On Tuesday 31 December 2002 20:31, Ted Ozolins wrote:
Pam R wrote:
Hi Gurii
I'm building my first linux only box and wondered how I would, if it is
ever needed, update the bios, since updates seem to come as dos .exe
files?
Pam
I keep a DOS boot disk that I use for my bios updates. I
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 02:16:31 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One feature of this printer is that if a job arrives at it improperly
formatted, the job just gets lost. I guess the printer just ignores
it.
Thanks for all the help; enjoy your rest; Happy New Year tomorrow.
Problem
Collins wrote:
Thanks for all the help; enjoy your rest; Happy New Year tomorrow.
Problem solved - ghostscript was gimped up. I emerged ghostscript
(7.05) again, and now the printer works like a champ.
Tomorrow I can get back to working with some scanned pictures.
It's really great to have a
Kurt:
I know a good optometrist for you. I did write 266, but left out that
seemingly all important mhz suffix. Sorry about that. Yes, it's a pentium II
266 processor.
scott
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 18:44, you wrote:
Feigning erudition, Bonez wrote:
% No SMP box here..just a single old
Feigning erudition, Bonez wrote:
% Kurt:
%
% I know a good optometrist for you. I did write 266, but left out that
% seemingly all important mhz suffix. Sorry about that. Yes, it's a pentium II
% 266 processor.
Doh! It's not an optometrist I need, just to read more slowly.
Kurt
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Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
% On 12/31/02 20:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
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% [distribution and window manager preferences]
%
% % I can post screenshots of both XFCE-3.8.18 XFCE-4.x (from yesterday's
% % cvs checkout) if anyone is interested.
%
Are there any good combination printers and scanners which work under linux?
The printer needs to be color photo quality. The scanner would be used for
scanning color photographs.
Thanks,
Joel
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Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux. Red eye is
still a nuisance, however. I must be doing something wrong there. So,
if anyone is looking for a moderately priced digital camera
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Check the flash modes there may be a reduction flash. That is where
there are two close flashes together.
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:16:23 -0500 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote the following
Re: Coolpix 2500: Update
Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:59 am, ronnie gauthier wrote:
Check the flash modes there may be a reduction flash. That is where
there are two close flashes together.
Yes, there is a red-eye reduction mode...
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:16:23 -0500 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote the
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:00 am, someone claiming to be
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Happy New Year from Pittsburgh, list!
Kurt
Back at ya from Baltimore!
Did you create a cron job to send that message?
Tim
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7:00am up 6 days,
Another way to do it might be to create a transparent layer above the picture layer,
and after making the selection and inverting it, go to that layer and do a floodfill
with the background color of your choice. I like to operate on separate layers when
possible
to keep the original pristine.
On Monday 30 December 2002 10:03 pm, Jerry McBride's voice rose above
the ones in my head and declared:
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:27:48 -0500 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just got a SOYO Dragon Lite and ot rocks. VIA KT333 chipset
though. I haven't had any problems at all with it
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote:
% On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:00 am, someone claiming to be
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% Happy New Year from Pittsburgh, list!
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% Kurt
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% Back at ya from Baltimore!
% Did you create a cron job to send that message?
I used at and forgot to add the
Does anyone have any experience with movie editing under Linux? I'm not
looking for anything industrial strength, just something that will let
me cut frames from movies (MPEG, AVI DIVX primarily).
I looked at a whole bunch of different packages (MainActor, Cinerella,
AVIdemux etc) and
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:16:23 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux.
Picture quality is rated excellent by consumer reports, but how
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:37:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
% On 12/31/02 20:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
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% [distribution and window manager preferences]
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% % I can post screenshots of both XFCE-3.8.18
Now that I have my epson 1660 scanner and z53 printer working (many
thanks to Joel), I'm trying to get up to speed with the gimp.
My first project with the scanner is to crop a picture to heads only to
fit in a miniature frame. I figured out how to select the portion of
the picture that I want
Just a matter of getting used to it, which take about 5 minutes! If the
picture isn't framed exactly right, who cares. That's what digital is
for. The camera is auto focus, so, if the AF symbol is green, you are
good to go. A view finder wouldn't have any function, anyway.
