Re: Openmoko
The OpenMoko is a GSM (GPRS, not HSDPA) phone.
Re: [SPAM-Bowenvale] Re: Openmoko
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:48 +1200, Don Gould wrote: Do they have plans for HSDPA? I am unsure if they have plans for HSDPA. I guess so, but a Google should confirm it ☺
Re: gnome2 file associations...
Anyone know what file(s) control the associations? Possibly /usr/share/application-registry/*
Re: DMCA now law in NZ
The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act has many good points. For example, ISPs do not breach copyright by holding a copy of a work, either in a cache or elsewhere on the system, such as on a Web page that they run for a user (the ISP was in breach before). The Act also allows time-shifting, format shifting, and decompiling. While “Technological Protection Measures” are allowed, it is not as bad as it could have been. For example, the CSS “encryption” on DVDs is not a TPM, because it “only controls access to a work for non-infringing purposes” (Section 226(b)).
Re: XML Editors?
Much like Zane, I write documents using a normal text-editor (gedit, in my case) and then use xmllint to verify that what I wrote is sane. -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: Small / low power Linux device/PC
I'm looking for a local supplier of a PC/device suitable for use as an industrial data logger/controller. Bluewater systems http://bluewatersys.com/ sell ARM-based development kits, that run Linux out of the box. They are quite powerful devices, and have many ways of communicating with the outside world. Alternatively, you could rewire an OpenMoko http://www.openmoko.com/ to operate your devices ☺ If you want something smaller, but still open, Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/ may do what you want.
Re: Tip of the day: Gnome Keyboard shortcuts and full screen everything.
Hmm. Perhaps I can set my colour scheme to back ye olde nice gloomy green screen... If you want gloomy, you can always try the “High Contrast Inverse” GNOME theme. Or is the large print variant needed… ☺ -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: chroot
Does anyone know how to use choot? I followed the man age and ran sudo chroot Desktop/, but it gave an error That is probably because there is not bin directory in your Desktop ☺ The change root command is used to change where the root-directory (/) is. The only time I can ever recall using it, from the command line, was to switch the root-directory from a rescue disc to the main hard-disk of the system I was working on, so passwd would change the correct files. What are you trying to do? I suspect you are using the wrong tool for the job.
Re: Hardware graphics acceleration
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:12 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: …the only difference between the latest version of the i810 and intel drivers was that the intel driver included the 915resolution functionality. Including the 915resolution functionality is not a small difference. I have had more success using the intel driver, under Ubuntu, than the i810 driver. For example, I have been able to switch between LCD monitors of different resolutions when using the intel driver, but not the i810 driver. I do not have multiple monitors going simultaneously, but that is mostly due to a lack of time time to find and set the correct options, rather than bugs with the driver. As to your memory problem, I recall that the chipset in question shares video-RAM with main memory, like the Apple ][. It should automatically set how much RAM to use, but you can set it manually, by passing the VideoRam option to the device (see xorg.conf(5)) -- Michael JasonSmith
Re: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn upgrade.
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 19:39 +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2007-04-23T18:10:06+1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: (is there a way of mounting an iso as a virtual cd rom under linux?) installation was easy (if time consuming). mount -o loop /path/to/disk/image /path/to/mount/point The phrase you were looking for, Kerry, was loopback. :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: Mailing List issues.
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:37 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: ...and you need to be careful about getting the timezones correct. …and the clocks are often wrong. -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: List Licence - CC - GPL ... ?
