Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > To my mind the fact that I said it would be nice to have versioning that > worked with OOo, Freemind and Writer's Cafe/Storylines implied that OOo, > Freemind and Writer's Cafe/Storylines were not on the table for replace

Re: htsearch problem after Sarge->Etch system upgrade

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Schäfer
Mumia W.. schrieb: On 09/26/2007 10:54 AM, Alexander Schäfer wrote: Hello, we've upgraded our company's web-server (runnun with apache2) from 3.1 to 4.0. All is working well after upgrade, but not the "htsearch" function, which is used for the product search on our web-site. The error messag

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Acknowledging the other person's position and cluing them in that the > advice is for the broader audience of the list means the OP can clearly see it > isn't directly solely at them and let it slide. Otherwise the perception i

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:31:32 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Here's my personal letter template. I copy it to the correct file > name, edit it, then latex it. The letter text itself is just plain > text. > \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} > %preamble here > \begin

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> If there is a problem than this: you don't just take the advice, you >> claim that the advice is *unsuitable* to your problem, which it is not. > > Johannes, who are you to judge the suitability of

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 10:00 PM, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: Hi all, I have a problem - basically with some bash codes. I have dual screen and one mouse, and I want to switch my mouse back and forth from screen 1 to screen 2 etc by pressing a keyboard. In order to do that, I did the following: 1. instal

Re: kérdés

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:47:09AM +0200, szélpál ági wrote: > A gépem amd sempron 2200+, 256 mb ram, 80 gb hdd, 64 mb video ram dvd író, > hangkártya. Milyeb debian linuxot javasoltok telapíteni? Hogyan kell és mit > kell hozzá letölteni? Eddig xp-m volt. Válaszotokat előre is köszönöm > I'm ve

DSL setup under Debian ETCH

2007-09-26 Thread Khurram Pirzada
Thanks, Its ZTE DSL ethernet modem, model ZXDSL 831D, and its PPPoE setup. Actually its my first time ever to try to setup DSL under ANY Linux. Thanks Khurram Tonight's top picks. What will you watch

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/07 00:07, Oleg Verych wrote: [snip] > > As for "flower" think of it, as synonym to "develop". Flower, bloom, mature, grow, develop. That makes sense, I guess. I'm sure that flower/develop is a perfectly understood metaphor in Cz, but it ju

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 21:47, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: >> --} On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:35:04AM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> --} > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: >> --} > >--} One

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 21:32, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You need a more compliant girlfriend. Lucy Liu-bot comes to mind. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot > > wtf did I just waste fifteen minutes reading? You do n

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Oleg Verych
27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: > Oleg Verych wrote: >> 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: >> >>> Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first >>> sent it this morning. >>> >> >> Oh, man, are you serious? >> >> First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right.

kérdés

2007-09-26 Thread szélpál ági
A gépem amd sempron 2200+, 256 mb ram, 80 gb hdd, 64 mb video ram dvd író, hangkártya. Milyeb debian linuxot javasoltok telapíteni? Hogyan kell és mit kell hozzá letölteni? Eddig xp-m volt. Válaszotokat előre is köszönöm

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 08:08 PM, s. keeling wrote: [ method of invoking xmodmap snipped ] in my ~/.xinitrc (I'm a southpaw, btw). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSL setup under Debian ETCH

2007-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:29:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:51:58PM -0700, Khurram Pirzada wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have just installed Debian ETCH under GNOME mode (and NOT KDE). I have > > 256kbps DSL > > connection which works fine on same machine under XP.

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:11:54AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: >> 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: >> >>> Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first >>> sent it this morning. >>> >> >> Oh, man, are you serious? >> >> First. No one interested in you p

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread David Fox
Ralph wrote: > Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the > contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only Well, I remember doing something similar at a previous job. I was doing quite a bit of Excel spreadsheets there, and over time this spreadshee

Re: DSL setup under Debian ETCH

2007-09-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:51:58PM -0700, Khurram Pirzada wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just installed Debian ETCH under GNOME mode (and NOT KDE). I have > 256kbps DSL > connection which works fine on same machine under XP. Now I want to be able > to use > it under ETCH. [XP is installed on 40GB(m

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Oleg Verych wrote: 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. Oh, man, are you serious? First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right. Because this is a noise, not information. No one

DSL setup under Debian ETCH

2007-09-26 Thread Khurram Pirzada
Hi all, I have just installed Debian ETCH under GNOME mode (and NOT KDE). I have 256kbps DSL connection which works fine on same machine under XP. Now I want to be able to use it under ETCH. [XP is installed on 40GB(master) and ETCH is installed on 60GB(slave)] Can someone please guide me throu

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:50:06PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I think trimming means keeping sideburns at an acceptably trimmed level > until lamb chops are back in style, for males. Females shall keep their > runways appropriately devoid of any shoulder dandelion weeds. If that's a joke I do

Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

2007-09-26 Thread Logan Five
Logan Five pobox.com> writes: Ok, I found it. Someone writing me directly in email pointed me to the right place. I had a setting in rc.local that set the static IP. Now I remember getting a tip to do that on a web posting somewhere. But I think it was a generic tip and not one geared directl

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)ht

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:50:47AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > s/Jones/West/g > > You gotta change your name to Steve. Steve Sackville-Jones?? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

2007-09-26 Thread Logan Five
Mumia W.. earthlink.net> writes: > > Please post /etc/network/interfaces > > I did above in response to somebody else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-26 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
Hi all, I have a problem - basically with some bash codes. I have dual screen and one mouse, and I want to switch my mouse back and forth from screen 1 to screen 2 etc by pressing a keyboard. In order to do that, I did the following: 1. install switchscreen, then by typing "switchscreen 0" o

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Oleg Verych
27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: > Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first > sent it this morning. Oh, man, are you serious? First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right. Because this is a noise, not information. > I am need of some help with a USB

Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 06:51 PM, Logan Five wrote: I have the latest version of Debian running on Linksys NSLU. I have it set for a static IP and I've added a correct default gateway to my config and everything works ok. However, when I reboot, it goes back to DHCP and the gateway route doesn't stick.

Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

2007-09-26 Thread Logan Five
Wayne Topa intergate.com> writes: > What correct setting on what, the slug? > The static IP settings are in /etc/network/interfaces. The slug actually is my DHCP server and is running DNSMASQ for that. The IP that it comes up with is within range, but is an old one I used to have assigned to

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: >--} On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:35:04AM +1000, Charlie wrote: >--} > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: >--} > >--} One of the later steps is to upgrade from latest sarge to > latest-etch. --} > >--} Etch is

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You need a more compliant girlfriend. Lucy Liu-bot comes to mind. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot wtf did I just waste fifteen minutes reading? You do not point at wikipedia articles citing toons. Geez. It may have been an enjoyable episod

More intelligent `pdftotext`? (Re: more of that sed "editing")

2007-09-26 Thread Oleg Verych
> Main usage was to read defprogramming.pdf by Ulrich Drepper in my hackish > non-X environment. But such docs, with silly 2 columns text, are coming out > very broken. But some formatting for C in sed, is rather useful. Just happened to look at "const volatile" semantics in C99 standard. It's mor

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
s/Jones/West/g You gotta change your name to Steve. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > > > a lot of time working on non-goals; the question at hand is > > whether adoption by the level of user in question is or is not a > > goal. I'm satisfied to leave that up to the individual. It's none of my business. Caveat em

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:35:04AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: > >--} One of the later steps is to upgrade from latest sarge to latest-etch. > >--} Etch is now at r1. ?The tested upgrade path is r0. ?Since so much > >--} changed between r0

Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

2007-09-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Logan Five([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have the latest version of Debian running on Linksys NSLU. I have it set > for > a static IP and I've added a correct default gateway to my config and > everything > works ok. How/where did you set the static IP? > However, when I r

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Sid Arth
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:59:12PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and what do you mean by trimming? Ill try to fix it myself if I can. It's easy to get over it. Just look at the top posted and bottom posted me

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: >--} One of the later steps is to upgrade from latest sarge to latest-etch. >--} Etch is now at r1.  The tested upgrade path is r0.  Since so much >--} changed between r0 and r1, there may be problems; I don't know. >--} I have install

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > >David Brodbeck writes: > >>TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're > >>writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. > > > >Now _tha

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > >keeling: > >> Plenty of stuff, lots of replies and multipost threads. Can't see any > >> bug reports. Guess it's off to the BTS to search there. Drat. > >> > >> How 'bout that? Search of the BTS for submitter reports no reports > >> f

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 04:27 -0500]: > > > > Btw, THIS IS ALL VOLUNTEER WORK HERE. fyi. > > Yup. And I for one appreciate our Debian Volunteer Overlords. ;-) Ah geez. You made me laugh. I even considered typing "LOL" ... Crap!

