Re: [vox-tech] IDE cdrw/dvdrw

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:37:09AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: I'm sure Ken answered all your questions to your satisfaction, but for the GUI users out there, K3B (http://www.k3b.org/) is the best Linux cd/dvd burning frontend I have used yet. It automatically recognizes and uses ide

[vox-tech] X11 Cursor Themes

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
Anyone here have luck with X11 Cursor Themes? I discovered the concept over at www.kde-look.org last night, and started fooling with them. However, I had no luck. I discovered it's an X-Window feature available in XFree86 4.3.0 and above, so I upgraded (found an apt-source with a Woody

Re: [vox-tech] Scanning remotely (was: IDE cdrw/dvdrw

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:45:33AM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote: Just out of curiosity, how do you scan remotely? Plain ol' SANE lets me do it. I think even the HOWTO docs that come in Linux (Debian, at least) cover it. Run a saned or some-such on the machine with the scanner, and then just tell

Re: cd/dvd burning remotely (was Re: [vox-tech] IDE cdrw/dvdrw)

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:10:41PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: You wouldn't be restricted in speed because he's not going to store the ISO on the network - he's going to construct the ISO on the computer with the cd burner. Well, I imagine I would /construct/ the ISO locally, and then say

Re: cd/dvd burning remotely (was Re: [vox-tech] IDE cdrw/dvdrw)

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:47:48PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Maybe what you want is lufs (which I mentioned in passing earlier in this thread). Read about it here: http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/intro.html. Cool. Similar to kio-fish under KDE (e.g., let Konq or other KDE apps see

Re: cd/dvd burning remotely (was Re: [vox-tech] IDE cdrw/dvdrw)

2004-04-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:49:52PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: much quote snippage :^P mounting ISOFS is read only. D'oh. Is there any way to 'fudge' a R/W ISO? Like, have it convert into some magical read-write-able thing on mount, and then convert it back to a real ISO on unmount? My brain

[vox-tech] Make question: headers depending on other headers

2004-03-31 Thread Bill Kendrick
I have some source files that depend on some other sources' headers. In turn, some of THOSE headers depend on other headers (e.g., a header defining a structure might depend on another header that defines some other structures). Is it useful to list these 'dependencies' within the Makefile?

Re: [vox-tech] Make question: headers depending on other headers

2004-03-31 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:14:36PM -0800, ME wrote: I would expect that a choice to do such a thing in a makefile makes little sense to most users who would use it. Few people would ever modify the header files at all. Testing of the header files would likely be done by the developers. Well,

Re: [vox-tech] Make question: headers depending on other headers

2004-03-31 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:15:58PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote: I think in general you want to use a tool like 'makedepend' or 'gcc -M' instead of trying to write your Makefile dependencies yourself. These track down the headers used by a .c file and output the appropriate Makefile dependency

Re: [vox-tech] Make question: headers depending on other headers

2004-03-31 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:19:25PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: Or if lots of things depend on bar.h then you may want to do something like this: BAR_DEPS = bar.h zzz.h foo.o: foo.c foo.h $(BAR_DEPS) etc. Hey, that's a good idea! I'll try that. Thanks! -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Make question: headers depending on other headers

2004-03-31 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:22:11PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: /* bar.h I do things with alcohol (get it? bar? hahaha...) */ #include bar.h /* My header */ #include zzz.h /* Contains some #define's for compile-time options */ ... Should I make bar.h depend

Re: [vox-tech] is Java Compiler already installed in Fedora

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:28:15PM -0800, trina's pic wrote: Hello all, Does any know whether Java compiler is already installed in Fedora or we have to download it and install it... thank you I can't speak for Fedora's basic install, but I know under Debian, there's the gcj package:

Re: [vox-tech] Sig censoring?

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:39:50AM -0800, Ryan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 March 2004 12:10 am, Ryan cjg5ehir02-at-sneakemail.com |lugod| wrote: PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90  34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg

Re: [vox-tech] Sig censoring?

