Re: xfstt and emacs: weird fonts

2001-08-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
5 Aug 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Has anyone experienced this before? Any way to get emacs to use a > > somewhat more normal font for the menus? > > I use > > Emacs*menubar*background: gray > Emacs*menubar*

Re: LaserJet 6L and dvi-files

2001-08-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm not sure why your subject line mentions Laserjet 6L, since what you're clearly interested in is dvi and ps. However, my understanding is that grayscaling is a postscript-level feature, and there's therefore no way to represent it in DVI (other than as a "special" which, by my understanding, me

More problems with xfstt

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, I fixed the emacs problem I asked about earlier by specifying a particular font for emacs menus. But the same problem is popping up in other places, including xdvi and xfontsel. In both of these places, all buttons and menus are displayed in a barcode font, making them unusable to anyone wit

Re: More problems with xfstt

2001-08-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
7;s the first one returned by the fonts system. Thanks for your help, Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Mon,

Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning (which requi

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
SA On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian > > machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific > > desire was

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 09:45:57AM: > > > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > > I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning > >

[OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some of the dirty work as I begin translating some previously unavailable articles from Ge

Re: No ide-scsi, no CD-RW

2001-08-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need to select and compile the ide-scsi module. Install (if you haven't already) the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages for your kernel version, then: cd /usr/src/kernel-source- make menuconfig and follow the menus, making sure to install SCSI generic and IDE-SCSI as modules. ap

Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character "doppel-s". I've tried: xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis"

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
I ran the code below, and verified it was there with xmodmap -pm and xmodmap -pke. In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all. However interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works great! Can someo

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
The keyboard maps don't work on my system; alt-v just gives me v, etc. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hal

Re: [ot] web/gui interfaces to databases...

2001-08-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
It sure sounds to me like you're talking about php with pretty much any database backend (PostgreSQL is my choice, but others will probably suggest mySQL). I've done the same thing with perl, but from reputation php is probably closer to your goal. XML is also a good candidate; having never worke

Re: debian on an IBM Workstation 300PL

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I installed debian potato on several of these last year -- I had no problem whatsoever. The onboard ethernet, as I remember, is an Intel Etherlink Pro (eepro100) and should be specified as such. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PRO

Re: deny email to a user question

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
As others have said, there's no complete way to keep someone from sending mail without losing other things. Here are some ideas though: 1.) In addition to the previously-mentioned mode of blocking mail receipt, I can think of two other options: a.) ln -s /var/spool/mail/user /dev/null

Why might sshd have simply stopped?

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- This morning I could suddenly not ssh into my office machine from home. When I came into the office, I tried and couldn't even ssh into localhost from it. ps ax showed no sshd running. /etc/init.d/ssh start solved the problem, but I'm left wondering (and worrying) about what might have

Re: [OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is just an idea, but how about using multicol.sty to divide the page into columns, then including the graphic in just one of the columns? I always find good answers to LaTeX questions on comp.text.tex. ap -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
You really ought to come up with better subject lines -- many of us (myself included) simply breeze right over uninformative ones like yours, and it's made particularly bad when you use the same one over and over. -- Andrew J Perr

Re: prolonged number crunching

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alec wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote: > > | Hi > > | > > | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take > > | several days to run. I already figured that it's better t

Re: Why might sshd have simply stopped?

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > This morning I could suddenly not ssh into my office machine from &g

rewriting the From: line in exim

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a stupid problem and would appreciate any help. My canonical e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] But since incoming address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], pine and exim don't like to send mail out as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Generally I don't care. But some mailing lists are getting picky about this

Re: bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, I would imagine it has as much to do with the file's contents as with its size -- for (an extreme) example: echo 'aaa' > textfile nujoma:~> ls -l textfile -rw-r--r--1 aperrin aperrin56 Dec 7 13:38 textfile nujoma:~> ls -l test

Strange cda behavior

2001-12-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Using cda to play audio cd's under debian potato (version: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/afshome/classes/soc10/readings$ cda version CDA - Command Line CD Audio Player CD audiov2.5 PL1 CD audio daemon v2.5 PL1 ) I'm having a minor but strange problem. At the end of all CD's, audio playb

