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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:49, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote
> On Jan 22, 2008 2:42 PM, Josef Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But as a result of your suggestion, I checked man convert
> > and then googled the 'net but have not been able to find a
> > syntax exa
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:30, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote
> On Jan 22, 2008 1:02 PM, Josef Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What is the best and most efficient way to convert a high-res
> > 2.5-meg pdf to a high-res jpg without losing (too much) image quality?
> &g
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What is the best and most efficient way to convert a high-res
2.5-meg pdf to a high-res jpg without losing (too much) image quality?
I tried the 'convert' utility, but the result is poor quality.
Perhaps there are convert utility options that that might yield
a better result, but I don't know
.
Thanks again to all who responded (some off-list).
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:18:43 -0700 (MST), der.hans wrote
> Am 17. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Josef Lowder so:
> > I have some friends who are having problems with wireless
> > connections between their computers and their printer.
.
I have some friends who are having problems with wireless
connections between their computers and their printer.
They tried calling the Geek Squad, but were told they
were "booked" and apparently not available right now.
So, my friends would like to find some other local source
who could ma
.
Our daughter has sent the following note to request some
assistance from the PLUG group on the issue described below.
Please copy any response to this message directly to her at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as she is not currently on the PLUG
mail list.
I am attempting to install backtrack 2 to an 80 G
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Thanks Matrix Mole (and all other responders).
The scripts you provided worked fine.
'preciate it!
Joe
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Matrix Mole wrote
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> | .
> | The following script used to work on my old unix system,
> | to remove blank lines
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The following script used to work on my old unix system,
to remove blank lines from a text file. It no longer works
on linux, but now it gives an error message (below):
sed '/[!-~]/!d' $1
This is the error message:
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: Invalid range end
How can I fix this?
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:07, Shawn Badger wrote
> I have played with one and have been happy with it so far, but the
> one big catch that I found is it only codes ATSC (digital tv).
> That kind of killed for what I purchased it for originally.
I don't understand what that means ...
Does that mea
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:02, Shawn Badger wrote
> Here is an open source and open hardware (they publish the hardware
> specs) box that records what ever and then converts it to mpeg 4.
> I thought some people on the list may be interested.
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06novel.ht
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Someone sent me the following postscript fonts,
but I can't figure out how to install them or
where to put them on my system so I can use them.
What is the best procedure to do that?
1386 Jan 4 14:01 GRSC.PFM
32768 Jan 4 14:03 GR.PFB
1024 Jan 4 14:03 GR.PFM
30955 Jan 4 14:03 GRB.PF
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:30:01 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote
> I want to parse or convert to text the Firefox history.dat file. There
> is apparently a Windows application called Dork that does it. But
> I'm not on Windows. :^)
>
> All I want to do is extract a list of the URLs. I'm wading through
.
Merry Christmas to all ...
'Tis the season to be jolly, so I hope no one will mind
this shameless plug for a new book I just published.
Rejoice! Clean Humor has 170 pages with thousands of
hilarious stories, quips, quotes, funny photos, and one-
liners so you can give the gift of laughter!
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:55, George Toft wrote
> I have one that a friend asked me to sell. Pentium 3. If
> interested, e-mail me off list and I'll get you the specs.
>
> I also have a stack of Compaq DeskPro's (600 Mhz) that I am willing
> to part with.
>
>
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Anybody have a cheap used computer with a dial-up modem
and either with Linux installed or on which I could install
Linux (preferrably pclinuxos) to use just for email and open
office?
I have a non-techie family member whose old computer
crashed and she just wants one to do email and a litt
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:52:29 -0700, eric wrote
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 19:55 -0800, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 14:51 -0700, eric wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 09 December 2007 2:26:40 pm Luis Villarreal wrote:
> > > > > I think this is what you are looking for
> > > > > http://tuxboxcomp
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:09:42 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote
> I've placed a quick how-to on using Qemu to run Linux or Windows in a
> virtual machine.
>
> Dennisk
Where?
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:21:44 -0700, Craig White wrote
> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 08:22 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> > My you all have a great holiday season.
>
> I believe this is a misnomer
>
> Thanksgiving is actually a celebration of the original illegal
> immigrants so today should actual
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, keith smith wrote
> I'm not aware of MicroSoft giving away anything.
> Can you provide an example?
Sure. M$ has given away uncountable gazillions of
virus infections, trojans, worms, spy-bots, error messages,
lockups, blue screens of death, headaches, and heartaches.