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:27:24AM -0800, Ryan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 March 2004 01:20 am, Ryan cjg5ehir02-at-sneakemail.com |lugod| wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 01:16 am, Ryan cjg5ehir02-at-sneakemail.com |lugod| wrote: XXX is

Re: Address (was: [vox-tech] Getting CUPS KDE to play together)

2004-03-23 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:36:31AM -0800, Hans W. Uhlig wrote: Anyone know why my Address is @ragabash.livepenguin.com I know ragabash is my hostname but... Where did the domain come from livepenguin.com is the domain which hosts lugod.org and the mailing lists. Perhaps when you try to post,

Re: Address (was: [vox-tech] Getting CUPS KDE to play together)

2004-03-23 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:40:30PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: If you were going to do what you suggest, you'd probably need to subscrube [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address - but you should try my solution first because who knows what happens if lots of messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounce. It'd be

Re: [vox-tech] Receiving an interrupt from a parallel port using xlib

2004-03-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:58:29PM +1100, Julie Russell wrote: Hi everyone, I have written an application in xlib that currently takes an xevent and processes it from the keyboard. Due to changes in hardware constraints I now have to take that event from a parallel port by receiving an

Re: [vox-tech] AC97 Sound Card

2004-03-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:32:49AM -0600, Jennifer Thomas wrote: i'm not even sure if the problem is the sound card, but when i play music from any player or given any file to download or a link to the internet that would require any sound, the sound sounds like the chipmunks are speaking or

Re: [vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-07 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:28:26PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i thought bill had this problem awhile ago. our archives stink, so you might just want to ask him. Nooo!! I refuse to try to remember ANYTHING about that time of my life. I'm a video game programmer now. The worst I need

Re: [vox-tech] How to Generate Colorized Table Slides for Presentation?

2004-03-04 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:46:57PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to: generate good looking Tables, from a Text file source, which allows easy Colorization of rows, columns, or single elements that outputs a common image format (PNG) or PDF. One idea is to

Re: [vox-tech] speech synthesis of a browser's window

2004-03-02 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:21:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: has anybody here used this plugin? Yes, I've used Konq's speech plugin in the past. Not sure the absolute latest has support for this, though. You might consider using Lynx or Links to do this, as well. Just have it dump the

Re: [vox-tech] speech synthesis of a browser's window

2004-03-02 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:58:59PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: snip do you know, offhand, how to tell which voice file i'm using? any quick tips on improving quality? Ooh, unfortunately, it's been a while since I played with festival. (Flite -- festival lite -- on the Zaurus was extremely

Re: [vox-tech] UPS and auto battery

2004-03-02 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:55:48PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just purchased a new battery online, for an old APC Back-UPS Pro 420 for $15 + $7 shipping. When i get home i will forward the address- they have a form, where you can choose your battery based on the make and model of your

Re: [vox-tech] XFree86 4.4.0 non-GPL compatible

2004-03-01 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:33:03AM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote: I don't understand the big picture. How can the XFree project get away with upsetting so many people? I don't think there's any TECHNICAL reason why they can't. ;^) Based on what little I know and have read about it (mostly

Re: [vox-tech] Move / from one HD to another

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:28:40PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: * mkdir /mnt/usr/local * mv /mnt/* /mnt/usr/local/ sounds... self-referential... I think this would lead to a full partition. Nah, it seemed to work fine. :^) It's all pretty moot, though. Between your comments

Re: [vox-tech] Move / from one HD to another

2004-02-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:24:44PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Anyway, since I have copious amounts of space on my 2nd drive, is it easy to just 'move' the '/' parition over, run LILO to make the newer drive bootable, and then remove the dying drive? (Obviously setting the 2nd drive as Master

[vox-tech] Move / from one HD to another

2004-02-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
I have two HDs in my main box. One is an older ~12GB drive, which is the master on my IDE chain, and acts as my root ('/') partition. The other is a much newer, much larger drive (~120GB), which contains my '/home' and '/usr/local' paritions. The older drive sounds like its death is imminent.