URGENT: Woody upgrade breaks openAFS

2001-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Yesterday I upgraded my office debian system to testing (woody). Most things worked fine, but openAFS didn't. I had openAFS 1.1.1 running fine under potato, and in fact had posted my experiences with getting it working here: http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/afs-debian-potato-unc.t

A rave about wine

2001-12-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings folks- I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with wine. A textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with software for creating exams from their texbooks. (As it turns out the software is nearly useless, but that's neither here nor there.) I decided to try it und

Weekend update issues

2002-02-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I have my system (woody) set to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade twice a week at 3 am. This morning, when I arrived, things were odd: - The pre-existing link /usr/share/texmf/web2c -> /var/lib/texmf/web2c was gone, rendering latex inoperative without recreating it by hand; and -

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
How about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch 1foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch 2foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-sr-x2 aperrin aperrin 4096 Feb 6 11:18 . drwxr-sr-x 49 aperrin aperrin 8192 Feb

Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
In december, I upgraded my office machine from debian to woody. A very small, but nevertheless irritating, thing changed that I can't explain or change; can anyone offer any wisdom? Here it is. I have a symbolic link in my home directory on my desktop machine that points to my campus-wide AFS spac

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > correct, this was changed in bash, however hitting tab twice appends the / True enough, but I don't like the extra keystroke :). I do feel better now that I know the explanation though. ---

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

2002-02-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > [snip] > ... at the bash prompt, or put this line in ~/.inputrc: > > set mark-symlinked-directories on > Ahhh, that did it. Thanks! -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://

Re: Less and .gz files

2002-02-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
less was probably linked to zless, since zless will read un-gzipped files fine. It's a minor waste of resources, but you can always do: cd /etc/alternatives; ln -s /usr/bin/zless less to make this happen. Alternatively, just use zless for gzipped files. -

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Since you're (Faheem) at UNC, you might even just check out the IBM deals here. For $2000 you can get a 2ghz IBM desktop, including a nice monitor and 512M RAM; it's $89 to add another 512M. The hard drive is IDE (60GB) but otherwise largely comparable to your listing. I've had debian running on th

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Probably. Try ssh -X (remote host) If it still doesn't work, then either your X server is screwed up or the remote host isn't allowing X packets to be forwarded. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~ape

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Try the -v flag to ssh to see what it's trying to do: ssh -v -X remote.host this will let you watch the steps ssh is going through to try to debug the connection. If the remote host is configured correctly to allow X forwarding, you will not have to set DISPLAY. Setting DISPLAY to local:0.0 will

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > My 2 bits worth of experience: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: This shouldn't be happening; my results: nujoma:~> ssh -v -X geingob SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm debug: Re

Re: question about /bin utils

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
True enough, in (my) potato there's no /bin/vi, although there are other editors (ae and ed). In (my) woody there is, though: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /bin/vi /bin/vi (Not that I'd have the beginnings of a clue how to actually use ae or ed if I were in that situation) ap

Re: unable to mount 2nd FAT16 partition

2001-03-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
Forgive me if this is obvious, but is your first one mounted on /mnt? You can of course have only one filesystem mounted at a given mountpoint. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: As

Re: unable to mount 2nd FAT16 partition

2001-03-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
C Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, csj wrote: > On Sunday 25 March 2001 23:57, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Forgive me if this is obvious, but is your first one

Re: can debian be a wins server??

2001-03-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Yes - use samba which is perfectly happy to serve WINS. Andy Perrin -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Win4Lin

2001-03-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Someone posted the below a while ago - I take no responsibility for its content, I just happened to save it :) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:30:46 +0100 From: Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Win4Lin Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04

Re: I want to StartX Manually

2001-03-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Get rid of /etc/rc*/*xdm . Alternatively, edit /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid starting xdm. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hil

Re: home network

2001-03-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Switches are not an appropriate security device, though - although it's true that most of the time they send packets only down the appropriate pipe, there are times they have to revert to hub-type operation. The principal such time is when a new device is connected to the net (or turned on), not an

[OT] greek character in xfig?

