On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Richard Burkhart wrote:
Proof of RTFM/STFW:
So _STFW_ was outside of the scope of my RTFM,IMHO,AFAIK,etc. tech-acronym
vocabulary so I popped it into dictionary.com. I had to chuckle at how
uncensored their definition is:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=STFW
Not
I want to put an ancient laptop to use as a wireless bridge. My Gamecube
sits in a room that I can't get ethernet to without a lot of effort.
I could buy the Linksys _gaming adapter_ or any of several similar devices,
but I figured this would be worthwhile experiment and I can save some
cash.
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Dave Margolis wrote:
This is not a bridge. That is not to say you should be bridging, but
bridging implies extension of a single network across media.
The problem with wireless bridging is that it exposes your internal
seems to be working for my purposes.
Thanks again (and Jeff too).
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, ME wrote:
Dave Margolis said:
I want to put an ancient laptop to use as a wireless bridge. My Gamecube
sits in a room that I can't get ethernet to without a lot of effort.
I could buy the Linksys _gaming
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
bleah. i can't change it. did some web surfing, and found information
on it, though.
there are different hardware abstraction layers (HALs) that can be used.
if you install win2k with a HAL of ACPI, you can't change IRQs. if you
have a HAL
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
this totally sucks. i've had nothing but bad luck with win2k. i'm
almost ready to go back to linux only, but i really enjoy playing around
with flash. :(
This is NOT an endorcement, nor is it meant to be flamebait...
Flash (and and a host of
How are your PCs connected to the internet and how do they identify
themselves.
I've had problems in the past where my machines were misadvertising
themselves because of my made-up naming scheme. I called my mailserver
mail.mydomain.net when no such alias existed. That was easy to fix after
I
Nicole,
That (from the shell) would look something like this:
kill -SIGSTOP 1159
(where 1159 is my PID)
To start the process back up:
kill -SIGCONT 1159
If you're trying to call the same thing from a C program:
kill(pid, SIGTSTP);(where pid is an int = to some PID)
This requires the
that it was on sale.
Note 2: The DWL-122 is listed as OS X (10.2) compatible, but does NOT work
with Panther. I bought one to play around with on some Macs at work. It
worked fine on my wife's iBook (10.2) but would not work on any of the
Panther machines at work...
Dave Margolis
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Jonathan
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, dylan wrote:
as ridiculous as this might sound -- i would like to put an LED in the hand
of a small figurine that lights up when i have email -- i would be sending
serial commands via shell scripts to a Basic Stamp in order to toggle the
LED. i know pretty dorky...
...
Good luck,
Dave Margolis
On 7 Jan 2004, David Jeffrey Barnum wrote:
Well, I put on Red Hat 9, and I was hoping to use my Netgear wireless
card. Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy. Nowhere in the wireless
portion of the networking section is Netgear anything. I have looked it
up
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Daniel Hurt wrote:
I have looked at a couple solutions:
SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server 4.1
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/prices.html
I do not really have that kind of cash to make life easier, it is not
that hard ;-)
Ouch! I didn't know it was
Speaking of Mark's jumper suggestion (and maybe he's talking about the
same thing), won't reading the mo-bo docs and finding the _bios reset_
jumper do the trick? Usually it's a three pin jumper, even on
_jumper-less_ motherboards, and you turn the power off AND upplug the
power. Then you put
requires a
right-click-eject or right-click-unmount. I think I can explain this to
my mother-in-law, but any easier suggestions are welcome.
Anything else to make this the easiest to use box possible?
Thanks,
Dave Margolis
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) would be easier.
i'll run my wife through a which one of these seems easier to use test.
any other mail client suggestions? what about primary browser? it's
basically the same: mozilla vs. konquerer.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Rod Roark wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 07:22 pm, Dave Margolis wrote
on an older slackware system, i once had to add _ssh: all_ (or some other
similar syntax specifying a domain or ip range) to /etc/hosts.allow.
sshd shouldn't come compiled to respect tcpwrappers by default, but give
it a go...
