Re: Merging pdf files
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 23:05:22 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. actually, at that time i was concerned with taking a few pages from a much larger pdf file and saving 'em as a pdf. but this will allow assembling those saved pages into one bigun, which will be very useful to me in due course. I've recently used pdftohtml to break up pdfs into pages and seperate images (jpeg/png). Editing using, for example, Open Office, and then saving as a pdf may work- I'll try it later. Terence ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: colors in lynx
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:44, Jorge Almeida wrote: Hi, Would somebody tell me what to do to customize colors in lynx? Above all, I want to get rid of that hateful black background... I tried to edit lynx.cfg with no success whatsoever. Thanks in advance. Jorge Almeida Hello, It may depend on how it was compiled as to what you can do with colors. Check it out there. http://www.hippo.ru/%7Ehvv/lynxcfg_toc.html There is a visual appearance link that has a colors option on it. Tom Wilson McSwain Carpets 513.771.1400 x124 - Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RPM question
On 11/6/2003 11:08 AM, I believe that Tim Wunder wrote: In an effort to eventually upgrade my system from RHL 8.0 to Fedora Core 1, I'd like to determine what rpms are installed that are not part of the origianl RH 8.0 or any of its updates. Essentially, this would be any rpm I have installed that doesn't have Red Hat, Inc. as its Packager. I'm hoping that this can be done using the output from 'rpm -qai' and piping it thru grep somehow. Any ideas? Well, giving up on my extremely limited bash and rpm command line skills, I ended up using synaptic, which has a lovely GUI search tool. Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RE: KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems
I've been using KDE's built-in player myself. Works fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry McBride Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems Anyone else having problems running XMMS under the new KDE beta? It totally locks up the desktop here when trying to play mp3's through the arts plugin. Tried re-emerging all related components to o avail... MPG123 or MPG321 both still work, if only I could find a decent GUI/Frontend for them. Cheers. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 11:16am up 39 days, 16:09, 7 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Merging pdf files
dep wrote: thanks. actually, at that time i was concerned with taking a few pages from a much larger pdf file and saving 'em as a pdf. but this will allow assembling those saved pages into one bigun, which will be very useful to me in due course. Extracting pages may be done with ghostscript. Actually, I never used this directly, but a very handy tool called GSview (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/), which is a rather elaborate gui to ghostscript. I've been using it for years for different tasks, e. g. to write out pdf's from MS office programs at work (GSview is available for several platforms). It is very easy to extract even non contiguous pages from a pdf document with GSview's convert function, which in this case doesn't really convert, but calls ghostscript's pdfwrite to write out the selected pages. Klaus ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Novell buys SuSE!
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:16, Collins Richey wrote: There are only two possibilities - Novel/SUSE will become a dominent player in the linux marketplace, or they'll go under. I'm betting on the former. I agree. I think this is a good thing for both SuSE and Novell. Commercial linux needs a good buisness backbone and hopefully Novell can provide this since its obvious that Sun is never going to truly step up to the plate. SuSE has good products but horrible Sales people and marginal support services. Red Hat doesn't even bother with sales people. Novell in contrast too Red Hat and SuSE has very responsive sales folks and while somewhat of a behemoth their web based support has excellant documentation. Novell needs to do something new with their buisness though and with their purchase of SilverStream last year and Ximian and SuSE this year it looks like they are going to try something new. Shawn ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Apt question
