Thunderbird email reader -
by bobgoodwin
Does anyone tell me how to stop Thunderbird from asking
"Advance to next unread message in ................."
I need to use a large font to read messages easily and scroll through
them with the "space" bar. With bottom posted responses I have usually
read the original post and need to scroll to the bottom for the response
which can mean manipulating the space bar twenty times or more. If I
hold it down or overshoot the bottom of a message I get the stupid box
requiring that I "cancel" the offer to advance to another message. Or
worse yet get switched to a different directory by my mail filter. It's
almost enough for me to look for an alternative to Thunderbird. The
only thing that keeps me going is that I've always used Netscape, et.al.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
18 years, 6 months
lapack error (example)
by Globe Trotter
Here is an example: please try it and see what you get.
Included are files svdd-demo.c and array.h and test.dat
To compile, use
% gcc svdd-demo.c -ansi -Wall -pedantic -lm -llapack
% a.out
reading in matrix A from test.dat:
2.117079 2.992091
2.106365 1.970807
2.131384 3.130390
2.344235 2.667219
1.838804 3.243629
** On entry to DGESDD parameter number 12 had an illegal value
STOP 0
If you change m to <=4 it works fine. So there is an error for m "substantially
larger" than n (=2 here). Works fine on SuSE and RHEL3/4.
Thanks!
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18 years, 6 months
FC4 / character encoding - Writer / gedit
by Marc M
I got this message on a new build FC4 machine that says that
gedit was not able to automatically detect the character coding. Please,
check that you are not trying to open a binary file and try again selecting
a character coding in the 'Open File...' (or 'Open Location') dialog.
Writer app is unable to open the .doc file that someone sent me. I have no
idea how to check if it is binary or not and I thought that mainly meant
flat text files.
I am poking around Writer but havent' fixed it, any ideas anyone or is there
a quick rpm I can grab for another app that might work better than Writer or
gedit?
Thanks in advance --
Marc
18 years, 6 months
Root Help New to Linux
by PSapia
Hi,
When I install Fedora 4, I give the unit a Host=x2 & Doman=ter.com
Her is the problem when I give my root password this is what
i get: root@x2 Then when try to run a command.
ex: /etc/ssh/sshd_config port4932
This is what I get:
-bash: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Permission denied
Can someone Help!
Thanks
Sapia
18 years, 6 months
Re: OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out
by Erik Hemdal
> From: Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty(a)sbcglobal.net>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:22, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Why should I follow around after OO when I can just boot Windows in
> >>about a minute and a half, and be assured that the doc is ok? If OO
> >>knows there is a problem, then it should tell me. If there is no
> >>problem, it shouldn't frighten me. If it doesn't know, then
> why should
> >>I use it?
I agree about the "Danger Will Robinson!" warnings. They irritate me, but I
chalked it up to OO trying hard to be as much like MS Office as possible --
which in my experience does the same thing with a very similar, heavy-handed
message.
> >
> >
> > If you don't save it in a portable format yourself, you are
> > participating in forcing others to join the same proprietary
>
> This statement is on the face of it ridiculous.
Not really; I've heard similar statements from others who are strong
proponents of free software. You might not agree with it, but I think
allowing others that opinion is part of the cost of using free software.
Some of us use free software alongside proprietary code; others try to use
free software exclusively. I'm happy we have that choice.
The statement about forcing others to use proprietary formats does, however,
ignore that in some circles, free software is not available. When there is
no free alternative, we have to use proprietary software.
Mike's example is a good one. If an employer wants a resume in Word format,
and you need to find a job, then you send a Word file. It would be nice to
advocate for free software, but sometimes you are not in such a position.
One might need the job more than one needs the satisfaction of making a
point.
On the job, I have to advocate for what is best for my client, employer, or
customer. Sometimes that means I use proprietary software, and often it
doesn't. But ethically, I am required to work in the best interests of
those who rely on my expertise. Sometimes that means I can't ethically
advocate for free software.
> And so now I'm part of a vast conspiracy, a contributor to
> monopoly, tyranny, and other evil practices intended to
> subjugate the peoples of the third world, because I saved my
> resume in Word format instead of OO format, when OO itself
> warned me that it might not be a good idea.
>
> Grow up and give me a break.
>
> If there *was* a problem, OO should have told me, WHEN IT
> LOADED THE DOCUMENT, that the document contained things that
This isn't fair. To do this, you are asking OO to open your document,
compare all its elements across all features OO supports across all formats,
and provide you a compatibility report. That's technically possible, I
assume, but it would be a big programming challenge.
OO also would have to make guesses about features that might or might not be
in a future version of the "competitor's" software. I don't know how you
predict the future that way.
>
> It appears that OO is simply remembering what the format it
> loaded was, and noticing that it is different from the format
> it is going to use to save in, and then issuing a lazy-bones
> message which MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN ANYTHING.
>
> The only way to describe this is LAZY, SLOPPY PROGRAMMING.
I guess you could say that. But here I could insert the usual canard about
"contributing a patch that adds this function to OO". If OO should do as
you wish, you should be able to do that.
For those of us who can't (including me), we are left with two choices:
-- use OpenOffice for free and put up with a stupid, alarming compatibility
warning.
-- Buy MS Office for about $600 US and put up with a stupid, alarming
compatibility warning.
Maybe that's not much of a choice, but it's all we have...until someone
contributes that future-predicting, compatibility-checking patch to OO.
>
> NB: I'm not complaining that OO is gerally crappy and poorly
> written. I'm complaining that this one aspect of it is crappy
> and poorly written.
>
> Mike
I'd be happier with this in OpenOffice:
1. A message that says something like, "When you save in a different
format, some features in your document might not be saved properly. If you
have a complicated document, be sure to check the compatibility before
working on irreplaceable documents."
