Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:10:30AM -0700, Rick Moen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You have access to something like 13,000 packages in a few nice little > checkboxes, and one is tempted 17,566 last count. I *think* that's just Debian (plus security and n

Re: [vox-tech] compiler error causing me great sadness

2004-09-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Ken, Thank you (again!) for such a wonderful response. This email is a gem. On Wed 29 Sep 04, 10:27 PM, Ken Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:06:50 PM -0400 Peter Jay Salzman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > #ifndef _FSIGNAL_H_ > > #define _FSIGNAL

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-30 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Karsten Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yeah, except your keybindings are all wrong ;-) Too lazy to modify the defaults, there. > Largely agreed, but sticking my hand into that pile and pulling out, > say, AbiWord, we've got another instance of the disease: perfectly good > project, with a

Re: OO.o and graphics (was Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing)

2004-09-30 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Henry House wrote: På torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Jonathan Stickel: [...] The fact that OO.o does not display imported EPS graphics on-screen is a PITA. However, you can export to pdf where the graphics do show and are high quality. Actually it is worse than that: the exported PDF looks a

Re: OO.o and graphics (was Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing)

2004-09-30 Thread Henry House
På torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Bill Kendrick: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:06AM -0700, Henry House wrote: > > > > Actually it is worse than that: the exported PDF looks and prints like the > > poor on-screen representation in OOWriter, i.e., with very poor quality. > > Are you clicking t

Re: OO.o and graphics (was Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing)

2004-09-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:06AM -0700, Henry House wrote: > > Actually it is worse than that: the exported PDF looks and prints like the > poor on-screen representation in OOWriter, i.e., with very poor quality. Are you clicking the little PDF icon in OOo, or actually doing "File->Export as PD

Re: OO.o and graphics (was Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing)

2004-09-30 Thread Henry House
På torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Jonathan Stickel: [...] > The fact that OO.o does not display imported EPS graphics on-screen is a > PITA. However, you can export to pdf where the graphics do show and are > high quality. Actually it is worse than that: the exported PDF looks and prints lik

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-30 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bill Kendrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've played a little with OS X, and I think that's where this disease came > from. Indeed, Apple Computer _is_ precisely where the longfathers of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) disease hailed from. I remember when Apple's HIG delegation visited the

OO.o and graphics (was Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing)

2004-09-30 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Henry House wrote: On a related note, I have also been having a frustrating time working with graphics in OO. I have about 20 plots of economic data. I generated these using gnuplot --- perhaps you saw my previous messages about that. Despite gnuplot's quirky interface and documentation, its outpu

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-30 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:42:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > KDE, bless its cold-hearted soul, picked a set of apps and stuck with > 'em. They just get cease and desists (or something) and need to rename themselves. Heard of 'Krita?' Yeah, me neither. Oh! It's just 'Krayon's new name!

Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing

2004-09-30 Thread Henry House
På torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: [...] > Henry, suboptimal is right! :( I think I'll save to pdf and print using > acroread. Neither method is optimal, but installing new software is less > palatable... Indeed. Now a lot of packages are identical on testing and unstable

Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing

2004-09-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 30 Sep 04, 7:56 AM, Ken Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --On Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:23:31 AM -0400 Peter Jay Salzman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Openoffice no longer prints anything, and I'm at a complete loss on how > >to diagnose the problem. > > OO com

Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing

2004-09-30 Thread Henry House
På torsdag, 30 september 2004, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: > Hi all, > > Openoffice no longer prints anything, and I'm at a complete loss on how to > diagnose the problem. > > My printing system works perfectly. In fact, to print my OO documents, I > need to export the document to pdf and then prin

Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing

2004-09-30 Thread Ken Herron
--On Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:23:31 AM -0400 Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Openoffice no longer prints anything, and I'm at a complete loss on how to diagnose the problem. OO comes with a utility called "spadmin" which is used to set up the printers that OO will off

[vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing

2004-09-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, Openoffice no longer prints anything, and I'm at a complete loss on how to diagnose the problem. My printing system works perfectly. In fact, to print my OO documents, I need to export the document to pdf and then print the pdf from acroread or xpdf. But I shouldn't have to do this. I

Re: [vox-tech] Free offsite backup

2004-09-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 29 Sep 04, 11:57 PM, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just thought I'd share this. After reading the following: > > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/30/001210 > > I signed up for a free 100GB (!) email account. Now all I > need to to is write up a cron script that will ru

Re: [vox-tech] VPN question

2004-09-30 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 29 Sep 04, 11:33 PM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 07:49, Rod Roark wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 12:30 am, Michael Wenk wrote: > > > I dunno about the rest of you, but I am getting so sick to > > > death of technology and computers, I just d

Re: [vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

2004-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:01:13PM -0700, Rick Moen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Karsten Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Works for Me. Yeah, except your keybindings are all wrong ;-) > > Have to say that while I generally prefer the look of Gtk over Qt > > (particularly some of the candy