June 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

generic windows printer driver for postscript?

by Bill Mills-Curran

I have a windows-only (sigh) program that prints maps. It doesn't have a print-to-file option, so I add a "file" printer in windows printer setup. Can any give me a recommendation for a generic (clean) postscript printer driver? My intent is to print to a samba file share on linux and review the postscript print file with gv to select specific pages. The HP driver doesn't make nice postscript. Thanks, Bill

June 13, 2004

CRT or LCD ?

by Andy Stewart

HI all, My 9 year old Nokia 447X CRT monitor appears to be on its way out. At maximum brightness and contrast, I can't get a good picture. I'm using xgamma to crank up the colors, but that creates a washed out display. The picture size wavers and occasionally goes out of sync. I think I got my $1000 worth out of this monitor! At the risk of starting a religious war, I'm wondering if I can get some objective commentary regarding CRT vs LCD and any issues there might be with Linux. I would like a display that can do at least 1280x1024@75Hz and possibly up to 1600x1200@75Hz. I think that puts me in the 18" - 19" monitor category, which is OK with me (I have a 17" monitor now). I occasionally play games but mostly its text, websurfing, email, and some photo editing. Does the LCD quality degrade when using the VGA input vs. the DVI input (assuming that the monitor has both) ? Are there any major Linux related issues when using the DVI output of a video card ? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, opinions, flames, etc. :-) Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

June 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux kernel development project in MA

by Brock

On 2004.06.11.15.27, Dwight Ernest wrote: | Mike Frysinger wrote: | | >On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:49 am, ken(a)netguru-system.com wrote: | > | >>Senior Linux Kernel developer--- 5 Plus years of software development in | >>Linux/Unix development including systems level Unix development. | > | > | >>Contact Ken with resume in word format | > | > | >so you want a hardcore Linux developer but they also must use the MS Word | >format ? :) | >-mike | | In this market, if I had the skills, and they requested that I etch my | resume on gold leaf before submission, I probably would do so. What ever happened to Nerds Ruling The World?! We must not appear weak! We must work towards the day when they request our resumes in their original TeX glory! Custom macros and all! --Brock

June 12, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux kernel development project in MA

by Mike Frysinger

On Friday 11 June 2004 03:27 pm, Dwight Ernest wrote: > In this market, if I had the skills, and they requested that I etch my > resume on gold leaf before submission, I probably would do so. true ... and considering the work, i might even consider gay sexual favors -mike

June 11, 2004

Re: [Wlug] email sending problem with comcast

by Charles A. Haines

Shoot the traces to the list, I'll take a look at them. I've had similar weird problems such as this, it's probably and easy fix. Chuck ====================== Charles A. Haines Web Developer 3G Publishing ====================== http://www.3gpub.com ====================== Quoting Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net>: > > HI all, > > This is driving me nuts...I still have that problem where I get intermittent > failures while sending email, even after hard coding the IP number for > smtp.comcast.net (they normally have 4 different IPs...I hard coded one to > make debug easier). > > Does anybody know the SMTP protocol sufficiently that they could help me > debug > this problem ? I have ethereal traces - one when it works, and another when > it doesn't. I see differences, but I don't know why, nor do I know what I > should do as a remedy. > > Thanks, > > Andy > > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA USA > http://www.wlug.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

June 11, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux kernel development project in MA

by Dwight Ernest

Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:49 am, ken(a)netguru-system.com wrote: > >>Senior Linux Kernel developer--- 5 Plus years of software development in >>Linux/Unix development including systems level Unix development. > > >>Contact Ken with resume in word format > > > so you want a hardcore Linux developer but they also must use the MS Word > format ? :) > -mike In this market, if I had the skills, and they requested that I etch my resume on gold leaf before submission, I probably would do so. -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

June 11, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux kernel development project in MA

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 11:49 am, ken(a)netguru-system.com wrote: > Senior Linux Kernel developer--- 5 Plus years of software development in > Linux/Unix development including systems level Unix development. > Contact Ken with resume in word format so you want a hardcore Linux developer but they also must use the MS Word format ? :) -mike

June 11, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Hibernation

by Martin, Eric

Ok, I'm using 2.4. Yes, ACPI is more recent than APM....I tried 2.6 once and stuff worked oddly, so I went back to 2.4 (2.4 gentoo-sources as opposed to ck-2.6 for all you gentoo buffs). Thank you all, I guess I'll have to get 2.6 working... Eric -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:30 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Hibernation On Thursday 10 June 2004 3:54 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:53 pm, Martin, Eric wrote: > > does anybody know of a hibernate mode in linux (suspend to disk)? > > If there is, where? If there isn't, how hard is that to code? > > my ppc laptop has suppport via the hardware in 2.6 ... there's also > 'Software Suspend' and 'Suspend-to-Disk' support in 2.6 for all x86 > machines ... -mike Note that my laptop is running a 2.6 kernel and that the hibernate mode works pretty well, actually! When the user invokes the hibernate mode (suspend to disk) the software writes its info into the swap file, and then the machine powers off. When the machine is later powered on and starts to boot, a parameter is passed to the kernel which tells it to look at the swap file. If the swap file has valid "hibernate info" in it, the machine will resume that state, otherwise it will perform a normal boot sequence. I'm pretty sure I'm using ACPI, which is (I believe) a more recent standard than APM. Check to see what your hardware supports. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

June 11, 2004

Re: [Wlug] email sending problem with comcast

by Dwight A. Ernest

Andy Stewart wrote: > HI all, > > This is driving me nuts...I still have that problem where I get intermittent > failures while sending email, even after hard coding the IP number for > smtp.comcast.net (they normally have 4 different IPs...I hard coded one to > make debug easier). > > Does anybody know the SMTP protocol sufficiently that they could help me debug > this problem ? I have ethereal traces - one when it works, and another when > it doesn't. I see differences, but I don't know why, nor do I know what I > should do as a remedy. > > Thanks, > > Andy > I know SMTP pretty well; send me the traces and I'll see what I can do. -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

June 11, 2004

email sending problem with comcast

by Andy Stewart

HI all, This is driving me nuts...I still have that problem where I get intermittent failures while sending email, even after hard coding the IP number for smtp.comcast.net (they normally have 4 different IPs...I hard coded one to make debug easier). Does anybody know the SMTP protocol sufficiently that they could help me debug this problem ? I have ethereal traces - one when it works, and another when it doesn't. I see differences, but I don't know why, nor do I know what I should do as a remedy. Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

June 11, 2004