Watch out though. As
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 13:34 pm, Collins wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:16:23 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux.
Picture
Next to the square selector, there is a circular selector. Next to that is
the free hand selector.
Joel
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:45:25AM -0700, Collins wrote:
Is there a way to clip out a cricular region from an image?
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Collins wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:16:23 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux.
Picture quality is rated excellent by
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 01:21:03 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The z53Photo.sh is one I wrote myself. You won't have it. It is just
z53.sh which uses a different configuration file, one that is
configured for glossy photo printing.
Joel,
Would you have any problem with posting your
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 13:58:46 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Next to the square selector, there is a circular selector. Next to
that is the free hand selector.
Thanks.
I'm emerging the gimp user manual now, so maybe I'll find the answers,
but ...
1. I didn't find the way yet to
Collins wrote:
Now that I have my epson 1660 scanner and z53 printer working (many
thanks to Joel), I'm trying to get up to speed with the gimp.
My first project with the scanner is to crop a picture to heads only to
fit in a miniature frame. I figured out how to select the portion of
the
Ted Ozolins wrote:
I'm seriously considering picking up a digital cam. All that remains
is to figure out which one :)
Don't overlook the fuji Finepix 3800, which is 3.2 megapixels, 6x
optical zoom, has some manual features, has both an lcd and an
electronic viewfinder, and I got for $330
Could you please explain how a laser pointer helps with the autofocus?
The Coolpix 2500 also has this limitation.
Joel
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:55:58AM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
Ted Ozolins wrote:
2 drawbacks, not too good in low light, since the viewfinder blacks out,
and no manual
Can't help with the gimp scanner stuff. I use xscanimage, which has the
features you mention.
Joel
2. When acquiring an image via the scanner, is there a simple way to
preview the scan, select a smaller section to scan, and then do the scan
for real? My wife will be primary user of the
No problem. I generated the configuration file with the lexmarkz53 program,
renamed it z53Photo.conf, and then edited the filter file to use that configuration
file
only, and renamed it z53Photo.sh
First, the filter:
#!/bin/sh
DEBUG=0
PDIR=/usr/local/lexmark/z53
TMPFILE=`mktemp
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:14:27 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can't help with the gimp scanner stuff. I use xscanimage, which has
the features you mention.
Joel
2. When acquiring an image via the scanner, is there a simple way
to preview the scan, select a smaller section to
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 11:54:24 -0800
Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just checked http://www.gimp.org/scripts.html but for some reason
all the links
seem to be dead from here.
Yes, a very few seem to work, but most are 404.
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On 12/31/02 21:33, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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snip
What kinda redhat quirks? I've always felt that SuSE had the quirks
(like the rather unusual
On 01/01/03 12:56, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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the machine name that I typed in was maintained after install... The
biggest annoyance was just how difficult it was to configure printing. I
had a very difficult time encouraging
Net Llama! wrote:
On 01/01/03 12:56, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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the machine name that I typed in was maintained after install... The
biggest annoyance was just how difficult it was to configure printing. I
had a very
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:45:01 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No problem. I generated the configuration file with the lexmarkz53
program, renamed it z53Photo.conf, and then edited the filter file to
use that configuration file only, and renamed it z53Photo.sh
[ useful scripts
Ted Ozolins wrote:
Collins wrote:
Now that I have my epson 1660 scanner and z53 printer working (many
thanks to Joel), I'm trying to get up to speed with the gimp.
Gimp has a File/Acquire menu item that should have an Xsane device
dialog item that should start XSane. I have an epson 1660
Joel Hammer wrote:
Could you please explain how a laser pointer helps with the autofocus?
Just aim it at your object of focus and it gives the camera autofocus
sensor something bright on which to focus.
Many flash units, and some digital cameras, have built in lasers to help
in low light.
Memorable moments for me in 2002 included:
* brief (2 months) daliance with a RedHat system. It's not as bad as I
had thought previously, and damn reliable (7.3 system). As usual, I got
tired of RPM really fast.
