of find and chmod to set permissions for the directories
separately.
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of
years ago :) .
Over time I find myself using more and more of the GUI apps, even
(*gasp*) to manage files. As the apps become more than front-ends for
command-line tools I find I can be productive using the GUI tools, for
certain operations :) .
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formatting.)
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to through
our hands up and hope like hell that someone, such as
http://freedesktop.org/ can sort the mess out and
create some sort of Metric and Glyph server.
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On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 13:00, Theuns Verwoerd wrote:
I'm looking for a utility that, given a collection of C files, can give a
list of what calls what.
cxref -xref-func foo.c bar .c
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is the same
for both desktops, AFIK. The application name is charpick_applet, so
you can run it from the command-line and it should jump into your
panel\ldots
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, such as Aqua, is a bit pointless as the compatibility layer
would, in effect, be X. You can get X servers that work with other
windowing systems, such as Windows and MacOS, but these are rather thick
layers :)
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On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 01:22, Martin Baehr wrote:
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:27:22PM +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
1.3 WYSIWYG is impossible. (Bug, or not :) )
WYSIWYG is impossible period!
printer and monitor are just so fundamentally different,
you will never get the same output
of grief.
Yeah - its really hard when you choose a deep-sea diver and really all
you needed was a scuba diver...
Ok, my bad :)
s/diver/driver/g
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(¿gnibbles?) only uses simple 2D graphics, so does not
use all your CPU.
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-line and turning up the volume? That has caught me out
on many an occasion.
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On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:16, Theuns Verwoerd wrote:
dia. I've used Visio; it's somewhat similar (but handles big pictures
better), and does what I want.
The largest diagram that I have made had 29 UML classes on it. ¿How big
is big :)?
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I made Visio very unhappy with sorting networks (each
component consisting of 6 primitives), with around 100-plus instances
of each component.
Oh, you made Visio unhappy! Maybe I have to create a bigger system to
test out Dia :)
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Bertenshaw's suggestion of running
XConfigurator or XF86Config to change the colourdepth (and
resolution) permanently.
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* the resolutions. Something to keep and eye out for with the next
install-fest.
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files. I don't have the source for the NVidia drivers
so I can't compile them into the kernel :)
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you want. All the code is in
Python, but the principal is the same across languages.
I'm sure I've missed the obvious, it's just that it's not, obvious that is.
Na, packing is not obvious to a Windows user, but it makes sense to
someone who has coded in Tk, Motif, or Java :)
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in the toolbar?
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avoidance guide.)
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.
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people a real SysV
Unix to try things out on. (No, Linux is not quite real -- the
utilities work a bit different.)
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few decent PS editors because the language is Turing-complete and a bit
had to read in again :(
The advantages of PDF is that it is simpler, compressed internally, has
better font embedding, and better linking to external documents.
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sizes, but that is outside this discussion :)
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of
certain students go pale as they deleted incriminating evidence.
Of course they did not have to delete the images, they just had to learn
how Posix file permissions worked, but that ain't so bad either :)
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On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 09:55, Mark Carey wrote:
I would like to know what the name of the window decoration
used on all the screen shots over at www.ximian.com are
Crux (the default GNOME2 theme).
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. In addition most of the system documentation is written
for C.
If you want to write a GUI app, then learn something
easier. Perhaps Python/GTK, or Tcl/Tk, or Java/Swing would be good
choices.
Java is never a solution ;-P
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-C, but C++ was instead. (Once again the better language
lost, c.f. Java/Self.)
Anyone out there with Objective-C experience? (There is an Objective-C
compiler in GCC, but I've never used it.)
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Windows, I'm on a
Posix machine. (I don't know why GNOME feels more Unix than KDE.)
4. The wide range of applications that use the Gtk+ and GNOME toolkits.
5. I like muted colour palette used by GNOME icons.
6. I code in C, not C++.
7. Galeon, Evolution, and Nautilus.
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until version 2, but now I find myself using
it quite a bit. The UI is not much different from the original, but it
is smaller, faster, and has fewer features, which makes it a far nicer
program to use.
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the PostScript StandardEncoding
character set. Let's see how many people have a fl character
Buwahahaha!
Keep cool,
Michael
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, for us 10%... :)
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or
attributes when I right-click,
o C-/ closes the currently open tag, and
o It has syntax highlighting.
To view XML files I use less, or XML-View in Nautilus-2:
http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/godiard/
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easier to find. Generally they all start with gnome-.
Only one or two did not get caught in the net; Nautilus probably is the
most obscurely-named GNOME application.
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, my Debian GNOME install is a
bit weird. *Sigh.*
To clarify the difference between a viewer and an application:
o A viewer can not modify a file, such as gthumb for images; and
o An application can modify a file, such as the GIMP for images.