[vox-tech] Japanese from Mozilla to Emacs

2004-02-23 Thread Bill Kendrick
Hint to anyone trying to copy Japanese characters from a Mozilla browser into an XEmacs session (say, to quote something off the web on one of your own web pages)... Set LANG=ja_JP.eucjp before running Mozilla, and then you can just select and then paste (Edit-Paste or Ctrl-V) in Emacs. :) (At

Re: [vox-tech] help

2004-02-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
(Note: This was in vox-tech's queue, since Jungmee didn't seem to be subscribed to the list when posting this; still might not be. So I'm Cc'ing) On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:29:16PM -0800, Jungmee Kim wrote: My hard drive has been partitioned at the Installfest, and it now has Window XP

Re: [vox-tech] FSTAB Questions

2004-02-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:31:54AM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote: good point. the archive does become a working searchable helpdesk (or whatever), so answering the question from more than one angle can't hurt. Heh... At least twice I have typed in a question (or error report or somesuch) into

Re: [vox-tech] sound, kde, xmms, arts

2004-02-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:40:46AM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote: I'm not totally following this discussion, but I really enjoy XMMS. Are you guys posting these problems to the XMMS web site? Hehe, nah. I just blamed ARTSD (since I never run it normally), and hopped into #kde channel on IRC

Re: [vox-tech] [Re: kdelibs compile error]

2004-02-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:52:20AM -0800, Jennifer Stickel wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. I looked on gentoo forums and found the answer (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=136531postdays=0postorder=aschighlight=qt3+3start=0). Seems like one of the ebuilds was not quite

Re: [vox-tech] web access of openoffice documents

2004-02-11 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:15:03PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Tue 10 Feb 04, 6:40 PM, Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:58:38PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i'm teaching a few classes and keep my scores/averages in gnumeric spreadsheet (which i

Re: [vox-tech] Viruses coming from UC Davis.....

2004-02-11 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:15:00AM -0800, Gabriel Rosa wrote: With such a short username, it's entirely possible that someone just guessed your username at sonic. I've been getting a lot of virus bounces thanks to someone named [EMAIL PROTECTED]. That's my domain. There's no such user. So

Re: [vox-tech] graph paper

2004-02-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:58:47PM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote: I'd be neat if you could just specify a paper size and square size and then say print, and have some nice graph paper. Hrm. I have a little script I downloaded for printing envelopes. It reads a text file that describes To and From

Re: [vox-tech] web access of openoffice documents

2004-02-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:58:38PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i'm teaching a few classes and keep my scores/averages in gnumeric spreadsheet (which i can convert to openoffice of course). i want to have some kind of site where my students can log in using their SSN and perhaps a password

[vox-tech] Trouble mounting USB keychain

2004-02-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'm trying to get this Debian box I'm building for my dad to read/write to a USB keychain (aka USB 'mass storage' device), and have hit a roadblock. This is a Debian Woody system with stock 2.4.18 kernel from Debian. I've installed the 'hotplug' package, which is up and running. I've made sure

[vox-tech] Crashing X (cool LCD effect :) )

2004-02-03 Thread Bill Kendrick
Melissa was doing something in Gimp last night (she was in the midst of cropping a single-layer scanned image) when suddenly her LCD screen looked like it was being microwaved or something. (Looked kind of similar to what my Zaurus LCD does when it's shutting down for a reboot.) I checked logs,

[vox-tech] Toil! But success

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
Man, I just had fun(tm) getting this new box I bought from Mark Breitung working. :^) It's got a rather old network card, which happens to have three connectors on it (10BaseT, the RJ45 style we're all used to these days, as well as BNC and something that looks kinda like a joystick or MIDI

[vox-tech] [Semi-OT] Mac modem connector

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
My dad has an old Mac Performa 6215cd with an external 56K modem. I'm hoping to be able to use that modem with this new Linux box, rather than buy a new one, or figure out an internal one. It's been a while since I touched an older Mac, so I was hoping someone here might know the answer to

[vox-tech] Keyboard lockup when reading /dev/psaux

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'm about to finally go to bed for a little while :^) I noticed that when I got X installed on my new system, the machine would lock up. I eventually realized I could SSH in and kill X, and it came back to life. I thought at first it was X (the machine has a 3D Labs Permedia 2 card, and I'm

Re: [vox-tech] Keyboard lockup when reading /dev/psaux

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:30:03AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: What-thu!? Tried cat'ing /dev/psaux... LOCKUP! Brief Googling proves I'm not crazy, and this has happened to others. Some folks mentioned pcmcia being involved. Tried apt-get remove'ing pcmcia_cs, but the cat still locked

