OT The Grinch who stole Linux
A very funny parody... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915 Jim -- 1:01am up 14 days, 11:17, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.04, 0.01 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Registered Linux User: 181038 --http://counter.li.org ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
I caught this off a thread on the kde-linux mailing list, I don't know if it will help or not, just thought I'd pass it along. Jim --- Re: [kde-linux] How to type over PDF documents in Linux? From: Gordon Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, is there an application to type over the blank fields on PDF documents? I would like to type over the blank fields of PDF documents and then print them. Here are two documents of interest. The first is from the OpenOffice Forum http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2686highlight= Toward the end of the thread there's mention of KWord becoming able to do this. The KWord filter status page is here... http://www.koffice.org/filters/1.2/ Gord --- On Monday 20 October 2003 07:36 pm, dep wrote: first, in answer to my own question having to do with cutting a few pages out od a pdf file and saving them as a separate pdf file, it finally got done though, sadly, by a friend who was running a windows app which converted the postscript file i got from printing those pages to a file. (the winapp did, though, make it into a 1.6-meg pdf, which is a little excessive.) now i'm seeking to do something else. the state of connecticut offers all its court forms as .pdfs. which may be printed out and filled out by hand or -- ugh -- typewriter. i do not need to preserve these as .pdfs, but i would like to import them into something such that i can fill them out on the computer prior to printing and then, of course, save them. this would, ideally, allow them to simply be imported into a word processor or something like it. i know of no linux application which allows this, however. any ideas? (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.) -- 8:01pm up 34 days, 13:01, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
Here's a link to add to it. It's for KOffice 1.3. More on the status of importing .pdf files. http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/koffice/filters/kword/pdf/status.html?content-type=text/html#import Jim On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:22 pm, James Conner wrote: I caught this off a thread on the kde-linux mailing list, I don't know if it will help or not, just thought I'd pass it along. Jim -- 8:01pm up 34 days, 13:01, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
OT Here's the new Linux commercial from IBM
Here's the article about the commercial, it will air next week during the US Open and the NFL kick-off. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=164838 You can download the commercial here and preview it. http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html Jim -- 3:01am up 1 day, 12:01, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.05, 0.01 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Another nail in SCO's coffin...
IBM counter-sues SCO http://money.cnn.com/services/tickerheadlines/for5/200308071223DOWJONESDJONLINE001147_FORTUNE5.htm Jim -- 1:01pm up 22 days, 23:34, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.14, 0.07 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: What was it about eD 2.4?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 05:49 pm, Tina M Berendt wrote: Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout? The installer? The GUI tools? What? I used and loved eD, but find it hard to say why I felt it was so nice. I *think* a lot of my fondness has to do simply with familiarity... once I learned the Caldera way on OpenLinux, eD was such a natural progression that I think a lot of my 'it was so great' is simply because I *knew* it.. however, I now 'know' SuSE, but don't have the same warm fuzzy when talking about it as I do when talking about eD It seems to me that it would be a *lot* easier to start with a current base system (perhaps LFS based) and then mold it to be whatever it was about eD that everyone liked instead of taking an old eD and upgrading it (remember that eD wasn't even ready for 2.4.x and 2.6.x is right around the corner). So, what *specifically* made eD so great? Well, I cut my teeth on eD2.4. I found the install very good for a newbie. It's hardware detection was very good. After install, the admin tools(COAS) were the best. Also, the way it used /etc was very straightforward. If you wanted to change something you went to /etc/somewhere/configfile and changed it. The file was usually commented quite well and COAS reflected the changes and didn't change it back to some default. COAS was both ncurses and X Windows based. You could also use webmin and do the same thing that COAS did and they both agreed and worked together quite well. The menus were very easy to understand. One thing I liked was that it shipped with KDE 1.1.2 and when KDE 2.x came out, Caldera provided rpms that worked. Also, you could compile just about any tarball on it and it worked. They used /opt which made sense to me(personal preference). It was very upgradable and customizable. Once W3.1 was released, over a year and a half after eD2.4, most people had upgraded eD2.4 to where W3.1 was or past and saw no need to install W3.1 and start over. I'm not sure if you could take Lycoris and rework the menu, update/include some packages and include COAS(proprietary code?) and it would be what most people would want. I don't know if a LFS(ish) build would be the answer. Here are some things that would be needed: - A Lizard type installer that detected most all hardware(like Knoppix's detection). - You'd have to have good admin tool like COAS. - Straightforward use of /etc for those that liked to edit files by hand. - Changes by hand to config files would be reflected in the admin tool and the admin tool wouldn't overwrite them. - Webmin(for those that didn't like the admin tool or remote configuration) - Menus that made sense(very subjective for each person) - Very good multimedia coverage. It could handle most any multimedia file in or out of the browser. - Includes OpenOffice.org for an office suite - A rpm repository that would be maintained and reflect updated/new software packages as they were released. - The ability to customize and upgrade with tarballs with relative ease as the user deemed needed. - Use of /opt (again my personal preference) - Had at least one and no more than two programs installed for every task needed. Other packages available for user from rpm repository. - It would be stable and up-to-date, but not bleeding edge, to satisfy most users. I'm sure others could add to this list. Those that want to work on such product(I'm not a developer), kudos to them. They should be saving this list and other such e-mails to refer to while developing the distro. I've since moved to mandrake and like it, but again no 'warm fuzzies'. It's admin tools are decent, but it's menus can be confusing. Also, msec can change somethings back that you don't want it to change. One thing that irks me is that they don't have a KDE package maintainer. When KDE has a new release, you have to rely on texstar or somebody else to package KDE for you or you can try to compile it yourself. This can lead to a unusable desktop if you break too many things. Also, mandrake doesn't use /opt (my preference again). Sometimes I wonder if the 'warm fuzzies' from eD2.4 are just nostalgia, kinda like that car you had, or that favorite chair, or is it genuine admiration for a product well done. I think since I'm not the only one, it's the latter. Jim -- 3:01pm up 16 days, 1:34, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.07 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: small network problem
