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Photo organiser and DVD authoring program
by Graham 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

For the past 12 months or so I've been working on a skunkworks project to organise my photographs, both digital and scanned from paper. Although far from complete it's now fairly stable and I've recently added a module to author DVD videos, having sampled a few other authoring programs and not been very impressed. I would welcome feedback from anyone able and willing to give it a try. Here's a brief feature list: 1 Photo organiser with 3-level assignable categories (to be extended to multi-way, multi-level categories). 2 Create captioned HTML slideshows from any selection of images, with optimal image sizing for Web use. 3 Screen capture module creates slideshows directly. 4 DVD authoring module acts as a front end to spumux, dvdauthor, etc. 5 Full GUI interface with Linux and Windows compatibility. 6 Built-in help documentation. 7 Open Source license - source available on request. Development assistance would be most welcome. And here's the URL: http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html Please bear in mind that the software has only so far been used by three people, so don't expect commercial-standard robustness if you do unexpected things with it. Contact me with any questions, particularly if it won't run for you. -- GT

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Re: [ALUG] "Phone fraud"
by tom potts 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Is it just me? Surely if someone steals money from my bank account by fraud the bank would not insist I pay it and their associated profits? If someone puts a dialler on my machine without my permission they're attempting to steal my money. Therefore BT are an associate to the fact if they try and make you cough up? They should be helping to prevent theft - or is this some leftover attitude problem from their monopoly days? ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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"Phone fraud"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

ALUGgers who watched this evening's "Look East" will have seen that dialup phone fraud is in the news again -- people getting phone bills for hundreds of pounds for internet calls to Vanuatu, Chile, etc. on premium rates. Some Linux-users may have seen it too! What I'd like to ask knowledgeable folk is: how does it in fact work? I've never seen more than a vague description of it, on the lines that when one is on line "the call is diverted to a premium rate number", apparently through some subversion of Internet Explorer. Well, just how does that happen? Does it disconnect and then immediately dial out to a new number, unnoiticed by the user? Does it change the dialup settings as originally stored in some system file and use these thereafter? By what mechanisms are these activities mediated? This is not really a question about IE, though I'm sure that some "feature" of IE has a lot to do with it. I'm also interested in the question of how "generalisable" this mechanism might be: is it a transferrable skill, so that what can be done to IE today could be done to Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, ... , tomorrow? (I find it reassuring that kppp throws up a window during the dialup process in which the dialog with the modem is shown, so that one can actually see what number is being dialled.) Thanks in advance for informed replies! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 25-Nov-04 Time: 19:11:57 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. Regards, Keith ____________ Since it is no part of the words we unthinkingly use, it leaves no trace in the things we say. - Dogen

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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu Gotcha
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Just checked Ubuntu Bugzilla and it has been reported by others. Regards, Keith ____________ CONSERVATIVE, n. - A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary > -----Original Message----- > From: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk > [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Keith Watson > Sent: 29 November 2004 15:52 > To: ALUG Main (E-mail) > Subject: [ALUG] Ubuntu Gotcha > > > passed a copy of Ubuntu onto a work colleague who fell upon > it with glee and installed it on his Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop. > He wanted dual boot with Windows XP. All went well until he > found that on selecting Windows XP from the Grub menu he got > "NTLDR not found". > > After checking the grub menu.lst file on my system (I dual > boot between windows XP and Linux quite happily) and making > sure that they were the same, a quick google brought up this > little gem on the Fedora bug list; > > Bug 115980 - will not boot to windows partition using grub > menu > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=115980> > > Reading through the text it seems that this has more to do > with the BIOS settings rather than the distro used. > > Regards, > > Keith > ____________ > A bend in the road is not the end of the road... - unless > you fail to make the turn. > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! >

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Ubuntu Gotcha
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

passed a copy of Ubuntu onto a work colleague who fell upon it with glee and installed it on his Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop. He wanted dual boot with Windows XP. All went well until he found that on selecting Windows XP from the Grub menu he got "NTLDR not found". After checking the grub menu.lst file on my system (I dual boot between windows XP and Linux quite happily) and making sure that they were the same, a quick google brought up this little gem on the Fedora bug list; Bug 115980 - will not boot to windows partition using grub menu <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=115980> Reading through the text it seems that this has more to do with the BIOS settings rather than the distro used. Regards, Keith ____________ A bend in the road is not the end of the road... - unless you fail to make the turn.

