Re: Gentoo IF - Thank You
Nick Rout wrote: either copy them from the cd/dvd into /usr/portage or change the distfile dir in /etc/make.conf. HOWEVER if emerge decides it wants something that is not on the cd, it will try and download it and write it onto the cd/dvd, which is going to crap out. that sort of cd is not marketed by anyone as it would be a nightmare updating it. On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:23:19+1200 Conrad Wolf[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've copied David's distfiles into my /usr/portage/distfiles, but when I emerge a package that I've copied this way, portage wants to download it anyway. Do I have to update something to make it know that they're there? Cheers, Conrad.
Re: Browser article in today's Press
C Falconer wrote: Theres another word that is synonymous, like xerox What alternatives are there (for any OS) ? Apple have Keynote (not sure if this has been released yet). I think Macromedia Flash would be excellent for presentations. Pity I haven't gotten around to learning it yet. Powerpoint is extremely limiting. Regardless of the software I found the list of hints to contain some good suggestions. Most of the presentations I see at work are pretty badly done. The two biggest problems are putting far too much information on a slide, and using unreadable colours. Oh and the content does tend to be quite boring at times ;) But what annoys me most is when people don't add a closing slide so you either get the end of show, click to exit screen, or it goes back into the editing screen. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: Gentoo IF - Thank You
Conrad said:- I've copied David's distfiles into my /usr/portage/distfiles, but when I emerge a package that I've copied this way, portage wants to download it anyway. Do I have to update something to make it know that they're there? Have you done an 'emerge rsync' recently? It is possible that a new file has been added to the portage system and your computer is going to get the new version, or simply that David did not have the precise source file you want in the archive. What it the file you are trying to emerge? Please include the _precise_ ( sorry to be pedantic, but it's important ) path and file name of the .ebuild and the tar.gz files. Otherwise emerge with the full path and name of the .ebuild file you wish to emerge. The two free CDROMs I mentioned on the list as available have gone, but I can cut more. Particular packages could be added, there is about 55 Megs left before the two CDROMs are completely full vis:- 669319168 Jul 5 23:14 /usr/local/isos/AtoK.iso 674136064 Jul 5 23:17 /usr/local/isos/LtoZ.iso These archives hold 653 packages which is about 15% of the total packages available and represents approx 65 - 70 hours of download time with a 56k modem on a good day. The Mozilla sources at 31.1 Mbytes are actually in the AtoK CD otherwise they wouldn't fit in the CD. Install and LiveCD disks available too. KDE, no Gnome applications in these CDROMs. Just the gtk libraries, so GIMP works. $5 per CDROM + postage, or you collect. -- C. S.
Re: Gentoo IF - Thank You
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Have you done an 'emerge rsync' recently? It is possible that a new file has been added to the portage system and your computer is going to get the new version, or simply that David did not have the precise source file you want in the archive. What it the file you are trying to emerge? Please include the _precise_ ( sorry to be pedantic, but it's important ) path and file name of the .ebuild and the tar.gz files. Otherwise emerge with the full path and name of the .ebuild file you wish to emerge. Sorry, Chris, it was my fault. For some reason the big ones of David's distfiles didn't untar properly the first time. So I ended up with 0 kb files of the same names and didn't realize. After I've untared the archive again, everyrhing worked fine. This mail is allready written in my new Mozilla :). The two free CDROMs I mentioned on the list as available have gone, but I can cut more. Particular packages could be added, there is about 55 Megs left before the two CDROMs are completely full vis:- 669319168 Jul 5 23:14 /usr/local/isos/AtoK.iso 674136064 Jul 5 23:17 /usr/local/isos/LtoZ.iso These archives hold 653 packages which is about 15% of the total packages available and represents approx 65 - 70 hours of download time with a 56k modem on a good day. The Mozilla sources at 31.1 Mbytes are actually in the AtoK CD otherwise they wouldn't fit in the CD. Install and LiveCD disks available too. KDE, no Gnome applications in these CDROMs. Just the gtk libraries, so GIMP works. $5 per CDROM + postage, or you collect. At the moment I've no use for the CDs, but thanks for the offer. I've all the big packages together that I normally use and for the small bits and pieces it's more conveniant to simply emerge them. From now on I consider myself as a happy Gentoo user and I don't intend to go back to Debian (which I loved). Thanx to all who helped! Cheers, Conrad.
RE: syncing files of FTP
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ftpsync/ Hi, I am developing a php application and I need to sync the source files on my local server with a test server. How should I do this? Cheers Paul
Re: Browser article in today's Press
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:33, David Mann wrote: Regardless of the software I found the list of hints to contain some good suggestions. Most of the presentations I see at work are pretty badly done. The two biggest problems are putting far too much information on a slide, and using unreadable colours. Oh and the content does tend to be quite boring at times ;) Simply standing there, reading the slide to the audience is pretty terrible too. But what annoys me most is when people don't add a closing slide so you either get the end of show, click to exit screen, or it goes back into the editing screen. Yes - its the height of bad presentations to show off your XP desktop or whatever.
Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
I just want to say I'm impressed. A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched LinNeighbourhood on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up until now I've never managed to set up samba. Linux is more than ready for the reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus demographic of society. Yuri
Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
It always seems to have been easier to mount another windows machine than to go the other way. You don't need to fiddle with smb.conf to mount other machines (as you now know :-) mount -t smbfs or smbmount On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to say I'm impressed. A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched LinNeighbourhood on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up until now I've never managed to set up samba. Linux is more than ready for the reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus demographic of society. Yuri -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. - theregister.co.uk
RE: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
I quite like xfsamba. I've found it much easier to get my linux box running samba to connect to a windows computer than getting two windows computer to talk to each other. 1) Are we on the same subnet 2) Yes 1) Can you ping me 2) Yes 1) Windows neigbourhood can't find you. Are you sure you can ping me? 2) YES 1) Reboot your machine 2) Reboot _your_ machine -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:43 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. It always seems to have been easier to mount another windows machine than to go the other way. You don't need to fiddle with smb.conf to mount other machines (as you now know :-) mount -t smbfs or smbmount On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to say I'm impressed. A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched LinNeighbourhood on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up until now I've never managed to set up samba. Linux is more than ready for the reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus demographic of society. Yuri -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. - theregister.co.uk
Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
I have not set up much windows software recently, except that i set up some programs on an XP machine for a colleague the other day. I was appalled at the number of reboots. I have got so used to installing and immediately running with linux. you know like: emerge|apt-get|up2date openoffice bang its going, no reboot. how do you find what ip address you have in XP anyway? win9x has winipcfg, a little gui that tells you the ip characteristics and allows you to renew your dhcp lease. On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:51:13 +1200 Brad Beveridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quite like xfsamba. I've found it much easier to get my linux box running samba to connect to a windows computer than getting two windows computer to talk to each other. 1) Are we on the same subnet 2) Yes 1) Can you ping me 2) Yes 1) Windows neigbourhood can't find you. Are you sure you can ping me? 2) YES 1) Reboot your machine 2) Reboot _your_ machine -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:43 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. It always seems to have been easier to mount another windows machine than to go the other way. You don't need to fiddle with smb.conf to mount other machines (as you now know :-) mount -t smbfs or smbmount On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to say I'm impressed. A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched LinNeighbourhood on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up until now I've never managed to set up samba. Linux is more than ready for the reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus demographic of society. Yuri -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. - theregister.co.uk
RE: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
You can right click on the network connection icen in network neighbourhood, then properties then click on the TCP/IP protocol. There is also ipconfig. I wish I didn't know this stuff :) Brad -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:59 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. I have not set up much windows software recently, except that i set up some programs on an XP machine for a colleague the other day. I was appalled at the number of reboots. I have got so used to installing and immediately running with linux. you know like: emerge|apt-get|up2date openoffice bang its going, no reboot. how do you find what ip address you have in XP anyway? win9x has winipcfg, a little gui that tells you the ip characteristics and allows you to renew your dhcp lease. On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:51:13 +1200 Brad Beveridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quite like xfsamba. I've found it much easier to get my linux box running samba to connect to a windows computer than getting two windows computer to talk to each other. 1) Are we on the same subnet 2) Yes 1) Can you ping me 2) Yes 1) Windows neigbourhood can't find you. Are you sure you can ping me? 2) YES 1) Reboot your machine 2) Reboot _your_ machine -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:43 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. It always seems to have been easier to mount another windows machine than to go the other way. You don't need to fiddle with smb.conf to mount other machines (as you now know :-) mount -t smbfs or smbmount On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to say I'm impressed. A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched LinNeighbourhood on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up until now I've never managed to set up samba. Linux is more than ready for the reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus demographic of society. Yuri -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. - theregister.co.uk
Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:58:57AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: how do you find what ip address you have in XP anyway? win9x has winipcfg, a little gui that tells you the ip characteristics and allows you to renew your dhcp lease. At a command prompt, 'ipconfig /all' will get you NIC configuration details. 'ipconfig /renew' will renew your DHCP lease. You can also do this using a GUI by double-clicking the NIC in the Network properties. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:51:13AM +1200, Brad Beveridge wrote: 1) Are we on the same subnet 2) Yes 1) Can you ping me 2) Yes 1) Windows neigbourhood can't find you. Are you sure you can ping me? 2) YES 1) Reboot your machine 2) Reboot _your_ machine Windows machines, especially on an ad-hoc network with no WINS servers, can take a long time to agree on who is the browser master and to distributed the browser list to all of the machines on the LAN. There's no need to reboot, but you have to be patient. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
In w2k, NT, Win XP:- In command prompt, Ipconfig Ipconfig /all Ipconfig /release Ipconfig /renew Regards, Robert If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:59 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. I have not set up much windows software recently, except that i set up some programs on an XP machine for a colleague the other day. I was appalled at the number of reboots. I have got so used to installing and immediately running with linux. you know like: emerge|apt-get|up2date openoffice bang its going, no reboot. how do you find what ip address you have in XP anyway? win9x has winipcfg, a little gui that tells you the ip characteristics and allows you to renew your dhcp lease. On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:51:13 +1200 Brad Beveridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quite like xfsamba. I've found it much easier to get my linux box running samba to connect to a windows computer than getting two windows computer to talk to each other. 1) Are we on the same subnet 2) Yes 1) Can you ping me 2) Yes 1) Windows neigbourhood can't find you. Are you sure you can ping me? 2) YES 1) Reboot your machine 2) Reboot _your_ machine -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:43 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. It always seems to have been easier to mount another windows machine than to go the other way. You don't need to fiddle with smb.conf to mount other machines (as you now know :-) mount -t smbfs or smbmount On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to say I'm impressed. A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched LinNeighbourhood on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up until now I've never managed to set up samba. Linux is more than ready for the reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus demographic of society. Yuri -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. - theregister.co.uk
MSLinux
Hmmm, Interesting :) http://www.mslinux.org/ - Marc The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated.
Re: MSLinux
lol On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:51 am, Marc Archbold wrote: Hmmm, Interesting :) http://www.mslinux.org/ - Marc The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated. -- Linux paulsmachine 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
Nick Rout wrote: emerge|apt-get|up2date openoffice bang its going, no reboot. emerge openoffice definitely doesn't go bang and it's going :). You don't have to reboot, though. Conrad.
Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box.
No, in that case it's urpmi openoffice and bang, it's going. =) Conrad Wolf wrote: Nick Rout wrote: emerge|apt-get|up2date openoffice bang its going, no reboot. emerge openoffice definitely doesn't go bang and it's going :). You don't have to reboot, though. Conrad.
OpenOffice Basic
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: No, in that case it's urpmi openoffice and bang, it's going. =) Speaking of: What kind of OpenOffice Basic tutorials are there ? I know about the SDK (1.0.2) and there is an older StarOffice tutorial but ... ... it's proving to be a rather tough cookie :-) (Python is still a while away I I feel no compulsion to learn Java, not until I'll see a free and complete implementation anyway plus other don't like it) And I don't know of any books (on the OO Basic that is). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
Re: grub.conf
I believe this to be the case, interestingly I use a VFAT /boot partition so I can edit grub.conf from eckspee and VFAT doesn't support sym links which was causeing the tar error I had on the GIF day when stage1 was extracting. Accordinly my grub says: kernel (hd0,2)/bzImage /cb Nick Rout wrote: thinking about it I think it may be so that you can use the line kernel=/boot/bzImage, whether or not /boot is a separate partition. Think about it! On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:19:54 +1200 Conrad Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, do you remember the strange line in grub.conf from Saturday? In the kernel line one specifes the location of the kernel image like (boot partition)/boot/bzImage, where the boot partition itself is normally mounted at /boot in the root tree. Therefore there shouldn't be a directory by the name /boot in the boot partition. I've found that the boot partition has a symbolic link with the name boot to itself. Hence you could also write (boot partition)/bzImage or even (boot partition)/boot/boot/boot/boot/bzImage with exactly the same result. Cheers, Conrad. -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gentoo / open office
I bit the bullet the other night and poped over to Nicks and picked up the source dist for Open Office and I was pleasantly suprised that it compiled in just 8.5 hrs! (PIV1600/PIII800 distcc) I was expecting days for 'the biggest source tarball in open source' but it was a fair bit less than the 20 or so hours for KDE... So... go forth and compile ! : ) /cb just have to get DRI running now (radeon M7)...
