word perfect
by donald vitkus
can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux
any ideas
1 week, 5 days
overlay/watermark???
by Bill Mills-Curran
I'm generating a document with good old latex, and I'd like to be able
to add a figure as the background to each page, something like a
watermark, or the background capability of html.
I'd be happy to use a post-processing step to do this. I've been
looking at the ps utilities, but there's nothing that looks like it
will work.
Any ideas?
TIA,
Bill
17 years, 2 months
WLUG's membership in BUG
by Andy Stewart
Hi everybody,
Last year around this time, an organization was formed called the Boston User
Groups (http://www.bostonusergroups.com). WLUG was invited to participate.
As a group, we decided to pay our $50/year membership fee to participate for
the first year. Some of you might remember this meeting, where the general
consensus was "OK, let's try it for a year and see how it goes".
Our yearly membership dues are being requested by BUG. I had some questions
about whether or not WLUG should continue its participation in BUG. I had a
discussion with the WLUG members who attended the BBQ. Several of those
people thought that the discussion should take place among the entire WLUG
membership. The timing of BUG events is such that I'd like to settle this
issue before our next WLUG meeting (ideally within the next week).
Take a look at the BUG webpage as you consider my comments and those of other
WLUG members. Please take note of the other groups who are current BUG
members. There are 3 Linux groups, a Palm group, a Mac group, and some
others, not to mention the wide variety of Microsoft related user groups.
Given that Microsoft is a documented monopoly (a court said that, not just
me), this distribution of member groups should not be a surprise to anybody.
Some of the commentary below assumes familiarity with the contents of the BUG
website.
My initial question (if I recall correctly) was to wonder about what tangible
benefit WLUG received for its $50 expenditure.
a) BUG has a link to the WLUG website on its website
b) WLUG had a table at last year's MegaMeeting and gave out literature
advertising the group, its meetings, etc.
c) I met some leaders of other regional user groups while eating free pizza,
drinking free soda, and touring the US DataCenters facility in Marlboro, MA.
d) I know that we got at least one new WLUG member from the MegaMeeting.
Perhaps there were others, or folks who shortly thereafter joined the mailing
list, but I have no way to know for sure.
The BUG website also has a calendar of group activities onto which WLUG's
activities were never placed. The calendar is designed for groups who meet,
say, every 2nd Thursday of the month. WLUG's schedule is not as regular as
that, and hence our information was not put onto the calendar after two
requests by me.
Rick Zach is the current BUG president. He recently sent an e-mail to the
user group leaders (attached) wherein he describes some of the benefits of
BUG membership. I also have personally spoken to Rick to make sure my
information about BUG is correct so that I can present it fairly to the WLUG
membership.
My question to WLUG is:
Do we as a group wish to continue our participation in BUG for $50/year ?
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
17 years, 2 months
RE: [Wlug] WLUG's membership in BUG
by Marc Hughes
Sounds to me like all we really got was a single new member out of last
years membership. I say skip the membership. If we're itching to spend
the money, throw it into an ad in a college newspaper or two. Otherwise
let's hoard our cash reserves for a hostile takeover of microsoft.
-Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:21 PM
To: Worcester Linux Users' Group
Subject: [Wlug] WLUG's membership in BUG
Hi everybody,
Last year around this time, an organization was formed called the Boston
User
Groups (http://www.bostonusergroups.com). WLUG was invited to
participate.
As a group, we decided to pay our $50/year membership fee to participate
for
the first year. Some of you might remember this meeting, where the
general
consensus was "OK, let's try it for a year and see how it goes".
Our yearly membership dues are being requested by BUG. I had some
questions
about whether or not WLUG should continue its participation in BUG. I
had a
discussion with the WLUG members who attended the BBQ. Several of those
people thought that the discussion should take place among the entire
WLUG
membership. The timing of BUG events is such that I'd like to settle
this
issue before our next WLUG meeting (ideally within the next week).
Take a look at the BUG webpage as you consider my comments and those of
other
WLUG members. Please take note of the other groups who are current BUG
members. There are 3 Linux groups, a Palm group, a Mac group, and some
others, not to mention the wide variety of Microsoft related user
groups.
Given that Microsoft is a documented monopoly (a court said that, not
just
me), this distribution of member groups should not be a surprise to
anybody.