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RE: [ALUG] SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> From: Martyn Drake Sent: 29 November 2004 14:24 > > Keith Watson wrote on 29 November 2004 13:54: > > > take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. > > Love it! "SCO - We own your code - pay us all your money", > and it's been > cleverly integrated into the site design too. I think it's > an inside job, > that or they've suddenly got a sense of humour :) Or maybe it isn't a crack? Maybe the people in charge have decided that honesty is the best policy ;-) Keith ____________ 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, - and that has made all the difference.' - - Robert Frost

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RE: [ALUG] SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> From: Craig Sent: 29 November 2004 14:14 > On 29 Nov 2004, at 13:54, Keith Watson wrote: > > > take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. > > They had something else on there last week and still they got > cracked. > Amusing. Makes you wonder if there's an insider involved?

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Session managers - driving me mad!
by Chris Green 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

This is beginning to drive me crazy, I can't get *any* of xdm, kdm or gdm to work sensibly for me. Of the three at the moment gdm is closest, it's fairly easy to configure to allow remote connections and to disable local ones. The only thing it lacks at the moment is that I can't make it default to xfce (as per my previous messages). kdm is the most frustrating program invented. It's effectively impossible (without arcane knowledge) to get it configured so that it allows remote connections. Since remote connections are just about the only point of running XDMCP this seems a bit silly. The KDE control centre configuration window for KDM allows all sorts of cosmetic changes but nothing useful. xdm used to work but for some odd reason the version that comes with slackware 10 is built for IPV6 and just falls over when run on my current slackware 10 system. (OK, rant over, I'll go away and cry for a while) -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: [ALUG] SSH secure login problem
by C Neil Bauers 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

>> I have been lurking here for a while wondering what this group is all >> about and suddenly I've got a problem where you might be able to help. >> >> I am trying to do passive ftp file transfers tunelled over an SSH >> secure login. > >Have you thought about scp? Secure copy. There is a windows app called >winscp (its on freshmeat.net) > >John winscp - That works really well and I didn't know about it. So I am up and running. Great. Thanks for the suggestion. Really useful. I'd still like to get dreamweaver working over ssh beacuse the files would upload automatically on saving. Neil.

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Printers problem
by Nick Daniels 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Friday 26 November 2004 10:13, Keith Watson wrote: > > From: Nick Daniels Sent: 25 November 2004 20:13 > > > > Hi > > I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, > > this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since > > Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 > > the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. > > Have I overlooked anything obvious? > > Regards > > Nick Daniels > > I had something like this when I installed my Canon S600. IIRC I resolved > it by playing around with the dpi resolution in the printer config page in > CUPS. Which may or may not apply in your case but.... > > Regards, > > Keith Many thanks I got half way last night by playing with the dpi resolution, so it seems that is where the problem is. This morning I was offered an Epson someone was discarding and that works fine. Best Regards Nick Daniels

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Still confused about my printer fonts
by Chris Green 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

