Re: SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: But shouldn't the postscript import take the encapsulated file directly? If you convert to jpeg, then you are not testing SO/OO postscript import. You are testing ghostscript's postscript parsing and SO/OO's jpeg import. Of course, SO/OO surely call ghostscript anyway. But

Re: SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Joel Hammer wrote: Well, I do this same sort of thing with convert. (It's part of the imagemagick package.) convert file.ps file.jpg and then import into SO. Works fine and can be scripted. But, I would really like to know why these eps files look fine in gv but so bad in SO. Bad? Didn't notice tha

Re: SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Joel Hammer wrote: gs is used by ps2epsi. Is there a way to tweak gs to make things look better when imported into SO ? As I've said in another thread (and keep saying), my all time favourite in handling ps/pdf stuff is GSview (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/), a frontend to gs. You may op

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-15 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! wrote: Well, then i must just be lucky, because I didn't need to go through any of that ordeal. All I had to do was upgrade to the last glibc release (late yesterday) and the problems created by the former (from early yesterday) were solved. Granted, I'm using my own 2.4.22-xfs kernel

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-14 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! wrote: What last time? Let's not play revisionist historians, ok? But there IS a history, dating back to April, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456 and updating glibc to glibc-2.3.2-27.9.6 hosed my system, rendering it unbootable. For all co-victims, here

Re: Merging pdf files

2003-11-10 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
dep wrote: thanks. actually, at that time i was concerned with taking a few pages from a much larger pdf file and saving 'em as a pdf. but this will allow assembling those saved pages into one bigun, which will be very useful to me in due course. Extracting pages may be done with ghostscript. A

Mozilla 1.5 with antialiased fonts

2003-10-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Mozilla 1.5 is out for a little time now, and if you don't like ugly fonts and don't want to waste time searching and doing frustrating installs (as I did), then you should get the 'xft-enabled' build from ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/ or from your favourit mirror.

Re: cablemodem and wireless network

2003-09-30 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Alma J Wetzker wrote: I like the SMC routers with the printer and backup modem dialout capability. One potential gotcha, sometimes the cable modem connection to the router needs a crossover cable rather than a straight through. Didn't observe that with my SMC 7004ABR router/4way switch (both ty

Re: knoppix 3.3

2003-09-23 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Collins Richey schrieb: I see from slashdot that knoppix 3.3 has been released. Since the knoppix site is tied up with the European copyright idiocy, not much info is available. Has anyone found a mirror with 3.3 available? Whose idiocy are you talking about? Of those European authorities who tr

Re: mp3 player for Red Hat

2003-09-15 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! schrieb: On 09/15/03 16:07, Michael Hipp wrote: Where do I get an mp3 plugin for the XMMS included in Red Hat 9? I presume it will be named something like lib_mp3.so . (More evidence the lawyers are running/ruining everything - in case there was any lingering doubt) A few different

Re: Helloooooo...

2003-09-13 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Mike Reinehr schrieb: No, you've got that just backwards. All email is being delivered to a server located in your local post office, where it is printed. This printed copy is then delivered to the recipients local post office by 25 year old mule-back, tramp steamer, etc. Upon being delivered, i

Re: OT Test[ing again] - No need to reply

2003-09-04 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Klaus-Peter Schrage: Tom Wilson wrote: Here in America, many states have what they call a Lotto. What happens is you go to a local convenience store and purchase a Lotto ticket for a US $1 a ticket. They usually have 6 numbers on them from 1 to 40 or so. Then once a

Re: OT Test[ing again] - No need to reply

2003-09-04 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tom Wilson wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:22, Jean Sagi wrote: Lotto? What do you mean?... Baloto perhaps... Chucho! Here in America, many states have what they call a Lotto. What happens is you go to a local convenience store and purchase a Lotto ticket for a US $1 a ticket. They usually ha

Re: ADMIN: Email blocking

2003-09-02 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Douglas J Hunley wrote: Well, Road Runner has joined the ever-growing list of ISPs who seem to think that disallowing mail from DHCP-assigned hosts is the Right Way to deal with sPAM. I've since worked around the issue (same as I did for AOL). If anyone notices that mail from this list suddenly

Re: Anyone using kde-redhat?

