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RE: best eye candy for Linux
by Brian Densmore 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Ok, I'll bite. Instinctive response: I try to avoid life reducing substances. How long it takes depends on dosage. Other response: Looked up ratpoison in google. Since I'd never heard of it as anything except a substance to avoid. Still not certain what it is, other than knowing it is a sparse window manager. Not sure if it runs on X or not as there is no reference anywhere. Near as I can tell there is no menu or desktop. I'd say it is not a very friendly or usable interface and would question the reason for using it over the CLI. In fact I'd go as far as saying the CLI is probably more user-friendly than ratpoison. But then I would say the same thing about some of the other window managers (like tvm). At least with the CLI you can access help readily. Confused In K.C. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nicol > > > Has anyone used ratpoison enough to get comfortable with it? How long > did it take?

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Re: Meeting time
by Brian Kelsay 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

So what do you use, old 386 laptop? IBM PS/2? Copy of Windows ME? AOL CDs? 1x CD-ROMs? ARCNet equipment? Old MAUs and vampire taps? Roll of Thicknet? BASIC (or name your obsolete language) programming book? Shares of Boo.com (or name your defunct web company from the late 90s, early 2000s)? Copy of anything by Jon Katz? What can the rest of you come up with? Brian Kelsay >>> "Monty J. Harder" <> 01/11/05 08:08PM >>> The problem with the back seat is that someone can see the laptop bag, and do a smash-n-grab. I generally put my laptop in the trunk or cover it with something that doesn't look like it's worth stealing.

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RE: Meeting time
by Brian Densmore 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Combs > > Brian Kelsay wrote: > > So what do you use, old 386 laptop? IBM PS/2? Copy of > Windows ME? AOL CDs? 1x CD-ROMs? ARCNet equipment? Old > MAUs and vampire taps? Roll of Thicknet? BASIC (or name > your obsolete language) programming book? Shares of Boo.com > (or name your defunct web company from the late 90s, early > 2000s)? Copy of anything by Jon Katz? > > > > What can the rest of you come up with? > > A U-Haul blanket. Nasty dirty diapers.

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"free software" magazine
by David Nicol 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_01/

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AMD Turion
by Brian Kelsay 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050107-4510.html http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3456411 http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050110_124351.html Anybody heard any real details on this 64-bit mobile processor? One thing's for certain, it'll put out enough heat to bake your walnuts. Anyone actually use one of the Athlon-64-Mobile chips in a laptop? I know dj_goku has drooled over them, but let's hear from someone that has used one. Brian Kelsay

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Re: Meeting time
by mike＠handuma.com 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

It was basically a freeze out. The library closed and only two people made it to Denny's -- Hal and myself. Next time it'll be different. Michael handuma.com http://www.handuma.com

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RE: Infrared scanners for recording fingerprints and Linux
by Brian Densmore 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

The problem there is sensitivity. Children's fingerprints can be quite densely compacted and getting a clear print may be challenging to say the least. Basically I have been asked to improve on the CHIPS program for child protection. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:42 AM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: Re: Infrared scanners for recording fingerprints and Linux > > > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:33 am, Gerald Combs wrote: > > > Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > > > A conventional scanner would give you the flexability to take > > > fingerprints, palmprints, and/or footprints. That would > probably be a > > > better way to go. The fingerprint scanners I've seen are > mostly intended > > > to take a single, adult finger. > > > Does a conventional scanner have enough resolution and/or > contrast to > > pick up the ridges in a fingerprint? Would it show all of > the loops, > > arches, and whorls, or a picture of a finger? > > I was thinking of taking a conventional print first, then > scanning that. > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug >

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Infrared scanners for recording fingerprints and Linux
by Brian Densmore 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Anyone done anything with this? A friend has asked me to build a system to record a child's fingerprints, photos, and general characteristics in a user friendly manner and write the data to a "business card cd". Doing all from a laptop. I can handle the photo and the user-friendly interface easily enough, but don't know where to start with the IR fingerprint scanner. Also, I'm not entirely sure an IR fingerprint is the way to go. Brian Densmore CompuTech Business Solutions, Inc. (816) 880-0988 ext. 215 densmoreb(a)ctbsonline.com

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Hylafax dial-up problem
by Jonathan Hutchins 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Running Gentoo Linux kernel 2.4.22, Hylafax 4.2.0-r1 from portage. I have the following settings in /var/spool/fax/etc/ /var/spool/fax/etc/config.usb_tts_0: GettyArgs: "-b -r -s %s %l" /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache: PATHEGETTY='/bin/false' /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache: PATHGETTY='/usr/sbin/mgetty' /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache: PATHVGETTY='/usr/sbin/vgetty' To achieve this, I edited /usr/sbin/faxsetup and changed PATH_GETTY=/sbin/agetty to PATH_GETTY=/usr/sbin/mgetty then ran faxsetup. When I dial in to the system, the log shows: FaxGetty[4308]: GETTY: START "/sbin/agetty -b -r -s 19200 usb/tts/0", pid 4327 The only way I've been able to get dial-up to work is to rename /sbin/agetty and make it a symlink to /usr/sbin/mgetty.

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RE: unmounting a volume
by Brian Kelsay 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

2.6 may be stable, but on my laptop I can't use it. I still have a funky wireless card that doesn't yet have a finished 2.6 driver. I have everything working fine with Mepis installed to harddrive and the wireless card auto loading at boot. If I were to get some newer hardware I might try 2.6, but for now it's not necessary. Brian Kelsay >>> "Brian Densmore" <> 01/10/05 11:34AM >>> FYI: 2.6 is not a development kernel, per definition. 2.6 is the current "stable" kernel and 2.4 is the "deprecated" (or whatever they call it) kernel. I've had no major issues with 2.6, but not something I would use on a production machine. IIRC, there is no current development kernel? There is no 2.7 right? Any ideas when if they are going to begin work on the next development kernel? Or are they just going to keep tweaking 2.6 until it's really stable? Did they pull a Microsoft on us with 2.6? What's your /opinion? > -----Original Message----- > From: Duane Attaway > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Brian Kelsay wrote: > > > What kernel are you running? Is it a 2.6? I still use 2.4 > series and ... > > > I was running 2.6.9 and am currently using 2.4.28 on my gentoo system > while I enjoy my USB mp3 player. I'm going to wait until 2.6 > becomes a > bit more mature as work is eating up most of my spare time.

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