Book Printing on Linux

2005-01-30 Thread Brian Chabot
Here's an odd question: A couple years ago I was researching bookbinding as a hobby. I'd love to be able to print books and bind them, but to do so, I need a very specific pagination. I'd like to be able to print a book ready for binding, without a trip to a photocopier, as the electrostatic p

Re: [Somewhat OT] Gadget Search

2005-01-30 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, at 6:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I am looking for is moe like a tablet PC where you can use it to > write long-hand on the screen and it is converted to a word processing > format. Unlike a tablet PC, this sort of writing tablet needs to be docked > to a PC to have th

Re: mail archives

2005-01-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:22pm, kevin_d_clark wrote: >>> If you have your own server, you could put up your own archives with >>> your own Perl script, and likely many would thank you. I would. >> >> Throughout this thread I've been interested in solving a technical

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-01-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:32:49PM -0500, John Abreau wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:48, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > religiously, JABR does not like SuSE, and > > have always installed easily on the same machines that SuSE failed to > install on. Ah, well then, that explains it. You've

[Somewhat OT] Gadget Search

2005-01-30 Thread klussier
I'm looking for a gadget that may or may not relate to linux. What I am looking for is a writing tablet. Not the kind that is connected to a PC used for drawing. What I am looking for is moe like a tablet PC where you can use it to write long-hand on the screen and it is converted to a word proc

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-01-30 Thread John Abreau
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:48, Jerry Feldman wrote: > religiously, JABR does not like SuSE, and > since he was doing the work... No, it's not a religious issue. I've tried SuSE a number of times, and I've never gotten it to install successfully. Redhat and Fedora have always installed easily on t

Re: swap

2005-01-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
This seems pretty easy to benchmark but my google-fu is not strong enough this morning to find one. If you are using a swapfile you probably don't want it on a data-journaled filesystem, but a metadata-journaled filesystem should be OK. Mounting noatime would be smart since it's going to be up

Re: swap

2005-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:38:36 -0500 (EST) Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, at 6:15pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does the swap area have to be a partition or can it be a file? > > if it can, are there any disadvantage to doing this? > > It used to be that putti

Re: swap

2005-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:57:57 -0500 "Jonathan Linowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > got it, thanks > my system was thrashing really badly You can add swap areas on the fly. You can have multiple swaps at any one time. Using a file as a swap will affect performance, but if your system is thrashing