Linux-Advocacy Digest #784, Volume #29 Sat, 21 Oct 00 12:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux security? It's been a busy week. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Win 2k Rocks!!!! Linux? It's days are numbered on my system. (Chris Sherlock)
Re: Why is MS copying Sun??? ("JS/PL")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? ("Jan Schaumann")
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux security? It's been a busy week.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:34:05 GMT
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:16:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Paul Colquhoun) wrote:
>If Microsoft included all the windows versions of the software that most
>Linux versions include, you'd see a lot of these adviories with Microsoft's
>name on them as well.
Maybe that's why they don't include them?
claire
>
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:34:31 +1000
From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win 2k Rocks!!!! Linux? It's days are numbered on my system.
[snip]
> > No living without a scanner because it is a parallel port model.
>
> Huh? You can use parallel port scanners in Linux!
>
Can't really back this point up, my most sincere apologies if I got it
wrong.
Chris
------------------------------
From: "JS/PL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why is MS copying Sun???
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:34:50 -0400
Reply-To: "JS/PL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Nik Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HYfI5.23906$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "T. Max Devlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Said Nik Simpson in comp.os.linux.advocacy;
> > >
> > >"T. Max Devlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >> Said Mike Byrns in comp.os.linux.advocacy;
> > >> [...]
> > >> >Of course USENET existed. It was one of the first applications of
> > >ARPANET after
> > >> >email. It predates TCP/IP.
> > >>
> > >> USENET predates APRANET, as well, or is at least contemporaneous.
> > >> USENET is a descendant of UUCP-based bulletin board systems, which
did
> > >> not use ARPANET, but dial-up lines.
> > >
> > >Here's a clue Max, look up the dates for the first ARPANET nodes and
then
> > >look up the dates for the first implementation of UUCP.
> >
> > Here's something more than a clue, Nik: Dates aren't relevant to the
> > statement.
>
> When you state that "USENET predates APRANET, as well, or is at least
> contemporaneous." dates certainly are relevant. Since one started in the
> late 60's and being generous the other started in the late 70s it's hard
to
> see how you can make that statement, perhaps you'd care to explain it in
> more detail for the historically challenged.
And wait until AFTER the lithium kicks in to explain it.
------------------------------
From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:38:17 +0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Praedor Tempus
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ...
>>main problem with it is that its output (lyx and latex) is not accepted
>>by any of the scientific journals to which I could conceivably publish.
>>They all accept word, wordperfect, wordstar, pdf. SOME accept simple
>>ascii text, which lyx/latex can handle, but not a single one will
>>accept latex or lyx format documents.
>
> would pdftext be able to handle lyx output? if not, how difficult would
> it be to make it?
You can export your document from inside of LyX into a variety of
formats: HTML, ASCII, PS, LaTEX etc.
Once you have a ps you can turn it into a pdf with ps2pdf (or other
tools, such as pstill).
Cheers,
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Please add smileys where appropriate.
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.advocacy) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Advocacy Digest
******************************
