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><strong>BiDi Problems in WINE + SMARTDRAW</strong></a>
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><strong>Squid and FTP</strong></a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">BiDi Problems in WINE + SMARTDRAW</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:49:30 -0300
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<BR>Daniel Carneiro do Nascimento (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=dcn@microlink.com.br&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2092%5D%20help%20wanted%20%231">dcn from microlink.com.br</a>)
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#sorry about my english... i'ved learned that by myself.. so ..
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<BR># U can make some modifications < of course.. it's gpl..> in my english
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<BR>mistakes
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">So I did, just a little, though usually we leave questions alone so people
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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Hiya guys..
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I have a problem ( d' aah)
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I've tried to use SmartDraw under wine.. and then.. after I configure
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everything.. It works! At least, I think that, when I see SmarrtDraw
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starting.. showing the initial WELCOME.. etc.. but.. when he tries to
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show me the initial screen < to chose the objects of my diagram>
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BUMMER! My wine DIES.
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my log is so big.. and every thing happens about BiDi...
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<blockquote><pre>#] warn:font:GetCharacterPlacementW The BiDi algorythm doesn't conform
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And then.. BiDi throws a lot of junk < i suppose> in my memory causing
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some HEAPS Faults:.
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<blockquote><pre>#] warn:heap:HEAP_IsRealArena Heap 0x40db0000: block 0x408acf is not
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there's not an upgrade for BiDi available.. and.. since November 22..
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BiDi has been going crazy... with some programs that request some kind of..
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font.. i don't know...
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The HEAP Faults problem.. I solved myself making a bigger "X:/temp"
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and includding a new path for junk.. but.. <A HREF="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</A> couldn't pass through
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BiDi, when it get a crash.. cause the BiDi NEVER stops to send some..
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THING. < i don't know what either.> to the memory.. that fills up..
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whatever is your <TT>/temp</TT> size! < mine is 2 G!>
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I just don't know what to do!
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I'm really really lost.. and.. I need to make wine work... it's not
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for the program itself.. it's for the HONOR! AHUuhauahh
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DO you guys know ANYTHING about that Suddenly Crashing?!? Or..
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incompatibility ? Or whatever you call it... ...
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Tnkx so much for reading my crappy email...
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PS:. .. HEEEEEELP!
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Daniel Carneiro do Nascimento
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Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:26:16 +0300
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<BR>Nickos Yoldassis (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=niyo@teipat.gr&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2092%5D%20help%20wanted%20%232">niyo from teipat.gr</a>)
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Hi there,
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I use squid as a proxy server (default configuration) and it seems that i
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Do I have to do anything?
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<P><STRONG><FONT COLOR="#000066"><EM>
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Nickos, Greece
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It appears that this is an FAQ in the land of Squid, number 12.17 --
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"Can I make my regular FTP clients use a Squid cache?"
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Nope, its not possible. Squid only accepts HTTP requests. It speaks
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The very cool wget will download FTP URLs via Squid (and probably any
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">However, it would be fun to have an article about somebody using Squid
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and/or other site caching software in powerful ways to make their site's
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view of the web more fun. There are a bunch of add-ons at Freshmeat for
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it, so I'm sure someone out there has a great example for us to follow.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">create new lilo boot loader - on 2nd drive</FONT></H3>
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Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:42:27 +0000
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<BR>Geraldine Koh (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=geradin07@hotmail.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2092%5D%20help%20wanted%20%233">geradin07 from hotmail.com</a>)
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Hi people, I have a problem......
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I'm actually trying to mirror the hard disks using RAID 1 in <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A> 9.It
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can work perfectly but the bug is that i can only boot up the first hard
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disk, i suppose lilo is stored as th MBR in it. The second hard disk during
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booting up, shows LI and i boot it using a bootup diskette instead. I'm
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wondering how to implement lilo in the second HDD in such a way that it auto
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boots up just like the 1st HDD.Is it possible?
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Is it true that only 1 MBR could be used will it work on 2 MBR in 2
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respective hard disks?
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I visited the Boot+Raid+Root+ Lilo How to documentation:
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& i tried this method to boot up second HDD..but there's error
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it is known as a raid LILO config file pair that I implemented:
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<p align="center">See attached <tt><a href="misc/wanted/geraldine.lilo.conf.hda.txt">geraldine.lilo.conf.hda.txt</a></tt></p>
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I created this 2 lilo configuration file but not too sure whether is eing
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read anot because i still have a current default lilo file <TT>/etc/lilo.conf</TT>
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<p align="center">See attached <tt><a href="misc/wanted/geraldine.default.etc-lilo.conf.txt">geraldine.default.etc-lilo.conf.txt</a></tt></p>
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Bacially that's about all...I hope your gang can resolve my roblem.Sorry if
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i bored you to sleep with such a long email.
