Re: VariCAD comments?

2002-12-29 Thread Marvin Dickens
Well, I went and looked... Here is a quote directly from the Varicad FAQ: "There is a possibility of design structure (ASCII) exporting and importing into CAPP files. VariCAD is able to export/import DWG, DXF and IGES (2D) files. Note: Complete features for IGES 3D export facilities in both Wind

Re: VariCAD comments?

2002-12-29 Thread Marvin Dickens
I don't know anything about Varicad, but I will say this: Output file format is everything. If it will only output a proprietary file format that is only usable in Varicad, be very wary. Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubs

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Saturday 28 December 2002 09:38 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > It's a BIOS setting - CPU Overheat throttle is enabled. There is a daemon that has been written that will do that and alot more. Plus, it lets you throttle the speed of the chip at will :) I'll find the link and post it ot the grou

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Marvin Dickens
Here is the link to the speedstep daemon: http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/speedstep.shtml Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Fwd: Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 & USB

2002-12-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 & USB Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:38:09 -0500 From: Marvin Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have come closest with Mandrake 8.2, have found references to the > hpijs drivers, but so f

Re: FreeType2 2.1.3... Beautiful.

2002-12-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
> I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the > streets and frighten the horses. >-- Victor Hugo The last time I read the above quote was in college twenty years ago It's ageless. Best Peck ___ Linux-user

Re: Distirbuitions

2002-12-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Monday 23 December 2002 11:26 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > I don't think its a bad idea at all. However, the catch would be in > upkeep. We could take a survey this month, and the data would/could > become stale next month. And unless we get a decent number of > responses, its not really going to

Distirbuitions

2002-12-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
I would like to see a form on the steps that counted what distributions are in use by the users of this list. You can't trust what the marketing guys say or the claims of the pollster morons. It would be interesting What do the editors think? Best Peck __

Re: Via chipset KT133 and system instability

2002-12-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
> > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 13:05, Tim Wunder wrote: > > > Anyone running an AMD-based board with a Via KT133 chipset? > > > I've been experiencing a significant amount of system instabilty (X > > > crashing, Go purchase a big, copper (Read: Not aluminum Copper is approximately 40% more efficien

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 & USB

2002-12-21 Thread Marvin Dickens
One other thing: In the event you want a great photo printer, get an HP PhotoSmart 7350. The things are slick and work *great* in Linux (HP wrote the driver that is used in Linux) and all features are supported. The photo's that you can print are, in my opinion, excellent. Further, when just printi

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 & USB

2002-12-21 Thread Marvin Dickens
Hi Joel! You can mount the camera using the USB file system that is now standard fair in all Linux distro's. I do it all the time with a Fuji FinePix as well as a Nikon CoolPix 2500 (Just like you have...). Once the camera is mounted (Should mount as /mnt/camera for security), you can use a GUI fi

Re: APM vs ACPI

2002-12-21 Thread Marvin Dickens
In my opinion, the best thing about acpi, at least from the standpoint of an AMD user is the ability to throttle the speed of the processor in real time (Using autospeedstep http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/speedstep.shtml ). Best Peck ___ Linux-users ma

Re: APM vs ACPI

2002-12-20 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 23:14, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > What is the difference in APM vs ACPI for power management? Are they two > exclusive methods of controling shutdown, etc. or is ACPI an advanced > version of APM? When I build a kernel can I specify both or do I choose > one? Well, here

Re: I have been spammed by sco...

2002-10-18 Thread Marvin Dickens
Net Llama! wrote: Peck, how do you know that SCO is subscribed to this list? I have not used this email address for *anything* other than this mailing list. They do not have my other 3 email addresses (One is personal and the other two are business). Further, I did not recieve this piece of

I have been spammed by sco...