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post. Anybody know how to generate a greek character (specifically, a lower-case lambda) in xfig? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Profes

Re: LaTeX word count?

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's detex (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex/) which removes latex commands from source; and there's dvi2tty (I'm pretty sure it's available through dselect) which prints dvi output to the terminal so you can do dvi2tty foo.dvi | wc -w . Note that dvi2tty is somewhat inaccurate sin

compiling gs7

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone managed to compile aladdin gs 7.00 under debian (potato)? Here's where mine dies: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/jpeglib.h', needed by `obj/jpeglib0.h'. Stop. nujoma:/usr/src/gs7.00# ...and yes, I've got libjpeg62-dev installed. Thanks, Andy ---

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
> perl -e 'opendir DIR,".";print join ":",grep/.*/,readdir DIR' What's the point of the grep() there? grep /.*/ by definition returns all elements (since . is 'any character' and * is 'zero or more of them'). -- Andrew J P

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Others have already suggested it, but I'll echo: - Export from xfig to .eps; then: \begin{figure}[htbp] \resizebox{\textwidth}{!} {\includegraphics{pathmodel_idea.eps}} \caption{Conceptual model of civic and political participation} \index{participation!political} \label{fig:intromodel} \end{f

Re: LaTeX convertion tools

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
detex -> latex to text dvi2tty -> dvi to text latex2html -> latex to html latex2rtf -> latex to rtf Not sure about info. Check packages.debian.org for which packages - pretty sure most of them are in tex-base. ap -- Andrew J Per

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Indeed, I misunderstood your question. But fig2dev should work fine. I tried using mpage -2 on my dissertation and also got screwy results with eps written by xfig; but everything worked fine with psnup: psnup -2 dissertation.ps d2.ps ap --

Re: Managing tasks through remote access

2001-10-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's an adequate X server for windows that used to be free but is now $25 shareware: http://www.microimages.com/mix/ it will probably do what you need. I haven't played with the cygwin one. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECT

Where is icecast.conf?

2001-10-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I installed icecast-server for local use; the guide suggests that I need to edit icecast.conf for my local needs, but I can't find the file anywhere. The HOWTO suggests that it's in /usr/local, but it's not. Any guidance? Essentially all I'm trying to do is set up an alias for a woefull

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
What about using crypt() and the timestamp? Something like: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my $time = time; my $salt = 'md'; #mad duck $time = join('',reverse(split('',$time))); #reverse time because crypt() only # deals w/ first 8 chars print "

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
logy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, martin f krafft wrote: > * Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.18 10:44:40-0400]: > > Just an idea... > > in fact, hold on... crypt is a hashin

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
As I was mulling this over today (wandering aimlessly through the NC state fair), I realized that I had done something vaguely similar with a totally different strategy. Essentially, I heavily restricted write permissions to the directory where the tokens were to be *stored*, and had access to them

Re: XDM starting when not wanted

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
apt-get --remove xdm -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Fr

Re: Need help with Telnet

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Should be: telnet stream tcp nowait telnetd.telnetd /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd (all one line). There/s no /usr/sbin/telnet, or in.telnet. There's /usr/bin/telnet (the outgoing client), irrelevant here, and /usr/sbin/in.telnetd, the right

Re: lpr and pdf

2001-10-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
I don't know about a HOWTO, but basically you need to use a filter that routes the pdf file through pdf2ps; it can then be interpreted by whatever you use for other ps files (e.g., a postscript printer or a ghostscript filter). My home setup (which is a non-postscript printer) uses magicfilter as

Re: pipe help

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
I do almost exactly this task using a small perl script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl `/bin/date`; `traceroute imap.unc.edu`; __END__ and have a crontab entry running the script >> /var/log/pinglog at the appropriate times. Hope this helps. ---

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Not in my experience: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:516516 370464 146052 96080 140104 108508 -/+ buffers/cache: 121852 394664 Swap: 498004 8728 489276 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: pipe help

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
l, NC 27599-3210 USA On 28 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I do almost exactly this task using a small perl script: > > > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > > > `/bin/date`; > > `traceroute imap.unc.ed

Re: Presentation Software...