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 15:42 +1200, Don Gould wrote: Some of your content will be very useful as class room material for LES. Regardless of the licence, I would normally ask the author, out of politeness. In addition, people normally get a kick out of their work being used, so they like to hear of it :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: xinerama
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:13 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: I have it working with my Intel 855GM based Acer laptop. I am struggling with a 945GM Dell :( The major problem I have is that I now need to select a different xorg.conf file depending on what is required: Could you fire these off to me too? -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: Ubuntu, VM Server and Windoze
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 17:07 +1300, Kerry Mayes wrote: Can anyone forsee any problems? Graphics :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Problems with Dell Laptop [Was: Dell sells computers without Windows preinstalled]
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 20:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: There are two good sites with linux laptop info, with laptops listed by model, and links to user sites which describe user experiences. http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html These are good, up to a point. I have had the joy of trying to get a Dell 640m laptop (with an internal 1440x900 display) to use an external 1680x1050 display. I have not got it working, but I have not given up :) To fend off the flurry of responses, I provide the following information. * The Dell 640m laptop is installed with Ubuntu 6.10. * It has a Intel 945GM graphics chip. * The internal monitor works perfectly. * X can drive the external monitor at 1024x768. * The external monitor refuses to be driven at 1440x900, which is the resolution of the internal monitor. * I have not been able to convince X to produce 1680x1050 output. * From memory, I am using the i820 X driver on the laptop. I tried the intel driver, but all I get is a black screen. (GDM starts without error, but nothing is displayed.) I am going to play around with the multi-head options in the X11 configuration, to see if that will help things. Suggestions will be much appreciated. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Problems with Dell Laptop [Was: Dell sells computers without Windows preinstalled]
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:01 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: For non-standard ( in X terms ) resolutions, of which 1680x1050 is one, you still need to add modelines... You do not *need* modelines: the 1440x900 works fine without them. Thanks for the gtf tip :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Problems with Dell Laptop [Was: Dell sells computers without Windows preinstalled]
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:13 +1300, Richard Graham wrote: Have you tried the 915resolution program? Yes I have tried the 915resolution program, which is how I managed to get the local LCD monitor going. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Problems with Dell Laptop [Was: Dell sells computers without Windows preinstalled]
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:22 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 minutes googling found this, but you may have already found it: I have been doing a lot of Googling as of late :) I had not read the page in particular, but I have tried what it suggested. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
RE: Linux cellphone - kinda...
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:41 +1300, Craig FALCONER wrote: Vi for the win... But there's no ESC kep on most phones Emacs couldn't do it - no meta/control keys Most cellphones have at least two soft-keys that can be programed to do what you want ☺ -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: Internet Explorer 7 released, but
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:29 +1300, Roy Britten wrote: http://ie7.com/ I like ☺ -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: Apt-get - dumb question
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:56 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: I have googled but not yet found the apt-get command to show the version of an installed package. $ dpkg -l -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Spell Checking in Firefox 2 RC1
A hint, for those who want to try out the spell-checking feature of Firefox 2 RC1: you have to install a dictionary to get it to work (despite selecting a language when you download the browser ☺). -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: OT: adding fonts to web pages...
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 20:22 +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: The firefox/mozilla folks would also have to have logs for brains to allow download of a binary file without interaction with the user. troll Like images? /troll -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: OT: adding fonts to web pages...
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 19:43 +1200, Andy Leach wrote: you can insert a download url into your CSS - see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#x43 . Actually, it looks as if this was one of the many things they threw out of CSS2 when they wrote CSS2.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html The goal of CSS2.1 was to put the features of CSS2 that had a chance of being supported in the browsers. However, the more ambitious CSS3 has the font downloading specification back in http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-webfonts/ -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: OT: adding fonts to web pages.. Even more OT, cursive fonts
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:02 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: Can anybody recommend a cursive font (joined up writing) that works in most browsers? font-family: cursive; -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: How do I subscribe to the list?
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:44 +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: Actually, I'm curious. Can someone please explain why some sites won't work *unless* you provide the redundant and stupid 'www.' portion? Bad setup, basically: they only put a machine that responds to Web traffic on www, while the mail is handled by the main domain. http://jaycar.co.nz Does not work http://www.jaycar.co.nz Does work [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host jaycar.co.nz jaycar.co.nz mail is handled by 100 mail.island.net.au. jaycar.co.nz mail is handled by 15 mercury.jaycar.com.au. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.jaycar.co.nz www.jaycar.co.nz has address 202.74.164.242 The University of Canterbury do the same thing. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: working with files
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:15 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: I'd do a tar tjf gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 | more just to see where it's ging to end up. Almost gcertainly, it'll create a gambas-1.0.17 directory relative to where you currently are ( eg /home/alan? ), so the need to either create a directory, or redirect it are unnecessary. To elaborate on the options to TAR t: table of contents j: Bzip compressed f: File. The j option is often switched for z: gzip compressed (a .gz extension) and t is often switched for c or x (create or extract). *Normally* tar-files create folders, which have the same name as the file sans-extensions. Note this is the opposite to what Zip files *normally* do under Windows. -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
Re: Linux vs Windows - what we are up against
The other day, a friend of mine — after contemplating the blue-screen that his XP tablet decided to display — looked up and mused about the state of pen-based computing on Linux ☺. (GTK+ 2.10 now ships standard with the ability to go into pen-input, and QT is not half bad at it either, if you were wondering.)