2002-10-17 Thread Marvin Dickens
Michelle Robertson wrote: Dear marvin, SCO is excited to announce new developer education opportunities! Register today for your spot in our series of webinars! Just so others on this list know: SCO is subscribed to this list and is using the posts from members as a method of creating a mark

Re: md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-16 Thread Marvin Dickens
> > >This confuses me. How can you rely on an md5sum check from the Redhat disc during >install? How do you know that part of the disc isn't bad to start with? > I noticed this too when I downloaded the images so I could start on the rpm failure thing. I believe it to be some kind of funky horn

Re: UL Desktop

2002-10-16 Thread Marvin Dickens
This is the part that I like: "To keep things coordinated, the four companies agreed to some ground rules: they will all offer comparable licensing packages and have agreed not to interfere with the marketing and sales efforts of the other companies. Each will offer at least two CDs, with one

Re: TrueType Fonts: Installed but can't use

2002-10-13 Thread Marvin Dickens
Joel Hammer wrote: >I seem to have TrueType fonts installed on my box(es). >I have edited my /etc/fonttastic/config to point to these fonts. >I have restarted my fontserver. >My XF86Config has my font server listed as a source of fonts. >But, with xlsfonts, I don't see any listing of these fonts.

Re: rpm on redhat 8 is hoarked

2002-10-12 Thread Marvin Dickens
Unfortunately, listed in the release notes, everything on this edition was compiled with GCC 3.2 . GCC 3.2 breaks certain old programs originally compiled with GCC 2.95.X or later, or earlier. Therefore, KDE that came out had to be able to compile with this version, along with every other prog

Re: libstdc++

2002-10-08 Thread Marvin Dickens
m.w.chang wrote: > why didn't it made part of gcc? > >> Personally, I would leave libstdc++ library alone. It is used to >> statically link c++ code. > One lib is for creating static and is another for creating dynamic (Or at least that's the way I understand it...) Kurt is better qualified th

Re: libstdc++

2002-10-08 Thread Marvin Dickens
m.w.chang wrote: > it seems that this library is really useless.. could an expert confirm > my belief? :) > > Personally, I would leave libstdc++ library alone. It is used to statically link c++ code. Best Peck -- I still need a new sig...

Re: Anywhere besides redhat.com to rh8

2002-10-08 Thread Marvin Dickens
Keith Morse wrote: > > > >>From a listing on the psyche-list. ftp://redhat.newaol.com > > > I'm getting 180K/s using the above link. Best Peck --- I need a new sig ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/E

HP 7350V printer and Linux

2002-10-07 Thread Marvin Dickens
Yesterday, I purchased an HP 7350V color injet printer... FWIW, it works like a champ even though it's usb. Further, the driver that I'm using is known as the hpoj driver and the development of this driver is/was sponsored by HP. The HP 7530V auto-detects the paper type and ink cartridge type and

Re: Open Source certificate authority?

2002-10-07 Thread Marvin Dickens
> > > >I suspect this is a simple problem.. can anyone point me in the right >direction? > >Thanks, > >Phil > You are doing all of this as a typical user (Not root) and then trying to execute a script or binary (tk script, more than likely...) as superuser (root): The xserver will not allow the

Re: db-4.0.14

2002-10-04 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 01:30, m.w.chang wrote: > can you elaborate? I couldn't get it. > you meant libndbm belongs to another package? If you look in the INSTALL text that accompanies C or C++ sources, you will see a section that explains compiling against other libs. There are command line option

Re: db-4.0.14

2002-10-04 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 00:28, m.w.chang wrote: > how did caldera create taht libndbm.so which links to libdb1.so > already using the configure options in her db.spec... They compiled it against it... Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Making background transparent in image

2002-10-04 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 23:00, Joel Hammer wrote: > Thanks. That worked perfectly, the first try. > Makes you wonder why they always dump on the "bloated" staroffice 5.2. Well, I like staroffice in it's new form of openoffice (R 1.0.1). The fact of the matter is ms office as well as all look~a~lik

Re: My glibc problem...