Re: [vox-tech] [Semi-OT] Mac modem connector

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:39:48AM -0800, Ken Herron wrote: You have a soldering iron, right? He don't know me very well, do he? I am decidedly NOT a hardware guy. :) I live in the nice soft place right above the kernel, and below the monitor and keyboard. ;) -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Keyboard lockup when reading /dev/psaux

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:55:29AM -0800, MB wrote: Bill, I can give you a PCI nic if you would like It sounds like it would make things a lot easier for you. I just stuck that old nic in there because I had it lying around. Wha!? After all that hard work!? :) Heheh Nah, I've got

Re: [vox-tech] Toil! But success

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:52:05AM -0800, MB wrote: Bill, That sounds great! I still have not found that modem. It's probably hiding under one of those big piles of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my desk. Anyway, glad you got things running. That box should last quite a while as it has a bunch

[vox-tech] Spam _bounce_ deluge

2004-01-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
Does anyone have a procmail recipe to filter bounces from the latest MS viruses? My inbox is pretty clean lately, since I'm finally having procmail move mailing list traffic into various other boxes, so I can peruse them more easily. However, while I'm not getting much of the MyDoom virus

Re: [vox-tech] spams originating from my friends server

2004-01-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:37:31AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: Often, it turns out that the complainant is fundamentally mistaken, and the offending mail never went anywhere near your MTA. People frequently file mistaken reports of this nature because they credulously believe forged From: and

Re: [vox-tech] sending mail from shell

2004-01-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:01:25AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: What is the program/package which provides the 'mail' command that can be used to send simple emails from shell? It must be very basic, but my gentoo install is missing it. I typically use 'sendmail'. When I sent out LUGOD

Re: [vox-tech] Kiosk

2004-01-20 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:14:00AM -0800, Hans W. Uhlig wrote: Bill, Is Java running on that kiosk in the coffee shop, If support is enabled continue, if not, you can ignore the post. I didn't install any Java VM specifically, but could be. I'll check. :^) write java app and post on website

[vox-tech] Web XML bizarreness (Was on vox, Re: [OT] SACDEV location and schedule set)

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:27:06AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Their site has details, at their new domain name: http://www.sacdev.org/ Checking out this site under Konqueror, I always wondered where the heck the _content_ was to this site, esp. since it now hints that there's so much. I

Re: [vox-tech] OT: Dell C600-series laptops

2004-01-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:17:22AM -0800, Richard Burkhart wrote: ... but ... from talking to people over the last day, I've heard references that C-6?? series Dell Latitudes have a problem with their power supply snip and haven't found a reference to the unit in the exploded diagrams Hehe,

Re: [vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

2004-01-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:56:15PM -0800, ME wrote: What about LILO/grub? can the user pass args to the kernel to be booted? You know, the old init=/bin/bash arg/trick for local root on boot without restrictions... hehe - come now, Michael! Yes, I have LILO restricted to ONLY let Linux

[vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
Okay, I had a feeling this would be asked, but I didn't realize it would only take a few DAYS for someone to ask it... :^) Is there an easy, safe way to let people SSH out of a kiosk (e.g., the one I set up in Chamonix over the weekend)? e.g., for folks who prefer to connect to their ISP (or

Re: [vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:37:41PM -0800, Ryan wrote: You could SSH to localhost, couldn't you? True, but unless the user knew the account name (e.g., root or guest) and the password (neither of which are blank or easy-to-guess, obviously), then they couldn't get in that way. I assume Debian

Re: [vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:06:50PM -0800, Ken Herron wrote: Your best bet might be to avoid sh altogether and use perl, c, or something like that: #!/usr/bin/perl -w print Host: ; my $host = STDIN; chomp $host; print Username: ; my $user = STDIN; chomp

Re: [vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
Is there anyhting 'bad' people can do from the menus in Xterm? (e.g., Ctrl+click, +middle-click and +right-click)? -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Providing access to SSH on Kiosk?