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Ken Herron wrote:
--On Tuesday, January 13,
Pete,
I recenlty bought a Shuttle XPC, and I ALMOST bought the AMD64 version.
I'm still pining over it, and I may get one in the future when prices drop
a bit. Me drooling over that little machine doesn't help you much so...
If you can track down this mag:
If you or your isp use q-mail, you can use qmail-inject in a very similar
way...via scripts or directly from the command line.
I always imagined that mail was a wrapper to /your/path/to/sendmail
anyway, but I just did a _man mail_ on the system I'm on, and it occurs to
be it's own program. It's
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Trevor Lango wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 23:19, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
I came across a LUGOD post dated January 9, 2002 from Richard Crawford. He
wanted to listen to KXJZ but at the time that station only offered its stream
in Windows Media. But if one goes to
My guess is that you successfully installed the driver and now you just
need to (re) configure X. Redhat comes with Xconfigurator (spelling?). I
personally use xf86config. The _no screens_ error usually means you
haven't specified a correct set up of horiz/vert refresh rates to make
your
and see what
happens.
dave
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Richard Crawford wrote:
Dave Margolis said:
somewhere in that belkin software there is a device setting. the
default is /dev/ttyS0.
maybe look in dmesg to see if it is registering a usb device?
Here is the line that looks most relevant to me
Mark,
This is a guess, but I've had luck with this type of (what I want isn't
compiled into the php on server x) problem before.
Verify if gettext behaves appropriately from the command line.
If so, call gettext from a php system or exec call.
If that works, it might be slower than _native_ php
sounds good. how do i specify the width and height? say to 1cm?
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Trevor M. Lango wrote:
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NEVER MIND.
I found it under Format/Cell/Height and Format/Column/Width.
I was only looking under Format/Cells.
Dave
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Trevor M. Lango wrote:
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:58:47PM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote:
Hrm. I have a little script I downloaded for printing envelopes.
All it does is dump PostScript. So perhaps a PS expert around here might
be willing to throw something similar together
Feb 2004, Trevor M. Lango wrote:
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|[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Margolis
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|Subject: Re: [vox-tech] graph paper
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|On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Bill
http://silogram.net/pdf/gp/
This may or may not qualify as nifty, but it's significantly cooler than
the hand-made spreadsheet method. It uses PHP and PDFLib, basically just
throwing lines up with loops defined by user specified parameters.
Source is here: http://silogram.net/pdf/gp/source.txt
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, ME wrote:
On a multi-user system with a mounted windows filesystem, you may have
desire for everyone to have read access, but only a few to have write
access to the mounted windows volume. Here is what I have found to work:
I don't understand this scenario. What is a
I had the same problem with Arts and XMMS (same symptoms for Xawtv).
However, I FIXED the problem by switching from OSS sound drivers to Alsa.
It sounds like you're using Alsa, so that can't work.
I still have a weird problem with XMMS and Arts - whenever I click play
for the first time in a KDE
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, ME wrote:
One of the amazing things with software is that it can grow beyond the
confines and limitations that people try to impose on it. Luckily, since
we use Linux, we do not need to limit ourselves to only use software as
it was expected.
Hmmm. Your use of the word
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, ME wrote:
Hmmm. Your use of the word limit in quotes comes dangerously close to
being condescending, but I'll assume that's not how it was meant.
It was not at all an attack. It is meant to highlight a theme in the
response-- that of choice vs. limits. It was not a
Dick,
If you click on a link for a filetype that Mozilla doesn't recognize,
you are generally asked to 'Save it to disk' or 'Open it with'. If you
choose to open it, you can just click the 'Choose' button and browse to
your realplayer. My realplayer is /usr/local/bin/realplay, but yours
may
You may want to look at PDFLib - http://www.pdflib.com/
It's not a GUI editor, obviously, but you can achieve what you're
talking about programmatically (with C, PERL, PHP, etc.)
Also, you might consider opening and existing Word or OO doc in OO,
adding your hyperlinks, and then saving as
Forwarding my own message to vox-tech, sorry!
