Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-10 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Tzafrir" == Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want them to be able to edit it: how are you going > to merge in their changes? That is very easy with plain text latex files - from diff on the simple end to CVS on the even-simpler-but-a-bit-more-overhead end. M --

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Jordi" == Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know we have more options, but I can't remember what they > are. There's a pretty big graphics package that I think > had to do with KDE. I seem to recall the maintainer had a > female name, but it looks lik

installing SAM/ELN using apache+tomcat on debian?

2008-02-05 Thread Michael A. Miller
I am attempting to install the SAM/ELN software from ORNL/PNNL (collaboratory.emsl.pnl.gov and sourceforge.net/projects/eln/) but I am hampered by having no experience with tomcat. Has anyone successfully run this software on a debian box with apache and tomcat? I am not able to get user authenti

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-26 Thread Michael A. Miller
Found the problem - here's the story... I have an external usb drive mounted at /mnt/mirror. I do a nightly rsync to of system and home dirs to there. For some reason - still not sure what - it was not mounted, so /mnt/mirror was part of /. The nightly rsync wrote to /mnt/mirror, and filled the

file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Michael A. Miller
I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk seems full: /dev/hda1 71G 65G 3.0

setup wiki with apache2 and mod-python?

2007-09-26 Thread Michael A. Miller
Can anyone supply an example of how to setup a new moinmoin wiki using apache2 and mod_python? I had one working with apache 1.3, but I'm trying to move that to a different machine. I've read through /usr/share/doc/moinmoin-common/INSTALL.html and the examples, but I'm confused about where all th

Re: need a pointer on emacs

2007-09-17 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Chuck" == Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can someone point me to a website that explains how I can >> use emacs to complice, I get a thousands site with I try >> to use google to look it. Have you looked at the emacs info pages? There is a section there on "Compila

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-29 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Derek" == Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann writes: > On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage > that plays oggs? I use a neuros with a 30 Gbyte drive. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

trouble setting up leafnode

2005-08-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've just installed leafnode package (version 1.11.3.rel2) on a testing/unstable machine and I'm having trouble using it. It works so far as getting the active list from the server, but when I try to access the local server by setting NNTPSERVER=127.0.0.1 and running slrn, I get the following erro

spamassassin rules for swen? [Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list]

2003-10-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Amal" == Amal Phadke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently using combination of Spamassassin and access > control via /etc/mail/access (I use sendmail) with good > success. Now "MS Patches" are down to one or two per > day. Before I used to get about 80 or more in a d

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-09 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Sridhar" == Sridhar M A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally the best thing for writing LaTeX docs is > vim/emacs :-) Emacs + auctex is good too... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
commercial/professional statistics systems as well. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages.gz blocked by Symantec Web Security

2003-08-14 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Frank" == Frank Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, My company uses Symantec Web Security to screen for > viruses at the HTTP proxy machine (and there's no way to > bypass the proxy). SWS returns with this message when I try > to open any Packages.gz [...] That

default fonts for java applications?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'm running ImageJ (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) using Sun's J2SE v 1.4.2, installed from j2sdk-1.4.2-nb-3.5-bin-linux.bin. When I start the application, the font used for the menu bar is big enough that the menu items don't all fit in the window. Can anyone suggest a way to change the default fo

Re: apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

2003-07-07 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Robert" == Robert August Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Question: > 1. Is this a bug in Dansguardian, or is it the fault of the > webservers which deliver incorrect Content-Type: headers? Sounds like Dansguardian is at fault to me. Have you submitted a bug report for t

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-18 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. Ah ha! That was it. I should have known - thanks. > | (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled > What is this? Maybe this is causing the problems? I don't

erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-17 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'm having trouble with erratic mouse behavior on new machine. I recently replaced a pc with a machine that has an NVidia GeForce2 MX graphics card. This machine replaces an older pc with an ATI Rage 128 card. The monitor, mouse and key board are all the same as before and are connected through

Problems with VLAN and 3com card

2002-05-06 Thread Michael A. Miller
Our network was recently changed to a cicso-based vlan system. I am not a network export, so I can't give many details here). Since the upgrade, the Debian (stable/testing) machine on my desktop has had intermitent problems with the network. Our network admin tells me that there is a known probl

ssh and private resources?

2002-03-01 Thread Michael A. Miller
cy, so I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a way to get ssh to "permit the sharing of  X resources". Can anyone help me get started on this? Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine

"syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0" ?

2002-02-05 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've got a system that has started to produce many messages in the system logs that say "syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0". I've looked over the syslog-ng docs, but I've been unable to figure out what these messages mean. Can anyone explain them to me? Mike

Re: graphics processing progs ???

