Re: Latex / TeTex Local Guide

/ natbib/ ntgclass/ seminar/ textmerg/ tools/ What package am I missing? I -thought- I had all the texdocs installed. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus

printing/lpr

Is there a way to set up the print stuff so that when I go lpr some_text_file it adds margins and stuff? It's ugly as is. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : And I don't like doing silly

ppa zip drive

, with the printer plugged into the out of the zip drive. Any ideas? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The new Linux anthem will be 'He's an idiot, but he's OK', as : performed by Monthy Python. You'd better

Re: ppa zip drive

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/usr/dict/words

in would be nice I think ... bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh

Sound systems: OSS/ALSA/?

/~gossamer/ : Conspiracies abound: If everyone's against you, the reason can't : *possibly* be that you're a fuckhead. : -- 'Usenet Guide to Power Posting'

Two IPs for one adapter?

] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of : two.

Festival/mpg123?

it says its bit, then the mp3 to resume? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. -- Stephan Zielinski

Building a custom install

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Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

their aim. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -- Hawkwind

Re: How are routine tasks run , if not from cron?

at /etc/rc?.d/ (the numbers correspond with runlevels) and /etc/init.d/. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. : -- Lawrence Foard

Freetype/ImageMagick

What's the difference between freetype1 and freetype2? ImageMagick seems to depend on the former and it seems a waste to have both installed. ... bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Almost

cron/syslog

My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : In case you haven't heard, the Internet

tracking idletime

? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in : patchlevels. -- Gerd Knorr

Gimp file formats?

The save as option on my Gimp only offers its internal (.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif. What'm I missing here? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates

ncftp visual mode

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automatic login?

keyboard layout, security through obscurity ;)). bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them : the usual way. This happens to us all the time

xfstt obsoleted?

xfstt has suddenly started showing up in my dselect list as Obselete! What replaces it? I like truetype fonts in X. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : We all know Linux is great...it does infinite

Re: More dselect wishes

? Should there be? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Programming today is a race between software engineers striving : to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the : Universe trying

More dselect wishes

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Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

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Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

be a fair bit less that all the files in a lot of casess. You could get apt/dselect to do this automatically if it found both a patch and the previous installed ver. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer

Netscape confusion

] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh

Re: procmail ........ (again)

? From your .procmailrc, most of the mail is going to end up in you original mbox in something like /var/spool/mail/yourusername. Check there? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Perl is the language

X troubles

upgraded again, to a8, but it hasn't fixed the problem. I can't see what's wrong, seems to be somewhere in startx which is a binary :(. Help!! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'll say it again

speech recognition

virtual consoles, using the speech rec to feed keystrokes - so just having it pretend to be the keyboard. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

do a scratch install then fiddle and poke until I understand it ... then start again and re-install. That way breaking things isn't a problem. -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Computers are very

Apache errors

Every time somebody views a page off my webserver I get a line like this in the error log: [Fri Nov 13 08:22:26 1998] [warn] handler server-parsed not found, using default handler for: /home/gossamer/public_html/vim/index.html And, not surprisingly, it's not processing inline CGI stuff. I've

dselect problems

that? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh

Re: Some Questions - Cont'd

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Re: Some Questions

definately a hardware problem. Major-time. Get your local hardware guru and/or puter shop to check it out. HTH, bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I find that anthropomorphism really doesn't help

Microphone always on!

-- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.

suck + multiple hosts?

://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to : mug someone with it. -- M Devine, Computer Science 340

xfstt + xset

-- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, : which failed to start because of the following error: The : operation completed successfully. -- Windows NT Server

Re: xfstt font database should be in /var

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Re: Netscape

that?? bekj impressed -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.

Contributing?

to whoever does URLview? Or is there another way? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.

Festival+MBROLA

of the voice in `festvox_en1.tar.gz'. Some people consider this the best sounding voice in Festival. bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Perl is horrible for most things. The only reason

X and keymaps

? And how do I fix it? Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is : drawn

Suck/get-news problem

though, is there anything there I have to alter to let suck post my news locally? Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the more often

Perl/CPAN.pm/Zlib

/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: zlibVersion [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp# Has somebody built things with the wrong Zlib version? All my Perl and Zlib is straight from the Hamm distrib ... Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled