Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no debian package for jpegtran libjpeg-progs -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Ever feel like you're just a figment of Myra's daydreams? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: LaTeX with Emacs

2004-09-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Ali Nassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using emacs on Debian-Linux to edit LaTex files. Is there any tool in emacs to make a delimiter check? I believe M-x check-parens will do it. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Bad DM!:Put the Hand of Vecna in the bag with the rest

Re: command to answer what's your OS

2004-09-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. $ echo Debian GNU/Linux -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Cynthia is mistakenly crowned King of Norway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-05 Thread Alan Shutko
not surprising that it doesn't really sync with other maildir programs. nnmaildir tries (which is probably why it is so slow) but I don't think it's the highest on the list of priorities. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: recommendation for digital camera -= Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: There's one CCD cell per image pixel, with the exception of the D1x, which has a strange layout[1]. There is no way that this can be true physically. Of course there is, since that's the way

Re: recommendation for digital camera -= Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
exposure and has cool toys like DEE which is basically a magic exposure fixer. Nothing you can't do without capture, but you have to work harder to get there. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
making a distinction between Unix, BSD, and Linux, even though BSD is as Unix as can be and there's more commonality between BSD, Linux and say Solaris than there is between Ultrix, SCO OpenServer, AIX and HPUX. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Oxymoron: guilty scapegoats

Re: recommendation for digital camera -= Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
of quality (assuming a 16bit/color gimp), yes. In terms of ease, no, since Nikon Capture has a lot of prepackaged actions which do exactly what a photographer wants to do, and the gimp doesn't. Of course, they could be added... 8^) -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Idiolocation: You

Re: recommendation for digital camera -= Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
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Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

2004-07-14 Thread Alan Shutko
-print0 and -0 exist in find and xargs -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. You're a Bundle of Laughs: Vera Funny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Alan Shutko
, also assuming there's no exploit in Xprint. That message is really about sending arbitrary Postscript files through interpreters. Mozilla doesn't produce arbitrary postscript with unsafe operators, unless there's an unpublished exploit to make it do so. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-08 Thread Alan Shutko
not logged in. Right, it won't work for this time. But if one uses screen every time they log in, one will always be able to resume, whether it times out because of ping, whether the phone line gets cut, whether the client machine reboots -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Plenty

Re: personal crontab entry

2004-07-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. /var/spool/cron/crontabs, probably. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Up yer shaft! -- Scott

Re: Mozilla/Firefox PostScript/default security problems

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Shutko
information, and other stuff you will hopefully never have to look at (See also: Section 2 of Xprint Service Sample Implementation from the XFree86 documentation). -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Barney Hunting season is now *OPEN*... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Shutko
be that the printing system interface (lpq, lpadmin) is not sophisticated enough to communicate information like DPI capability. Or it might be that Xprint currently can't take advantage of this information. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. I heard you had a thought once - but it died

Re: Very strange error setting up my cups printer

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Shutko
messages, it looks like you might have an lpq from some other print server. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Oxymoron: Conventional wisdom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla/Firefox PostScript/default security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
or two. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. If you can't be with the one you love, kill the one they're with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jewel for lcd users

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It turns off any monitor that supports APM. It's cool, but it's not just for LCD users. And typically, it works better for desktop systems (crt or lcd) than for laptops. While I'm sure there are some laptops this works on, I haven't owned one. -- Alan

Re: Mozilla/Firefox PostScript/default security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Brad Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am, I was told that mozilla no longer supports direct printing, and the lack of postscript wasn't a bug and they closed my bugreport. Incidentally, it appears the upstream Linux builds still have direct PS support. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Brad Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mozilla has dropped support for direct printing; Actually, it looks like only the Debian package has dropped support for it. And that only at the request of one person, who is the same person who closed your bug. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Alan Shutko
a Word document match a good LaTeX or TeX document, because Word doesn't have as good a layout algorithm. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. You must be drunk! Why, there's two of you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Shutko
learned long ago, they'll just be annoying until they do. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. My wife treats me like a god. I get a burnt offering every meal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread Alan Shutko
. Other laptops my wife and I have had start falling apart (literally) after a year and a half. They just aren't built well enough. Of course, Thinkpads cost more, but for me, downtime waiting to get laptops repaired or installing new ones is even more expensive. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread Alan Shutko
than slashdot. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. SOCCER PLAYERS have better ball control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS + FireFox: printing with a2ps

2004-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
you can make XPrint work, but with enough you can also dig holes with an ethernet card. Doesn't mean it's a good idea. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. There is water on Mars, we've seen canals --Dan Quayle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: CUPS + FireFox: printing with a2ps

