[help] ISO file too large
Hoping to make use some old 486s for fun, I downloaded an iso of Peanut Linux as was (now aLinux). It's 760 MB and my Mac Mini won't burn it. Apple people: is overburning what I should keep looking for help screens on? Linux people: is Peanut serviceable on 486s or is there a better distro? Anybody: What's the point of a 760 iso? Does anyone make 800 mb CDs? Kind regards and a happy New Year to all Ken McAllister
Ubuntu and OSX
(1) Fifteen assorted Ubuntus just arrived from Europe; they're in the letterbox at 125 Sparks Road for the first comer [note A] (2) I've abandoned the simple command-line process of, for example, obtaining sound by doing no more than gurgulating the necrotiser and running zxcvb on the palimpsest while un-commenting the Vim files at lines 2500 to 48 735, twice, and replacing axolotl 3.0.99 with the retrospective updates before recompiling the backwards compatible heat death of the universe. [note B] I bought a Mac Mini. OS X just works. I love it. (3) Thank you to Clug members for help and advice. Ken McAllister [A] I can post the discs if wished; please supply an address [B] There are better parodies, I know.
Re: Publishmentification (was Entirely OT, still is)
Lulu's OK. Anyone can publish anything, which led the Guardian (UK) to say unkindly that the authors outnumber the buyers. However, Author A's work is not disadvantaged by Author B's less tidy work because Lulu provides each author with an individual storefront or website. For example, www.lulu.com/AnnEnglish . Lulu doesn't do editing, proofreading, or censorship, although the first two services are available from Lulu associates at a price. The website is free. The paperbacks, hardbacks, E-books, CDs, and calendars are in fixed formats at fixed base costs. The author must upload finished work. OpenOffice is better than Microsoft Word, partly because it exports PDF files. A dial-up connection is unsatisfactory. Get broadband. The quality of the books is good. The author sets their own profit margin on top of the base cost. Lulu takes only 25% of that margin - and purchases by the author have no margin, so if you want to buy a dozen copies for your friends you get them at cost. I would be surprised if Lulu didn't take a small commission on printwork. The help forums, paid staff, and response times are good. An ISBN number - or should I say an international standard ISBN book number - can be arranged for a fee. The thing to do oneself is publicise, publicise, publicise. If one isn't a speaker with captive audiences, one acquires skills in sending unsolicited emails.
Re: Outlook style stationary image for background on emails
It's spelled STATIONERY. Standing still is stationary. Of course it matters, just as it matters how you spell the unmount command.
Re: Reminder: Freenix Workshop tonight
Regards, Rik Who else here is from Nelson? =Andrew is that the one in Lancashire? Nay, lad. 'Tis 10k from Pontypridd, half way to Merthyr Tydfil, well away from the daft English.
Re: Dubious securuty?
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Could anyone give me recommendations ...? Thank you again, Josh. I like Ubuntu. I have a few CDs to give away but they're out of date. Are people in general receiving the latest mail-out of free discs?
OOo, Ubuntu, fonts
OOo 1.1.3 and Ubuntu 5.01 freshly upgraded (30 hours); need fonts from previous incarnation; expect Fonts button on 'spadmin' programme; no button; Help screen says GOTO line 3; apropos fonts leads me to defoma; man defoma leads me to man defoma-font; ugh. My vision is clearing now and I can move my head without needing a bucket. Has anyone travelled this road recently? Ian?
Re: Learning curves
I purchased the April 2004 issue of A(ustralian) P(ersonal) C(omputer) because it had a gratifying report on Linux and because its two CDs included Omnis Studio RAD tool for ... Linux. Mozilla can't see anything in or above the directories shown in /mnt/cdrom, and shows only the words and a few boxes of /mnt/cdrom/default.htm, no pictures or links. Galeon does the same. Nautilus detours through Quanta and shows the code, which when previewed does the same: can't find second-level files or directories. Konqueror, bless it, came up with a message that I needed frames. No doubt recent correspondence refers. I cannot get this message to appear again. Perhaps it wasn't while trying Konqueror that I saw it. Any advice on which FM to R will be gratefully followed. Have I said goodbye to my $9.95?
Re: Learning curves
Thanks, Nick. I've adjusted my clock, too. Nick Rout wrote: it seems you can probably download from http://www.omnis.net/downloads/studioeval.html Also I think apc has a website where you might be able to complain about a faulty cd.
