ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 65, Issue 1

Fri Jan 1 14:27:48 UTC 2010

How to change the page orientation from portlite   to landscape in OO
word processor doc ?

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>    1. Re: What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer?
>       (Karl F. Larsen)
>    2. Re: What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer? (Pastor JW)
>    3. Re: Linux dpkg Software Report (Amedee Van Gasse)
>    4. Re: What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer? (Res)
>    5. Re: another stupid q from a newbie (Fred Roller)
>    6. howto know the previous shutdown was unexpected in linux
>       (Swapnil Jain)
>    7. Re: Gnome users who have tried KDE: convince me! (Cybe R. Wizard)
>    8. K3b + Could not determine size of resulting image file (Jatin)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:04:10 -0700
> From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
> 	<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Steve Flynn wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>        And your confused Steve. There are no printers sold now that
>>
>> "You're".
>>
>>> have a fixed font!!! My old Brother will print a picture and
>>> has done that. I CAN change for paper size but the cheap HP
>>> may not, but it prints in color, which mine does not.
>>
>> Where did he say anything at all about fixed font printers (by which I
>> suspect you are referring to dot matrix printers)
>>
>>>        Please Steve, relax and read this list. Your ignorance   is
>>> showing!
>>
>> Another classic there Karl, my boy!
>>
>>
>
> 	Your the one who mentioned the printer where your printer has
> a font setting. This is not current printers.
>
> Karl
>
>
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> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:32:47 -0800
> From: Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>
> Subject: Re: What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> Message-ID: <200912311532.47479.pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>
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> On Thursday 31 December 2009 2:33:11 pm Steve Flynn wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > ? ? ? ?And your confused Steve. There are no printers sold now that
>>
>> "You're".
>
> Yeah, I was wondering why he was "his confused Steve" too!  Odd, "your"
> shows
> possession and "you're" is a contraction for "you are".  Two completely
> different meanings and completely impossible to confuse yet I have even seen
> people who supposedly successfully completed the second grade get them
> confused!!  They're not even spelled vaguely alike!!
>
>>
>> > have a fixed font!!! My old Brother will print a picture and
>> > has done that. I CAN change for paper size but the cheap HP
>> > may not, but it prints in color, which mine does not.
>>
>> Where did he say anything at all about fixed font printers (by which I
>> suspect you are referring to dot matrix printers)
>
> No, you could actually send different font styles to a dot matrix printer,
> it
> would be teletype or one of those obsolete typewriters which would be called
> fixed font machines.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:42:22 +0100
> From: Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> Subject: Re: Linux dpkg Software Report
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 31-12-09 05:18, Ray Parrish wrote:
>
>> I've tried to draw attention to the button bar with the most prominent
>> link on my front page to the skin selection page, which by the way also
>> allows changing the text size to whatever is more comfortable for you.
>>
>> I guess I'll just have to add a table row to the button bar with a
>> prompt for the users to "Hover to Preview Styles, Click to Set Styles."
>> in it. That should work. I'm sorry you did not like the default green
>> marble skin as it is my favorite, but now that I look at the black on
>> white style it is much easier to read I must admit, so I've made it the
>> default now.
>>
>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>
>
> I really appreciate that you are responsive to the various suggestions
> for improvement. Form follows function, that's my motto.
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:30:08 +1000 (EST)
> From: Res <res at ausics.net>
> Subject: Re: What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>
>>	So do not worry. Very few Ubuntu users can make a error in
>> buying a printer. You pay $25.00 for an inkjet you take your
>> chances. If you buy a Laser Printer it will work fine. All HP
>> printers work with Ubuntu.
>
>
> I hope to god any prospective new Linux user doesn't listen to your, yet
> again, incorrect and ill informed umm crap.. sorry, but I refuse to call
> what you give as "advice" because its not, its wrong, plain and simple
> wrong, and misinformed crap.
>
> You even admit you're wrong by contradicting yourself because (the
> only thing you did get right) is there is about 100 or more types of
> printer modules out there, but as you also admit you've not tried them all,
> FFS Karl, unless you can speak authoritatively on something, just don't,
> people like you are what does more damage to Linux than anything
> micro$lop could do.
>
>
>
> --
> Res
>
> "What does Windows have that Linux doesn't?" - One hell of a lot of bugs!
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:53:09 -0500
> From: Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com>
> Subject: Re: another stupid q from a newbie
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> Adam Petty wrote:
>>> hmm, well I use SSH to accomplish this on my network.  In both machines
>>> open a terminal and type:
>>>
>>>    sudo apt-get install ssh
>>>
>>> once both have the program installed then from either system:
>>>
>>>    Places->Connect to Server...
>>>
>>> In descending order of the pop up window
>>>
>>>    Service type: SSH
>>>    Server: [ip of the pc you are connecting to] 192.168.0.100
>>>    User Name: user1
>>>    Add Bookmark: [check this]
>>>    Bookmark name: otherpcname
>>>
>>> click connect.
>>> This method is good for linux to linux systems, so windows will be left
>>> out of this game.
>>>  This should prompt you for a password and you are in the system and
>>> should give you what you are looking for with out a lot of hassle.  If
>>> you need a collaborative storage space for all the systems, then I
>>> recommend using one of the pc's as a NAS with the first method.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fred
>>> www.fwrgallery.com
>>>
>>> "Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing
>>> something wrong."
>>>
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>> That worked perfectly, thank you
>>
>>
> Glad to help.  Happy New Year
>
>
> --
> Fred
> www.fwrgallery.com
>
> "Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something
> wrong."
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>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:35:17 +0530
> From: Swapnil Jain <swapnil at pisces.net.in>
> Subject: howto know the previous shutdown was unexpected in linux
> To: not for general discussions Ubuntu user technical support
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> Hi,
>
> i there a way in ubuntu to know if the previous shutdown was unexpected, may
> be due to power failure, direct power off, or anything else..
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:23:20 -0600
> From: "Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: Gnome users who have tried KDE: convince me!
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:42:16 -0600
> "Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:43:17 -0800
>> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On 12/28/2009 09:18 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> > ...
>> > >
>> > > One feature I despise about Gnome is that, when I open nautilus,
>> > > it replaces my carefully-picked wallpaper with the ugly brown
>> > > background of Ubuntu and I then have to kill the X windowing
>> > > system to get it back.  I typically use PCmanFM because of that.
>> > >
>> > > Cybe R. Wizard
>> >
>> > That sounds like a configuration problem/bug. I've not experienced
>> > that. Maybe start a new thread so it can be sorted out?
>> >
>> >
>> Thanks.  I have done so at:
>> Message-ID: <20091229013543.4b74a55b at WizardsTower>
>> Subject: Nautilus changes the root window background etc.
>>
>> Cybe R. Wizard
>
> But that hasn't worked out well at all.  Opening anything from the,
> "Places," menu requires me to enter my password and opens it as root.
> Opening any of the same places with pcmanfm (or nautilus opened any
> other way than by invoking the, "Places," menu) opens them correctly
> with no need to enter a password.
> I still fail to find where to configure this.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
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> 	Winduhs
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:40:34 +0530
> From: Jatin <daveyjatin at gmail.com>
> Subject: K3b + Could not determine size of resulting image file
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> Hi all
>
> I am getting the following error message when trying to burn DVD images
> using K3b.
>
> *Could not determine size of resulting image file.
>
> *Can someone help solving this issue.
>
> Thanks
> Jatin
> **
>
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