April 2005 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

word perfect
by donald vitkus 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux any ideas

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Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0
by John Stoffel 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

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

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ldifde for linux?
by Justin Odom 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Figured I'd throw this out there. I am working on a project that requires me to push .ldf files from a linux server to a window 2003 server. Basically creating the same accounts on the linux system onto the windows system. Does anyone know of linux program that is equivalent of the windows "ldifde" program? It needs to be able to create a secure connection with ldaps. Thanks in advance, -- Justin Odom

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fedora 1
by Jerome Walczak 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Fedora 1 - Realtek card (swapped out the MN-130) - dualboot with Win ME - and working like a charm:) It's so much faster cleaner and better than the old Windows that I wish I could get rid of Win entirely but I know if I do somebody'll complain so it stays. Now - what're good security measures for a public internet terminal (which is basically what it is)? I already have the firewall set at a high level, but what should I do beyond that? Do I need to setup some form of antivirus protection? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.2 - Release Date: 4/21/2005

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Caching DNS
by Chuck Noyes 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hi All, I just installed a caching DNS server at work on a SuSE 9.2 server. It works great. My question is how can I view the contents of the cache? I've "googled" around and looked at the HOWTO docs, but no joy. Thanks, -Chuck

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[OT] Python Jobs
by Jeff Kinz 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

As some of you may already know I was at Dragon Systems in the mid 90's porting their speech recognition product to the Alpha platform (under NT :( ). The (then) director of software development just posted this to the Exdragons list. > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0400, Sean True wrote: > > Roger Matus and I wanted to let the exDragon community know that we > > are off and running on our new company, InBoxer, Inc. InBoxer is the > > successor to Audiotrieve, LLC and was created to allow us to focus on > > technologies and products for electronic message filtering. > > Although we will continue to sell our current product, the InBoxer > > spam filter, the investors want us to to build products to help keep > > people from sending inappropriate email messages (think of it as an > > harassment and liability checker that runs before the message leaves > > your machine). > > We are starting to look for technical people: research engineering > > skills, Windows application development, server development, or > > Python experience are particularly interesting. > Hi Sean, > Would you like this passed on to the main Linux groups for MA and NH? > And is any of your development done on Linux or UNIX? In my heart, I would like to do it all on Linux. All shipped code will be on Windows for the foreseeable future. Since it will all be in Python, most of it will be pretty crossplatform. Please pass this along with that caveat. -- Sean Sean True CTO InBoxer, Inc. send replies to: "Sean True" <seant(a)webreply.com> Personal notes: Sean lead software at Dragon during the period of time that their new continuous speech recognition (CSR) product was developed. That product, "Dragon Naturally speaking" is still considered the best "CSR" on the market today. (it is now owned by "ScanSoft") Managing large groups of software developers is never an easy task. At Dragon Sean was an excellent leader who took care of his people. He understands software development from both the developers and business needs perspectives. Full Disclosure: I have no relationship with Sean's company, financial or otherwise. I'm posting this because I believe it will be a good place to work. (even if it is (currently) windows oriented :). -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.

