Re: [SLUG] gdm problem or X problem? XDMCP Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached

[Slug]

Thanks Norm for the info.

We've been having a LOT of problems with gnome since going multi-user
thin-client so we might give KDE a go tomorrow and see how it feels as a
desktop.

It's nice to have the choice.

ATB


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[SLUG] Knoppix, Java, Tomcat

[Aravind Naidu]

Hi,
Has anyone remastered Knoppix to include Java and run Tomcat sucessfully
?

Regards,
Araind

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Re: [SLUG] Format of find,etc

[mlh]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:45:57AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> find /spam -name smtpd*  -printf '  mv  {}  %AY%Am \n '
> 
> Is the bit in printf section complete? Do I need a shell command?
> 

Yeah, you need a shell.  You can feed the result of find
to sh with a pipe, but you're command needs a few fixes:
1. replace {} with %p
2. you probably want mod time, not access time, so %TY%Tm
3. quote the args in case the file contains spaces or other unpleasant chars

so, using echo instead of mv, and a throwaway file for testing,
we get:

find crapola  -printf 'echo "%p"  "%TY%Tm" \n ' 

to execute the result, pipe to shell:

find crapola  -printf 'echo "%p"  "%TY%Tm" \n '  |  sh
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Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

[James Gray]

Mary Gardiner wrote:
I've set up amavis with clamav on my machine (Debian, MTA = Postfix) and
it certainly seems to be finding viruses.
However, I'm wondering whether I keep be the default setup, or tell
amavis not to warn the sender that they have a virus. Its config file
claims that it knows which viruses forge senders, but it looks like I
have to update this by hand (practically every new virus forges senders,
it seems).
And of course, I don't want to contribute to the growing "you have a
virus!" warning message problem which is growing as fast as the viruses
themselves.
What are people doing with their virus scanners? Not warning senders?
Warning only senders of non-forging viruses? How do you keep your
"forging" list up to date?
-Mary
Like most others we gave up sendinig out "virus infection notifications" 
about 2 years ago.  It wastes bandwidth, time and resources; both human 
and machine.  We use MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) with Sendmail. 
The combination of regex matching at the SMTP session level and then 
scanning the messages that get through Sendmail is almost 100% effective 
:)  Not one mydoom/novarg made it through and our mail server barely 
broke a sweat even at the height of the outbreak early last week.

The only thing we notify senders about is attachments we dont allow for 
policy reasons.  Stuff like mpegs/avi etc, and raw executables[1] are 
all blocked but the sender is told so.

HTH

--James
[1] "raw executables" are what we use to refer to windows executeable 
files that aren't zipped or otherwise encapsulated to prevent 
"automatic" execution in Outlook (grr).  However after this most recent 
outbreak of Mydoom/Novarg we're looking at blocking ALL executeable 
stuff no matter how it's sent!  After one of our 'super-users'[2] 
infected himself with Novarg in Japan.. You want to send a user an 
exe - use the corp. ftp server (which has private dirs etc). :-/  Still 
gotta get it past HR.

[2] Once upon a time "Super-users" had $CLUE now they are lacking $CLUE 
and in desperate need of a dirty good LART'ing!!  Guess who is no longer 
a super-user?  He got infected from a mail attachment in his Yahoo 
webmail account.  He'd shut down the real-time scanning on his p4 
2.4GHz/512Mb machine coz he considered NAI VirusScan a too much a 
resource hog -  idiot.  We've now disabled the users from doing ANYTHING 
to their virus scanners except triggering a manual update and displaying 
"about" info. *sigh*

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RE: [SLUG] LCD recommendations

[Visser, Martin]

On this subject, does any know if some of the "pivot" types (allowing
swapping from landscape to portrait) work with X?
 

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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Wilkinson
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:21 PM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] LCD recommendations
> 
> This one time, at band camp, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> >Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review 
> sites would 
> >certainly be welcome.
> 
> I've got a very expensive Sony 17" at home, and a very good 
> value pair of NEC 17" LCDs at work.  Both (models) perform very well.
> 
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Re: [SLUG] gdm problem or X problem? XDMCP Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached

[Norman Gaywood]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:27:20AM +1100, Slug wrote:
> XDMCP fatal error: Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from
> your host reached
>
> It's on a thinclient workstation that had the whole X session crash due
> to an open office error.
>
> When the workstation is rebooted and does a:
>
> X -query ip-of-X-gdm-machine
>
> It gets the XDMCP error above.