I'm still very lost on the printer fonts front. I've been playing with different applications under KDE and Kword for example can print in a number of fonts. In particular it gives me a series of Bitstream Vera fonts and Luxi fonts to choose from. Plus it gives me Serif and Sans Serif which are actually just aliases for the Bitstream Vera ones. However the application I want to use, knoda, which is a KDE applicatioa,n only presents me with five fonts and in reality four out of the five actually print Courier and the fifth (Serif) is the only one which prints anything presentable. Can anyone suggest what might be going on here? By the way I have rebuilt knoda from the source and it behaves exactly the same as the Slackware .tgz package that I originally installed. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #362 - 16 msgs
by John Seago 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 21:27, Adam wrote: > I am, so is Kirsty we are already giving lifts so have no room left in > the car. I will be bringing some nice shiny Ubuntu CD sets for people > who want them. If I and others remember to bring the bits needed there > will be the facilities for a gpg keysigning. I will also be bringing > along some junk^H^H^H^Hwonderful hardware that I want to get rid of. Can you put me down for one of the Ubuntu CD sets please? Having discovered that Ottakar's are giving them away, I neglected to get one for my son-in-law. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS (http://www.affs.org.uk/)

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SSH secure login problem
by C Neil Bauers 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

I have been lurking here for a while wondering what this group is all about and suddenly I've got a problem where you might be able to help. I am trying to do passive ftp file transfers tunelled over an SSH secure login. I am running vsftpd on a SuSE 8.1 box. I can do ssh logins to this box. Normal ftp works fine. OpenSSH appears to be installed and running. I can do sftp to localhost if logged into the console or via an SSH connection. I am using Macromedia MX on Windoze to create the files I want to transfer. I have read the manual and followed their instructions to install putty.exe and plink.exe. Things seem to be nearly working but I am clearly missing a step or two. When I try to upload a file, I'm prompted to do the ssh login. After that the ftp transfer fails. I think the SuSE box is misconfigured but I have failed to google up a solution. I suspect I'm failing to understand something deep so I'm searching google for the wrong stuff. Any ideas? Neil.

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Printers problem
by Nick Daniels 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hi I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. Have I overlooked anything obvious? Regards Nick Daniels

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Re: My Xorg video setup
by John Seago 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

This may be a rather silly question, but have you run xorgconfig, or did you just use the setting of xorg which arises at the end of the install? -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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RE: [ALUG] Another printer problem
by Keith Watson 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

> From: Hyperbit Sent: 26 November 2004 16:43 > Finally, Linux will be hardware friendly ah, but when will hardware be Linux friendly? :o) Keith ____________ What you think you own, owns you. - Zen Saying

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RE: [ALUG] Printers problem
by Keith Watson 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

> From: Nick Daniels Sent: 25 November 2004 20:13 > > Hi > I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, > this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since > Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 > the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. > Have I overlooked anything obvious? > Regards > Nick Daniels > I had something like this when I installed my Canon S600. IIRC I resolved it by playing around with the dpi resolution in the printer config page in CUPS. Which may or may not apply in your case but.... Regards, Keith ____________ The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

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My Xorg video setup
by Chris Green 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

I've taken a look at my Xorg.0.log file and, among other things, it has:- (--) GLINT(0): FIFO Size is 256 DWORDS (==) GLINT(0): Min pixel clock is 16 MHz (--) GLINT(0): Max pixel clock is 110 MHz (II) GLINT(0): LGFlatron: Using hsync range of 30.00-107.00 kHz (II) GLINT(0): LGFlatron: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-200.00 Hz (II) GLINT(0): Clock range: 16.25 to 110.00 MHz (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "360x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) ... ... ... (II) GLINT(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) ... ... ... (II) GLINT(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (no mode of this name) ... ... ... (--) GLINT(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280) (**) GLINT(0): *Default mode "1280x1024": 108.0 MHz, 64.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz (II) GLINT(0): Modeline "1280x1024" 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (**) GLINT(0): *Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz (II) GLINT(0): Modeline "1024x768" 94.50 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync (**) GLINT(0): Default mode "1280x960": 108.0 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz (II) GLINT(0): Modeline "1280x960" 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (**) GLINT(0): Default mode "1152x864": 108.0 MHz, 67.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz (II) GLINT(0): Modeline "1152x864" 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (**) GLINT(0): Default mode "1152x768": 65.0 MHz, 44.2 kHz, 54.8 Hz The 1280x1024 line is the highest resolution one that appears with that "Modeline" start, does that mean that it's the highest resolution that Xorg thinks is possible? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Reminder: Meeting Sunday@Syleham
by John Woodard 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Memory Jog Meeting this Sunday at Syleham Village Hall 2:00 - 6:00pm bring kit if you want. The bar will be open. Details on http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings. Cheers, BJ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.2 - Release Date: 24/11/2004