Some of the commentary below assumes familiarity with the contents of
the BUG
website.
My initial question (if I recall correctly) was to wonder about what
tangible
benefit WLUG received for its $50 expenditure.
a) BUG has a link to the WLUG website on its website
b) WLUG had a table at last year's MegaMeeting and gave out literature
advertising the group, its meetings, etc.
c) I met some leaders of other regional user groups while eating free
pizza,
drinking free soda, and touring the US DataCenters facility in Marlboro,
MA.
d) I know that we got at least one new WLUG member from the MegaMeeting.
Perhaps there were others, or folks who shortly thereafter joined the
mailing
list, but I have no way to know for sure.
The BUG website also has a calendar of group activities onto which
WLUG's
activities were never placed. The calendar is designed for groups who
meet,
say, every 2nd Thursday of the month. WLUG's schedule is not as regular
as
that, and hence our information was not put onto the calendar after two
requests by me.
Rick Zach is the current BUG president. He recently sent an e-mail to
the
user group leaders (attached) wherein he describes some of the benefits
of
BUG membership. I also have personally spoken to Rick to make sure my
information about BUG is correct so that I can present it fairly to the
WLUG
membership.
My question to WLUG is:
Do we as a group wish to continue our participation in BUG for $50/year
?
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
17 years, 2 months
Re: WLUG and BUG
by doug waud
Hi all,
Keith Wright wrote:
> On the bright side, I have looked at the BUG web pages
> and they do not crash my browser (Netscape Communicator 4.76
> on RedHat 7.1 with a 2.4.27 kernel.)
Just to prove I am not just a pretty face, I can note that
I got and installed Mozilla 1.0 and it too does not crash.
> Why do all these web-wankers think
> that a six-pixel high font is such a great thing that it must be
> hard coded to override my preferences?
I don't know the answer but I agree that the practice sucks! :-)
doug (Vulture for culture) Waud
17 years, 2 months
I'm not normally in favor of cracking but....
by Wesley Allen
Anyone catch this story at wired?
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54812,00.html
Apparently the RIAA site got cracked, and the crackers put up a fold
with..."pirated" mp3 files. Ummmm, yes this is illegal (the cracking,
not the creation of mp3 archives for personal use), but can you imagine
a more deserving organization for this to happen to.
Keep in mind, I also happen to be a PASTOR, and I think this is just
about the funniest thing I've ever seen on the internet.
Wes
--
This message may be digitally signed.
For my public key, e-mail me a request.
17 years, 2 months
Stupid Hardware Clock Tricks, aka: WTF?
by Theo Van Dinter
Over this past weekend I upgraded my server from a P200/RedHat Linux
7.2 to a new Athlon 850/RedHat Linux 7.3. The Athlon was my trusty
workstation for many a year. Everything's great, except for one problem:
the clock goes crazy!
It seems to be a once per second issue:
$ perl -e '$t=time;while(1){$t2=time; warn join("\n",scalar
localtime($t),scalar localtime($t2),"") if ($t2-$t>4); $t=$t2;}'
Wed Aug 21 17:17:28 2002
Wed Aug 21 18:29:03 2002
Wed Aug 21 17:17:29 2002
Wed Aug 21 18:29:04 2002
Wed Aug 21 17:17:30 2002
Wed Aug 21 18:29:05 2002
I use netsaint to monitor system health, and it keeps complaining about
the time jumps:
Aug 21 18:28:03 eclectic netsaint: Warning: A system time change of 4296
seconds (forwards in time) has been detected. Compensating...
Aug 21 17:16:31 eclectic netsaint: Warning: A system time change of 4293
seconds (backwards in time) has been detected. Compensating...
Aug 21 18:29:42 eclectic netsaint: Warning: A system time change of 4296
seconds (forwards in time) has been detected. Compensating...
Aug 21 17:18:10 eclectic netsaint: Warning: A system time change of 4293
seconds (backwards in time) has been detected. Compensating...
Of course, random checks start failing as well since they occasionally
run during the time jump, and if they're checking for time since something
occured (log entry, cron run, query response time, etc) ...
I've tried "hwclock --systohc" to force the hardware clock to the same
time as the system, didn't help. I'm running NTP and thought maybe
it was having problems, so I tried turning that off, didn't help.