It's probably related to the following bug(s):

> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:40:07 -1000
> From: Warren Togami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: gdm XDMCP and file descriptor fixing
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110315
> GDM miscounts current sessions
> I was looking at this problem for a while, and yesterday copied George
> Lebl's solution in gdm-2.5.90.0 of recounting.  I did not test it fully,
> but it also seems to avoid the file descriptor leak described in this
> below bug.  This patch is a bit of a hack and inefficient, but copied it
> anyway since it seems to work and it was from upstream.
>
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113154
> GDM leaking file descriptors
> The link to GNOME bugzilla indicates a similar problem to #110315 above.
>Then today Bart Martens posted a much simpler patch that should fix
> both the file descriptor and XDMCP session counter issue.  I did not yet
> test this patch.
>
> Please help me to verify which patch is more correct.
>
> Warren Togami
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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RE: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[Visser, Martin]

I successfully added PC100 to my PC66 (but only after finding that the
maximum stick size supported was 64MB. I had to swap the 128M I bought.
I also had my original RAM go "bad", which resulted in intermittant
crashes. 

I highly recommend running "memtest86" (from a boot floppy or CD) in the
highest mode to make sure you "exercise" your new RAM. It will write and
read with various data patterns that (hopefully) shows up any issues
with contamination between adjacent memory bits. ( See
http://www.memtest86.com/ )

 

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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gray
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2004 12:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?
> 
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?
> > >
> > > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory.  It 
> > > them moves some out to disk,  this may never happen in 
> your new setup.
> >
> > Ken,
> >
> > so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to 
> > twice RAM', good.
> 
> Good grief! I remember that rule of thumb back in the RedHat 
> 4.2 days when 16Mb RAM was somewhere between "normal" and "a 
> lot"! :)  In today's world, it's simply a waste of hard-drive 
> space.  I've got a 512Mb workstation (this machine) and 128Mb 
> swap, swap usage is rarely over 20Mb.  System has been up for 
> 11 days now, RAM is 316Mb free and swap is 0Mb used; even 
> with KDE 3.1.4 running on a dual-head set-up!  (Heheh - try 
> THAT with XP Sir
> Bill!!)
> 
> > as far as physical RAM is concerned: is it a 'bad idea' to 
> get a new 
> > RAM chip in addition to existing RAM, versus, getting all 
> new RAM chips ?
> 
> Adding extra RAM usually isn't a problem.  Some motherboards 
> will choke if you mix single and double sided RAM in adjacent 
> slots, others wont care.  
> Similarly, mixing RAM with different speeds can cause 
> problems on some hardware (I have some Intel chipsets from 
> around 1996 which will refuse to recognise PC66 RAM if you 
> add PC100 sticks).  Read your motherboard manual and follow 
> their recommendations and you'll be fine :)
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> James
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[SLUG] gdm problem or X problem? XDMCP Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached

[Slug]

I'm  getting this message:

XDMCP fatal error: Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from
your host reached

It's on a thinclient workstation that had the whole X session crash due
to an open office error.

When the workstation is rebooted and does a:

X -query ip-of-X-gdm-machine

It gets the XDMCP error above.

Reading various posts indicate that the port to the old crashed session
is probably still open for that workstation's IP address and this is
what is causing the error message. 

Is it GDM's job to poll for the crashed X session and shutdown that
gdm-binary or is it some other tasks? 

The solution seems to currently be to cycle the whole dm session, which
we will try at lunch time.

Any suggestions most welcome

TIA

Stu

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Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

[Dave Airlie]

> > can you nominate where you want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive
> > programs to?  I have been interested in Xinerama but haven't invested time
\> > or money in to testing it out.
>
> I don't really grok all the 3D interactions with Xinerama.
>

for a lot of cases Xinerama and 3d don't co-operate, so 3d doesn't work,
I've an Nvidia and SIS card in my main PC, and 3d works on the Nvidia side
okay..

With the ATI radeon cards, you can get dualhead 3d using mergedfb..

Dave.
meant to be a DRI developer :-)

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[SLUG] Ecartis: Post sent to moderator.

[Ecartis]

>> Post to list anunt
Post submitted to moderator for reason: Post to moderated list.

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Re: [SLUG] LCD recommendations

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>This one time, at band camp, Andrew Cowie wrote:
>>Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would
>>certainly be welcome.
>
>I've got a very expensive Sony 17" at home, and a very good value pair
>of NEC 17" LCDs at work.  Both (models) perform very well.

The NEC is a MultiSync LCD 1760v.  I believe they cost $600 each when
they were purchased, though I'm not sure.

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Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, ksaenz wrote:
>At the moment my Internet is down can just recieve emails :(. Just a
>step a side to get Xinerama working you need 2 cards either 2 pci or 1
>agp and 1 pci, etc. Is there latency issues? can you nominate where you
>want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive programs to?