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Josef Lowder wrote
> While I normally use text only for most email,
> I have a need to email an html formatted message
> with an embedded jpg image. Is it possible to
> do that with kmail? If so, how is it done?
After wrestling with this (and several re
.
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, keith smith wrote
> I'm not aware of MicroSoft giving away anything.
> Can you provide an example?
Oh, and leave us not forget that Bill Gates, the great
philanthropist, has personally given away some percentage
of the gargantuan fortune that he has amassed.
Let's se
.
[snipped quotes]
== Craig White wrote:
> eMachines defined the concept of a ... specific hardware to meet
> a price point/distribution target - much as Everex has done here.
> ... no Microsoft tax ... trying to copy the Macintosh look/feel ;-)
== Darrin Chandler wrote
> The Everex desktops and
.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:22:25 -0700, Matt Graham wrote
> From: "Josef Lowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > While I normally use text only for most email,
> > I have a need to email an html formatted message
> > with an embedded jpg image. Is it possible to
>
.
While I normally use text only for most email,
I have a need to email an html formatted message
with an embedded jpg image.
Is it possible to do that with kmail?
If so, how is it done?
Or if not with kmail, is it possible with Thunderbird?
If so, how is it done?
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:58, augie grayfox wrote
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 12:00,
> "Josef Lowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What is the best way to set up a newsletter mailing list
> > so I can send the same email message once a month to all
> &g
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, keith smith wrote
> Try Email Aces.
> If you go to http://emailaces.com/try_us_free.php
> You can sign up for free. With a small list like
> yours you might be able to use the service for free
> forever. If not it cost $9.95/mo and is feature rich.
Thanks Keith.
Of cours
.
What is the best way to set up a newsletter mailing list
so I can send the same email message once a month to all
of the email addresses (about 100) in my mailing list
without using Cc: or Bcc:? This would *not* be spam
as these are email addresses of my own clients.
Someone has suggested e
.
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:51, der.hans wrote
> We don't need flame wars.
> ... [snipped] ...
> If you want more posts about PCLinuxOS, make them.
I specifically stated that it was *not* my intent
to start a flame war.
My message was not a complaint or criticism or negative
post in any sense. I
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:43, Charles Jones wrote
> I've found that, for some reason, "most" people do not seem to
> like Fedora. All the hype is focused towards Ubuntu these days :)
> Personally I FC7 on my workstation, and Ubuntu on my laptop,
> and I like them both.
Not to start a flame war o
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:43, Charles Jones wrote
> I've found that, for some reason, "most" people do not seem to
> like Fedora. All the hype is focused towards Ubuntu these days :)
> Personally I FC7 on my workstation, and Ubuntu on my laptop,
> and I like them both.
Not to start a flame war o
.
This long discussion seems kind of "OT" for the PLUG forum ...
and doesn't really correspond to the subject line very well.
--
> > > Probably requires a few bucks to keep a 50,000 sq. foot home running
> > > year round too. Is he even drawing a salary? I don't think so. Nothing
>
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Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question,
but could someone recommend a good forum for posting
html coding questions like this?
I've been using the following script on a web page to open the
named item in a separate window, and while this works (sort of)
it actually opens two wind
.
kfontview allows me to view various fonts by opening
each of them one at a time; but what is the best way
to quickly "scan-thru" a directory full of fonts to
see what they all look like?
Google turned up a font viewer called gfontview
but # urpmi gfontview gave this response:
"no package n
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This might not be OT if there is a way to use a Linux computer
to do what I want to do.
Being fed up with cable/dish gouging and being force-fed 100+
garbage channels that we *do not* want, a few months ago,
we switched to just viewing "off-the-air" TV. The HD signal
is so fabulous that we d
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:51, Darrin Chandler wrote (in part)
> Developers are out there pushing vendors for open specs.
> As consumers we can help by only buying cards where the
> vendors regard *us* as their customers ...
So where can one get a list of vendors (specifically for
wireless relat
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Josef Lowder wrote
> Thanks to all three who have responded.
> But I'm still a little stuck. See below.
>
> ---
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:51, der.hans wrote
> > amarok should play the wav file.
>
> Regret
.
Thanks to all three who have responded.
But I'm still a little stuck. See below.
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:51, der.hans wrote
> amarok should play the wav file.
Regrettably, it does not, although the wav file does play
on the xp partition of my laptop, so
.
After 20 years of using computers, and never before having
done anything with music or audio files, I am just beginning
to explore ... so I have a plethora of questions.