Original Message
Subject:[vox] USB vs. PS/2 mouse
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:17:50 -0800
From: Dave Margolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have an IBM thinkpad
Stickel wrote:
Dave Margolis wrote:
Hello,
I have an IBM thinkpad with an _eraser head_ mouse. I like the
eraser head and I've grown rather fond of it over the years (I had an
old toshiba laptop with the same mouse before). However, every once
and I while I like to plug in my USB scroll mouse
Speaking of SANE and scanning, I just picked up a refurbished HP PSC
1210 Printer, Scanner, Copier from Office Max for $60 ($80 less a $20
rebate).
This isn't an endorsement for Office Max or HP, but I just wanted to let
anybody who's looking to save some deskspace that all three parts work
great
I make a 1 pixel high by 8 pixel wide black graphic in the gimp, and
then save it as linux_logo.ppm. I then compile this replacement graphic
into my kernel using patches at the following site:
http://www.arnor.net/linuxlogo/download.html
This is a little crude and hasn't been updated since
not just go to Device Drivers-
Graphics Support-Logo Configuration and just turn it off? Or compile a
vanilla kernel with the same configuration options and you'll get the
standard beerless Tux.
On 2004.04.05 15:38, Dave Margolis wrote:
I make a 1 pixel high by 8 pixel wide black graphic
I've used the method mentioned below recently (copy awflash.exe and
mybiosupgrade.bin onto any existing dos bootable floppy - e.g. win95/98
bootdisk). Also, I've had to download an .exe file that needed to be
run from a windows machine with a floppy drive installed. This created
a bootable
dylan wrote:
Any chance it's an eMachine? I'm not sure about the virus possibility or
the IE problem, but I have seen a similar reboot issue a number of
times, most often with eMachines. It was usually traced back to a dying
power suply. The one time it wasn't, it had to do with a dead CMOS
Mark,
Great tip. I hadn't seen/used that before.
By the way:
?php
echo pre;
var_dump(gd_info());
echo /pre;
?
does a slightly better job showing your what you're looking at.
Dylan,
I know nothing about what the default debian package for php supports,
but the default slackware and
Hello,
I'm trying to configure Mailman (ver. 2.1.3) to be as simple as a
one-way mailing list as possible. I'd like to allow the owner to send
monthly newsletter style messages to the mailing list. I want users to
be able to subscribe/unsubscribe per normal.
So far I've figured everything I
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Dave Margolis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I'm trying to configure Mailman (ver. 2.1.3) to be as simple as a
one-way mailing list as possible.
Answers below are based on 2.1.4, which differs only trivially.
I'd like to allow the owner to send monthly newsletter style
yup, that did it. easy enough. my brain must not have been very flexible
this morning because that seems like a very obvious variation of what i
already had.
gracias!
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:32:35AM -0700, Dave Margolis wrote:
Anyway, I came up
ME wrote:
Consider another direction:
$ find /var/log -iname \*.[0-9].[0-9] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
i agree, find is recursive by nature. no need to account for recursion
with a script. question: how does piping ot xargs differ from using
the -exec switch of find?
Hello,
I generally run gaim via ssh -X from my computer at home on my computer
at work. This works just spiffily except the fonts show up quite a bit
smaller on my laptop (12 1024x768) then the do on my actual box at home
(15 1024x768).
I tried adding the following to .gtkrc-2.0 to increase
?
Dave
Mark K. Kim wrote:
Create two different files, .gtkrc-2.0-laptop and .gtkrc-2.0-desktop, and
at login, using a script, determine which computer you're connecting from
and make a symlink to .gtkrc-2.0 from the appropriate file! It's like
magic...
-Mark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dave Margolis wrote
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Mark K. Kim wrote:
Create two different files, .gtkrc-2.0-laptop and .gtkrc-2.0-desktop, and
at login, using a script, determine which computer you're connecting from
and make a symlink to .gtkrc-2.0 from the appropriate file! It's like
magic...
