Re: OpenOffice Hanging indent
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:09, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: In MS Word they have a setting for a hanging indent which can be done either via the ruler at the top of the page or a dialog. A hanging indent is where the lines after the firstt are indented by some amount. For the life of me I can not find the equivalent in OpenOffice 1.1. I've been all over the toolbars, dialogs, etc. and can't find it. The ruler has the triangles for adjusting margins but I can't make it work for the indents. I know it's something simple I'm missing or doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. I am using the evaluation version of StarOffice 7, so I suspect this will work for OpenOffice 1.1 as well. Graphically you can use the adjusting triangles. The top triangle (the first line of your paragraph stays at the margin) and the lower triangle (all lines after the first line) is moved away from the margin to produce your hanging indent. You should be able to select all the paragraphs that you want to make this adjustment for, or, set your first paragraph as described and each new paragraph you type should follow this format. Looking at the Format/Paragraph/IndentsSpacing menu item it is not as obviously apparent. The Indent Before Text should be set to whatever hanging indent you want i.e. 0.50. Then the Indent First Line is neutralized by using a negative indent i.e. -0.50. There you have it, HTH. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:00, Ted Ozolins wrote: Tom Marinis wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a Workers Compaensation ruling requires that anyone fighting a forest fire must possess cirtification by the Forestry. I've heard of all kinds of stupidity but this takes the cake. I think its time for a class action suit against WCB. I can not believe that a private organization none of which are elected officials can pass laws. I thought that within the british-north amercan act states that only elected officials can pass laws here. Dang I better drop this. I was just out of highschool, and was tree-planter/firefighter for the summer in and around the Penticton area in mid 1987. The only WCB regs at that time were the requirements for safety gear ( you know, gloves, brain bucket, boots, cover alls ), a manditory 2 hr training course on how to fight forest fires, and a single guy with Industrial First Aid for crew of fire fighters. Back then it was; for every 5 man firefighter crew, you had to have a I.F.A. Level 1 ticket holder in the group. If the crew was 20 or over, the I.F.A. guy had to be LEVEL 3. Now your saying the volunteers firefighters need Forestry Certification ? What the heck is that exactly? Damn, things have changed a lot in BC since the mid 1990's. I never heard about this before, and I live here. Yup, I live here as well and untill now was not aware of it iether. I guess that is why the Canadian forces personel were stuck in Vernon training camp for a while to obtain their training (and not just a couple of hours) This whole thing sucks. The Wildland Fire Fighter certification is pretty well the standard now in Canada and the U.S. My business partner has a separate venture where he converts surplus military transport vehicles into wildland fire fighting equipment (www.erefiresupprot.com). He and all his operators needed to complete the certification before he could enter into contract negotiations with the fire fighting agencies. The basic course was 2 or 3 days. This minimum standard is what allows firefighters to be shared by the various provinces. The minimum U.S. standard in the adjoining states is a one week course. The certification process does reduce the number of persons that could be employed as firefighters. BUT Canada and the U.S. are urbanized to the point that vast majority of people have no idea how to properly swing an axe, operate a chain saw, do not understand what kickback or top fall means in lumber operations, can't sleep comfortably in the forest, do not know which way to fall if caught in the drop path of a water bomber, much less know how to effectively fight a fire. Yeah it sucks but I am not convinced that the certification is really the source of the problem. p.s. did not B.C. have a law suit within the last year or two where some bureaucrat passed a regulation concerning fitness standards for forest fire fighters that effectively prohibited women from fire fighting. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: pcmcia on Suse 8.0
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:02, Net Llama! wrote: On 07/28/03 19:53, Rick Sivernell wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:59:40 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth Rick Sivernell: | Suse users neededg | |Got myself a copy of suse 8.0 pro. most evertything is working ok, | but not ifconfig. This was a full fresh install over Caldera 3.1.1. | Now cardctl status ident and config is proper as it should be. pcmcia | start says it is ok but when I do ifconfig all I get is lo setup and | running. it seems to be about one step away from complete. I set | everythoing per Yast2, but that failed to set | /etc/pcmcia/network.opts at all. I fixed that, Not sure what to do | next here. | DEP Suse Installed lilo, I did find a acpi=y set it to off and rebooted. no joy. I have found that the system is using axnet_ca it should be pcnet_cs. Can not find where to change it at. Found it on the last line of dmesg. boot fine and acts as if pcmcia is ready, dongle has all lights bright, cardctl says it is good and it finds the proper card Linksys pcmpc 100. just no ifconfig for pcmcia. I think the pcmcia modules are defined somewhere like /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia.opts. grep through /etc/pcmcia, assuming that SuSE puts their pcmcia stuff in there. Try /etc/pcmcia/config or /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf Find your card and see what SuSE has bound it to. If SuSE shows it as bind axnet_cs then change it to read bind pcnet_cs Hope this helps. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Linksys warning