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:41:59PM -0800, ME wrote: Anyone with the lack of understanding of risk to use of a public station to ssh to another box is dancing with the devil. (Condemnation of users who would actually use ssh on untrusted machines.) Good point. I'm working on a sheet that will

[vox-tech] Hard drive access

2004-01-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
Melissa's laptop (a Thinkpad T20 running Debian Woody) has this habit of doing disk access quite often. (It's mostly noticable when it's quiet in the house, like right now, so I decided to investigate :^) ) The 'symptom' (assuming this is even a problem, and not just normal Linux behaviour) is

Re: [vox-tech] Hard drive access

2004-01-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:29:40AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Melissa's laptop (a Thinkpad T20 running Debian Woody) has this habit of doing disk access quite often. (It's mostly noticable when it's quiet in the house, like right now, so I decided to investigate :^) ) Hrm... Apparently

[vox-tech] Best way to clear a BIOS password

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'm assuming the best way to clear a BIOS's unknown password (and probably any other settings; d'oh!) is to remove the batter for a while. Here's a dumb question... how do I remove the battery? :^) I didn't see an obvious way. Do I need a particular tool? Sorry for the dumb question. Again,

Re: [vox-tech] Best way to clear a BIOS password

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:02:20PM -0800, Ken Herron wrote: Actually, the normal method is to short out a jumper on the motherboard. Look for a single two-pin jumper block somewhere near the battery and/or the BIOS chip. Short it out for a couple of minutes while the computer is turned

[vox-tech] Merging OpenOffice.org SXI files?

2004-01-08 Thread Bill Kendrick
Someone decided to e-mail me (I guess because of one of my recent presentations) and ask if it's possible, via command line, to merge two OpenOffice.org presentation files (.sxi). I have no idea! Does anyone here know off-hand? Thx! -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids?

Re: [vox-tech] RBL lists?

2003-12-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:01:54AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: you have to be really careful about which ones you choose. some are very aggressive. as an example, spamcop bl (which is not known to be aggressive at all) blacklisted a sonic.net block. bill couldn't post to the lists

Re: [vox-tech] New phishing vulnerability

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
Ah - here we go :) New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address from the can't-blame-the-user-for-this-one dept. posted by michael on Thursday December 11, @08:37 (ie) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/11/1319212 Will put up on LUGOD.org momentarily. :^) -bill!

[vox-tech] [Fwd] Re: Text and Image Scrolling in Xlib

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
! - Forwarded message from Bill Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:54:19PM -0800, Sharad Bajaj wrote: Hello Mr Bill, I was looking for help regrading Xlib for some graphics as I have two window i want to play movie in one window and in another window i want to scroll some

Re: [vox-tech] New phishing vulnerability

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:52:52PM -0800, Larry Ozeran wrote: That is scary. Rob, thanks for all your work on this. It will be one more chink in the MS armor at work. (One of our support guys repeatedly says Linux will never happen at Sutter Health. We'll see.) I've got a whole section full

Re: [vox-tech] Tar, MySQL, and cron-ed backups

2003-12-05 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:24:59PM -0800, David Siedband wrote: Why not just export the the databases with MySQL-dump and back up the exported files instead of the live databases? I'm vaguely familiar with what he's working on (though hadn't looked into backups there), and unfortunately, I

Re: [vox-tech] Increasing frame rate - never mind

2003-12-04 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:18:48PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: Simply decreasing my color depth seems to have solved many of my problems. From 24 to 16? Or? -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Going to Sleep In Console Mode

2003-12-03 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:57:58PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:59:51AM -0800, Mark Street wrote: Stupid is as stupid does... http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html Hehe - Looking more closely at thread, I realize I haven't had enough coffee yet

[vox-tech] Mozilla profile issue (WinXP; sorry ;) )

2003-11-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
[ NOTE: As I wrote this, I figured out the fix, so consider this just a documentation post ;^) ] Okay, so I'm running Mozilla on this WinXP laptop. Suddely, (probably due to the fact that the laptop died due to battery drain) Mozilla is refusing to launch! I get a Select User Profile dialog.

Re: [vox-tech] Mozilla crash on paste?

