RE: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.
oops ok if it is connected on lpt1 rename the file *.prn copy *.prn lpt1: Chris -Original Message- From: Andre Pang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer. On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:37:43PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: > Dear Anyone, > > Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing > Microsoft and Linux. > > The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected > to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the > printer. I don't know whether your HP 5 printer is PostScript or not. If it is, insert floppy in drive and type "copy filename.ps lpt1:" (with the colon on the end). If it's not, you can install GSview[1] on the PC, which, similarly to GhostView, will display your PostScript file -- with the added bonus that it'll print to any Windows printer. [1] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get40.htm Note that you must also install GhostScript on the Windows box, and it's also downloadable. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - b.sc (comp. sci+psych) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.
on a PC use lpr -S servername -P Printqueue filename.ps Chris -Original Message- From: Bill Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer. Dear Anyone, Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing Microsoft and Linux. The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the printer. I have a PostScript file on a floppy. I'd like to send it for printing, but no-one can tell me how this can be done. In the normal turn of events, where I had the file on the mainframe, I'd use the Unix command lpr. However in this case I have to load the file to the PC. I'm reluctant to use Distiller, although I know it would work. The end results always seem not to be up to the standard of a simple PostScript print. Any help etc., Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:37:43PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: > Dear Anyone, > > Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing > Microsoft and Linux. > > The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected > to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the > printer. I don't know whether your HP 5 printer is PostScript or not. If it is, insert floppy in drive and type "copy filename.ps lpt1:" (with the colon on the end). If it's not, you can install GSview[1] on the PC, which, similarly to GhostView, will display your PostScript file -- with the added bonus that it'll print to any Windows printer. [1] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get40.htm Note that you must also install GhostScript on the Windows box, and it's also downloadable. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - b.sc (comp. sci+psych) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Preemptible kernels + Win4Lin performance skyrocket!
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:20:21PM +1100, Andre Pang wrote: > I'm getting the exact same symptom, Jeff -- win4lin locks up when > shutting down. Your message had great timing ... I actually just > played around with the win4lin + preempt patches; I think I might > know what's causing it to lock up. I'm just about to reboot, so > I'll let you know if my attempts were successful. D'oh. Didn't quite work. I'll keep hacking, though -- I think the problem will be reasonably easy to track down; I have a feeling that the MKI patches aren't locking the kernel when they're doing something which requires locking, and they're getting pre-empted away, leaving something (page table, task structures) in an unstable state. I've got an exam tomorrow so I won't do much work on this now, but I hope I'll get it fixed by the weekend or so :). -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 8.0 and Gnome
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:02:13 +1100 Bill wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a problem with Gnome in that when I minimise a terminal or window it > doesn't minimise to the task bar but completely disappears, seemingly > closing. if you right click on the task bar to bring up the taskbar properties, is "Show Iconified (minimized) applications" checked ? -- chris paul -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IE and ApacheSSL weirdness
> when IE tries to connect it simply waits forever. got this in httpd.conf? # Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP # keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable # keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable "nokeepalive" for this. SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown -- chris paul -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bill Bennett wrote: > Dear Anyone, > > Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing > Microsoft and Linux. > > The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected > to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the > printer. > > I have a PostScript file on a floppy. Assuming you have access to a linux machine with ghostscript installed you want todo something like this: gs -sDEVICE=lj5mono -q -sOutputFile=somefile mcopy somefile a: Now problem is that somefile could be very large (im pretty sure pcl format is rather more verbose than postcript). If you only have access to the windows machine then try and download the ghostscript windows distribution and go from there. hth, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.
Dear Anyone, Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing Microsoft and Linux. The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the printer. I have a PostScript file on a floppy. I'd like to send it for printing, but no-one can tell me how this can be done. In the normal turn of events, where I had the file on the mainframe, I'd use the Unix command lpr. However in this case I have to load the file to the PC. I'm reluctant to use Distiller, although I know it would work. The end results always seem not to be up to the standard of a simple PostScript print. Any help etc., Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Preemptible kernels + Win4Lin performance skyrocket!
