From jon at rejon.org Sun Aug 7 23:55:51 2005 From: jon at rejon.org (Jon Phillips) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 23:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Open Clip Art Library Release 0.16 Announcement :: http://www.openclipart.org Message-ID: <20050808065551.5E3779EA08@gabe.freedesktop.org> Aug 8, 2005 UTC - Release 0.16 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4442 images submitted by over 443 artists from around the world. This releases squishes a major bug that replaced valid keywords in the clip art files with some strange HASH memory location text. Most of the clip art in the library and this release is now repaired. Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips both presented at the 2005 Desktop Developers Conference in Ottawa. Harrington's presentation promoted Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) while Phillips' presentation introduced the Open Clip Art Library to the freedesktop community. Both presentations were well received and sparked several debates. Also added this month is a new clipart-announce mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart-announce). The Open Clip Art Library encourages everyone to sign up for this list in order to ONLY receive messages about Open Clip Art Library release announcements. This list is especially well-suited for packagers and others that might not want to receive all the developer discussions from the primary project mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart). As always, see what the librarians and artists are working on at http://planet.openclipart.org. Artist and librarians (developer) for the project who would like to be included in this blog should contact (http://openclipart.org/contact.php) the project admins in order to be added. For the month of August the project invites submissions of clip art themed for the coming fall season. The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.bz2 http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.gz http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.zip http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration. From mp at rawbw.com Mon Aug 8 20:41:14 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:41:14 -0700 Subject: [buug] Bay Area Debian (BAD) meets 7:00 P.M. Wed. close to LinuxWorld Message-ID: <1123558874.42f825da79f6d@webmail.rawbw.com> Bay Area Debian (BAD) meets this Wednesday 2005-08-10 7:00 P.M. PDT, conveninetly close to LinuxWorld (and just after that day's LinuxWorld Birds-of-a-Feather meetings conclude). Details may be found here (things Debian, good food, keysigning, etc.): http://bad.debian.net/list/2005-August/002965.html From jzitt at josephzitt.com Sun Aug 14 20:59:42 2005 From: jzitt at josephzitt.com (Joseph Zitt) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:59:42 -0700 Subject: [buug] Changing PostScript page size Message-ID: <4300132E.4000607@josephzitt.com> Hi. I'm having trouble with a PostScript file, and hope someone here can lend enlightenment. The file was created on a Windows 98 box in Adobe FrameMaker 6. The document page dimensions were 6"x9". FrameMaker, however, seems to be able to output PostScript in a fixed set of page sizes, so the .ps file that it generated had US Letter (8"x11") sized pages, with the 6"x9" pages p;aced within them. Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not seeing how to do it within that. Thanks for any clues. I have a rather desperate and intense need to do this immediately (which I can explain, if you wish, backchannel but not here), so any help would be most appreciated. From rubinson at email.arizona.edu Sun Aug 14 23:42:06 2005 From: rubinson at email.arizona.edu (rubinson at email.arizona.edu) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:42:06 -0700 Subject: [buug] Changing PostScript page size In-Reply-To: <20050815063452.GR2557@wagner> References: <4300132E.4000607@josephzitt.com> <20050815063452.GR2557@wagner> Message-ID: <20050815064206.GS2557@wagner> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:59:42PM -0700, Joseph Zitt wrote: > The file was created on a Windows 98 box in Adobe FrameMaker 6. The > document page dimensions were 6"x9". FrameMaker, however, seems to > be able to output PostScript in a fixed set of page sizes, so the > .ps file that it generated had US Letter (8"x11") sized pages, with > the 6"x9" pages p;aced within them. > > Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool > that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins > trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not > seeing how to do it within that. Hrm. That seems odd. I don't know Framemaker, but the simplest solution from my perspective would be to use Framemaker to output at a regular 8x11 papersize and then use psresize to change the paper size. psresize is part of the psutils package. Lots of goodies there that you might want to look at. You probably have psutils on your Linux box. If not, it's available at http://gershwin.ens.fr/vdaniel/Doc-Locale/Outils-Gnu-Linux/PsUtils/ Claude From jzitt at josephzitt.com Mon Aug 15 01:10:48 2005 From: jzitt at josephzitt.com (Joseph Zitt) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:10:48 -0700 Subject: [buug] Changing PostScript page size In-Reply-To: <20050815064206.GS2557@wagner> References: <4300132E.4000607@josephzitt.com> <20050815063452.GR2557@wagner> <20050815064206.GS2557@wagner> Message-ID: <43004E08.7050509@josephzitt.com> rubinson at email.arizona.edu wrote: >>>Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool >>that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins >>trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not >>seeing how to do it within that. > > > Hrm. That seems odd. I don't know Framemaker, but the simplest > solution from my perspective would