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New problem! FC3 install
by Jerome Walczak 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Jared & everyone - thanks for all your help & advice, I'm going to try Ubuntu I think if I can't get FC 3 to work out. The problem I'm having now is with the FC 3 install. I burned the four cd's and upgraded my old box & everything went fine, a bit slow but fine (install took about an hour). Now I boot up for the first time and as soon as it hits kudzu and checks for newly installed equipment the monitor goes to vertical colored lines. I read that this can be fixed by editing the xorg.conf (or something like that) file & setting everything to defaults & that the issue is basically with the monitor being set at too high a resolution but how do I do that? Anger Is A Gift. -----Original Message----- From: Jared Greenwald [mailto:greenwaldjared@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:43 AM To: Jerome Walczak Subject: Re: [Wlug] FW: MN-130? That depends on how you characterize "easier to work with"... If you mean - easier to install - you might want to try ubuntu linux (http://ubuntulinux.org). If you mean - easier package management - you might want Gentoo. I have to say that I'm rather biased towards Gentoo - purely because I used it in most of my systems that don't have to be Redhat/Fedora/Suse. (I work for a major software house and our main product is supported on the various Redhat and Suse streams so I have to have some systems running those OSes.) All of my home network servers, and both my home and office desktops are both Gentoo (I'm also currently building a mythtv box - http://mythtv.org - and that's Gentoo also). The biggest thing with Gentoo is that you compile everything - so when a new version of KDE comes out - you compile the whole thing - but you don't actually sit there and run make. The thing that I like the most is that the package management is really good. Everything is designed to pull the source kits (and any patches) directly from the project webpage for a given project. You just tell the install tools that you want to install or upgrade a package and it figures out all of the appropriate dependencies for your system (depending on what you already have installed and some configuration params) then it starts downloading source and building things automagically. Also, since you are building the system up from scratch (there is no gui installer or anything - all command-line) you get to decide exactly what is on your system and exactly how it gets setup. There's about 100 core packages (including kernel source, system logger, cron, etc...) but that doesn't include X or any of those things - which is nice for server installations. I've found that the Fedora installer hides too much for installing servers - for desktops its not really all that clear either. Ubuntu hides everything, but you go into it knowing that and it actually figures out what type of installation its doing (laptop/desktop). I had that on my laptop for a while and it ran really well - there's not much package selection there - its more a pre-canned set of binaries depending on your system type (it even knew to download the gnome battery applet for monitoring my laptop battery). So, now that I've sufficiently confused you... did that help at all? Keep in mind that I wrote this at 2:45A - so it might be a little incoherent and rambling... Let me know whatever questions you have and I'll try to answer them... -Jarred -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.2 - Release Date: 4/21/2005

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FW: MN-130?
by Jerome Walczak 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

OK here we go - I'm a Linux newbie &'ve used Mandrake in the past occasionally but that's about it. I've installed Fedora 1 on an old computer at work but it has an MN-130 network card & the system isn't recognizing that it's there. According to a couple articles I've checked I need to edit the Tulip driver (tulip_core.c) & add a line of code at line 201. I did this and then checked the dependencies & typed modules_install & restarted the system & STILL the network card didn't show up. What am I doing wrong? Does anyone have any advice to get me out of this frustration? I'm very close to swapping out the card for another one that's more likely to work but I'd like to avoid that if possible ... Can anybody help? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.15 - Release Date: 4/16/2005

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Job opportunity
by Andy Stewart 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If interested, please reply directly to Elizabeth Holland (eholland(a)agencourt.com). - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: job opportunity Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:48:22 -0400 From: Elizabeth Holland <eholland(a)agencourt.com> Reply-To: eholland(a)agencourt.com <eholland(a)agencourt.com> Organization: Agencourt Bioscience To: andystewart(a)comcast.net <andystewart(a)comcast.net> Andy I received your name from a web search for Linux users. We currently have a job opening some of your members may be interested it. If you could pass the below job around, I would appreciate it. Thanks Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, located in Beverly, Massachusetts, is a trusted provider of genomic services and nucleic acid purification products. We are dedicated to designing solutions for overcoming all of our clients' current and future discovery challenges. Agencourt is a dynamic and growing company that is committed to providing employees with a fast paced environment and a fun place to work. As a result of our significant growth, we have an immediate need for a *Research Programmer* * * The role of Programmer will be to support an in-house R&D effort to develop a new DNA sequencing technology. We seek a productive programmer who enjoys working in an academic style collaborative environment and meets the requirements listed below. BS or higher in Math, Science, or Engineering Proficiency in Linux Experience with most of the following: C/C++, VB, PERL, Python, Java, PHP, MySQL, MatLab/Mathematica Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter with salary requirements to hr(a)agencourt.com <mailto:hr@agencourt.com> . Job Code RSP - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCaBsWHl0iXDssISsRAouQAJ9NQdHoLtqLJ9Hh1IJEFXwfO/rTugCfQCB8 p3axC/FvG7HMpmCjHmPd33c= =zeO0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re-iterate my topic idea
by Mike Leo 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

hi ya'll! After the utter silence from my last topic suggestion, you would think I wouldn't bring it up again, but... I have many very basic questions I would like to work through with you experts. Things like: kernel compiling/patching kernel-source vs kernel-headers frame buffers compiling software and USE flags lilo vs grub bootsplash WM/DE driver installs (NVidia/ATI) Again, I don't mind leading the discussion, but it would be boring as heck if I as the speaker just stood up there and asked questions and took notes as the audience did the talking. Thanks Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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