2003-08-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Michael Hipp wrote: Considering upgrading my RH9 box to latest kde via apt-get and kde-redhat.sourceforge.net. But was worried that it would change my "Bluecurve" setup and the RH menus beyond the point of recognition. (I've done this twice before with a source install of kde and an install of

Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:55 am, someone claiming to be Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp wrote: Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool?

Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: I don't know if they are really different; both should supply the core tool apt-get, and synaptic, if you like to have a gui interface that really works. sorry for the term "gui interface" - it's r

Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp wrote: Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: What do want to do: - use the apt tool as a rpm packet management utility I just want to use apt to update my systems and install new software. Everything

Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Michael Hipp wrote: Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: What do want to do: - use the apt tool as a rpm packet management utility It's very handy indeed. E. g., If you point apt's sources.list file to the repositories at http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ then the simple sequence| || apt-

Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Michael Hipp wrote: What is the difference? Do I need both or just one or the other? Trying to piece it together ... What do want to do: - use the apt tool as a rpm packet management utility - create your own rpm repository from where others might download and install? In the latter case you ne

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
ronnie gauthier schrieb: On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:14:25 +0200 - Klaus-Peter Schrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: OT: time waster, but also a question Right now, I can't tell you if there is any sound at all on my computer - last night I have been to a ZZTop concert

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-07 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
edjlb wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2003 05:53 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: In mozilla, does any one hear the pops? http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html Nope. Yep. -- Ed Jabbour ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: Samba with no passwords

2003-08-07 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:16:18 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Is there any way to cause the mount not to prompt for a passwd? Hint, I have no defined

Re: Samba with no passwords

2003-08-06 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Collins Richey schrieb: On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:34:38 +0200 Klaus-Peter Schrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:16:18 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-04 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: In mozilla, does any one hear the pops? http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html Yep, mozilla 1.4, Shockwave Flash 6.0 plugin Klaus ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sx

Re: [OT] Congrats

2003-07-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Rob E. wrote: I think you may have meant to write "... to all Americans on this list for Lance Armstrong's fifth CONSECUTIVE Tour de France victory." It was the best ever IMHO. I really feel for Jan Ullrich as he was setting a very strong pace during yesterday's time trials ... when his accident

Re: [OT] Congrats

2003-07-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Ken Moffat wrote: Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: ... to all Americans on this list for Lance Armstrong's fifth Tour de France victory. I hope you know what I'm talking about - cycling doesn't seem to be very popular in the US, in spite of Lance. For me, the TdF is the sports ev

[OT] Congrats

2003-07-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
... to all Americans on this list for Lance Armstrong's fifth Tour de France victory. I hope you know what I'm talking about - cycling doesn't seem to be very popular in the US, in spite of Lance. For me, the TdF is the sports event of the year. Klaus

Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile doc

2003-07-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Klaus-Peter Schrage: Kurt Wall schrieb: Quoth Keith Antoine: On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:35 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: Might try http://linuxbooks.pananix.com/kernel2.6.html for my stab at 2.6 "gotcha" documentation. Ciao, David

Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile doc

2003-07-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Kurt Wall schrieb: Quoth Keith Antoine: On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:35 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: Might try http://linuxbooks.pananix.com/kernel2.6.html for my stab at 2.6 "gotcha" documentation. Ciao, David A. Bandel Phewww!! I could breathe again at last: Many thanks. Another helpful doc, a

Re: ALSA weirdness with 2.6.0

2003-07-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just compiled 2.6.0 and everything works but sound. I configured the included ALSA to use my SBLive! and when I rebooted, it errored saying 'snd-crd-0: no such module' . I thought &quo

