Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is no debian package for jpegtran libjpeg-progs -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Ever feel like you're just a figment of Myra's daydreams? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: LaTeX with Emacs

2004-09-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Ali Nassar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using emacs on Debian-Linux to edit LaTex files. Is there any tool in > emacs to make a delimiter check? I believe M-x check-parens will do it. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Bad DM!:Put the Hand of Vecna i

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. $ echo Debian GNU/Linux -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Cynthia is mistakenly crowned King of Norway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

2004-08-05 Thread Alan Shutko
backends, so it's not surprising that it doesn't really sync with other maildir programs. nnmaildir tries (which is probably why it is so slow) but I don't think it's the highest on the list of priorities. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UN

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: >> There's one CCD cell per image pixel, with the exception of the D1x, >> which has a strange layout[1]. > There is no way that this can be true physically. Of

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
04/05/02-1.html [4] http://www.juergenspecht.com/d1scussion/#13 [5] http://www.lonestardigital.com/digital_dee.htm [6] http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/Soft/RawPhoto -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
l the Nikon capture software. In terms of quality (assuming a 16bit/color gimp), yes. In terms of ease, no, since Nikon Capture has a lot of prepackaged actions which do exactly what a photographer wants to do, and the gimp doesn't. Of course, they could be added... 8^) -- Alan Shutk

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
ee people making a distinction between Unix, BSD, and Linux, even though BSD is as Unix as can be and there's more commonality between BSD, Linux and say Solaris than there is between Ultrix, SCO OpenServer, AIX and HPUX. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Oxymoro

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-20 Thread Alan Shutko
very easy to do common things like fix exposure and has cool toys like DEE which is basically a magic exposure fixer. Nothing you can't do without capture, but you have to work harder to get there. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

2004-07-14 Thread Alan Shutko
other thing, since things need be reparsed, which is why -print0 and -0 exist in find and xargs -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. You're a Bundle of Laughs: Vera Funny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Alan Shutko
#x27;t, it's just as safe as Xprint, also assuming there's no exploit in Xprint. That message is really about sending arbitrary Postscript files through interpreters. Mozilla doesn't produce arbitrary postscript with unsafe operators, unless there's an unpublished exploit to

Re: personal crontab entry

2004-07-08 Thread Alan Shutko
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal > cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. /var/spool/cron/crontabs, probably. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-08 Thread Alan Shutko
live that session while not logged in. Right, it won't work for this time. But if one uses screen every time they log in, one will always be able to resume, whether it times out because of ping, whether the phone line gets cut, whether the client machine reboots -- Alan Shutko <[EMA

Re: Very strange error setting up my cups printer

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Shutko
rmat of the error messages, it looks like you might have an lpq from some other print server. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Oxymoron: Conventional wisdom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Shutko
t http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5517 . > [1] the problem might be that the printing system interface (lpq, > lpadmin) is not sophisticated enough to communicate information like > DPI capability. Or it might be that Xprint currently can't take advantage of this information

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Shutko
tion about builtin printer fonts, DDX driver configuration information, and other stuff you will hopefully never have to look at (See also: Section 2 of Xprint Service Sample Implementation from the XFree86 documentation). " -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Barney

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mozilla has dropped support for direct printing; Actually, it looks like only the Debian package has dropped support for it. And that only at the request of one person, who is the same person who closed your bug. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am, I was told that mozilla no longer supports direct printing, and > the lack of postscript wasn't a bug and they closed my bugreport. Incidentally, it appears the upstream Linux builds still have direct PS support. -- Alan Shutko

Re: jewel for lcd users

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
rks on, I haven't owned one. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. God save us from closed-minded idiots. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Alan Shutko
, Xprint will probably start to be useful in a year or two. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. If you can't be with the one you love, kill the one they're with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-04 Thread Alan Shutko
I've never seen a Word document match a good LaTeX or TeX document, because Word doesn't have as good a layout algorithm. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. You must be drunk! Why, there's two of you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Shutko
l" for almost 20 years. Ignore them... they'll learn what we learned long ago, they'll just be annoying until they do. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. My wife treats me like a god. I get a burnt offering every meal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread Alan Shutko
r laptops. My A20p is almost 4 years old and going strong. Other laptops my wife and I have had start falling apart (literally) after a year and a half. They just aren't built well enough. Of course, Thinkpads cost more, but for me, downtime waiting to get laptops repaired or installing