Rod Roark wrote:
Speaking of wireless networking - what kind of range are
people getting within a house or office building? I
understand line-of-sight is important, and obviously you
won't have that between different rooms.
Also, any comments on using 802.11 in a hospital? I know
many hospitals
Bill,
If I remember correctly from some other thread, Margo lives across the
street from where I work (CSUS). If she's got a laptop, she can run over
and see me - and at an actual helpdesk!
I wouldn't be able to leave anytime soon or help her after work tonight,
but if she can come over here
I'm looking at putting together a multi-language public
internet-browsing/e-mail box for a school project.
I plan to start out with KDE's kiosk framework (though I'm pretty open
at this point). KDE w/ its i18n support seems appropriate for this, but
there may be other methods.
I'd like to
Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:09:06AM -0800, Dave Margolis wrote:
1. Change the language settings for the desktop environment.
How do I do this programtically (i.e. without going into the KDE
language settings in the configuration manager)?
Do it programmatically BY going
Ken Bloom wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:09:06 -0800
Dave Margolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because of the way in which environment variables propagate, you'll
probably need to completely log out and then log in again using the new
language. (Unless KDE has some kind of wierd DCOP way to change
Mark K. Kim wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Bill Kendrick wrote:
Anyway, try installing the Flash blocker add-on for Mozilla/Firefox and
you should have a stabler, quieter, less seizure-inducing web experience.
(And just click the 'play' button placeholder to activate those embedded
Flash bits that
Does anyone know of a program that I could run a few thousand GIF images
through, perform an OCR-like operation on each, and get some kind of
text back for putting into a database for searching purposes.
I'm looking into making my collection of daily comics searchable. I
know the fonts in
Hello,
I am getting the following error when using apt-get install:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
...
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
I googled around a bit and found this document: http://
wiki.debian.org/SecureApt. However, I wasn't successful
On Aug 30, 2006, at 5:48 PM, serendipitu serendipitu wrote:
I want to access my half.ebay.com account automatically from my
linux machine. As far as I learned till now, if I manually login
once with firefox browser and then use the firefox cookies I can
easily get any https webpages with
On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:35 AM, serendipitu serendipitu wrote:
I need to READ some data from that page without manually loging in
every 24 hours.
PHP/curl makes this pretty easy (depending on how much energy the
site developers have put into trying to prevent screen-scraping).
Also, any
On Sep 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, serendipitu serendipitu wrote:
Thanks Dave...
I have a RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 machine on which I installed:
curl 7.15.5 : with SSL
php 4.4.4 : with curl and command line interface
Unfortunately, the problem is a very basic one! I can't even read
a regular
If you run php_info, what do you get back for your sendmail_path value?
PHP depends on /usr/bin/sendmail (unless you change this val in your
php.ini). Postfix provides a compatible dummy sendmail, but it might
not be where PHP is looking for it.
?
php_info();
?
Dave
On 9/18/06, Richard S.
Hmmm...
Comment out your call to mail() and do an:
echo $REPORT_INFO-recipients[$i];
in the place of the call to mail().
Be interesting to see if the e-mail addresses you expect to see are
actually there.
On 9/18/06, Richard S. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the setup:
Apache 2.0
Hello,
I'm running both Thunderbird and Firefox under Kubuntu (Dapper).
Thunderbird is assuming Konqueror as the default browser. Thunderbird
doesn't appear have a setting for this (as far as I know; the setting
may be buried in T-Bird's about:config panel or may be right in front of
me in
Micah J. Cowan wrote:
Here are a couple things you could check:
- Do you have BROWSER set in your environment?
- What is the output of namei x-www-browser?
$ namei x-www-browser
f: x-www-browser
? x-www-browser - No such file or directory (2)
If x-www-browser appears to point at
On 1/20/07, Jeffrey J. Nonken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, hmm. I've not been keeping up with the list... two days after you
posted this, my wife gave me a refurbed MacBook for my birthday.
Mine's the white 2 ghz Intel Core Duo.
I've been running Windows XP under Parallels. Some twitchiness
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