Re: ALSA weirdness with 2.6.0

2003-07-15 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just compiled 2.6.0 and everything works but sound. I configured the included ALSA to use my SBLive! and when I rebooted, it errored saying 'snd-crd-0: no such module' . I thought "no shit, this is a monolithic kernel' . Wh

Re: Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

2003-07-13 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Bruce Marshall wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2003 14:09 pm, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Bruce Marshall wrote: Supposing there is a device I just invented called a Belchfire 90 mob-ulator... and I write a module for it. How could the kernel possibly use my module? It wouldn't know when to

Re: Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

2003-07-13 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Bruce Marshall wrote: Supposing there is a device I just invented called a Belchfire 90 mob-ulator... and I write a module for it. How could the kernel possibly use my module? It wouldn't know when to call it... Same thing goes for a new USB device that hasn't been defined to the USB modules

Re: Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

2003-07-13 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Bruce Marshall wrote: On Friday 11 July 2003 17:39 pm, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Net Llama! wrote: On 07/11/03 14:11, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: ... the subject tells it all. Now the module in question wasn't really forgotten, I didn't need it on my last recompile, but n

Re: Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

2003-07-11 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! wrote: On 07/11/03 14:11, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: ... the subject tells it all. Now the module in question wasn't really forgotten, I didn't need it on my last recompile, but now I do: I have a very nice new device, a Mambo USB Music Drive which is a mp3 player and a

Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

2003-07-11 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
... the subject tells it all. Now the module in question wasn't really forgotten, I didn't need it on my last recompile, but now I do: I have a very nice new device, a Mambo USB Music Drive which is a mp3 player and a 128 MB USB storage in one, as small as a lighter. It should hotplug in Linux a

Re: Mozilla 1.4 - No AA Font Goodness?

2003-07-04 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Kurt Wall: Yo, list, So, what is up with Mozilla 1.4's handling of AA fonts? I downloaded and installed it and it reverted to butt-ugly AA fonts. Worse still, Erm, that is, "butt-ugly non-AA fonts"... Until moz 1.3.1, I had always installed Redhat RPMs, and rece

Re: Linux in the news

2003-05-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: In fact I read articles a few years back that predicted the next generation of processors would probably come from game manufacturers rather than intel/amd. While not exactly what was suggested, it shows at least some do consider game consoles to be legit computing hardwar

Re: Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

2003-03-29 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Joel Hammer wrote: I bought a lindows computer with linux on the first hard drive. I uninstalled this hard drive, and installed a new hard drive as the first hard drive and installed XP on it. I then put the linux hard drive back as the first hard drive and put the XP drive as the third IDE device

Re: Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

2003-03-29 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: I suspect this may have to do with the fact that windows doesn't like being on the third (ID2) hard drive, especially since when I installed XP on this drive it was IDE0. There's another idea that rushed into my mind during a nice walk wi

Re: Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

2003-03-29 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Joel Hammer wrote: I suspect this may have to do with the fact that windows doesn't like being on the third (ID2) hard drive, especially since when I installed XP on this drive it was IDE0. WIN XP may reside anywhere (I have installed two instances of it). But, as far as I know, the XP bootloade

Re: Dual boot XP/pro and linux (lindows)

2003-03-29 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Joel Hammer wrote: I would like to dual boot XP pro and linux (lindows). I have lindows on a hard drive (IDE0). I physically replaced this hard drive with a second drive (still IDE0) and installed XP pro. Now, I would like to have both drives installed at the same time and dual boot this machine

Re: glibc - what is the stable release?

2003-03-26 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Collins Richey wrote: See http://www.winehq.org/news/?view=155 Too bad this is a private server: "Forbidden You don't have permission .." it was working fine yesterday. i read the article, and it was mostly Marcus Meissner debating how to fix wine horkage

Re: glibc - what is the stable release?