Re: LaTeX tabular
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 17:39 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: Anyone on the list have any recommendations for a tabular style that is easy to use and fully featured? My LaTeX Companion is elsewhere at the moment, but I can recall that the array style is quite good.
Re: LaTeX tabular
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 13:31 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Do it the easy way... html. Ha! (I can assure you that getting HTML/CSS to do what you want is often quite hard ☺)
Re: OT: vi vs emacs
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 13:43 +1200, david merriman wrote: http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/06sep/ufng009504.gif I gave up on them both and settled on Screem. (Nice to see the return of Marvin the Martian.)
Re: Desktops through the ages
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 08:44 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Would you like a sinclair spectrum for your museum? I am almost sure they already have one :)
Clipboards in X11 [Was: Unwanted insert function in Oo - Ouch]
I think a spot of explanation is need, for those new to Linux. Unlike Windows and MacOS, X11 [1] has two clipboards. One is used when parts of a document are cut and pasted using the edit-menu and the cut, copy and paste keys (such as Control-x, Control-c, and Control-v). It behaves much like the clipboards on Microsoft Windows and MacOS. The *other* clipboard works quite differently, as it is only used for copy-and-paste: things are copied to the clipboard when you select them with the mouse, and they are pasted when you click the middle mouse-button. Using the “other” clipboard, you do not need to use the keyboard at all. You can try it now: open up a text-editor (or start a new email message) select some text in another program, such as your Web browser, return to your text-editor and middle-click. [1] The system that Linux programs normally use to draw graphics to the screen is called The X11 Windowing System, X11 for short, or X for even shorter. With X, programs can draw buttons, menus, text-entry boxes and all the other things that plague our computing existence. For those of you who are familiar with such things, you can consider X11 to have a similar task to Aqua on MacOS, and Avalon on Microsoft Windows.
Re: Bash script to check if a file exists?
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:17 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: ** Can someone tell me how to detect if a file exists using bash? man test
Re: Ubuntu - package manager?
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:41 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: Can Ubuntu handle rpm’s? Short answer: No. Middle-sized answer: No, Ubuntu uses “deb” (Debian) packages. Long answer: Yes, if you install and use the alien package, which will allow you to transform the RPM into a Deb. Anyway, tried the tarball installation method as alternative. It seemed to mostly work, except for some things it wanted a c compiler, and make (and other similar stuff?). Tarballs are *generally* used to ship source-code for the software, not running software. As you have discovered, compilers are needed: Ubuntu has the gcc, make, and binutils packages, which you need to compile most software.
Blame Ubuntu
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:23 +1200, John Carter wrote: What has happened to clug? Where is all the nitty-gritty tech debate? (the hard stuff) Blame Ubuntu. I felt the same way this morning. My workmate had a nice Logitec USB headphone-microphone combination, which worked fine on his Mac. I felt like having a bit of a hardware argument so I plugged it into my Linux box: it was detected automatically, the system offered to open the audio configuration dialog, and the device had a sane name. The only thing I had to do was restart esd, and that barely counts as a hardware fight — more of a hardware-slap. Stupid fancy new operating systems…
Re: From another thread - taking about Konqueror
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:50 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you change the preferred browser? In GNOME: System→ Preferences→ Preferred Applications (I will leave others to do their desktop of choice ☺)
Re: Make debug - translate...
