Re: [SLUG] Embedding fonts in pdf documents

2004-02-03 Thread Angus Lees
At Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:45:19 +1100, Tom Massey wrote: > I'm looking for a way to embed fonts in pdf documents so that I can > be sure that they look exactly as intended wherever viewed. > > Using OOo 1.1 beta 2, or kword 1.1.1, I'm able to create pdf files, > but the fonts aren't embedded, and alt

Re: [SLUG] LaTex and the use of \symbol.

2004-02-03 Thread Angus Lees
At Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:34:07 +1100, Bill Bennett wrote: > 1. I'm using the palatino package, ie., \usepackage{palatino} > 2. I want to use the letter u with the tichy little hole above it > (apologies in advance to the Czechs, but it's not an umlaut and I > don't know what it's called). I looked up

[SLUG] LCD recommendations

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew Cowie
I'm considering replacing my CRTs with LCDs. I've been googling around a bit, but I was wondering if anyone has specific recommendations about LCD monitors? My only requirement is that the screen res be greater than 1024x768 (ie, the 1280x1024 that seems to be standard at 17" is more than ok) and

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread Angus Lees
At Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:15:05 +1030, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Matrox in both cases? Badness -> Matrox drivers and Xinerama have this > effect, which is really annoying, because the drivers and hardware otherwise > rock. (my Matrox MilleniumII has never had any problems with Xinerama) -- - Gus -- SL

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> At Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:15:05 +1030, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Matrox in both cases? Badness -> Matrox drivers and Xinerama have this > > effect, which is really annoying, because the drivers and hardware otherwise > > rock. > > (my Matrox MilleniumII has never had any problems with Xinerama) Heh,

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing Pocket PC's (non palm-os) with Evolution.

2004-02-03 Thread Malcolm Myles-Hook
Many thanks to Kevin Saenz for providing a solution for synchronising my iPaq 3630 with Redhat 9.0. However, if I set a password on the iPaq, even using the dccm -p command, the sync does not work - I get the following error message: [synce_info_new:31] unable to open file: /home/malcolm/

[SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread voytek
I have RH73 on P3 with 256MB and 512MB swapper, single IDE 20GB If i was to increase the RAM, to, say 512MB or 1GB: can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? 11:25pm up 60 days, 9:45, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 115 processes: 114 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU sta

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have RH73 on P3 with 256MB and 512MB swapper, single IDE 20GB > > If i was to increase the RAM, to, say 512MB or 1GB: > > can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them mov

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread lists
>> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? > > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them > moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup. Ken, so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice RAM', good. as far as physic

[SLUG] LCD recommendations

2004-02-03 Thread raen7
you wrote: >I'm considering replacing my CRTs with LCDs. [...] >Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would >certainly be welcome. I got this Samsung 17" 1280x1024 from Robert who is on this List and it is great. Cheers Raena http://www.samsung.com.au/samsung.as

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? > > > > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them > > moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup. > > Ken, > > so I can ignore RH docs that tell me

Re: [SLUG] Embedding fonts in pdf documents

2004-02-03 Thread Tom Massey
* Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-03 21:17]: > At Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:45:19 +1100, Tom Massey wrote: > > Is there a way to embed fonts in a pdf file created on Linux? > > ps2pdf can't embed a font it doesn't know about. You could tell > ghostscript about your font (if you were using Debia

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread slug
James Gray wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup. Ken, so I can ignore RH doc

Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ? > > > > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory. It them > > moves some out to disk, this may never happen in your new setup. > > > Ken, > > so I can ignore RH docs that te

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread ksaenz
At the moment my Internet is down can just recieve emails :(. Just a step a side to get Xinerama working you need 2 cards either 2 pci or 1 agp and 1 pci, etc. Is there latency issues? can you nominate where you want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive programs to? I have been interested in Xi

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing Pocket PC's (non palm-os) with Evolution.

