On 5/11/06, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Does anyone know how to convert AppleDouble encoded Macintosh fonts to truetype?Well, using the t1unmac program from the t1utils package I'vemanaged to convert them to Postscript Type 1. I still need to
convert
On 5/9/06, Michael Kedzierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the same 24 panel and it's utterly brilliant, and good valuefor money. The brightness and the contrast are amazing. I highlyrecommend it.The panel itself may be a samsung one, or an LG - which is the same as
in the apple cinema displays
At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:48:00 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
in using Crypt::RandPasswd (::word() specifically), it doesnt seem at
all mod_perl safe. there definately seems to be something that loops
of and consumes all the web servers cpu.
From a quick glance through the Crypt::RandPasswd code, I
At Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:02:26 +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
Also note that there was a leap second this year. So your
NTP-based time will be 1s wrong if you have a tzdata earlier
than 2005k.
From what I understand of things, Unix timezone data has nothing to do
with leap seconds. NTP, on the other
At Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:53:24 +1100, Tess Snider wrote:
On 11/27/05, Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a case of recursion.
What's totally crazy is that once you've been programming a while, and
really understand this recursion stuff well, you have to then learn to
stop using it.
At Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:37:07 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
\begin{tabular}{l|r}
\makeleftpage \makerightpage \\
\end{tabular}
You could also use something explicit (and simpler?) like this:
\makeleftpage \hspace{3mm} \vrule \hspace{3mm} \makerightpage
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At Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:23:06 +1000, David Gillies wrote:
Does anyone out there have any recommendations for Linux friendly flash
mp3 players?
A few of the guys at work have these:
http://eng.iaudio.com/product/product_X5_feature.php
MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, WAV player; FM radio; voice, radio or
At Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:33:29 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
Aren't there any emacs users on this list? my top ten are:
Xemacs (editing)
Xemacs (mail reading/writing)
Xemacs (web browsing)
Xemacs (compiling, with make, distcc and ccache underneath)
Xemacs (remote editing, with tramp)
Xemacs
At Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:46:46 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
I've never tried Xemacs - are there any traps for young players when
installing both?
Not really. Default values for some options are different between the
two, as are some elisp package versions and unusual keybindings (M-g
is one that
At Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:58:41 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
just for the slug archives i found the problem here.
in the apache config file with older versions of apache, for the
virtual servers I would have per directory options of
allow from all
deny from none
however the deny from none in
At Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:58:22 +1000, Telford Tendys wrote:
How about writing a network protocol stack. You get a packet and all
you know about it is that here is a block of memory. You then have
to figure out what sort of packet it is, how long it is and what
structure to give it. C handles
At Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:38:31 +1000, Oscar Plameras wrote:
Is their equivalent codes for ff in perl 6 ?
Sure, perl6 (just as in perl5) has coderefs. In fact, these can be
references to anonymous functions or dynamically created closures,
which certainly can't be done in C.
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At Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:12:54 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
let integer_array = [| 1 ; -2 ; 3 ; -4 ; 5 ; -6 ;
-7 ; 8 ; -9 ; 32727000 |] ;;
Array.mapi (fun i x
- Printf.printf integer_array[%d] = %d\n i x
) integer_array ;;
Hey, my first actual perl6
At Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:17:21 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
for 1 .. @integer_array {
say integer_array[$_] = @integer_array[$_];
}
Yeah sorry. Did I mention it was my first ever perl6 program?
Try this version, note the iterator, the typed array (compile-time
At Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:00:09 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
On 9/27/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are large classes of problems where running speed is an
important issue. Static typing does make for faster run times
and in cases where that moves your program from being
At Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:01:24 +1000, Vino Fernando Crescini wrote:
If you want a list of all invalid usernames in smbpasswd that is
not in allusers.txt, this way might be easier:
cut -d: -f1 smbpasswd | while read name; do
grep -q ${name}\$ /tmp/list || echo $name
done
oops. that's
At Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:16:04 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?
My comments:
Asterisk developers prioritises new features over stability and
particularly clean code. There's a *whole*
At Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:30:42 +1000, Ashley Maher wrote:
I loaded the mod perl2 package into Ubuntu.
The registery scripts worked well.
The handler modules test failed misserably.
mod_perl/1.99_14 Perl/v5.8.4 PHP/4.3.10-10ubuntu4 configured -- resuming
normal operations
[...]