Re: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread Alan Shutko
ult to read in Lynx than slashdot. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. SOCCER PLAYERS have better ball control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS + FireFox: printing with a2ps

2004-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
rather than just let the printer handle it, which does a much, much better job. Sure, if I liked pain, I could go and edit fifteen million tiny files to tell XPrint all about my printer because it's too stupid to ask CUPS, which let me drop in a PPD file from HP detailing everything. But I&#x

Re: CUPS + FireFox: printing with a2ps

2004-06-08 Thread Alan Shutko
n the default configuration actually reduces print quality. With enough work you can make XPrint work, but with enough you can also dig holes with an ethernet card. Doesn't mean it's a good idea. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. There is water on Mars, we

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-05 Thread Alan Shutko
of code generation. Some work is being done on that with semantic for various things like Java... could be extended to those modes. On the other hand, I don't think there's anyone in the world who really wants to dig into the perl interpreter and try to duplicate it. -- Alan Shutko

Re: Detecting EOF

2004-05-27 Thread Alan Shutko
then renamed to the real file. (FTP supports renames.) Then, just watch for the real filename. Once it appears, you know that the transfer has completed successfully. (Conveniently, renames are instantaneous, so you can't catch _that_ in the middle.) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: c++ hello world help

2004-05-26 Thread Alan Shutko
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Maybe I should buy new textbooks and spend more instead of using > cheaper, used textbooks :) For C++, that's a very, very good idea since the language changed significantly during standardization. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAI

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I heard at one stage that they were owned by Amazon, of 'one > click' patent fame. I do not believe that was ever the case. It's not the case now. (They're owned by eBay.) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: packages in GNU but not in Debian

2004-05-19 Thread Alan Shutko
;t apply. (Like djgpp.) I'm not sure your list is very useful. Maybe you could go through and trim out the ones in Debian under slightly different names? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: emacs and xresources

2004-05-16 Thread Alan Shutko
his allows you to have different configurations for different needs. Or, you can apply resources for all Emacs instances with Emacs*font:... -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "That's not my department" says Werner von Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: ext2 to reiserfs conversion

2004-05-12 Thread Alan Shutko
ut it claims to work. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Is it OK to listen to my AM radio after noon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which package to pipe to gz automatically?

2004-05-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "lesspipe" in my head as the way I set this up, but I'm not apt-caching up > anything that looks encouraging. Yep, that's it. Just put eval `lesspipe` in your .bashrc. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am th

Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-03 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not much to be honest, but it makes me cringe everytime I see a colour > without a 'u' (note I expectly wrote that sentence so it never said > color -- D'oh!!) So, you must hate green and violet, but love chartreuse and p

Re: Fn key disabled after updated to new kernel

2004-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
dles all that stuff, including watching for magic keypresses. Under APM, it's all handled by Linux userspace tools, which have to be configured to look for those keys. > How to do if I wanna make the Fn Key working as what I want under > ACPI? Dunno specifics. I'd suggest hi

Re: [OT] Can't find on Google: How can I determine path to binary in gcc?