2003-03-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:57:03 -0500 Klaus-Peter Schrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Now, Red Hat 8.0 already has 2.3.2 (-4.80) via up2date, which is a big>nuisance to the wine people (and me as a wine addict): wine simply won't>run under g

Re: glibc - what is the stable release?

2003-03-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! wrote: Now, Red Hat 8.0 already has 2.3.2 (-4.80) via up2date, which is a big nuisance to the wine people (and me as a wine addict): wine simply won't run under glib 2.3.x, and it seems to be quite a hassle to make it run under the new glibc. do you know why it won't run? i use wine

Re: glibc - what is the stable release?

2003-03-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: FWIW, Red Hat Linux 9 will have 2.3.1 Now, Red Hat 8.0 already has 2.3.2 (-4.80) via up2date, which is a big nuisance to the wine people (and me as a wine addict): wine simply won't run under glib 2.3.x, and it seems to be quite a hassle to make it run under the new glibc. Kla

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Outline number I've seen - i can do that . However, the navigator appears to provide the ability I need to drag my headings around and change the order in the document. I never would have thought to look under there! I often found that functions well known in Word are

Re: OpenOffice Outline View

2003-03-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: MS Word has the ability to view a document in outline format. That is if you have a document that has different heading levels in it you can select a view option that displays the document as an outline. This is very handy because you can drag the headings around to rea

Re: Updated Step

2003-02-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: How about changing the text a little. May I sugest: "The brainchild of Mike Andrew for the intended purpose of promoting Caldera OpenLinux, the Linux StepByStep site is currently distribution agnostic. Hundreds of people contribute to the site, and it is managed by an esteemed

Re: DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there set up a linux box to act as a router using a DSL modem that could offer some tips? I will be upgrading my sister's router from a Dial up ISP to Verizon DSL service. Of course, I had to initially set it up under windblowz, but want to switch it back to l

Re: lib dependencies

2003-02-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tom Wilson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install some printer drivers and rpm keeps failing with a dependency for libncurses.so.4. I have libncurses.so.5 on the machine. Is it safe to use the --nodeps options to get this installed or should I downgrade to libncurses.so.4? No need to downgrade, I

Re: HAPPY B-DAY KURT!

2003-02-23 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Kurt Wall wrote: Hardly hippie length - I'm not old enough. More like, say, "I-keep-it short-to-simplify-maintentance" length. Thanks for the good wishes. Happy birthday and best wishes from a nearly grey haired oldster too. Talking about hairs: Why have your bio and picture vanished from the sxs

Re: New Step

2003-02-21 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: My Iomega Clik info was replaced. Although I see no problems with the replacement, I did not think mine was so very bad. OK, maybe a bit KDE-centric, but no one ever complained or asked for a less GUI version. It is not really a problem. I was just surprised at the change.

Re: read-only mode linux

2003-02-02 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
m.w.chang wrote: is there a mod or patch or something that could make linux to stop ALL applications from writing to the harddisk except on a specified set of partitions? I meant, can linux kernel guaratee such a thing? Try Knoppix Klaus ___ Linux-u

Re: pif

2003-01-26 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Ted Ozolins wrote: Is there anything in linux that can read *.pif files? Are those the "program information files" from the bad old WIN 3.xx days? I remember there was a so called "Pif editor" in Windows, but weren't those pif files plain text? Klaus _

Re:

2003-01-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
ronnie gauthier wrote: Does paypal cover europe? Don't know paypal, but perhaps the simplest way to get a moderate amount of money over here might be via an Amazon gift certificate (my wife has an amazon account). I bet it should be possible to easily transfer such certificates overseas. Klau

Re:

2003-01-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Rick Sivernell wrote: List At the below url is a place to get stickers of Tux, first it is great sticker, but it is in Germany, I speak no German and do not know the money system. If someone overthere can check out the site and tell me how much they are in my money system, I would appreciate it

Re: Advisory 01/2003: CVS remote vulnerability

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
For a fix on Redhat systems, look here: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-012.html Klaus Stefan Esser (by way of Douglas J Hunley ) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 e-matters GmbH www.e-matters.de

