Re: [vox-tech] rusty newbie CD mounting woes

2004-01-11 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Thanks for all of your help, guys. Turned out that the problem was a bad connection, after all. Tsk. Cheers, Alex "Tru5t m3" --Boo, from megatokyo.com ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

[vox-tech] rusty newbie CD mounting woes

2004-01-11 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Having extreme difficulty with really basic task here. Would probably help if I hadn't built this computer for myself so that I could be sure that various drives are attached in the standard places. Hoping you guys can help without getting after me too much for asking stupid questions. I have t

[vox-tech] combining data files

2003-05-31 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Been playing with ploticus prefabs, which I agree are pretty cute. Here's the issue that I'd like to handle now: the output from different runs of my simulation are in separate files. I'd like to be able to present the outputs on a single graph. I vaguely remember that there might be some manne

Re: [vox-tech] Linux graphing software?

2003-05-30 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Thanks Troy and Henry (and everyone for their various software suggestions). LUGOD rocks. : ) Cheers, Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Linux graphing software?

2003-05-30 Thread Alexandra Thorn
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > i like ploticus: > http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/ > > i use it to automatically create all sorts of graphs: > http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/weather/images/weekly_temps.png > > --dylan Looks interesting. Been trying to get it to run. Can anyone out ther

[vox-tech] Linux graphing software?

2003-05-30 Thread Alexandra Thorn
As I get to actually finishing up with my masters's thesis, I'm starting to think about ways to actually present my data. I'm wondering if anyone out there has some recommendations of some relatively accessible Linux softward for creating pretty scatterplots of real data. In the past I've tended

Re: [vox-tech] shuffling arrays in C?

2002-11-25 Thread Alexandra Thorn
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Alexandra Thorn wrote: > > > const int selection_size = ELEMS_IN_ARY(your_array) - (i + 1); > > > int selected_card = (i + 1) /* don't in

Re: [vox-tech] shuffling arrays in C?

2002-11-25 Thread Alexandra Thorn
> const int selection_size = ELEMS_IN_ARY(your_array) - (i + 1); > int selected_card = (i + 1) /* don't include the already selected > cards, or the card to swap with */ > + (int)((selection_size*1.0*rand())/(RAND_MAX+1.0)) /* see > rand(

[vox-tech] shuffling arrays in C?

2002-11-25 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I've been looking around for a C library function that will shuffle the elements of an arbitrarily long array. I'd been hoping to turn up something that would randomly shuffle the elements of an array. The array that I want to shuffle is made up of a class of structs that I've created. A few ho

Re: [vox-tech] floppy woes

2002-09-22 Thread Alexandra Thorn
For the record, it wasn't the lock-unlock tab (tried doing it with the tab in both positions before my original post). Still haven't tried the other suggestion (need to get into campus for that). What surprises me is that more people haven't seen this before. Anyone out there who *has* seen it

[vox-tech] floppy woes

2002-09-21 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Been trying to create a boot disk on my RedHat 7.2 system at work. Bought a pack of PC formatted disks (I *should* be able to reformat easily enough, shouldn't I?). Set to work trying to create a boot disk. Couldn't tell what was going on (i.e. going wrong) with qmkbootdisk (the GUI version) so

Re: [vox-tech] math.h advice?

2002-07-08 Thread Alexandra Thorn
> yes. > > #including a file doesn't bring in code. it brings in things like > prototypes, global variables, includes, defines, etc. > > everything except the actual code. > > -lm brings in the code. > > pete Cool. It worked. Thanks guys : ) --Alex ___

Re: [vox-tech] math.h advice?

2002-07-08 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Mike, Thanks for your suggestion. Now just to confirm that I understand you, are you saying that I just just add the option -lm at the end of the compile command line line? Thanks again, Alex On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Add "-lm" to your gcc link line... that asks gcc to

[vox-tech] math.h advice?

2002-07-08 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I'm working on a couple of C programs for my masters thesis, using a RedHat 7.2.somethingeruther machine. I'd like to be able to use functions like sin, cos, and round, but gcc does not seem to be recognizing them, even though I've #included . Out of curiosity, I did a search for math.h, and th

Re: [vox-tech] GIMP and 8-bit GIFs

2002-07-01 Thread Alexandra Thorn
> Also, you can use NetPBM like so: > > pngtopnm SOME.PNG | pnmquant -fs 256 | ppmtogif > SOME.GIF > > > Where "pnmquant -fs 256" makes a Floyd-Steinberg dithered image of 256 colors. > You can also use palettes and other good stuff here, too. (I believe the > format of the "palette" file you

[vox-tech] GIMP and 8-bit GIFs

2002-07-01 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I need to create some images for some old software that can only handle 8-bit graphics (GIF87). I've been messing with the GIMP, trying to create things in the right format, and am getting a little frustrated. Can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks, Alex "...for I am like a doctor who can

Re: [vox-tech] CD-burn attempts

2002-05-17 Thread Alexandra Thorn
> begin Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Every time I see this kind of problem, it's a defective > > or incompatible CD burner. The cheap ones don't last > > very long. > > i didn't want to say this in case someone came up with a better answer, > but i'd have to agree with this. Hmmm... the dri

[vox-tech] CD-burn attempts

2002-05-17 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I've been trying to get some files onto a CD-RW, to bring them to my home computer from campus. So far, no success. It seems to do better in dummy mode than when I try to do the actual burn. Trying to erase the disk doesn't seem to work at all, even in dummy mode. I'm a newbie, and this is my

[vox-tech] copy and paste from Konsole?

2002-05-15 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Could anyone very quickly tell me how to copy and paste text from the KDE Konsole to a file I can save (or else, how to save the Konsole text to file directly)? Been working on something for over an hour, and would like to go home and get dinner, but don't want to lose the record of what I did.

Re: [vox-tech] pine archive question

2002-02-24 Thread Alexandra Thorn
> "Saving" to a "folder" amounts to putting emails into text files in your > "~/mail" directory. Thanks to both of you! :) I figured that out after being confused by Mark's message for a while. I don't know why it had never occured to me to look inside the mail directory. ;) > Otherwise, as Mar

[vox-tech] pine archive question

2002-02-23 Thread Alexandra Thorn
I suspect that it is not possible ("help" wasn't very helpful, anyway), but I was wondering if anybody knows any tricks for archiving old e-mail messages in pine to ASCII files in a more efficient manner than exporting them individually? Thanks, Alex When an eel bites your hand And that's not

[vox-tech] off-topic: Cygwin and GRASS

2001-12-09 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Figured it wouldn't hurt to ask you guys for ideas on what might be going wrong here, particularly if any of you use GRASS at all. I've been attempting to get the Windows version of GRASS to run on Cygwin/XFree86, and although most things seem to be installed and running more or less correctly, I