Re: Using LaTeX (was: Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !)

2005-11-16 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, John and others. > > On Nov 15 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > One thing I don't understand about LaTeX/TeX though is why it's so > > darn big and complicated. > > LaTeX isn't big. Well,

Re: sytem running out of free disk space

2005-11-15 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Realos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I have a debian machine with 1.4G hard disk which is running out of > space. Running "apt-get autoclean" and "apt-get autoclean" have provided > me with about 100M free space but it is still too short for my server > machine. > > I see there are

Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !

2005-11-15 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, > > thanks a lot guys for the push towards Latex. > > After struggling with groff etc for years, Latex is a charm. Already > I can do tables, footnotes, indexes, headers, footers, maths, item > lists wonderful, a joy to work with.

Re: Tomcat5 problem on debian

2005-11-15 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed tomcat5 on debian/unstable. It is on my laptop with > P M1.6, 512M. The problem is that tomcat server is very slow to > connect. On my first connection after installation, it took 4~5 mins to > show the tomcat index on localhost:8010.

Re: wiki package recommendation

2005-11-13 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- noc ops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > can anyone recommend a wiki package (stable) and willing share their > experience. > > any pointers will be appreciated. > > > regards, > /virendra > I tried a few a while ago. I was looking for something fairly small and simple. Easy to ins

Re: Tools to manipulate PDFs

2005-11-13 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Christmann: > > > > are there any tools that allow one to > > split, merge and append PDFs? > > apt-cache show pdfjam > > Needs tetex. > > J. > -- I like pdftk. ---John _

Re: GUI

2005-11-10 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm new to linux. I installed debian ver 3.1. When finished the > > > installation, debian started automatically in GUI. What I have to do > > > so that not to start the GUI automatically? > > > > aptitude purge gdm kdm xd

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > >Bruno Buys writes: > > > > > >>(there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they debian > >>friendly? > >> > >> > > > >Some winmodems can be used with Linux but they are not at all friendly. > > > > > I

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang, > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:09:20AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > With the current ABI transitions, I have noted a lot of mention about > > > soname changes, always wondering what it means. Could someone >

Re: help needed installing Debian

2005-11-03 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Goran Dimovksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello every body, > > I have some problems installing Debian. > I did download Debian 3.1 i386 netinst. And the systmes is : > mobo-Tyan S5112 > CPU-Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz/800Mhz > HDD--3x250GB SATA conected to 3ware RAID controler card. > With

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread John M. Gabriele
I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even after carefully reading what docs I could find. My advice is to avoid dselect like the plague. --- Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick

Re: package download statistics

2005-11-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Bill West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know of a place that keeps track of downloads from debian > mirrors by package? I figured that this information would be available all > over the place, but I have not been able to find it. Any help would be > appreciated. > >

Re: Which Java to use?

2005-11-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Robert Glueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for which JRE I > > should use in a "set it and forget it" environment? > > > > Jim Somewhat related to your question: I ran Fedora Core 4 for a while, and it comes with

Re: books/doc for programmers and sysadmin on a debian system

2005-11-01 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anoop aryal wrote: > > > is anyone aware of books/doc about how best to: > > > > > > 1) manage source-code (not just in a CVS/subversion but, how do you lay > > > it out so that managing multiple projects is easy) > > > > > > 2) do .deb packaging eas