Here's a site that has a Step-by-Step using the gui to configure Mandrake 9.0 to WinXP. Dunno if this will help or not. http://www.tweakhound.com/mdk9/mdk9net.htm Jim On Sunday 20 July 2003 10:35 am, Keith Antoine wrote: At 08:22 PM 19/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: --- Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 07:51 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Is DNS working on the Linux box? (if that's where you are running it from) No AFAIK, its just setup by mandarke to share the net. Whoa, wait a minute...what about your /etc/hosts.allow fileis your subnet permitted to connect? As I have said before my memory will not work re networking anymore. I used the Mandrake Control Centre to share the internet it has worked perfectly before. I Do NOT remember how to do networking via a command line. If I do not do something often the I totally forget how I did it, 2 weeks is too long to retain memory. Sorry but it has to be explained in very simple step[ terms for me these days. A cryptic question as you ask means nothing to me. That is why partly why I unsubbed. ITS bloody frustrating. Skippy ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- 12:01pm up 4 days, 22:30, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Video card
I'm running a 19 Samsung 955DF at 1280 x 1024, 24bit color, on a 16MB Voodoo3 2000 card. Yes, I know, it needs upgraded. :) I'm looking at some GForce4 cards. Jim On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:30 am, Joel Hammer wrote: I just got a new 19 inch monitor (ViewSonic). My video card only has 32 megs of ram, and, so I cannot get 24 bit depth to work properly at higher resolutions. Could someone offer some video card recommendations that could be installed without much hassle on my machine with the following specifications? Price is no object. Convenience is, however. I have an 800mh Athlon machine with 780 megs of ram. This is what X -version reports XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 1 July 2000 Operating System: Linux 2.2.14 i686 [ELF] That last line is somewhat puzzling because uname -a reports: 2.4.5-win4lin #3 Wed Jul 4 16:01:48 EDT 2001 i686 unknown Thanks, Joel -- 9:01am up 6 days, 13:15, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.09 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?
Don't most distros use: cat /etc/issue Jim On Thursday February 13, 2003 02:39 pm, Susan Macchia wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can use uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example), but I need to know more than that because the same combinations can be found on a variety of distros. TIA = _ Susan Macchia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 9:01am up 25 days, 23:20, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: MechWarrior 2
Well, a quick check on www.transgaming.com shows mech warrior 2 doesn't work well with winex. Winex is the version of wine that has directx8 and other features that make games play easier. I haven't messed with it much, but it's probably your best bet for windows games on linux. Jim On Monday December 16, 2002 10:08 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: I did check Google first but haven't been able to find a whole lot of recent information. I skimmed that listing but will read it closer to glean what I can. It problem is still Mech2 thinking I'm using 16 colors only... Thanks, Matt On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:56:26 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google is your friend: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=lang_enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8thread m=35C259D0.DB414633%40ucsd.edurnum=1prev=/groups%3Fas_q%3DMechWarrior%25 20wine%26safe%3Dimages%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_ugroup%3D*wine*%252C %2520*linux*%26lr%3Dlang_en%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den Also make sure that you have the latest release of wine, it will always help. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- 7:01pm up 22 days, 4:12, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Mandrake 9.0
Well, I've been running it for about a month, shortly after release. I ran W3.1 prior to that. I can say that I like what I see so far. The install went pretty smooth. Initial setup was decent. I had to install Realplayer8, Flash, pine, java runtime(it installs some watered down version), kdeartwork(for screensavers and stuff), and a few other miscellaneous things. Most of what I installed was in binary rpm format and available on either contrib, texstar or plf's ftp sites. Installing via rpm can be done with either urpmi(from any ftp site or one of the cdroms), or traditional rpm commands. Also there is a gui for both. Since both update the rpm database, they compliment each other. Only problems I've read about on the mailing lists is that it doesn't setup zip drives on install properly and a few other hardware problems(mostly video). Personally, I'd recommend it to a newbie. It is a pretty good distro for a x.0 release. I was apprehensive at first, but after using it for a while, I am really liking it. For those that don't like KDE, it offers Gnome, xfce, blackbox, fvwm, and others. Do you have any specific questions about it? If so, I'll try to answer to the best of my ability. Jim On Sunday October 27, 2002 04:49 am, Pam R wrote: Any reports, impressions? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Hardware upgrade
Well, I'm running my new case, mobo, cpu, ram and distro. I had a problem initally because one of the nic cards didn't want to let the system boot. This board is extreemely picky. If anything is wrong, no boot, nothing! Is a good thing, but hard to diagnose. Actually, with all the fans, it's quieter than my old case. :) I had a few fans that were dying. Dang, it's fast! Can't accuse KDE 3.x being bloatware. It's as snappy as KDE1.x was on my old P200mmx. I'm using MDK9.0. Somethings I like, some I don't. I don't know if I'll keep it or move to SuSE 8.1. Well, I gotta be at work in less than 4 hours and I got to get some sleep. Jim On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:46 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:15, Jim Conner wrote: Well, went and bought the Abit kx7-333, amd xp2000+, 128mb ram, and a new case(needed an ATX case). The case has 5 fans with a power supply, cpu and chipset fan, that's 8 fans. Gonna sound like a F-4 taking off. :) I hope that keeps it cool enough. I'm going to put it all together Saturday. I'll post back with any gottcha's/problems. I know I'll have some, just my luck. :) Jim You forgot to get the ear-muffs, mine shakes the house when I switch on. Have to have so many fans for this climate using the next step up in athlons. Extraction is most important here. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