2001-11-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > * On 02-11-01 at 12:51 Vikash Kodati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > > > > > I am new to Debian. I have to give a seminar in my University and hence > > searching for a presentation sofware on debian. > > > > Thank

Re: Presentation Software...

2001-11-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, dman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:02:01AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > | On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > | > | > * On 02-11-01 at 12:51 Vikash Kodati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > +Here quoted text begins+ > | > >

Re: Dumb postgresql questions

2001-11-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Corey Halpin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 1. Is there some simple way to convert a mysql database into a postgresql > database? I don't know the answer to this one. > 2. what postgresql comm

Re: software strategy for shop

2001-11-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm sure your answers will differ - the below represents how I would go about this. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269

Scanner and OCR advice

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'll have to use OCR software as well as a scanner with an automatic document feed. The pos

Re: jpilot not syncing

2001-11-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have the same symptom periodically; I find that the other thing that clears it up is pressing the reset button on the back of the palm (with a paper clip). But interestingly enough, since Monday I've been having the problem and the resets haven't fixed it -- but I haven't gotten around to lookin

Re: best chart authoring tools

2001-11-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
What exactly about xfig doesn't work? You could also check out gle (http://www.uark.edu/misc/vlabella/gle/gle.html). -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of Nort

Re: quick perl check

2001-09-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
nujoma:~> dpkg -S ioctl.ph perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/asm-alpha/ioctl.ph perl-5.005: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/asm-mips/ioctl.ph nujoma:~> cat /etc/debian_version 2.2 nujoma:~> uname -a Linux nujoma 2.2.19pre17 #1 Sat Jun 30 15:49:52 EST 2001 i586 unknown ---

Re: Perl problem in Debian Linux?

2001-09-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
It works fine for me under bash. How are you running it? I just pasted it into a file, called it test.pl, and did perl test.pl. Worked fine with both 5.6.1 and 5.005_03. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc

Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks- I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and up-to-dateness reasons. My question is this: effectively, each time th

Re: Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
What happens when you try to print? Anything? Is there anything in /var/log/lp-acct, /var/log/lp-errs, or /var/log/lpr.log? Have you tried using magicfilter to handle printing? (I haven't used Opera, but Netscape and SO both print fine for me.) BTW: it's unwise to use a root login for mail and

Re: Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Looks like you don't have ghostscript installed (or at least installed correctly). gs's role is to take postscript output (which SO and Netscape generate) and translate it into your printer's native format. Try: apt-get install gs-aladdin and see if that works. -

Re: Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
That seems odd - generally gs-aladdin is newer than gs. In any case, what's the output of: which gs ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina,

Re: Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Excellent! ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 20 S

Re: OT : Internet Services on Unix-like systems

2001-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
I don't think that's what he's asking for. He wants to know how many web servers "out there" in the world use unix-like (presumably as opposed to Windows-like) OSes. www.netcraft.com is one place to start for such information, although they seem to work more on server software (Apache, IIS, etc.)

Re: Emacs question

2001-09-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Probably because c-mode uses the tab key to enforce an indentation style. Try opening a loop in C, then using tab on the next line: it should be indented according to the looping level of the program you're writing. Most programming modes (e.g., perl-mode, cperl-mode) do the same thing to assist wi

A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. For a study, I need a lot of little stickers printed with serial numbers: 800 numbers, 10 stickers each. I'm using Avery 5167 labels, which are 1/2" x 1 3/4", 80 to a sheet (4 across by 20 down). The challenge: to get the numbers lined up with the labels. My thought was to use LaTeX a

Re: A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 11:56 Uhr -0400 29.9.2001, Andre

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
My experience is also that PDF works fine, since they're usually just looking for something that will pop up when they click a link, and most people have acrobat reader installed. So converting your html to ps (by printing it to a file), then ps2pdf might work. There's a package out there called R

Re: PDF viewer...