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:50:56PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > The preempt kernel makes it very smooth, especially for things that really > push the driver interface between Windows and X, such as playing high > framerate video. Without the preempt patches, Windows (controls and window > frames) would become unresponsive whilst video was playing, so you couldn't > skip, stop, start or move windows, etc. With preempt, it's *almost* fully > responsive. Noice. > > My only trouble is a full machine lockup when Win4Lin shuts down. Oh good, it's reproducible! :) I'm getting the exact same symptom, Jeff -- win4lin locks up when shutting down. Your message had great timing ... I actually just played around with the win4lin + preempt patches; I think I might know what's causing it to lock up. I'm just about to reboot, so I'll let you know if my attempts were successful. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A problem with X
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:48:25AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > XFree86-4.1. The pointer appears as a square say 2cm x 2cm made up of 8 > > horizontal lines alternately dark and light. Does anyone know what > > causes this or how to fix it > > I think this can be fixed by adding > > Option "sw_cursor" > > To XF86Config-4. I think it goes in the "Graphics device section". ^^^ Thanks Tom, that was it. I had seen a reference to "sw_cursor" searching on "Google" but put it in the wrong section! Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Evolution - LDAP - Exchange Woes
The only hassles I had was getting the username right. I use:- \\ eg LEICHHARDT\sjackson\sean.jackson sjackson = my NT account sean.jackson is my email box or alias name. - Original Message - From: "Craige McWhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: [SLUG] Evolution - LDAP - Exchange Woes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Userland filesystem hack (crack?)
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: >So, > >I'm feeling more deranged than usual tonight, so I'm looking for a module >that will allow for userland programs to provide filesystem data to a kernel >module, which in turn provides access to this via the normal Linux VFS. I just found fuse on sourceforget: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=123373 http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf/ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21636&release_id=57706 It seems to be what you're looking for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 21:51, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:16:35AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > > What package versions are you using? (dpkg -l galeon mozilla) > > ii galeon 0.12.7-0.1 Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an > ii mozilla-browser 0.9.5-5Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser > dpkg --purge galeon mozilla-broswer apt-get install galeon Unless it's all ready been suggested / tried (I haven't kept up with this thread). -- Cheers, Craige. msg17576/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer
One step closer I actually created a shell script in /etc/cron.hourly called pdfdistiller #!/bin/sh DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S` if test -f /shr/pdf/*.ps then /usr/bin/ps2pdf /shr/pdf/*.ps /shr/pdf/$DATE.tmp mv /shr/pdf/$DATE.tmp /shr/pdf/$DATE.pdf rm /shr/pdf/*.ps #/usr/bin/printpdf /shr/pdf/*.ps fi echo no postscript file to process and setup a printer under cups using the distiller ppd. and printing to file /shr/pdf/test.ps I would like to change the regularity of the cron job to say every minute... How do I do this ? I can't print through samba printing, and I don't know why. In my smb.conf file, there are two places where print commands are listed. under printers which is lpr-cups and under globals, and the printcap name said lpstat Is this normal ? Chris On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:25:36 +1100 "Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone got this working with cups on Mandrake 8? > Which funnily enough has the adobe distiller ppd listed as a printer driver, > only outputs in *.ps though > I am toying with making a cron job to check the directory every hour and > convert any postscript files to pdf. > > I am trying to set it up, but restarting the cupsd rewrites the > /etc/printcap file > > Chris > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 12:59 am > To: slug > Subject: Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy > > expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html > > Yes it's an ace "trick". I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use a > virtual PostScript printer (usually a colour HP laserjet) and ps2pdf to > enable users to create PDF files. Whats really most interesting though is > that most people believe that you MUST have Adobe Distiller to create any > PDF files. I often get M$ Word files submitted to some web sites I run > with the comment from the user "I don't have Distiller so I can't create > PDF". Alas Adobe markets so well :-( > > Mike > (who still prefers ps over pdf as I can lift up the bonnet of ps and fiddle > with the carburettor) > -- > We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. > > Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney > Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 > Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au > Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. >*** > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Preemptible kernels + Win4Lin performance skyrocket!
