I would like to create some posters of A3 size quickly using some photographs, figures, tables,text boxes,etc. What is the suitable app which can do a quick and clean job? I do not find Scribus very user-friendly esp with text boxes.
View 2 RepliesSo I am prompted in desktop for updates, but no information is given about the size of the packages involved. Sometimes, I don't like to wait too much for the dowload or to update packages which are too large.
Any settings dealing with that, so the individual size and the total per groups (security updates, etc) would be show without going in yum?
Ktorrent frequently quickly flashes a message, which I believe says something like :
klauncher unable create io-slave for kde proxy
I'm working with two systems (mine and somebody else's) trying to print photographs -- trying is the right word, too. Both boxes are Slackware 13.0, both printers are H-P Photosmarts (a 3210 and a C4680), both systems have the latest and greatest HPLIP and CUPS software installed and both print everything else just fine. Photographs? Well, nuts: can't figure out how to get an image printed on standard 4x6 stock (meaning: fit or fill the image to the stock). Been fiddling with HPLIP settings, CUPS settings, fooling around with GIMP, twiddling everything I can come up with and there is no joy in Mudville to be had. About as close as I've gotten to, you know, a printed photograph that looks like a printed photograph is supposed to look is setting HPLIP options then printing with lp file.jpg but that doesn't actually work all that well.
View 12 Replies View RelatedYou probably own a simple camera and know that it usually stores the pictures using an ever-incrementing counter as part of the filename. so you have filenames of the sort <code><counter>.<extension>.
Say now that you have pictures from your last trip along with some earlier pics from a previous trip. assume also that the older pictures have all been transferred to the pc but you still keep them in the camera for whatever reason...
So coming back from the last trip you only want to back up the latest pics, and you want to do this through your console and not through some window manager.
What's been puzzling me is to find a quick way to cp ONLY the latest pics.
My options include:
- Use 'find' command with regex. not really helpful when regex start getting really long (indeed regex doesn't seem to be particularly useful with filenames that contain an incr. counter value - correct me in i'm wrong)
- Use find command with the 'mtime' option and copy every day of the trip individually.
- Wildcards are not really an option since don't want to copy everything.
- There doesn't seem to be a quick way to let bash know that i want to copy, say p8957.jpg to p9234.jpg through some sort of list or smth)
- A for loop in bash would be a solution but i would like to avoid it.
- Mc commander would also be a solution but i would prefer again a pure console solution..
Is there a way to quickly (=with little typing) create a list of the files that i want and let the cp command use it?
Is there an easy way of copying just new photos from the SD card onto the computer and avoiding duplicates even if the file name changes?
Currently my partner will occasionally copy the files from the SD card onto the computer and then rename then. Then when I try to see which photos to bring across I can't do it.
I use Dropbox to store the photos.
Is it possible to create a logical volume of 18TB in size? I was able to create the volume group but I'm having issues with the logical volume.
View 6 Replies View RelatedCan anyone tell me what's going on?(this is the latest version of WINDOZE MySQL (sorry!) downloaded from the web.)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to configure Name Server i.e., DNS to my red hat linux box in a production enviromnt.The ram is 2 GB and Hard Disk size is 200 GB. How much space should I give /var, /usr, /boot, /root and home partition. May be I am wrong in partition point of view while installing fresh red hat but to install for home purpose and server end is different. So kindly guide me the hard disk partition size to ready it for name server.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow to create a script when my mailqueue (mqueue) folder size reaches 1GB and sent email alert to my email id.
Once mqueue folder size reaches the sent alert by mail. Because everytime my mqueue folder size increasing.
I'm having issue with raid6. I already created a thread in the "Linux -General" forum, but it seems, there is no right audience
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I was just testing specifying limit on file size to a user and have added the following to /etc/security/limits.conf bob soft fsize 100 This basically should have said not to allow bob to create anyfile greater than 100Kb in size.
But the interesting thing is, if bob already has any file which is greater than 100Kb in size, it even doesn't allow to log him into the system both from console and SSH. Also nothing is logged in logs.. How do I configure it so that, bob can login to the system even though he has any file greater than 100Kb (but doesn't allow him to create file which are greater than 100Kb) ??
We have quite a few SEO clients who require multiple IPs which are all from different class c allocations. (10 - 50 IPs) used for projects lasting weeks to months at a time. Since we don't have connected IPs in ranges we can't use the range scripts but I don't know of a way to easily add a long list of individual IPs. These are CentOS servers, by the way
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to sync the clock of an ubuntu desktop with the network with ntpdate -u <ntp-server> and in a matter or minutes it's growing an offset of a few hundred milliseconds and even more than one second. Is there anyway to guarantee that the time keeps synchronizing with the network more frequently? does it make sense that the offset grows so fast? Am I doing something wrong?
View 3 Replies View RelatedUsing a GUI file browser, I would like to be able to mark files with an emblem or something similar as quickly as possible, with a single click. I'm currently using Gnome Nautilus in my Ubuntu 10.04, which doesn't seem to offer the functionality. I'm not keen on trying the extension Nautilus-Actions as it doesn't seem to be open source. I've set up some scripts though, but accessing them through the pop-up submenu is just clunky enough to still have me searching for a faster solution. Does a file browser exist that would let me set up a toolbar button for marking files? Or a button for launching scripts, which would amount to the same thing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a quick way of saving the active threads of this forum, so that, I can read them later on without an internet connection?