Well, if by "nominate" you mean "drag the window to the screen driven by
the faster card", then yes.

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Re: [SLUG] LCD recommendations

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Andrew Cowie wrote:
>Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would
>certainly be welcome.

I've got a very expensive Sony 17" at home, and a very good value pair
of NEC 17" LCDs at work.  Both (models) perform very well.

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[SLUG] Format of find,etc

[Terry Collins]

Somewhere in the Slug archives is an example of the find command
operating on files which I can not find. So I am forced to ask the
question again. I am trying to do something like the following

find /spam -name smtpd*  -printf '  mv  {}  %AY%Am \n '

Is the bit in printf section complete? Do I need a shell command?

i.e. go through the collected spam messages and move them into a
subdirectory based on when they arrived.

TIA


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Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

[Jeff Waugh]

> At the moment my Internet is down can just recieve emails :(. Just a
> step a side to get Xinerama working you need 2 cards either 2 pci or 1
> agp and 1 pci, etc.

Or any card that has two outputs. Matrox cheated on this with their dualhead
G400 (and above) cards; the second head is not "real", so you can't do 3D or
things like that on it.

> Is there latency issues?

Nothing that would affect normal use.

> can you nominate where you want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive
> programs to?  I have been interested in Xinerama but haven't invested time
> or money in to testing it out.

I don't really grok all the 3D interactions with Xinerama.

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Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing Pocket PC's (non palm-os) with Evolution.

[ksaenz]

> Many thanks to Kevin Saenz for providing a solution for synchronising
> my iPaq 3630 with Redhat 9.0.
> 
No Prob ;)

> However, if I set a password on the iPaq, even using the dccm -p 
> command, the sync does not work - I get the following error message:
> [synce_info_new:31] unable to open file:
> /home/malcolm/.synce/active_connection
> [rapi_context_connect:88] Failed to get connection info
> [synce_get_changes:176] Failed to initialize RAPI
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
Here are a few ideas.
1. Did you set the password for syncing in windows?  dccm -p is using
sending a password if you set one up in the pervious windows sync you
have completed.
2. Because Telstra kill my land line and adsl codes on that line I am
webless :( until they pull their finger out, if there is a
telstra person out there kick someone up the bum for me ;) I have been
webless for 7 days. There is a FAQ on the synce site that
talks about RAPI. you might want to read that it might clear things up.

sorry about my little soapbox, just had to get it off my chest.


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Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

[ksaenz]

At the moment my Internet is down can just recieve emails :(. Just a
step a side to get Xinerama working you need 2 cards either 2 pci or 1
agp and 1 pci, etc. Is there latency issues? can you nominate where you
want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive programs to?
I have been interested in Xinerama but haven't invested time or money in
to testing it out.

> > > Matrox in both cases? Badness -> Matrox drivers and Xinerama have this
> > > effect, which is really annoying, because the drivers and hardware otherwise
> > > rock.
> > 
> > (my Matrox MilleniumII has never had any problems with Xinerama)
> 
> Heh, yeah, it's the G* series and up. I used to have a II. :-)


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Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[Ken Foskey]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?
> >
> > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory.  It them
> > moves some out to disk,  this may never happen in your new setup.
> 
> 
> Ken,
> 
> so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice
> RAM', good.


Where did I say that?

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Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[slug]

James Gray wrote:

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?
   

swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory.  It them
moves some out to disk,  this may never happen in your new setup.
 

Ken,

so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice
RAM', good.
   

Good grief! I remember that rule of thumb back in the RedHat 4.2 days when 
16Mb RAM was somewhere between "normal" and "a lot"! :)  In today's world, 
it's simply a waste of hard-drive space.  I've got a 512Mb workstation 
(this machine) and 128Mb swap, swap usage is rarely over 20Mb.  System has 
been up for 11 days now, RAM is 316Mb free and swap is 0Mb used; even with 
KDE 3.1.4 running on a dual-head set-up!  (Heheh - try THAT with XP Sir 
Bill!!)
 

Even more so - I've been advised that a larger swap partition also takes 
more resources just to
manage it, hence maybe even degrading system performance (less RAM for 
other stuff, more
time looking up free pages).

You can look at it in another perspective - by the time you start using 
so much of your swap
space, your system would be crawling so much that you'd better increase 
your RAM anyway.

In any case - I'd say a 512Mb swap partition should be by far more than 
enough, ever. If you
are still worried about actually needing so much swap one day you can 
always create a swap
file and use it for a particular task.

