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ummm,
rightclick on the top bar of the window (or on the taskbar icon) there
should be an option saying "to desktop"
Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:46:20AM -0400, RB wrote:
>
>>How do I move a window from one desktop to another in t
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Hmmm,
just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh.
I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i can see where
I'm going from here.
I really liked the ispell interface.
Thanks very much for all the suggestions.
John
John
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Thanks to everyone who contributed.
Emacs seems to have a very similar control structure to the ancient
perfect writer on my fathers old kaypro, so i'll give it a shot as a
happy return to my childhood.
(BTW the tutorial sold it to me along with Nea
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> If you haven't already tried it, you might like fte/sfte.
>
> Michael
>
>
cool, it looks feature rich, what do you like about it?
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> vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your
>> > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a
>> > bunch of others.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for that, I should clarify that the languag
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Eric G. Miller wrote:
> IMHO, it is better to write in plain text, focusing on *content* first,
> and worry about *presentation* much, much later. I've seen people waste
> enormous amounts of time formatting draft word processor documents over
> and o
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Thanks very much.
Tom Massey wrote:
> * John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]:
>
>>what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used
>>something like this to write 5,000 word pl
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> Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer emacs.
> Both will suit your needs.
>
>
No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are aimed at
writers rather than coders,
maybe they aren't, maybe the
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format
> your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.)
>
Yep, OK.
what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used
something like
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>
> vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your
> prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a
> bunch of others.
>
Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to
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G'day all.
Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a
decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with.
- - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a
number of remote locations.
I kn
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
details at:
http://www.fsf.org/doc/book13.html
maybe not gentle but certainly effective.
stan wrote:
| I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was
| abou
In this situation would a third party with a copy of the audio
environment (say through bugging) be able to use that against the crypto?
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote:
2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the
linux kernel?
surely "serif" and "sans serif" are about the limit of what you want for
web-work?
or are you talking about fonts for images?
dave selby wrote:
I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in
/usr/X11/lib/fonts.
There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any id
Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge
disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line.
You asked for that one :-)
Wow,
you're in a charming mood today dude.
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Seneca wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote:
i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box
any ideas
apt-cache search ftpd
#apt-get install proftpd
is my personal recommendation,
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You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a
debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager
(called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that
name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the above,
and perhaps even less
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that.
g'day guys.
I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably
with ftp support
or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows?
(konq does upload right?)
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apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that.
g'day guys.
I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably
with ftp support
or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows?
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oh with the use of it,
have the timeserver addy you want handy,
debconf will ask you the address just type it in and away you go,
give it half an hour (to sync) and then set your other boxes to query the
first one (avoids unnecessary traffic to the public servers)
I use ntp-simp
I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result
the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and
watching the computers go "tick tick tick" in time with the clocks is a
source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life.
(ok i'm exagerating about my life,
>Type 83 is not nessaeseraly ext2. it could be one of many file systems
>suported by linux. try ext3, reiserfs (or even xfs and jfs).
>
On slink???
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G'day guys,
trying to compile a kernel with win4lin patches
everything seems fine until halfway through the boot when it starts
complaining about not being to access modules.dep
can anyone think of anything obvious i should be doing to avoid this?
thanks
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>I strongly suspect that at least some of the confusion is the result of
>the environment. Legacy MS Windows *doesn't* let you know what's going
>on, it *does* change arbitrarially between versions, and often a given
>system will change its behavior unexpectedly, for unknown reasons. But
>there
ok, now i'm getting confused (maybe just fused),
the display driver runs the NIC as well?
At 03:00 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>hi ya
>
>if you've got a mv w/ the nvidia chipset. you need to get the
>latest/greatest modules from nvidia.com
>
>c ya
>
which module for the nic Alvin?
At 02:05 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>hi ya
>
>> have you been able to start sound and network
>> I have a similar card A7N8X but I have hard time to have at least net
>> installed
>> any idea
>
>i played w/ and have working a7s-vm a7n266e and a7m266-vm
>
At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>But that driver does not support highly accelerated display
>nor framebuffer.
ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer
for anything in particular?
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>
>On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote:
>
>> g'day all,
>>
>> I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D
>> DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running
>> de
g'day all,
I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D
DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running
deb)
I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L
not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new
>
>You don't need to redo the tune2fs -j commands. You already have journals;
>they're just not being used yet. Just edit /etc/fstab and reboot.
>
>I don't know why you're doing the touch/forcefsck. I don't think it's
>necessary.
>
great, thanks.
the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think
>
>Nope. ext3 is ext2 with a journal, basically. You might need to
>compile ext3 in, or have the module loaded from initrd.
>
so could i skip re-running the tune?
