Re: [techtalk] how to get hardware specs
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:41:34PM -0700, alissa bader wrote: > ok, acutally this is *really* for solaris, instead of > linux, but surely there's a similar command for both. > :> > > I am trying to figure out what type of hardware, how > much disk space, how much ram etc is on a box. I know > if I was doing this on a mac I'd click on "about this > macintosh." I know if I was doing this on an NT > machine, I'd check out the properties under "My > Computer." > > Someone told me dmesg would do it, but all I get is a > garbled bunch of infomation. > > any other ideas? this has to be one of the simplest > things out there. :> > If you were using GNOME or kde then System information can be found from the panel menus, in GNOME System->System Info and in kde Settings->Information. -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Athlon and Power Supply
Does the Athlon processor and SD11 mobo need 350 watt power supplies? - Kathy
Re: [techtalk] Athlon and Power Supply
As far as I know, any athlon will need a big ol' power supply. They shouldn't be that much more expensive (if any) than the 'normal' wattage, though. -nicole At 10:05 on Jul 13, Kath combined all the right letters to say: > Does the Athlon processor and SD11 mobo need 350 watt power supplies? > > - Kathy > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Athlon and Power Supply
hi kath/nicole - if i recall the model SD11 motherboard is made by FIC? if so - yes, that board is very picky about its power supply, though 300W is fine. all of the other boards i've used (msi, asus, abit, gigabyte) mention power supply req's but run fine on a standard 250W. it also depends how many devices you've got in your machine. my athlon is on the MSI K7 Pro mainboard with a standard 250W power supply - but i've only got your standard # of devices (one HD, floppy, CD, CDR, 2 add'l case fans, and the usual cards). if you were using multiple hard drives, more fans, etc you'll get much more stable performance out of a 300W p/s with any mainboard, just because the athlon itself can be a power-monger. =) here's amd's web site for "approved" power supplies: http://www1.amd.com/athlon/power and a reliable source for all kinds of good power and cooling stuff: http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/ i hope that helps!! =) shelly techchron.com beta 2 http://jove.prohosting.com/~tchron - Original Message - From: Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Athlon and Power Supply > As far as I know, any athlon will need a big ol' power supply. They > shouldn't be that much more expensive (if any) than the 'normal' wattage, > though. > > -nicole > > At 10:05 on Jul 13, Kath combined all the right letters to say: > > > Does the Athlon processor and SD11 mobo need 350 watt power supplies? > > > > - Kathy > > > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:19:34PM -0400, Amanda Owens wrote:
> I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been
> turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is
> now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it
> possible? If so, how?
>
I'm sure it's possible to do it the way you described, but it's not
the easiest way. Using \LaTeX{} (usually spelled LaTeX), it would be
possible to create another PostScript file with the text and embed the
image into that.
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RE: [techtalk] A Postscript question
Amanda Owens, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been > turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is > now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it > possible? If so, how? If I understand what you want to do, it's possible to do it with convert from imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org). It basically lets you draw text or shapes on top of an image (and works with a few dozen image formats, including ps, so you could do it with the original photos). I believe imagemagick also comes with c libraries and/or perl modules with similar functionality. I'm sure it's also possible to edit the ps file, but I don't know how to do that. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:02:20PM -0400, Fan, Laurel wrote: > Amanda Owens, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > > I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been > > turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is > > now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it > > possible? If so, how? > > If I understand what you want to do, it's possible to do it with > convert from imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org). It basically > lets you draw text or shapes on top of an image (and works with a > few dozen image formats, including ps, so you could do it with the > original photos). I believe imagemagick also comes with c libraries > and/or perl modules with similar functionality. > > I'm sure it's also possible to edit the ps file, but I don't know how > to do that. imagemagick, gimp, and xv can all import .ps files as images, but the catch is that they turn them into fixed resolution bitmaps. the best way to annotate .ps (.eps, actually, but that's what xv spits out so you're cool) files is to use xfig. it retains the full vector information of the .ps file so you don't lose any resolution. i use it all the time to take .ps files of images and then add text and arrows and stuff to label up the image. it is, and has been for many years, one of the very coolest unix programs around. tim -- +--+ | Tim Pickering | Kapteyn Institute, Postbus 800 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands | | http://www.astro.rug.nl/~tim/ |+31-50-363-6519 | +--+ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. -- Frost ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question