So, After Andre's ravings about the preemptible kernel patches by Robert Love [1], I decided to give it a bash. I built an SGI CVS 2.4.14 kernel with XFS, preempt, and Win4Lin support. My whites were whiter, and colours, brighter. [ Jamie: It kicks arse. ] What really surprised me was the interactive performance of Win4Lin. Obviously, running Windows under Linux is always going to be a heavy task, even operating the thin driver layer that Win4Lin does. The preempt kernel makes it very smooth, especially for things that really push the driver interface between Windows and X, such as playing high framerate video. Without the preempt patches, Windows (controls and window frames) would become unresponsive whilst video was playing, so you couldn't skip, stop, start or move windows, etc. With preempt, it's *almost* fully responsive. Noice. My only trouble is a full machine lockup when Win4Lin shuts down. Frustrating, but one gets what one deserves running Windows. :) With this fixed, I'd very, very strongly recommend using the preempt patches for Win4Lin users who are familiar with rebuilding their kernel. I'm sure this would assist VMware in a similar manner - anyone willing to take the test? :) Thanks to Andre for convincing me to try. ;) - Jeff [1] New version out: http://lwn.net/2001/1115/a/preempt.php3 -- It makes perfect sense. If you're a narcissistic arsehole spawned from a curdled gene pool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Bootable CD with XFS support.
http://www.digitaltux.com/ has Reiserfs and xfs debian rescue/root disks in http://www.digitaltux.com/disks/xfs/ Should be able to get somewhere with those... -Colin On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:06:14PM +1100, Steve Downing wrote: > OK, so I b0rked up. Somehow I've got the laptop into an unbootable > state, (un)funnily enough without having a suitable rescue option. > Lilo now hangs at LI and since the floppy drive is busted, I need a > bootable CD. The tricky part is getting one with XFS in the kernel, > since I only days ago converted my / partition. I'm not sure how it > ended up like this, BIOS drive settings don't affect it, and I can't > remember forgetting to run lilo, but it was late when I turned it off. > > So, dear Sluggers, I am looking for either > 1) good instructions on creating a suitable bootable CD, > 2) a small downloadable ISO image, > 3) some other way of getting hold of one ( LinuxCare CD? ) > > Bear in mind, I haven't even looked into installing 'cdrecord' or > whatever, since I only just got a burner (thankfully, it would > appear) > > URL's, quick pointers, whatever, GRATEFULLY accepted. > Flames to /dev/null, they couldn't be worse than what I said to myself > anyway! > > Doh! > > Steve > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- "The nice thing about standards is that one has so many to choose between ... " msg17573/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SLUG] Evolution - LDAP - Exchange Woes
Has any one got Evolution talking to Exchange's LDAP? I have been unable to do this and Google is shooting blanks. Any clue sticks I can be hit with? (Yes, LDAP et al is working fine on the Exchange server) -- Cheers, Craige. msg17572/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Userland filesystem hack (crack?)
> > I'm feeling more deranged than usual tonight, so I'm looking for a module > > that will allow for userland programs to provide filesystem data to a kernel > > module, which in turn provides access to this via the normal Linux VFS. > > http://lwn.net/2001/1115/a/py-fuse.php3 > > It has python bindings, too! HOLY CRAP! This kicks ar-- um, makes my eyes water with delight! ;) Phwoar. Expect to see some Darned Fool Hacks coming out of this! Thanks Andrew! - Jeff -- What did the sausage say to the tomato at breakfast? "There's not mushroom this morning, is there?" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Userland filesystem hack (crack?)
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:31:57AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > So, > > I'm feeling more deranged than usual tonight, so I'm looking for a module > that will allow for userland programs to provide filesystem data to a kernel > module, which in turn provides access to this via the normal Linux VFS. >From this week's LWN: http://lwn.net/2001/1115/a/py-fuse.php3 It has python bindings, too! -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SCSi card disappeared after upgrade to 2.4
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Doug Stalker wrote: > I recently moved a debian system from kernel 2.2.17 to 2.4.12. Everything > is working fine (once I changes ipchains to iptables) except that the SCSI > card doesn't work anymore. It's a cheap ACARD scsi adapter, with a CD > burner and a DDS3 tape drive runing off it that was working fine under > 2.2.17 (I just shut down the system, plugged it in, powered it back up and > it worked perfectly) > > Now any command that involves /dev/st0 or /dev/scd0 comes up with no such > device. > > There is a scsi directory in /lib/modules/2.2.17/, but not in > /lib/modules/2.4.12/. Is there an extra package I need to install to get > scsi support under 2.4? Have you enabled SCSI support when you compiled your new kernel? Or did you just drop in a pre-compiled one from a .deb package? Chances are that the kernel you're running doesn't have SCSI support enabled - compile a new one, and include your card drivers, SCSI generic support, SCSI tape support & SCSI cd-rom support - bob's your uncle. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Stories of larg-scale desktop Linux adoption?