2001-10-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Unfortunately my experience is that acroread is the most reliable, particularly for commerically-produced pdf's like one finds on the web. It sure would be nice to have a non-Adobe option, given their recent behavior. ap -- Andre

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Kent West wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and > > when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I > > assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. > > > > Regards > > Hall > >

Re: What is option "-P" to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
In older (pre-2.0) samba versions, -P flagged the connection as a printer (as opposed to disk) share. According to man smbclient, -P This option is no longer used. The code in Samba2.0 now lets the server decide the device type, so no printer specific flag

Re: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Chances are you just need to make sure perl (as installed from source) can see the Debian perl packages. try this: locate ConfigDb.pm if it shows a path, as it probably will, something like: /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm you can link the Debconf directory to somewhere perl will look. Yo

Re: OT window$ floppy formating

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
mformat will do what you need: mformat a: ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill,

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Lamport's _LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ and _The LaTeX Companion_ are good (the first is more of an introduction, the second a reference book). Also check out http://www.tug.org/interest.html for links to lots of good online documentation. -

Re: [OT] Suggestions for cheap laser printer supported by Linux

2002-01-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
I bought an HP 1200SE (ca. $400) and it's been working great. It's postscript and parallel or USB, so no filters needed in general. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Socio

Re: One time user access

2002-01-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
Only if you've got an X server on the Windows machine. There are commercial ones (e.g., Hummingbird eXceed) and rumors of a shareware (e.g., non-free) one too. All the ssh client does is forward X so a local X server can grab it and display. ---

Re: One time user access

2002-01-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
How about a .login script that changes the password? -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's also unclear why the tabular environment is "heavy" or "overkill": \begin{tabular}{lcr} lefthand string & centre string & righthandstring\\ \end{tabular} ap -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperr

Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Using the seminar package to develop a lecture, I'm using graphicx to include an eps chart exported from R: \resizebox{\textwidth}{\textheight}{\includegraphics{crime.eps}} For some odd reason, the *entire* slide (include page number) is rotated 180 degrees (upside-down). So I tried

Re: Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
hapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On 27 Jan 2002, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Greetings- > > > > Using the seminar package to develop a lecture, I'm using graphic

SUMMARY: EPS->LaTeX problem

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Earlier today I posted a problem importing an R graph into a LaTeX file of seminar class: specifically, the graphic was showing up rotated 180 degrees, along with the rest of the page it was on. In a real victory for open-source software, I got lots of responses with three distinct approaches, eac

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need to enable apm support on startup - from memory, just add: -apm to the LILO startup line and it should work. ap Akop Pogosian wrote: > > Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning > the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" > comman

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
This question was asked earlier today. Put the line: append="apm=on" in your lilo.conf and rerun lilo. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Caroli

bothersome fsck on startup

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks- For some reason, my root mount (/dev/hdb3) *never* unmounts cleanly on halt or shutdown; I always get an fsck on startup. Any idea why? nujoma:/# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hdb3 / ext2 defaults,errors=rem

cs89x0_cs precompiled?

2001-05-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm having trouble compiling the cs89x0_cs module for a recycled IBM EtherJet PCMCIA card, and wondering if: 1.) Anybody has one precompiled that I can pinch (kernel is: achebe:/src# uname -a Linux achebe 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown stock from potato 2.2r0) or, 2.) Anyone

PCMCIA: Device or resource busy error

2001-05-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings again - Still trying to get my second PCMCIA network card up and running. I managed to compile cs89x0_cs and get it installed right. I've verified that the card is visible to cardmgr: achebe:/etc/pcmcia# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com Corporation", "3C589", "TP/BNC LAN Ca

2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Apologies if I've already asked this - I can't remember anymore! I now have a DSL connection, and as such would like to use ipchains to do the following: 1.) Deny all incoming packets coming in on eth1 (the card connected to the DSL gateway) except those destined for port 22 (ssh) or ICMP packets

Re: 2 ipchains questions

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
make connections never time out (quite sure it is not > even possible) because you will eventually run out of port numbers. Just set > it to a reasonable high value - like one hour - don't know what the max is. > > Tobias > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:23:58PM -0

Re: Connect to serial device?

2001-05-29 Thread ANDREW PERRIN
Yes, if it's com1: it's generally /dev/ttyS0. Try using minicom as a terminal emulator. - Andrew J. Perrin - Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 2759

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