Re: Via C3 processor?

2003-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: crap. C3 basically equals the performance of a slow PII. sure its usable, but not for anything other than email casual web surfing. On 01/03/03 19:52, Ken Moffat wrote: Any opinions on this Via C3 processor? Just wondered if what WalMart is trying to

OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: OT XFS Build Problems

2003-01-04 Thread Collins
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 20:46:55 -0700 Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins wrote: snip Nor has EXT3 ever failed this (usually unintentional) test for me. I did have a reiserfs system fail to recover after a lockup (about 3 years ago), but I'm user the current reiserfs is stable

Re: CD-RW disks

2003-01-04 Thread Collins
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:49:07 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins wrote: I'll have to try some new media (sigh). All of these were still in shrink-wrap, however. Blanking them also does not work. I may have missed something here, but do music cd's play in that

OTInternet birthday was Wednesday.

2003-01-04 Thread Harry G
It was the 20th anniversary Wed. for the internet http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030103/ap_on_hi_te/techbits_internet_bday_3 Thank you Al Gore! ;-) Harry G ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Motherboards

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My bias against VIA has come from years in the newsgroups where VIA has again and again been the culprit because it wasn't compatible with (sound, video, put product name here) cards. You may have to lower the sound card acceleration for example. Yes, many of these have been windows systems

New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Nobody
Thanks to Kurt Wall we now have a Step on Setting up the GNU Mailman listserver. You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman.html ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-04 Thread Collins
Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters etc.? I'm looking to attach my JVC DVL805 camcorder to my linux box. Obviously I will need to add a firewire adapter to the box and software. I would love to hear your suggestions TIA -- Collins Richey - Denver Area gentoo 1.4 system

Labels in /etc/fstab

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm trying to use labels in /etc/fstab. According to man fstab(5) I should put LABEL=files but this gives me an error when it boots and goes to maintenance mode. I must be missing something simple but I've been over the man pages and can't find it. The partition does have a label on

Re: Labels in /etc/fstab

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Never mind - I found it! I had another error on the line - I used 0,0 instead of 0 0!!! Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm trying to use labels in /etc/fstab. According to man fstab(5) I should put LABEL=files but this gives me an error when it boots and goes to maintenance mode. I

persistent new kernel woes

2003-01-04 Thread Bonez
I have pestered the list about this, but I'd really like to get my kernel upgrade working with 2.4.20 from 2.4.2. If anyone on the list would oblige me in a short real time discussion, using ICQ; 12212330 or Yahoo: sanchiro12 Thanks for any help, Scott p.s. What I am hoping can happen is

USB keyboard

2003-01-04 Thread Susan Macchia
Hi everyone, Hope you all had a good holiday. I spent some time trying to get my second PC installed with RH 8.0. I had some problems that I was wondering if anyone enountered or has any ideas about: The machine is a Compaq Presario, 700 mhz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20G HD. It has a usb keyboard

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. Have you thought of doing the presentation using html and a standard browser instead? That

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:17:24AM -0700, Collins wrote: Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters etc.? I'm looking to attach my JVC DVL805 camcorder to my linux box. Obviously I will need to add a firewire adapter to the box and software. I'm using an Adaptec unit (downstairs so I can't

Knoppix does it again, in style

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a line to plug knoppix some more. I tried it today on a computer at work. A compaq deskpro EN. Loaded and ran well, although I think memory was a problem for me. Only 128megs in the machine and graphics slowed things down. It played well with my USB nikon camera, to my surprise. This make 2

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Ralph Sanford
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 07:26, Joel Hammer wrote: Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint? I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides. Thanks, Joel Hi Joel, I did a fair amount of OO Impress to Powerpoint a couple of months ago.

Re: CD-RW disks

2003-01-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
Collins wrote: I may have missed something here, but do music cd's play in that unit? -- Yes. And I can burn audio cd's (CD-R) as well and they work in external cd-players, I can also burn (CD-R) isos with no problems. I use cdr/w quite a bit for large file transfers between

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmmm What I am going to have are four or five directories, each containing 4 or 5 jpg images. The contents of each directory must be displayed in proper order, but the order of presentation at the directory level will be random. Since these presentations are at least a weekly event, what I

Re: Knoppix does it again, in style

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
I was using kde. Maybe that caused the slowness, since they say kde is a bit bloated. Joel On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:34:38PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Loaded and ran well, although I think memory was a problem for me. Only 128megs in the machine and graphics slowed things down.

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:22:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Hmmm What I am going to have are four or five directories, each containing 4 or 5 jpg images. The contents of each directory must be displayed in proper order, but the order of presentation at the directory level will be random.

Re: USB keyboard

2003-01-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
Susan Macchia wrote: I tried some other installing 7.3 using and when got a kernel panic error right off on boot. Then I thought, hmmm, usb keyboard? I removed the usb keyboard and put a generic non-usb keyboard on it;the 8.0 install went without a hitch. So I know have a working 8.0 system

Re: CD-RW disks

2003-01-04 Thread Susan Macchia
I've been using Imation CD-RW 1x-4x compatible for quite a while now with no problems. Could be the vendor? Just my $.02 :-) Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins wrote: I may have missed something here, but do music cd's play in that unit? -- Yes. And I can burn audio cd's

Re: persistent new kernel woes

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 10:00, Bonez wrote: I have pestered the list about this, but I'd really like to get my kernel upgrade working with 2.4.20 from 2.4.2. If anyone on the list would oblige me in a short real time discussion, using ICQ; 12212330 or Yahoo: sanchiro12 Thanks for any help, Scott p.s.