* Return (probably permanently) to gentoo (1.4_rc1_rc2 system). Still
the best
2. When acquiring an image via the scanner, is there a simple way to
preview the scan, select a smaller section to scan, and then do the scan
for real? My wife will be primary user of the scanner, and she will
want this functionality which was provided by her old Win$Crap software.
If
I just got back a couple of days and the power came back on about an
hour ago. You folks may have worked this out already, I have about 600
messages to go through. There is an intersting article about IBM's
journaling file system on page 18 of January's Linux Journal. They seem
real long on
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:16:23AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux. Red eye is
still a nuisance, however. I must be doing something wrong there. So,
if
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:06:20PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 13:34 pm, Collins wrote:
..
Picture quality is rated excellent by consumer reports, but how much
of a problem is the fact that there is no viewfinder, just the
display?
No problem that I've found.
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 17:09 pm, Collins wrote:
Memorable moments for me in 2002 included:
* brief (2 months) daliance with a RedHat system. It's not as bad as
I had thought previously, and damn reliable (7.3 system). As usual, I
got tired of RPM really fast.
I never could get a
Do you have any experience with ring illuminators?
Joel
The most effective thing I've done with my Olympus 2020 Zoom is to buy an
external flash which can be used for bounce rather than direct flash. This
largely eliminates red eye, and reflections of the flash itself from the
pictures.
At 10:16 AM 1/01/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Just an update on this camera.
I have been using it for about a week. It takes excellent photos,
faraway and close up, and plays very nicely with linux. Red eye is
still a nuisance, however. I must be doing something wrong there. So,
if anyone is looking
R. Quenett wrote:
from Joel Hammer:
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I tried looking it up in Bartlett's, but couldn't find it so I'm not
sure if it was Mark Twain or Will Rogers who said to the effect; We
have the finest
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:09:44 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Memorable moments for me in 2002 included:
Mine...
* layed off and called back to work, before I even left the building on two
separate occasions. What a night mare! A age 46 I've learned alot about
human foibles and
Feigning erudition, Bob Hemus wrote:
% I just got back a couple of days and the power came back on about an
% hour ago. You folks may have worked this out already, I have about 600
% messages to go through. There is an intersting article about IBM's
% journaling file system on page 18 of
Then, beginning in mid-1999, we entered the technology bubble whereby
several venture capitalists invested in MandrakeSoft. Their requirement
was that we would accelerate the development of the company while
leaving its management to an experienced staff of world-class managers.
Their BIG ERROR!
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:05:44 -0500
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:09:44 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Memorable moments for me in 2002 included:
Mine...
* layed off and called back to work, before I even left the building
on two separate
that should have been joyful rather than joyous.
Same to you. May the force and farce be with you. :P
Here's hoping you all have a profitable, safe, and joyous new year.
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On 01/01/03 17:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feigning erudition, Bob Hemus wrote:
% I just got back a couple of days and the power came back on about an
% hour ago. You folks may have worked this out already, I have about 600
% messages to go through. There is an intersting article about IBM's
%
On 01/01/03 17:55, Collins wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:05:44 -0500
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* layed off and called back to work, before I even left the building
on two separate occasions. What a night mare! A age 46 I've learned
alot about human foibles and frailties and how
On 01/01/03 05:22, Bob Hemus wrote:
Then, beginning in mid-1999, we entered the technology bubble whereby
several venture capitalists invested in MandrakeSoft. Their requirement
was that we would accelerate the development of the company while
leaving its management to an experienced staff of
As I read it (though I don't have it before me) they did get rid of their devils and
are well on the way out of the hole. Having just looked at Mandrake 9.0 from the
viewpoint of a newbie looking for a way to make computing affordable for more of the
community, I hope things go their way.
Speaking of Mandrake, where does config info normally get stored.
Specifically I'm trying to find wireless data such as ESSID, mode and
others. This is off the remanents of an 8.2 install. The card used is a
WMP11 which is a direct pci interface.
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