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Hope to hear from ya soon...
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Geraldine
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Liunx Gazette in Palm Format</FONT></H3>
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Fri, 30 May 2003 17:47:34 -0400
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<BR>Ben Okopnik (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2092%5D%20mailbag%20%231">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by Herbert, James (James.Herbert from ds-s.com)
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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:36:02PM -0700, Heather wrote:
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[Ben]
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You can use "bibelot" (available on <A HREF="http://www.freshmeat.net/">Freshmeat</A>, IIRC); it's a Perl script
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that converts plaintext into Palm's PDB format. I have a little script
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that I use for it:
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Does the raw PDB format have a size limit? Our issues can get pretty
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big sometimes...
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[Ben]
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"The Complete Shakespeare" was over 5MB. No trouble at all, except for
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uploading it ("jpilot" wouldn't do it; neither would the Wind0ws prog on
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my brother's machine. Kudos to "coldsync".)
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Plucker is an open source palm document reader and in my humble opinion THE
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BEST. There are some really good Linux GUI document converters available for
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it.
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I checked out site-scooper but unfortunately they are very out of date, I'll
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have to look at installing the scripts on my own box.
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The issue I have when converting the site manually is that as the site
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refences links external to the main document I get duplicate copies of the
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articles in one document hence an extremely large file (Issue 91 is 1.98MB
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Anyway thanks very much for your help, I was quite surprised to get a
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<BR>response for such a trivial question --- thanks again
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James
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Glad we could help, though I'm disappointed to hear sitescooper isn't
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keeping up to date.
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:34:46 -0700
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<BR>rwillis (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2092%5D%20mailbag%20%232">rwillis from ctf.com</a>)
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I have done some searching on the internet for semaphores and have
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found very little info, and no tutorials. I think that you could use
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this as a topic to suppliment your article on Message Queues in
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Issue-89 (
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<a href="../issue89/raghu.html">"Exploring Message Queues, Part I"</a>
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, Raghu J Menon).
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Suggested Sections
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1 SystemV Semaphores (semget, semop semctl)
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2 POSIX 1003.1b Semaphores (sem_init, sem_wait, sem_trywait,
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sem_post, sem_get_value, sem_destroy)
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I have heard mention of something called pthread semaphores, but I am
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unsure as to what these are, or how to use them.
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BTW, SystemV semaphores use key_id (int) which must be unique. <TT> ftok()</TT>
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can be used to hash a key from a filepath and a project id, but there
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must be other ways to generate keys...
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It would be really nice to see examples of this in action, as that is
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one thing that I could not find (exclusively for Linux that is).
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Great Magazine!
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Thanks,
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Richard Willis, B.Eng (EIT)
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<FONT COLOR="navy">The things we have to go through to get our articles</FONT></H3>
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<BR>Heather Stern (<a href="mailto:gazette@ssc.com?subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2092%5D%20gazette%20matters%20%231"><em>Linux Gazette</em> Technical Editor</a>)
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Ooh, ooh. . . . I used to ... at a former job, and hereby volunteer
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to write an article on setting up an equivalent. I may need some
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shouting and/or threats of physical violence to overcome my
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procrastination though.
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Black helicopter request has been filed. It'll be right over as soon
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as our local operative-in-dark-glasses can fix the autopilot. Of
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course, if you finish the article before liftoff, do let us know, and
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we'll send over one of Wooner's beautiful dame clients to pick up the
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package...
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Will do. Um... over and out (?)
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<blockquote><font color="#1F1F1F">Heh. One beautiful dame, coming up next article. Watch for long legs,
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slinky dresses, and languorous questions about whistling ability.
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-- Ben</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">And if you're the sort of person who can fry a good article up sometime
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this summer -- to <EM>make Linux a little more fun</EM> for folks who get dizzy
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when they need to know what sorts of barbecue briquettes are used for
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firewalls around here - do let us know. We're planning our editorial
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schedule to layout how August and September will be released, and having
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some articles in ahead of time would be really, really handy. Now I can't
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<EM>guarantee</EM> a personal pick-up by ultra modern black helicopter with an
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absolutely gorgeous - shall we say bombshell? - dame flying it, but we
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can ask!
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<BR>Published in Issue 92 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, July 2003</H5>
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