Re: yet another .pdf question

2003-10-20 Thread Gilles GERMON
dep wrote: i have a very long pdf file, several pages of which i would like to be able to save to a separate pdf file. i can find no way of doing this without buying very expensive software. does anyone know of a way to do this? acrobat reader has no provision for it that i can find, and for

Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!

2003-10-20 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:01:08 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found this in the Gentoo Portage Tree and... well... I'm busting at the seams to share what I found The Linux Gazette is there! Yeah, yeah... I know... but I'm a lovable geek! Just emerge

Re: a general rpm question

2003-10-20 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:40 am, David A. Bandel wrote: snip dynamic executables use /etc/ld.so.cache (generated from entries and /etc/ld.so.conf and by running ldconfig) to find libraries they require. Ahh, yes. I forgot about ldconfig!! Thanks for the reminder! I would have forgotten

glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all its parts is a big thing (maybe over 10 MB) and I seem to remember from the list that upgrading

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all its parts is a big thing (maybe over 10 MB) and I seem to

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Monday 20 October 2003 05:03 am, Net Llama! wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all

'smbmount' hangs

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
I have a script file thus to automatically mount some smb shares: #!/bin/bash # Mount our Samba shares smbmount //linux/public /mnt/public -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/shared /mnt/shared -o

Re: 'smbmount' hangs

2003-10-20 Thread Tim Wunder
On 10/20/2003 10:57 AM, I believe that Michael Hipp wrote: I have a script file thus to automatically mount some smb shares: #!/bin/bash # Mount our Samba shares smbmount //linux/public /mnt/public -o username=,password=,workgroup=workgroup,uid=michael,gid=michael smbmount //linux/shared

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Monday 20 October 2003 07:31 am, Net Llama! wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: snip Yes, I read the SXS. My principle question is . . . if I have applications complied earlier against glibc-2.2.1 and I install glibc-2.2.4, will the applications now crash? No. You're not

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Leon Goldstein
Net Llama! wrote: No. You're not removing glibc-2.2.1, you're just adding glibc-2.2.4. Have you tried the old symlink trick? -- Leon A. Goldstein Powered by Libranet 2.8 Debian Linux System G2 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Leon Goldstein wrote: Net Llama! wrote: No. You're not removing glibc-2.2.1, you're just adding glibc-2.2.4. Have you tried the old symlink trick? Which trick is that? -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman

Run QuickBooks on Linux server?

2003-10-20 Thread Bill Campbell
Has anybody successfully run QuickBooks Professional where the QB data is on a Linux server with the Windows boxen accessing it via Samba? I have found some articles via google search that say it may be possible by turning on strict locking in Samba, but there still seem to be problems.

Re: Run QuickBooks on Linux server?

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Bill Campbell wrote: Has anybody successfully run QuickBooks Professional where the QB data is on a Linux server with the Windows boxen accessing it via Samba? I have found some articles via google search that say it may be possible by turning on strict locking in Samba, but there still seem to

Re: more .pdf -- why not?

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i draw your attention to the october 27 issue of national review, page 44, an essay by me.) Any chance there's a link for that? You don't seem to be on the list of authors for NR and I don't know if I could buy a

Re: more .pdf -- why not?

2003-10-20 Thread dep
quoth Michael Hipp: | Any chance there's a link for that? You don't seem to be on the list | of authors for NR and I don't know if I could buy a printed copy | anywhere within 30km of here. it's not on the nro site, though subscribers to the digital version can, of course, get it. i'm

Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!

2003-10-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 20 October 2003 06:36 am, David A. Bandel wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:01:08 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found this in the Gentoo Portage Tree and... well... I'm busting at the seams to share what I found The Linux Gazette is there! Yeah,

Re: more .pdf -- why not?

2003-10-20 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I just tried something similiar with a citizenship application for Swedish citizenship. Yes, I can keep my US as well. Anyway, Acrobat Reader for Linux will only let you fill out the form. I could not print it. When I tried to save it, it complained that I needed the pay version to save the form

Using the bigmem kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Simper, Brian D
I am using Red Hat Linux 9. Under what circumstances does the bigmem kernel get loaded and used by the install program? I had heard it was used if you got more than 4 GB of memory but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using it. Are there other specific circumstances when it

Re: 'smbmount' hangs

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Tim Wunder wrote: I've seen something similar to this on comp.protocols.smb, IIRC Yes, check out:

Re: Using the bigmem kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: I am using Red Hat Linux 9. Under what circumstances does the bigmem kernel get loaded and used by the install program? I had heard it was used if you got more than 4 GB of memory but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using it. Are