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 15:27 +1200, Don Gould wrote: Then run 'make' again followed by 'make install' This has all been done as root. Generally the make can be done by a normal user, but the install generally requires root-permissions :)
Re: Mubuntu
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:25 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Oh sorry, I thought freedom was all about *my* choice. :) No, it is about choice for everyone :) troll And Ubuntu force GNOME on you because it is better than KDE. troll/ ☺
Re: How to relink an 'unlink'ed file
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:43 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: A file's data and its directory-related matadata are two different things in Unix. When a file is created, the link count is one. When you add a (hard!-)link to it, the count is increased, when you delete a file, the count is decreased. When the count reaches 0, the data belonging to the inode is deleted and the disk space freed. An excellent summary, Volker. If anyone is interested in a more involved explanation, the following paper is very good, from what I recall ☺ http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/invitedtalks/sanchez_html/
Re: KDE tip - scroll mouse your volume control
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:02 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Everyone else probably knew this ages ago, but i just thought I'd share my discovery that if you hover your scroll mouse over the kmix applet in the panel you can make the volume go up and down with the scroll wheel. Cool, saves a few clicks! The gnome volume control works too! You can also control the volume in just Rhythm box if you scroll over the icon in the notification area.
Re: ftp client recommendation
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 13:45 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, can anyone recommend an ftp client programme? I am quite fond of ftp at the command line :)
Re: ftp client recommendation
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 14:02 +1200, Roy Britten wrote: gftp Nice if you like drag 'n' drop. Nautilus will also support FTP :)
Re: Dapper availability?
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:23 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Anyone have it yet? I checked with my Ubuntu updater this morning and it did not have it :) And no mention of Dapper on ubuntu.org either.
Re: School children help
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 13:36 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I had a look at ubuntu, and its featureless non-existant gnome stuff drove me bananas in 10 minutes. I feel the same way when I use the confusing, poorly designed and overly complicated KDE stuff, Volker :) Each to his own. It's also somewhat outdated. Agreed, Ubuntu is about six-months or so behind the newest and greatest. If you're looking for something which looks a tad similar to mswindows, which is a good idea if you want to shift someone or take it easy at first, forget about ubuntu because it plain isn't. You may find that being different is a good thing, not a bad thing: nearly everyone on this list uses Linux because it *is* different. In addition something that is almost but not quite what you are used to can be more confusing than something that is obviously different. However, the question of distribution is secondary to what is taught. The students' current knowledge will be a big factor in this. * Do they know how to install *any* operating system? * Do they know what an operating system is? [1] * Do they know how operating systems differ? * Do they know *why* operating systems differ? * Do they know why a person would want to install different operating systems? You also need *clear* reasons that you are doing this on Linux rather than Windows, otherwise it will all be a bit pointless (like sets in form 2 math). Another thing to remember, what you find fun (mucking about with configuration settings [2]) others, especially students, will find dull. Finally, a student may appear very good with computers, but understand very little (some CS tutors at Uni call this delusions of 1337ness). [1] I would love the answer to this question! [2] Insert another dig at KDE.
Re: School children help
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 15:49 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: More like 12 months, or I wouldn't have mentioned it. Ubuntu, the Vista of the Linux word :) True, but you have to take into account *what's* different too. Using Linux because it doesn't *look* like the competition can't be it, or am I missing something? One of the reasons that I like GNOME is that it *looks* good.
Re: VI Issue
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 15:44 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: In modern vim:- :1,$s/dot/dog/g Roughly the same command is used in sed, ed, and QED :)
Re: On the other side...
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:05 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: Is it time to bring out that 1987 quote about re-inventing unix? From what I have read about Monad, it is not that Unix like (or sh-like). Rather, it is more like Python or Ruby.
Re: Tuesday 9 May 2006 CLUG Meeting
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:07 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: outside that [PostScript is] not really suitable as a general purpose language. There are plenty of other good languages to choose from. Forth? :)
RE: On the other side...
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:32 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote: Well it's a mixture of all things from all over the place (eg Perl and SQL) plus the whole .NET thing, but it feels *much* more like an extension of bash, awk and friends than it does anything from the DOS/Basic/WSH side. Really powerful piping and good regex for example (and documentation via the 'man' command!) If you have to work with Windows it's a promising way to use the 'trad unix way' in that environment. From what I understood, the Unix-like commands were shortcuts for longer commands (with full module names and the like) in Monad. When I was referring to Monad being Python-like, I was thinking of the underlying scripting language and object-model, rather than the commands; I take your point :)
Re: On the other side...
