Re: printer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) writes: I have a HP LaserJet 1100. What are the steps for installing it or getting it to work? 1) install package doc-linux-text. 2) read /usr/share/doc/Printing-HOWTO.gz. 3) ask again if you have more questions. I recommend apsfilter as a filtering package. -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Generator
how to block access to ppp?
I want to temporary block access to pppd. I want to allow my users only to use ppp at a predefined time, say 1200-1300. I have a mechanism like /etc/porttime in mind. My experiments with ppp-pam and pam_time.so bore no fruit. I have masqdialer installed, too. Any ideas? -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Generator
Re: Hardware woes/make-kpkg
ahem. mea culpa. I overlooked kernel-package and now everything is up and running, including the 'mca_' problem. Thanks to Laurent and Wayne for your help! Michael. -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Generator
Hardware woes/make-kpkg
I can't find make-kpkg (neither locate nor dpkg -S finds anything), and so I compiled the kernel using the make config zImage modules modules_install zlilo routine. Now I get unresolved symbols when loading the 3c509.o module. All of the symbols start with 'mca_' which sounds like a micro channel problem! But I don't have and want micro channel. Can anybody tell me what I'm missing here? Where can I find make-kpkg? TIA! -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Generator
Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?
Paul Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've used netscape composer, amaya, emacs (which is more of an html code editor), I'm looking for wysiwyg (word processor type). Now I think soffice's StarWriter is the best around. It acts just like a word processor, it has footnotes, doublespace, etc. It also uses good html. I checked my docs in lynx and they were quite viewable, and the double spacing etc looked great. I'm interested in this because my goal is to write all documents in an open file type that can be easily indexed and searchable in htdig. That way I can have a permanent and growing personal (searchable) library (one that would also be searchable over the network). I know there are lots of great word processors, but .wpd, .doc, .dvi, etc. are not acceptable. I hear gnome will have an xml word processor, that is something to look forward to. I find the idea to use HTML as an exchangeable format for documents REALLY scary, because it doesn't use content based tagging and the documents look different on each browser. You can't carefully design a document and be sure that it will look the same even with a new browser version. For searching, HTDIG and the like, HTML is great, however. My suggestion is to keep 2 copies of a document around: one in a format that ideally uses content tagging and can reproduce faithful copies for printing (dvi, I suppose) and a HTML copy for browsing, indexing and the like. I would try to learn SGML. From SGML you can create all types of documents, including HTML. Even LaTeX is better, and Latex-documents usually are searchable, too. Using the right style files, you can even have content-tagging. LaTeX2HTML translates LaTeX into HTML. The editor: I don't care. WYSIWYG doesn't bother me, because in LaTeX I trust (after having made my own style files). Emacs+AucTeX+RefTeX is my favourite combination, but vi would do the same job. -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Generator
Re: Favorite WP/Office software...
Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm curious what people feel is their favorite word processor/ office productivity suite (i.e., star office, word perfect, lyx, TeX, siag office, etc.). EMACS + AucTeX + LaTeX. Only missing thing is a useable UNIX-native free spreadsheet. (I'm running Linux on a 486 so SO is a clear no no for me. Besides, I think that ports like WP and SO are a nice thing, but not the Final Solution. They necessarily have a very un-UNIX-y touch-and-feel. Why escape from Windows to use SO, which tries very hard to look like the Big Stinker? Michael. -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Generator