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Whoops,
missed a step converting a box to ext3
procedure i was using was:
1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda*
for all ext2 file systems.
2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto
3) #touch/forcefsck
4) reboot
only i forgot step 2
it rebooted fine and #cat /proc/mounts shows the /
>
>Actually, I know several journos who use Debian. It makes testing and
>evaluating SW packages trivial.
>
Further to that, in the non-tech press I know many political journo's with a
love affair with abiword under windows.
mostly because it doesn't play silly games with them.
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>Can you give an example of CD burning software that doesn't support
>ISO images?
>
There's some ugly windows gear that if it does support it doesn't give many
clues as to how to use it.
Been a few years since i burned a CD under windows tho, might be
ubiquitous now.
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At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote:
>A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's
>a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that
>defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me
>to somewhere that discusses it?
>
It's a single file which is an image of
icewm always made me very happy in lightweight environments.
At 11:12 AM 1/9/03 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
>hello all
>
>i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and
>fast window manager for some occasional work there.
>
>aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter m
Hello all,
I'm about to attempt a desktop linux trial in my office and
need some advice on approaches to applicaiton portability.
There are windows apps that are not, at this time optional
so one way or another I'll have to get them to go, or stay off
the linux desktop.
the list of apps is:
>
>Throw in MPlayer (MEncoder's more popular brother) to preview
>your creation. Also available at that site is avidemux, which has
>a gui that will let you do simple edits. Once you have converted
>the DivX to MPEG-1 (or 2, if you want an SVCD), you go much of
>the same route: vcdimager to create
wow, lots of work to get all the bits i need,
thanks for that I'll have another shot next week.
At 04:46 AM 1/3/03 +, Travis Crump wrote:
>John Griffiths wrote:
>> hullo all.
>>
>> I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from
>> http://w
hullo all.
I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from
http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that
i'd like to play on a dvd player.
my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a
windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too har
> in all my
>years of using linux I've only read/heard about a couple people that
>have tried/and or use the bridging features of linux. And all of those
>people were discussing IDSs on another mailing list recently. By contrast
>I've known many people over the years who use free/openbsd in bridged
At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least
>where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions?
exim doesn't fetch mail
fetchmail fetches mail.
from the sound of it you don't really need exim (or a
>If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember
>correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM --
>my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's
>certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is
>still fairly easily
mpg123
read the man page
At 02:22 PM 12/16/02 -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote:
>hello,
>
>does anybody knowof any mp3 to wave converter's
> thanks
>suresh
>
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>> at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion.
>it's a Benq 32x10x40
sounds fast. If it's writing the tracks faster than mpg123 is making it
that would be your problem cold.
>
>It's a script that i found on many sites though so that surprises me a bit.
>(it's mentioned in
at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion.
in any event running 2 CPU heavy events, and one of them time critical (if
the cd writer buffer empties you blow the burn) is not smart.
At 01:05 AM 12/16/02 +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i found a script to convert mp3
>No. I really don't want to be messing
>around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit so you can just
>press the reset button (if anything goes wrong) and get going again.
>Boots in about 5 seconds.
>
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19
sounds exactly like
hi all,
I'm a little confused...
I've run dhcp boxes (freesco and NAT'ing firewall routers) so I was
expecting it to be a little easier under debian.
I'm on a fixed IP network, but there are some free addresses I'd like to
make available for guest boxes.
I thought a dhcp server would be simple
>Remember that 315 seconds includes time to upgrade software to fix
>bugs, to maintain hardware, backup databases etc.
you need backups on these beasts? But i thought they never crashed??
(just joking)
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antialiasing (smoothing) can be turned on and off in the settings in acroread,
have you looked there?
At 04:51 PM 12/10/02 -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
>Alan Shutko wrote:
>
>>Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here:
>>
>
have you still got your mobo manual?
sounds like it could be some kind of warning diagnostic.
the graphics heavy stuff will be running the CPU hard so it might not be
the graphics card.
Is the box getting hot?
At 07:58 AM 12/10/02 +0100, Jonas Persson wrote:
>Hi, i have an old PIII 500 mhz syst
At 07:07 PM 12/9/02 -0800, Ben Jamer wrote:
>hello! i was looking for the system reuqirements for
>debian, but not the normal ones. I'm looking for the
>newest distro that will run on a 486/66dx2 with 24
>megs of ram and a 1 gig hdd.
the answer is yes, and no
you can do a base install no problem
sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but is the user in the audio group?
