Re: [Eug-lug] mozilla printing

2005-01-11 Thread Jim K
Try under File go to Print... then click properties and choosing a different size page. Also does the gui you use have a way to set a default page size such as A4 or 8-1/2" by 11" Jim K Allen Brown wrote: Neil Parker wrote: Allen Brown wrote, When I print from mozilla the output is double size

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread larry price
Not really, look at it this way, students buying Mac minis are more likely to continue buying Apple products once they graduate. And the industry average cost for aquiring a customer is right around $200 dollars a head, (that's $200 in marketing efforts per confirmed sale to a __new__ customer, an

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread Jason
Nice. I checked with the Eugene Mac store and they have no ETA. I also checked with the Digital Duck (UO Bookstore). The guy said they think they will have them in on the 22nd, and that they should be at about a $100-150 discount for students (seemed a bit of a big discount to me). Jason --- Mr

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread Jeff Newton
:) Now, that's the spirit. As for the production like, I would hope so too. I'll wait until MR. O does he review, than, I'll fork over my casino odds! ;) Jeff Mr O wrote: I ordered mine. Hope they have a strong production line ready. Bet those things sell faster than any other PC they've buil

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread Mr O
I ordered mine. Hope they have a strong production line ready. Bet those things sell faster than any other PC they've built. Heck, they got me! --- Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hehehe, 6 months from now, if it happens - we'll all me MAC > GEEKS, well > almost, I think! ;) > > Try

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread Jeff Newton
Hehehe, 6 months from now, if it happens - we'll all me MAC GEEKS, well almost, I think! ;) Tryin' to get me to go back to my roots, huh?? Sometimes the best of both worlds makes wonders more merrier than one's beautiful minds - no, silly, I wasn't talking about the movie dangit! Jeff Mr O wr

Re: [Eug-lug] xmame, gxmame

2005-01-11 Thread Mr O
It seems to only be a Firefox thing and for some reason it's not doing it to me right now. I've check and unchecked things and have gotten nowhere with it. It's annoying when it happens though. As for the joystick issue, I had to emerge xmame with a joystick USE flag to get it working. Poked thro

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread Mr O
Count me in. 6 months from now we'll have to change the name of the group. EUGMACLUG? Eh, Mr O. --- Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sweet! I'm there - won't even need to make room on my > desk! > > --- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.apple.com/macmini/ > > > > and

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

2005-01-11 Thread Allen Brown
I read about diamond transistors in Science News or Scientific American (I don't remember which). Not too long ago. This looks like it is referring to the same process developments. http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Aug/bch20030827021485.htm -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies no

Re: [Eug-lug] mozilla printing

2005-01-11 Thread Allen Brown
Neil Parker wrote: Allen Brown wrote, When I print from mozilla the output is double sized, with the result that nothing fits on the page. Naturally this is useless. This didn't happen under RedHat7.3. But I am seeing it with Debian. And it doesn't matter what printer driver I use. I have search

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:43:51PM +, larry price wrote: > http://www.apple.com/macmini/ > > and the first major manufacturere with a mini-itx form factor PC > for the mass market is...Apple? That's smaller than mini-ITX. And you still can't build a PC in that form factor with those feature

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread Jason
Sweet! I'm there - won't even need to make room on my desk! --- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.apple.com/macmini/ > > and the first major manufacturere with a mini-itx > form factor PC > for the mass market is...Apple? > > I predict that these will be the building blocks f

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread larry price
looking at the tech specs it's basically an iBook that's been folded into a small box. The bigger one w/ DVD+-RW/CD-RW and a decent amount of RAM will set you back some. On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:23:51 -0800, perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while(!reasonToBuy) { reasonToBuy = thinkOfOneYet();

Re: [Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread perdurabo
while(!reasonToBuy) { reasonToBuy = thinkOfOneYet(); } On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:43:51 +, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.apple.com/macmini/ > > and the first major manufacturere with a mini-itx form factor PC > for the mass market is...Apple? > > I predict that these will

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Crandell
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:00:49 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and > > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? > > > > Anyway, I used ifconfig, iwconfig (frustratingly), and kismet. What > > else shou

[Eug-lug] Mac Mini, oooohh, kawai

2005-01-11 Thread larry price
http://www.apple.com/macmini/ and the first major manufacturere with a mini-itx form factor PC for the mass market is...Apple? I predict that these will be the building blocks for many a geek project. I hope they have the manufacturing capacity lined up. Should run Linux/OpenBSD/whatever else