Actually, that's what I ended up doing - using xfig. In a couple of different ways. But it looks to have turned out well in the end. The reason my boss wanted to do the postscript markup was so that when the image was scaled, the text would scale right along with it. Oh well. Popping the jpg into xfig and adding stuff worked like a dream. Mur! On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, T. E. Pickering wrote: > imagemagick, gimp, and xv can all import .ps files as images, but the > catch is that they turn them into fixed resolution bitmaps. the best > way to annotate .ps (.eps, actually, but that's what xv spits out so > you're cool) files is to use xfig. it retains the full vector > information of the .ps file so you don't lose any resolution. i use > it all the time to take .ps files of images and then add text and > arrows and stuff to label up the image. it is, and has been for many > years, one of the very coolest unix programs around. > > tim ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Debian and DHCP
How can I configure a Debian box to use DHCP to get a IP address? I told it to use a static one when I set it up but now I need to integrate this box with the school network so I need it to use DHCP. I tried downloading (apt-getting actually) linuxconf, but it doesn't work when I try to change it. - Kathy
Re: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP
Check out /etc/network/interfaces instead of something like iface eth0 inet static (blah blah blah blah) you will need to use: iface eth0 inet dhcp You should be able to ifdown and ifup and get the interface running right... I don't think you need to compile any extra support into your kernel (or as a module) but it has been several months since I did a recompile so I could be wrong there (but IIRC, I didn't have to recompile to GET dhcp to work). There's nothing in my /etc/modules.conf and dmesg has no info on dhcp. This is all I changed for my computer at work and it worked great... got an IP (and the right one) right away. Unfortunately at home it doesn't work at all, so it depends on your network how well things go :o) hth, -nicole At 15:47 on Jul 13, Kath combined all the right letters to say: > How can I configure a Debian box to use DHCP to get a IP address? > > I told it to use a static one when I set it up but now I need to integrate this box >with the school network so I need it to use DHCP. > > I tried downloading (apt-getting actually) linuxconf, but it doesn't work when I try >to change it. > > - Kathy > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP
actualy to get a dhcp address is as simple as typing dhcpcd as root (you don't need to init the interface dhcpcd will do it for you) you should already have a dhcpcd rc file ready to simlink into your run level if you want it to init dhcpcd on bootup since I work in so many diffrent environments with my laptop I don't normaly have my network card init by it's self.. I have a collection of scripts that I run based on the network I'm connecting to.. for more information check out the dhcpcd man page it's full of nifty switches :) /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.curious.org/ / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail"This quote is false." -anon On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Kath wrote: > How can I configure a Debian box to use DHCP to get a IP address? > > I told it to use a static one when I set it up but now I need to integrate this box >with the school network so I need it to use DHCP. > > I tried downloading (apt-getting actually) linuxconf, but it doesn't work when I try >to change it. > > - Kathy > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP
I guess it is using pump (/sbin/pump) to configure the interface, that is one of the first ~100 processes so I'd imagine it is started when my net card is initialised. Pump is what dpkg tells me is the replacement for dhcpd, but dhcpd is also out there (you can get either from apt-get install). I don't know the difference, but I'd imagine that dhcpd is more widely used. -nicole (again) At 13:02 on Jul 13, Nicole Zimmerman combined all the right letters to say: > Check out /etc/network/interfaces > > instead of something like > > iface eth0 inet static > (blah blah blah blah) > > you will need to use: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question
Well, I've done a little postscript programing in the past (it's a fun language to program in directly, but usually more practical to write c programs to produce postscript output). I never tried editing an image before, but I just had a go at your question, because I wanted to know what the answer is. Here is what I came up with for now: I converted a .jpg file to a ps file using xv. Then, looked in the file for somewhere where it says "scale", In the postscript file I have, there are two lines that say: % size of image (on paper, in 1/72inch coords) 319.96800 239.97600 scale Then there is some stuff to define how to draw the image as a bitmap (or something like that) etc. Anyway, near the end of the file, after all the stuff for the image, and just before the line where it says "showpage", I inserted the following 4 lines: 0.003125 0.004167 scale /Helvetica-BoldOblique findfont 40 scalefont setfont 10 100 moveto (SOME WORDS) show The numbers 0.003125 and 0.004167 in the scaling are just got by taking the reciprocals of the previous scaling used, so you get back to one (ie, from the line "319.96800 239.97600 scale", you compute 1/319.96800 = 0.003125 and 1/239.97600 = 0.004167). You could probably also use a gsave and grestore commands too - I'd have to think more about where to insert them though. This produced a picture with the text "SOME WORDS" printed over the picture at position (10,100), in Helvetica-BoldOblique, font size 40. You can use other fonts and other sizes, depending on what's on your system. You can change the (10 100) to move the text around too. There are probably alternative ways to get some text on the image, and probably you don't want to bother with this as you have an alternative solution now. This solution might not be enough for your