At 08:48 PM 12/3/02 -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote:
>Did you try to install cdcd ? Or try running xmms from an x-term to
>see if there is any error message? I think that /dev/cdrom should be a
>sym link to /dev/hdc and should ha
Phoenix
it's light, it's fast, it's *just* a browser, its moz/gecko based.
only at 0.4 but even here in windows land it's what we've waited these long
years for
t 08:08 PM 12/3/02 +, Pigeon wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:59:11AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
>> Oki DZ wrote:
>> > On Sun, De
Just finished printing the Debian Reference to dead-tree
(i'll need it most when the computers aren't working won't I?)
www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.pdf
Wanted to say Three Cheers for Osamu Aoki's brilliant work with this
magnificent guide.
I'll allow myself a moment of van
>Actually, Moore's "Law" has nothing to do with storage space or bandwidth,
>more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today.
>--
well it does allow real time compression/decompression allowing more
effective use of bandwith.
doesn't get you over Shannon's Law however.
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>I have been able to open up "most" Powerpoint presentations with Open
>Office here, but it isn't 100% perfect. OpenOffice seems to do a decent
>job on M$ Office files. I have no problems at all on M$Word or Excel.
>
you don't have to have a full version of office,
MS do make "viewers" availa
My understanding was that "unsupported" distros could still use wn4lin but had to patch and compile the kernel themselves.
Might be worth slipping a case of beer to someone in your local LUG if you're uncomfortable doing that.
John
At 05:48 AM 11/1/02 +0100, fritz wrote:
Hello world,
us
>"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry
>into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It
>both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of
>war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and
>
>Well that would work cause I would be relaying for would be 3 otehr
>computers, but right now its not even working on one. I currently have
>to ssh and send this in mutt. I have relaying set to 192.168.0.x (x
>being the final octet for my machine) in eximconfig on the server. But
>it still won
At 12:28 AM 9/22/02 -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
>I have a small network which I am trying to setup a mail server for. I
>would like to get my box to relay the mail for the rest on the network,
>but it just wont. For one, it wont relay the mail when I use eximconfig
>and tell it to let the explici
>I guess it could possibly be my firewall, but it hasn't been changed
>lately and this problem seems to have appeared over the last few weeks
>(since replacing our mail server and POP with IMAP). AFAIK, the way
>SMTP works is that the remote MTA connects directly to my MTA and the
>transfer is ju
potato users left out again?
At 09:02 PM 6/20/02 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:26:06PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote:
>> With Openoffice 1.0 now out, I wondered if there was anyone aware of any
debs
>> for this - or is everyone just compiling their own from source?
>>
>/et
>(I repeated the whole experiment twice for each browser, starting them
before
>and shutting them down after the experiment)
>
>HW: K6-2 550 w/ 256 MB (Java disabled in Netscape. Don't know about
Mozilla -
>whichever way it comes on Woody)
first problem, woody's version isn't close to the 1.0 re
>My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones and
>zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up for
>political reasons, since Mozilla is thought of as IE's competitor on Windows.
>
>End of troll. Dictated, but not read. YMMV IFF you are a lying SOB
At 07:53 PM 6/11/02 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>On 11/06/02 John Griffiths did speaketh:
>
>> on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for
>> potato?
>
>You might want to just grab the binary tarball from the Mozilla website.
>
>
briliant
didn't realise ximinan had done this.
thanks!
At 11:48 AM 6/11/02 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:27, John Griffiths wrote:
>> on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for
>> potato?
>
>If you're
on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for
potato?
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At 03:21 PM 5/30/02 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
>I'd like to raise the MaxClient to 1500 in apache.
>Basically, I have to get apache source and modify the HARD_SERVER_LIMIT
>value in httpd.h and rebuild the .deb package. However, if I use apt-get
>upgrade to upgrade my system packages, I have to re
openoffice is the answer
also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4
pdf format
At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
>Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a
>little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents
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At 06:49 PM 5/27/02 -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
>WOW, sponsor one coup and everyone thinks your the bad guy. ;-)
>
ONE? if only!
I think the resentment is cause by a heady mix of cavalier US Government's
and a population that doesn't care what suffering its government causes
beyond the USA's borde
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>Still, wrong hemisphere, wrong ruler...
>
>Do Aussies have the concept of New World and Old World? Is it
>still the RAN, the RAAF, etc?
>
Still loyal soldiers of the Queen.
the airforce is RAAF, navy is RAN, the army is the Australian Army, but the
fighting units are all s
>Last I checked Germany and Australia were both in the Eastern Hemisphere...
>
>
oh we are S OT
anyway only one nation on earth divides the world into US and THEM and
calls it the western and eastern hemispheres.
I guess you'd be from the USA then?
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just darwin
>Very strong internal isolationist sentiments allowed even
>Lend-Lease to only pass Congress after major arm-twisting by
>Roosevelt. The only reason the the USN was able to help
>with GB in the BoA before 07-Dec was by not making
>Hmm. I just ran xpdf on an old pdf file that was created using TeX, and
>it says:
> Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly
displayed
>and gives the same kind of display as what you describe, so this may be
>your problem. xpdf doesn't understand Type 3 fonts. (Ty
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At 11:21 PM 4/11/02 -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote:
>Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
>> Use instead the free xdpf or gv readers, both of which handle (almost
>> all) PDF documents.