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:58 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OR maybe in 10 years from now she'll be claiming that MS developed *nix and linux is just an off shoot ... They did develop *nix for years: Xenix :)
Re: high quality gifs...
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 14:16 +1200, Steve wrote: I've got a bit of a problem with a website and, surprise, surprise, IE. I've got a png image that has a transparent background, which doesn't display properly in IE, as it doesn't support transparent pngs. When I use the gimp to convert it to a gif, I end up with an image of appalling quality. Is the PNG full-colour? If it is, it may be the reduction of the number of colours that is causing you problems. Try converting it to indexed before exporting it.
Re: virus scanners and other security tools
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:47 +1200, yuri wrote: if you *really* wanted to be sure ... If you really want to be virus free, I hear thermite is effective ☺
Re: error: initializer element is not constant
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 23:25 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: Hairy, I will admit. Does anyone have any idea/s how to go about fixing this? Or alternatively, sidestepping it? echo $CFLAGS ?
Re: My linux multimedia talk
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 15:41 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: see u next week then :) Sounds fun ☺
Re: Latex help requested.
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:20 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: I want to hack on it a bit more using LaTeX and pdf If you were feeling particularly masochistic you could output FO [1] and then convert that to PDF (using XML TeX). Oh, no, that's right, you are more sane than that… [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo-section -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Latex help requested.
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 11:19 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Is there a python package for scripting the making of [La]Tex documents? Almost http://www.reportlab.org/ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Open Office - paragraph numbering
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 13:45 +1300, Barry wrote: Help (yes I'm now screaming...)how do I turn off automatic paragraph numbering globally. Alter the default paragraph style? -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Live CD LaTeX
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:35 +1300, Ross Drummond wrote: I am not sure of the distinction between latex and tetex, LaTeX is a macro-package for the TeX document processing system. Tetex is a version of TeX that has been compiled with Web2C [1] and packaged up so it runs nicely under Unix systems. In addition to the TeX processor, tetex also includes a number of support files, such as the LaTeX macro package (tetex-latex, under FC4). [1] TeX is written in a variant of Pascal called Web. Web2C converts Web code to C, so they can be compiled with standard Unix C compilers. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Live CD LaTeX
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:07 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: As people have mentioned, latex/tetex is available on most distros. Tetex does not include all the style-files that are on the TeX Live CD. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: CLUG - End Year 'Do'
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Please, anywhere but the Caledonian! troll Shooters? /troll -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: MS to open their open XML format
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 21:21 +1300, Lee Begg wrote: Several sites (groklaw for one) have been running articles on the MS format, and universely agree that is it terrible. OpenDocument, that Massachusetts *State* is requiring is much easer to understand, process, transform to xhtml, update styles, etc. It's very much a cross between latex and xhtml+css. Also uses DC (Dublin Core) for metadata. The overall feel of OpenDocument is very similar to DocBook, which is also developed by OASIS. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
[OT] Infected Sony Discs
For those who don't follow The Register [1], here is a list of infected CDs from Sony: http://www.idiotabroad.com/?p=58 I try and tell people that Cline Dion is bad for them, but do they listen? No… [1] http://theregister.co.uk/ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Apache is dead?
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 15:58 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote: What do our experts think? I think I am IO bound ☺ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: File location of Evolution...
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:20 +1300, Don Gould wrote: Problem is I can't figure out where the path information is set up with in Evolution... does anyone know off hand? Not off-hand. Personally, I would create a symbolic link to the shared location, so Evo thought it was using ~/.evolution/mail ☺ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Web based calendar that Evolution can publish to?