> I've been having a little dig around for news about large scale adoption > of Linux in enterprises, especially on the desktop (i.e. 1000's of google > servers aren't applicable). My impression is that this is basically not > happening much, but it has started happening. Get in touch with the LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) people; they have a number of good stories that might help you out, that haven't really been covered in the press. Especially educational institutions. - Jeff -- Great minds think different? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer
> Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy > expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. There are some other great examples of this in the SLUG archives. - Jeff -- "In addition to these ample facilities, there exists a powerful configuration tool called gcc." - Elliot Hughes, author of lwm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A problem with X
I also had this problem with on board SIS. My fix was to disable gpm at startup. :) Tim White - Original Message - From: "Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tom Massey'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:44 PM Subject: RE: [SLUG] A problem with X > I did have a problem with on board SIS, I think I had to tell it that I had > half the video ram than I actually had, so 4096 instead of 8192 under > section "Device" > > It might help > > Chris > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Massey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2001 11:55 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] A problem with X > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:48:25AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > XFree86-4.1. The pointer appears as a square say 2cm x 2cm made up of 8 > > horizontal lines alternately dark and light. Does anyone know what > > causes this or how to fix it > > I think this can be fixed by adding > > Option "sw_cursor" > > To XF86Config-4. I think it goes in the "Graphics device section". > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer
Has anyone got this working with cups on Mandrake 8? Which funnily enough has the adobe distiller ppd listed as a printer driver, only outputs in *.ps though I am toying with making a cron job to check the directory every hour and convert any postscript files to pdf. I am trying to set it up, but restarting the cupsd rewrites the /etc/printcap file Chris -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 12:59 am To: slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy > expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html Yes it's an ace "trick". I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use a virtual PostScript printer (usually a colour HP laserjet) and ps2pdf to enable users to create PDF files. Whats really most interesting though is that most people believe that you MUST have Adobe Distiller to create any PDF files. I often get M$ Word files submitted to some web sites I run with the comment from the user "I don't have Distiller so I can't create PDF". Alas Adobe markets so well :-( Mike (who still prefers ps over pdf as I can lift up the bonnet of ps and fiddle with the carburettor) -- We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy > expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html Yes it's an ace "trick". I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use a virtual PostScript printer (usually a colour HP laserjet) and ps2pdf to enable users to create PDF files. Whats really most interesting though is that most people believe that you MUST have Adobe Distiller to create any PDF files. I often get M$ Word files submitted to some web sites I run with the comment from the user "I don't have Distiller so I can't create PDF". Alas Adobe markets so well :-( Mike (who still prefers ps over pdf as I can lift up the bonnet of ps and fiddle with the carburettor) -- We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SCSi card disappeared after upgrade to 2.4
I recently moved a debian system from kernel 2.2.17 to 2.4.12. Everything is working fine (once I changes ipchains to iptables) except that the SCSI card doesn't work anymore. It's a cheap ACARD scsi adapter, with a CD burner and a DDS3 tape drive runing off it that was working fine under 2.2.17 (I just shut down the system, plugged it in, powered it back up and it worked perfectly) Now any command that involves /dev/st0 or /dev/scd0 comes up with no such device. There is a scsi directory in /lib/modules/2.2.17/, but not in /lib/modules/2.4.12/. Is there an extra package I need to install to get scsi support under 2.4? - Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] A problem with X
I did have a problem with on board SIS, I think I had to tell it that I had half the video ram than I actually had, so 4096 instead of 8192 under section "Device" It might help Chris -Original Message- From: Tom Massey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2001 11:55 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] A problem with X On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:48:25AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > XFree86-4.1. The pointer appears as a square say 2cm x 2cm made up of 8 > horizontal lines alternately dark and light. Does anyone know what > causes this or how to fix it I think this can be fixed by adding Option "sw_cursor" To XF86Config-4. I think it goes in the "Graphics device section". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Mandrake 8.0 and Gnome
