Subject: Re: Alaska Computer Society
From: Wyatt Wheeler (wyatt_wheeler@dced.state.ak.us)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 09:44:21 AKDT
I see the meeting is on July 11, but would like to know where and when.
Wyatt Wheeler
aklug@aklug.org wrote:
> aklug Digest Sun, 23 Jun 2002 Volume: 01 Issue: 066
>
> In This Issue:
> ntpdate for system time
> Alaska Computer Society
> Re: Alaska Computer Society
> Mail delivery problems
> Re: Mail delivery problems
> software question
> OpenOffice.org Impress help
> Instructor
> Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
> Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
> Afrodot
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: "damien hull" <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
> Subject: ntpdate for system time
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:01:00 -0800
>
> I see some people are having trouble using "ntpdate ntp.alaska.edu". To use
> the ntpdate command you must be root. As far as finding the server or timing
> out, well, it's the Internet and sometimes that happens. It doesn't happen
> very off-ten but it does happen.
>
> Just so you all know I tested "ntpdate ntp.alaska.edu". It worked for me.
>
> Damien Hull
> www.digitaloverload.net
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Mike Barsalou <mbarsalou@aidea.org>
> Subject: Alaska Computer Society
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:49:16 -0800
>
> The Alaska Computer Society has told me that they are looking
> recycling/re-purposing old computers as well.
>
> Here is what Dawn Scott passed on to me:
>
> We are planning to devote our July 11 ACS meeting to a dialog with
> interested parties on how to recycle/repurpose computers. This is an
> ecological issue and also a social issue, so we will have a panel of people
> representing GreenStar, the Cristina Foundation/Parents Inc., and perhaps
> other such as Solid Waste Services, etc. We are hoping everyone will come
> who is interested in or can contribute to a solution to the ecological
> problem and help provide usable computers for positive purposes. Feel free
> to suggest other panel members and invite others who might be interested in
> this important topic.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:44:07 -0800
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> Subject: Re: Alaska Computer Society
>
> Perhaps AKLUG should be represented to bring up the benefits Linux can
> bring to a project like this..
>
> 1. Cost - Cheaper to use Linux/Mozilla/OpenOffice/etc than MS (and
> others') Windows counterparts
> 2. No need to worry about legality of licenses
> 3. Able to utilize older equipment better
> 4. Can be configured to use KDE/Gnome for better machines and
> lighter-weight WM's for older machines
>
> What else?
>
> Justin
>
> Mike Barsalou wrote:
>
> >The Alaska Computer Society has told me that they are looking
> >recycling/re-purposing old computers as well.
> >
> >Here is what Dawn Scott passed on to me:
> >
> >
> >We are planning to devote our July 11 ACS meeting to a dialog with
> >interested parties on how to recycle/repurpose computers. This is an
> >ecological issue and also a social issue, so we will have a panel of people
> >representing GreenStar, the Cristina Foundation/Parents Inc., and perhaps
> >other such as Solid Waste Services, etc. We are hoping everyone will come
> >who is interested in or can contribute to a solution to the ecological
> >problem and help provide usable computers for positive purposes. Feel free
> >to suggest other panel members and invite others who might be interested in
> >this important topic.
> >
> >
> >---------
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> >with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Mike Barsalou <mbarsalou@aidea.org>
> Subject: Mail delivery problems
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:18:38 -0800
>
> We had some scheduled maintenance on Sunday with our internal mail server.
> It is setup so that if our server is down, there is another server that does
> ETRN offsite so we don't loose mail.
>
> Can someone explain to me why an outside companies mailserver would report a
> communications failure (which is technically correct) when there is in fact
> a server that will accept mail?
>
> Mike
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: "W.D. McKinney" <deem@wdm.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:26:45 -0800 (AKDT)
> Subject: Re: Mail delivery problems
>
> Are the mail servers "redundant" and run concurrently ?
> What is the connection between them ? Etc.
>
> /Dee
>
> Mike Barsalou <mbarsalou@aidea.org> wrote:
> >
> > We had some scheduled maintenance on Sunday with our internal mail server.
> > It is setup so that if our server is down, there is another server that does
> > ETRN offsite so we don't loose mail.
> >
> > Can someone explain to me why an outside companies mailserver would report a
> > communications failure (which is technically correct) when there is in fact
> > a server that will accept mail?
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Don Watson <cedric@hei.net>
> Subject: software question
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:30:23 -0700
>
> Trying to install 'cwp8-linux.tar.gz' from linux-alaska.com.
> Downloaded both the program and install instructions.
> Followed the instructions carefully but
> it will not install.
> 'Runme' says it cannot find 'install.**' and stops.
> Are the instructions correct?
>
> gunzip cwp8-linux.tar.gz ; tar -xvf cwp8-linux.tar
> seems to work okay.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
> cedric
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:30:48 -0800
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> Subject: OpenOffice.org Impress help
>
> This should be a stupid question, but I've spend about 2 hours trying to
> figure it out and I simply cannot find the answer... In Impress (their
> Powerpoint app) I cannot get it to put a border around an image. I try
> to right click on it, and go to "Style" and then "Line", and it's on a
> line but it doesn't draw anything. I've also tried to put a drop shadow
> on it, and it doesn't do anything. It works for like a text box, but
> not an image. Seems like it should be a pretty easy and standard thing
> to do - any ideas? I've tried it on both Linux and Windows, and I can't
> get either to work..
>
> Thanks all,
> Justin
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: ADN Community news
> From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>
> Date: 24 Jun 2002 15:48:32 -0800
>
> http://communitynews.adn.com/495/
>
> Can we add some events/info to this site ?