Re: gentoo / open office
8.5 hours, 20 hours, uh-huh. There are some patient people out there. I bit the bullet the other night and poped over to Nicks and picked up the source dist for Open Office and I was pleasantly suprised that it compiled in just 8.5 hrs! (PIV1600/PIII800 distcc) I was expecting days for 'the biggest source tarball in open source' but it was a fair bit less than the 20 or so hours for KDE... So... go forth and compile ! : )
Re: OpenOffice Basic
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Yuri de Groot wrote: Speaking of: What kind of OpenOffice Basic tutorials are there ? I know about the SDK (1.0.2) and there is an older StarOffice tutorial but ... ... it's proving to be a rather tough cookie :-) (Python is still a while away I I feel no compulsion to learn Java, not until I'll see a free and complete implementation anyway plus other don't like it) And I don't know of any books (on the OO Basic that is). Your question has led me to try hbasic asap, I found it at: http://hbasic.sourceforge.net/ I'm gonna download it and play. It might meet your needs too. I don't want [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basic :-D All I want is to be able to write some simple macros in OO. But: - C++ is an overkill - Java is also quite an overkill + is not as fast to develop (compared to Python, Perl, etc) - Python is not available in 1.0.x series, might be in 1.1 and beyond So the only one left is the OO Basic. (and AFAIK it appears that 1.1 will have a macro recorder :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
Re: gentoo / open office
yes once you have done it once you have the program installed, if there is an upgrade you may need to compile again, but you can do that with nice so the box is still usable, and you can still use the old version while the new one compiles. Usually even with a long compile a new version of kde is available on my box before redhat/mandrake/whatever get binary packages made and distributed. people should remeber that they can compile their own binaries under rpm as well, using src.rpm's and the rebuild commands. You can optimise for your own architecture. There was a nice little howto written by a kiwi, but i cannot find it on google at present. Maybe he went to gentoo :-) On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:10:07 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8.5 hours, 20 hours, uh-huh. There are some patient people out there. I bit the bullet the other night and poped over to Nicks and picked up the source dist for Open Office and I was pleasantly suprised that it compiled in just 8.5 hrs! (PIV1600/PIII800 distcc) I was expecting days for 'the biggest source tarball in open source' but it was a fair bit less than the 20 or so hours for KDE... So... go forth and compile ! : ) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HD Installs of Knoppix
I've installed most of Knoppix on a HD but seem to have missed off the network interface stuff. Is there a nice configuration utility hiding in there? Running kudzu and chucking things in rc.local works fine, I just wondered if there was a better way. I do realise that it's a bit of a patchwork distribution with free and non-free and stabe and unstable etc. in it. Is there anything that describes how to tidy things up to a slightly saner Debian distro? Vik :v)
Re: OpenOffice Basic
If you want todo some basic programing with linux you could try. http://gambas.sf.net http://hbasic.sf.net or the delphi Part of Borlands free kylix IDE. http://www.borland.com Gambas is very very easy to pick up. And texstar does have a Mandrake package avaliable I think. If not there is a source listed on the website for mandrake packages. It also has some decent doc and tutorials. However it is interpreted so if you want to make simple apps try delphi. All three have the draw your GUI style tools. Chad On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: No, in that case it's urpmi openoffice and bang, it's going. =) Speaking of: What kind of OpenOffice Basic tutorials are there ? I know about the SDK (1.0.2) and there is an older StarOffice tutorial but ... ... it's proving to be a rather tough cookie :-) (Python is still a while away I I feel no compulsion to learn Java, not until I'll see a free and complete implementation anyway plus other don't like it) And I don't know of any books (on the OO Basic that is). Cheers,
Re: Browser article in today's Press
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:50, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:42, C Falconer wrote: [snip] ... a how to use Powerpoint article that didn't mention any free alternatives :-( There's another word that is synonymous, like xerox What alternatives are there (for any OS) ? * I use LaTeX [1] * OO.org has presentation software built in [2] Firin' up an OpenOffice presentation on Future Technologies right here in preparation for the Uniforum on the weekend. Works a treat. Vik :v)
Re: Browser article in today's Press
yes i've used it for my presentations to clug and found it fine. I haven't used powerpoint for years, so cannot comment on the bells whistles stuff. also that guru Ken Yap used it for his presentation at clug, so thats some sort of endorsement i guess. On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:41:19 +1200 Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:50, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:42, C Falconer wrote: [snip] ... a how to use Powerpoint article that didn't mention any free alternatives :-( There's another word that is synonymous, like xerox What alternatives are there (for any OS) ? * I use LaTeX [1] * OO.org has presentation software built in [2] Firin' up an OpenOffice presentation on Future Technologies right here in preparation for the Uniforum on the weekend. Works a treat. Vik :v) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncing files of FTP
seems to me you write a script, which in the hands of someone more skillful than me should be trivial. Yes. That script is written in C and called sitecopy (already shipped by major Linux distrobutions). It has a stupid mode in which it never reads the server content, but keeps track of what it has uploaded, and then assumes the server content is as what it thinks it is. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: OpenOffice Basic
Why go BASIC? Try ruby or python, but if you really want to use basic use monobasic (go-mono.org) -Paul
OT Wireless connections and recent snowfalls
Hi all, I'm very curious if anyone who uses wireless, eg Walker Wireless, IHUG Ultra, etc, has experienced any problems during recent snow falls. I'm just curious about the reliability of wireless comms because I live in a rural non-adsl, non-saturn location. Yuri