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 10:06 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: Does anyone on this list have experience with web based calendars or groupware that Evolution can publish calendar information to? By the looks of things, no http://go-evolution.org/Evo2.6#Web_calendar_support -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Printer problem
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:54 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: They usually spit out garbage when a PS driver is used on a PCL printer. Often it will be heaps of pages with just a bit of gibberish at the top line of each. I've seen that sort of thing quite a but. Actually, it was on an evaluation printer from Xerox that I was looking at recently\ldots -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Printer problem
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 18:52 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: I'm sorry I mentioned PS at all Don't be: it is a fun discussion ☺ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Thanks re: heavy disk activity question a few days ago
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:58 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: what is/was kat? At a guess, kat http://kat.mandriva.com/ is a desktop search tool ☺ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: very small linux portable
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 10:23 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Guess I better investigate alternatives... :( If you want to go really small there is the iPaq from HP http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php for which keyboards are available. Alternatively, the Nokia 770 is a bit larger http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/770 It still does not have a keyboard standard, but it does support bluetooth :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: GoboLinux
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 22:31 -1100, david merriman wrote: Again, I wasn't saying that it *is* more sensible, just observing that people get used to the way things are done, and tend to forget the historical reasons *why* they were done that way in the first place. I agree. A lot of things are done on Unix because that is how they were done on MULTICS and no body could be bothered changing, such as the file-system that sprang, Athena like, into existence in 1965 [1]. Programs such as vi still have hangovers from the first text-editor for MULTICS: QED [2]. (QED begat ed which begat ex which begat vi.) And what's wrong with the C:\Program Files\Program Name\ hierarchy anyway ? :-P g,dr IIRC NExT and MacOS X organise programs in a similar way, but without the drive (which DOS inherited from CP/M). 1. Daley, R. C., and R. G. Newman. “A General Purpose File System for Secondary Storage.” In Afips Conference Proceedings, edited by Robert W. Rector. American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Las Vegas, Nevada: Spartan Books, Washington, D.C., 1965, volume 27, 213–229. Also available from http://www.multicians.org/fjcc4.html. 2. Deutsch, L. Peter, and Butler W. Lampson. “An Online Editor” Communications of the ACM, 10: 21, (1967) 793--799, 803 -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
[OT] New version Firefox
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 09:26 +1300, John Carter wrote: I tend to follow the latest firefox version quite closely as I'm using a lot of it's latest features (SVG, better printing, XML,..) I have a friend who is working, with Apple, on adding SVG support to WebKit and is currently being driven mad with adding lighting. Yes, I am afraid that SVG supports lighting effects: point lights, flood lights, diffuse lights, specular lighting, spot lights, Perlin turbulence… Thankfully, it turns out that Safari and Firefox have the same issues with SVG, so they should support it equally well, or equally poorly ☺ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: How to find out what's causing high disk activity?
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:16 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: 1) Is there any simple way of determining which process is associated with significant disk activity? Run top, or your favoured system monitor, and look for processes in D state: uninterpretable sleep mode. A process enters D state when it is waiting for IO to finish. (I am not sure why they chose D, because it is the mark of the Devil?) If you hunch is right, you will see that updatedb is the culprit. 2) What solutions are available for reducing desktop sluggishness because some database or other is reindexing? Would moving key data directories (/home) to a separate drive away from application binaries help? Change the time that updatedb runs ☺ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Music players
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:45 +1300, Stephen Irons wrote: It says 'Supports Linux v 2.2 or higher (Data transfer only). Many audio-players support Linux: they implement the USB Mass Storage interface, so they appear as a “disk drive” to the operating system. The bundled software (such as iTunes) will not work, but you can mount the device and copy audio files across. I notice that a number of devices support MacOS in much the same way! (The iPod has good MacOS support, however ☺) After checking out Dick Smith's Website [1] I see that many of the iAudio devices (other than the X5L) support OGG, including the cheaper G3 [2]. 1. http://makeashorterlink.com/?K29E2151C [dse.co.nz] 2. http://makeashorterlink.com/?B1CE3651C [dse.co.nz] -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: On screen keyboard?
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:31 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Does anyone know of an on screen keyboard that works on a text console and is controllable simply with a mouse (which is what the touchscreen emulates). The GNOME On-Screen Keyboard (gok). -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: On screen keyboard?
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:23 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Yeah i found that this morning, too heavy, Don't want gnome. Well, if its light-weight that you want, you could try the GPE-Virtual Keyboard http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GpeVirtualKeyboard :P -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Ubuntu Problem
On behalf of a friend: In Ubuntu (version 5.04), what files would need to be altered in order to set some environment variables (LD_LIBRATY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH) so they would be set for programs started from the shell (Bash) *and* from the desktop (GNOME)? -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Ubuntu Problem
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 15:52 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Why not just add them to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig? Apparently it works for LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but not for LD_RUN_PATH :( -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Ubuntu Problem
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:07 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Yeugh! Apart from dumping the software as a security risk, then it may work if you update /etc/profile? Apparently that does not work either! -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Tip of the day. Don't clobber your files.