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the comments on the list and seeing that the suport section of linksys's website listed a linux driver package for the card, I went out today and purchased a Linksys WMP11 (802.11b wireless pci card). Upon inserting it into my machine, I discovered that I had basically a different card then the support section of the linksys website indicated. This card (version 2.7) now has a broadcom chipset, for which linux support seems nonexistant at this point. I just fired off a somewhat angry email to the company (I had a bad experience with one of their ethernet adaptors a couple of years back, which listed linux support on the box but refused to work with the drivers included on disc in the box or any other available drivers). Hopefully I'll meet with success in returning the card. Annoyingly, only this card and a DLink card (for which drivers were supposed to be released a few months ago but haven't appeared) seem to be locally obtainable (I haven't got a credit card, which makes online shopping somewhat akward). David Aikema Can't help with your current Linksys problem, except to agree I have had similar problems with the Linksys chipset of the week not matching the available drivers. However, I notice that you have a shaw.ca domain name, therefore is there a London Drugs located near you? London Drugs may not be the first name in computer parts, but if your London Drugs has a computer section then they handle Netgear and SMC in addtion to Linksys and D-Link. Netgear works with Linux, I have been told that SMC also works. The Netgear and SMC cost slightly more than the Linksys and D-link will typically cost. I consider this to be acceptable because in my personal opinion the Netgear and SMC are business quality products whereas the Linksys and D-link are consumer products. Your opinion may vary. I believe that Future Shop also handles Netgear. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:31, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:06:24PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: I hope it's just a BIOS seting problem, not some tricks on the part of SCO. hmm... the 3.1.1. installed on the i440BX baord, but not this newer i815ep board. really puzzling... The SuSE web site had something blaming the Host adapters, and recommended a boot command restricting the SCSI drivers from scanning multiple LUNs. I'll try reinstalling after doing some tuning of the Adaptec settings to restrict LUN scanning. I have to think this is a SuSE problem since other versions of Linux work fine running 2.4.xx kernels including SCO 4.0 which is also UnitedLinux. I have some 5 disk CD changers that require multiple LUN support so hope this is a tunable problem. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Is the SCSI adapter that is not loading in SuSE an Adaptec? Some Adaptec SCSI cards do not work with the new AIC7xxx driver that is included in SuSE. I recently found out that Adaptec 29160 cards are among the cards that do not like the new AIC7xxx driver. The solution is to boot off the DVD then select manual installation, answer a couple of screens and then you will get to a menu where you can select the modules. Go to SCSI cards then de-select new AIC7xxx and select old AIC7xxx. The installer asks for parameters for the new driver, but I just hit enter. Then continue with the install. After this change to modules the installation was as quick as any other install. HTH -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 07:26, Joel Hammer wrote: Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. Thanks, Joel Hi Joel, I did a fair amount of OO Impress to Powerpoint a couple of months ago. The conversion is generally OK -say 85 to 95% -, but there are little glitches. 1. Bullets in Impress will still look like bullets when the converted file is viewed on your linux computer using OO. (The Impress file fileanme.sxi has been saved as filename.ppt and is being viewed using OO Impress.) When the same filename.ppt is viewed in MS Powerpoint the bullets will likely be seen as a small happy face rather than as a small black dot. 2. Picture / Graphic placement may be slightly different between the sxi file and the ppt file. The result is that the picture and the adjacent text may overlap. I have not tried animated or motion presentation, so I can not comment on any possible issues. Overall the problems are not insurmountable. The text, graphics, backgrounds, styles, and notes are all converted from sxi to ppt. Using a common font -arial or times new roman- will help but this still has the bullets problem (I was using Arial and encoding set at ISO-8859-1). HTH -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Mail Program