2004-03-25 Thread Alan Shutko
eems to work best. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 00:50, Alan Shutko wrote: >> If you have only the CUPS lp and lpr clients, the only difference is >> the option syntax. > > I thought CUPS itself didn't provide those commands, which you get by &

Re: CUPS

2004-03-20 Thread Alan Shutko
he only difference is the option syntax. They don't use the printcap at all. The cups server can generate a fake printcap so that applications which look at it to determine which printers are available work. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. When we say '

Re: CUPS

2004-03-19 Thread Alan Shutko
er machines use the lpr protocol to talk to a CUPS server -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Anagram - Conversation / voices rant on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
vars get spoofed? $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} is set by the HTTP server to be the value the client specifies in the Referer: header. The client is able to send no value, or any arbitrary value. So it's just like the user agent: not to be trusted. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I a

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
ven themselves incapable of fixing security problems). Sure, all of these make it harder to use, but the only way to stop spammers is to restrict the addresses they send to. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Nitroglycerin on keys -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
t generally assumes a hardcoded hostname somewhere. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. If I were a landing thruster, where would I be? --Ambassador Londo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

2004-03-05 Thread Alan Shutko
coding the domain it is installed > to, which the script compares at run time against the > $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}. If these don't match the email won't be sent. You realize that someone could just send a different referer header? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Alan Shutko
losing anything. Woody has gs 6.53, which iirc does a pretty decent job at the conversion. Newer versions will do better in certain cases, but I think that 6.53 was pretty stable for anything except weird cases/fonts/etc. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. C

Re: emms

2004-03-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You do realise that linux was written to provide hardware and > filesystem drivers for emacs don't you? That's why I started using it. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Don't force it! Get a bi

Re: GCC

2004-02-20 Thread Alan Shutko
A standards committee run amok. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC

2004-02-19 Thread Alan Shutko
portability problems than > it solves. Code written for advanced compilers will be incompatible > with older compilers. This has been a problem of C++ for at least a decade. But at least it looks like it's finally getting better now that the standard is standardized and compilers cat

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
kill. I still remember when it was good to know at least a bit of ed, because rescue floppies couldn't always fit vi -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smartmontools (Simple question)

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the /etc/init.d script for smartmontools there is a condition that > checks whether start_smartd is equal to "yes". Is there a "proper" way to > set this variable so that smartmontools starts at boot Check /etc/def

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Alan Shutko
g > on a key term. Just as a point of comparison, the fetchmail man page is 1984 lines long. The Emacs documentation is _37528_ lines long. But if you want a single file, try something like info emacs | more -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-10 Thread Alan Shutko
u the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, or rename things to the correct filename afterwards. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Velcro, super glue, duct tape, post-its, and OS/2!

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Alan Shutko
orel have to SCO? I remember that Corel had that big MS investment, but I don't recall them having any relationship with SCO. (Sure you aren't conflating Caldera with Corel?) The bigger problem with Corel is that their Linux development has been abandoned for years, and shows no sign of coming

Re: mozilla>print freezes

2004-01-19 Thread Alan Shutko
ood at removing and recreating profiles because Mozilla keeps barfing on its config files. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "This is the left,...this is the right,...centre,.surround..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to include an RSS option, ulimit -m -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Everything you say and do is a reflection of the inner you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: odd: gv *very* slow while view ps file from dvips

2003-12-02 Thread Alan Shutko
dvips -Pcmz file.dvi -o file.ps instead? I suspect RHL is defaulting to Postscript fonts, and Debian is putting large bitmaps in there, or perhaps the other way around. Take a look at the sizes of the PS files that Debian and RHL produce... if they aren't close, this is probably it. --

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
lesystem, or some other problems. So it's in your best interest to wait through a long boot fsck once in a while, just in case it finds problems before they get out of hand. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Roman Catholic: The world's oldest and largest franch

Re: renaming file names beginning with -

2003-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
ith all programs. Only some programs interpret "--" as end of options. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. You put the whole project in jeopardy! I wanted to be on Wheel of Fortune! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Alan Shutko
d dirty, so it will not normally be checked. A filesystem error detected by the kernel will still force an fsck on the next reboot, but it may already be too late to prevent data loss at that point. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Calm waters often conceal sharks

Re: window tabs with emacs 21.3.5

2003-11-20 Thread Alan Shutko
ke things at the top of the buffer, but I don't remember its name nor do I remember whether it works with Emacs 21.3. People are discussing it for future support in Emacs right now, though. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Would Mozart have written rap? --

