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GIMP Print Anyone?
by Keith Watson 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

1st thanks for the advice on how to get my Canon S400 up and running at the last meeting. Lots of useful ideas. I still haven't quite got beyond the printer, whenever I print something, going through a couple of head cleaning cycles and then going back to sleep but I have uninstalled CUPS, installed a 'proper' copy of Ghostscript, and also PDQ and Magicfilter. I like PDQ, especially xpdq. I not sure that mf is giving me anything at the moment but I'm keeping it by, just in case :o). At present reading up on how fonts are handled within X, Gnome, Ghostscript, etc. because I'm pretty sure they aren't set up correctly. OK, to get the point at last. While browsing around the printing projects on SourceForge I came across Gimp-Print <http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/index.php3> which seems to be one of the few that supports the S400 directly instead of as a BJC600. I've got hold of a copy and I'm going to give it a try. Anyone else ever used it? Incidentally there's an article on LinuxPlanet that mentions it <http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3689/1/> Regards, Keith ____________ 'If there is a better solution...find it.' - Thomas Edison

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Networking Problem
by Ian Douglas 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Hi folks, I got a new PC today and have been busy beavering away installing Linux on its hard disk and setting it up to dual boot. Everything seems to have gone smoothly apart from my ethernet connection (Realtek RTL8139). My routing table is as follows: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 If I try and ping any other hosts I get "Destination Unreachable" errors: PING suzy.suseland.net (192.168.3.61) from 192.168.3.70 : 56(84) bytes of data.

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Warchalking!!
by Keith Watson 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Following on from the discussions about wireless devices at the last meeting, here's some Computing articles that may be of interest; Chalk symbols expose London's wireless points <http://www.networknews.co.uk/News/1133055> WLAN hackers chalk up attacks <http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeekopinion/1133308> Keith ____________ Stand still. The trees ahead and the bush beside you are not lost. Albert Einstein

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Isdn anyone?
by tom potts 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

I've got ISDN at home which I normally access through my NT box as I've never managed to get it to work under RH7.2/Mandrake/Suse or others. My NT box self destructed last nite (well its 9 year old harddrive did) so I wish to get up on ISDN. I've hunted high and low for FAQ's etc but the only two I've found dont seem to work. Better still does Freesco have support for ISDN? Or maybe ADSL cos I might upgrade so I Consume theneighbourhood Cheers Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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blackbox automatic startup
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Hi All, I want blackbox to start automatically when i run startx. I tried putting exec blackbox in various .xsession and .xinitrc files to no avail. So then I found myself trawling about places like /etc/X11/Xsession.d (in debian) looking at how variables are called, all very entertaining but I'm sure there is an easier way. Like "bbconf", except that didn't do anything either. Creating a file called .xsession in my home directory and putting exec blackbox in doesn't help. Help! Nothing helps! Any ideas? Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] blackbox automatic startup
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Adam Bower wrote: >X is evil :) it is not meant to be understood. Anyhow create the file .xinitrc >and add the one line exec blackbox and then change the permissions on the file >to read and execute for just you and then try startx. That did the job just beautifully, thanks Adam! I hereby nominate you as the phone support for the group (/me runs). Jenny.

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RE: [Alug] blackbox automatic startup
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Keith Watson wrote: >> I want blackbox to start automatically when i run startx. I tried putting >> exec blackbox in various .xsession and .xinitrc files to no avail. > >Are you using Gnome or KDE? (or just the basic XFree86?) and, if so, are you >using something like Enlightenment or Sawfish on top of that? I *think* wmaker. I don't fully understand x and xservers, having been pretty much a cli luddite till now. Endeavouring to learn. Thanks, Jen.

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RE: [Alug] blackbox automatic startup
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Ricardo wrote: >If you wanted to boot directly into X, then I would say >install GDM, but I guess that's not what you want? No, just for blackbox to start when I type startx. I think it is just to do with putting "exec blackbox" in the right file, but the one the helpful goole doc suggested isn't there (.xinitrc in home directory type stuff). At the moment when I startx I get a grey background with an xterm window, nothing else, until I type the appropriate window manager in the xterm. When I said earlier "I don't fully understand x..", by the way, I meant "I have absolutely no idea how x works" ;-) Jen.

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Re: [Alug] A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing
by Kelly Ash 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Installing should not be too scary or such a big problem, especially as you have a new drive to put linux onto, there is very very little chance of dataloss etc. what OS are you going to dual boot Linux with? Windows NT/2000/9x? >>>Win98se Also if you do find it scary can you not make one of the Alug meetings where somebody will quite happily install (well try ;)) linux for you... If not where in the world are you as somebody could perhaps come and help you in person. (btw i just had a thought, could we not offer some kind of telephone helpline to people who are stuck 50% of the way through an install?) >>>Appreciate the thought, don't feel quite so nervous now. Was mainly worried about doing something wrong and then not having ANY puter to work with until I'd figured it out. And, btw, I'm near Yarmouth :-)

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Boot Loaders
by Keith Watson 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

As I'm booting from 2 disks hda=Windows and hdb=GNU/Linux, can I solicit views on what boot loaders are out there and which are suitable for this sort of configuration? Keith ____________ COMMERCE, n. A commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is money. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary --- This message has been scanned for computer viruses and none have been detected. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.375 / Virus Database: 210 - Release Date: 10/07/2002

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