Hmm, I wonder how many Debian types we have on this list. There must be some, I'm sure. I'm working on getting Debian going on my workstation. Thus far I've installed Woody and upgraded to Sid. I'm running into trouble with one thing, though. The version of XFree86 in Sid is still too old to support my Radeon 7500. I need 4.3. There are supposed to be packages for 4.3 in experimental, but I can't seem to get apt to see them. I didn't have this issue upgrading to Sid, so I'm not sure what I've goofed. My sources.list looks like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/ debian/project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/ debian/project/experimental/contrib/binary-i386/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/ debian/project/experimental/non-free/binary-i386/ deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/ debian/project/experimental/main/source/ deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/ debian/project/experimental/contrib/source/ deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/ debian/project/experimental/non-free/source/ #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free I commented out the Sid stuff to see if I could force it to use the experimental stuff, but when I run apt-get upgrade it says: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I went into http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/main/binary-i386/Packa ges to make sure the packages for 4.3 were listed there. They are. So how do I get APT to recognize them? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Apt question
On Monday 10 November 2003 03:18 pm, Aaron Grewell's voice rose above the ones in my head and stated: [snips of sources file] I commented out the Sid stuff to see if I could force it to use the experimental stuff, but when I run apt-get upgrade it says: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I went into http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/main/binary-i38 6/Packa ges to make sure the packages for 4.3 were listed there. They are. So how do I get APT to recognize them? Did you do an apt-get update before the apt-get upgrade after you changed you sources.list file? If you didn't, apt is still hitting the sid repository instead of the experimental. -- Tom Wilson Reg. Linux user# 199331 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Javascript question
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:36:57 -0500 joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going over some of my html/javascript beasties that I wrote for work. I am still confounded why these don't work properly in netscape or mozilla but do in opera6 and IE 5.5. Have you run it in Mozilla with the Javascript debugger open? I had one last week that worked in Netscape, Konqueror, and Mozilla, but failed in IE. Turned out that IE has a limit of 1012 characters in a function call. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Braindead Windows
Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I called our helpdesk. After a good bit of searching his answer was Adobe Distiller. I thanked him, googled, saw that ghostview/ghostscript was the recommended path, downloaded and installed and in 3 minutes was printing. Gad I detest Microsoft. -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Braindead Windows
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:28:19 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I called our helpdesk. After a good bit of searching his answer was Adobe Distiller. I thanked him, googled, saw that ghostview/ghostscript was the recommended path, downloaded and installed and in 3 minutes was printing. Gad I detest Microsoft. Yeah, but some love it, especially those who don't have the time to devote to learning how to deal with linux, which does require a few brain cells. I have a friend who is putting together a fairly complex software package for hydrology and river bed research. He does all his work on Windows and even uses Gimp (yes, Virginia, there is GTK+ and Gimp for Windows!) for all his graphics work. The audience he is marketing his software to would have relatively little use for linux. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT The Grinch who stole Linux
What would a parody of copywrite protected code be? Windows ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
SBC Yahoo DSL
Anyone have any experience with SBC Yahoo DSL and Linux? I believe it's PPPoE setup but I can't figure out how to generate or find a username and password... Then, I'm attempting to use an ethernet card to plug into the DSL Modem. So far I've seen nothing. SBC Yahoo wants you to install their DSL Dialer software from CD... Anyway, if you have any advice, that would be great! Thanks, Matt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Novell buys SuSE!
