[vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters. I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a Princeton University proxy (and Princeton has a subscription to this journal), but the URL is: http://ol.osa.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=68550seq=0 It doesn't look

[vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Bob Scofield
Here's a painful question, but I feel justified in asking it for two reasons: (1) it's not for me, but for my sister; and (2) I'm doing some Linux missionary work directed at her. My sister has a relatively new (one year or so) Dell computer running XP. It has always run very slowly. I've

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Troy Arnold
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:56:54AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters. I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a Princeton University proxy (and Princeton has a subscription to this journal), but the URL is:

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Ryan
On Sunday 08 May 2005 07:56 am, p-at-dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) |lugod| wrote: There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters. I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a Princeton University proxy (and Princeton has a subscription to this journal),

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 08 May 05, 12:20 PM, Troy Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:56:54AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters. I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a Princeton University proxy

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Henry House
På söndag, 08 maj 2005, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: On Sun 08 May 05, 12:22 PM, Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 08 May 2005 07:56 am, p-at-dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) |lugod| wrote: There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters. I don't think

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
Here's a few things to check, You're on the right track with background services Access them by Start-run-services.msc ,as well as background programs that launch at startup Start-run-msconfig and Start-Programs-Startup Folder http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/SWList.asp Lists most of the windows

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:28:40AM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote: My sister has a relatively new (one year or so) Dell computer running XP. It has always run very slowly. I've made some suggestions which have not worked, such as running Spybot. I think she's defragged. I spent hours at work

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:30:12PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: 'cfm' probably means it's a Cold Fusion document, Aha. OK. Coldfusion is kind of like PHP/ASP? Client side stuff? Precisely. :) snip Turns out FF was not displaying _any_ pdf documents. I dunno how I survived so

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:26:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Yeah -- The trouble is I don't know how to get wget to use the proxy For some reason, Sonic doesn't have the wget man page (at least not in my $MANPATH), but: % wget --help|grep proxy -Y, --proxy=on/off turn proxy

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Bob Scofield wrote: Here's a painful question, but I feel justified in asking it for two reasons: (1) it's not for me, but for my sister; and (2) I'm doing some Linux missionary work directed at her. My sister has a relatively new (one year or so) Dell computer running XP. It has always run

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 08 May 05, 1:07 PM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:26:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Yeah -- The trouble is I don't know how to get wget to use the proxy For some reason, Sonic doesn't have the wget man page (at least not in my $MANPATH), Hi

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:18:35PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Sun 08 May 05, 1:07 PM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:26:04PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Yeah -- The trouble is I don't know how to get wget to use the proxy For some reason,

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 08 May 05, 1:30 PM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Heh, again, this is on my Sonic account, not on any machine I control. ;^) Send me an email offlist, and I might be able to help you with THAT problem as well. ;) Pete -- Every theory is killed sooner or later, but if the

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Bryan Richter
tech_dev(Alex Mandel) wrote: Here's a few things to check, You're on the right track with background services Access them by Start-run-services.msc ,as well as background programs that launch at startup Start-run-msconfig and Start-Programs-Startup Folder

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:30:42PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: Heh, yeah, I'll have to add this craziness to my manpath on my Sonic account... /extra/opt/wget-1.7/man/man1/wget.1 Rather, I had to go in and add various /extra/opt/*/man's to my $MANPATH. I think Sonic does it this way so

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:33:19PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Send me an email offlist, and I might be able to help you with THAT problem as well. ;) Hehe... *backing away slowly* No thanks ;) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread David Hummel
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:18:35PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Sun 08 May 05, 1:07 PM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: For some reason, Sonic doesn't have the wget man page (at least not in my $MANPATH), For this kind of thing, you can use locate, which locates a file on

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:20:00PM -0400, David Hummel wrote: $ locate wget. | grep man /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz $ man -w wget /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz Ah, but without having the path to the man page (in my case here on sonic, /opt/extra/wget-X.XX/man/) in my $MANPATH

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread David Hummel
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:58:38PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:20:00PM -0400, David Hummel wrote: $ locate wget. | grep man /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz $ man -w wget /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz Ah, but without having the path to the man page

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Mark K. Kim
That's odd. I have wget's manpage on my path on shell.sonic.net and I didn't do anything to add its path. Here's some outputs for your reference: bolt:~/man -w wget /opt/wget/man/man1/wget.1 bolt:~/echo $MANPATH bolt:~/man -w

Browser-based file downloads (was: Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think))

2005-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:56:54AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics Letters. I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a Princeton University proxy (and Princeton has a subscription to this

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:09:05PM -0700, Ryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:44 pm, hajhouse-at-houseag.com (Henry House) |lugod| wrote: P? s?ndag, 08 maj 2005, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: Yeah -- The trouble is I don't know how to get wget to use the proxy (and I

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? For clarity and to support conversational discussion style, please use bottom-posting format: your reply goes

Re: Browser-based file downloads (was: Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think))

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:11:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: The other issues you may have to deal with: - Browsers apparently use the MIME type information concerning a file to figure out how to display it. See above for the .desktop clusterfsck WRT GNOME. Used to be

Re: [vox-tech] browser and mimetypes (I think)

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:39:59PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: That's odd. I have wget's manpage on my path on shell.sonic.net and I didn't do anything to add its path. Here's some outputs for your reference: *cough* I use tcsh over on Sonic. :^) Could be the diff. -bill!

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:47:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:58:34PM -0700, tech_dev(Alex Mandel) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip The other thing to think about although this is nit picky is to look at the case cooling situation. Dell is very bad about this.

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 08 May 05, 8:05 PM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:47:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:58:34PM -0700, tech_dev(Alex Mandel) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip The other thing to think about although this is nit picky

Re: [vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

2005-05-08 Thread Ken Bloom
Karsten M. Self wrote: I'd bring along Knoppix and try the following: - What's the CPU speed? /proc/cpuinfo. - How much memory? 'free' - What's hard drive performance? hdparm /dev/hda # show Knoppix's autoconfigured settings. hdparm -tT /dev/hda # test