[Sat Aug 27
At Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:26:47 +1000, James Purser wrote:
Does anybody know of, or are involved in projects that have been
hampered by software patents.
zsync is a kind of reverse-rsync implementation, which makes the whole
rsync public-server thing actually possible since the server no longer
At Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:28:57 +1000, steven wrote:
2. With the Lotus Notes client running in IMAP mode I can create emails
offline. When I sync the client with the server the server will send out
any unsent emails. Copies of sent mails are thus filed in the main server
sent folder or as
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:28:56 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I'm trying to get somewhere with setting up an LDAP database.
The problem I am encountering is that all the examples that I can find
assume the the top level has a dn: of the form dc=example,dc=com
My problem is that I want a different
At Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:33:53 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
I have uploaded a web based CD to our Moodle setup, but all the links
are broken. In true sloppy MS style most of the filenames are in
uppercase whereas the html files refer to them in lower case. The
underlying webserver is Apache,
At Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:16:25 +0930, Ryan Verner wrote:
Anybody had any experiences setting up 1-way DirecPC (Telstra Bigpond)
satellite with an uplink through an NT1+II USB ISDN modem on Linux?
err, yes. Its an extremely common setup for one of the boxes from my
company.
The DirecPC USB
At Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:23:03 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
For security, you can GPG-sign command messages, and then the script can
just verify the signature before executing anything.
~% apt-cache show grunt
Package: grunt
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 36
Maintainer: John
At Fri, 27 May 2005 13:04:21 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
What's the most sensible and reliable way to record a phone conversation,
assuming a standard phone, using Free Software (and probably a bit of
hardware)?
You can get phone audio into a computer by using one of those old
voice-modems with
At Tue, 24 May 2005 09:36:56 +0800 (WST), jam wrote:
I love vi, but do not use the vi-command-edit option of bash.
My mate who does asked me how to do this with the standard (emacs) shell
edit functions:
/someword # look for a history event starting 'someword'
up
At Thu, 05 May 2005 12:30:01 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
What other options do I have?
I haven't tried it, but apparently advi is a DVI viewer (ie: TeX
output) designed for presentations that can embed other X11 programs.
Also note that PDF can embed movies which acroread might display. I
At Mon, 2 May 2005 15:57:46 +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my
webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error
appear in any of my logs. Does anybody know how to do it?
Heh, its a crazy idea but strangely enough not
At Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:09:18 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
I have a windows based CD that I would like to install and use with
Wine. The setup.exe prog crashes.
What's the best way to proceed? is there anyway to extract and install
without using the setup.exe program?
MSI is actually one of the
At Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:26:02 -0700 (MST), Dennis M. Gray wrote:
I have set up a Postfix MTA with several virtual mail domains. So far in
the doucmentation I have not found a way to have mail sent by Postfix to
show a time that is different than that of the server, which is in
Arizona, USA. I
At Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:07 +1100 (EST), Voytek Eymont wrote:
em(ai)?l
does it mean 'eml and/or ail' ?
no, that means email or eml (ie, with or without the ai)
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At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:57:08 +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Suggested a perl script:
cat titles.html | perl -ne 'm/\.html([^,]{1,}),/; $name=lc($1); $_
=~ s/\.html/\.html#$name/; print $_;'
equivalent to:
perl -pe 's/\.html([^,]+),/.html#\L$1\E/' titles.html
(sorry, should have paid attention
At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:44:26 +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote:
Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any
suggestions are appreciated
'ediff' (in emacs) does side-by-side (or otherwise), coloured diffs -
with interactive merging, etc. Does 3-way, from a patch, etc, etc.
Its worth
At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:06:26 +1100, Nick Croft wrote:
Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word
like Office become OfØce. I'm not sure what to switch off or what kind of
package I'm using which does this.
Typical preamble:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
At Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:37:42 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
With my firewalls and other security critical servers, I require
recompiling kernels by removing all UNUSED and REDUNDANT modules as
part of the audit process so, when I got a problem such as the one
illustrated above, I ONLY need to
At Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:05:49 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
'tv_grab_au' does not complete execution at all. Somewhere, along the
execution process, it bombs out with an error that says 'something is
missing'.
I will post the exact message as soon as I have setup my Linux box.