Hi guys, I have a problem with Gnome in that when I minimise a terminal or window it doesn't minimise to the task bar but completely disappears, seemingly closing. This does not happen in KDE. Any ideas re reason for this, or fixes, appreciated. Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A problem with X
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:48:25AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > XFree86-4.1. The pointer appears as a square say 2cm x 2cm made up of 8 > horizontal lines alternately dark and light. Does anyone know what > causes this or how to fix it I think this can be fixed by adding Option "sw_cursor" To XF86Config-4. I think it goes in the "Graphics device section". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] A problem with X
Greetings, I have been loading software onto several computers for ComputerBank. On the latest (a debian testing installation) I have a problem with the mouse pointer in X. The computer has an on board video (SiS). Using XFree86-4.1. The pointer appears as a square say 2cm x 2cm made up of 8 horizontal lines alternately dark and light. Does anyone know what causes this or how to fix it / regards, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] IE and ApacheSSL weirdness
Hi all, I've got apache 1.3.20 and modssl compiled in. I;ve set it up according to the docs, and i even made the usggested changes for IE from the manual (expect turning of sslv3 entirely). When any other browser i have at my disposal tries to connect, no problem (opera, netscape 4,netscape 6). But when IE tries to connect it simply waits forever. Anybody got any ideas ? Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Bootable CD with XFS support.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:06:14PM +1100, Steve Downing wrote: > OK, so I b0rked up. Somehow I've got the laptop into an unbootable Hey, we all have done it once What type of laptop - I have a few HP floppy drives here that may be suitable... Failing that, I think I have my LinuxCare CD somewhere here...:-) Jon -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer
Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html -- How to use Linux, Samba, and Ghostscript to provide a PDF creation service to both Windows and Linux users. I think the main problem is that unless your PostScript generation supports PDFmarks (I think that's what they're called, though I don't know anything about them - probably comments in the PS output to give hints to the convertor), you don't get the "table of contents" / "explorer view" of your PDF document, used for easy navigation in the left pane of your PDF viewer. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux Mail clients and pgp
Further to my comment about KMail: What I meant to say was that you can turn HTML off which is rather a good thing. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Stories of larg-scale desktop Linux adoption?
I've been having a little dig around for news about large scale adoption of Linux in enterprises, especially on the desktop (i.e. 1000's of google servers aren't applicable). My impression is that this is basically not happening much, but it has started happening. I just thought I'd share what I dug up. (I'd welcome other stories.) Really, I'd consider "large" to be 1000 desktops and upwards. These ones below are therefore somewhat marginal. Burlington Coat Factory (US), 32 stores. Desktop and Point of Sale. http://www.internetweek.com/ebizapps01/ebiz071601-1.htm http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2073054,00.html McDonald's, Linux for Point of Sale: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2800511,00.html http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2798814,00.html 400-seat desktop deployment at Largo City Hall, Florida, replacing older Unix systems: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239&mode=thread Linux replacing Solaris at Wall Street, for transaction reporting to stockbrokers and companies: http://www.ibm.com/news/us/2001/08/282.html Ford Europe claim they are considering replacing 10,000 desktop Windows systems with Linux: http://newsfilter.free2air.org/story/2001/8/21/152244/235 luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux Mail Clients + PGP
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 17:45, cpaul wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:53:35 +1100 Keiran Sweet wrote: > > I am looking for a new email client (for X windows only) to > > replace > > /me digs sylpheed > > http://sylpheed.good-day.net/ > > netscape mail escapees burst on to the list (very helpful) with > excitement daily. > > rfc compliant openpgp (gpg) support with --enable-gpgme, > ascii-armoured style with a patch. KMail seems OK and has pgp support. I'm using it at this time. No HTML, but this can be a good thing. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] usb??