2002-10-02 Thread Marvin Dickens
For a high resolution satellite photo of hurricane Lili go here: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/images/lili2045-10-02-02.jpg What a storm.. Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:17, Joel Hammer wrote: > Thanks for the tip. > > I already got wv from sourceforge, and it works fine, The entire wvXxxx library is a hoot! It's an easy compile and it performs as advertised. It does: html, latex, ps, dvi, pdf, mime and text. I've added this one to my ar

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
> Joel Hammer wrote: > > Is there a command line tool to convert a word document to html? > > Thanks, > > Joel This will do it: http://software.linux.com/projects/word2x/?topic=332,396,335 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Su

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:25, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote: > How is this an about server sales following a good desktop? This one is > more like RH being the dominant server Linux now wanting to take on > Mandrake, et. al. on the desktop. Just what Ransome Love was trying to do, > except that the

Re: scripts and speed

2002-09-30 Thread Marvin Dickens
One more thing: Perl programs are compiled and turned into bytecode as they are invoked. At this point, perl's bytecode engine actually runs it. If you have a HUGE perl program that does one small quick task (Out of many potential tasks), the runtime for the program will be dwarfed by the compile

Re: scripts and speed

2002-09-30 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 00:23, ronnie gauthier wrote: > If the site gets heavy usage would I get any significant speed > advantages by breaking the script into smaller module scripts? > "An exception might be if you were writing a program to be run over the Web, where it might be called hundreds

China's "soaring dragon" Linux chip "fully MIPS compatible"

2002-09-29 Thread Marvin Dickens
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/27/eng20020927_104011.shtml Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Intel Itanium

2002-09-29 Thread Marvin Dickens
For Intel, Itanium's failure would be a painful black eye, a setback in its heavily financed assault on the corporate computing world beyond the personal computer. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/technology/circuits/29CHIP.html?ex=1034318935&ei=1&en=1c38e33c1780ab04 Best Peck

Re: Scanning blue carbon copies

2002-09-28 Thread Marvin Dickens
>Do the scanning through a pale yellow gel and shift the colors away > from blue to another color. Try various colored gels until you get the > color and contrast to your liking. > > --- Jay I had a customer who had the same problem and they used the solution that Jay suggested. In f

No email form Linux-sxs in last 12 hours....................

2002-09-26 Thread Marvin Dickens
Hi! I have not recieved any email from this list in the last 12 hours I assume there are others on the list who have not either. So, here is my question: Is there anybody out there...?... Or is the whole list hoarked? If anybody gets this email, please respond to this email address: [EM

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
Out of curiosity, I carefully read all of the propoganda on the UL website. What I got out of it is that they are attempting to create a Linux standard within or 0out of the existing Linux standard. In other words, a way to ensure operability between various Linux releases within the industr

Re: about Cypheus

2002-09-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
Hello Sara! Please do not send HTML email to this list... It is financially expensive for some users to receive it and besides: HTML and email existing as a singular technology is an abomentation in the sight of God. ;-) Best Peck ___ Linux-u

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
> > > For the first time in several years, I'm not going to try the latest > and greatest from what was Caldera, now SCO Group, and their new > playmates. They essentially shit on their customers, laughed in their > faces about it, and said "We don't care what you think". Now when they > want

Re: Windows question: Splitting large files

2002-04-09 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 21:20:23 -0700 David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I prefer to transfer things via sftp, but I guess that's not an > option. I've just had too many bad experiences from trusting floppy disks. Well, if you have an MP3 player, change the extension of the fil

Re: KDE 3.0 is out!

2002-04-06 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:44:29 -0700 Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I believe that plagiarism is the basic nature of the beast for > an SxS. There are only so many ways to do things, so when I post my > steps on doing something I'm merely replowing a field that's already > been worke

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

2002-04-06 Thread Marvin Dickens
> I agree. Font should be Verdana/Arial/Helvetica/Sans Serif/etc. Why don't we just go for a nice code 39 or perhaps interleaved 2 of 5? Now that I think about it, internationalization is a big issue seeing as people from all over the world use the SxS. We really should use code 128. Best Pe

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

2002-04-06 Thread Marvin Dickens
> Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Bandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something about caffine and sex... Personally I like them both... The latter much mor

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

2002-04-03 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:32:58 +0800 "m.w.Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bot quite. You may be writing every word with your own hands, but deep > inside your brain, your are merely reproducing sub-consciously a page > from a book you read a few hours ago. Isn't that plagarism? > Oy vey...

