filing python bugs?

2003-02-25 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 anyone know how to harass guido co with a python bug report? - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org prom_printf(Detected

Re: filing python bugs?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/25/2003 8:33 AM, someone claiming to be Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 anyone know how to harass guido co with a python bug report? Pure guess: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470atid=105470 Tim

Re: Connection errors to sxs.lists.linux-users

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: ayup, mimdefang has gone bezerk. there were over 300 of it running just a few minutes ago before i stopped all the mta related stuff, and restarted it. unfortunately, the load spiked up

Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wunder
Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that it can be done. I've tried the RPM from Mandrake's Cooker site, and that's failing,

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Marianne Taylor
Susan: I have shockwave working on my LFS system with mozilla 1.3b. I am using the crossover plugin and it seems to work. I can check various sites for you on the weekend. I am going away on a business trip til then. Marianne On February 24, 2003 17:15, you wrote: On 02/24/03 14:50, Susan

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Wilson
Here is what I have from Help-About plugins on Mozilla 1.2 (haven't managed to upgrade yet). This was included with a default install of RH8. Shockwave Flash: File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 6.0 r69 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled

Something Like Adobe PageMaker for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Joines
We have a user that uses Adobe PageMaker and other similar stuff and her win machine constantly crashes. We would like to move her to Linux but need to find a similar product for her to use first. Any ideas? Thanks, Jason Joines === ___

Re: Something Like Adobe PageMaker for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jason Joines wrote: We have a user that uses Adobe PageMaker and other similar stuff and her win machine constantly crashes. We would like to move her to Linux but need to find a similar product for her to use first. Any ideas? Star Office? What does she use

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Susan Macchia
Thanks for all the info. The stock RH 8.0 seemed to have it, but I upgraded to 1.3b and lost it. And I can't seem to get the crossover office plugin to work. It installs fine, but the plugin still doesn't work I will do some more research. = _ Susan Macchia

Re: Something Like Adobe PageMaker for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Joines
Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jason Joines wrote: We have a user that uses Adobe PageMaker and other similar stuff and her win machine constantly crashes. We would like to move her to Linux but need to find a similar product for her to use first. Any ideas? Star Office?

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Wilson
You have to create the sym links to point to the flash plugins in the new mozilla directory after the upgrade. In my case, I upgraded 1.0 to 1.2, the upgrade creates a new directory for the new version of mozilla under /usr/lib (mozilla-1.2.1) so I had to go and create a sym link to the plugins

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
Just to make sure we're all clear, shockwave != flash. Flash works just fine in Linux (without Xover, or any other hacks). Shockwave, AFAIK, does not exist natively for Linux. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Susan Macchia wrote: Thanks for all the info. The stock RH 8.0 seemed to have it, but I

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
Tom, you're talking about Macromedia Flash, right? See: http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: You have to create the sym links to point to the flash plugins in the new mozilla directory after the upgrade. In my case, I upgraded 1.0 to

Re: Something Like Adobe PageMaker for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jason Joines wrote: Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jason Joines wrote: We have a user that uses Adobe PageMaker and other similar stuff and her win machine constantly crashes. We would like to move her to Linux but need to find a similar product for her

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: Tim I did not realize that ether, Thanks lonnie, learned something today. We are Iced in today and maybe tommorrow. cheers ya, i heard central TX got a big ice storm yesterday evening. all sunny warm here ;P Another reason I

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Sivernell
Lonnie ya, rub it in, rub it in, and tonight we get some more, yipee. Now to settle down get back to work. grin cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In

install.sh for libstdc++

2003-02-25 Thread Joel Hammer
I am trying to install a new version of gcc so I can compile a new version of glibc. When I run configure I get this: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../.. There is no install.sh in the sources. Any insight appreciated. BTW, if I can't fix this, I can't upgrade glibc

mouse accel rate issue

2003-02-25 Thread dep
greets. my beloved kensington trackball appears to have given up the ghost; it was a serial version whose cable i thought had gone screwy, but a new one (which kensington, btw, sent free of charge even though the trackball is about seven years old -- good company, imho) did not fix it and i

Re: mouse accel rate issue

2003-02-25 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:29 pm, dep wrote: greets. my beloved kensington trackball appears to have given up the ghost; it was a serial version whose cable i thought had gone screwy, but a new one (which kensington, btw, sent free of charge even though the trackball is about seven years