According to my system monitor program in RH7.x 3Gb of harddisk space is being used by /proc/bus/usb with a device name of usbdevfs. I am not using any USB devices so how do I turn this off or is it something to just ignore? Thanks in advance for your time -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] command line argument
* This one time, at band camp, Antony Clarke said: > In my Uni notes I have this as a command line argument; > > file1 | a.out > file2 > > Obviously file1 should pipe to a.out and a.out output should be sent to > file2. When running this command file1 is obviously not a valid command. > Should this work on linux or unix. > If 'file1' is a file rather than a command, you can try one of the following : cat file1 | a.out a.out < file1 or (if a.out accepts parameters) a.out file1 A little more info will allow a more definite response. HTH Greeno -- Greeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in a secure environment and finding the string _NSAKEY in the OS binaries without a good explanation -Alan Cox 04/05/2001 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] command line argument
You might have been thinking of ./a.out < file1 > file2 Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Antony Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2001 22:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] command line argument > > > In my Uni notes I have this as a command line argument; > > file1 | a.out > file2 > > Obviously file1 should pipe to a.out and a.out output should > be sent to > file2. When running this command file1 is obviously not a > valid command. > Should this work on linux or unix. > > Antony > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE -- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Memory upgrade
Looks like the BIOS didn't recognise the memory speed. I'd go into BIOS setup and check that it is reporting what you've put in, and hasn't downgraded it to something slower. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE -- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:16:35AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > What package versions are you using? (dpkg -l galeon mozilla) ii galeon 0.12.7-0.1 Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an ii mozilla-browser 0.9.5-5Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser > Also, apt-cache show galeon, look for the version of mozilla it's depending > on. Depends mozilla-browser (>=2:0.9.5) Conflicts: mozilla-browser (>=2:0.9.6) My version of mozilla-browser is right in the middle so should be alright. I'm attempting to compile Galeon sources to see if that makes any difference. I'll keep the list posted. Jonathan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] command line argument
In my Uni notes I have this as a command line argument; file1 | a.out > file2 Obviously file1 should pipe to a.out and a.out output should be sent to file2. When running this command file1 is obviously not a valid command. Should this work on linux or unix. Antony -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Memory upgrade
Can anybody tell me what this means? I have just replaced 2 x 32 mb 66 MHz memory thingies with 2 x 128 mb PC-133. Looking at my messages log, with the old memory: Nov 12 06:14:05 sage kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines Nov 12 06:14:05 sage kernel:pII_mmx : 687.324 MB/sec Nov 12 06:14:05 sage kernel:p5_mmx: 605.409 MB/sec Nov 12 06:14:05 sage kernel:8regs : 475.488 MB/sec Nov 12 06:14:05 sage kernel:32regs: 332.232 MB/sec Nov 12 06:14:05 sage kernel: using fastest function: pII_mmx (687.324 MB/sec) With the new: Nov 14 17:28:13 sage kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines Nov 14 17:28:13 sage kernel:pII_mmx : 456.819 MB/sec Nov 14 17:28:13 sage kernel:p5_mmx: 401.193 MB/sec Nov 14 17:28:13 sage kernel:8regs : 363.093 MB/sec Nov 14 17:28:13 sage kernel:32regs: 256.032 MB/sec Nov 14 17:28:13 sage kernel: using fastest function: pII_mmx (456.819 MB/sec) Why the difference and what does it mean? Thanks for help, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Galeon hangs
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:15:33PM +1100, Andre Pang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:07:23PM +1100, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote: > > > A few days ago Galeon stopped working. I normally have it open a local > > bookmarks file when I start it. Now, when I start Galeon, the spinner > > spins and the status bar says "Loading site..."; and nothing else > > happens. The same thing happens on other URLs (local or otherwise). > > Have you tried destroying the .galeon directory? That works 9 > times out of 10 for me. I tried this; no luck. What I'm trying now is to compile the galeon source; I'll report back how it goes. > You can assign your own keys to any menu item by locating the menu > item and then pressing the new key combination while it's > selected. Yes, sorry, I should have been more specific; I understand assigning keys to menu items; that can go some way to getting what I want. However, it doesn't have all the key combinations that I like in w3m. eg. / means find; I know there is C-f but that brings up a dialog. Some of the things I like to do don't have menu items. See the extract from w3m. Well, anyway the current key combinations sort of do what I want. One, in particular, however, would be very useful. "SPC" gets you the next page of the current HTML document; what key combination takes you back? In w3m it's "b" or "ESC v". Jonathan Extracted from w3m: Page/Cursor motion SPC,C-v Forward page b,ESC v Backward page l,C-fCursor