OpenOffice 1.1 spelling checker broken?

: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ not found. On a hunch, I tried linking /usr/lib/ispell/american.aff to the filename that OO expected above. It did not work, though. Can anyone help me? It the package just broken or do I have a configuration problem? - -- Henry House Please don't send me

OT: card catalog system for public library?

aries, not something new or homebrewish. So my question is whether there is any Free package that meets the needs of a typical community library AND is alreadt in use somewhere and is proven bug-free. Surely there must be something of the soft in the world? Any ideas would be appreciated. - --

Re: Help: Network Printer Config

se magicfilterconf to write the printcap for you, then check it by hand if necessary. Another option is to use the pdq spooler. It is very easy to set up using a GUI tool; the downside is that it works on a per-user basis and does not provide the standard lpr/lprm/lpq commands, as

Re: digital camera recommendation?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:10:49PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Henry House wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a digital camera for use with Linux? My goals (in no > > particular order): > > > > * Good image quality > > * Uses compact flash (the little wafers

digital camera recommendation?

can share would be helpful to me. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. pgpFvnZvC7z5f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: puzzling NFS problem

han: thans for your reply! I found a line 'RPCNFSDCOUNT=8' in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server and bumped it up to 32. So far so good -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajh

puzzling NFS problem

ed of exim in state 'D' (uninterruptible sleep, usually do to IO: obviously because of the NFS problem). While the trouble is occurring, the files in the NSF mounts still seem to be accessible to shell commands (unless the system has not run out of file descriptors). On Romana the NFS cl

Re: Mutt

I have often gotten this error when the mailbox is on an NFS-mounted filesystem. Is your /var/mail mounted over NFS? -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. pgp14S63yfMFO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: partition types

create a new hda5 with the same start and end as the old and new hda1. Try out partition after a reboot (don't forget to edit lilo.conf or menu.lst and /etc/fstab). If it works you can re-size the / partition and split it if you like. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature.

Re: printers

a commitment. If you have a printer currently working on Mandrake, you can keep your existing printer filter (driver) from Mandrake and use it on your new Debian system. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My

Re: DHCP client and server scripts - merging results

difficult to set up. Try the 'pdnsd' package. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. pgpCnsfsyeC9x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UPS made by MGE?

x27;s > probably over double the battery capacity in the APC compared to the > Ellipse. Yes, I wondered about that too. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. pgpJGfFBcNgYl.pgp Description: PGP signature

UPS made by MGE?

ience before I buy it. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. pgpkIsbVxQGBo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: diskless X problems

running without swap might be a problem. Memory shouldn't be a > problem -- this machine has 1 GB and I'm barely working it -- but is there > some stuff one needs swap for anyway? Is there perhaps some kernel compile > flag that disables swap attempts completely? Perhaps, but

Re: lprng 3.8.4-2 - network printer configuration?

s was generated by magicfilterconfig. If you do not use magicfilter I suggest you install it. It is a reliable non-nonsence print filter that handles common formats like DVI and PDF. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information

Re: graphics processing progs ???

f the Gimp runs an online photo service using a cluster of headless gimp servers hooked up to a web form interface. See: http://manual.gimp.org http://lugod.org/presentations/gimp2/ -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp&g

Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

Latin1. This has a Euro symbol but is still a 8-bit encoding so there is little or no software breakage. ISO-8859-15-encoded fonts are available in the latest XFree86 and could be gotten from www.xfree86.org and installed in /usr/local. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See &

apt-get upgrade fails with 'Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration'

far I can't find one. The CDs referenced are the unofficial woody CDs available from fsn.hu. I have no idea what to suggest for this problem so I am passing it along to this list. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse

Re: REGEX question

n egrep, perl, or ruby: (.)\1 -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. pgpoxNPfqwxOt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Perl & UTF-8

ke a module via the Perl C interface. Anyway at this site are 'uhtrans' which converts non-ASCII chars in UTF-8 input to as escaped form as in HTML ('&#codenum;') and the corresponding program 'hutrans' reverses this. It is also possible to convert between ISO-8859-*

Re: OT: Perl & UTF-8

. In the likely event that that is not possible, you can activate UTF-8 suppot in perl using 'use utf8;'. See perlunicode(1) for details. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key

voice+fax modem recommendations?

with "press 1 for Mr Boggs, press 2 for Ms Smith", etc, then takes a message for the person chosen. But that's a long-term plan ;-). [*] http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/ -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpS7ucutxegD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xv alternatives

de which is specified by -t, but you can use other modes (e.g, -FZ for full-screen, zoomed to fill). -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgp2Zoy2FWLBb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: screen (as in program screen) question

such as a command > prompt as mentioned below)... Sorry for not explaining better. The usual trick for setting the xterm title (above) does not work in screen. I know it can be done, though, since Vim still manages to set the xterm title while running inside screen. -- Henry House OpenPGP ke

screen (as in program screen) question

When I run screen in an xterm, it sets the title of the xterm to 'screen'. Does anyone know how to set the title of the xterm to somthing like 'screen: %s' where %s in the session name? -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc

Re: xv alternatives

ull-featured and seems to work right. It's now my viewer of choice. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpRgu2hMWXdl.pgp Description: PGP signature

superformat fails to measure drive's raw capacity

4: 00 5: 01 6: 08 I have fdutils version 5.3-3.2. Any ideas? -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpfouZIB5VVK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Scanner + printer choice

out quickly and the output does not look as nice as laser output. (I don't care about color, either.) -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpfmXaHdJLmY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: LaTeX beautifier?

s, this looks like just the ticket! It may just help me while writing interactively too :-). -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpeSYXINId0y.pgp Description: PGP signature

LaTeX beautifier?

Does anyone know if there is a program like 'indent' or 'beautify' for C than works on LaTeX sources instead of C? I have many, many machine-generated ugly source files that I would like to re-format for better readability of sources. -- Henry House OpenPGP key

Re: getting mlc++ to compile under debian

ng some of the template code from the newest SGI has a free implementation of the STL; available at http://www.stlport.org. There's a good chance that the code was written using this STL. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpCJLDHUaSZo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to compile the debian way?

to make the package you need the command dh_testdir, but you don't have it. It is provided by the package 'debhelper'. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpmOecCRZLdN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to compile the debian way?

at the packages are all "known" by dpkg. Try: apt-get source --build pppoe You must be root, of course. Install the resulting deb using 'dpkg -i'. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpOG7RAohzVo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Word to postscript from the CLI

nother option would be recent versions of AbiWord (0.7.13 for sure), which can dump data in various formats using the -to switch. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc

Re: LaTeX to text (was Re: "firing up" DocBook)

rks well for equation-free documents. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpaRGlLHQ1DX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Any mod_ruby users? odd behavior of scripts

could both be features I suppose, but they are very annoying and I would like to turn them off. The scripts behave properly when run under CGI. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpvGVn0CATYd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:26:53AM +0200, Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad wrote: > I need to know if there exist any other windowmanager > coded in c++ than blackbox. IceWm is written in C++: icewm.sourceforge.net -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhou

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:11:14PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote: > I have a logitech firstmouse+ (imps/2 protocol for both gpm and xfree). > > The mouse is erratic in X unless I first kill gpm. Let X use /dev/gpmdata as its mouse device and Intellimouse as protocol. -- Henry House Op

Re: Hi All

version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped (Probably say something else on your system, but you get the idea ;-) -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgp592ScIfWoY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hi All

setuid script facilities. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpsuQd9IRQ4r.pgp Description: PGP signature

/usr/man vs /usr/share/man

Does anyone know why both /usr/man and /usr/share/man both exist in Debian systems (woody and potato) and contain different files? -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpDLimaBf1NS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cut-and-paste

ce and BusMouse as the mouse protocol. This means that X11 gets its mouse data from gpm. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpGyweE0WZl2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: maildir vs mailspool

or sendmail). Similar to MH, except that it adds three subdirectories of the mailbox: tmp, new and cur. Filenames for the messages are chosen in such a way they are unique, even when two programs are writing the mailbox over NFS, which means that no file locking is needed. -- He

Re: Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

problem > to write on that file. So my suspection is on mutt. This is because one or both of the machines is not running lockd. (That is in the package nfs-common). -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpVUrKX8XFBI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: security question: running a public ftp server

st are buffer overflows or failure to properly check user input. In the case of httpd, carelessly written cgis are the biggest concern. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpg7MtSZA2lb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fugly (Font is Ugly)

X11/fonts/75dpi/" 3. Verify that xfonts-base is installed. > How can I know what X is using for default font? In each font directory there are files 'fonts.alias' and 'fonts.dir'; these define name-to-file mappings. The default font is fixed. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpPEUgNhLGSs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sound Card Blues

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:07:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > lsmod gave > bash: lsmod: command not found 1. You must be root to run lsmod 2. If your PATH is not set correctly you can run it as /sbin/lsmod -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhou

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

ng you to only boot one version of the kernel with a matching > System.map. I did not know this, thanks! -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpK8O497uwkw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2.4.0-test12kernel problem

t11 kernel. Are you running Woody? I'm getting the same problem with kernel 2.2.17 on an IA32 machine running Woody. -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgpfGCEONyPde.pgp Description: PGP signature