I went through BIOS and tweaked memory/IRQ settings -- I didn't think
it would really solve anything, but the setting changes and reboot kept
the behavior away for ~14-15 hours.
So I'm completely stumped as to what causes this problem. Has anyone
seen anything like this before? Any suggestions for things to look at?
I'm at the point where I'm planning to just buy a new bit of hardware,
migrate the drives and such again, and go from there. With my luck the
problem would follow me of course... :(
Thanks in advance. :)
BTW: If anyone is wondering, I'm running SGI's XFS patched 2.4.18 kernel:
2.4.18-SGI_XFS_1.1. I'm thinking about dropping back to a 2.4.9 kernel
w/ XFS support and seeing if that works any better. :( I was running
2.4.18 on the P200 for quite a while though without problem.
--
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-- Homer Simpson
King-Size Homer
17 years, 2 months
python regular expressions
by Brad Noyes
Hi All,
I'm starting to learn python. I was looking for a python equivalent to a perl
regular expression such as
$_ = "FreeBSD";
/(.*)BSD/;
where $1 would get what ever is between '(...)', 'Free' in this case.
Is there a way i can make use of the () regex operator in python? I can't
seem to find an equivalent in python's regex module (re).
Thanks,
--brad
17 years, 2 months
Exchange clients for linux
by Haines, Charles Allen
I was wondering if anyone knew of any exchange clients for linux besides the plugin for evolution. WPI is now offering a student exchange server and I am testing it for the admin's. However I currently have to use the outlook web client to view my mail (which of course doesn't look right in galeon, since M$ designed the outlook web). So any comments, flames, or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Chuck Haines
WPILA Lab Manager
17 years, 2 months
An update to all user group leaders...
by Rick Zach
____________________________________
sent via the Boston User Groups
Leadership Listserv
____________________________________
====================================================================
Our annual user group MegaMeeting-III is near! Wed, Sept-25
Sheraton Tara in Framingham, MA
Wednesday, September 25 from 6:30 - 9:30 PM
http://www.BostonUserGroups.com/MegaMeeting
====================================================================
To all user group leaders:
Boston User Groups is now almost one year old (at least as a true
non-profit corporate entity) and MegaMeeting-III is just around the
corner. Our value proposition TO you and our expectations OF you as a user
group leader are quite simple:
Boston User Groups' value proposition TO you:
* Greatly increase your user group's visibility to the public
* Help promote, increase and cross pollinate your user group membership
with other groups
* Assist to provide speakers via BUG web site awareness
* Provide an annual MegaMeeting for face-to-face networking and exposure
Boston User Groups expectation OF you as a user group leader
* Greatly increase your User Group's visibility to the public by
promoting BUG and it's other user groups
* Have a link on your home page or other readily visible location on
your web site back to BUG (again to increase mutual awareness)
* Promote the MegaMeeting to your group to increase our mutual awareness
As you can see, even BUG's expectations OF you are solely to help promote
all user groups which certainly includes you. I would like to leave you
with two thoughts and a "call to action":
1) Like your own user group, Boston User Groups is mostly funded by
out-of-pocket personal donations of it's User Group leadership. In the
case of MegaMeeting-III, we could not locate a free facility of adequate
size and location so certain people fronted about $3,000 for room rental in
the expectation of re-covering the costs by renewed BUG/UG leader
memberships, door admission and a few corporate sponsorships. We are VERY
non-profit.
2) I ask you to please help to aggressively promote the upcoming
MegaMeeting and BUG. In the process, you will be promoting your own group!
MegaMeeting-III Chairperson Brad Dinerman will be following up with a "call
to action" email with specifics on up-front cash costs to you (none) and
how to help promote the MegaMeeting and your own group!
Please look for Brad's email coming soon.
And finally:
Please note a recent article by John C. Dvorak on the death of User Groups
and the few glimmers of light out there. As a united group of groups, we
may be one of those few glimmers. Please help us to help each other!
The URL is http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=29639,00.asp
______________________________________
Rick Zach, President
Boston User Groups, Inc.
cel: 508-395-8730
http://www.bostonusergroups.com/Benefactors/
17 years, 2 months