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:31:44 -0300 "Federico Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <<> I second Frederico's post... Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Dige

Re: Mandrake and Staroffice6.0

2002-03-28 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:39:15 -0800 Mike McKinlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks: Has anyone tried to install Staroffice6.0 ? I can't seem to get it to > install... Have you checked the dependencies? What is the failing message? Best Peck ___ Li

Re: Censored by the Malaysians

2002-03-26 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:37:28 +0800 "M.W.Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "xxx" > isn't this a notation for "Love and Kisses"? Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, A

Re: [OT] Linux for Sony's PS2...

2002-03-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:00:21 -0500 Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd bet very...very well. We use risc (IBM) and Intel machines where I > work to do finite element stress calculations...some of the solutions > take hours to work on RS/6000's of the 44P line which are running at > IIRC 400 MHz

Re: Worth while flik.. no not a porno...

2002-03-24 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:58:20 -0500 Bill Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is basically a documentary about GNU/Linux/FSF. What are the dates and times...?... I'd like to watch it. Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mai

Re: sdX? Shozbot.

2002-03-24 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:38:20 -1200 "Mike Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The assignment order is part of the SCSI standard. > >In fact, the logcial device numbers(s), > >LUN number(s) and SCSI ID number(s) are all ordered per the standard. > > Oh please, Peck, stop taking the pillz OK.

Re: sdX? Shozbot.

2002-03-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:38:01 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Net Llama wrote: > >Mike, what pain in the ass are you referring to here?? > > My guess would be the assignment of device names. Generally they're > assigned in order of SCSI-

OT: Bell Labs Says It Shatters Data Delivery Record

2002-03-23 Thread Marvin Dickens
NYTimes: Bell Labs Says It Shatters Data Delivery Record Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies said on Friday that it has doubled the distance and the speed at which data can be sent over long-haul telecommunications networks. But, of course, 10 years ago, they thought the technol

Re: OT: Feds want to drop protection of privacy regarding medical data

2002-03-22 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:57:58 -0600 Stuart Biggerstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't really know the details (and don't really want to defend W.--or the > health insurance industry), but I'm not sure I can see this as a big > threat. I think most of the people involved have seen seeking

OT: Feds want to drop protection of privacy regarding medical data

2002-03-21 Thread Marvin Dickens
The Bush administration proposed today to drop a requirement at the heart of federal rules protecting the privacy of medical records. It said doctors and hospitals should not have to obtain consent from patients before using or disclosing medical information for the purpose of treatment or reimbur

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:56:01 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using your model. There does exisit another stream of water near by, it's > jusat a tad bit farther for the sheep to walk to... it's called "the > stream of life" in those parts of the farm belt... here it's called lin

Re: Is this the day we have been waiting for?

2002-03-14 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:35:06 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even if it never came to pass that MicroSoft withdrew their OS of the > day... I'm willing to bet that there will be more defections to Linux > based just on the comments of Balmer. Imagine the balls this guy has... or

Microsoft Creates New Spoken Language For Tech Support

2002-03-11 Thread Marvin Dickens
REDMOND, WA -- In an effort to reduce tech support turnaround times while cutting costs, Microsoft announced today the creation of a new spoken language to be used by its tech support workers. This language, code-named "Billglish", will enable callers to summarize their problem and allow techni

Re: iMAC and Linux

2002-03-11 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:46:17 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that, why would one want to use bogus file sharing like SMB > when NFS is available? Standard answer: He/She/They have Wintindo Playstations they want to network. Best Peck

Re: now they let *anybody* have a website

2002-03-11 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:52:23 -0800 Bob Hemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if my statement is apropos, but 48 years ago when I was > enrolling in an institution of "higher education" a good friend, > teacher, of mine said, "Those who can do. Those who can't teach. Those > who can't

Re: KDM

2002-03-11 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:48:58 -0500 "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My screen comes up to a login. I can login as root and then enter startx, and > get KDE. If I logon as user and enter startx I get a message about needing to > be root. > I also always get a message for xauth r