2. A way to see which features are well- or poorly-converted, so I can judge
the risk myself. Even a link to a documentation page in the big ugly
message would be useful.
3. A secondary-save in the "native" format, so that I can recover things if
I go awry. That means that saving a .DOC file as an .ODT file would save
two files, one .DOC and one .ODT. If the .ODT is broken, I still have the
"best-efforts" .DOC file.
Erik
18 years, 6 months
Compaq DeskPro SB FC4
by Randall J. Berry
Hello,
I have a Compaq DeskPro SB pII 266/66, 256MB pc133, 41GB in 2 HD's
(I know old Junk but I'm on a tight budget and this was a freebie)
FC 4 seems to notice the sound card as a generic ESS and it will play
sound but I cannot get any audio in from the Mic. I know the Mic
works, it just doesn't work in this machine.
I've also got 2 other sound cards one a Sound blaster the other a
generic ESS both are ISA as is the Compaq card. But none of these will
cards work. In fact the machine will not even boot to post with either
card installed in place of the Compaq card. Again, these cards work in
other machines.
Has anyone had any experience with these old dinosaurs in getting the
audio to work properly either with the installed card or a substitute?
If you've found a card that will work as a sub please let my know
which one it is I'd like to replace the Compaq one that's in there now.
tia
18 years, 6 months
Modifying a TrueType Font name/style
by Michael A. Peters
I recently purchased a font family that contains 22 fonts.
Each font though is marked as its own font family with regular style.
For example -
Wastrel - style regular
Wastrel Bold - style regular
Wastrel Light - style regular
Wastrel Oblique - style regular
Wastrel Bold Oblique - style regular
Wastrel Light Oblique - style regular
I want a command line tool or script or something to modify these so
that Wastrel Bold will be family Wastrel style Bold etc.
I could then reduce the 22 fonts in the font menu down to four (Wastel,
Wastrel Condensed, Wastrel Expanded, Wastrel Outline) - and using the
"bold" button in AbiWord etc. will work properly, using "Italic" will
use the real oblique instead of fontconfig generate fake italic, etc.
Based upon running strings on the Type1 (.pfb) version of the font, I'm
pretty sure I can change those appropriately - but I don't have a clue
on how to change the family name and style on the TrueType version of
the font. Any help would be appreciated.
This font, btw, is a nice substitute for Comic Sans MS - which has some
display issues in Linux (because of the Apple patents?) - but it would
be nice if it wasn't 22 different families - when really only four are
needed ...
Thanks for suggestions - I've wasted half a day googling. FontForge
looks like it might do it, but there has got to be a simpler way.
18 years, 6 months
Nut,usb and installation
by david walcroft
Hi,
I'm trying to set up my ups [Powermate 3105] so far :
1/ It's recognised as 'Vendor=0592 Prodid=0002'
2/ Kernel message : 'reddwarf kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 2'
I installed 'CheckUPS' from Powermate.com.au
Read posts at marc.theaimsgroup, didn't appear to help (serial
connections as against usb)
Have problems in understanding which port or pipe to use.
similar problem in uderstanding how you start it running and the config
files for me are murder to work through.
I realy need someone to help me install/run Nut/CheckUPS
Thanks david
18 years, 6 months
Re: Suspend/hibernation/sleep of laptop on FC4?
by Yordanis Tornes Medina
a few weeks ... I install a kernel from
http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ and it boot up my laptop,
but I could't ever make it suspend to my swap
partition... my swap partition is in an LVM, the error
was that path to swap is not recongnize as an device
id.
G
Message: 17
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:49:17 +0200
From: Patrick <fedora(a)puzzled.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Suspend/hibernation/sleep of laptop on
FC4?
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
<fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Message-ID:
<1128199757.3718.75.camel(a)guru.puzzled.xs4all.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 17:24 +0100, William John Murray
wrote:
[snip]
> Hi Patrick,
> I am very happy with the kernels from
Matthias Hensler:
> http://mhensler.de/swsusp/
> But you do have to install them one by one.
> Works for me.
> Bill
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the feedback. I'll throw one of these
kernels together and
try it out. Funny timing, www.swsusp2.net seems to
have disappeared.
Regards,
Patrick
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18 years, 6 months
Re: hard disk I/O error fixed only by hdparm -W0 - any clues?
by Stuart Levy
VJ <vijay.s.gill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a seagate hard disk with 8Mb cache. I get hard disk sector
> > I/O errors but those are easily fixed by using hdparm -W0 on the disk.
> > Running smart tools does not give any error. Is it because linux
> > kernel cannot cope with this cache or what? This disk works perfectly
> > under windoes XP though (I removed Fedora and installed XP).
Is it a SATA drive? And is your motherboard's controller a Silicon Image
one (uses "sata_sil" driver under Linux)? If so, I've seen that
problem too on some of our systems, and read about it elsewhere --
not sure where to point the finger, but it seems that
the Seagate SATA drives don't implement the protocol the way that the
Silicon Image controllers want, so you get spurious I/O errors.
(That is, they're real as seen from the Linux point of view, but don't
indicate bad spots on the disk, or failure of the drive electronics, etc.)
Haven't heard where the incompatibility lies, but "hdparm -W0" disables
write caching on the drive -- I bet that reduces performance a good deal,
so not the most desirable way to work around the problem.
Better workaround: other manufacturers' drives work fine, so you
might be able (... might have been able?) to return your Seagate
drive and get a similar one, e.g. from Western Digital. That's
what we did. I couldn't even *install* FC2 on our si-image-equipped
systems with a Seagate drive, nor with its replacement -- the installer
would detect an I/O error after copying a few tens of MB, and the
driver would lock up. But WD drives have worked flawlessly.
And dozens of Seagate drives are working well for us on other
SATA controllers.
18 years, 6 months