> --
> Greg Madden
> Precision Air Balance, Inc.
> email:pabi@gci.net
> Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: William Fulton <fulton@gci.net>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:56:41 -0800
> Subject: Instructor
>
> I need a teacher for an A+ class at UAA the 15th Thrue The 19th of July
> only requirment is that you must have your A+. Pay is twenty bucks an
> hour payable in cash net thirty from the last day of class
>
> If your interested contact me soon at
>
> 336-9668 or fulton@gci.net
>
> Bill
>
> William F Fulton
> IT Project Manager
> Northern Lights Automation
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: James McMorris <buddha@gci.net>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:25:05 -0800
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
>
> Correction...the pic and the line were set as a group automatically. I
> figured it out anyways by reverse engineering the box.
>
> The way to do it is select the "rectangle" tool on the left (just below
> the text tool). Have the selections set (from left to right)
> to "Continuous", your line size, the outline color, and "Invisisble".
> You have to manually draw the lines, unlike Word which does it
> autamatically. But hey, the program is free.
>
> -Buddha
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:48 pm
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
>
> > Hmm.. okay, it's not that tough to do that (make a border) in
> > Gimp, but
> > it seems like a rather simple feature to have missing.. Thanks for
> > taking a look!
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> >
> > James McMorris wrote:
> >
> > >I tried to figure it out by making a powerpoint slide with a pic
> > >surrounded with a border. When I imported it into OpenOffice ver
> > >0.641, the picture and line were converted to a single picture.
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> > >Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:30 pm
> > >Subject: OpenOffice.org Impress help
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>This should be a stupid question, but I've spend about 2 hours
> > >>trying to
> > >>figure it out and I simply cannot find the answer... In Impress
> > >>(their
> > >>Powerpoint app) I cannot get it to put a border around an image.
> >
> > >>I try
> > >>to right click on it, and go to "Style" and then "Line", and
> > it's
> > >>on a
> > >>line but it doesn't draw anything. I've also tried to put a
> > drop
> > >>shadow
> > >>on it, and it doesn't do anything. It works for like a text
> > box,
> > >>but
> > >>not an image. Seems like it should be a pretty easy and
> > standard
> > >>thing
> > >>to do - any ideas? I've tried it on both Linux and Windows, and
> > I
> > >>can't
> > >>get either to work..
> > >>
> > >>Thanks all,
> > >>Justin
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>---------
> > >>To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
> > >>with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
> > >>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:24:46 -0800
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
>
> Yeah, I tried doing that too, but it's such a pain to get it all lined
> up properly.. maybe if I set it up to snap-to-grid, it should be
> easier.. I'll play around with it more. Thanks
>
> Justin
>
> James McMorris wrote:
>
> > Correction...the pic and the line were set as a group automatically. I
> > figured it out anyways by reverse engineering the box.
> >
> > The way to do it is select the "rectangle" tool on the left (just below
> > the text tool). Have the selections set (from left to right)
> > to "Continuous", your line size, the outline color, and "Invisisble".
> > You have to manually draw the lines, unlike Word which does it
> > autamatically. But hey, the program is free.
> >
> > -Buddha
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> > Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:48 pm
> > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
> >
> >
> >>Hmm.. okay, it's not that tough to do that (make a border) in
> >>Gimp, but
> >>it seems like a rather simple feature to have missing.. Thanks for
> >>taking a look!
> >>
> >>Justin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>James McMorris wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I tried to figure it out by making a powerpoint slide with a pic
> >>>surrounded with a border. When I imported it into OpenOffice ver
> >>>0.641, the picture and line were converted to a single picture.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> >>>Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:30 pm
> >>>Subject: OpenOffice.org Impress help
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>This should be a stupid question, but I've spend about 2 hours
> >>>>trying to
> >>>>figure it out and I simply cannot find the answer... In Impress
> >>>>(their
> >>>>Powerpoint app) I cannot get it to put a border around an image.
> >>>>
> >>>>I try
> >>>>to right click on it, and go to "Style" and then "Line", and
> >>>>
> >>it's
> >>
> >>>>on a
> >>>>line but it doesn't draw anything. I've also tried to put a
> >>>>
> >>drop
> >>
> >>>>shadow
> >>>>on it, and it doesn't do anything. It works for like a text
> >>>>
> >>box,
> >>
> >>>>but
> >>>>not an image. Seems like it should be a pretty easy and
> >>>>
> >>standard
> >>
> >>>>thing
> >>>>to do - any ideas? I've tried it on both Linux and Windows, and
> >>>>
> >>I
> >>
> >>>>can't
> >>>>get either to work..
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks all,
> >>>>Justin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>---------
> >>>>To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
> >>>>with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:40:42 -0800
> From: Grant Stockly <grant@stockly.com>
> Subject: Afrodot
>
> http://www.attrition.org/gallery/spoof/afrodot.jpg
>
> Look in spoof for other spoofs. Anyone seen this yet? : )
>
> Grant
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: AP-10 SCSI on RH 7.2
> From: Neil Moomey <neilmoomey@gci.net>
> Date: 24 Jun 2002 22:18:33 -0800
>
> I'm trying to get my new SCSI card working on RH 7.2 (AP-10 SCSI Pro,
> Fast SCSI-2 Bus Master w/BIOS, Int-Std50/Ext-HD50). Here is my output.
> Any ideas? Thanks. - Neil
>
> $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: Model: CD-R/RW RW7063A Rev: 1.50
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
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