Re: [SLUG] Re: Opinions on PS/PDF Output?
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Angus Lees wrote:
\begin{Craige McWhirter}
[producing PDF]
Would anyone who uses tools that allow this efficiently care to share
what they like about their tool(s) of choice?
LaTeX (and pdflatex) or Docbook (and jade/pdfjadetex)
depends on whether what you're doing is structured (computer)
documentation (Docbook) or fairly freeform (LaTeX).
I would agree with this. PDFLatex works very well. If you have to write
large documents the latex is easier to use (about the same to master).
Latex tools seem more mature as they have been around for a long time.
If you have to write programs to manipulate the latex/docbook(XML) source,
then XML is much better. The tags are much easier to process.
Richard
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Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Crossfire wrote: Richard Piper was once rumoured to have said: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, David Kempe wrote: I understand this does not happen with the cable service What is this lease crap? ADSL is not DHCP allocated, Its based around When you grow up, you should learn about manners as well as DHCP/ADSL. Richard Piper Work (612) 9926-8617 or 8656 Home (612) 9419-2339 Pager (612) 99267111 no 41243 Mobile 0438-120860 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, David Kempe wrote: I understand this does not happen with the cable service Yeah cable is not reliant on PPP for auth, so it can easily give you back the same IP. Also it cable just doesn't disconnect no where near as much as ADSL. My Telstra ADSL is waaay less stable than a Dingoblue dialup. I dunno what i prefer anymore, stable 56K ($27/month) or unstable 500K($100/month). Somewhere in between would be nice. Is there no way that the ADSL modem can be identified such that a lease of at least some duration can be assigned. I understand that with the bigpond direct service they will allow static IPs (?dhcp with permanent lease) Richard. Richard Piper Intensive Care Unit Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia Work (612) 9926-8617 or 8656 Home (612) 9419-2339 Pager (612) 99267111 no 41243 Mobile 0438-120860 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Per accounting/password management for a squid
Has anyone got a favourite program for managing passwords and doing per user accounting and logging on a squid cache. It is todays project! Thanks Richard Richard Piper Intensive Care Unit Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia Work (612) 9926-8617 or 8656 Home (612) 9419-2339 Pager (612) 99267111 no 41243 Mobile 0438-120860 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ian Ward wrote: OK, I'm sick of waiting for Telstra Direct. Anyone using any of the other carriers for ADSL? I need fixed IP, I have a class-c that needs routing. The problem is also that the lease time seams to be 0. So you get a new IP everytime it crashed, and thus loose any telnet session etc. I understand this does not happen with the cable service Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Text calendar program
I have been looking for a reasonably sophisticated text-based calendar/diary (something like pine for email). Does anyone have any suggestions? thanks Richard Richard Piper Intensive Care Unit Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia Work (612) 9926-8617 or 8656 Home (612) 9419-2339 Pager (612) 99267111 no 41243 Mobile 0438-120860 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CUPS Printing Question
Hi all, This is probably a fairly simple question, but i cant figure it out from the cups manual. I have an epson stylus colour 800 inkjet printer. It wors fine with linux, except i have a small problem with the paralell port on my computer. It doesn;t seem to work at all. Neither under linux or windows. Which dashed my first plans to hook my printer back up to my computer. I have one of the epson color 12?? printers and it works very well with cups and the standard suse lpr script all right, four pages of text post script commands, rather than a nice rendered image. That obviously wont work as it is not a postscript printer. Have you used the correct driver with CUPS the epson printers are supported, although I dont know about the 800 Now what I want to know, is there any way to rasterise this image before i send it over the netowrk to the printer ? Or convert it into something useful for the printer, without having a whole second computer, seeing as this printserver is only being used becasue of an apparently faulty parralell port ? Cups has a modified version of ghostscript to do this I think. Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Peter Chubb wrote: "Martin" == Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan Lee wrote: You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT. Martin People are NOT whinging about a single outage, it's just a single Martin example of poor service from many. Taken individually, it is probably Martin unfair to complain about any of them unless you know the Martin circumstances. Taken collectively, it's fine to whinge, because it Martin represents a poor service, whatever the reasons. Telstra sucks. Actually, I find that most of the time I'm using the service (i.e., 6.00am to around 4.00pm) it's fine. But if I need to do something in the evening, it's awful. Any time after about 7.00pm transfers would be faster if packets were carried by trained messenger tortoises. It certainly feels less than what I get with a 56 K modem through the university, but with a much longer latency between establishing connections. In fact typing this fells like the days I used 300 baud modem off a PDP11. The problem is that I paid for a much faster onnnection than that and have not got it. I am prepared to give them a little time to sort out "technical" difficulties, but feel strongly that if you pay for 100K/sec and get only 3K/sec you should pay 3$ per month not 90$. It is my feeling that the ACCC should spend a little time looking at Telstra. It would do the community as a whole a great service. I would not wish anyone had to go throught what I did just to get the ADSL installed. The record I kept of this rather unpleasant experience reads like catch 22 on steroids. Richard Piper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.