2002-01-28 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Mark" == Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure about animations, though. ImageMagick can handle mpeg, as in `convert *.jpg animation.mpeg'

lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Michael A. Miller
I have a Debian (testing) machine with a single hard drive that is the master on the IDE bus. I've chosen to install win98 so that I can dual boot. I've installed Win98 on a second hard drive that I installed as the IDE master after unplugging the original drive. Now what I'd like to do is to pu

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] it's just that WP's method was so easy. Type your > text, hit Ctrl-F7, type the centered text, hit Alt-F7, type > the rightmost text, and you're done. It's easy in LaTeX too ... man(1) \hfill Manual pager utils \hfill ma

exim + fetchmail configuration question

2002-01-13 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'm about to move inside of a firewall. I'm told that I can get my mail from our imap server (which is outside the firewall) using fetchmail. This fails with a message that says Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to. Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost Final-Recipient:

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-03 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Andras" == Andras Simonyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first about postscript: AFAIK it is the "intellectual > property" of Adobe in the same way as pdf, and moreover it > doesn't have hyperlinks and more importantly forms > (checkboxes etc) which are essential to downloada

Re: scientific graphing program with histograms

2001-12-28 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can > do histograms. * i don't know if guppi can, but there is > no debian package I use R - install the r-base and r-recommended packages to set it up. Mike

Re: Gnus and IMAP on Debian?

2001-12-05 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (imap-stream kerberos4 > ^^^ > Oops, that looks like a typo. That should be > (nnimap-stream kerberos4) That gives me an error. After stripping mos

Re: Gnus and IMAP on Debian?

2001-12-04 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try: > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.iupui.edu")) > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnml "") > (nnimap "imap1.iupui.edu" > (nnimap-address "imap1.iupui.edu") >

Gnus and IMAP on Debian?

2001-11-28 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'd like to use Gnus (gnus_5.8.8-4 and emacs20_20.7-10.1) to extract mail from an IMAP server. I can check my mail with fetchmail (popclient) with no trouble, but when I try with gnus-secondary-select-methods, as in (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.iupui.edu")) (add-to-list 'gnus-se

configuration for cdrecord and readcd?

2001-11-21 Thread Michael A. Miller
When I try to use readcd, which is part of the cdrecord package, I'm told > readcd dev=$SCSI_BUS,$SCSI_ID,$SCSI_LUN > f=/mnt/jaz.ext2/miller/aha2001.image.readcd readcd: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver. I have lots of questions that I think are scsi permissio

Re: downloading with apt-get --download-only install package

2001-11-21 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get install $yourpackages --print-uris That's the trick! Thanks. The other thing that someone pointed out is apt-zip, which also works quite well. Mike

downloading with apt-get --download-only install package

2001-11-20 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'd like to download a selection of packages for machine A that is on a slow connection. So I made a list of what I want and went to machine B, which has a fast connection, and used "apt-get --download-only install package". This didn't work for packages that are already installed on machine B be

squid and squidguard on a single machine?

2001-11-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'd like to set up some sort of filtering to make it easier to keep adult content out of my home and away from the kids. It looks like squid and squidguard will almost do it for me. Almost in that, at first skimming of the docs, it looks like squid needs to be run through external hardware, eithe

Re: Movie makers for Linux?

2001-10-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > that I'd like to string together to form an animation, > picture-book style. You can try using convert (part of the imagemagick package), to make mpegs, as in

gnome panel and syslog messages - VFS: Disk change detected ...

2001-10-15 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've recently upgraded a system to testing and, when gnome panel is running, I'm getting many messages (about two per second) in syslog. They look like this: Oct 15 10:27:20 lumen VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Can anyone help me understand what this means? Mike P.S. I'm using g

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not only is Applixware decent stuff, but it does have nice > filters ot export and import Microsoft office file formats. > However it is closed source technology, and costs about 50 > bucks a license. How much do you spend

Re: offtopic: which text language to use?

2001-09-20 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "A" == A R (Tom) Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to design printed output, use a wordprocessor. For designing and producing high quality output, printed or otherwise, I suggest using a typographic design system, such as LaTeX, that makes it easy to logically design the

Re: Mutt users secretly dominating debian-user!

2001-09-20 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "oivvio" == oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > New script, counting each sender once. (Couldn't do this in > a oneliner. Maybe I'm an MS agent.) : Some plots... http://php.iupui.edu/~mmiller3/debian Note that mutt users are closely followed by the users of the mysterious u

Re[2]: bbdb-initialize in .emacs

2001-08-23 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'm trying to set up bbdb and am unclear on the process for the bbdb package. The docs (/usr/share/doc/bbdb/README.Debian) say that to enable bbdb support, I need to add a call to bbdb-initialize in my .emacs. So I added (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message) After doing that, M-x bbdb tells me "no

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-16 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can't you install a cygwin version into your > homedirectory??? If by "homedirectory" you mean my configuration space on the win2000 system, yes I can, but there are two complications that make that not so usefull. The fir

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-12 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Haim" == Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. as many people stated, DON"T use ftp. it's the most > dangerous protocol. use scp instead. Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines in our

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-06 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would > like to find a new image viewer to use. I use "display", which is part of the imagemagick package. > 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-06 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Jason" == Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why you can say "asprin" when you want to cure a > headache (because Bayer didn't defend its trademark), but > not Xerox(tm) to mean photocopying, Kleenex(tm) to mean > facial tissues, and Ziplock(tm) to refer to pla

kernel 2.4.5 + ncpfs = 8.3 file names ?