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to resize
partitions and have partitions that span over disks. See
http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=5957
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
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of the server
without a restart, and change the orientation of the display on the fly,
solving one or two gripes on this list :)
http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/randr/randr/
However, most of us will have to wait a while before the distributions
ship the new X\ldots
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something
that we don't :)
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On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 02:09, Martin Baehr wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:03:35PM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
The relationship between
OS X and Darwin is much the same as that between
Solaris and SunOS, RedHat and Linux, and Windows and
Win32[?].
not quite
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 15:42, Tim Wright wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Solaris is similar to any GNU/Linux distribution, whereas SunOS
is similar to the Linux kernel (or just Linux for the pedants:) ?
Yes, that is my understanding.
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.
[Correction: s/is still/was/]
And then, as of last year, Sun resurrected the SunOS name so they could
compete in a version-number war with IBM and HP. In the process they
redefined what Solaris and SunOS meant (Solaris == Distro', SunOS ==
kernel).
Silly Sun :-P
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tex source and images from postscript, so I
am looking at in in xemacs.
XEmacs is a good PostScript editor, I use it myself :)
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the fonts were embedded in the
document.
Embedded fonts do not look bad per sae, embedded Type-3 fonts (which are
generally bitmaps) look bad. For a good looking font you need to embed
a Type-1 (PostScript) or a Type-42 (TrueType) font.
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.. grrr.
From http://art.gnome.org/faq.php
To use AA fonts in GNOME2, the variable GDK_USE_XFT
needs to be set to '1'.
I am using KDE. Will this still work?
For recent builds of Moz' it should work, but I'm not sure about
OpenOffice.
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: pine, elm, and mutt. The only reason I
don't use pine is that I *like* dragging and dropping email messages
between folders, despite it being slower and more error-prone than using
pine :)
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Webmail or mail. Yes, I can
actually use mail, replying to messages and all :)
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On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:27, Michael Pearce wrote:
Install a secondary Hard Disk.
I wanted to teach a Linux course, not a hardware course :)
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file
`/home/phd/mpj17/'?
and I can do a control-c. Not fool-proof (damn -f) but it can help.
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of the first files that
'rm' attempts to remove.
No, but it most cases (worst case?) it will be at the first file
returned by glob(3).
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there. GnuSTEP, mentioned earlier,
recreates the NeXT API, while Berlin [2] (a cousin-project to Debian) is
trying to create an entirely new windowing system using CORBA as the
communication layer.
[1] http://www.gnustep.org/
[2] http://www.berlin-consortium.org/
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On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What ia arts?
Arts is a program that mixes sounds from other programs. Without a
program such as arts or esd only one program can make a sound at any
one time.
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On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 11:52, Martin Baehr wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:13:12AM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
The NeWS people didn't give up. They moved over to a startup founded by
the newly unemployed Steve Jobs and created the NeXT system.
that's news to me do you have any
the Emperor Hadrian built the surviving
version of the Pantheon :)
While having no formal Latin training, I can often get the gist of Roman
inscriptions better than my Dad (who did Latin at school) because I know
the abbreviations and he doesn't! (Thanks Classics 207.)
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:) (M.AGRIPPA built the
original Pantheon; the surviving one is the third rebuild.)
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disks are a lot more expensive, while new kernels are not :)
Compared to my compatriot, I run quite a conservative kernel
Linux cosc246 2.4.17 #9 Tue Jan 29 04:42:20 NZDT 2002 i686 unknown
unknown GNU/Linux
I prefer OpenBSD (:
Each to his own\ldots
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for replacement. There are
many machines out there which only have vi, however. Learn a *bit* of
vi. You don't have to be a wiz, but you should be able to do the basic
editing tasks. I know enough vi to get XEmacs installed on a Debian box
that has only the base packages installed :)
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of the damned
thing, many a time I have killed it from another console!
Yes, especially when you type v in less or more and entered vi
mode. It was years before I learnt Esc-:q!
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of statements around the Uni'. They'll have
everyone back on VMS before you know it :)
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On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 19:14, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:00:54PM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Be careful with those sorts of statements around the Uni'. They'll have
everyone back on VMS before you know it :)
Heh, we still *have* VMS.
Yes, nicely locked up where
.
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guessMake sure both Windows and Linux set the system clock to
GMT./guess
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a shorter one out! For example
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z2BC51682
I need this a lot as the canterbury.ac.nz domain-name is quite long,
so many URLs from the Canterbury site are too long (75 characters).
Thanks to Theuns for putting me onto makeshorterlink.com!
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broken links.
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. When Cosc ran
X-Terminals, rather than thick clients, things could get very slow.
