home construction/remodeling packages

2002-05-04 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Are there Linux software packages available to help with home construction/remodeling? Having never used such software I'm not even completely sure what I'm asking for, but I'd think such a package would at least (and I'm talking about something more than xfig) help you lay out a floorplan.

STRANGE SOUND PROBLEM

2002-05-04 Thread Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas
I upgraded my laptop to SuSE 8.0 Professional from 7.3 Professional (the laptop is a Sony Vaio PCG-FX140 with 700 MHz Pentium III with speedstep and i upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM and 30 GB hard disk, 7.5 of which is the Linux partition). When I sign into my KDE 3 account, I get (during KDE

Where we live

2002-05-04 Thread Michael O'Donnell
New photos from the Hubble telescope. These are not artists conception or computer-generated - except for the colorization, these are what the Hubble is actually seeing. Hard to feel important after viewing these... http://hubble.cust.nearlyfreespeech.net/0211af.jpg

RE: home construction/remodeling packages

2002-05-04 Thread Carl Helmers
This does not answer your question re a Linux home modelling packgages, but what you want sounds like a product called 3D Architect, version 4.0 which I purchased at Compusa in Nashua a couple of months ago and finally started using last week... (I run it on my Windoze 98 HP Pavillion box...)

Re: home construction/remodeling packages

2002-05-04 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 15:53, Michael O'Donnell wrote: Are there Linux software packages available to help with home construction/remodeling? Having never used such software I'm not even completely sure what I'm asking for, but I'd think such a package would at least (and I'm talking about

RE: home construction/remodeling packages

2002-05-04 Thread Ben Boulanger
There's this... it seems more in depth than those off the shelf programs though, so it might not be what you're looking for. Maybe it'll be of use. http://www.cycas.de/ Ben On Sat, 4 May 2002, Carl Helmers wrote: This does not answer your question re a Linux home modelling packgages, but

Re: I've been 0wned!

2002-05-04 Thread Rich Cloutier
The problem is not that this feature exists, the problem is that, when any parameters are passed to your code from the outside, they should be checked before they are used. And under NO circumstances should you use an externally passed parameter in an include statement. I don't know what you