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Further video info/questions
by Chris Green 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Further to my lat post my Xorg.0.log file also has the following lines:- (II) GLINT(0): Manufacturer's mask: 10 (II) GLINT(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) GLINT(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 60 vid: 16433 (II) GLINT(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853 (II) GLINT(0): #2: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 85 vid: 22881 (II) GLINT(0): #3: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 75 vid: 36737 (II) GLINT(0): #4: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 85 vid: 39297 (II) GLINT(0): #5: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 75 vid: 20393 (II) GLINT(0): #6: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 85 vid: 22953 (II) GLINT(0): #7: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337 Does this mean it thinks I *can* have a 1600x1200 setup? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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xorgconfig, video resolution, xdm and gdm - queries and tips
by Chris Green 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

This is as much a story of my upgrade as anything but there are some tips and questions embedded in it as well. As I said the Slackware 9.1 to 10 upgrade went pretty smoothly, all the really vital things like the networking started up with no problems at all after the upgrade. The two things that needed some work were the xfree -> xorg move and xdm. After finding xorgconfig (thank you whoever it was) the basics of video configuration were quite easy. Just copying my xfree config file to xorg.conf worked reasonably well and I then ran xorgconfig to check it as much as to change it. The next issue was that xdm didn't work, since I use a Win2k system to display my Linux desktop (via the Cygwin/X server) this was rather vital to me. I found that 'startx' would bring my xfce desktop up OK on the local display but xdm gave an error in its log file saying that XDMCP failed to open a socket with errno 97. A bit of investigation (Google search) suggested that this might be that the xdm I had was expecting IPV6. So I sidestepped the problem by trying gdm instead, this works perfectly and looks a bit prettier too so I'm happy. I did have a bit of a problem initially when trying to login on my Win2k machine but that turned out to be because I was typing away on the wrong keyboard! The one remaining video issue is that I can't get the native video resolution that I want, the card supports the 1600x1200 that I want and so does the display but I can't get it to actually do it. The remote desktop via gdm is at 1600x1200 but when I fire up a local desktop I get only 1024x768. I've put the 1600x1200 resolutions as my first choice in the xorg.conf file, what is limiting it to less? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Printer fonts
by Chris Green 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

What decides the fonts available for printers? I want to make a few more fonts available when printing from knoda (a KDE application) as there isn't a decent sans-serif font at the moment. How do I add a printer font for use in a specific application? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Fonts (well typefaces actually) and printers in Linux
by Chris Green 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

My upgrade to Slackware 10 went fairly smoothly last night and I seem to have most of the system back to normal - with the intended bonus that I now have a set of compatible and reasonably up to date libraries to build against. The next task in my migration of an Access 97 application to Linux is to make more fonts available for printing from a couple of KDE applications. I can't at the moment get my mind round where the fonts on the system come from as each application I run seems to have a different view of what's available. However the particular requirement at the moment is to get a decent looking sans-serif font for knoda to print with. Many applications (and most of KDE) seem to have the Bitstream Vera font family available as screen and print fonts. However knoda doesn't show these as available, all it shows is an odd collection (from memory):- Courier Utopia Cursor Monospace a.n.other (Dingbats?) In reality when I print anything in size 10 from knoda it looks like Courier to me. I installed knoda using a Slackware package (i.e. it was pre-compiled in a .tgz file), could this be the problem? I.e. whoever built knoda and packaged it had a different set of fonts which don't match what I have? If so it's not a problem to build it myself. As a more generic question it would be useful to know how applications decide what printer fonts are available. All the FAQs and HOWTOs I've looked at don't seem to address the issue of printer fonts at all, they seem to assume that once you can see the font on screen everything is done. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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