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:05 +1300, Isaac Devine wrote: Did you have a look at darcs? (www.darcs.net) It's fanastic! Heard of it, have not used it ☺ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Fonts
Possibly OT for some, but the following list of free fonts [1] was sent to me. http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts A few of the descriptions and download pages are in German, but I could figure out how to download them ☺ Now for a tip: To Install Fonts Under GNOME (2.10) 1. Open the “Font Preferences” dialog by selecting “Desktop→ Preferences→ Font”. 2. Open the “Font Rendering Details” dialog by clicking “Details…”. 3. Open the “Fonts” folder by clicking “Go to font folder” [2]. 4. Drag the font-files to the newly opened Fonts folder. Alternatively, at the command-line copy (or move) the font files to the ~/.fonts directory. Both these methods will install the fonts for the current user. To install the fonts for all users, root will have to place the files in a globally-accessible location. Under Fedora Core 4 this is /usr/local/share/fonts; consult the files /etc/fonts/*conf for searched directories on your system. ---==--- 1. Some fonts are free as in speech, some are free as in beer. 2. Steps 1–3 can be replaced by opening the location fonts:/// in the file manager; yes the Fonts folder is quite difficult to find. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: driving bananas - latex guru
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 00:10 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: This is driving me bananas. Any LaTeX guru out there who can tell me how I can get a \hrule smack up at the top of the page? I have this problem every so often but never found a robust solution. What is the structure of what you are trying to create? I do not mean “what are the commands that you used”, you helpfully provided those, but what do the elements on the page *represent*? Are they headers, footers, diagrams, example code… Once I have some handle on the structure, I can give better advice :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: driving bananas - latex guru
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 14:13 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
What is the structure of what you are trying to create? I do not mean
???what are the commands that you used???, you helpfully provided those, but
what do the elements on the page *represent*?
I am trying to vertically (and horizontally, but that's just \centering)
align a bunch of \includegraphics. Their size is approx 90% of the page,
ie one per page. Special issues: the first one has a \section{} and a
little text above it on the same page. The last one needs to be
vertically centered too (this is an issue with \raggedbottom and letting
tex do the page breaking, with a single \newpage after the last
graphics).
I was looking at how I performed a similar task, and I avoided a problem
by *not* vertically centring the diagrams on the page. The following is
the snippet of \LaTeX , noting that I am using a counter to load a
sequence of diagrams.
\newcounter{manualpage}
\setcounter{manualpage}{1}
\whiledo{\value{manualpage}10}{%
\clearpage\centering\noindent%
\includegraphics[height=0.9\textheight]{../swaca_users_guide-p\themanualpage}
\stepcounter{manualpage}}
The diagrams are not centred partly because of ease, and partly because
they look better without the centring :)
--
Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: 64-bit Linux
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:55 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I am actually not sure where some of my applications are running and wheter they are 32 or 64bit. cosc4110:~$ file /bin/ls /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped cosc4110:~$ ssh kuku [snip] bash-2.05$ file /bin/ls /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Tip of the day. Don't clobber your files.
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 11:32 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: Subversion to rule them all. I looked at a number of free version-control systems early this year and came to the conclusion that Subversion was the best of the commonly available (free) systems. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Tip of the day. Don't clobber your files.