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:20, Lee wrote: snipped It doesn't have a built in mail program like messenger, it won't allow me to access netscape the e-mail account that I run to misdirect the spammers in addition to my normal e-mail and it's cannibalistic. I prefer Netscape 7.0 (personnel preference) but when I try to download and install it (SuSE 8.0 doesn't come with it) Mozilla takes it over and when I access Netscape Mozilla pops up. I don't like pop ads or programs that pop up and take over other programs. I find that SuSE 8.0 is a very good OS, but the lack of the browser that I prefer is a serious annoyance. snipped Can't comment on the email issue with Mozilla (I have been using evolution for the last year or so), BUT SuSE 8.0 does come with Netscape. It has been a while since I loaded the distro, so from memory you probably need to look in the pay section for Netscape. Just checked on this computer and the version loaded is 6.2.1 from the SuSE DVD. Appears that I did not finish setting up Netscape because I switched to Mozilla. As of version 8.0, Mozilla is the default browser for SuSE. Speaking of pop-ups, they can be turned off with Mozilla/Galeon but not with Netscape. To get the latest Mozilla compiled specifically for SuSE go to: www.usr-local-bin.org The maintainer at that site does a pretty good job of keeping the gnome type apps (moz, galeon, evolution) current for SuSE users. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 20:15, Joel Hammer wrote: The men in the computer store (BestBuy, CompuUSA), smile and shake their heads each time I ask about scsi cdrom's. Do they exist? Joel Plextor definitely has the best reputation, their latest scsi cdrw being a 12/10/32 or something like that and their scsi cdrom was 40x. HP, where you can still find their older scsi cdrw, had 12/8/32 that was available as either an internal or external unit. Yamaha makes a scsi 16/10/40 as either an internal or external. Recently Yamaha came out with scsi 48/24/48 or thereabouts. I have HP and Yamaha cdrw that are used in light to moderate burning (10 to 20 cd a month) and both brands have worked fine. If you are not looking for a burner, then consider the Toshiba sd-1401 a scsi dvd - 10x and cdrom - 40x, costs more than just a cdrom but great for loading the distro directly off of the DVD. This unit can be hard to find, but I did find another new one a few months ago. As others have already suggested try pricewatch, and also consider ebay if you are willing to play that game. Recently Plextor and Yamaha had refurbished scsi cdrw drives that were available at some of the sellers listed on pricewatch. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: GNUpg
On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 12:01, stayler wrote: Hi guys, I am looking at building and playing with GNUpg along with Sylpheed (this is mylatest attempt to move my email from OS/2 to Linux). I am having trouble getting to the GNUpg.org site to get the latest tarball. I would be interested in commentary from the group about the pros and cons of GNUpg. Also if there are mirror sites where the tarball can be obtained. stayler GPG (GNUpg) is similar to command line PGP. If you have gpg installed on your system, then as user type gpg to set up to be used as a user. You would need to change some options in gpg for compatibility with PGP 2.x. I have not had problems between gpg and PGP v 5, 6 and 7. PGP is in the process of being allowed to die by its current owner Network Associates. GNUpg is still under active development. Moving from OS/2 PGP to Linux gpg the differences that you will notice are: OS/2 PGP is stuck at v 5.5 and has been for what? 4 years? Linux with gpg is under ongoing development with a couple of fixes per year. I believe that gpg is compatible with OpenPGP. OS/2 did not have a functional GUI interface for use with PGP (at least not a year ago when I left). Linus has GPA, Geheimnis, Seahorse, others? These are not as smooth as the windows PGP GUI, but nearly as functional. As I recall, all OS/2 email clients handled PGP encryption and signing and most Linux email clients also handle this. Only PMMail/2 did a good job of handling encrypted attachments. I have had poor results with GUI Linux email clients handling encrypted attachments. Evolution has claims to be RFC compliant, and it may be, however it can not be used to send encrypted attachments to those other legacy email clients like Outlook, PMMail, Eudora, Pegasus. To copy OS/2 PGP keys to Linux gpg I did the following. From the HPFS copy secring.skr and pubring.pkr to a fat partition. Within Linux as user type gpg to set up a directory .gnupg. Copy the files secring.skr and pubring.pkr to the directory .gnupg. Rename the files to secring.gpg and pubring.gpg. You will need to change the trust of each key (using command line or GUI wrapper). Once I went through the effort to set up gpg, I have had no issues or compatibility problems with PGP, except for sending encrypted attachments using GUI mail clients. Recognizing that you specifically asked about tarballs, why not use the gpg.rpm that likely came with your distro? -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? GPG/PGP ID - 0x7A1BEA01 ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