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
, Pagestream[1] is a very powerful DTP program. At one point, it could compete on a feature by feature basis with Quark, though I haven't used either for a long time. But it's an extremely mature package and I've used it in the past to great effect. Footnotes: [1] http://www.gras

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The original image claims to be 8-bit... it's approximately 3 times the > size of the gif version. That looks like it's 8 bits per color, or 24 bpp. What does identify -verbose say about it? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
) Unless Windows stops moving, Wine isn't going to catch up. And if Windows stops moving, it can only be because we won. Note that the WineHQ's myths page disagrees with me, but 10 years and no v1.0? History weighs against their arguments. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
t that could be edited as well. > So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different > users with the same UID? i.e. adduser --uid 0 --gid 0 temproot Yes. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "Well baste my steaming puddings!" - Blacka

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-27 Thread Alan Shutko
don't remember changing anything on mine, but I may have. Are you running stable or unstable? What console keymap are you using? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. 1 hour, 45 minutes, 59 seconds till closing! The best defense is to stay out of range. --

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-26 Thread Alan Shutko
to switch back and forth pretty easily, but I tried and the differences drove me crazy. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. 1 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes, 50 seconds till closing! "Some viewers explode. Pretty simple really." -Bryce Lynch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alan Shutko
#x27;t have big sales of WP8. As it is, most people seem to be trying the free version, despite its bugs and limitations. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. 3 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 27 seconds till closing! The less a statesman amounts to the more he loves a flag.

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Alan Shutko
;t been released. Why? Well, the last couple releases have been bug-fix releases, so the new features had been held off. And the pretest process to ensure the release is stable takes time, so that delayed previous releases. I don't think a prerelease has started for the latest release, yet.

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Alan Shutko
t they're missing so that they can address it. (And yes, as someone else mentioned, the CVS version cab be built against GTK. Hopefully, there will be a release someday) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. It takes leather balls to play rugby. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'advanced' printing

2003-10-13 Thread Alan Shutko
duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use CUPS and XPP with a Optra T610N. Feed CUPS the PPD and you're > all set. I also recommend CUPS. I use it with a 2100M (just like 2100TN but no network card). Able to control it all. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
on, but since you converted tabs to two spaces, I don't know how well it will work. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. EEG: Electroencephalogram, EKG: Electrocardiogram, EGG: Breakfast food -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Alan Shutko
dditional false possitives, and I haven't been missing any more spam than normal. This is with bogofilter. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Oh what tangled webs our ancestors weave ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Alan Shutko
machines, can all reduce the damage a virus could do. But just saying "A virus can't hurt a user unless it's root" is incorrect. And downplaying that it can affect any file the user can touch ignores where most of the value is in the files on an average system. -- Alan

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Alan Shutko
o we know which imbeciles to avoid? The two Unix development houses I've worked at never did that. Of course, the parent post was wrong. Even as non-root, you have to worry about email viruses or click-thru vectors, because _they don't need root to work_. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL

Re: Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Alan Shutko
nt minute. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Dahmer on cooking: BABY Back Ribs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-25 Thread Alan Shutko
dn't make the changes for 2.96 had to make the same ones for 3.0. (There was also the fact that the C++ ABI was incompatible, but again, that's no different from the g++ 3.x releases....) -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Equation system resolver

2003-09-18 Thread Alan Shutko
e permission from DOE to make derivative copies, and in particular to distribute it under the GNU public license. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Do surrealists hire non-sequituries to do their typing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: FIX for strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Shutko
re weren't many changed between it and mine, but I hadn't merged changes in a while so there might have been some paths that changed or something. I chalked it up to my having an old config. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. :-) Your basic smiley. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: How do I make quality PDFs from LaTeX?