Re: OT - IE reject messages
anton wrote: Hi, I am about to block IE users from my website ... give me your opinion [messages] Shorter suggestion below. Use or discard at will. Your Insecure Browser Not Supported, sorry. Because of security flaws in the Microsoft Internet Explorer, you may not browse this site. Click on any link below to obtain a reliable and secure replacement at no charge. ** My thoughts are that the simple message MS IE Flawed is easier to get across than MS IE Flawed, MS OS Should Also Be Replaced. It is also easier for the reader to implement: browsers can be replaced in minutes. OSes take longer.
Re: Internet Literacy - Knowledge Society
Brad Beveridge wrote: Survey doesn't appear to work with Moz1.4 (boxes don't get ticked) It's okay with Mozilla 1.1
200 messages a day
someone wrote I've had 60 messages into my mailbox already today and if you want to be on a list that gets 200 messages a day good for you because I don't. You don't have to unsubscribe. I can read a top-post and hit delete 200 times in about 200 seconds, or less if I sort by header. (flame suit on) Bottom posts more than 18 lines down don't exist at that speed. Or any speed. Sorry. The loss is mine, I know. (flame suit retained)
Re: PayPal... Is there a NZ version?
We sent our daughter overseas with a low-limit Visa (minimum limit possible is $500) and loaded it with money here: that is, it's in credit and they owe us money. She's doing an exchange-student 7th form year. She has instructions to open a local account and make one big Visa transfer. She has instructions not to use the card for purchases or to use its credit (where we owe them money). The cost was $45 up front (with photo) plus cash advance fee(s) $5 or so and arbitrary exchange rates (unspecified). Kiwibank do a pocket money for students cash card but the fees are higher, the service is contracted out, and it's not a Visa card. Of course, this is no help to CLUG people in New Zealand. Once I bought sterling notes from a bank. It's cheap enough, even with the $6 standard fee up to $nz250, percentage thereafter, but its still risky to post.
Re: clearing out CDs ...
Jim Cheetham wrote: Anyone want a set of the three Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo CDs? Free to a good home. -jim Yes, please, Jim. Please snail-mail to Box 33 194 Barrington, Christchurch. Please accept in return your choice of (a) classic Giles cartoon annual (b) block of chocolate (c) three blank CDs (d) all of the above Kind regards Ken McAllister
Re: New Critical Update
MS Network Security Department wrote: MS Customer this is the latest version of security update, ... could allow an malicious user ... Ken McAllister says: Is the olfactory piscatorialness terrific? Do M$ themselves write English quite this badly?
Re: Saving an image from OpenOffice
Vik Olliver wrote: Ctrl-C Ctrl-V doesn't work between The Gimp and OpenOffice. Arrghh! Ken McAllister says: I have found with the Klipper clipboard that multiple repeats of several or more of these techniques twice or three times in any order over and over again usually gets stuff into and out of Open Office and other programmes (1) Clear clipboard history (2) Use right button and Copy from written menu (3) Allow left-click to linger on Copy for a beat (4) Look at Klipper and tick the correct item out of many (5) Use right button and Paste from written menu ... but I haven't tried it with images. Sorry, Vik. I think we are in art country, not science country here. Comments on wind in the East and position of tongue welcomed.
Re: Keyboard Repeat Rate
Daniel Fone wrote: Hi guys, Where is the best place to change my _global_ keyboard repeat rate? I am using KDE but it is also slow in a standard tty. Do I need to change it an XServer level? Thanks, Daniel Ken McAllister says I found this at http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2000/Apr/0085.html but I haven't tried fixing my keyboard because it isn't broken /snip Did you by any chance recently install XFree 4.0? The keyboard rate code changed and I found my repeat rate had also dropped to the lowest. Make sure you've got the line: Option AutoRepeat 250 30 in the InputDevice/Driver keyboard section of your XF86Config. Jon. /endsnip
Re: Silly names (was Distro choice not easy for Windows people...)
Ken McAllister says: Mozilla and Konqueror at first sight I took to be the addictive gorilla game and the fire-rockets-off-the-top-of-the-screen-and-they-appear-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen star wars game. Programming and teaching in DOS, years ago, I tried to warn people that silly names haunt you. Name an object CASHBOOK and it is gratifying to type the word. Name it CSHBK01 and it is a constant irritation. I discarded an entire language because every one of its scores of commands was ugly, for example page break default, which could have been PAGEBREAK DEFAULT, was PG_BRK DFLT.