New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Nobody
Thanks to Brett Holcomb we now have a Step on Setting up ALSA on Gentoo Linux. You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/gentoo_also.html ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread C M Reinehr
Joel Hammer wrote: HTML might be better suited for this. It would be no sweat to create the html with sed and a little knowledge of html (That's describes my knowledge of html). Given the excellent results I have been getting with html2ps and ps2pdf, maybe the whole thing can be made into

Re: New Step

2003-01-04 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Nobody wrote: % Thanks to Brett Holcomb we now have a Step on Setting up ALSA on Gentoo Linux. % You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/gentoo_also.html Um, gentoo-also.html? Perchance that should (or should have) been gentoo_alsa.html? Kurt -- We must remember

Re: New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, Nobody wrote: % Thanks to Brett Holcomb we now have a Step on Setting up ALSA on Gentoo Linux. % You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/gentoo_also.html Um, gentoo-also.html? Perchance that should (or should have) been

Re: New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Um, gentoo-also.html? Perchance that should (or should have) been gentoo_alsa.html? fixed - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep -

Re: ghostscript compile

2003-01-04 Thread harley7
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:05:22 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/03/03 20:31, Joel Hammer wrote: You might find it easier just to get a version of gs which has your driver compiled in it. As I recall, trying to compile gs was beyond me. Joel On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at

Re: Server Distros -- Update

2003-01-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:56:07 -0800 Condon Thomas A KPWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Great! I'm glad to hear that you had good results and enjoyed it. David's book is on my shelf as well, and you're right: it's great. Happy Linning! Thanks for all the help this list has offered in the

Re: ghostscript compile

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I got it done. Perhaps I should have RTFMed a bit more before posting to the list. I found my answers in the README in the source dir for my driver, and the Make.html and Drivers.html files in the 'doc/' dir of my ghostscript source tree. At first

Re: 2002 Remembrances

2003-01-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
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

Re: raid

2003-01-04 Thread Keith Antoine
At 05:22 PM 3/01/2003 -0800, you wrote: On 01/03/03 17:10, Keith Antoine wrote: At 03:53 PM 3/01/2003 -0800, you wrote: On 01/03/03 15:40, Keith Antoine wrote: Well the holidays are over and all my family have gone, just the two of us again. I have been using windows for two reasons, one is

Re: Distirbuitions

2003-01-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:06:22 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % % [distribution and window manager preferences] % % % I can post screenshots of both XFCE-3.8.18

Re: Server Distros -- Update

2003-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
Great! I'm glad to hear that you had good results and enjoyed it. David's book is on my shelf as well, and you're right: it's great. Forgive me; I missed which book this is? -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: raid

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 13:59, Keith Antoine wrote: So did you change anything in its BIOS? No, but I have delved into what is happening and its wierd. Lets take windows first with raid enabled: its XP pro. It boots and allocates primary master with C and D partitions. Then it allocated the raid drive

SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device discovery that it lists a scanner multiple times. The RAID, SCSI CD, are discovered and then the scanner shows up as filling all the luns on a card. It's like it answers to the query for each lun. It is an old Microteck Scanmaker

Re: SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
Perhaps a termination problem? I could swear someone else had this problem months ago. Check the list archives perhaps? On 01/04/03 15:36, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device discovery that it lists a scanner multiple times. The RAID, SCSI

Gimp Question: Multiple cuts and pastes

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Is there a way in gimp to do multiple copies from an image and then paste them back into the image in random order, like klipper does for kde? I suppose you could put them into another layer as a workaround, but, it might be nice to have a direct way of doing this. Thanks, Joel

Re: SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Hmm, could be. I'll check into it. Net Llama! wrote: Perhaps a termination problem? I could swear someone else had this problem months ago. Check the list archives perhaps? On 01/04/03 15:36, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device

Slackware Mailing List

2003-01-04 Thread kwall
Hello, list, I'm pleased to announce that KurtWerks now hosts a mailing list for users of Slackware. List information and subscription instructions available at http://www.kurtwerks.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/slackware. I look forward to seeing all the Slackware users on this list on [EMAIL

Re: Gimp Question: Multiple cuts and pastes

2003-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a way in gimp to do multiple copies from an image and then paste them back into the image in random order, like klipper does for kde? I suppose you could put them into another layer as a workaround, but, it might be nice to have a direct way of doing this. Thanks,

another small problem with networking

2003-01-04 Thread Keith Antoine
I have a friend that has a linux box (mandrake9.0) and an XP plus a ME connected. We can get it to the stage where we can ping from 192.168.0.1 to either of the others (3 4) and from them to 1 or 2. We have 2 inet cards installed in the linux box. However we cannot get to the net from either of

Re: 2002 Remembrances

2003-01-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:56:05 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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...

Re: another small problem with networking

2003-01-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:16:22 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend that has a linux box (mandrake9.0) and an XP plus a ME connected. We can get it to the stage where we can ping from 192.168.0.1 to either of the others (3 4) and from them to 1 or 2. We have 2 inet