Re: [DNG] [Very OT] 2D random walk in Postscript

KatolaZ: ... > $ gs myrw.ps > > but it doesn't work with gv, since I guess gv forbids filesystem ... gv -nosafer -nosafedir myrw.ps Nice touch: since you rewrite myrw.ps, gv reloads the "new" file. And I who thought selfmodified programs were forbidden :) Regards, /Karl Hammar

[DNG] [Very OT] 2D random walk in Postscript

-- OT -- OT -- OT -- OK, sorry, my postscript is very rusty, and I know that the more knowledgeable of you will probably be horrified by it, but thanks to the suggestions given by Erik and Nelson I eventually came up with a solution to my old "make a ps document that shows an original random

Re: [DNG] Error when updating ascii 32 bit

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: > When updating my system I get the following error of which I have not the > slightest idea how to solve: > > Configurando eudev (3.2.2-12) ... > insserv: script eudev: service udev already provided! > [ ok ] Stopping the

[DNG] Error when updating ascii 32 bit

When updating my system I get the following error of which I have not the slightest idea how to solve: Configurando eudev (3.2.2-12) ... insserv: script eudev: service udev already provided! [ ok ] Stopping the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. [ ok ] Starting the hotplug events dispatcher:

Re: [DNG] PostScript [was: printing in a D-Bus free system]

Le 17/03/2018 à 13:35, Erik Christiansen a écrit : On 16.03.18 01:18, Didier Kryn wrote:     It is always tricky to properly scale the drawing on the page: although svg has no explicit dimension, the applications all seem to assume it has some, and it's never the one which makes the image

Re: [DNG] PostScript [was: printing in a D-Bus free system]

On 16.03.18 01:18, Didier Kryn wrote: >     It is always tricky to properly scale the drawing on the page: although > svg has no explicit dimension, the applications all seem to assume it has > some, and it's never the one which makes the image match the page size of > the printer. Maybe the

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:04:04 +0100 Florian Zieboll wrote: > (I hope no one expected this thread to go back on the spool;) Oh, and I hope that you, Alessandro, don't feel addressed personally. If so: be assured of my deepest regret^^ Florian pgp0R9igWr4xj.pgp Description:

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:40:47 +0100 Alessandro Selli wrote: > The ignorant peasant regularly claims the words of the savant to be > "obscure geekery". There's this cartoon (1), where an economic analyst stands in the grainfield and tells the farmer to concentrate

Re: [DNG] [j...@debian.org: [SECURITY] [DSA 4139-1] firefox-esr security update]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:09:27 + KatolaZ wrote: > > [...] > > >pinpoint any DSA whose patch is *not* > > > already available in Devuan > > [...] > > > > Ascii packages not yet replaced with patched versions > > > > leloft, you must have "ascii-security" enabled

Re: [DNG] Used *and* free hardware (was: Re: The FSF seems to have finally sold out)

On 16.03.18 21:23, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:05:30PM +1100, terryc wrote: > > Gak, they are the reliable ones. > > Everything later only lasts for a few years and you have to buy another > > round of hardware. > > Often hardware is discarded due to failed electrolytic

Re: [DNG] Used *and* free hardware (was: Re: The FSF seems to have finally sold out)

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:05:30PM +1100, terryc wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:02:16 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > In other words, these are now museum pieces, not computers. Use them > > with their original software to do what they did so well back in the > > day.

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > The ignorant peasant regularly claims the words of the savant to be > "obscure geekery". That's me, ignorant peasant and dumb ox. You may have heard the saying: You can always tell a Scandinavian, but you can't tell him much. Anyway, I

[DNG] Can not upgrade xserver

Приветствую. I can not upgrade xserver from version (i will call it farther "old"), that is in devuan version 1 to the version (i will call it farther "new") that is devuan version 2, having tried on two different machines -- desktop and laptop, nvidia and ati cards. -- Problem lays in

Re: [DNG] Used *and* free hardware (was: Re: The FSF seems to have finally sold out)

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:02:16 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > In other words, these are now museum pieces, not computers. Use them > with their original software to do what they did so well back in the > day. Drive em around on Sunday afternoon and show them off, but leave >