Re: su root - replies appreciated
Thank you Julian and Greg for sudo and fakeroot
su root before setup -net Open Office
I have OOo1.1, thanks to helpful advice from the group re. wget. (4 hours 30 minutes and 7 interruptions). I have setup. I have setup -net for a good reason (which I forget) dating from last years installation of OOo1.0. I am told by setup -net that I need root privileges. My fingers hover over the keys su root. Is this wise? Is it elegant? Is it advisable? Is it a good habit? What should I be reading, in order better to understand a very recent thread?
Re: wget
Timothy Musson wrote: I tend to use my browser to d/load stuff under about 3Mb, then switch to wget for anything bigger. Ken says, Thank you, Tim.
Re: OpenOffice (not a useful reply to Joshua, sorry)
Joshua Collins wrote: Up until now OpenOffice has been fine, the fonts were all fine. But just now I opened it up and it's all gone to a Teletype font (menus, cell entries, etc), all I've done since I last used it was to install XSPIM. How do I fix this? Ken McAllister says: Something similar used to happen to me with date fields imported from M$.docs. I now use RTF for sending documents to my friends with M$, and I ask for a similar courtesy from them. /snip This email is to inform you about the release of version '1.1 RC3' of 'OpenOffice.org' through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information can be found at http://freshmeat.net/projects/openoffice/ The changes in this release are as follows: Many bugs were fixed, and various new features were added. / end snip Question 1: If I turn up at eCafe with five dollars can I have this latest OOo 1.1 on a cd? Question 2: What does RC3 mean? Question 3: I'm using Mozilla 1.1 and Mandrake 9.0. The Download Manager screen in Mozilla shows progress in downloading a file. Sometimes there is an interruption. I have tried to read the manual. I have tried left and right clicking on everything intuitive. (a) is there a way of re-starting the download where it left off? (b) is there another utility - perhaps a command line utility - which offers this convenience?
Re: Fwd: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk .....
/top post This message received at 22.20 (Mozilla on Mandrake 9.0) The image http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahuusko/kuvat/hauskat/ruslinux.jpg; cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. /end top post Wesley Parish wrote: Just thought people might like to know what the Russian Penguin is wearing this winter... Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk . Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:22 From: Waite, Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Day, A friend in Tomsk sent me this one http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahuusko/kuvat/hauskat/ruslinux.jpg Regards, Dick Waite Senior RD Consultant (Special Projects), Software AG, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany Email:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Fwd: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk .....
Luuk Paulussen wrote: It worked for me... and it was classic Ken says: Nope! At 09.09 NZT Friday, The image ?http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahuusko/kuvat/hauskat/ruslinux.jpg? cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. /top post This message received at 22.20 (Mozilla on Mandrake 9.0) The image â??http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahuusko/kuvat/hauskat/ruslinux.jpgâ?? cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. /end top post Wesley Parish wrote: Just thought people might like to know what the Russian Penguin is wearing this winter... Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk . Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:22 From: Waite, Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Day, A friend in Tomsk sent me this one http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahuusko/kuvat/hauskat/ruslinux.jpg
Re: another article
G. M. Bodnar wrote: This one's almost local. I'm still up in the air on it, though. The language kinda reminds me of a moron talking to children. This should have taken another pass through the editorial department. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3509550 Greg --- - Ken McAllister comments: It's a cleverly written - and well-written - piece aimed at the general public with a reading age of 12, in the style of a religious convert. I say well-written because the author has avoided the pitfalls of true religious enthusiasm, two of which pitfalls are, if I may say so, (1) assuming that everyone knows what is obvious to the writer, and (2) using a kinda language which is off-register. When enthusiasts write, people think They are really enthusiastic about Linux. When professionals write, people go out and try Linux.
Re: Molten Media (was Old hardware .... )
Carl Cerecke and Christopher Sawtell wrote: ... they are trading retail ... They donated some stuff ... Ken McAllister comments: I am prejudiced in Molten Media's favour because they gave some equipment to Larry Ross for Nuclear Free NZ; I am possibly prejudiced against them because in a couple of visits I couldn't get a feeling for exactly whom they intended to benefit. If Molten Media is a charity, does anyone know who the trustees are? If Molten Media is not a charity, can anyone tell me its legal set-up? I don't wish them harm; I'm just curious. Oh, I remember. This was ages ago and I am sure that things have changed. Can I buy one without paying for Windows? I remember asking. Can I put Linux on one of these machines? The sensible answers (I know now!) were: yes, of course, and, no, most of these mavchines are too old to run both Linux and a modern office suite like StarOffice; the customer is better off with Windows and Word. What they actually answered was, as I recollect, Of course not - we have to stay legitimate - we must sell Windows or else you would copy your existing Windows and we would be in trouble.