I'd guess that
At Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:21:23 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
Kevin Saenz wrote:
There is NO 'tv_grab_au' from the de-facto http://www.xmltv.org
server. I suspect because there is none that works consistently.
ffs Oscar, the first hit on google is a perl script that I've been
using fine for about
At Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:37:41 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
Angus Lees wrote:
This is because tv_grab_au (from
http://www.onlinetractorparts.com.au/rohbags/xmltvau/)
does not work successfully on my installation. I'll try this perl
version again and the python
version suggested in another
At Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:42:31 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
1/ Ctrl-R history searching
When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will search
backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that you
could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R
At Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:41:21 +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
On 2005.01.12 22:33 Rod Butcher wrote:
I need to get my shell script to login to something and then enter a
password at a prompt.. i.e. unattended operation. I can't get the
script to feed it the password, it always prompts me.. lets
At Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:16:05 +1100 (EST), Stuart Guthrie wrote:
So Debian seems to be initialising postgres dbs with the first of these
collate sequences meaning that whatever 'C' is seems to return
case-sensitive search results.
Mandrake's standard RPM implements postgres with en_US
At Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:55:13 +1100, Indelible wrote:
I don't have have gnome installed either, just WindowMaker.
So I guess gnome-font-properties is not really an option.
Ah. So edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (or ~/.fonts.conf) directly.
This is assuming your fonts are rendered through
At Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:49:49 +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
I have a server and I'm using pdflib to generate a PDF file and sending
back to a user. At home it all works fine. But on the server when I
create the PDF and view it ALL the text is missing. Even if I download
the PDF file there are
At Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:08:42 +1100, James A Coffey wrote:
I have been using Linux for a number of years and the only gripe
I have is that I can not find a terminal emulator that has horizontal
scroll bars or I can't find away to configure my environment so that
lines scroll horizontally and
At Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:48:15 +0100, Michael Hayder wrote:
Now evolution can use your webcal://foo.bar calendar. But I am not able
to use webcal://foo.bar/mic.ics.. My problem is I could not find out how
to enable webcal:// on my webserver or what program is necessary to use
it. Can you send me
At Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:14:54 +1100, Indelible wrote:
Yes, definitely the native res.
Everything else is sharp as, it's just the fonts which give me trouble.
Run gnome-font-properties(*) and play around with the anti-aliasing
amounts and the various LCD RGBA orderings. You also get to tell
At Wed, 26 May 2004 14:40:51 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
add 'printing = bsd' to the share,
Ah yes, I saw someone mention that during my web searching. I had no
luck with it since I think its only implemented in the *latest*
version or so of samba.
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At Sat, 8 May 2004 10:38:33 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
So I got this USB IR port and remote bundled with my DVB card. I'd
kinda like a generic IrDA port to use with my phone and iPaq, so I'm
wondering if I can use this one.
I think I read somewhere that IR remotes and IrDA use quite different
At Fri, 7 May 2004 11:04:55 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
I train it on all my spam and non-spam, and I train it every week on
mail received during that week. (With a cronjob, I just need to make
sure false negatives and positives are moved into an appropriate
folder.) I don't delete the
At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:47:12 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
I'm accustomed to starting my various Python and Perl files with:
#!/usr/bin/env python
or
#!/usr/bin/env perl
However, you can't pass arguments to whatever you're invoking, thanks to
the limits of the #! interpretion (#!/usr/bin/env
At Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:55:26 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Do you have nfs-common installed?
Yes. That version has
nfs-common
nfs-kernel-server
nfs-user-server running.
All three were restarted with no difference and the machine was rebooted
with no
At Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:35:31 +1100, mlh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:30:12PM +1100, Geoffrey Cowling wrote:
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
./setup: cannot connect to X server :0
so I have to logout as user and login as
At Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:03:30 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
If you are willing to comment on your use of P2P technology, please
contact the SLUG committee, and we'll pass your details on.
I used a web browser once and I believe there was no globally
centralised server involved at any point. Does
At Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:28:43 +1100, Tom Massey wrote:
* 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
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
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
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)
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At Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:06:56 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=David Killen
An interesting article I found about the possibilities of Open Source in
Iraq
Interestingly enough, we just kicked off a mailing list for GNOME in Iran.
Hopefully we don't get a GNOME/KDE-Iran/Iraq war on our
At Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:29:15 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
I am working on some doco on programming languages in tex. There is a
lot of words specific for that particular language and I don't want it
polluting my personal list and I ouwld like the checks consistent for
others to keep it easy.
At Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:45:48 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
I am getting this error:
process.c:1018: warning: passing arg 1 of `putenv' discards qualifiers
from pointer target type
It turns out that I am sending a const string to putenv which is
defined:
./stdlib.h:extern int putenv (char
At Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:17:11 +1100 (EST), education wrote:
I download the package Filter-1.26 from CPAN. I'm having problems
understanding how to use this package to get Perl code to go through the
filter before compilation.
Also does this method clearly prevents anyone from seeing the
At Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:30:09 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=pesoy misak
I have 3 computer that one of them I want to become my gateway. I have
read about the Masquarding HOWTOs but i seems too difficult to be
understood. My question is there anyone that could teach me using NAT or
is
At Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:07:40 +1000,Ken Foskey wrote:
If anyone is on a very fresh version of K2.6 with extra patches can you
please run this code and see if it crashes. It fails on all K2.6 up to
Test6 release. I would be interested to hear of any success.
Here is what I get:
Getting from
Oh yeah - if you *really* want to do this, fork() first and test in the
child. If the child exited with a segfault you know it was a bad idea.
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At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:14:32 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that
mets the following conditions:
heh, that sounds like fun.
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At Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:32:21 +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote:
This is in stable (!) and I've forgotten how to do it [apt] off CD-ROM.
% man -k 'apt.*cdrom'
apt-cdrom (8)- APT CDROM managment utility
% man apt-cdrom
NAME
apt-cdrom - APT CDROM managment utility
SYNOPSIS
Surely moderating lists based on From address is flawed, since that
data can be so easily faked. I know I get plenty of spam claiming to
be from [EMAIL PROTECTED]..
If the intention is to have 0% spam make it through to the list, I
don't see how this is going to achieve that. I do see that it
At Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:18:27 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
I have designed the language written an interpreter for it, but would
like emacs to do some syntax highlighting for me.
After you've written the rest of your major mode (which gives details
like syntax definitions (what constitutes a word,
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:22:47 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Where do you get ide-cd module under Debian Woody.
The search engine on http://packages.debian.org/ lists:
lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o
base/kernel-image-2.4.16-386
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:06:30 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Checking the X font server's configuration file in
/etc/X11/xfs/config I find I have no 'xfs' directory there.
However, 'find' tells me I have
Debian doesn't use/need xfs by default. I doubt you have a reason to
use it either.
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At 15 Sep 2003 12:49:10 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:28, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Of course, if they are installed, then you've got bigger problems that
I'd rather not think about unless they're actually happening. :-)
An easy way to see what fonts the XServer knows about is
At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:44:09 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Debian stable contains xpdf-reader Version: 1.00-3 and that is what I
have currently installed. I have just pulled down xpdf version 2.02 from
foolabs.com and compiled it. It works fine but I have not yet done 'make
install'.
In this
At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:10:08 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Douglas Stalker
In a shell script, is the a better (i.e.: more elegant) way to get a
variable to cycle from 1 to another value (such as 100)
Currently I am using:
$ I=1 ; while [ $I -le 10 ]; do echo $I ; I=`expr $I
At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:52:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
You also want the list of installed software, which you should normally be
able to get from apt Hmm. Presumably you can get it from looking
directly at where apt stores its files.
dpkg -l
or for just the package names:
At Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:35:09 +1000, Alex Sutcliffe wrote:
I'm running woody and installed from a cd set. For some time I have been
puzzled by the fact that my /apt/get/sources.list file lists the 3 cds I
have as unstable. This has puzzled me for a while since I thought that cds
were all
At Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:40:40 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
I'm dubious about 'vastly more versatile' - that quite unsubstantiated.
For example, you can't use random perl functions to control squid's
behaviour. You can with apache+mod_perl, which in my book counts as
vastly more versatility.
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At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:41:14 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Bill Bennett wrote:
I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document,
on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big.
I don't have my cp of Goosens here to look up the graphics rule but it
looks like you are wanting
Dude, you've hosed your system.
At this point you can either:
restore from backups (*ahem*)
try to undo whatever you did (iirc you moved /usr and /lib somewhere
else)
try to duplicate exactly what Debian had put in those directories by
hand (almost impossible)
or save what data you
At Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:37:14 -0700 (PDT), Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
My debian box is running LDAP server, slapd. It seems
working fine because I can query the server from
127.0.0.1/localhost address.
I dont have any 'ldap.conf' file in my box, but I do
have the slapd.conf. Later on, I try to
At Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:15:35 +1200 (NZST), Andrew McNaughton wrote:
That file contains the preferences you set up. You could edit it, or you
could just back it up somewhere and delete it, in which case
`perl -MCPAN -e shell` should ask you to provide the configuration details
again.