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:16 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: Dunno about that - baz-ng is looking pretty interesting. http://www.bazaar-ng.org/ Obviously very early stages of development though. I was evaluating the systems to determine which should be used by the third-year students, so the criteria included good documentation, stability, and the ability to work with firewalls. While Bazaar looks really nice, it may need to mature a bit :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: OT: RIP WYSIWYG - Jakob Nielsen
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:44 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: On 11/10/05, Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, this is a wake-up call for the Open Source community. Name the tools that I can use to separately edit style and content. Nvu? I do use it (a little) but man, is it flakey. Mostly I manually edit my style sheets and xhtml directly, and no, a plain text editor may satisfy geeks (I use the centre of evil, after all), but it'll never satisfy a mere mortal. LaTeX OpenOffice.org: press F11 and relax. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: OT: RIP WYSIWYG - Jakob Nielsen
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:36 +1300, Joshua Collins wrote: On 10/11/05, Michael JasonSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenOffice.org: press F11 and relax. For those without OpenOffice.org currently in front of them, what does that do? It brings up the “Stylist” dialog, such as shown in the attached screen shot of a spread-sheet. The dialog allows you to associate part of a document — be it a spreadsheet, drawing, or text — with a style. It is similar to the semantic markup in LaTeX or HTML. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell which style is associated with which part of the document as you get a representation of what the document looks like, rather than its structure :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: OT: RIP WYSIWYG - Jakob Nielsen
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:42 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:28:39 +1300 Honestly word has had styles as long as I can remember. Its just that no one uses them, just like no one uses them in openoffice unless they are forced to. Most people think of a word processor as a typewriter with easier white out. There are two very good (small) books entitled “The Mac is not a Typewriter” and “The PC is not a Typewriter”, by Robin Williams, which will clear up that sort of misunderstanding :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: OT: RIP WYSIWYG - Jakob Nielsen
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 12:03 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: The structure is xml, no doubt it could be easily displayed in an xml viewer/editor. (if OOo doesn't already have such a tool) Structure is not the same as semantic markup :) However, there is a fighting chance that you could do that with OOo. -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Hint for Emacs users for the Day...
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:52 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
how to convey stuff to newbies.
\begin{troll}
I thought arguing about irrelevant technical details \emph{was} how
we conveyed stuff to newbies\ldots
\end{troll}
--
Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: rpms
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:57 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: RedHat, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE... can anyone think of any other x86 distros that use them? http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Hint for Emacs users for the Day...
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 08:37 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: On 27/09/05, Michael JasonSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in this very predicament last night. Almost forced to eat my bytes. See. You were lucky! You do realise that vi is the centre of evil, do you not? No, ex is the centre of all evil: vi is a visual mode for the evil :P -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Extract PPD file from dmg file
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:40 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: The PPD file is contained in a dmg file. It is a disk image file; the Mac user in the room says you should be able to mount it as a loop-back iso9660 device. The following may work. mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.dmg foo/ Failing that, have you tried double-clicking on the file withing Nautilus? File-roller may be able to handle it :) -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Extract PPD file from dmg file
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:31 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: # file brxPPDsMFL7X_102.dmg brxPPDsMFL7X_102.dmg: VAX COFF executable not stripped - version 376 That looks like lies. Anyway, after a Google: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 22:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: At least he got the apostrophe in the right place! Now does everyone see why GNOME banned the accursed character? http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/grammar.html -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:30 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Where did they ban apostrophes? They only say don't use them where you shouldn't. To quote the page Apostrophe Rules: * Do not use apostrophes to denote possession. * Do not use apostrophes to denote contractions. * Do not use apostrophes to denote plurals. I would like to know of a use of apostrophes outside possessions, contractions, and (rare) plurals! Neither “The Penguin Guide to Punctuation” and “The Elements of Style” do not list any other uses… -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 12:32 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Ah. But they are actually taught the grammar of the English Language in all it's glorious detail as part of of their curriculum. It just doesn't happen in most of the English speaking world. e.g. who under the age of 30 on this list can tell us what a gerund is -- without looking it up. I have found that people, regardless their age, are often confused about grammar. Many are not aware of the difference between three full-stops and ellipsis, the different uses of commas, and the different types of dashes. The GNOME Documentation Style Guide (to go slightly on-topic) explicitly forbids apostrophes because they are commonly used incorrectly! My favourite grammar question annoys many wingers: what is a person from Canterbury called? -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:49 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: grave action=dig owner=self You might want to investigate the use of apostrophies between the letters it and s... ;) /grave boot position=shaky Starting a sentence with a conjunctive, rather than a conjunct, is often frowned on, too. /boot [I will stop now, as I am not holier than thou!] -- Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/
Re: Apologies for leaving early
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:49 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: So we're talking personal magnetism here, then? It sounds like a standard computer problem: they often hate the users ;)