2003-11-28 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:23:37PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: And for your further entertainment, here's a simple page that will crash Mozilla: http://sunsetsystems.com/crash.html Mozilla 1.5 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 under WinXP doesn't crash.

Re: [vox-tech] Linux software for windows

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:54:01AM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: Hi, Just curious, want to know complete list of software's running on Linux and its equivalent in Windows worlds. For examples I know Really more of a vox question than 'vox-tech'. Just to quickly give some

[vox-tech] Mozilla crash on paste?

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'm working on Melissa's desktop box, a Debian Woody system with a backport of Mozilla (Mozila 1.5: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031115 Debian/1.5-3.he-1) and am noticing it crashes (as in, the window _vanishes_) whenever I paste into it! It doesn't matter if I'm

[vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
I was at Fry's the other day, looking to FINALLY buy a CD burner. I happened to run into a LUGOD attendee (Steve, who I vaguely recognized, but sadly barely remembered - sorry, Steve!), who recommended a DVD burner they were having a mail-in rebate deal for. So, I decided that 4.7GB is, indeed,

Re: [vox-tech] Text Scroller in Xlib---

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:00:43AM -0800, Sharad Bajaj wrote: Hello Mr Julie Russell , (Julie would be a Ms, Mrs or the like, FYI ;^) ) I have seen one or two message from ur side regrading one application .I am also developing same application I am looking for help how can we scroll text

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08AM -0800, Ryan wrote: +RW is random writeable. You could format it as ext2 and mount it :) OOh.. that's messed up. Cool! :^) I guess with nearly 5GB, the overhead of maintaining the filesystem stuff (directories, etc.) becomes much less of a problem. :^)

[vox-tech] Bittorrent for Woody howto

2003-11-22 Thread Bill Kendrick
So I was asked to set up BitTorrent on a Debian box here at home, and thought I'd share the simple steps it took to get it up and running. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing doohickey, that actually shares between numerous other peers. If I understand correctly, you end up getting

Re: [vox-tech] hello

2003-11-19 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:42:09AM -0800, Rusty Minden wrote: We do not turn away offers of help Jason. You may want to join the vox-if mailing list we discus IF (InstallFest) matters and such. I look forward to meeting you at the next IF on December 21. E-gads that is close to Winter

Re: [vox-tech] shell question: globbing and command arguments

2003-11-03 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:58:22AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so if i have backup.* in my local directoy, my example wouldn't work? i'll check that out. No, your example was: scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup* . So if you have files named, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup-me

[vox-tech] Un[L]imiting Mutt display?

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Kendrick
Don't have time to research. Figured someone here knows, as Mutt's popular. When I limit a mailbox listing (i.e, hit [L] and type a keyword to have it only show me matching messages), other than going back into the box (with [C]hange command), is there a way to turn off the limit? I've tried

Re: [vox-tech] Un[L]imiting Mutt display?

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:58:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then press the left arrow key to go back to the unlimited display. it essentially re-reads re-displays your mailspool. I didn't want to specifically move back to mailspool, nor did I want to re-read the mailbox. Say I'm on

Re: [vox-tech] Un[L]imiting Mutt display?

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:57:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but try this for an answer: do a limit on a* that is, zero or more occurances of a which should be everything in the inbox. let me know if that works. i'm running out the door right now to do to dinner... Hey cool!

Re: [vox-tech] X-No-Archive Inheritance?

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:21:07AM -0700, Mark Liechty wrote: snip The participants in the LUGOD lists are a pretty smart bunch who have probably spent more time on this thread than the problem is worth. The fact is that if you post illegal information at this time in out technical history

Re: [vox-tech] X-No-Archive Inheritance?

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:46:17PM -0700, Mark Liechty wrote: Lets see if we could agree with the following: Any comments or information that you would rather not see attached to any job application or that you wouldn't want in opposing councils hands for any reason in any legal matter.

Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:21:39PM +1000, Julie Russell wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to display a bitmap(.bmp) on the screen using xlib. I am using XReadBitmapFile to load the bitmap but it is giving me a BitmapFileInvalid on return. As someone else mentioned Xlib's idea of a bitmap is

Re: Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:20:06PM +1000, Julie Russell wrote: Hi again, I am writing an application in C++ using Xine, XLib and the common C++ library which is just a C++ wrapper for threads. I am trying to keep it as simple as possible, and not mix too many languages. I actually want to

Re: [vox-tech] X-No-Archive Inheritance?

