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Hardware Benchmark tools
by Albert A. Modderkolk 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

I have changed my vintage 850Mhz AMD for an AMD 3000+ on an ASUS E8N, double mem banks and a SATA disk which should go at 400 Mhz. Performance is certainly better but not dramatically so. Is there some tool that can show me the performance and possibly bottle necks? Tia, Albert

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samba
by Kevin Passey 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi I have samba set up on an RHEL2 box and have set it up the same on a fc4 box. My problem is that I cannot connect using XP to the fc4 box. It sort of works as I can connect to a share in tmp. However whenever I try and connect to my home share it continues to ask for a password. I'm sure I have access to samba as the tmp share works. Can anybody point me to some good HowTO's Thanks Kevin

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Thunderbird email reader -
by bobgoodwin 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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

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lapack error (example)
by Globe Trotter 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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FC4 / character encoding - Writer / gedit
by Marc M 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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

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Root Help New to Linux
by PSapia 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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

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Re: OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out
by Erik Hemdal 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

> 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

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Compaq DeskPro SB FC4
by Randall J. Berry 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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

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Modifying a TrueType Font name/style
by Michael A. Peters 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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.

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Nut,usb and installation
by david walcroft 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

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

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