KCLUG November 2005

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RE: [OT] dynamic resolution web sites
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

On my work PC, I can't view this image on IE 6.0.2800.1106xpsp2.050301-1526 after installing Adobe's SVG viewer. I do see that there is a box with a disabled scrollbar and I see the text. I have Firefox 1.07 also, which doesn't have a plug-in AFAIK. I don't want to update this browser until it comes out of Beta. Mozilla 1.7.8 shows text only. K-Meleon 0.9 shows text only. Netscape 4.7 shows nothing Netscape 8.0.4 shows text only. No plug-in. Mozilla 1.7.12 shows text only. Amaya 9.2.2 shows text only. It is supposed to be able to show SVG, but it doesn't like that image on your site. Opera 8.5 Success!! This is the only browser that actually shows the image for me. And it scales!! I didn't have a previous version of Opera installed to test, so I don't know how new this feature is. ******************************************* If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely -----Original Message----- From: Behalf Of Jason Dewayne Clinton Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:10 AM Some of you may remember that some time ago we discussed making websites in Flash. At the time I strongly objected and suggested that some day SVG would be able to handle the resolution independent rendering which Flash offers without all the accessibility problems. Well I'm very excited to share that I think that day has finally arrived (or almost has). Firefox 1.5 RC1 was released today and with it comes support for SVG. This adds to the list of browsers supporting SVG: Opera and Konqueror which is a total of roughly 13% of the browser market. Add to that the IE Adobe SVG Plugin for IE6 (85%) and the picture starts to look pretty rosy. I have put up a proof of concept at [1]. Please give it a good work-out. It will not work in Konqueror <3.4, Opera <8 or Firefox <1.5. IE 6 doesn't allow rescaling fonts but it does display the content correctly. [1] <http://jasonclinton.com/calig_test.html> I strongly feel that this is the future of the web and I'm looking forward to playing around with HTML+SVG. Let me know your thoughts!

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RE: Program suggestion
by Sexton, Kyle 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Oh, I just ran into something where a small utility would help out. Basically I needed something that would be just like cp or mv, but would give the transfer rate of the file copy. Lot's of programs do this (scp, ftp, wget, etc...), but I don't think there is a way to have cp do it. I could use 'time', but that's no fun. :) Kyle Sexton ________________________________________ From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Pemberton Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:46 AM To: kclug(a)kclug.org; Dalug-list(a)dalug.dm Subject: Program suggestion Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not necessarily an application that exists in Windows, but not in Linux, but a program that would make some part of your Linux experience better. I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project, but I am lacking ideas. For interface, I am considering console, GTK+ or Qt. For programming language, I am considering Python or C++; I appreciate your ideas. -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.

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checkinstall (mentioned in meeting)
by Sexton, Kyle 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

For those who were interested in Check Install that I mentioned in the meeting, the URL is http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/. From the website which describes it better than I can: "CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it with Slackware's installpkg, "rpm -i" or Debian's "dpkg -i" as appropriate, so you can view it's contents with pkgtool ("rpm -ql" for RPM users or "dpkg -l" for Debian) or remove it with removepkg ("rpm -e"|"dpkg -r")." It does this from your source packages. Kyle Sexton

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RE: [OT] dynamic resolution web sites
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=466 has the instructions to enable SVG on Opera. It looks like Opera uses the Adobe plug-in. I didn't have to do any of this to get it to work, but I installed Opera 8.5 after the SVG plug-in was installed.

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RE: Program suggestion
by Dale Beams 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

I am currently looking for a genealogical interface (program) that is cross platform (ajax?). It would need to be quickly searchable with features like search ahead, etc. For example, if I were to type in my last name Grumpy, the web interface would begin searching the database at Gr, etc and narrow the list of names, etc. This program must be able to trace genealogy, tax records, juror records, etc. for a county history for the span of 60 + years. I am looking for a designer (back end) and (front end) for the genealogical society as well. I am also looking for a good program that would do foundation financing and all the legal and tax laws associated with it. This program would have to be more robust. All these programs must be open source, hosted at sourceforge or similar public accessible code depository with the possible exception of the web pages for the genealogical society itself. There are some good programs for windows, but I have not seen any for linux. There is currently no funding for these projects and there may never be, but it may have future possiblities. I am not getting any funding as well. The genology foundation is currently working on a volunteer basis only. I don't know if it is possible to get a tax write off as a buisness loss or contribution, but it might be something worth looking into. I am looking for development ideas and interested parties. I am also looking for previous work examples. We will be meeting in 2 weeks. I would like to see open discussion on the list development process, languages, etc. best suited for these type of projects. You may contact me privately if you wish. Dale

