Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:11:47PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: > > > cecil wrote: > > > > > > >I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > > > >requires

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Allison
David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: > > cecil wrote: > > > > >I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > > >requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > > >to do t

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:06:51PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: > > I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > > requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > > to do that on linux? I guess I

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: > I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( > > Cecil With the replies so far, I gues

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: > cecil wrote: > > >I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > >requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > >to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( > > > >Cecil > > > > >

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Tim Wood
Don't believe all the nay sayers on the list. 6 years ago, on my first laptop, I ran Win95 and Office on a 486-DX 33 with 8MB RAM and 120MB HDD (that,s Meg not Gig). It's true that I eventually ended up using Hamm split onto the HDD and a 100Zip drive. I also have a Pentium 100 40MB RAM, 1.2GH H

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread dircha
cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig hd and

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:50:06 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > There are also several latex to rtf converters. You may lose some > formating but it will open under word. Specifically, it tends to bork on multiple tabular environments. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] re

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: > I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Since you're already thinking about LaTeX.

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:00:06AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > %% cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > c> Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig > c> hd and 32 meg ram going to be able to do the job? I'm worried now. > > I seriously doubt you'll be able to run

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Jon
Paul Smith wrote: On the other hand, Windows is an even worse resource hog than Linux, and there's NO freakin' way you'll be able to get Windows (well, maybe Windows 3.1...) to run at all on that system, much less any of the Office products. So... Oh come on. I've got an old Pentium 166 here with

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Paul Smith
%% cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig c> hd and 32 meg ram going to be able to do the job? I'm worried now. I seriously doubt you'll be able to run Office with that amount of RAM... and even getting it installed (with th

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:57:52PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: > If you're going to be running OpenOffice.org on it, then... hell yes. :| > Or you could discuss this with your prof. MS Word can open a few formats (not many - MS don't want you using anything else...), but almost certainly enough fo

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread John Hasler
cecil writes: > Maybe I should get a different laptop? I would suggest that you get a different professor, and perhaps a different university as well. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:55:06AM -0500, cecil wrote: > cecil wrote: > > >I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > >requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > >to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( > > > >Cecil > > > > >

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > OpenOffice.org I have to write Word documents at work on a semi-daily > basis for those technically impared and I've yet to have a problem where > Openoffice wouldn't work. (Well, MS Project isn't covered but Excel and > .d

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-06-27T07:55:06-0500, cecil wrote: > And on top of that, I read further, and I need to submit also a screen > shot of the running program. Is there anyway to do all this stuff just > in the console? I'm not fanatical, I can put on twm. If you really mean console, redirect, cut&paste or us

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-06-27T08:51:50-0400, Robert L. Harris wrote: > OpenOffice.org I have to write Word documents at work on a semi-daily > basis for those technically impared and I've yet to have a problem where > Openoffice wouldn't work. (Well, MS Project isn't covered but Excel and > .doc are just great).

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Paul Fraser
If you're going to be running OpenOffice.org on it, then... hell yes. :| On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:57 pm, cecil wrote: > cecil wrote: > > I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > > requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > > to do that on linux

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread cecil
cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig hd and 32 m

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread cecil
cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil And on top of that, I read further, and I need to submit also a screen shot of the

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
OpenOffice.org I have to write Word documents at work on a semi-daily basis for those technically impared and I've yet to have a problem where Openoffice wouldn't work. (Well, MS Project isn't covered but Excel and .doc are just great). Robert Thus spake cecil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just

Re: Uh-Oh - boot problem

2004-01-04 Thread Chris Cothrun
On 3 Jan 2004 , > wrote: > My Debian system won't boot. Kernel panic after a > bunch of attempts to load modules. > > I think it is because apt-get upgraded my kernel, > but I forgot to run lilo. Thanks to Tom and John on lvlug and Arnt and Kevin on debian- user I got the system working. A Mepis

Re: Uh-Oh - boot problem

2004-01-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:44:46 -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:35:56PM -0800, Chris Cothrun wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My sid system won't boot. Kernel panic after a > > bunch of attempts to load modules. > > > > Output is some

Re: Uh-Oh - boot problem

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:35:56PM -0800, Chris Cothrun wrote: > Hi, > > My sid system won't boot. Kernel panic after a > bunch of attempts to load modules. > > Output is something like: > modprobe can't open dependancies file /lib/modules > mount: you must specify filesystem type > pivot_root:

Re: Uh-Oh...

2001-02-28 Thread John Travis
On 28 Feb 2001 13:17:07 +0100, you wrote: >I always enjoy asking people if they have their power cord plugged in... Yes, this part I am sure of . >Which version of reiserfstools is installed? It was the most current version in unstable. I did a dpkg -X to manually install the older version fro

Re: Uh-Oh...

2001-02-28 Thread Harald Thingelstad
John Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I grabbed 2.4.2, did a make-kpkg as usual and installed it. But I > reboot to find my filesystem pretty well trashed. I'm running Sid and > everything is on Reiserfs except for /boot. The only way I can do anything > (with any kernel) is to boot to

Re: uh-oh, now what?

2000-09-22 Thread steph
Fetchmail says the mail is read, but it's not flushed. Will try the -a tag. Thanks, Mike. Alpha

Re: uh-oh, now what?

2000-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:23:09PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > New problem, having to do with mail, specifically the following error from > fetchmail: client/server sychronization error while fetching from radiant.net. > > Sendmail is running... i run fetchmail manually, as i like to kee

Re: Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:57:18PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is the > same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I guess I > configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't boot-up.

Re: Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

2000-08-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:57:18PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is > the same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I > guess I configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't > boot-up. _I'm

Re: uh oh, where'd my memory go?

2000-02-15 Thread aphro
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: aarons >I just upgraded from a PII to an athlon (YEA!) however, my LCD is only aarons >reporting 64 of my 512meg. I had 512 before this upgrade, no problem. aarons >I also upgraded to 2.2.14. Whats going on here? does the system report 64MB or 512? (r

Re: Uh-oh, is it WMaker or my 2.0.33 kernel?

1998-05-11 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Kiyan Azarbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everything just fried itself, then I found this in the syslog: > > May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at = > virtual address e90833c4 > May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: current->tss.cr3 =3D 00299000, %cr3 = 00 > 2990

Re: Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-25 Thread David M
Hello again, Mmm I would think the installation would have prompt me for that... (it did ask whether to use the lilo.conf configuration file). Anyways I have booted from diskette and ran `lilo`. I still get the 01 01 01 01 01 01 How can I revert back to my old kernel image? Just change t

Re: Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, David M wrote: > Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages > including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to > compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted! >