2003-09-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get a "nice" looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using > the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. Can you post a short document that exhibits those problems? -- Alan Shutko <

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
etter now that we have fontconfig, which hopefully gives all the info all apps needs, but to suggest that xfs is sufficient merely shows you haven't done much with fonts. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Bank on God for a higher rate of interest. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: gnus & nnslashdot

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
slashdot into an old Gnus, but you could upgrade to the current released Gnus, which was released not too long ago, and may still work. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. We blow up REAL good. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > InDesign or the equivalent (and TeX ain't it either), Well, there's Pagestream, but it's commercial. I haven't used it on Linux, but I have on other platforms and it's a nice piece of work. -- Alan Shutko <[EMA

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This does still beg the question of how Win95/98/Me/NT, etc, managed to > provide a reasonable "desktop" when KDE/Gnome could not, however. I don't think either KDE or Gnome tries too hard at optimizing for older machine

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Alan Shutko
Es will get decent autoindenting[2] and coping styles like this can go away. Footnotes: [1] And I mean, never... I can't remember myself getting bitten by this in the last 10 years of C. [2] As opposed to autoformatting. Eclipse will autoformat, but you have to ask for it, and I find that my c

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Alan Shutko
ent ifs (at least the language doesn't have COME FROM) but this is a bit excessive? Do you also wrap if bodies in a few extra layers of parentheses, in case someone comes along and wants to add a || and forgets to? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "I

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Alan Shutko
experience with folks like this?! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. You came into this world a mechanoid and a mechanoid you'll always be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Alan Shutko
me amount of effort whether you do it when you first write the if, or when you add something to it (ie, minimal). The only difference I see is that if you _don't_ later add something to the if, you've wasted that effort. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. --

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Shutko
hat i have in most languanges are just not there in > Python. So, basically, you don't like Python because your text editor is junk. Fix it or go find a real editor! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. My other computer is an Amiga. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A text-mode Evo (drop down menus, multiple windows) that can expand > to fill large xterm windows would be sweet. If you don't need calendaring the way Evo does it, Gnus works great -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alan Shutko
d.) AFAICT, it's just that writing a compiler is hard, and porting it to new systems also takes work, while the interpreter works everywhere. Python will probably get a compiler eventually, but it's not an easy thing. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Printers

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Alan Shutko
sed C++, and ISTR it had problems along the line. This is slowly changing, as we have Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, and KDE, but you asked for the history -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alan Shutko
ow a number of the main XEmacs maintainers have signed papers. It's just not always feasible to do so. And in some cases, even if it would be feasible to do so, the implementation would be so much different than the implementation in Emacs that it needs to be rewritten anyway (ie, internal redis

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alan Shutko
n you sign the FSF copyright assignment form, they grant back to you a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevokable right to use the code you are assigning them for any purpose you want. My assignment is on file somewhere at home, but I suppose I could dig it up and excerpt it for you. -- Alan Shutko &l

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alan Shutko
te, not the rest of the app.) I believe that L. Peter Deutsch was allowed to use the Display Ghostscript code he wrote in the non-GPLed version of GS (though, I'm not sure). That was at least partly funded by the FSF. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Song Title

Re: Woody & M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Alan Shutko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on M$ NT, assigns the NIC a proper IP address but overwrites my > resolv.conf with something like "KSL\000". Take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=135711 -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks.

Re: wireless recommendations

2003-08-15 Thread Alan Shutko
lem with an Orinoco Silver and an SMC access point, so that's probably specific to the card or access point. Mine is just slow. OTOH, it's usable most of the time... if I want to shuttle gigs around or edit pictures over NFS, I plug in to 100baseT. So I'd say it's good to have

Re: Difference in quality latex printer output

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
.ps Hope this helps and is correct... I don't use Debian's tetex much. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Scully: I am afraid. I am afraid to believe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The patent's expired now... In the US. Not everywhere. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Disease is the retribution of an outraged nature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: ATTN: Alan Conner

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
n mail2news gateway to receive messages and responding to them by mail. The mail2news gateway loses (or rewrites, unsure) those headers. He doesn't seem amenable to using a non-broken gateway. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Iced Tea, the house wine of the south. --

Re: Remote Filesystem Administration

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why on earth would you want to run fsck? If your file system screws > itself up from time to time, switch to ext3. You won't have to run fsck > ever again. Unless there's a fs bug, or something wrong with the disk. -- Alan

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