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RE: [OT] dynamic resolution web sites
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

I didn't mean test pages on your site. I meant, do you know of any other website pages where a person could test their browser SVG functionality. Or ones that had SVG images on them. -----Original Message----- From: Behalf Of Jason Dewayne Clinton On Tuesday 08 November 2005 10:22 am, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote: > Had to go here: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/svgtest.html > to activate the plug-in and accept the license. No big surprise. So > their test SVG graphic works, but then I go to your site and still > get no image, but this time I don't even get the scrollbar, just an > image placeholder. Do you have any other test pages that I can go > to? Not yet. I am planning on implementing an ECMAScript that probes for IE and replaces the <object> with an <embed>. It may be awhile before I get to that but I'll keep you posted.

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RE: [OT] dynamic resolution web sites
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Had to go here: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/svgtest.html to activate the plug-in and accept the license. No big surprise. So their test SVG graphic works, but then I go to your site and still get no image, but this time I don't even get the scrollbar, just an image placeholder. Do you have any other test pages that I can go to? Netscape 4.7 AFAIK was the last Netscape browser that was approved for loading on Gov't PCs. We have it here at the USDA and I've seen it at IRS, KC City Gov't and Missouri Unemployment offices. It is actually no longer supported by the Helpdesk, but some transaction sites that government personell deal with, must at least be viewable by Netscape 4.7. Kind of the lowest common denominator, probably because it still works on all the old low end PCs and it came pre-installed for a long while. -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Jason Dewayne Clinton Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:41 AM To: kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: Re: [OT] dynamic resolution web sites On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:33 am, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote: > On my work PC, I can't view this image on IE > 6.0.2800.1106xpsp2.050301-1526 after installing Adobe's SVG viewer. > I do see that there is a box with a disabled scrollbar and I see the > text. Hum. That's very interesting. I just checked it on IE6 6.0.3xxx and it seems to be working; could you check the Adobe[1] web site and see if those work for you? IE will usually generate an empty box with a disabled scroll bar when it encounters an object tag that it doesn't have a plugin for. If it works at Adobe's site then I'll need to tweak my code. [1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/examples > I have Firefox 1.07 also, which doesn't have a plug-in AFAIK. I > don't want to update this browser until it comes out of Beta. > Mozilla 1.7.8 shows text only. > K-Meleon 0.9 shows text only. Yea, Firefox 1.5 or greater. > Netscape 4.7 shows nothing Thanks for testing this one but NS4 is dead. They have <0.1% of the market left. > Netscape 8.0.4 shows text only. No plug-in. > Mozilla 1.7.12 shows text only. Yea, Firefox 1.5 or greater. > Amaya 9.2.2 shows text only. It is supposed to be able to show SVG, > but it doesn't like that image on your site. Unfortunately, Amaya has lots of problems. If they had more developers they could probably come up with a nice test suite browser. > Opera 8.5 Success!! This is the only browser that actually shows > the image for me. And it scales!! I didn't have a previous version > of Opera installed to test, so I don't know how new this feature is. Cool! Thanks for testing all of these!

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Nut or LanSafe3 with Compaq UPS (Deltec PRA1500)
by Jon Moss 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

I recently replaced the batteries in my Compaq UPS and got a serial cable working to hook up to my Compaq Proliant DL380. I tried using the LanSafe3 software from HP, but it's not "old enough" so then I moved to NUT that came with FC2. Has anyone used NUT much? Or does anyone have a similar UPS? Thanks, Jon Moss

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Program suggestion
by Arthur Pemberton 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not necessarily an application that exists in Windows, but not in Linux, but a program that would make some part of your Linux experience better. I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project, but I am lacking ideas. For interface, I am considering console, GTK+ or Qt. For programming language, I am considering Python or C++; I appreciate your ideas. -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.

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Content filtering applicance
by Denise Owen 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

I am looking for an application to filter the content for a small school I have been working with. It looks like the best solution would be the appliance/software combination. I thought maybe someone might have some recommendations. I know that the budget is very limited. The school only has 25 to 30 computers at the present time and probably won't ever have more than 40 to 50. Thanks Denise

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