Re: [SLUG] High res tiffs in a LaTeX document

Stephen Graham wrote: Howdy. Has anyone had experience with putting high resolution graphics (tiff files) into a latex document? I am having no joy at the moment. I need to keep the images (pretty rendered ones) at as high a res as possible... The LaTeX \includegraphics[bb=x1 y1 x2

Re: [SLUG] Tar over SSH

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Mike Lake wrote: The problem is that when ssh logs into root .bashrc .profile gets run and there is some output from the login shell. This is prepended to the tar file so its not a tar file anymore. I can see the lines of the login if I

Re: [SLUG] Tar over SSH

Howard Lowndes wrote: Have you considered doing rsync across machines. it is considerably faster as it only transfers the changes. Ah that that would be sensible to run in between full tar backups. Wow I am right at this moment doing an apt-get install rsync and will browse that info but I

[SLUG] Music Penguin Please

Anyone ever played an instrument through the sound card? Specifically I want to plug an electric guitar into a Red Hat 7.x box. Does one just activate a MIDI program or is there something special and/or mystical about it? I don't want to blowup the computer. Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] Music Penguin Please

It really blew my mind when Richard Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone ever played an instrument through the sound card? Yes. Specifically I want to plug an electric guitar into a Red Hat 7.x box. Does one just activate a MIDI program or is there something special and/or mystical

Re: [SLUG] Tar over SSH

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 04:50:40PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: Have you considered doing rsync across machines. it is considerably faster as it only transfers the changes. Ah that that would be sensible to run in between full tar backups. Wow I am right at this

[SLUG] Re: High res tiffs in a LaTeX document

D'oh insert forehead slapping sound I did not know you could do loss-less conversion to eps. ImageMagick does the trick (for anyone interested) covert pretty_pic.tif pretty_pic.eps (Then wait - it takes a while on my old P233) Stephen -- Time was invented so that everything in the universe

Re: [SLUG] For a laugh

Jon Biddell wrote: Anyone that wants / is in need of a good giggle, tale a look at the latest FUD from The Evil Empire (a.k.a. Microsoft) Sales Partner Newsletter, provided at http://www.jon.fl.net.au/microcrap.txt for your chortling and guffawing pleasure. I thought it was the purpose of

Re: [SLUG] dontuse in the kernel

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: I notice in the 2.4 kernel tree that there is a 2.4.11-dontuse and an associated diff. Does the dontuse apply only to the kernel or also to the diff, and do I still need to apply the 2.4.11-dontuse diff to be able to later apply the 2.4.12 diff.

Re: [SLUG] Re: High res tiffs in a LaTeX document

Stephen Graham wrote: I did not know you could do loss-less conversion to eps. ImageMagick does the trick (for anyone interested) covert pretty_pic.tif pretty_pic.eps (Then wait - it takes a while on my old P233) yep , thats what I use myself. Fast on my alpha. and you can also convert on

[SLUG] Re: Tar over SSH

\begin{Michael Lake} I have a few things echoed to the screen by .bashrc I can turn them off but there must be a way to ignore output of ssh before root runs the tar program. then thats a bug in your .bashrc several suggestions for your .bashrc: only echo if bash is in interactive mode

Re: [SLUG] Music Penguin Please

Erik de Castro Lopo was once rumoured to have said: It really blew my mind when Richard Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone ever played an instrument through the sound card? Yes. Ditto. Specifically I want to plug an electric guitar into a Red Hat 7.x box. Does one just activate

Re: [SLUG] HP netserver LH plus

begin Chris Henman quotation: I have recently acquired an HP netServer LH plus with 4x4GB discs and would very much like some doco for it. My intention is to run some species of linux on it. So, I asked my friend Google about that machine, and he said: Pentium 133 MHz or 166 MHz on

Re: [SLUG] Music Penguin Please

It really blew my mind when Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not really. Electric Guitars and Basses, and most Semi-Accoustic pickups all generate microphone level signals, so you can connect them straight to the microphone input of your soundcard with the right adapters. The levels

[SLUG] traffic accounting

A few weeks ago I mentioned problems I was having with ipac using linux/2.4 kernel and most people pointed me to mrtg which works great but wasn't exactly what I needed. I still don't have ipac working correctly with ipchains and kernel 2.4.9-6 but I ran into a similar problem that led me to

Re: [SLUG] Music Penguin Please

- Original Message - From: Richard Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sydney Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 5:08 PM Subject: [SLUG] Music Penguin Please Anyone ever played an instrument through the sound card? Specifically I want to plug an electric

[SLUG] Recovering a WordPerfect Print spool job

Gidday - SWMBO had wpexec drop its bundle for quiet a few hours yesterday whilst she merrily continued working. The result was 6 hours of work that was not saved (it appears to save, but nothing is). However, she did send the job to the printer a number of times, which spooled the printjob, then

[SLUG] Epson 6 colour inkjets under Linux

Does anyone have any experience with an Epson 6 colour inkjet under Linux? Or should I just stick to a four colour? For the reson that HP[1] have shite technical information[2] on the inkjet printers, and Cannon inkjets will only handle 160gsm paper, I look like buying another Epson inkjet

Re: [SLUG] Epson 6 colour inkjets under Linux

begin Terry Collins quotation: Does anyone have any experience with an Epson 6 colour inkjet under Linux? Or should I just stick to a four colour? Reports on the six-colour Epson Photo series, such as the Stylus Photo 890, are actually quite promising. I would pay close attention to Grant

[SLUG] Compiling gaim as an applet

Well the gnome compiling fest continues... I am trying to compile gaim as an applet. It compiles fine as a normal app but whne I compile with the --enable-applet it fails after quite some time with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lwrap collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: ***

Re: [SLUG] Linux on the Dreamcast

Andre Pang was once rumoured to have said: Has anybody actually tried hacking this stuff together? I'm seriously thinking about getting one ... I think the Gamesmen (www.gamesmen.com.au) are having a special on at the moment; Dreamcast is $199 with a free keyboard and mouse. Hrrmmm.

Re: [SLUG] Linux on the Dreamcast

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1000, Crossfire wrote: Andre Pang was once rumoured to have said: Has anybody actually tried hacking this stuff together? I'm seriously thinking about getting one ... I think the Gamesmen (www.gamesmen.com.au) are having a special on at the moment;

Re: [SLUG] Compiling gaim as an applet

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 11:36, Simon Wong wrote: I have installed every dev lib I can find with something called wrap in it (which I assume is some sort of wrapper) but to no avail. Indeed. I believe it's libwrap, a tcp wrappers library implementing some security stuff. Any clues? Make sure

Re: [SLUG] Compiling gaim as an applet

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 13:51, Peter Hardy wrote: Any clues? Make sure you've got libwrap0-dev is about the best I can do. well *embarrassed* I had seen that library which is the obvious one and *thought* I had installed it... That was it thanks Peter... -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]