Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0
by John Stoffel
Hi All,
Thanks for the input I recieved here, I've bought an Epson R300 color
printer for making photos. Once I figured out that the debian package
for libcupsys has the permissions borked for the files in
/usr/lib/cups/backend so that they aren't executable, all is well.
I've been happily browsing images in 'gqview', then loading them into
gimp 2.0, then printing them.
But I'm having issues with scaling images. I have to guess how/where
to crop the images so that I can get the maximum amount of the picture
onto the paper. It's a real pain, with lots of back and forth.
Is there a tool out there, or a gimp plugin, which allows me to take a
picture, select a paper size and gives me a template to crop/scale the
image to fit that paper size nicely? Any hints on what tools/packages
I should be looking at for this type of work?
For example, I've got a picture of my nephew and son which I wanted to
print out. I also wanted to zoom in a bit (or crop the image down to
get closer to them) so that when it printed, I maximized the use of
the 4x6 stock. A real pain in gimp 2.0, but since I'm just using the
standard Debian install, maybe there is a plugin to help with this?
Thanks,
John
13 years, 3 months
yum repository for Aurora?
by Bill Smith
Would anyone here HAPPEN to know of any yum repositories for Aurora Linux
(Sparc flavor, 1.0 is based on RH 7.3, 1.9x is based on Fedora)?
I've been looking for a repository for upgrading my 1.0 installation to
the latest 1.91/1.92, but I cannot find an up-to-date repository. 8(
(For anyone that's curious, I'm running Aurora on my Sparc Ultra60...)
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated...
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Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com
"Uncouple faith from truth altogether, and bad things
can happen. People come to believe without truth, and
then the truth becomes something nobody will believe."
-- Charles P. Pierce (in 'The Truth About Polygraphs',
2003/10/03 edition of Boston Globe Magazine, p18)
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14 years, 2 months
PCI-X under Linux
by Carlton C. Stedman II
I was just wondering if anyone had any success using PCI-X/PCI-Express
cards under linux. I was looking through the kernel and don't see any
specific settings strictly for PCI-X bus. I wonder if they *just work*
with PCI support enabled, as AGP does.
I'm specifically interested if anyone has got hardware 3D acceleration
working with a PCI-X video card. I'm looking at getting a mid-range NVidia
card, since their drivers are at least useable under linux, compared to
the atrocious performance and glitches the ATI proprietary drivers have
(and the open drivers being worked on are not overly worried with the card
I have, and the R300 driver doesn't have any sort of 3D acceleration right
now).
As far as I can understand from the docs on nvidia's website, it seems
like it'll just work, but was interested if anyone had any success. In
particular I'm looking at the nvidia 6600gt series. Any input would be
much appreciated. Thanks.
CCS
--
Carlton C. Stedman II, sageman(a)wpi.edu
"To iterate is human, to recurse, divine."
-- L. Peter Deutch
14 years, 2 months
Linux Job Opportunity
by Andy Stewart
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HI Everybody,
I am posting this for a technical recruiter. If you have interest in the
position, or know someone who does, please contact the recruiter directly.
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My name is Tom Di Filippo. I am a technical recruiter in the Boston
area. I am conducting a confidential search for one of my client
companies that is specifically looking for several Software Engineers
with desktop Linux experience. Below is a brief overview of what they
are looking for. If you or any of your colleagues are interested in
hearing more about these opportunities please contact me directly.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Senior/Principal Engineer, Linux Client (positions at various levels)
* Will design and implement portable runtime environment on a
Linux desktop platform
* Experience with any of the following: Java, Swing, JNI, C++,
MFC, ATL, COM, ActiveX.
* IE Browser Control and/or Mozilla Geiko engine.
* Embedding Media Players into client applications.
* Multithreading, X Windows Window Manager development.
* Linux device driver development and integration
Kind regards,
Thomas Di Filippo
Market Manager, Client Services
(IT and Engineering Staffing)
Kforce Professional Staffing
20 Mall Road, Suite 400
Burlington, MA 01803
(781) 359-1707
tdifilippo(a)kforce.com
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
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14 years, 3 months
Linksys WPC11 v3 Wireless Card in SuSE 9.1
by Chuck Haines
Has anyone gotten a WPC11 ver 3 wireless card to work in suse 9.1?
