Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
what does textmaker do? dep wrote: i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the product (though if it were $200 it would be

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread dep
quoth M.W. Chang: | what does textmaker do? it is an *excellent* word processor. reads and writes msft word files of many flavors -- best filters i've ever seen. and is both very powerful and very fast. i've so far used it for three book proposals (complicated documents of about 25,000 words

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:37:01 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does textmaker do? dep wrote: i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested but

OT My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
Well, we have a new linux user subscribed to the user list here, I did it for him, and booked marked the steps and gave a short tour. Was going to remove the extra 7 virtual screens, but I think he finally got it and told me to leave them alone, g. Got him up and running very smoothly. Wine is

Re: OT My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 08:28:57 -0600 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we have a new linux user subscribed to the user list here, I did it for him, and booked marked the steps and gave a short tour. Was going to remove the extra 7 virtual screens, but I think he finally got

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 05:10 am, Rick Sivernell wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:37:01 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does textmaker do? It's a floor wax . . . No, it's a dessert topping . . . .No, floor wax, . . . . No, dessert topping. Stop, you're both right! And, for

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 04:49 am, dep wrote: quoth M.W. Chang: | what does textmaker do? it is an *excellent* word processor. reads and writes msft word files of many flavors -- best filters i've ever seen. and is both very powerful and very fast. i've so far used it for three book

sendmail.mc macro

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
what is the m4 macro name for this sendmail.cf option? O MaxMessageSize=200 -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^1:24am up 1 day, 9:30, 0 users, load average: 1.02, 1.03, 1.00

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^1:28am up 1 day, 9:34, 0 users,

Re: KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems

2003-11-09 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/09/03 09:04, Jerry McBride wrote: MPG123 or MPG321 both still work, if only I could find a decent GUI/Frontend for them. I've been using loving playmp3list for years: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~urban/projects/playmp3list/ -- ~

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Leon Goldstein
M. W. Chang wrote: better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. I dloaded the trial version after reading the original post. Abiword still gets my nod. The latest release that came with Libranet

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread dep
quoth M.W. Chang: | better than open office? far different (though in my estimation oodles better, also). textmaker is a word processor/desktop publisher, period. it is much, much smaller and much, much faster than openoffice. on a machine here where openoffice takes more than a minute to open

Re: OT The Grinch who stole Linux

2003-11-09 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:16:59 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very funny parody... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915 I just had a bizarre thought. Parody of a copywritten work is a protected form of expression. What would a parody of copywrite protected

Re: KDE 3.20 Beta

2003-11-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
By bleeding edge, do you mean that you do a lot of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 ebuilds? I have only done that for the alsa drivers, and it made no difference for the damnable TV card anyway. I tend to stay away from the ~x86 stuff as my wife, who shares the machine at home, has little tolerance for

Re: OT My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Hipp
Rick Sivernell wrote: Does any one have a recommendation for a good cad program that will read in/out acad files. Since he paid over $400 for the lite version, he opposed to paying again. I've not used any of these, but here a few links I bookmarked some time ago: http://www.linuxcad.com/

Re: OT My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 09:55:09 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 08:28:57 -0600 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we have a new linux user subscribed to the user list here, I did it for him, and booked marked the steps and gave a short

Re: OT pictures from the desert

2003-11-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 09:07:48 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix/ Great pics, nice little one, enjoy him as you can, they growg. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Registered Linux User .~.

Re: OT The Grinch who stole Linux

2003-11-09 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:45:32 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a bizarre thought. Parody of a copywritten work is a protected form of expression. What would a parody of copywrite protected code be? 8-) Or music, or videos? Lots more money for lawyers. First, let's kill

Re: KDE 3.20 Beta

2003-11-09 Thread Jerry McBride
I've got a box or two using ~x86 without too much hassle. You get a feel after a while of what you can get away with. For instance, the new thread model for glibc, kde 3.2.0, etc. All in all, it works as advertised. But like the quirks you mentioned, xmms has pretty much died in that box. I'm

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:29 am, M.W. Chang wrote: better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. Don't know; haven't used OO. Sorry. I think they still have a trial version; load it up and give it

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:05 am, Collins Richey wrote: snip I'm used to waiting for reponse from user groups re open source products, but IMHO a commerical provider needs to have a little better response than this. Perhaps I'll try again or try to buy it during the Karnival madness. Try

Re: OT My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 06:28 am, Rick Sivernell wrote: snip Does any one have a recommendation for a good cad program that will read in/out acad files. Since he paid over $400 for the lite version, he opposed to paying again. Try VariCAD www.varicad.com I'm playing with it now and it

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
OpenOffice is more akin to the full MS Office suite - it has Word, Excel, and Powerpoint equivalents and I've found it works well. Tony Alfrey wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:29 am, M.W. Chang wrote: better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word

Re: KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems

2003-11-09 Thread Ted Ozolins
Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else having problems running XMMS under the new KDE beta? It totally locks up the desktop here when trying to play mp3's through the arts plugin. Tried re-emerging all related components to o avail... MPG123 or MPG321 both still work, if only I could find a decent

Re: OT My new Linux User

2003-11-09 Thread James McDonald
On Sunday 09 November 2003 06:28 am, Rick Sivernell wrote: snip Does any one have a recommendation for a good cad program that will read in/out acad files. Since he paid over $400 for the lite version, he opposed to paying again. Try VariCAD www.varicad.com What about qcad it's only 2D

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Collins
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:28, Tony Alfrey wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:05 am, Collins Richey wrote: snip I'm used to waiting for reponse from user groups re open source products, but IMHO a commerical provider needs to have a little better response than this. Perhaps I'll try

Re: OT pictures from the desert

2003-11-09 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:07, Net Llama! wrote: If anyone is interested, i just returned from a trip to the deserts of California Nevada (specifically the area in around Death Valley). I've got alot of pictures posted here: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix/ Nice pics, Lonnie. What are

Re: OT pictures from the desert

2003-11-09 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/09/03 16:12, burns wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:07, Net Llama! wrote: If anyone is interested, i just returned from a trip to the deserts of California Nevada (specifically the area in around Death Valley). I've got alot of pictures posted here: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix/

Javascript question

2003-11-09 Thread joel
I am going over some of my html/javascript beasties that I wrote for work. I am still confounded why these don't work properly in netscape or mozilla but do in opera6 and IE 5.5. For example, these buttons don't display properly in mozilla: input type=button value=Reset this form

Merging pdf files

2003-11-09 Thread Collins
Methinks it was dep who recently inquired about tools to merge multiple PDF files. There is now an offering on freshmeat. http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbtpdfasm/?branch_id=45151release_id=141607topic_id=861 Enjoy -- Collins Fedora core 1 system

Re: Javascript question

2003-11-09 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:36, joel wrote: I am going over some of my html/javascript beasties that I wrote for work. I am still confounded why these don't work properly in netscape or mozilla but do in opera6 and IE 5.5. For example, these buttons don't display properly in mozilla: input

Re: Javascript question

2003-11-09 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 18:36, joel wrote: this function doesn't work: function ClearForm(form){ for (i=0; i form.length ; i++) { form[i].checked = false if (form[i].value.search(/^MARGINS *\$1U? *$/) -1){form[i].checked=true} par[i] = } form[1].checked = true } To get the function

KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems

2003-11-09 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else having problems running XMMS under the new KDE beta? It totally locks up the desktop here when trying to play mp3's through the arts plugin. Tried re-emerging all related components to o avail... MPG123 or MPG321 both still work, if only I could find a decent GUI/Frontend for