Publicise open source?
I haven't the experience to help this advertiser into OpenOffice running on /choice of flame war/ version of Linux, but I'd like to get the experience by helping someone else help her. The advert below is from the Spreydon Baptist newsletter today, 8 June 2003. Alison is Alison Ford, manager of the Spreydon Pre-school, 239 Lyttelton Street. Preschool have a need of licensed copies of Windows 98 and Microsoft Office software. We have been given 5 computers for children and staff but lack the software. Can you help? Please contact Alison on 338 5468 Once they're happy, I'll pop a photo into the local newspapers.
[Fwd: OpenOffice Help] Look! No address!
This is an email with no from address and no reply-to address. Original Message Subject: OpenOffice Help Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:53:03 -0400 From: John Winter To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, /helpful message/ Regards, John Winter I cannot see how to eliminate those addresses from an email done in Mozilla. Is it important that I don't?? TIA Ken McAllister
Re: FileCompare equivalent diff
Nick Rout wrote: diff file1 file2 file3 Ken McAllister says thank you. Question 17:02, reply 17:07. Wow.
Re: OpenOffice Writer, also FileCompare equivalent?
John Williams wrote a couple of weeks ago 2. The OO address book does not seem to me to have flexible address fields. Is there a way to add another address line, for example? Ken McAllister asks: Sorry if this is something I should have seen, but (1) was there any joy, and (2) if I missed a reply, is there an archive which I can search, apart from my own rubbish tin of deleted messages, and (3) on a completely different topic, is there a Linux command-line equivalent of FC (file compare) filename1 filename2 filename3, which in my previous operating system produced a list filename3 of the differences between two Ascii or binary files? It was clever and useful, and stayed in synch for disparities of hundreds of keystrokes.
Re: Linux Audio Article
Jason Greenwood wrote: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html is a great article ... might be especially helpful for newbs. Ken McAllister says: Halleluja! I was going to plead for help on Monday. Now I don't have to. Linux found my sound card. Use the BIOS setup to disable the on-board sound chip, advised the article, and let Linux detect the PCI card. I did, and it worked. In ninety seconds I was playing music, after months of frustration, installing every new Linux and reading every HOWTO. Once only did I get ten seconds of clear sound under one of the Red Hats. Windows annoyed me by plugging and playing every time, of course. Thank you, Jason, and thank you to all contributors to a valuable and always-interesting LUG.
Re: Padlocked drives and other frustrations
I am using OO 1.0.1 and Mandrake 9 on a Pentium 450 with 384 Mb, (1) While looking one by one at a number of floppies, and successfully opening in OO some of the StarOffice 5.2 files on them to save immediately AS themselves on the hard disc, I found abruptly that each floppy did not exist, even ones which had previously been OK In Konqueror, the icon for /mnt/floppy had a padlock on it, and every property was greyed out. In a shell, as non-root I had no access and as root, trying chmod 777 /mnt/floppy I got an Input/Output error. Back in Konqueror the CDROM /mnt/cdrom had also acquired a padlock. My reference books, the 192 page Linux in Easy Steps by David Nash published by ComputerStep and the 1189 page Mastering Linux by Arman Danesh, published by Cybex are not helpful, I am afraid. Even if they were intelligently indexed, their text does not contain the error messages which are the users only point of reference. The challenge was successfully met in the Windows way: close down all programmes and re-start (no luck), log out and log in again (no luck), re-boot. What do real Linux people do? I should be glad to have guidance about which M to RTF. (2) How do I configure Konqeror to display in list form, not icons? (3) I have tried to get sound using the GUI tools without success. What command line tools are peoples favourites? (4) For historical reasons I have two mice. Linux once did not recognise the Microsoft USB three-button mouse, so I bought a serial mouse. Why should Linux sometimes upon re-booting recognise both and sometimes not? Why should the USB mouse occasionally hang, requiring a re-boot? Again, I should be glad to have guidance about which M to RTF. Sorry about being long-winded. I have probably left out important clues, alas.