Re: mouse accel rate issue

2003-02-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, dep wrote: % greets. % % my beloved kensington trackball appears to have given up the ghost; it % was a serial version whose cable i thought had gone screwy, but a new % one (which kensington, btw, sent free of charge even though the % trackball is about seven years old --

Re: install.sh for libstdc++

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
What version of glibc are you trying to upgrade to/from? WHat version of gcc do you currently have? I never had to do anything with gcc when i built glibc-2.2.5. On 02/25/03 16:00, Joel Hammer wrote: I am trying to install a new version of gcc so I can compile a new version of glibc. When I

Telling version of glibc

2003-02-25 Thread Joel Hammer
What is the command to figure out which version of glibc your box thinks it is running on? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Collins
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the specific error handy (sorry), so I'm just looking for verification that it can be done. I've tried

Re: mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

2003-02-25 Thread dep
bruce and kurt -- thanks. i took a short cut that roberto alsina suggested, which was to goose up the option resolution line (which involved creating the line first) in XF86Config. it doesn't fix the gdm problem, but if i turned gdm off i wouldn't miss it, so that's not a huge concern, except

Re: Telling version of glibc

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
ldconfig -v On 02/25/03 17:54, Joel Hammer wrote: What is the command to figure out which version of glibc your box thinks it is running on? -- ~ L. Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step

Re: mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/25/03 18:12, dep wrote: speaking of which: kensington's mouseworks software is available for osx; i wonder if there's a way to crowbar it onto a linux install. probly not. i'd be very shocked if you could, seeing as how they're prolly not using the XFree86 support that is still beta

Re: mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

2003-02-25 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 21:12 pm, dep wrote: bruce and kurt -- thanks. i took a short cut that roberto alsina suggested, which was to goose up the option resolution line (which involved creating the line first) in XF86Config. it doesn't fix the gdm problem, but if i turned gdm off i

Re: install.sh for libstdc++

2003-02-25 Thread Joel Hammer
I upgraded from a botched version of glibc to glibc-2.2.5. The upgrade finally worked, despite the fact that I can't compile things like abiword because the c++ compiler fails to produce executable code during configure. The error I got in my first post, trying to compile glibc, was due to the

Re: Telling version of glibc

2003-02-25 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks, Joel On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:17:17PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: ldconfig -v On 02/25/03 17:54, Joel Hammer wrote: What is the command to figure out which version of glibc your box thinks it is running on? --

Re: Telling version of glibc

2003-02-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote: % What is the command to figure out which version of glibc your box thinks it % is running on? $ /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library stable release version 2.2.5, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 1992-2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free

Re: mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

2003-02-25 Thread dep
begin Bruce Marshall's quote: | I assume you now have an Expert Mouse Pro nah, the old four-button one; my original was a v. 5; no idea what this one is -- it's whatever's current. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated

Re: Something Like Adobe PageMaker for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:14:47 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at Scribus. It's probably as close to PageMaker that you are going to get. http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ Jim It requires qt3.0.3 or higher, I already have 2 different versions, and i do not

Re: mouse accel rate issue -- resolved

2003-02-25 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 22:28 pm, dep wrote: begin Bruce Marshall's quote: | I assume you now have an Expert Mouse Pro nah, the old four-button one; my original was a v. 5; no idea what this one is -- it's whatever's current. Oh well I think what's current in the Expert Mouse

Re: Watching a directory for changes: SOLVED, sorta

2003-02-25 Thread Joel Hammer
This is an old question I had. The main problem was the sleep command only works in one second intervals. At the time, nobody could give me an easy answer. To my surprise (not really) there is a command which does just what I want: usleep -m 200 This sleeps for 200 milliseconds. I stumbled

Re: install.sh for libstdc++

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:48 pm, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer wrote: snip for another evening. However, if you know of a step by step for gcc, let me know. The instructions for installing sound a bit like glibc, but, there are many nuances which are just beyond me. Joel

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I don't have the specific error handy

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? My son's having difficult getting the rpm to take. I

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: % On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: % Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the OpenOffice RPM to install? % My son's

Re: Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and OpenOffice

2003-02-25 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/25/03 20:16, Kurt Wall wrote: Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On 02/25/03 20:11, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: % On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:30 am, Tim Wunder wrote: % Anybody try Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 and get the

Re: Shockwave for Linux

2003-02-25 Thread ronnie gauthier
you can gladly have the -20's we've been having. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:32:00 -0600 - Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: Shockwave for Linux Lonnie ya, rub it in, rub it in, and tonight we get some more, yipee. Now to settle down get back to work. grin cheers