be to use Framemaker to output at a > regular 8x11 papersize and then use psresize to change the paper > size. psresize is part of the psutils package. Lots of goodies there > that you might want to look at. Thanks. I did, indeed, try psresize (though I found it just after I sent the post). Viewing the result through gv, however, it looks like it shrank the first page so that it fit within the smaller space, then replaced the other 400 pages with scattered, inscrutable error messages. (I can view the original ps file in gv just fine.) Digging further through psutils, I tried running the original file through fixfmps, which is supposed to fix FrameMaker-induced PostScript problems (though its development seems to have ended five years before the release of the version of FrameMaker that I use). That also gave errors similar to those that psresize gave. From togo at of.net Mon Aug 15 10:46:50 2005 From: togo at of.net (Tony Godshall) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:46:50 -0700 Subject: [buug] Changing PostScript page size In-Reply-To: <43004E08.7050509@josephzitt.com> References: <4300132E.4000607@josephzitt.com> <20050815063452.GR2557@wagner> <20050815064206.GS2557@wagner> <43004E08.7050509@josephzitt.com> Message-ID: <20050815174650.GA9603@private> According to Joseph Zitt, > rubinson at email.arizona.edu wrote: > >>>Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool > >>that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins > >>trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not > >>seeing how to do it within that. > > > > > >Hrm. That seems odd. I don't know Framemaker, but the simplest > >solution from my perspective would be to use Framemaker to output at a > >regular 8x11 papersize and then use psresize to change the paper > >size. psresize is part of the psutils package. Lots of goodies there > >that you might want to look at. > > Thanks. I did, indeed, try psresize (though I found it just after I sent > the post). Viewing the result through gv, however, it looks like it > shrank the first page so that it fit within the smaller space, then > replaced the other 400 pages with scattered, inscrutable error messages. > (I can view the original ps file in gv just fine.) > > Digging further through psutils, I tried running the original file > through fixfmps, which is supposed to fix FrameMaker-induced PostScript > problems (though its development seems to have ended five years before > the release of the version of FrameMaker that I use). That also gave > errors similar to those that psresize gave. I've found pstops or ps2ps sometimes helps clean up a file so other tools (psbook) work on it better. Poster may be useful to you as well... it resizes with the option to produce the output on many smaller pages. From jzitt at josephzitt.com Tue Aug 16 00:10:19 2005 From: jzitt at josephzitt.com (Joseph Zitt) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:10:19 -0700 Subject: [buug] Changing PostScript page size In-Reply-To: <20050815174650.GA9603@private> References: <4300132E.4000607@josephzitt.com> <20050815063452.GR2557@wagner> <20050815064206.GS2557@wagner> <43004E08.7050509@josephzitt.com> <20050815174650.GA9603@private> Message-ID: <4301915B.9060608@josephzitt.com> OK, I've been trying several of these tools, with better results. One good thing is that processing files with ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress myfile.ps myfile.pdf seems to be handling the problems with fonts. Using ps2ps first also seems to clear up some issues. (poster doesn't seem to address what I'm trying to do, at least in any way that I understand.) I'm still left, however, with the page size issue. psresize doesn't seem to be doing the right thing, nor does the pscrop perl script that I found at www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/pscrop There is a possibility, though, that I'm misreading things through gv's obscure interface. I'm also not finding a tool that tells me the page size of a PostScript or PDF document that I've generated. I *think* I keep ending up with 8.5x11 pages, but I'm just not sure. (Printing the pages might show me something -- if I could get my printer working with my Linux box, or hook it up to my Windows box and get Samba working at all.) But the site to which I have to upload the document sees it as bing 8.5x11 no matter what I do. I'll keep banging on this, but I'm far from clear as to what to do next. Tony Godshall wrote: > According to Joseph Zitt, > >>rubinson at email.arizona.edu wrote: >> >>>>>Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool >>>> >>>>that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins >>>>trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not >>>>seeing how to do it within that. >>> >>> >>>Hrm. That seems odd. I don't know Framemaker, but the simplest >>>solution from my perspective would be to use Framemaker to output at a >>>regular 8x11 papersize and then use psresize to change the paper >>>size. psresize is part of the psutils package. Lots of goodies there >>>that you might want to look at. >> >>Thanks. I did, indeed, try psresize (though I found it just after I sent >>the post). Viewing the result through gv, however, it looks like it >>shrank the first page so that it fit within the smaller space, then >>replaced the other 400 pages with scattered, inscrutable error messages. >>(I can view the original ps file in gv just fine.) >> >>Digging further through psutils, I tried running the original file >>through fixfmps, which is supposed to fix FrameMaker-induced PostScript >>problems (though its development seems to have ended five years before >>the release of the version of FrameMaker that I use). That also gave >>errors similar to those that psresize gave. > > > I've found pstops or ps2ps sometimes helps clean up a file > so other tools (psbook) work on it better. > > Poster may be useful to you as well... it resizes with the > option to produce the output on many smaller pages. From mcsx3 at yahoo.com Tue Aug 16 15:55:10 2005 From: mcsx3 at yahoo.com (Gabriel Gabriel) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Installing FreeBSD 54 on RAID rig Message-ID: <20050816225510.23415.qmail@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hello! Thanks for your previous help! I don't have an Internet connection at home; so I don't check my mail that often. Can you, or anybody else help me with information about installing FreeBSD on a HighPoint RocketRAID 1540 rig? Thanks very much. MC ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From jan at caustic.org Tue Aug 16 16:01:36 2005 From: jan at caustic.org (f.johan.beisser) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Installing FreeBSD 54 on RAID rig In-Reply-To: <20050816225510.23415.qmail@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050816225510.23415.qmail@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050816155823.S46950@pogo.caustic.org> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Gabriel Gabriel wrote: > Hello! Thanks for your previous help! I don't have > an Internet connection at home; so I don't check my > mail that often. Can you, or anybody else help me > with information about installing FreeBSD on a > HighPoint RocketRAID 1540 rig? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hptmv&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE Looks like it won't work. From mp at rawbw.com Thu Aug 18 23:41:08 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:41:08 -0700 Subject: [buug] Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on LINUX (BALUG 2005-05-17) Message-ID: <1124433668.43057f04555b9@webmail.rawbw.com> Okay, some questions came up on LVM at todays BUUG meeting, anyway: Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on LINUX (BALUG 2005-05-17) Here's the primary starting URL for those materials: http://www.rawbw.com/~mp/linux/lvm/balug/ That's from (and related to) the LVM presentation I did at BALUG 2005-05-17. I still have some slight updates to add to it one of these days(/weeks/months/...), but the vast majority of the existing materials will almost certainly be remaining pretty much (if not identically) the same. From mp at rawbw.com Thu Aug 25 14:13:09 2005 From: mp at rawbw.com (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:13:09 -0700 Subject: [buug] Opportunity: Minneapolis, MN; hands-on hardware, Solaris/Red Hat/HP-UX/SuSE Message-ID: <1125004389.430e346563120@webmail.rawbw.com> Opportunity: Minneapolis, MN; hands-on hardware, Solaris/Red Hat/HP-UX/SuSE The work group I'm in still has a position to "permanently" fill. It's in Minneapolis, MN, and no, I don't think my employer is doing or even considering relocation costs, ... but, ... if you may be interested and qualified, or may know someone who is ... Here's most recent (fairly brief) description, mostly from posting also listed[1] on sage.org[2] (a few more details may also be available there if you're a member of SAGE): Description: Seeking "right" candidate: good/strong hands-on hardware technical (Solaris 8 SPARC, Hewlett-Packard x86 Red Hat AS 3.0), strong in those operating systems and Perl, and preferably also HP-UX 11.11, SuSE 8.1, shell scripting, SAGE Level III[3]/IV[4], etc. Location USA job City Minneapolis SAGE Level III (Intermediate/Advanced)[3] Job/Co. URL http://www.wellsfargo.com/employment/index.jhtml Job status permanent Salary range market rate for skills/experience Details: Need someone who works quite well rather independently (the rest of the support group is in San Francisco - hey, no manager staring over your shoulder - but need to be accountable), communicates well, is rather strong on hands-on hardware technical (responsible for covering or arranging coverage on servicing and installations of all hardware at that location, most notably Solaris 8 SPARC and Hewlett-Packard x86 Red Hat AS 3.0 systems, and also related infrastructure (e.g. terminal server, etc.)), strong on Solaris 8 SPARC and Hewlett-Packard x86 Red Hat AS 3.0 (both local to that site), Perl, at least proficient in scripting one or more Bourne-like shells (Bourne/Korn/POSIX/bash). Proficiency or better in HP-UX 11.11 and SuSE 8.1 also a significant plus. Expecting and desire a typical compliment of SAGE Level III[3]/IV[4] skills/experience. Hours are mostly "business hours", with some occasional off-hours work required, but almost zero on-call requirements. Environment is a busy, fast-paced, dynamicly changing test/development environment. This position *may* be available on a direct hire (start as employee) basis, and *is* available on a "contract-to-hire" basis (start on contract basis, then convert to employee probably a few months down the road). Some of the key decision makers are still debating that particular detail. Spec. Requmnts Must pass background check If you are or may be interested, or know someone who is or may be (or have specific questions), please feel free to drop me a note, pass resume to me (or URL to resume), etc., to my WORK e-mail address ( reply should work if you're doing this direct from the e-mail, if not, or to confirm e-mail address, this should provide sufficient hint to determine/confirm my work e-mail address: echo cnbyvzvp at jryyfsnetb.pbz | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm ). footnotes/references: 1. "moderator" approval may still be pending as I very recently updated it http://www.sage.org/jobs/members-only/jobsoffered.cg 2. http://www.sage.org/ 3. http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm#Intermediate 4. http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm#Senior http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2005-June/002740.html