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen i play a song in banshee, or a videos video, i get no sound at all. however, in banshee 1 3 minute song will appear to play in about 20 seconds (the progress bar speeds along), and videos videos play back in ultra-fast motion with no sound. weirdly, when i go to system settings -> multimedia, and click test on the default sound device, the kde login sound plays back fine. this worked when i first installed; does anyone know what's going on here? i think it may be a problem with gstreamer?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOver the past few weeks I've noticed that my laptop battery is dieing VERY fast. I have no idea what is causing this, and I haven't changed anything.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm running badblocks on some new disk drives just to be safe before my return period expires. I'm running the command
Code: sudo badblocks -b 4096 -p 4 -c 65536 -w -s /dev/sdb1 on an empty partition taking up the entire device. I am getting the following output:
[Code]...
1) When it gets to the "reading and comparing" phase, it seems to complete in <1s. I see other posts where people say this takes them as long as it took to write to the drive. I don't see any mention of this being quick, so I'm just afraid that badblocks is being denied read access or something.. Anyone familiar with this behaviour?
2) Obviously since it is on a sixth pass, badblocks thought that it found new bad blocks on the second pass (or later). When I check SMART, though, the drive has not re-allocated anything (despite having plenty of spares)... Doesn't this seem odd? Is there some reason why the disk would not step in upon a write fail? In fact, I thought a write fail should be transparent... Which makes me wonder if question 1 (above) is causing this...
I need to view 10.858 text files by this friday to see which ones I need (searching file contents is not a solution), I was wondering if anyone knew any way/program to quickly view them as if they were, for example, images? And, optionally, to be able to save them to a different location from there? It doesn't necessarily have to be for Ubuntu as I also have WinXP and Vista, but it would save me having to transfer those couple of gigabytes to another computer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 10.04 - when I logout I get screenful (at least) of messages all with the same format. They disappear too quickly to see what they're about. I've looked at the logs but can't see anything like what I see on the screen. Is there any way I can find them?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI bought a new Hp Pavillion DV6T. For the most part, everything worked right out of the box with ubuntu, but the computer seems to be heating up really quickly for no reason whatsoever even if I'm not doing anything intensive. Why this is happening. The fan always seems to be running at full blast. I logged onto windows for a minute to see if there was any difference in heating between the two OSs and windows seems to run much cooler and much more quiet. On a side note I'm thinking of returning the HP and buying a dell XPS 15. I hear they are more compatible with ubuntu and are better built.
HP Pavillion DV6t
ATI Radeon 6570 1 GB graphics card
Intel I7 2.0GHZ quad
After dual booting into Windows to play Mass Effect 2, I hit the windows key by mistake, and the screen quickly turned black! Since then, I couldn't boot into Fedora, nor Windows; not even Fedora's linux rescue. I see the GRUB, I hit enter on any one of the two options, and all I see is a black screen!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI keep losing my Internet Connection(DSL) very quickly. Usually after a couple of minutes, it's absolutely unpredictable. And then, it gets difficult to reconnect. And if I succeed in reconnecting, I again lose the connection quite quickly.
Here are some logs from the ifcfg-dsl0.log code...
Recently, I'm getting an annoying problem: When I scroll quickly the text smears or duplicates itself -- doesn't happen with all applications. I haven't had this problem until I started to use OpenGL compositing with my NVidia card.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWorking with a scientific code that uses more RAM+swap then i generally have (system has 12GB RAM + 24GB swap, but this thing is crazy)It's kind of a one use problem, so I'm not looking to get more RAM, is there a quick way to add more swap space (not on the swap partition, because i have that set at 24GB) so that my system can use it immediately?I don't want to drive up to the office tonight to get this fixed, so a command line setup would work best.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am having a problem watching videos and such in 10.04 LTS, In power management I have display set to sleep in 1 hr but it is going to sleep every 10 minuets and prompting for my password everytime I make a mouse or keyboard movement. Makes it kind of difficult to watch a video.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a netbook with ubuntu desktop 10.10 (gnome), i don't know what i've done, t got a message
"OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet panel encountered a problem "
and i don't know how it was fixed, now it works good , but the panel doesn't start normally (quickly), i have to wait few minutes to get the menu bar and the other elements,
I'm looking for a way to quickly remove all data/partitions/boot records from my hard drives while running linux (distribution is irelevant). There are lots of ways to do this that I know of, but they all have some problems. Here's a list of what I've tried/thought of already. The most obvious is fdisk: Simply delete all the partitions. This usually works just fine and is very quick, but there are times it just doesn't....I'm realy not sure what gets left behind...I remove the MBR as well..but whatever it is, it's in the way. A couple other options are:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
shred -vfz -n 1 /dev/sdb
Both of these approaches are great if you're selling the components and want to make it very difficult for anyone to recover data. The draw-back is they take so very long to run. I've got four 1.5 TB drives that I've been writing zeros to for 2 days now. If you thought watching grass grow or paint drying was boring. A hundred years ago or so, when I was doing tech support for Windows 95 users we used this nifty dos-based debug script to wipe the hard drive. It was sort-of a last resort thing, but it worked beautifully, most of the time. If the customer had already formated, fdisked, fdisk /mbr, reinstalled Windows, but still couldn't get the thing to work, this would clean the drive so you could do a fresh install.
Just in case someone wants this, I'll post it. To use: first boot to some type of DOS environment in which you have the program "debug".
debug
-F 200 L1000 0
-A CS:100
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80
NOTE: Type 80 for the primary hard drive - HD 0,
or type 81 for the secondary hard drive - HD 1.
In most cases, the primary hard drive is required 80.
xxxx:010C INT 13
xxxx:010E INT 20
xxxx:0110 (Leave this line blank. Press the <Enter> key to continue.)
-G
The message Program terminated normally appears. How to do something like that while running linux?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I wish I could use Nautilus to change file dates, but I guess that does not work.
Is there another file manager, or something, that allows me to do this? I know about the touch command, but that's a little cumbersome for I am trying to do.