"At least the size of the RAM" used to be the rule with BSD 4.2 and 
family, when a RAM page
wouldn't have been counted if it didn't have a page in the swap space 
assigned to back it up,
today the swap is an extension of the RAM, not a shadow of it.

Cheers,

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Re: [SLUG] Embedding fonts in pdf documents

[Tom Massey]

* Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-03 21:17]:
> At Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:45:19 +1100, Tom Massey wrote:
> > Is there a way to embed fonts in a pdf file created on Linux?
> 
> ps2pdf can't embed a font it doesn't know about.  You could tell
> ghostscript about your font (if you were using Debian, you'd register
> your font with Defoma)

OK, something to look into. I haven't added any fonts to the system
beyond the standard fonts in OOo, kword, abiword, etc. Do I need to
register them?

> -- but your best bet is to get OOo to do its
> job in the first place :P   Unfortunately I have no experience with
> OOo or kword, but I find it strange that its hard to embed fonts.

I think it may be that I'm not using the latest versions. Bit of
googling brought up a few pages that seemed to say that in kword
you can just tell it to export to pdf and check the 'Embed fonts'
box, but kword 1.1.1 doesn't seem to do this - gives the option to
export as pdf, but not to embed fonts. OOo 1.0.3 doesn't give the
'Export as pdf' option. 1.1 Beta does, but doesn't say anything about
embedding fonts. These are the latest versions I've found as deb
packages easily apt-gettable for Woody, searching apt-get.org. I
did think of moving to testing, but Sarge is meant to be out in a
few months. CD's are nicer than dialup, especially when your sister
starts complaining that the Internet is broken everytime you run
a dist-upgrade. Probably should look into throttling there.

> Which font in particular are you having trouble with?

I've been playing with , a Publish On Demand site.
Basic idea is that you upload a text, people buy it, gets printed
out and posted to them. Lulu.com takes a percentage of the sale. You
can upload in a variety of formats, but I'd prefer to use pdf to make
sure it looks exactly as I want. When I print to a ps file and use
ps2pdf, uploading to lulu.com gives the error:

  You have not embedded certain fonts in your document, which may
  cause display or printing issues.
  Font "Type Times-Bold is not embedded.
  Font "Type Times-Roman is not embedded.
  Font "Type Times-BoldItalic is not embedded.
  Font "Type Times-Italic is not embedded.

That's with OOo 1.1 Beta. 1.0.3 gives similar errors, though complains
for each time the font changes so repeats fonts. Same for kword.

> Personally, I always produce pdfs with pdfTeX (through ConTeXt,
> pdfLaTeX or pdfJadeTeX) and it embeds fonts quite nicely ;)

Mmm, I suspect learning TeX would be useful. The document I'm
experimenting with started out in Emacs. Only moved to OOoo as a
quick means of making it look nice. I expect there's a moral in
that.


Thanks,

Tom
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Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[James Gray]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?
> >
> > swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory.  It them
> > moves some out to disk,  this may never happen in your new setup.
>
> Ken,
>
> so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice
> RAM', good.

Good grief! I remember that rule of thumb back in the RedHat 4.2 days when 
16Mb RAM was somewhere between "normal" and "a lot"! :)  In today's world, 
it's simply a waste of hard-drive space.  I've got a 512Mb workstation 
(this machine) and 128Mb swap, swap usage is rarely over 20Mb.  System has 
been up for 11 days now, RAM is 316Mb free and swap is 0Mb used; even with 
KDE 3.1.4 running on a dual-head set-up!  (Heheh - try THAT with XP Sir 
Bill!!)

> as far as physical RAM is concerned: is it a 'bad idea' to get a new RAM
> chip in addition to existing RAM, versus, getting all new RAM chips ?

Adding extra RAM usually isn't a problem.  Some motherboards will choke if 
you mix single and double sided RAM in adjacent slots, others wont care.  
Similarly, mixing RAM with different speeds can cause problems on some 
hardware (I have some Intel chipsets from around 1996 which will refuse to 
recognise PC66 RAM if you add PC100 sticks).  Read your motherboard manual 
and follow their recommendations and you'll be fine :)

Good luck.

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[SLUG] LCD recommendations

[raen7]

you wrote:

>I'm considering replacing my CRTs with LCDs.

[...]

>Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would
>certainly be welcome.

I got this Samsung 17" 1280x1024  from Robert who is on this List and it is 
great.
Cheers
Raena


http://www.samsung.com.au/samsung.asp?cat=52&obj=1185
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Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[lists]

>> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?
>
> swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory.  It them
> moves some out to disk,  this may never happen in your new setup.