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: One implementation which would seem to work well would be for a filter to check the headers to all messages in the References header; and if it found X-No-Archive, keep the response unarchived also. This is not trivial to

Re: [vox-tech] X-No-Archive Inheritance?

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:22:34PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: As I mentioned in another earlier thread, I think we should consider aliasing mailing list's e-mail address, in such a way that any mail sent to the aliased mailing list isn't archived. Can't personally act upon this at the moment.

[vox-tech] CSV with rogue EOLs

2003-10-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
Has anyone got a Perl or sed script handy that can take a CSV (comma-separated values) text file like this: 1234,Hello,ABCD 1235,Hello there,XYZ 1236,Goodbye, and make it look like this: 1234,Hello,ABCD 1235,Hello there,XYZ 1236,Goodbye, e.g., wherever there are EOLs

Re: [vox-tech] ripping video: wierd interleaving effect on fast motion

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:36:00PM -0700, Rob Rogers wrote: MythTV does support this via an IR Blaster...an IR transmitter that connects generally via a serial port. Any blaster device supported by the lirc driver will work. I've even seen schematics with RadioShack part numbers included

[vox-tech] mutt thread sorting

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Kendrick
Right now, my Mutt shows me most of my mailboxes in threaded view, sorted by date. Would it be possible to have one of them (my inbox) sorted first by list, then by date, and still be threaded? e.g., right now, I'd see: [sdl] 2.0 released! `- [vox] blah |- `- [mysql] how to foo in

Re: [vox-tech] procmail list marking - help needed

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:30:43AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bill, check out man procmailrc and look for TO. note the captitalization. that will do what you want: Sweet. :^) Thanks -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [VOX-TECH] Re: [vox-tech] procmail list marking - help needed

2003-10-09 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:05:47PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: snip Sweet. :^) Thanks And it works, too ;) (See Subject) I just replaced ^To: with ^TO_ where appropriate. -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org

Re: [vox-tech] Hackin' the Zaurus

2003-10-03 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:04:59PM -0700, Nicole TWN wrote: Hi gang, Nicole here in the third or fourth circle of Hell, AKA Los Angeles. Hard to tell which circle cuz of the smog, huh? ;) My favorite geek toy, my beloved Zaurus 5500, recently inspired one of the interns to get one for his

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:45:04AM -0700, David Margolis wrote: My wife and I talked about how tragic it would be if an elderly person answered, or a mentally disabled person, or anybody else who otherwise might be a bit easier to take advantage of. They were very good at the scam. We just

Re: [vox-tech] one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:52:48PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: I get about three or four nigerian scam messages per day, on average, at my personal email address. I got about 8 today. Since SoBIG died down, that's about ALL the vox* lists have been getting, so far as spam, lately. (I found

Re: [vox-tech] OT: one of the most pernicious spams i've ever seen.

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:26:09PM -0700, Larry Ozeran wrote: If there is a preponderance of interest in seeing my summary, I'll post it back to this thread. Consider this my statement of preponderancing. ;) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL

[vox-tech] .ixi and .ai files

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
Is anyone here familiar with .ixi or .ai files? The former seems to be recognized by both file and XV as a variation of the PCX format. Neither XV nor Gimp know how to open it. The latter (.ai) seems to be some kind of PDF file. GV barfs on it. XPDF loads it, but I don't trust it got

Re: [vox-tech] .ixi and .ai files

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:44:58PM -0700, Gabriel Rosa wrote: and a google search later... http://www.icdatamaster.com/i.html Hehe, thanks. I thought I'd have a hard time searching for such a short string, but I guess ya never know til you try. Of course, their explanation on that page is

Re: [vox-tech] Formating problem

2003-09-22 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:47:14AM -0800, Walther The Writer wrote: Mark, That is exactly how it was done, but... How did you mount the floppy (if at all)? How did you copy the file? Persoanlly, I usually use MTools for stuff like this: $ mcopy file.txt a: However, it'd be reasonable to

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