purposes anyway. If anyone with more expertise in postscript than me has good suggestions for postscript improvements on the above I'd be interested to hear them too. There are several nice resources on the web with lists of commands for writing in postscript, eg, see http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/operators.html for a list of operators, which does not give all possible operators but seems a good place to start. (postscript works with a stack - it's kind of like German or Japanese, with the verb at the end, eg "10 10 moveto" means "moveto 10 10") You could experiment, if you want. (Well, I know you don't need to now, but in case you're curious.) Helena --- On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Amanda Owens wrote: > Actually, that's what I ended up doing - using xfig. In a couple of > different ways. But it looks to have turned out well in the end. The > reason my boss wanted to do the postscript markup was so that when the > image was scaled, the text would scale right along with it. > > Oh well. Popping the jpg into xfig and adding stuff worked like a dream. > > Mur! > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, T. E. Pickering wrote: > > > imagemagick, gimp, and xv can all import .ps files as images, but the > > catch is that they turn them into fixed resolution bitmaps. the best > > way to annotate .ps (.eps, actually, but that's what xv spits out so > > you're cool) files is to use xfig. it retains the full vector > > information of the .ps file so you don't lose any resolution. i use > > it all the time to take .ps files of images and then add text and > > arrows and stuff to label up the image. it is, and has been for many > > years, one of the very coolest unix programs around. > > > > tim > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP
How can I setup apt-get to work through a proxy? - Kathy - Original Message - From: "Nicole Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP > I guess it is using pump (/sbin/pump) to configure the interface, that is > one of the first ~100 processes so I'd imagine it is started when my net > card is initialised. > > Pump is what dpkg tells me is the replacement for dhcpd, but dhcpd is also > out there (you can get either from apt-get install). I don't know the > difference, but I'd imagine that dhcpd is more widely used. > > -nicole (again) > > At 13:02 on Jul 13, Nicole Zimmerman combined all the right letters to say: > > > Check out /etc/network/interfaces > > > > instead of something like > > > > iface eth0 inet static > > (blah blah blah blah) > > > > you will need to use: > > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP
Kath, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > How can I setup apt-get to work through a proxy? For an http proxy, set the environment variable[1] http_proxy to your proxy's url (ie. http://proxy:port/). This also works for other http-y things, like lynx, so it would probably be worth it to put it in .profile/.cshrc. [1] if you don't know how to set an environment variable: for bash: export http_proxy=http://proxy:port/ for csh: setenv http_proxy http://proxy:port/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] Debian and DHCP
addenum: for "http style" ftp proxy set ftp_proxy=http://proxy:port/ /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.curious.org/ / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail"This quote is false." -anon On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Fan, Laurel wrote: > Kath, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > > How can I setup apt-get to work through a proxy? > > For an http proxy, set the environment variable[1] http_proxy to > your proxy's url (ie. http://proxy:port/). This also works for > other http-y things, like lynx, so it would probably be worth it > to put it in .profile/.cshrc. > > [1] if you don't know how to set an environment variable: > for bash: > export http_proxy=http://proxy:port/ > for csh: > setenv http_proxy http://proxy:port/ > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Athlon and Power Supply
Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > As far as I know, any athlon will need a big ol' power supply. They > shouldn't be that much more expensive (if any) than the 'normal' wattage, > though. > > -nicole > > At 10:05 on Jul 13, Kath combined all the right letters to say: > > > Does the Athlon processor and SD11 mobo need 350 watt power supplies? > > > > - Kathy > > > Well, I run SlotA Athlon700 (and standard PentiumII cooler on it) on Asus K7M mb at home, all in FK-603 case with 2 fans and 300W power supply and I don't have any problems with heat or with power. I've heard that most of 250W PS are OK but wanted to be absolutely sure that everything will run fine so got 300W one. Athlon is very fast at computations, well-supported by Linux and relatively cheap, and if you get normal PS all that talks about Athlon-related problems will seem like FUD to you :) --kir. -- |< () http://kir.sever.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 7551596 () |_ Microsoft SELLS you Windows, Linux GIVES you the whole house! ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] A Postscript question
I have minimal experience with postscript... scripting - all the postscript files I've created have been generated by other programs (word processors, the GIMP, etc). I have some exposure to the... language? but not much. I have a book and I've been hunting the web to see if there's any information on how to do what my boss wants me to do - or if it can even be done - but I haven't found anything yet. So I thought I'd ask around here and see if anyone has any suggestions. I have a photo that started out as a jpg or gif or something, but has been turned (via gimp or xv) into a .ps file. What my boss wants me to do is now edit that postscript file, and insert some lines and text. Is it possible? If so, how? Thanks in advance, Mur! ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