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Kent West
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Since in the process of upgrading you'll end up replacing everything anyway, it may end up easier and faster to just do a reinstall. Since the gf is likely to install Windows anyway, you might try persuading her to leave a goodly chunk of drive space unpartitioned, a

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > As I said, I'm going to try using the direct CUPS I/F tonight > when I go over there. At present, I'm about 15 miles from > the computer, so it's problematic to try stuff out :-) > Have you considered a dial-up modem and setting up

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:22:19PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >BTW, I had more luck with the web interface then the CLI. And I use > >the CLI for 98% of my work. > Or try the foomatic-GUI Doug. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Mike, Right now you're at Sarge. If you do an upgrade, consider: One of the first steps is to upgrade your Sarge. That will likely be a big download with the chance of breakage. One of the later steps is to upgrade from latest sarge to latest-etch. Etch is now at r1. The tested upgrade path i

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:59:12PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and > what do you mean by trimming? > Ill try to fix it myself if I can. It's easy to get over it. Just look at the top posted and bottom posted messages here and see for you

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-26 Thread s. keeling
Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc > > contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many > > months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not

Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. I am need of some help with a USB device under Debian; trying last night multiple times to no avail. I have a Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron temperature data logger that I am trying to set. The data lo

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sid Arth wrote: Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and what do you mean by trimming? Ill try to fix it myself if I can. On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: or any other email clien

Network settings don't stick after reboot

2007-09-26 Thread Logan Five
I have the latest version of Debian running on Linksys NSLU. I have it set for a static IP and I've added a correct default gateway to my config and everything works ok. However, when I reboot, it goes back to DHCP and the gateway route doesn't stick. All the correct settings in the correct file

Re: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:41 PM, J wrote: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian that I got for free. Any how, KDE's add printer cannot scan and find the printer??? So, I can't add it. Should I try to add it as and IPP printer or other type? For HP print

Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-26 Thread J
Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian that I got for free. I got it to print from windows because it had some Java aplet that downloaded DLL and did a windows install and it will print from Windows now. The software it installed was called "HP internet Printer

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > (Unfortunately the way from word to LaTeX is not nearly that efficient > if not impossible.) Not at all. IIRC, Abiword can both import DOC and export LaTeX. On the other hand, if you want *nice* LaTeX, you'll have to try a bit

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Sid Arth
Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and what do you mean by trimming? Ill try to fix it myself if I can. On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > > > or any other email client. Those two do every

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread p
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:26:34PM -0600, bent. wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > __deletia__ > > > > Another issue which has never been posted: She installed more > > memory. She had 512 MB RAM, and now has 1.5 Gig. Unfortunately, > > Debian seems only to re

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread bent.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: __deletia__ > > Another issue which has never been posted: She installed more > memory. She had 512 MB RAM, and now has 1.5 Gig. Unfortunately, > Debian seems only to recognize just under 1.0 Gig. I haven't > looked on the web for a fix

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 18:05, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need >> to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I >> use gr

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070926 16:42]: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Looking at my copy of 'The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's > > not clear to me what document class I'd use [for a letter]. > > For some reason that book omits the LaTeX

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the > contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only > editor, re-copy the now text-only data into a new OOo doc. (This is > crude, but assures nothing su

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070926 08:28]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > So now the problem becomes how to convert the HTML produced by HeVeA > > into RTF or another format which M$ Word can read -- preferably within > > the Debia

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > Looking at my copy of 'The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's > not clear to me what document class I'd use [for a letter]. For some reason that book omits the LaTeX "letter" class. -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics & Astrono

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 26, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote: You're concerned (I think) about not being able to merge changes in OpenOffice's data files using revision control, because those files aren't straightforward text. Someone else mentioned Abiword, which saves uncompressed XML; but there's metadata

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is > > a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular > > you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the a

Problems capturing audio with Intel ICH5...

2007-09-26 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Hi! Recently I had to change the motherboard, and now I have the P4i65G by ASRock. The south bridge is the famous ICH5, which, amoing other things, incorporates a sound card. "lspci -v" gives the following line about it: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH

Re: more of that sed "editing" (Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten)

2007-09-26 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:27:34PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > 26-09-2007, Celejar: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:47:09 -0500 > > Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name > >> escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as ne

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: > Maybe I'm confusing threads. I thought one of his requirements was > searchability and version control. Version control tools don't work > well with OOo because, by design, it produces opaque binary files. You're not confusing the two. Yes, it was listed as a "requir

more of that sed "editing" (Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten)

2007-09-26 Thread Oleg Verych
26-09-2007, Celejar: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:47:09 -0500 > Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name >> escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near >> to a desired length as possible without splitting words. Anyone >

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Since I don't think we will change each other's mind regarding this, > I think it should be dropped. This is D-U, you can't do that! -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ken Irving wrote: > That's a good point. Someone posts a question, and a lot of views and > ideas may be presented, whether relevant to the OP's question or not. > The OP doesn't "own" the thread that results, and attempts to keep the > discussion focused may degenerate into what's perceived of as

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > If there is a problem than this: you don't just take the advice, you > claim that the advice is *unsuitable* to your problem, which it is not. Johannes, who are you to judge the suitability of any particular tool to *my problem*. Part of that problem is me, my wor

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:28:49PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > However, the discussion of options for long-document creation is > informative to some people. That's a good point. Someone posts a question, and a lot of views and ideas may be presented, whether relevant to the OP's question or not

