May 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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For Sale: Alpha PWS 600AU
by Phillip G Deneault 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

600mhz Alpha with 384megs of ram. On board sound and LAN. This is a REAL AU model, with the qlogic SCSI card and the powerstorm video card(in case you wanted to run OpenVMS). I would recommend using a different video card or using the serial console for anything BSD or Linux. I believe it has a 9 gig SCSI disk in it, but I've suplemented it with a 50gig IDE drive on the IDE chain. I've also replaced the IDE CD-ROM with an 68-pin SCSI CD-ROM(yes, thats right, 68-pin). I also have all the original docs with it. I was running FreeBSD 5.3 on it until a week ago when I upgraded the machine. Nice little hobby system. $200 bucks or best offer. If anyone has any questions, or wishes to haggle, please reply to me(and not the list, they hate that). Thanks, Phil

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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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AMD64 and 32-bit apps
by Carlton C. Stedman II 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Recently I've begun considering migrating over to the amd64 platform (my motherboard just died on my athlon xp system, much to my chagrin) and figure this is a good place to ask for users experiences. I'm not worried about my video card drivers, since NVIDIA has great amd64 support, at least, so I'm told. My main concern is that I need to install some 32-bit emulation libraries and kernel modules, so I've read, to compile 32-bit apps, and that some compiled 32-bit apps will only work under a 32-bit environment, requiring me to setup a seperate environment to chroot into. I'm running gentoo and I'm up to the task, just wondering if anyone has any experience in this specifically and anything I should be concerned about or not to worry too much about. Thanks. -- Carlton C. Stedman II, sageman(a)wpi.edu "To iterate is human, to recurse, divine." -- L. Peter Deutch

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Are any of us using Eclipse?
by Ken Jones 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

I am having problems getting eclipse SDK working on my Fedora Core 3 box. Is anyone running such a system? If so, I'd like to ask some questions. Ken Jones

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DNS question...
by Keller, Tim 27 May '05

27 May '05

Quick question I can't seem to find a google answer on. I've got a machine that gets it's IP via DHCP. Now on our network, the DNS name is pulled off the machine and auto registered. However this machine won't push its domain name. Any ideas where a) the setting for this might be b) any manual step you can use to update the DNS name? I looked at the nsupdate command, but I'm not sure that's the right command. Talking with the network guy, he recalls there being a graphical tool for Linux that would let you do this. Thanks, Tim.

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swappiness
by Chuck R. Anderson 23 May '05

23 May '05

We had a discussion about swappiness at the last meeting. Here's what my system defaults to: >cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) >cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 I don't see this being changed in any of the init scripts, so the default is most likely changed in the Fedora kernel from 100 to 60. If you want to tune it, you should be able to just stick this in /etc/sysctl.conf: vm.swappiness = <new value> Here is more information on what this is all about: http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000

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Monitors all gone!
by Doug Mildram 23 May '05

23 May '05

doug> No more monitors to give away, etc. Sorry!

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Re: glut of 21" monitors
by Norm Legare 21 May '05

21 May '05

When and where can these be looked at? I'd be interested in a couple. Norm > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:19:04 -0400 > From: Doug Mildram <doug.mildram(a)mindspeed.com> > Subject: [Wlug] glut of 21" monitors > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Message-ID: <20050517201904.GA15175(a)dogbert.westboro.mindspeed.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > doug> This may not have any appeal but : > > My Westborough MA office needs to give away quite a few (dozen or > more) of > > 21" NEC Accusync 1999-2000 vintage > or > 21" ViewSonic G810 1997-1998 vintage > > Free and Good. (The Not-So-Good ones, I'll dispose of elsewhere. > I won't dump fuzzy, burned-in, or bad ones into your > hands. ) > > ==================== > > One final "gem" : There's a Frank ???? on this wlug list > who I recall had a toshiba portege laptop: > Sorry I never snagged your full name/addr! > Need another Portege 71xx DVD/enet dock station? > > ================================================================ > Doug Mildram Mindspeed Technologies > 8 Technology Drive ( near EMC, 495 and route 9 ) > Westborough, MA 01581 > > > > > ------------------------------ > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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