So far, I have copied some files from a little mp3 player that
our daughter gave us to my 2006 Mandriva box and was glad t
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:58:40 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote
> I have an OpenOffice document resume I'd like to post somewhere.
> is it ok tp post to the list or is there a specific place on the
> plug website for it?
You can send it to me and I'll post it for you here:
http://upquick.com/
.
Just came across this interesting article ...
September 19, 2007 - This afternoon Intel's Chief Linux and Open-Source
Technologist, Dirk Hohndel, talked about why Intel's commitment to open-source
drivers creates a difference and advantage for Intel's architecture platforms.
Nothing groud-break
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, keith smith wrote
> I have a laptop that is 5 years old.
> It really is time to replace it.
> I would like to get 5 years out of the
> next laptop I buy.
>
> Did I miss the purchase information for the ASUS EEE?
The announcement said they would start shipping in Octobe
.
Has everyone seen the new "EEE" super-portable laptop recently
announced by ASUS? It is a mobile Internet portable computer
that is Easy to Learn, Easy to Work, and Easy to Play (thus EEE).
At only $199, this should shake up the computer world as it will be
exclusively LINUX with built in wir
.
After installing mplayer on my system, both Firefox and
Konqueror "bomb" (some websites just cause both browsers
to just disappear off my screen). I tried reinstalling
Firefox via Synaptic, but it still does the same thing.
Any clues how to correct this? Everything was working
fine before
.
Recently, I've noticed my system seems to be generating
some files that are chewing up space, but I can't find
where this is happening. When I reboot, the wasted
space is reclaimed/restored, and then it gradually builds
up again.
I've deleted files in various "tmp" and "temp" directories
.
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:01, Joshua Zeidner wrote
... snip snip snip ...
> If the person who recently offered up his grandfatherly
> opinion of the whole thing feels he is in the position
> of leadership here, he should make that abundantly clear.
... snip snip snip ...
I guess this litt
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Joseph Sinclair wrote (in part)
>
> I agree that while PLUG should welcome job postings from legitimate
> sources with some relevance to the group, all replies MUST be off
> list. The posting is relevant, the replies are NOT. If you have
> information about a particular
.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:10, Dennis Kibbe wrote
> Intel miniPCI internal wifi cards are well supported under Linux,
> the most you'll need to do is install the firmware. I've bought a
> couple of IPW2200 cards off of eBay new for under $25 to replace the
> Broadcom wifi card that came with the lap
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:33:20 -0700, Frank Burton wrote
> I have a website that has a folder with a few thousand files and sub
> folders in it. I need to know the name of every file in this folder
> and it's sub folders. The web server is a go-daddy linux machine and
> my machine is running Mint l
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, keith smith wrote
> I have had some time to think about everything and
> feel I need to sit tight for now.
>
> I do not have the time nor do I have the desire to fight with
> GoDaddy, however I do not want to be bullied into anything either.
Sounds good. I certainly
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Josef Lowder wrote
> On 8/16/07, keith smith wrote:
> > I have no intention of fighting them. I am going to release
> > the domain to them.
>
> Keith, I would definitely *NOT* be too quick to capitulate on this.
>
> GoDaddy does *NOT* own a
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On 8/16/07, keith smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have no intention of fighting them. I am going to release
> the domain to them.
Keith, I would definitely *NOT* be too quick to capitulate on this.
GoDaddy does *NOT* own all rights to the use of the words "go" and
"daddy" in every po
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On 8/16/07, keith smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have no intention of fighting them. I am going to release
> the domain to them.
Keith, I would definitely *NOT* be too quick to capitulate on this.
GoDaddy does *NOT* own all rights to the use of the words "go" and
"daddy" in every po
.
I think I have some Jim. But better yet, if you like Mandrake/Mandriva,
you will "love" PCLinuxOS which is Mandriva all fancied up with lots
of enhancements. 2 gig of apps on a single live CD. Just boot it up
and click on the install icon on the desktop and you're home free!
[EMAIL PROTEC
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It would be very beneficial, in many respects, if the PLUG website
could include a "gallery" of introductory bios and photos of as
many PLUG members as may be willing to participate.
A preliminary list of reasons and benefits for doing this, along
with a few very preliminary examples of how this
.
Thanks Nathan. I'll get a temporary index and
"click-to-view" menu set up for this within the
next few minutes at this link:
http://www.upquick.com/bios
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:20, Nathan Aubrey wrote
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 04:20:25 pm
.