2004-02-03 Thread ksaenz
> Many thanks to Kevin Saenz for providing a solution for synchronising > my iPaq 3630 with Redhat 9.0. > No Prob ;) > However, if I set a password on the iPaq, even using the dccm -p > command, the sync does not work - I get the following error message: > [synce_info_new:31] unable to open

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread Jeff Waugh
> At the moment my Internet is down can just recieve emails :(. Just a > step a side to get Xinerama working you need 2 cards either 2 pci or 1 > agp and 1 pci, etc. Or any card that has two outputs. Matrox cheated on this with their dualhead G400 (and above) cards; the second head is not "real"

[SLUG] Format of find,etc

2004-02-03 Thread Terry Collins
Somewhere in the Slug archives is an example of the find command operating on files which I can not find. So I am forced to ask the question again. I am trying to do something like the following find /spam -name smtpd* -printf ' mv {} %AY%Am \n ' Is the bit in printf section complete? Do I ne

Re: [SLUG] LCD recommendations

2004-02-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Cowie wrote: >Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would >certainly be welcome. I've got a very expensive Sony 17" at home, and a very good value pair of NEC 17" LCDs at work. Both (models) perform very well. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, ksaenz wrote: >At the moment my Internet is down can just recieve emails :(. Just a >step a side to get Xinerama working you need 2 cards either 2 pci or 1 >agp and 1 pci, etc. Is there latency issues? can you nominate where you >want to send 3d programs or graphic inte

Re: [SLUG] LCD recommendations

2004-02-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Andrew Cowie wrote: >>Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would >>certainly be welcome. > >I've got a very expensive Sony 17" at home, and a very good value pair >of NEC 17" LCDs at work.

[SLUG] Ecartis: Post sent to moderator.

2004-02-03 Thread Ecartis
>> Post to list anunt Post submitted to moderator for reason: Post to moderated list. --- Ecartis v1.0.0 - job execution complete. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread Dave Airlie
> > can you nominate where you want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive > > programs to? I have been interested in Xinerama but haven't invested time \> > or money in to testing it out. > > I don't really grok all the 3D interactions with Xinerama. > for a lot of cases Xinerama and 3d don't

[SLUG] gdm problem or X problem? XDMCP Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached

2004-02-03 Thread Slug
I'm getting this message: XDMCP fatal error: Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached It's on a thinclient workstation that had the whole X session crash due to an open office error. When the workstation is rebooted and does a: X -query ip-of-X-gdm-machine It ge

RE: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

2004-02-03 Thread Visser, Martin
I successfully added PC100 to my PC66 (but only after finding that the maximum stick size supported was 64MB. I had to swap the 128M I bought. I also had my original RAM go "bad", which resulted in intermittant crashes. I highly recommend running "memtest86" (from a boot floppy or CD) in the high

Re: [SLUG] gdm problem or X problem? XDMCP Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached

2004-02-03 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:27:20AM +1100, Slug wrote: > XDMCP fatal error: Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from > your host reached > > It's on a thinclient workstation that had the whole X session crash due > to an open office error. > > When the workstation is rebooted and does a

RE: [SLUG] LCD recommendations

2004-02-03 Thread Visser, Martin
On this subject, does any know if some of the "pivot" types (allowing swapping from landscape to portrait) work with X? Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Aust

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-02-03 Thread James Gray
Mary Gardiner wrote: I've set up amavis with clamav on my machine (Debian, MTA = Postfix) and it certainly seems to be finding viruses. However, I'm wondering whether I keep be the default setup, or tell amavis not to warn the sender that they have a virus. Its config file claims that it knows wh

Re: [SLUG] Format of find,etc

2004-02-03 Thread mlh
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:45:57AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > find /spam -name smtpd* -printf ' mv {} %AY%Am \n ' > > Is the bit in printf section complete? Do I need a shell command? > Yeah, you need a shell. You can feed the result of find to sh with a pipe, but you're command needs a

[SLUG] Knoppix, Java, Tomcat

2004-02-03 Thread Aravind Naidu
Hi, Has anyone remastered Knoppix to include Java and run Tomcat sucessfully ? Regards, Araind -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] gdm problem or X problem? XDMCP Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached

2004-02-03 Thread Slug
Thanks Norm for the info. We've been having a LOT of problems with gnome since going multi-user thin-client so we might give KDE a go tomorrow and see how it feels as a desktop. It's nice to have the choice. ATB Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subsc