Re: Compiled kernel, now how do I do initrd image

2003-01-21 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
If it's a kernel source supplied by Redhat, all the hard work of copying, adjusting grub/menu.lst resp. lilo.conf, and creating initrd is done by uttering a single command (after make modules_install): make install Klaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel fo

Re: Digital Video Editing Software

2003-01-08 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Matthew Carpenter wrote: Here is a good read if you're interested in digital video editing using OSS and Linux. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5817 Searching for Linux audio tools I found a very smart site by the "Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acous

Re: SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-05 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device discovery that it lists a scanner multiple times. The RAID, SCSI CD, are discovered and then the scanner shows up as filling all the luns on a card. It's like it answers to the query for each lun. It is an

Re: Which compiler to use to build kernel?

2003-01-03 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: List, RH 8.0 comes with gcc-3.2 only. I've read that gcc-3.2 shouldn't be used to compile the kernel, and I've also read that it's fine for kernel building. What's the general consensus on list? Anyone using gcc-3.2 to compile the kernel and having problems? Since RH 8.0 cam

Re: Which compiler to use to build kernel?

2003-01-03 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: List, RH 8.0 comes with gcc-3.2 only. I've read that gcc-3.2 shouldn't be used to compile the kernel, and I've also read that it's fine for kernel building. What's the general consensus on list? Anyone using gcc-3.2 to compile the kernel and having problems? Since RH 8.0 cam

Re: Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

2002-12-26 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Net Llama! wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote: This is mozilla 1.2.1. I didn't have strace, so I emerged it and ran strace. mozilla was segfaulting while handling fonts. A lengthy analysis of a good strace (collins) and a failure (new) indicated differences in handling the ~/.fonts.cac

Re: Mini-Disc Music

2002-12-09 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Does anyone on the list know how to get music from a mini-disk player/recorder onto a linux system? What hardware is needed? Minidisc players/recorders usually have digital outs, either optical or coaxial. And recent soundcards, even cheap ones, have digital i/o as

Re: mozilla-1.2 is out

2002-11-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
m.w.chang wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/release For Redhat 8.0, they offer two different sets of RPMs: "Xft support" and "vanilla". Which one to choose? Are already there any observations? Klaus ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubs

Re: i18n-LA (was: pronoun for countries)

2002-11-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Robert Black Eagle wrote: You have never read Tacitus or even much in Cicero or old man Julius, have you. Compact seems not to apply to any of these, except when Julius was being a plitician or Cicero was making a rhetorical point. I must admit that I didn't go very far beyond "De bello galli

i18n-LA (was: pronoun for countries)

2002-11-23 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
m.w.chang wrote: > I only knew Latin is an IMPORTANT language in biology and medicine (and > I was a Biology student). I believe any further study into the field of > western medicine requires a good command of Latin. And be a real good > drug makers, you need to learn chinese as well. >

Re: grub splash screens revisited

2002-09-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
On Thursday 19 September 2002 22:54, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > argh! screenshots man! screenshots! I'm not gonna reboot just to see what > they are! > of course, I could just unzip them and load them in an image viewer, but > where's the fun in that? I really would have liked to supply screensho

grub splash screens revisited

2002-09-19 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
All of you who neither like the black & white Grub text screen nor the Red Hat splashimage may d/load some improved screens here: http://schragehome.de/splash/ The splash screens are designed to be compliant with Grub's line placement and not to render unreadable its messages. If you not

Re: adsl-modem installation

2002-06-05 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2002 04:00 schrieb m.w.chang: > If I want to know the detail on how rp-pppoe find the adsl-modem over > the ethernet, what articles should I read? It's less a linux isusses, > but more on the networking basics. eg: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ http://www.tldp.org/H

