting and writing mp3 to CD

2002-12-15 Thread John Griffiths
at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion. it's a Benq 32x10x40 sounds fast. If it's writing the tracks faster than mpg123 is making it that would be your problem cold. It's a script that i found on many sites though so that surprises me a bit. (it's mentioned in TLDP:

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread John Griffiths
No. I really don't want to be messing around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit so you can just press the reset button (if anything goes wrong) and get going again. Boots in about 5 seconds. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19 sounds exactly like

dhcp setup

2002-12-12 Thread John Griffiths
hi all, I'm a little confused... I've run dhcp boxes (freesco and NAT'ing firewall routers) so I was expecting it to be a little easier under debian. I'm on a fixed IP network, but there are some free addresses I'd like to make available for guest boxes. I thought a dhcp server would be

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's - resend please.. mail was down

2002-12-11 Thread John Griffiths
Remember that 315 seconds includes time to upgrade software to fix bugs, to maintain hardware, backup databases etc. you need backups on these beasts? But i thought they never crashed?? (just joking) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread John Griffiths
woooah antialiasing (smoothing) can be turned on and off in the settings in acroread, have you looked there? At 04:51 PM 12/10/02 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: Alan Shutko wrote: Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here: The problem

Re: System beeps and then hang :(

2002-12-09 Thread John Griffiths
have you still got your mobo manual? sounds like it could be some kind of warning diagnostic. the graphics heavy stuff will be running the CPU hard so it might not be the graphics card. Is the box getting hot? At 07:58 AM 12/10/02 +0100, Jonas Persson wrote: Hi, i have an old PIII 500 mhz

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread John Griffiths
sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but is the user in the audio group? At 08:48 PM 12/3/02 -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: Did you try to install cdcd ? Or try running xmms from an x-term to see if there is any error message? I think that /dev/cdrom should be a sym link to /dev/hdc and should have

Re: MP# (or OGG) - WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread John Griffiths
Actually, Moore's Law has nothing to do with storage space or bandwidth, more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today. -- well it does allow real time compression/decompression allowing more effective use of bandwith. doesn't get you over Shannon's Law however. -- To

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread John Griffiths
I have been able to open up most Powerpoint presentations with Open Office here, but it isn't 100% perfect. OpenOffice seems to do a decent job on M$ Office files. I have no problems at all on M$Word or Excel. you don't have to have a full version of office, MS do make viewers available for

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread John Griffiths
My understanding was that "unsupported" distros could still use wn4lin but had to patch and compile the kernel themselves. Might be worth slipping a case of beer to someone in your local LUG if you're uncomfortable doing that. John At 05:48 AM 11/1/02 +0100, fritz wrote: Hello world,

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread John Griffiths
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the

Re: Worried about Exim, my mail is dissappearing?

2002-09-05 Thread John Griffiths
I guess it could possibly be my firewall, but it hasn't been changed lately and this problem seems to have appeared over the last few weeks (since replacing our mail server and POP with IMAP). AFAIK, the way SMTP works is that the remote MTA connects directly to my MTA and the transfer is just

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-20 Thread John Griffiths
potato users left out again? At 09:02 PM 6/20/02 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:26:06PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: With Openoffice 1.0 now out, I wondered if there was anyone aware of any debs for this - or is everyone just compiling their own from source?

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
briliant didn't realise ximinan had done this. thanks! At 11:48 AM 6/11/02 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:27, John Griffiths wrote: on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? If you're talking about ready-to-install debs

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:53 PM 6/11/02 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 11/06/02 John Griffiths did speaketh: on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? You might want to just grab the binary tarball from the Mozilla website. Mike Thanks Mike, I used the ximian

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones and zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up for political reasons, since Mozilla is thought of as IE's competitor on Windows. End of troll. Dictated, but not read. YMMV IFF you are a lying SOB :-)

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
(I repeated the whole experiment twice for each browser, starting them before and shutting them down after the experiment) HW: K6-2 550 w/ 256 MB (Java disabled in Netscape. Don't know about Mozilla - whichever way it comes on Woody) first problem, woody's version isn't close to the 1.0