Ken,

so I can ignore RH docs that tell me ' swap part should be equal to twice
RAM', good.

as far as physical RAM is concerned: is it a 'bad idea' to get a new RAM
chip in addition to existing RAM, versus, getting all new RAM chips ?

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Re: [SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[Ken Foskey]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have RH73 on P3 with 256MB and 512MB swapper, single IDE 20GB
> 
> If i was to increase the RAM, to, say 512MB or 1GB:
> 
> can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?

swap is used when program memory exceeds the physical memory.  It them
moves some out to disk,  this may never happen in your new setup.

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[SLUG] upgrading RAM, what do about swapper partition ?

[voytek]

I have RH73 on P3 with 256MB and 512MB swapper, single IDE 20GB

If i was to increase the RAM, to, say 512MB or 1GB:

can I leave the swapper 'asis' at 512MB ?

 11:25pm  up 60 days,  9:45,  5 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
115 processes: 114 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.5% system,  0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
Mem:   247504K av,  238464K used,9040K free,   0K shrd,   24856K buff
Swap:  522104K av,  140548K used,  381556K free   58624K
cached

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   * 1 6 48163+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2 7  2369  18980797+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3  2370  2434522112+  82  Linux swap


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Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing Pocket PC's (non palm-os) with Evolution.

[Malcolm Myles-Hook]

Many thanks to Kevin Saenz for providing a solution for synchronising my iPaq 3630 with Redhat 9.0.

However, if I set a password on the iPaq, even using the dccm -p  command, the sync does not work - I get the following error message:
[synce_info_new:31] unable to open file: /home/malcolm/.synce/active_connection
[rapi_context_connect:88] Failed to get connection info
[synce_get_changes:176] Failed to initialize RAPI

Any thoughts?

Malcolm
Farnborough
Hampshire
UK


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Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

[Jeff Waugh]

> At Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:15:05 +1030, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Matrox in both cases? Badness -> Matrox drivers and Xinerama have this
> > effect, which is really annoying, because the drivers and hardware otherwise
> > rock.
> 
> (my Matrox MilleniumII has never had any problems with Xinerama)

Heh, yeah, it's the G* series and up. I used to have a II. :-)

- Jeff

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Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

[Angus Lees]

At Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:15:05 +1030, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Matrox in both cases? Badness -> Matrox drivers and Xinerama have this
> effect, which is really annoying, because the drivers and hardware otherwise
> rock.

(my Matrox MilleniumII has never had any problems with Xinerama)

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[SLUG] LCD recommendations

[Andrew Cowie]

I'm considering replacing my CRTs with LCDs.

I've been googling around a bit, but I was wondering if anyone has
specific recommendations about LCD monitors? My only requirement is that
the screen res be greater than 1024x768 (ie, the 1280x1024 that seems to
be standard at 17" is more than ok) and have a good old analogue 15 pin
VGA plug.

Any suggestions? Specific manufacturers/products, or review sites would
certainly be welcome.

AfC

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Re: [SLUG] LaTex and the use of \symbol.

[Angus Lees]

At Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:34:07 +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
> 1. I'm using the palatino package, ie., \usepackage{palatino}
> 2. I want to use the letter u with the tichy little hole above it
> (apologies in advance to the Czechs, but it's not an umlaut and I
> don't know what it's called). I looked up the Cork layout for the
> symbol and was going to use that, ie., \symbol{"xx}

try \r{u}  (if thats the symbol you mean)

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Re: [SLUG] Embedding fonts in pdf documents

[Angus Lees]

At Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:45:19 +1100, Tom Massey wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to embed fonts in pdf documents so that I can
> be sure that they look exactly as intended wherever viewed.
> 
> Using OOo 1.1 beta 2, or kword 1.1.1, I'm able to create pdf files,
> but the fonts aren't embedded, and although I've searched through all the
> menus I can't seem to find a way of doing it. Same for printing to a ps
> file and then using ps2pdf. Googling doesn't seem to give me any hints
> on this.
> 
> Is there a way to embed fonts in a pdf file created on Linux?

ps2pdf can't embed a font it doesn't know about.  You could tell
ghostscript about your font (if you were using Debian, you'd register
your font with Defoma) -- but your best bet is to get OOo to do its
job in the first place :P   Unfortunately I have no experience with
OOo or kword, but I find it strange that its hard to embed fonts.
Which font in particular are you having trouble with?

Personally, I always produce pdfs with pdfTeX (through ConTeXt,
pdfLaTeX or pdfJadeTeX) and it embeds fonts quite nicely ;)

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