I was hoping some one could help with this. I have Telstra ADSL. Approximately 6 times a day the connection is lost and then the IP address changes effectivly hanging any telnet sessions etc in progress. I am unsure if the problem is with Telstra (the whole ADSL thing seems slow and unreliable at this time), a problem with my line or a linux thing. I guess if I did not loose the lease on the IP address with each reconnection that would help with the symptoms but not the problem with the lost connections. I have attached some of the error logs below. Any suggestions/help much appreciated Richard Richard Piper Intensive Care Unit Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia Work (612) 9926-8617 or 8656 Home (612) 9419-2339 Pager (612) 99267111 no 41243 Mobile 0438-120860 # the frequency of the disconnects messages-20010125:Jan 23 05:29:22 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 23 05:29:57 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 23 05:30:39 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 23 06:21:43 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 23 10:47:47 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 23 10:47:57 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 23 15:24:27 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 24 00:05:35 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. messages-20010125:Jan 24 00:06:31 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. # a typical error log Jan 28 03:41:21 intron pppd[6567]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x21 magic=0x85b8b38a] Jan 28 03:41:21 intron pppd[6567]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x21 magic=0x6451a31e] Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppoe[6568]: Session terminated -- received PADT from peer Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Modem hangup Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 9534) Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Connection terminated. Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Script /usr/sbin/pppoe -p /var/run/adsl.pid.pppoe -I eth1 -T 80 -m 1412 finished (pid 6568), status = 0x0Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Connect time 865.0 minutes. Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Sent 1354237 bytes, received 6471710 bytes. Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 9534 Jan 28 03:41:28 intron ip-down: Restored original /etc/resolv.conf Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 9534), status = 0x0 Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[6567]: Exit. Jan 28 03:41:28 intron adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[9540]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[9540]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppd[9540]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/0 Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppoe[9541]: PADS: Service-Name: '' Jan 28 03:41:28 intron pppoe[9541]: PPP session is 2882 Jan 28 03:41:29 intron pppd[9540]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1492 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xcfd4ef31] Jan 28 03:41:29 intron pppd[9540]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xbb magic 0x212f6eb6 mru 1500 auth chap MD5] Jan 28 03:41:29 intron pppd[9540]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xbb magic 0x212f6eb6 mru 1500 auth chap MD5] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.
I am unsure if the problem is with Telstra (the whole ADSL thing seems slow and unreliable at this time), a problem with my line or a linux thing. Welcome to Telstra ADSL. It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time, terrible speed and latency. I would have to agree. Guess you only get what you pay for-- oh, hold on... I though I was paying quite a lot for the amount I have been able to use it lately. I understand if you turn the modem on an off it resyncs or something which can improve things. Failing that telstra will check the line for a fault. Apparently the IP addresses are alocated new each time you log in. It is not like DHCP on ethernet where you tend to get the same IP back (or cable as I understand) Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan Lee wrote:
You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I
dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major
bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.
(And no, I DONT WORK FOR TELSTRA!!!)
Regards, Alan Lee
You obviously dont use Telstra ADSL. It was just as bad before that
happened. And why on a national network do they have a single point of
failure like that. Isnt any wonder it is slow when I send a packet 5km
accross sydney and it goes via victoria. Just as well Telstra isnt running
state rail.
I suspect ADSL will be OK with time. But I think it is stating the obvious
that there is a problem with the way Telstra is managed and as at a
practical sense it has a monopoly on the ADSL service it is everyones
problem
Richard
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Subject: [SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.
\begin{Richard Piper}
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time,
terrible
speed and latency.
I would have to agree.
i think its time we all had a chat with our friendly ombudsman..
late last week adsl was down for at least 5 hours (from logs
overnight, i think it was more like 17 hours!) which is pretty
horrific service, considering what everyone is paying.
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David Kempe wrote:
\begin{Richard Piper}
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time,
terrible
speed and latency.
I would have to agree.
I'll join that chant. I use Telstra ADSL at home and at work and its a
shocker.
VERY erratic.
I also use it from windows ands it worse than in linux so don't think its a
linux problem!
I would have to agree the pppoe client works very well and is very easy to
install etc etc.
Richard
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[SLUG] ?Telstra ADSL slow/unreliable
I have had Telstra ADSL for a few weeks now and have not been that impressed. 1. It is unreliable. 2. There seems to be quite a pause in serving web pages, I suppost this is the cache or the fact that everything seems to route through Victoria. The download speeds are quite fast, but you spend a lot of time waiting for the page to be served. 3. The inability to get a static IP is a nuisance. Compared to my 56K modem access via the university, I certainly dont think it worth 90$ per month. Does anyone else find ADSL a little disappointing? When I workout my average monthly download, It may be better to look for another provider. Richard Piper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] outputting .pdf format from servlets, and authentication of users in apache
Harry Ohlsen wrote: Has anyone used a report writer tool in a web development environment? I've heard of crystal reports but not having used it I'm a bit dubious of it being the answer to everything. Depending on what your report writing tool can generate, you might be write something to turn it into TeX or LaTeX, use tex or latex to turn that into DVI and finally use dvipdf to generate a PDF file. If you can generate a DVI file directly, so much the better and then just use dvipdf. Actually, do you already have a report writer that you're using, or are you looking for one? In the latter case, perhaps people could point you at ones that can generate TeX / LaTeX / DVI. I'm currently working on a GUI that generates LaTeX output, which I'm turning into PDF and that seems to work very well. However, it obviously depends on how complex the reports are that you want to generate as to whether you could take on that work yourself. I have used this to generate letters automatically from a servelet front-end to a database. It works really well, except you need to prevent the data being entered that crashes pdflatex. The output is excellent however. Richard Piper -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
