Re: Latex / TeTex Local Guide

foiltex/ komascr/ natbib/ ntgclass/ seminar/ textmerg/ tools/ What package am I missing? I -thought- I had all the texdocs installed. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : DOS: n., A small annoyin

/usr/dict/words

a softlink in would be nice I think ... bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh

Re: ppa zip drive

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ppa zip drive

works fine, with the printer plugged into the "out" of the zip drive. Any ideas? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The new Linux anthem will be 'He's an idiot, but he's

printing/lpr

Is there a way to set up the print stuff so that when I go lpr it adds margins and stuff? It's ugly as is. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : And I don't like doing silly things

Sound systems: OSS/ALSA/?

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Two IPs for one adapter?

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Festival/mpg123?

; while it says its bit, then the mp3 to resume? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. -- Stephan Zielinski

Building a custom install

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Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

roups. Is this a problem? Advertising isn't our game, and Debian has lots of users. Taking over the world, or even the Linux world, isn't their aim. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -- Hawkwind

Re: How are routine tasks run , if not from cron?

a look at /etc/rc?.d/ (the numbers correspond with runlevels) and /etc/init.d/. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. : -- Lawrence Foard

Freetype/ImageMagick

What's the difference between freetype1 and freetype2? ImageMagick seems to depend on the former and it seems a waste to have both installed. ... bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : A

cron/syslog

My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : In case you haven't heard,

tracking idletime

un-idle even when it is. Any ideas? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in : patchlevels. -- Gerd Knorr

Gimp file formats?

The "save as" option on my Gimp only offers its internal (.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif. What'm I missing here? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I'm not one of

automatic login?

way, I have a dvorak keyboard layout, security through obscurity ;)). bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them : the usual way. This happens to

ncftp visual mode

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Re: More dselect wishes

d suggested it then I would have, but nobody did. Is there a "suggestion box" anywhere? Should there be? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Programming today is a race between software e

xfstt obsoleted?

xfstt has suddenly started showing up in my dselect list as "Obselete"! What replaces it? I like truetype fonts in X. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : We all know Linux is great

More dselect wishes

chick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, : I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. :-) -- Larry Wall

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

r-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : All you have to do to work on ZigZag is fully unscrew your head : and put it down in a safe place where it can be sure to watch : you. -- Ted Nelson

Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

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Netscape confusion

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Re: procmail ........ (again)

bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Perl is the language of choice for net abuse. No, I'm not going : to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to : know anyway... -- Larry Wall

X troubles

error. I upgraded again, to a8, but it hasn't fixed the problem. I can't see what's wrong, seems to be somewhere in startx which is a binary :(. Help!! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~goss

speech recognition

e able to work in my virtual consoles, using the speech rec to feed keystrokes - so just having it "pretend" to be the keyboard. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : If you want to travel arou

Apache errors

Every time somebody views a page off my webserver I get a line like this in the error log: [Fri Nov 13 08:22:26 1998] [warn] handler "server-parsed" not found, using default handler for: /home/gossamer/public_html/vim/index.html And, not surprisingly, it's not processing i

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

m wy overrun! bekj PS I grok your concept of wanting to keep things. When I'm fiddling with a new distribution I usually do a "scratch install" then fiddle and poke until I understand it ... then start again and re-install. That way breaking things isn't a prob

dselect problems

e just the -7 has changed. IS it really worth updating that? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but : God. -- Matt Welsh

Re: Some Questions - Cont'd

7;t work for you, try 4! bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Conspiracies abound: If everyone's against you, the reason can't : *possibly* be that you're a fuckhead. : -- 'Usenet Guide to Power Posting'

Re: Some Questions

ing -that- bad it's definately a hardware problem. Major-time. Get your local hardware guru and/or puter shop to check it out. HTH, bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : I find that anthropomorp

Microphone always on!

or speech synth. bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.

suck + multiple hosts?

http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to : mug someone with it. -- M Devine, Computer Science 340

Re: xfstt font database should be in /var

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xfstt + xset

yntax Any ideas? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, : which failed to start because of the following error: The : operation completed successfu

Contributing?

ch to whoever does URLview? Or is there another way? bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.

Re: Netscape

ge to be allowed to do that?? bekj impressed -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to : write, it should be hard to understand.

Festival+MBROLA

e Festival part of the voice in `festvox_en1.tar.gz'. Some people consider this the best sounding voice in Festival. bekj -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Perl is horrible for most thin

Perl/CPAN.pm/Zlib

ibraries /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: zlibVersion [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp# Has somebody built things with the wrong Zlib version? All my Perl and Zlib is straight from the Hamm distrib ... Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-

X and keymaps

ian's different? And how do I fix it? Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, : the more often and the more intensely the mind of t

Suck/get-news problem

ht. I'm not an innd guru though, is there anything there I have to alter to let suck post my news locally? Gossamer -- : --Neophilic-Hacker-Grrl-Geek-Eclectic-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wo