Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread Donald Perkovich
You might have a look at LyX. It uses LaTeX as its underlying format. I've used it for writing short CompSci test and not for anything as large as a book, but I felt it did the job nicely. http://www.lyx.org Don Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:16:21AM +0200, Juraj Fedel

User shutdown from xfce4 or gdm

2005-10-14 Thread Donald Perkovich
I am using gdm and xfce 4.0 and would like to be able to shutdown as my normal user without giving a password. It seems like this is possible. Xfce4 gives a message when I try to shutdown when I log out that I must install sudo or put the user name in /usr/xfce4/shutdown.allow. Both are set and

Security Upgrade Overwrites MySQL Config

2005-08-30 Thread Donald Perkovich
I have MySQL 4.1 running in Sarge. The other day I did a security upgrade on MySQL and it overwrote the server's my.cnf. The only change it made was to the basedir, but that was a huge change since the server was trying to use a non-existent database. After a little checking I discovered the pr

non-determinate program execution in perl

2005-08-30 Thread Donald Perkovich
I have a perl program that runs every hour that scans a POP3 maildrop. About once every other day the program fails and I get this error: Can't call method "user" on an undefined value at /home/user/bin/fetch-headers.pl line 40. It appears to me that the hash isn't being properly initialized. He

Network Setup Help

2005-05-16 Thread Donald Perkovich
Hello. I installed Debian 3.0r4 onto a machine yesterday and things seemed to go alright. When I started the machine up today, I found I have no networking. There are two NICs but no device nodes for them. They were there yesterday. One I am not using yet and the other is connected to my lo