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-10 Thread John Griffiths
on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MaxClient in apache

2002-05-30 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:21 PM 5/30/02 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: I'd like to raise the MaxClient to 1500 in apache. Basically, I have to get apache source and modify the HARD_SERVER_LIMIT value in httpd.h and rebuild the .deb package. However, if I use apt-get upgrade to upgrade my system packages, I have to

cd writing with USB CD-RW

2002-05-29 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-29 Thread John Griffiths
openoffice is the answer also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4 pdf format At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was:Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread John Griffiths
Last I checked Germany and Australia were both in the Eastern Hemisphere... oh we are S OT anyway only one nation on earth divides the world into US and THEM and calls it the western and eastern hemispheres. I guess you'd be from the USA then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping[was:Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread John Griffiths
Ron Johnson wrote: Still, wrong hemisphere, wrong ruler... Do Aussies have the concept of New World and Old World? Is it still the RAN, the RAAF, etc? Still loyal soldiers of the Queen. the airforce is RAAF, navy is RAN, the army is the Australian Army, but the fighting units are all still 1

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:49 PM 5/27/02 -0400, Scott Henson wrote: WOW, sponsor one coup and everyone thinks your the bad guy. ;-) ONE? if only! I think the resentment is cause by a heady mix of cavalier US Government's and a population that doesn't care what suffering its government causes beyond the USA's

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread John Griffiths
(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it? just darwin Very strong internal isolationist sentiments allowed even Lend-Lease to only pass Congress after major arm-twisting by Roosevelt. The only reason the the USN was able to help with GB in the BoA before 07-Dec was by not making it

Re: latex-xpdf

2002-05-20 Thread John Griffiths
Hmm. I just ran xpdf on an old pdf file that was created using TeX, and it says: Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly displayed and gives the same kind of display as what you describe, so this may be your problem. xpdf doesn't understand Type 3 fonts. (Type 3

Re: safe load average

2002-05-07 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: acroread

2002-04-11 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:21 PM 4/11/02 -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Use instead the free xdpf or gv readers, both of which handle (almost all) PDF documents. I am using xpdf, but there are font type problems. May I know, how to get Type 3 fonts? Type 3 fonts are a bitch even under full

Re: PDF

2002-03-20 Thread John Griffiths
you think acrobat protects your files with their dinky password system? it's worse than useless. pdf version 1.4 is supported by most linux tools now, thats the version used in Acrobat 5. At 03:55 PM 3/20/02 -0600, hanasaki wrote: Can it password protect them? What version of Acrobat is it

Re: PDF

2002-03-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:36 PM 3/19/02 -0800, Jeff wrote: curtis, 2002-Mar-19 14:43 -0800: What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? I think you guys are going about this the hard way. PDF is a display format, not a layout format. to make pdfs just print your layout fomat to postscript and

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread John Griffiths
The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise. Right now, there is no way to install bitchx without getting these messages. Contrast with fortunes, where a

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:10 PM 3/14/02 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: I live in Brasil, and here, Racism is crime. I think the developer should be asked to remove the Offensive Material. Lets leave national jurisprudence out of this eh? somewhere in the world, EVERYTHING is illegal...

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread John Griffiths
b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with red herring: No! bullshit to you free speech is free.

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread John Griffiths
b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with red herring: No! bullshit to you free speech is free. // please. in my country, yelling, fire, in a crowded theater (that is not on fire) is _not_ protected by

woody upgrade bugs

2002-03-11 Thread John Griffiths
hi guys... i've just upgraded a machine from potato to woody as practice for the Great Leap Forward to come. i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal... should I submit them as bugs? for example, apache access.conf was standard potato install but wouldn't

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread John Griffiths
I think somebody has to send an email to Scott McNeally; telling him that .deb format is _way_ neater than .pkg. I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt.

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 09:26 AM 3/8/02 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: John Griffiths wrote: I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt. Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not. BTW, what makes it impossible the way

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:45 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our last backup and got... nothing at all... the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with the heads

Re: erasing CDRW media?

