[newbie] gimp>photoshop

2003-10-15 Thread aortiz
is there a grain filter in gimp like in photoshop? ot anytihng that gives the grain filter as in photoshop? -- Dial Broadband has arrived in California! Up to 5 times faster than traditional dialup connections from $1

Re: [newbie] Executing Scripts

2003-09-09 Thread aortiz
please remove your confirmation request. hundreds of users in the list are getting same request and is annoying. thanks Vickie Jean-Charles wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I am trying to execute a script (installmaplelinuxsu.sh) on my > PowerBook G3 laptop. I log in as root and run the script an

Re: [newbie] locking the screen

2003-09-08 Thread aortiz
please remove the receipt option from your emails. everybody in the list is getting the thingy everytime your post to the list. is annoying Anarky wrote: > > is there another way to lock the screen other than xlock? I've left > Blender rendering an animation ... and I'd want something that sim

[newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

2001-11-01 Thread aortiz
Hi everyone: I updated kernel 2.4.7 from 2.4.3 in M8. after updating and rebooting system froze while trying to load second stage booting (i guess). it stays here and does do anything else. I checked in MUO. it says to run rescue from CD (i don't have a floopy boot disk). But i am sure what to d

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread aortiz
i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by what i read. Either this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable stupid or he's a paid MS crony. Basically, what he's suggesting is to bark back at the dog that barks at you. Figure that one out!! What exactly is what the open

[newbie] network thingy

2001-07-19 Thread aortiz
hi I have research for an answered in this matter before, but nothing seems to work. I've been trying to connect my home network. I have a win95 machine and a linux mandrake currently running 7.0 (don't ask). I'vew followed directions in the networking tutorial in mandrake's web site as well a

Re: [newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread aortiz
Sorry I guess i wasn't completely clear. If i am in win95 i can ping win95 (and if connected to thenet, i can png other IP addresses in the net) but if I ping linux i get a time out request. I tried pinging the IP address, the name of the linux box but i still don;t get a response back. it is b

[newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread aortiz
I've tried to connect mywindows 95 and mandrake 7.1 but i don't get a response from neither computer. What I mean is that I am able to ping each macine to its own IP address ( i can even ping web site from each machine) but when trying to ping the other machine in my LAN it does not work. I chec

Re: [newbie] Creating Calendars

2001-04-02 Thread aortiz
Dear Marcia I've tried to get calendar in staroffice to print lines as you want to do, but haven't been able to. In the windows environment worperfect has a very good application to doclanedar. I don;t know f corel gave the same application to wordperefect for linux. it s worth checking it out a