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread larry price
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:00:49 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know what a BSSID is? That's what kismet reports, and > I kind of assumed that's the access point's MAC. But is it? > BSSID : Basic Service Set Identifier > Anyway, I used ifconfig, iwconfig (frustratingly), and

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

2005-01-11 Thread walter fry
Robert Willardson hired me in 1960 and I worked for him for almost 14 yrs. He was one of the nations foremost GaAs proponents, he also wrote 18 books covering 3-5 and 2-6 compound technologies. His Masters Thesis was on Diamond technology. I was not aware there was any work being done on diamon

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

2005-01-11 Thread Allen Brown
walter fry wrote: A way to eliminate the power problem would be to switch to a carbon substrate. Diamond is an excellent thermal conductor. And the resulting transistors can run at much higher temperatures without melting I think that the thermal limit is diffusion of dopants in geometric con

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Tim
> Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a wireless problem? > > Was the AP made by D-Link (they have a proprietary speedup, that > degrades for uncapable windows machines but not for the rest of the > world)? I am using a D-link AP at home and it works fine on all my systems. ___

Re: [Eug-lug] xmame, gxmame

2005-01-11 Thread Allen Brown
Mr O wrote: Secondly, and unrelated, any way to stop Firefox from trying to do a search every time I hit an apostrophe (') while typing? Anyone else experienced the annoyance? Mozilla never does it. Thanks and ciao, Mr O. I don't have Firefox. But Mozilla has something that looks related. Look un

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

2005-01-11 Thread walter fry
A way to eliminate the power problem would be to switch to a carbon substrate. Diamond is an excellent thermal conductor. And the resulting transistors can run at much higher temperatures without melting I think that the thermal limit is diffusion of dopants in geometric configs. Also vapor e

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

2005-01-11 Thread Allen Brown
walter fry wrote: At last something I can understand,,In the late 1960's I heard a comment that the next great breakthrough would be three dimensional chip architecture, at that time it was thought that heat dissipation would become the biggest hurdle Heat dissipation is a huge issue still. What

Re: [Eug-lug] Printer Question

2005-01-11 Thread Allen Brown
larry price wrote: 1. any network printer (drawback $$$) 2. any native postscript printer (again $$) 3. Anything listed in here http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi ( much cheaper but more time consuming) One alternative is to buy a dedicated print server n < $100 Netgear makes one that

[Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

2005-01-11 Thread walter fry
At last something I can understand,,In the late 1960's I heard a comment that the next great breakthrough would be three dimensional chip architecture, at that time it was thought that heat dissipation would become the biggest hurdle What causes most of the slowdown in going from CPU to main me

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Miller
Michael H. Collins wrote: > do you do "dhcpcd eth1" or whatever your wireless device thinks it is? Yes. Ethereal showed DHCP discover packets going out, but no replies coming back. Unless I set them, iwconfig showed no ESSID, zero access point, and the wrong frequency. There was an issue wher

Re: [Eug-lug] X10/Home Automation

2005-01-11 Thread Michael H. Collins
I am using their cameras with no problems. I use camserv. It is old but the only one that stays running on this junk I have it set up on. Jason wrote: I was reading an X10 article over at oreillynet: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/01/10/x10_hmhck.html and was wondering if anyone o

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Michael H. Collins
do you do "dhcpcd eth1" or whatever your wireless device thinks it is? Bob Miller wrote: Lots of you are using WiFi with Linux. I am too, in certain locations. (home and The Strand, to name two.) But when it doesn't work, I have zero clue how to diagnose what's wrong. This weekend, I was at a h

[Eug-lug] X10/Home Automation

2005-01-11 Thread Jason
I was reading an X10 article over at oreillynet: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/01/10/x10_hmhck.html and was wondering if anyone on the list is into this kind of stuff (misterhouse, home automation, etc.) I have been wanting to do some camera/monitoring stuff for a while and this a

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Miller
larry price wrote: > Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a wireless problem? I don't think so. At one point, I did assign a static IP address, and I still couldn't talk to anybody. > Was the AP made by D-Link (they have a proprietary speedup, that > degrades for uncapable windows mach

Re: [Eug-lug] Printer Question

2005-01-11 Thread Mr O
Samsung actually has some affordable (under $200) laser printers that work with linux. Postscript they are. It's something like the ML-1710. Don't qoute me on that. Only qoute me on the affordable Samsung laser printer :) That be all, Mr O. --- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. any ne

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux WiFi troubleshooting?

2005-01-11 Thread Jason
--- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could it have been a DHCP problem rather than a > wireless problem? Good point Larry. I've had these types of issues before. More than once they've been solved by manually assigning an IP vs. waiting for one (sniff for a bit to see the net in use, typ