2001-06-22 Thread Michael A. Miller
I recently moved a machine to testing and compiled a 2.4.5 kernel. Now when I ncpmount from our novell file server, file names appear in 8.3 format, rather than the full file name. This is new behavior - falling back to a 2.2.14 kernel got me back to the full file names. Can anyone suggest how I

statistical packages for Debian {Re: help}

2001-05-07 Thread Michael A. Miller
eople have up-to-date versions debianized on the archive sites. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-25 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried > to do (set up a weekly appointment that didn't start today) > didn't work I decided it still needed some work. Back in the 1900s, it was said that no application was

backup home to a second hard drive? File size limits

2001-04-13 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've been using a script to tar and gzip nightly backups of user directories in /home to a second hard drive. The other day one of the users (actually it was me :) hit the size limit so that the resulting tar'ed gzip'ed file exceeds the 2^31-1 byte file size limit. Can anyone suggest a way to an

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kevin" == Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as > frustrating as Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't > do anything without asking for help. > I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my

hardware clock keeps local time?

2001-04-04 Thread Michael A. Miller
I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine and would like to arrange for the hardware clock to use local time. I've changed "UTC=yes" to "UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS, but my system is still getting changed back to utc. Can anyone point me to what else needs to be adjusted? Thanks, M

mouse troubles with Debian on Dell Latitude CPx J650GT

2001-02-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
ms to work fine on the console. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine

Re: keeping a process running?

2001-02-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Tibor" == Tibor D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe "run" is what you're looking for? I haven't been able to find that in the packages - what package is that a part of?

keeping a process running?

2001-01-31 Thread Michael A. Miller
Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if it stops? I seem to remember some discussion about this on debian-user, but I haven't been able to track it down in the archives. Mike

Tools for creating a movie from a sequence of images?

2000-12-29 Thread Michael A. Miller
Are there any tools (or libraries) in Debian that will allow me to create an animation from a sequence of images? Mike

Re: interesting xmcd conundrum

2000-12-22 Thread Michael A. Miller
Did you find a solution to this problem yet? I've had the same thing happen to me and haven't been able to sort it out either. Mike

Re: Java Debian Package

2000-12-01 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "FIOL" == FIOL BONNIN Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I have written a program in Java, and I would like > to create a debian package with it. There is some discussion of this on the debian-java list which is archived at http://lists.debian.org/. Mike

time-frequency analysis and Gabor spectrogram software in Debian?

2000-11-27 Thread Michael A. Miller
Is anyone aware of software available in Debian or for *nix at large that will allow me to calculate gabor spectrograms and do general time-frequency analysis on signal data that is not limited to audio file formats? Mike

Re: jdk - installation

2000-11-14 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Michael" == Michael Mertins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maybe even a development environment... JDE is packaged for Debian...

X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone?

replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?

2000-10-09 Thread Michael A. Miller
Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but will let me connect to hosts through ssh/scp? Mike

Re: Star Office

2000-08-24 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Shane" == Shane writes: > I need to read a MS Word document. Are there any other > software in Debian for viewing a MS Word doc?. Catdoc may help. Mike P.S. It's partner, xls2csv, is also very handy for extracting fields from excel files. > dpkg --status catdoc Package:

whiteboard software?

2000-06-19 Thread Michael A. Miller
Can anyone recommend whiteboard software (for networked conferencing) that will work well on a Debian system? How about in a mixed Debian/Mac/MS group? Mike

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-05-01 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Chris" == Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling > tools. Geomview is packaged for Debian. http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/download/geomview.html

[Bug #60204] ibm-jdk1.1.8 package ?

2000-04-20 Thread Michael A. Miller
ets around > this problem for now... Can anyone provide a url for the ibm-jdk1.1.8 package? Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine

Re: Somebody using MuPAD on Debian potato/woody?

2000-04-06 Thread Michael A. Miller
3.2p1.4-9) before it would run. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine

Re: cron.daily isn't

2000-02-29 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your system is up 24/7, I suggest removing at. It is > only meant for machines that are up "sometimes, like dual > boot setups, desktops that get shutdown at night, etc... For machines that are not up 24/7, what replaces at?

Re: Wordperfect segmentation fault

2000-02-23 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "James" == James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have never been able to get WP or Adobe Acrobat reader to > work under Debian (neither Slink, nor Potato), they both > just segfault, I thought it was just a debian peculiarity, > possibly to do with libc5 which I under

adding headers to postscript files

2000-02-15 Thread Michael A. Miller
I'm looking for a filter that will allow me to add headers to existing postscript files (i.e. file names and date stamps). Mpage comes close with the -X option, but does not allow me to specify the header content. Is there anything else packaged for Debian that will do this? Mike

dpkg freezes system

1996-08-05 Thread Michael A. Miller
Dear Debian Users, I've recently installed debian linux on my portable and have run into a problem with dpkg. First, some background. I don't have access to an up and running linux machine, except for one with minimal disk space. I used that to make floppies for a base installation. Then I p