2004-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
does a much, much better job. Sure, if I liked pain, I could go and edit fifteen million tiny files to tell XPrint all about my printer because it's too stupid to ask CUPS, which let me drop in a PPD file from HP detailing everything. But I'd like to have some semblance of a life. -- Alan Shutko

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-05 Thread Alan Shutko
on that with semantic for various things like Java... could be extended to those modes. On the other hand, I don't think there's anyone in the world who really wants to dig into the perl interpreter and try to duplicate it. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Sign at nursery: Come to me my melon

Re: Detecting EOF

2004-05-27 Thread Alan Shutko
. (FTP supports renames.) Then, just watch for the real filename. Once it appears, you know that the transfer has completed successfully. (Conveniently, renames are instantaneous, so you can't catch _that_ in the middle.) -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: c++ hello world help

2004-05-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Maybe I should buy new textbooks and spend more instead of using cheaper, used textbooks :) For C++, that's a very, very good idea since the language changed significantly during standardization. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I heard at one stage that they were owned by Amazon, of 'one click' patent fame. I do not believe that was ever the case. It's not the case now. (They're owned by eBay.) -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. When in doubt, lead trump

Re: packages in GNU but not in Debian

2004-05-19 Thread Alan Shutko
not sure your list is very useful. Maybe you could go through and trim out the ones in Debian under slightly different names? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: emacs and xresources

2004-05-16 Thread Alan Shutko
different configurations for different needs. Or, you can apply resources for all Emacs instances with Emacs*font:... -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. That's not my department says Werner von Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ext2 to reiserfs conversion

2004-05-12 Thread Alan Shutko
. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Is it OK to listen to my AM radio after noon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which package to pipe to gz automatically?

2004-05-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lesspipe in my head as the way I set this up, but I'm not apt-caching up anything that looks encouraging. Yep, that's it. Just put eval `lesspipe` in your .bashrc. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. I control the world's supply of dairy

Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not much to be honest, but it makes me cringe everytime I see a colour without a 'u' (note I expectly wrote that sentence so it never said color -- D'oh!!) So, you must hate green and violet, but love chartreuse and purple, right? -- Alan Shutko

Re: Fn key disabled after updated to new kernel

2004-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
, including watching for magic keypresses. Under APM, it's all handled by Linux userspace tools, which have to be configured to look for those keys. How to do if I wanna make the Fn Key working as what I want under ACPI? Dunno specifics. I'd suggest hitting google hard. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Can't find on Google: How can I determine path to binary in gcc?

2004-03-25 Thread Alan Shutko
. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:50, Alan Shutko wrote: If you have only the CUPS lp and lpr clients, the only difference is the option syntax. I thought CUPS itself didn't provide those commands, which you get by installing lpr|lprng|cupsys-bsd? Sorry

Re: CUPS

2004-03-20 Thread Alan Shutko
syntax. They don't use the printcap at all. The cups server can generate a fake printcap so that applications which look at it to determine which printers are available work. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. When we say 'hike out', we mean *HIKE* *OUT*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Alan Shutko
they conflict.) If lp works, I can't think of any reason the cups lpr wouldn't work. I've never had to do anything additional to get cupsys-bsd's lpr to work... it talks to CUPS directly, just like lp. Unless you mean having other machines use the lpr protocol to talk to a CUPS server -- Alan

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
it is installed to, which the script compares at run time against the $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}. If these don't match the email won't be sent. You realize that someone could just send a different referer header? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. You read fiction novels? I read fiction

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
, Windows and Mac don't generally really care what the hostname associated with their IP is. Few applications care. So DHCP servers just hand out IPs, and most apps which need a hostname can do the reverse lookup. Unix is different in that it generally assumes a hardcoded hostname somewhere. -- Alan

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
). Sure, all of these make it harder to use, but the only way to stop spammers is to restrict the addresses they send to. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM Nitroglycerin on keys -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
in the Referer: header. The client is able to send no value, or any arbitrary value. So it's just like the user agent: not to be trusted. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Don't follow in my footsteps. I think I stepped in something. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: emms

2004-03-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You do realise that linux was written to provide hardware and filesystem drivers for emacs don't you? That's why I started using it. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Don't force it! Get a bigger hammer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Alan Shutko
a pretty decent job at the conversion. Newer versions will do better in certain cases, but I think that 6.53 was pretty stable for anything except weird cases/fonts/etc. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Can't go out again until you return my straight jacket

Re: GCC

2004-02-20 Thread Alan Shutko
committee run amok. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC

2004-02-19 Thread Alan Shutko
it solves. Code written for advanced compilers will be incompatible with older compilers. This has been a problem of C++ for at least a decade. But at least it looks like it's finally getting better now that the standard is standardized and compilers catch up. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
of comparison, the fetchmail man page is 1984 lines long. The Emacs documentation is _37528_ lines long. But if you want a single file, try something like info emacs | more -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Smartmontools (Simple question)