2002-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:27 PM 2/19/02 -0700, Dave Price wrote: Question... Can CDRW media be reused with cdrecord (burning ISO images)? If so, how does one go about 'erasing the media first? aloha, dave I use: cdrecord -v -eject speed=10 dev=0,0,0 blank=all speed and device address may vary for you

pdf optimisation

2002-02-18 Thread John Griffiths
hi guys does anyone know a good linux/unix program/process for optimising acrobat pdf files? I've got a few hundred thousand pdf's I need to get optimised because newer acrobat/IE combinations aren't opening un-optimised files well over the web Any help would be appreciated John

Re: Backup of debian

2002-02-17 Thread John Griffiths
idea for a backup with such requirements (fast, small, home-env)? General discussion (I'd prefer tape to CD-R), including directory suggestions are at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. Oooh I've got a story here, One upon a time we needed to restore a backup

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread John Griffiths
At 02:09 PM 1/31/02 -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris Mueller wrote: Hi, 7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - all of them from linux-mailinglists. This makes no sense to me. If you're on a Linux mailing list, just why are you using software by

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:29 AM 1/29/02 +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/01/2002 (01:16) : In any volunteer endevaour the people who do the work decide how they shall manage their time. if putting the fish in gave someone a sense of fulfilment and kept them

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread John Griffiths
At 01:07 AM 1/30/02 +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/01/2002 (23:20) : My point is it can be whatever the people willing to do the hard work want it to be Which means that free software cannot be trusted and will not be of industry quality. I don't

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
I'm using some of my spare time developing software that is free in the GPL sense, but I rather use the time finding that last bug, than introduce more by putting useless easter eggs into my code. But then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge.[1] [1] Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
And that fish is relevant to free vs closed software exactly how? Dima (boggle) Because the developers were free to put it in and you are free to take it out if you care enough you're not free to decide the developers priorities for them only for yourself.

Re: new photos from my party! I did not spam

2002-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
this is a virus doing the sending http://theregister.co.uk/content/56/23843.html for more info. At 07:48 PM 1/28/02 -0600, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:00:07PM +, Pollywog wrote: I did not spam the debian lists. Please, listmaster, find out who is putting my address on

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread John Griffiths
I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and convert it to an audio file on my computer. You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) - Adam C'mon guys, play nice what program to use? how to stop it, how to start it, how to specify

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm). Thanks for any help, M Gnome ICU did everything I wanted and more, been a year since I used it though

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
fishbowl:~ apt-cache search icq - centericq - A text-mode icq client based on ncurses X everybuddy - An all in one messaging client X gaim - GPL clone of AOL Instant Messenger - GTK version D gnomeicu - Small, fast and functional clone of Mirabilis' ICQ + jabber - Daemon for the jabber.org Open

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:22 PM 1/17/02 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:27:39PM -0500, dman wrote (1.00): | I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client Ugh! That client is really really ugly. I don't care so much about how ugly it is, I just need it to work

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
that being said, and acknowledging that we aren't really nice now either, cassandra: you are welcome to come back to the forum and ask your questions in a reasonable form and manner. if we aren't offended by you, we are more than happy to do our best at helping you! I'm guessing she hasn't

Re: john is weird!

2002-01-16 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:59 AM 1/17/02 +1000, john wrote: martin f krafft wrote: snip I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally. me too

Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)

2002-01-15 Thread John Griffiths
Don't annoy me anymore with messages as un thought out as this. It feels like the sort of responses I used to get from the Redhat technical support team. Regards, Cassandra The difference being this is a volunteer list and RH tech support is paid. So maybe you should try being nice

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread John Griffiths
Ditto. The great big trackball is comfy and incredibly accurate. My debian installation worked with it from the get-go. I've never had use for all the buttons, but I could see it fitting into a network gamer's arsenal quite nicely. With four buttons, you'd be fragging to your heart's

HELP horrible ssh upgrade

2001-12-05 Thread John Griffiths
ok this is what happenned: ssh'd onto a potato 2.2r4 box I remotely admin, #apt-get update brought down a bunch of security lists so i did this: #apt-get -s dist-upgrade which told me it had to do an ssh upgrade now this was always going to be interesting to do remotely, but I use this

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