right h,C-bCursor left j,C-nCursor down k,C-pCursor up JRoll up one line KRoll down one line ^,C-aGo to the beginning of line $,C-eGo to the end of line wGo to next word WGo to previous word >Shift screen rightGo to the last line ESC gGo to specified line ZMove to the center line zMove to the center column TAB Move to next hyperlink C-u,ESC TAB Move to previous hyperlink [Go to the first link ]Go to the last link Hyperlink operation RET Follow hyperlink a, ESC RET Save link to file uPeek link URL iPeek image URL IView inline image ESC ISave inline image to file :Mark URL-like strings as anchors ESC :Mark Message-ID-like strings as news anchors cPeek current URL =Display information about current document C-g Show current line number C-h View history of URL FRender frame MBrowse current document using external browser (use 2M and 3M to invoke second and third browser) ESC MBrowse link using external browser (use 2ESC M and 3ESC M to invoke second and third browser) File/Stream operation UOpen URL VView new file @Execute shell command and load #Execute shell command and browse Buffer operation BBack to the previous buffer vView HTML source sSelect buffer EEdit buffer source C-l Redraw screen RReload buffer SSave buffer ESC sSave source ESC eEdit buffer image Buffer selection mode k, C-p Select previous buffer j, C-n Select next buffer DDelete current buffer RET Go to the selected buffer Bookmark operation ESC bLoad bookmark ESC aAdd current to bookmark Search /,C-sSearch forward ?,C-rSearch backward nSearch next NSearch previous C-w Toggle wrap search mode Dictionary look-up M-w Execute dictionary command (see README.dict) M-W Execute dictionary command for word at cursor Mark operation C-SPCSet/unset mark ESC pGo to previous mark ESC nGo to next mark "Mark by regular expression Miscellany !Execute shell command HHelp (load this file) oSet option C-k Show cookie jar C-c Stop C-z Suspend qQuit (with confirmation, if you like) QQuit without confirmation Line-edit mode C-f Move cursor forward C-b Move cursor backward C-h Delete previous character C-d Delete current character C-k Kill everything after cursor C-u Kill everything before cursor C-a Move to the top of line C-e Move to the bottom of line C-p Fetch the previous string from the history list C-n Fetch the next string from the history list TAB,SPC Complete filename RETURN Accept -
Re: [SLUG] GUI standard question: Button label changes
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:46:55AM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > Have a question to see if anyone knows what the standard behaviour > should be in a GUI application. I've seen both out there. > > You have a button. The label on the button changes each time you > click it. eg, let's say it changes a select list from [All] to > [Today]. Now the button could have two very different behaviours: > > 1) It shows the current state, ie when it says [All] that means all >the items are displayed. > 2) It shows what the button will do to the list, ie when is says [All] >it means it is currently showing just Today and when you click the >button it will display All. > > So what is the standard? Is there one? If you _absolutely have to_ use a push-button (and I'm not sure why you would), then at least put the word "Show" in front; i.e. "Show All" or "Show Today". That's much less ambigious. However, what you really want to do is use a radio button group instead of a push button. By radio buttons, I mean the things that look like: View: (.) Today ( ) All and which you can select between a number of alternatives (i.e. not checkboxes). I've just done one session's worth of HCI at Uni (Human Computer Interaction). Good to see it's actually useful[1]. [1] That was a joke. Sorta. -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] GUI standard question: Button label changes
My advice, for all the 5c its worht would ebt o do one of two things: a) use two different buttons b) useee more explicit labelling "Show Today" and "Show All" or, if interface space is really that tight that you can't afford the extra space, use a menu (either froma menu bar or a pop-up menu) with appropriate shortcut keys (ctrl+t and ctrl+a, for cinstance) On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > Have a question to see if anyone knows what the standard behaviour > should be in a GUI application. I've seen both out there. > > You have a button. The label on the button changes each time you > click it. eg, let's say it changes a select list from [All] to > [Today]. Now the button could have two very different behaviours: > > 1) It shows the current state, ie when it says [All] that means all >the items are displayed. > 2) It shows what the button will do to the list, ie when is says [All] >it means it is currently showing just Today and when you click the >button it will display All. > > So what is the standard? Is there one? > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] GUI standard question: Button label changes
Have a question to see if anyone knows what the standard behaviour should be in a GUI application. I've seen both out there. You have a button. The label on the button changes each time you click it. eg, let's say it changes a select list from [All] to [Today]. Now the button could have two very different behaviours: 1) It shows the current state, ie when it says [All] that means all the items are displayed. 2) It shows what the button will do to the list, ie when is says [All] it means it is currently showing just Today and when you click the button it will display All. So what is the standard? Is there one? -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