.. or
At 12 Aug 2003 13:49:53 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
One of the other publishers is using DocBook as their primary system, so
I thought I would have a look at changing from LaTeX. But, as I said, I
need (or at least want) the good author support (outlining, citation,
cross-referencing) that I
At Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:53:41 +1000 (EST), Simon Bryan wrote:
Now I am looking at how do I set other Mozilla prefs - or would it
be easier in some other browser? I need to set the home page and the
proxy settings in particular. In our windows setup we can do this
with a combination of profiles
At Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:45:58 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
This behaviour has long been considered a bug
in the shell by many. But unfortunately it's
too late to change it for the standard shell.
zsh by default does the right thing, which of course irritates the
hell out of everyone who
At Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:18:19 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
what's the recommendation for a m-r-s-r tool ?
I'm looking to replace multiple string pairs in some web files.
all I need is simple 'string a' for 'string b' swap, every instance,
For an interactive tool, you can use emacs' dired mode to
At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:02:29 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
what can I use to recursively change file names/extension to all lower case ?
I have some files and/directories like:
I tried rename few times with little effect:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] photos]# rename .JPG *.jpg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] photos]# ls
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000, Mary wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote:
- what can I use to strip the CR ?
The command dos2unix will do this.
tr -d '\r' dosfile unixfile will also do the trick for simple
cases.
I usually just load it up in an editor (emacs or vi) and
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:18 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] voytek]# tr -d '[\200-\377]' httpd.linux unixfile1
didn't work...
no it wouldn't since \r is \015, which isn't between \200 and \377.
(see man ascii)
the above command would strip 8 bit characters (the top half of the
At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:32:03 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
Receiving faxes via efax/jfax whatever. All come in as multi-page tif.
Which apparently is a bit of a standard in 'document management
software' circles.
For what its worth, the best format for scanned (or faxed) documents
sounds like
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:36:38 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
I'm trying to set up a backup strategy. What I want to find
is all the configuration files for the various installed packages.
Some are obvious (/etc/apache/http.d.conf, /etc/passwd) Others are not
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:44:13 +1000, Steven Kowalik wrote:
At 6:50 pm, Monday, July 28 2003, Kevin Saenz mumbled:
Just wondering if anyone has started playing with
2.6.0 kernel? What's it like?
I have. It's ... different. It uses modprobe.conf, rather than modules.conf,
PCMCIA requires
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:15:07 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
Is there any way of setting an environment variable in the shell script
so that it modifies the environment of the *parent* process?
nope.
I fear not - but is there any way of returning something from a shell
other than through an exit
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:05:35 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:03:05PM +, Angus Lees wrote:
I was going to say I hadn't noticed any difference - but I just tried
getting X to work and I can't find the right module to make /dev/psaux
work :(
I'm guessing
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 12:19:41 +1000, David Kempe wrote:
or there is a way to get cups to write out /etc/printcap
from memory, the woody version of cups writes a /etc/printcap.cups
you should be able to symlink /etc/printcap to that file (if you
actually need /etc/printcap. you should be using
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:20:09 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
I'd say, for higher quality, there is no subsitute for TIFF, as far as bit
mapped images go.
tiff is a container format, so what format you really have inside a
.tiff is really what determines the image's characteristics.
in pretty much all
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:49:00 -0700 (PDT), Mark A. Bell wrote:
Being a beginner at LaTeX, I produced my document using LyX (on top of
Debian Unstable). I just exported the file as a PDF. The 'default'
font that Lyx uses is apparently a Type 3 font. Pdffonts reveals:
name
At Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:52:40 +1000, James Gray wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:37 am, James Gray wrote:
If the fonts you're using in Linux (LyX/LaTeX) are Type1 or PostScript,
you can copy them to the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat x.x\Resource\Font
directory. Not sure how you go about
At Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:45:04 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Mark A. Bell wrote:
The PDFs that I produce look beautiful in GhostView at home, but
when I open them in Acrobat for Windows, the fonts look hideous! I
don't much care because the printed copy looks great - better
than I could
for simple graphs, you might also want to look into metapost. a
little harder than gnuplot, but you have complete control over the
output (its a drawing language, rather than a plotting tool).
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At Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:13:34 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
As per subject, need a command line mailer that can send a file as an
attachment.
for MIME/binary attachment stuff, you really want the scripts/tools
that come from metamail.
includes mimencode, which is good for doing the gruntwork,
At Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:45:14 +1000, mlh Matthew Hannigan wrote:
How about gnats? Anyone work with that?
I used/set it up once about 4 years ago.
I probably prefer gnats to RT, but gnats is *heavily* email based so
probably only suitable for power users (ie: people who are comfortable
with
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