Let's just hope Novell has lost their Reverse-Midas touch... - Original Message - From: Shawn L Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Novell buys SuSE! On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:16, Collins Richey wrote: There are only two possibilities - Novel/SUSE will become a dominent player in the linux marketplace, or they'll go under. I'm betting on the former. I agree. I think this is a good thing for both SuSE and Novell. Commercial linux needs a good buisness backbone and hopefully Novell can provide this since its obvious that Sun is never going to truly step up to the plate. SuSE has good products but horrible Sales people and marginal support services. Red Hat doesn't even bother with sales people. Novell in contrast too Red Hat and SuSE has very responsive sales folks and while somewhat of a behemoth their web based support has excellant documentation. Novell needs to do something new with their buisness though and with their purchase of SilverStream last year and Ximian and SuSE this year it looks like they are going to try something new. Shawn ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Textmaker open for business
If you want to buy textmaker for $11, the site is now open for business... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | --- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Braindead Windows
Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics. I have gotten, by default, the job of getting us up and going with digital photography in our pathology department. You have to experience it to believe it, but our IS department is trying to make my life as difficult as possible because I bought a computer from the digital camera company, not through IS. Our IS steals software and hardware from people who buy through them and not straight from the vendor. Seriously. And, of course, IS bids for hardware are slow and over priced. If I suggested linux, they would use that against me for sure and fight like tooth and nail all the way. We are talking seriously computer impaired but politically savvy people. They have to be politically savvy because they keep their jobs despite knowing nothing about computers. Then, there is the job of getting colleagues to use the computer. Since these are busy people who don't want to learn anything about computers, and they sort blame me for the digital stuff (which I had nothing to do with buying) I have to emphasize to them that they have to learn the fundalmentals of such things as PowerPoint and windows explorer, just like their children are using in high school. If I were trying to get them to learn to navigate linux, they would simply refuse on the grounds that I was a hobbyist wasting their time. This way, they have no excuse. So, I can use MS's monopoly against them. Thanks, Bill. That said, I will stick to linux for many needs. For example, yesterday I was hard at work reformatting about 50 documents in various formats (word, pdf, text). I had to convert word to text and then reformat the text and convert them to html which could be used by html2ps and finally converted to pdf with ps2pdf. If you want to see what I mean, just visit hammershome.com and look at the MorePDF link. With SO, wget (To download the 40 or so original documents off the web after ftp failed.), wvText, vi (you can edit all the documents at once), bash, and sed, and with about five xterminals open and an ftp link to my web page, I got the job done. For example, imagine searching 40 word documents at the same time for keywords. It's easy with wvText and grep! BTW, wvText with lynx installed did a BEAUTIFUL job converting word docs to plain text. The great part is, just one for command converts all of them at once. Joel On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:02:05PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:28:19 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows is braindead. But you knew that. Today at work I had some postscript files in an e-mail I wanted to print. The e-mail was on Windows. Futzed around, couldn't find anything that would interpret PostScript. So I called our helpdesk. After a good bit of searching his answer was Adobe Distiller. I thanked him, googled, saw that ghostview/ghostscript was the recommended path, downloaded and installed and in 3 minutes was printing. Gad I detest Microsoft. Yeah, but some love it, especially those who don't have the time to devote to learning how to deal with linux, which does require a few brain cells. I have a friend who is putting together a fairly complex software package for hydrology and river bed research. He does all his work on Windows and even uses Gimp (yes, Virginia, there is GTK+ and Gimp for Windows!) for all his graphics work. The audience he is marketing his software to would have relatively little use for linux. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SBC Yahoo DSL
On 11/10/03 19:25, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Anyone have any experience with SBC Yahoo DSL and Linux? I believe it's PPPoE setup but I can't figure out how to generate or find a username and password... Then, I'm attempting to use an ethernet card to plug into the DSL Modem. So far I've seen nothing. SBC Yahoo wants you to install their DSL Dialer software from CD... Anyway, if you have any advice, that would be great! I've been using it at home for nearly 18 months, without any problems. Its a standard PPPoE setup. The email address is the username, the password is, well, the password. Let me know if you need further assitance. -- ~ L. Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo:http://netllama.ipfox.com 7:42am up 1 day, 10:29, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.04 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Braindead Windows
List My new Linux user, the one that all of those windows confused him. Tonight I had to another problem on his network. I told him I would remove those windows so they would not bother him. Hell you will, I like that, it neat. What a difference a week makes. I do have a question, his network is dhcp from dls. On boot and sometime some other thing, he has a problem turning stuff off when he does not understand some hicup. but the net does not come up. I found that /etc/init.d/network start fixes the problem. Looks like it is not started in runlevel. Which rc.x starts the network properly. In Caldera I beleive it was 3 or 4, it has been a while I could have been mistaken here. Seems to be last of any biggies here. For him, he is moving pretty good from M$ to Suse 9.0 pro. Any suggestion for network startup place. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