YaST detects the card, however I cannot get it to use WEP correctly
and since both WPI and my home network require it, I'm outta luck
right now. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
Chuck
--
Chuck Haines
chaines(a)gmail.com
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WPI Class of 2005
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14 years, 3 months
[jmorris@redhat.com: Linux Journal Article]
by Charles R. Anderson
----- Forwarded message from James Morris <jmorris(a)redhat.com> -----
From: James Morris <jmorris(a)redhat.com>
To: selinux(a)tycho.nsa.gov
Cc: fedora-selinux-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:48:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Linux Journal Article
Message-ID: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0411122147260.7482-100000(a)thoron.boston.redhat.com>
Reply-To: "Fedora SELinux support list for users & developers." <fedora-selinux-list(a)redhat.com>
What's New in Fedora Core 3 SE Linux
By Faye Coker
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7887
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<jmorris(a)redhat.com>
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14 years, 3 months
Website whoopsies...
by Keller, Tim
I won't be able to make it to the meeting because 'm not sure what day
"Thursdayday" is... :-)
Also the link at the bottom to St IgnuCIUS is broken...
Later,
Tim.
14 years, 3 months
JOB Opening Linux (UML) skills needed
by John Spencer
Hello All,
I am doing some networking for an opening I have in northern MA/southern NH.
I currently need the following:
Sr. level engineer with extensive experience with Linux to work with their
application software development team. My client is simulating multiple
embedded cards using User Mode Linux (UML) sessions for each processor.
Experience with:
-User Mode Linux (a must)
-Networking experience (a must)
-Embedded and host Linux
-Writing device drivers under Linux a strong plus
-C/C++ programming
If you are interested and qualified for this role, please call me or send me
an email with your resume so I can contact you with the details. I will not
send your resume anywhere without talking to you first.
Regards,
John
John Spencer
(978) 256-1113 ext 108
jspencer @ optimaleng.com
OPTIMAL ENGINEERING PARTNERS
"Your Optimal partner for real-time, embedded and systems development
expertise"
www.optimalengineering.com
Regards,
John
John Spencer
(978) 256-1113 ext 108
jspencer(a)optimaleng.com
OPTIMAL ENGINEERING PARTNERS
"Your Optimal partner for real-time, embedded and systems development
expertise"
www.optimalengineering.com
14 years, 3 months
REMINDER: WLUG Meeting - Thursday!
by Andy Stewart
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Hi Everyone,
We'll be having our next WLUG meeting on Thursday, November 11th at 7:00 PM in
the usual place.
Chuck Anderson is going to talk to us rather informally (a la the Gentoo
meeting) about what is new and different in Fedora Core 3. He'll also have a
PC or two for a live demo.
Coming in December:
Our guest speaker at the December 15th meeting will be Jon 'maddog' Hall. If
you never come to another WLUG meeting, be sure you make it to this meeting!
maddog is a fantastic speaker that you don't want to miss. He has spoken at
several WLUG meetings in the past and the feedback has been universally
positive. Please see the WLUG website for more details about maddog's talk.
Starting in January 2005:
It looks like our meeting location will be used for a class on Wednesday
evening. It may be possible for us to find another location on campus for
our Wednesday meetings. Another possibility is to have occasional meetings
on Monday evening. Right now, we alternate between Wednesday and Thursday
evening. I know that if we changed to Mon/Thurs meeting nights, some folks
would like it and others would not. There's really no way to make everybody
happy here, except perhaps to find another campus location for Wednesday
evening meetings. Stay tuned...nothing is definite yet.
Later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
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14 years, 3 months
SSH stops working?
by Skip Gaede
Hi Folks,
I have both Linux and WXP on my home machine and do remote maintenance on a
Linux gateway.
The linux gateway is configured for doing IPSEC as well as SSH. Some time in
the past few months, SSH has ceased to work between both WXP and Linux on my
system and the remote gateway. I have not changed anything on either end, as
far as I can remember. What's strange is that I can setup an IPSEC tunnel to
the gateway, and do SSH to the gateway from the local subnet (my IPSEC IP is
168.192.1.128 and I can SSH to 192.168.1.1).
If anyone has any suggestions on how to debug this, I'm all ears.
Thanks,
Skip
14 years, 3 months