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 11:40 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: I do not consider converting to word a desirable feature, I do and have stated such. You asked for suggestions. TeX is the solution I use in a similar situation, and I offered it up to you, mentioning som

Re: htsearch problem after Sarge->Etch system upgrade

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 10:54 AM, Alexander Schäfer wrote: Hello, we've upgraded our company's web-server (runnun with apache2) from 3.1 to 4.0. All is working well after upgrade, but not the "htsearch" function, which is used for the product search on our web-site. The error message in the Apache-Log

Re: Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 09:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for that... have downloaded the lastest snapshot and it booted no issues. Now it wont find the network card. sigh... its a intel e1000 i think. Is it easier to just put a new network card in it? Could

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> I've printed off the CUPS docu from their home page, and >>> I'll give the web or CLI another try tomorrow night. (If >>> she'll let me, that is :-) >>> >>>

Re: Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:16:59PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 25 18:08 -0500]: > > > Yup. NumLock light stays on, CapsLock and ScrollLock stay off. At > > the console, they toggle as normal. (I use startx to fire up X.) > > I log in via KDM. > >

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> David Brodbeck writes: >>> TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're >>> writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. >> >> N

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> David Brodbeck writes: >>> TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're >>> writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. >> >> N

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-26 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > without much luck. > > Cchris > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -07

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Okay, I think a lot of your problems would be alleviated by an upgrade to etch. Again, this is all predicated on the idea that she will give you a little more time to do this stuff. Ok. head over to www.debian.org and read up (at least browse through) the upgrad

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I realise that, just posting up so that 1) others can keep track of stuff we've discussed off-list and 2) so that I know you got the message not knowing how/when you check em

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/26/2007 11:02 AM, John O Laoi wrote: > > > On 9/26/07, *Ralph Katz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > Also check your disk i/o for swapping. > > > How do I do that? Little ole me looks at the disk light. :) Also, I have gkrellm installed which can sho

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snip] > >> has for a while. I suspect its a case of PEBCAK. :) You can definitely >> set up another queue and you can do so for sure through the >> localhost:631 interface. YOu have to review all the d

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: How current is her Debian install? >>> From stable, but a little old. >> From what you're saying I think she is running oldstable (sarge) and not >> stable (etch). It could make a big difference as etch has

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:39:37AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Yup. And I for one appreciate our Debian Volunteer Overlords. ;-) > In soviet russia, debian volunteers you! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 13:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: > How current is her Debian install? From stable, but a little old. >>> From what you're saying I think sh

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] has for a while. I suspect its a case of PEBCAK. :) You can definitely set up another queue and you can do so for sure through the localhost:631 interface. YOu have to review all the data from the other instance of the printer as you have to re-enter it as if

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Depends on your perspective, I guess. It just feels like by the time I get all the preliminary verbiage TeX needs typed out, I could have written the whole letter in OO Once of the good things about TeX is that you only need to

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:58:20AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:44 -0500 > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [snipped the on-topic stuff] > > > > Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. > > > Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: How current is her Debian install? >>> From stable, but a little old. >> From what you're saying I think she is running oldstable (sarge) and not >> stable (etch). It could make a big difference as etch has

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Purves
On 21/09/2007, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > > > On 20/09/2007, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 10:23 -0600, Chris Purves escribió: > >>> > >>> Is it possible to encrypt my wireless keyboard co

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:05:00PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2007 19:03:47 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > I've reconfigured

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:44:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:43:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Have you tried it on other distros and it

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: I know how to do the necessary admin with FC. Debian I'm much less capable with. I wouldn't call FC "turnkey". But it uses a completely different set of admin tools. Why did you push Debian on her, when your expertise lies in FC? "Push" is a four letter word :-) I got her

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. I use latex for some articles which are submitted to scientific journals, but for the type of writing which Steve has described, Oo.org is fine, with no learning curve, and he can output it to .doc or.rtf as necessary.

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: How current is her Debian install? From stable, but a little old. From what you're saying I think she is running oldstable (sarge) and not stable (etch). It could make a big difference as etch has kernel 2.6.18 as opposed to 2.6.8 (or the default 2.4). From stable a

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: David Brodbeck writes: TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. Now _that_ sounds like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of

False dichotomy (was Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX ...)

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 12:06, Peter Robinson wrote: [snip] > > I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, > subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, > and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enou

evolution 'mail' won't display times correctly

2007-09-26 Thread michael
I've had a look about but can't find a suitable solution so perhaps one of you may be able to help. When running evolution 2.10 (IIRC) I see that the date for (eg) incoming messgaes is HH:MM AM/PM. How do I get this to be in 24 hour format (instead of 01:01PM (is that how you would write it?!) it

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 12:21, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> You're saying that only stringent proponents get to define the usage >> parameters of a system. > > No. But their usage parameters are the only one that change significantly > from what

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