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
James Tappin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the /etc/init.d script for smartmontools there is a condition that checks whether start_smartd is equal to yes. Is there a proper way to set this variable so that smartmontools starts at boot Check /etc/default/smartmontools -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
to know at least a bit of ed, because rescue floppies couldn't always fit vi -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-10 Thread Alan Shutko
you have both, you can either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, or rename things to the correct filename afterwards. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Velcro, super glue, duct tape, post-its, and OS/2! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Alan Shutko
that Corel had that big MS investment, but I don't recall them having any relationship with SCO. (Sure you aren't conflating Caldera with Corel?) The bigger problem with Corel is that their Linux development has been abandoned for years, and shows no sign of coming back. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: mozillaprint freezes

2004-01-19 Thread Alan Shutko
profiles because Mozilla keeps barfing on its config files. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. This is the left,...this is the right,...centre,.surround... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian McGroarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to include an RSS option, ulimit -m -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Everything you say and do is a reflection of the inner you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: odd: gv *very* slow while view ps file from dvips

2003-12-02 Thread Alan Shutko
instead? I suspect RHL is defaulting to Postscript fonts, and Debian is putting large bitmaps in there, or perhaps the other way around. Take a look at the sizes of the PS files that Debian and RHL produce... if they aren't close, this is probably it. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
be checked. A filesystem error detected by the kernel will still force an fsck on the next reboot, but it may already be too late to prevent data loss at that point. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Calm waters often conceal sharks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: renaming file names beginning with -

2003-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
-- as end of options. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. You put the whole project in jeopardy! I wanted to be on Wheel of Fortune! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
interest to wait through a long boot fsck once in a while, just in case it finds problems before they get out of hand. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Roman Catholic: The world's oldest and largest franchise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: window tabs with emacs 21.3.5

2003-11-20 Thread Alan Shutko
of the buffer, but I don't remember its name nor do I remember whether it works with Emacs 21.3. People are discussing it for future support in Emacs right now, though. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Would Mozart have written rap? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
as well. So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different users with the same UID? i.e. adduser --uid 0 --gid 0 temproot Yes. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Well baste my steaming puddings! - Blackadder Christmas Special. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
to catch up. And if Windows stops moving, it can only be because we won. Note that the WineHQ's myths page disagrees with me, but 10 years and no v1.0? History weighs against their arguments. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Organ transplants are best left to the professionals -Bart

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Greg Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original image claims to be 8-bit... it's approximately 3 times the size of the gif version. That looks like it's 8 bits per color, or 24 bpp. What does identify -verbose say about it? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. DOS Gang

Re: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
powerful DTP program. At one point, it could compete on a feature by feature basis with Quark, though I haven't used either for a long time. But it's an extremely mature package and I've used it in the past to great effect. Footnotes: [1] http://www.grasshopperllc.com/ -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-27 Thread Alan Shutko
. Are you running stable or unstable? What console keymap are you using? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. 1 hour, 45 minutes, 59 seconds till closing! The best defense is to stay out of range. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-26 Thread Alan Shutko
me crazy. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. 1 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes, 50 seconds till closing! Some viewers explode. Pretty simple really. -Bryce Lynch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alan Shutko
. As it is, most people seem to be trying the free version, despite its bugs and limitations. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. 3 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 27 seconds till closing! The less a statesman amounts to the more he loves a flag. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Alan Shutko
be built against GTK. Hopefully, there will be a release someday) -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. It takes leather balls to play rugby. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Alan Shutko
, the last couple releases have been bug-fix releases, so the new features had been held off. And the pretest process to ensure the release is stable takes time, so that delayed previous releases. I don't think a prerelease has started for the latest release, yet. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread Alan Shutko
duck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use CUPS and XPP with a Optra T610N. Feed CUPS the PPD and you're all set. I also recommend CUPS. I use it with a 2100M (just like 2100TN but no network card). Able to control it all. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Magicians do

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
don't know how well it will work. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. EEG: Electroencephalogram, EKG: Electrocardiogram, EGG: Breakfast food -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Alan Shutko
than normal. This is with bogofilter. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Oh what tangled webs our ancestors weave ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Alan Shutko
to avoid? The two Unix development houses I've worked at never did that. Of course, the parent post was wrong. Even as non-root, you have to worry about email viruses or click-thru vectors, because _they don't need root to work_. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Guns don't

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Alan Shutko
. But just saying A virus can't hurt a user unless it's root is incorrect. And downplaying that it can affect any file the user can touch ignores where most of the value is in the files on an average system. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Data in Oz: If I only had a pulmonary

Re: Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Alan Shutko
. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Dahmer on cooking: BABY Back Ribs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-25 Thread Alan Shutko
the changes for 2.96 had to make the same ones for 3.0. (There was also the fact that the C++ ABI was incompatible, but again, that's no different from the g++ 3.x releases) -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Equation system resolver

2003-09-18 Thread Alan Shutko
copies, and in particular to distribute it under the GNU public license. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Do surrealists hire non-sequituries to do their typing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I make quality PDFs from LaTeX?