>
>I am using xpdf, but there are font type problems.
>May I know, how to get "Type 3" fonts?
Type 3 fonts are a bitch even un
you think acrobat "protects" your files with their dinky password system?
it's worse than useless.
pdf version 1.4 is supported by most linux tools now, thats the version
used in Acrobat 5.
At 03:55 PM 3/20/02 -0600, hanasaki wrote:
>Can it password protect them?
>What version of Acrobat is it c
At 06:36 PM 3/19/02 -0800, Jeff wrote:
>curtis, 2002-Mar-19 14:43 -0800:
>> What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files?
>
I think you guys are going about this the hard way.
PDF is a display format, not a layout format.
to make pdfs just print your layout fomat to postscript an
>> >b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i
>> >don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with "red herring":
>>
>> No! bullshit to you
>>
>> free speech is free.
>
>//
>
>please. in my country, yelling, "fire," in a crowded theater
>(that is not on fire)
>b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i
>don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with "red herring":
No! bullshit to you
free speech is free.
At 04:10 PM 3/14/02 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
>I live in Brasil, and here, Racism is crime. I think the developer
>should be asked to remove the Offensive Material.
>
Lets leave national jurisprudence out of this eh?
somewhere in the world, EVERYTHING is illegal...
>The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of debian. It's
a matter of providing software without racist material when people don't
want racist material, joke or otherwise. Right now, there is no way to
install bitchx without getting these messages. Contrast with fortunes,
where a
hi guys...
i've just upgraded a machine from potato to woody as practice for the
"Great Leap Forward" to come.
i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal...
should I submit them as bugs?
for example,
apache access.conf was standard potato install but wouldn't upgra
At 09:26 AM 3/8/02 +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
>John Griffiths wrote:
>> I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical
>> about doing something very similar to apt.
>
>Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not.
>
>BT
>
>I think somebody has to send an email to Scott McNeally; telling him
>that .deb format is _way_ neater than .pkg.
>
I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical
about doing something very similar to apt.
At 03:27 PM 2/19/02 -0700, Dave Price wrote:
>Question...
>
>Can CDRW media be reused with cdrecord (burning ISO images)? If so,
>how does one go about 'erasing the media first?
>
>aloha,
>dave
I use:
cdrecord -v -eject speed=10 dev=0,0,0 blank=all
speed and device address may vary for you
At 08:45 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote:
>
>> So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our
>> last backup and got...
>> nothing at all...
>> the drives (we were told by the data recover
hi guys
does anyone know a good linux/unix program/process for optimising acrobat
pdf files?
I've got a few hundred thousand pdf's I need to get optimised because newer
acrobat/IE combinations aren't opening un-optimised files well over the web
Any help would be appreciated
John
>> idea for a backup with such requirements (fast, small, home-env)?
>
>General discussion (I'd prefer tape to CD-R), including directory
>suggestions are at:
>
>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
>
>Peace.
>
Oooh I've got a story here,
One upon a time we needed to restore
At 02:09 PM 1/31/02 -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris Mueller wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox -
>> all of them from linux-mailinglists.
>
>This makes no sense to me. If you're on a Linux mailing list, just why
>are you using soft
At 01:07 AM 1/30/02 +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
>John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/01/2002 (23:20) :
>>
>> My point is it can be whatever the people willing to do the hard work want
>> it to be
>
>Which means that free software cannot be trusted and
At 10:29 AM 1/29/02 +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
>John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/01/2002 (01:16) :
>> In any volunteer endevaour the people who do the work decide how they shall
>> manage their time.
>>
>> if putting the fish in gave someone a sen
this is a virus doing the sending
http://theregister.co.uk/content/56/23843.html
for more info.
At 07:48 PM 1/28/02 -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:00:07PM +, Pollywog wrote:
>> I did not spam the debian lists. Please, listmaster, find out who is
>> putting my addres
>And that fish is relevant to "free" vs "closed" software exactly how?
>
>Dima (boggle)
Because the developers were free to put it in
and you are free to take it out if you care enough
you're not free to decide the developers priorities for them
only for yourself.
>I'm using some of my spare time developing software that is free in the
>GPL sense, but I rather use the time finding that last bug, than
>introduce more by putting useless easter eggs into my code. But then I
>think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge.[1]
>
>[1] Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Gala
>> I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and
>> convert it to an audio file on my computer.
>
>You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :)
>
>- Adam
C'mon guys, play nice
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