Thanks Patrick. I'll add yours also and I'll make an index of
participants with a click-to-view asap. Yours will be added as
shown below, so we now have three so far ...
http://www.upquick.com/bios/bio.patrick
http://www.upquick.com/bios/bio.scott
http://www.upquick.com/bios/bio.joe
/bios/bio.joe
Let's hope that some more pluggers will join in the fun.
Joe
PS: I'll try to do something better than plain text in the
presentation of these asap.
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote
> Josef Lowder spake thusly:
>
> I&
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2007, Alan Dayley wrote (in part)
>
> Kurt may be too modest so I'll post this for him
>
> http://people.kde.org/kurt.html
This is great! I really enjoyed reading Kurt's bio,
and wish we had many more interview/bios like this for
all PLUG members.
I had recently suggested
.
While the PLUG forum and archives are both tremendously valuable,
I have often wondered if there might be some way to perhaps make
it a little more efficient in the way messages are presented.
Many years ago (before the Internet), I hosted a BBS message board
for computer users that used a very
.
This is very helpful, Alan. Now I realize that I had not thought
this thru sufficiently. So, a couple of follow-up questions below.
I will probably want to try both paths, but for now, I'd just like
to start with the simplest path.
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:06, Alan Dayley
.
How can I burn a dvd with a collection of jpg photos
so it can be viewed on our TV by most any dvd player?
I have K3b version 0.12.4-svn) but don't see that it has
an option to do this. I'd actually prefer to be able to
do it with a simple command line command, but if not that,
what other L
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:46:35 -0700 (MST), der.hans wrote
> Am 24. Jul, 2007 [UTF-8?]schwätzte Shawn Badger so:
> > I like the idea of the business cards! It would be easy to hand them out
> > and more likely the person would keep them, or at least I think they would.
> > It would also be nice to
.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:58, Dennis Kibbe wrote
> LUGS dying out? I don't think so by the email I got
> from a member of the Beijing LUG!
> I gooffed putting Phoenix on the SFD map
>
> http://maitri.ubuntu.com/~moquist/sfdworldwide/2007/SFDWorldWideHuger.html
> Left out the minus sign from the co
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Alan Dayley wrote
> PLUG is as viable and useful as we PLUGgers make it.
> PLUG meeting attendance, in my view, has been at a plateau for
> several years now. There is a core group that "mostly always"
> attends a given meeting with a few new people each month that
> usu
.
How does one find the correct ndiswrapper version to use
with one's system?
I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop with a Broadcom
BCM4318 Wireless Lan Controller that works fine on the
WinXP side of my dual boot, but I cannot figure out which
of the many dozens of different drivers I need to
.
Where can one purchase an HD DVR that can be used for recording
HD programs off of broadcast without having to pay Tivo or Dish
or DirecTV for monthly service?
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Thanks again for the responses.
'touch' worked. I used this syntax:
$ touch -t 0705141341 filename.jpg
That set the file date as: May 14 at 13:41 (year 2007)
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> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > How can I back-date a file to an older date that
> &
.
How can I back-date a file to an older date that
reflects its original creation date rather than its
last modified date?
I want to do this so the file dates will correctly identify
the dates the photos were originally taken rather than the
later dates that I modified, cropped, and resized t
.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:08, Jim wrote
> I don't know if this would be in the one up category, but I remember
> being a high school freshman in 1981 and spending time after school
> in the math teacher's room messing around with his TRS80 with a
> whopping 4KB RAM and running programs stored on
.
Is anyone on the plug list a graphic arts professional
and available to provide some free-lance guidance and
assistance for a reasonable fee?
Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Please add me, also:
Josef Lowder
near Baseline and Power Road in Mesa
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Kevin Brown wrote
> I have a small request of any artists on this list. I'm rebuilding
> the plug member map that used to be up on the old site. What I'd
> love is some possible icons to use for the PLUG meeting sites
> (something like the PLUG tux shrunk to icon size wi
.
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:16, Patrick C wrote
> Alright... the NVidia card is now gone (sorry Anthony!).
> The ATi card is still available, though.
Hey Patrick ... I wrote you a note about this three days
ago, but never received a reply. So, I wonder if you did
not receive it? H.
Joe
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For several years, I have been trying to figure out an
efficient way to organize, manage, display, and share with
family and friends some of the thousands of photos I have
accumulated. Finally, I've figured out something that I
thought might be of interest to others.
See a small sample here
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:45, Alan Dayley wrote
> Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > Why are there always problems with the plug web site? It seems every
> > couple of months the site goes down or gets hacked or the ISP dies.
>
> Point well taken.
>
> In the past is has been a combination of insecurity (not
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