Thoes were the days #Memories, like the corners of my mind...#
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busy rewriting the law :)
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, but that was due to the server being
overloaded rather than the network. It is often hard to tell the
difference :)
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they would have already gone and started something
else. That is, they will not be waiting for the task
to finish.
o If you are writing code for a GUI then most of the
time will be waiting for the user to click on a
button.
o Moores law :)
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as well as dhclient
My conclusion is that ifup is having problems with DHCP. What I want
to know, is why, and what do I do to fix it. I check the config many a
time, and it looks fine.
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Aaagh,
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:04, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
o dhclient successfully brings up eth0, but destroys lo, so
ifup eth0 has to be run as well as dhclient
ifup lo has to be run as well as dhclient
Must check before send.
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want to share them. Under Red Hat they often are
placed under
/usr/share/backgrounds
so you would place the images you wanted to share under
/usr/local/share/backgrounds
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Unix file permissions are an example.
[2] PNG files use LZ77 (g-zip) encoding internally, which has the
peculiar propriety of being faster, or as fast, as reading the
uncompressed file.
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.
(As a fairly proficient WordPerfect 5.0 user, I did all my work with
show-codes on.)
\end{rant}
I don't use LaTeX for anything that has to be viewed on-line. I'm
beginning to use DocBook for that.
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student. Have you forgotten all that I taught you: little
changes, compile often.
Tables do suck in LaTeX, but not as much as SGML.
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some examples of documents
created and a quick demo of the process followed by a discussion of
the pros and cons.
Demos are easy :)
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/markup/
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the latter.
pdflatex foo.fo
For the above to work you will need the passivetex packages
installed. You may find that some of the memory limits in the
texmf.cnf are too low; trial and error will tell you which ones need
to be increased.
[1] xsltproc ships with GNOME.
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files.
[1] http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2A822792 (passivetex @ RPMFind.net)
[2] http://makeashorterlink.com/?O5C814792 (xmltex @ RPMFind.net)
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-9mdk @ RPMFind)
looks like it is the right fit, but a Mandrake user will have to confirm
as I am on a Debian box.
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On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:38, Zane Gilmore wrote:
oldies joke
Should I stay or should I go?
/oldies joke
Its not that old. Is is. Oh no. I'm old\ldots
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On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:20, stacy stacy wrote:
java is sooo much less of a headache in linux than XP!
Belittling with faint prase ;-)
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seeing
a lot of TeX-files created when Jade was running\ldots On Debian
(unstable) the XML toolchain is very robust. I have yet to have a
problem (touch wood).
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to stumble across
Red Hat documentation and package files on the 'Net.
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to be
put into Debian! (I count 11,526 packages, give or take,
installable on my system.)
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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:03, Michael Pearce wrote:
Does anyone know of a public access time server I can use rdate with from my
paradise connection.
On a related note, for NTP you can use:
www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (stratum 2)
truechimer.waikato.ac.nz (stratum ?)
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they put the paper through.
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stand corrected. I will move my paper from the linen closet to
somewhere cooler :)
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commercial role-playing game that I know of is Neverwinter
Nights, which is under development for Linux:
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
o Finally the Wine variants are all quite good at playing Windows games
(Warcraft III etc)
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-Windows chapter from the Unix Haters Handbook
[art.net]:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2E0127B2
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as it is hardware independent.
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-hacked by Sun, as a very plain window manager that conformed to all
the specs, but had very little configuration options so it was easier to
document and fewer support calls would be made.
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registry editor, except that
o The keys have sensible names,
o (some) Keys have documentation associated with them, and
o It is just a front-end to a bunch of XML files :)
Look under apps-metacity to begin with.
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Is there any way to download a *directory* from CVS, rather than an
entire module?
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On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:21, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:35:15PM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Is there any way to download a *directory* from CVS, rather than an
entire module?
cvs co module/path/to/dir
modules are just directories themselves.
Many thanks
files that you will be printing with the GIMP will be in a format
*other* than PostScript (PNG, JPEG, XCF...)
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Hat 8.0 you will find it under
GNOME Menu - Sound Video - Volume Control
I've been burnt so many times by the volume being at zero...
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On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:12, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Anybody have any Linux questions?
GNOME or KDE?
:-P
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], and Totem [3].
[1] http://xinehq.de/
[2] http://sinek.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://hadess.net/totem.php3
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, no matter the
quality of the medium. (I use Imation, if you care.) Is that others
experience?
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] Equivalent Full Time Student
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:)
So you say you would hammer any connection to pieces with apt-get. But
if _anyone_ or any group mirrored Debian and that was available on a
local p2p network, your problem vanishes like mist before a BitTorrent.
Pr0n?
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send both.
[1] RFC 822
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