[EUG-LUG:2844] Re: Getting more life from your old hardware

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Miller
toman wrote: The Firecracker promo that x10.com runs from time to time, plus extra X10 modules I've picked up. I looked at the Firecracker documentation I could find on the web, and I have a question. Does it have a way for the computer to receive X10, or is it output-only? Thanks... --

[EUG-LUG:2845] Re: Getting more life from your old hardware

2002-06-05 Thread toman
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:11 am, Bob Miller wrote: toman wrote: The Firecracker promo that x10.com runs from time to time, plus extra X10 modules I've picked up. I looked at the Firecracker documentation I could find on the web, and I have a question. Does it have a way for the

[EUG-LUG:2846] Re: fg and bg and jobs

2002-06-05 Thread Ralph Zeller
There is a section in the man-page about remapping keys in your .screenrc file for emacs users. There is also a good summary statement about screen near the end of the man-page: A wierd imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the features. e-- v++ At 09:49 PM 6/4/02 Larry

[EUG-LUG:2847] Re: fg and bg and jobs

2002-06-05 Thread Larry Price
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Ralph Zeller wrote: There is a section in the man-page about remapping keys in your .screenrc file for emacs users. There is also a good summary statement about screen near the end of the man-page: A wierd imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the

[EUG-LUG:2848] best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Larry Price
I'm looking for a good toolkit to do data analysis and present the results as .pdf I'm looking for a toolset that will allow me to join diverse data sets in different formats (everything from .xls to netCDF aceDB and .dwx formats) So any suggestions you have are welcome, this is for a long

[EUG-LUG:2849] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Ben Barrett
Matt used TeX to create the PDF's we would've seen if the projector had been liked by his iBook... like he said, he's been happily using that instead of creating PowerPoint presentations for the various talks he travels for. I guess it depends on what end result you're attached to or hoping

[EUG-LUG:2850] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Miller
Larry Price wrote: I'm looking for a good toolkit to do data analysis and present the results as .pdf Anything that will produce Postscript will also produce PDF through ps2pdf. You might consider rendering HTML pages using Mozilla. HTML isn't a great layout language, but it's easy to

[EUG-LUG:2851] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Larry Price
On 5 Jun 2002, Ben Barrett wrote: Matt used TeX to create the PDF's we would've seen if the projector had been liked by his iBook... like he said, he's been happily using that instead of creating PowerPoint presentations for the various talks he travels for. I guess it depends on what end

[EUG-LUG:2852] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Larry Price
Yup, reportlab is one of the packages that made me think that .pdf was the answer, ghostview and the mac OS X Quartz layer are the others. I'm just lazy and want to actually write as few data conversion routines as possible ;-) And I'm stupid so writing my own FEA engines and reproducing SAS

[EUG-LUG:2853] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Miller
Larry Price wrote: And I'm stupid so writing my own FEA engines and reproducing SAS are kind of out of my reach... and affording a license for a *nix or even OS X version of SAS or ARC/View-spss is way out of my reach at this stage of the life cycle. What is the application domain? What

[EUG-LUG:2854] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread Larry Price
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Bob Miller wrote: What is the application domain? What kinds of analysis do you want to do? If we knew that we might make better suggestions. Long term, data-analysis, in the sense of extracting meaningful information from piles of data and presenting it in a useful

[EUG-LUG:2855] Re: best solution for data analysis = .pdf

2002-06-05 Thread toman
Larry Price wrote: On 5 Jun 2002, Ben Barrett wrote: Matt used TeX to create the PDF's we would've seen if the projector had been liked by his iBook... like he said, he's been happily using that instead of creating PowerPoint presentations for the various talks he travels for. I

[EUG-LUG:2856] Letter from Ralph Nader James Love

2002-06-05 Thread Edward Craig
Below is a link to a letter sent by Ralph Nader and James Love to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. http://www.cptech.org/at/ms/omb4jun02ms.html -- Ed Craig[EMAIL PROTECTED] Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I

[EUG-LUG:2857] Mozilla 1.0 Local Mirror

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Miller
Here is a local mirror of the Mozilla 1.0 release for your downloading pleasure. http://chezgeek.euglug.net/~kbob/mozilla1.0/ The i386 packages are there now. The other architectures are taking their own sweet time. RedHat RPMs will also be there shortly. Have fun... -- Bob Miller

[EUG-LUG:2858] Re: Mozilla 1.0 Local Mirror

2002-06-05 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Miller wrote: Here is a local mirror of the Mozilla 1.0 release for your downloading pleasure. The surprising thing to me about Mozilla 1.0 is that there are all these plugins available for it on Linux. Adobe Acrobat Reader5.0.5 Adobe SVG Viewer