Re: OpenOffice

2002-06-05 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2002 05:30 schrieb Joel Hammer: > The spreadsheet in staroffice didn't have > built in functions for data analysis, as far as I could find, and was > awkward in other ways, not nearly as nice as Excel. And, I had to have > painless compatibility with Excel. When you think of

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 03:54 schrieb Douglas J Hunley: > Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. > You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources > on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to > get it off the ground,

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 04:20 schrieb Keith Antoine: > I said a while ago that I would be using Caldera 2.4 and upodating this. > Also that I would upload to the site when I was finished and that I would > be asking questions. It had since alterred from 2.4 which would not install > on my h/w, n

Re: Knoppix

2002-05-31 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 23:59 schrieb Net Llama!: > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > 3 hours? Must be nice. I started it 5 hours ago, and its only 78% done. > Then again, you're physically alot closer to the server than I. On a nice day with a nice serve

Re: Knoppix

2002-05-31 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 18:47 schrieb Randy Donohoe: > I've been playing with this some more and it just keeps getting better. > Lonni, it uses the 2.4.18-xfs kernel, KDE 2.2.2, has everything you > would ever need including java, pppoe, etc. If it doesn't have it, > apt-get it. I 've had it on 4

Re: Knoppix

2002-05-30 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2002 18:11 schrieb Net Llama!: > Looks interesting, however the website is a bit skimpy on documentation. > For starters, what's in the kernel that they include? I try to click on > the FAQ link, and got a forbidden error. :( The link to the German FAQs is ok -:) - you ca

Re: How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2002 23:17 schrieb Kurt Wall: > I was just curious how many and what kind of boxen people have on their > home networks. For example, I have an AMD 1200 running Windows (yeah, > whatever), a Pentium II running a heavily-modified Slackware 8.0, a > Pentium III running an equall

Re: Fwd: Re: unix math function: norm

2002-05-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2002 02:42 schrieb Joel Hammer: > I ran the data both on Excel and with my own bash script. They get close > results. > I have attached my data.txt and a better ps file, with the labels better > spaced out. Sorry, Joel, my statistics used to be quite good 25 years ago, but no

Re: unix math function: norm

2002-05-27 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Montag, 27. Mai 2002 00:07 schrieb Joel Hammer: Ok, I can see now what you want - thought about replying off list, but I have seen more devious discussions on this list -;) Although I don't have the data underlying your bar graph, one can see by mere visual inspection of your plot (gauss.ps

Re: unix math function: norm

2002-05-26 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Samstag, 25. Mai 2002 20:53 schrieb Joel Hammer: Joel, I never noticed gnuplot before, but having read your posting I took some tentative steps. As to your problem, I think it's obvious: norm(x) is, as you have said too, the CUMULATIVE distribution function ('s-shaped' curve) with

Re: I'm a dad!!

2002-05-18 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 04:43 schrieb Net Llama!: > I'm incredibly pleased to announce that I became the father of a 8lb, > 12oz boy today. Being my > first child, he'll be spoiled every which way possible. > Pictures of the little guy can be found here: > http://linux-sxs.org/~netllama Lonn

Re: I'm a dad!!

2002-05-16 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 04:43 schrieb Net Llama!: > I'm incredibly pleased to announce that I became the father of a 8lb, > 12oz boy today. Being my > first child, he'll be spoiled every which way possible. Congrats! > Pictures of the little guy can be found here: > http://linux-sxs.org/~ne

Re: SOT Office 2002 ?

2002-05-06 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
On Monday 06 May 2002 04:43, Collins wrote: > I downloaded and installed it, but it appears to be OO or Star redux - > same crappy install process, same overall look, so I trashed it, since > I already have OO. What's so crappy about the SO/OO install process? I did quite a lot of installs on w

Re: openoffice.org 1.0: Close = Exit?

2002-05-05 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
On Saturday 04 May 2002 23:38, Michael Scottaline wrote: > Yes.., I did. Unlike SO, OO closes the whole prgram, rather than just the > specific file. Although, come to think of it, I haven't tried to see what > happens if I open and edit a second document and then close that, if it > ends up cl

openoffice.org 1.0: Close = Exit?

2002-05-04 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Yesterday I downloaded the openoffice.org 1.0 binaries. As always with SO/OO, the installation went without any hitch (first as root wth the -net option, than as me/myself/I). Playing around a bit, I found the close-function to be somewhat overdone: Closing a document with 'File - Close' shuts

Re: your opinion needed (site redesign)

2002-04-23 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
On Monday 22 April 2002 22:16, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > I've reworked the left-hand menu taking all prior suggestions into account. > It resembles the one Klaus suggested, with slight changes. Feedback? > Url is http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/ Nevertheless, I like it! Klaus __

Re: Upgrading XFree86 4.1 to 4.2

2002-04-07 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Susan Macchia on Monday 08 April 2002 01:31: > I'm running a pretty much stock SuSE 7.3 distro running XFree 4.1.1 with > kde 2.2.1 and gnome 1.4. > > I'm thinking of upgrading to XFree86 4.2 and was wondering if I'd have to > update my kde and gnome packages. Having never upgraded X

Re: (day four) - your opinion on the new design needed

2002-04-05 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Douglas J Hunley on Thursday 04 April 2002 15:19: > Today's changes include: > 1. A new font (for those who have it installed) .Screenshot is attached for > those without the font. Please comment on the new font. Only a suggestion: If you want a nice font for the items in the upper an

Re: RedHat 7.2 codename

2002-03-14 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Glenn Williams on Thursday 14 March 2002 22:47: > I still haven't found their mailing list. Maybe they haven't migrated https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/ > >from their last one, yet. Anyone know how/where to subscribe? https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/eni

Fwd: updating the rpm database

2002-03-14 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
For your information - I picked this nice one from a Redhat list a couple of days ago and tried it out on RH 7.1 with a pristine 2.4.18 kernel source. After changing a Makefile line to read EXTRAVERSION = -1 #to conform to RH nomenclature, thanks for the hint, Mike# and #make mrproper #make xconf

Re: Kernel update driving me mad

2002-03-10 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Mike Andrew on Sunday 10 March 2002 18:40: > If you ever want to move away from the somewhat dated rh kernel releases > the 'trick' is to download a pristine kernel, or patch (as appropriate) and > modify the following line in /usr/src/linux/Makefile > > EXTRAVERSION(space)=(space) -

Re: Kernel update driving me mad

2002-03-10 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Net Llama on Saturday 09 March 2002 21:54: > I've had this happen to me on a few rare occasions. I've always chalked > it up to the kernel not uncompressing properly because of something > weird in its build. Usually, i verify that i have met all the > dependencies needed, and do a r

Kernel update driving me mad

2002-03-09 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
... (not really, because I have a good old kernel installed to fall back on). In brief, what I did on a Redhat 7.1 system which is very up to date as patches recommended by RH are concerned: - download the latest securrity update kernel from redhat.com - checked md5sum: ok - rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.9

Re: Fonts in mozilla composer

2002-02-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Joel Hammer on Tuesday 26 February 2002 03:39: > I know nothing about mozilla or where its files go. Could you please be > more specific about where the file should go? The path you give, > .mozilla/default/.slt/chrome doesn't make any sense to me. In > particular, what does xx

Re: Fonts in mozilla composer

2002-02-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Joel Hammer on Sunday 24 February 2002 15:20: > I can change the fonts doing this. But, this has no effect on the size > of the print in composer when I use html view. (I like to edit the source > file directly, whenever possible.) Sorry, Joel, I think I didn't catch your idea at firs

Re: Fonts in mozilla composer

2002-02-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:00, you wrote: > Still trying to find an html composer that works like netscape 4.75. > The composer in Netscape 6.2 won't work because you can't save anything if > you load a file. I am trying mozilla. Its composer looks ok so far. At > least you can save thinbgs. B