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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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Power Supply Needed
by John Stoffel 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi all, Anyone have a Ilssan ISF 120SI compatible Power supply they'd be willing to sell me cheap? This is for an eMachines box that died in a lightning storm. It's for a couple with limited means and I just don't have any spares around the house at all. Specs for what I'm looking for: Input: 100-120VAC 3A Ouput: +3.3V +5V +12V -12V +%VSB 6A 14A 2A 0.3A 0.72A 120W It's a small power supply with a built in Fan that sticks out. More info (web pages for compatible ones) available on request. Thanks, John

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RH8.0 user in Worc. area
by Pete Wason 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hiall! I'm wondering if anybody's using RH8.0 and could assist me in a general package updating/security audit/admin session. Nothing too crazy, I just need some help grokking alternatives to up2date (yum, etc.) and making sure my server isn't bleeding wildly from it's little pointed head. I live in Sutton.. Pete

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pipermail, Mailman and FreeBSD
by Ken Jones 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

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RE: Wlug Digest, Vol 23, Issue 14
by Cretella, Michael A 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Bump that, I installed the same bad package on FC4, I ended up formatting anyways, going to give Kubuntu a shot.... Has anyone had any experience with kubuntu? --------------------------- Michael A Cretella Worcester Polytechnic Institute Electrical Computer Engineering '07 cretella(a)wpi.edu (203)610-3618 -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:00 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Wlug Digest, Vol 23, Issue 14 Send Wlug mailing list submissions to wlug(a)mail.wlug.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org You can reach the person managing the list at wlug-owner(a)mail.wlug.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Bad x11 package from fedora (Bill Mills-Curran) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:02:27 -0400 From: Bill Mills-Curran <bill(a)mills-curran.net> Subject: [Wlug] Bad x11 package from fedora To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)wlug.org> Message-ID: <20050920120227.GA12690(a)bday.mills.curran> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I installed a bad package from fedora over the weekend. xorg-x11.i386 6.8.2-1.FC3.45 There are a total of 13 packages that are associated with the upgrade. This also affects FC4. There is a beta fix that I hope to test tonight. DO NOT INSTALL THESE PACKAGES. If you have already installed the bad packages and are experiencing console lock-up, you can fight your way back by booting to single user mode, setting inittab to runlevel 3. At least your system will work at that level. Next, if you have another machine, you can get the old packages from fedora and downgrade (with the "--oldpackage" option). You can read about this at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168750 Bill ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug End of Wlug Digest, Vol 23, Issue 14 ************************************

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Bad x11 package from fedora
by Bill Mills-Curran 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

I installed a bad package from fedora over the weekend. xorg-x11.i386 6.8.2-1.FC3.45 There are a total of 13 packages that are associated with the upgrade. This also affects FC4. There is a beta fix that I hope to test tonight. DO NOT INSTALL THESE PACKAGES. If you have already installed the bad packages and are experiencing console lock-up, you can fight your way back by booting to single user mode, setting inittab to runlevel 3. At least your system will work at that level. Next, if you have another machine, you can get the old packages from fedora and downgrade (with the "--oldpackage" option). You can read about this at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168750 Bill

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USB Flash Drive on RH 9
by Dick Goodman 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

I'm not really fluent in device stuff, but I just configured a RH9 machine for a project, and was trying to offload some config files to a flash drive. After searching, I added to fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb_flash vfat noauto,user,rw,umask=0 0 0 and did a mkdir /mnt/usb_flash as root here's the log ... only partially recognized ... did a modprobe usb-storage after the "not claimed by any active driver" message...removed and inserted several times... umount obviously not recognized. Sep 18 12:32:45 dvorak kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.3-2, assigned address 2 Sep 18 12:32:45 dvorak kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xd7d/0x1600) is not claimed by any active driver. Sep 18 12:32:48 dvorak /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product d7d/1600/100 Sep 18 12:32:49 dvorak kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Sep 18 12:32:49 dvorak kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Sep 18 12:32:49 dvorak kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1284 Sep 18 12:32:49 dvorak kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Sep 18 12:35:30 dvorak kernel: resize_dma_pool: unknown device type -1 Sep 18 12:36:39 dvorak kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.3-2 address 2 Sep 18 12:36:41 dvorak devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted Sep 18 12:36:50 dvorak kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.3-2, assigned address 3 Sep 18 12:36:55 dvorak kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Sep 18 12:36:55 dvorak kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110) Sep 18 12:36:55 dvorak kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.3-2, assigned address 4 Sep 18 12:37:00 dvorak kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Sep 18 12:37:00 dvorak kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=4 (error=-110) Sep 18 12:41:56 dvorak kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.3-2, assigned address 5 Sep 18 12:42:01 dvorak kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Sep 18 12:42:01 dvorak kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=5 (error=-110) Sep 18 12:42:02 dvorak kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.3-2, assigned address 6 Sep 18 12:42:07 dvorak kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Sep 18 12:42:07 dvorak kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110) Any help would be appreciated Dick

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failed graphics
by Bill Mills-Curran 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Thank god for mutt... My motherboard integrated graphics died this evening. It still works in console mode (have to boot to init 3), but when I try to start graphics, or go to init 5 -- caput. What I see is a most of the firmware boot (e machine logo) with fritzed colors in a band across the top -- about 15% of the screen. I was wondering if I could just add a new card and have that work. To do that, I suppose I'd have to find a way to disable the motherboard graphics card Any ideas? If this seems like a good idea, can you recommend a reasonable graphics card? I'm not a gamer. The most graphics-intensive thing I do is watch a movie. TIA, Bill

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