2003-09-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Jonathan Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to get a nice looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. Can you post a short document that exhibits those problems? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. DEATH

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This does still beg the question of how Win95/98/Me/NT, etc, managed to provide a reasonable desktop when KDE/Gnome could not, however. I don't think either KDE or Gnome tries too hard at optimizing for older machines. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: InDesign or the equivalent (and TeX ain't it either), Well, there's Pagestream, but it's commercial. I haven't used it on Linux, but I have on other platforms and it's a nice piece of work. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Lost Carrier

Re: gnus nnslashdot

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
to the current released Gnus, which was released not too long ago, and may still work. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. We blow up REAL good. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
gives all the info all apps needs, but to suggest that xfs is sufficient merely shows you haven't done much with fonts. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Bank on God for a higher rate of interest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Alan Shutko
the language doesn't have COME FROM) but this is a bit excessive? Do you also wrap if bodies in a few extra layers of parentheses, in case someone comes along and wants to add a || and forgets to? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. I'm leaking brain lubricant. - Calvin

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Alan Shutko
styles like this can go away. Footnotes: [1] And I mean, never... I can't remember myself getting bitten by this in the last 10 years of C. [2] As opposed to autoformatting. Eclipse will autoformat, but you have to ask for it, and I find that my cow-orkers never do. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Alan Shutko
do it when you first write the if, or when you add something to it (ie, minimal). The only difference I see is that if you _don't_ later add something to the if, you've wasted that effort. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Alan Shutko
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem with omitting the braces is that people sometimes add something to the block and forget to add the braces. Wow. I've worked with some dunderheads, and not even they have done this. You've really had experience with folks like this?! -- Alan

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A text-mode Evo (drop down menus, multiple windows) that can expand to fill large xterm windows would be sweet. If you don't need calendaring the way Evo does it, Gnus works great -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Shutko
not there in Python. So, basically, you don't like Python because your text editor is junk. Fix it or go find a real editor! -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. My other computer is an Amiga. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Alan Shutko
the line. This is slowly changing, as we have Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, and KDE, but you asked for the history -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alan Shutko
that writing a compiler is hard, and porting it to new systems also takes work, while the interpreter works everywhere. Python will probably get a compiler eventually, but it's not an easy thing. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Printers always die on page 999 of a 1000 page

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alan Shutko
assignment form, they grant back to you a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevokable right to use the code you are assigning them for any purpose you want. My assignment is on file somewhere at home, but I suppose I could dig it up and excerpt it for you. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. I'd

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alan Shutko
not always feasible to do so. And in some cases, even if it would be feasible to do so, the implementation would be so much different than the implementation in Emacs that it needs to be rewritten anyway (ie, internal redisplay stuff). -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Crow

Re: Woody M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on M$ NT, assigns the NIC a proper IP address but overwrites my resolv.conf with something like KSL\000. Take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=135711 -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Stop Me Before I Kill Again

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alan Shutko
. Peter Deutsch was allowed to use the Display Ghostscript code he wrote in the non-GPLed version of GS (though, I'm not sure). That was at least partly funded by the FSF. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Song Title: I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling

Re: wireless recommendations

2003-08-15 Thread Alan Shutko
and an SMC access point, so that's probably specific to the card or access point. Mine is just slow. OTOH, it's usable most of the time... if I want to shuttle gigs around or edit pictures over NFS, I plug in to 100baseT. So I'd say it's good to have both. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am

Re: Difference in quality latex printer output

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
metafont mode set correctly, the traditional ones won't look right. Take a look at the TeXBook, Art of Computer Programming, or the LaTeX book to see how the fonts are supposed to look. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. ...I must hurry, for there they go, and I am their leader

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Alan Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the widespread use of CR systems would eliminate spam from the face of the earth. What do you do about spam that goes to mailing list? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
architectures by hand, since all source in all shadow directories are symlinks to the real thing: just cd to the shadow directory and recompile away. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. I wish you luck on your journey. Tel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The patent's expired now... In the US. Not everywhere. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Disease is the retribution of an outraged nature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ATTN: Alan Conner

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
and responding to them by mail. The mail2news gateway loses (or rewrites, unsure) those headers. He doesn't seem amenable to using a non-broken gateway. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I am the rocks. Iced Tea, the house wine of the south. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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