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Re: Somewhat OT: copyright question
by csappenfield＠kc.rr.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: Jack <quiet_celt(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:51 am Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: copyright question > Please tell us which case of the hundreds in this > FAQ is the one you are referring to. It's hard to > argue the validity of your argument that unintentional > copyright infringement is prosecutable without knowing > the basis of your argument. While it is true that you > can unintentionally infringe on copyright, there is > also a "safe harbor" provision in the US Copyright act > > that holds people harmless under certain conditions. > > Please refer to the following site for information > about why and how content providers are or are not > liable for copyright infringement. > > http://www.libertolaw.com/2-99.html > That might look like it deals specifically with ISPs, but sec 512 of the DMCA covers all "online service providers", not just ISPs. If you run a mailing list, you are an online service provider, and the DMCA is your friend. Or, at least, the enemy of your enemy.

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KDE install on Gentoo Stage 3
by rsobba 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

How do I keep emerge kdebase from looking for the internet but instead /gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/? I performed a Stage 3 Gentoo install and now want to install GUI and applications that I have on CD. There is a tremdous amount of information about networkless Gentoo installs but nothing on the rest. Thanks! Rick

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Nice article
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/amissopedx.shtml

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Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file
by Gary Hildebrand 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Got a tough nut to crack here --- all you power gfx users out there, gather around while I tell you a tale . . . . I had a fellow ham copy an instruction book for me -- and he scanned two pages at once per file page, and I'd like to edit it somehow, and enlarge that part to full page size for printing. The original book was designed for people with microscope vision. Doing a Yahoo search, there's a program for Windows (one moment while I toss my cookies) that converts it to a jpg file. So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get is the first page. There has to be some means of advancing through the pages in the pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the Adobe Reader program that might do that. If not, there should be . . . . . Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

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RE: Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Does Xpdf, Open Office or KOffice allow you to open pdf files in edit mode? I was pretty sure that one of these does. I think you still need to have ImageMagick installed because it is used on the backend. Brian >-----Original Message----- >On Behalf Of Jason Clinton >Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:04 PM >Subject: Re: Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file > > >On Wednesday 8 June 2005 18:43, Gary Hildebrand wrote: >> So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get >is the first >> page. There has to be some means of advancing through the >pages in the >> pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the >Adobe Reader >> program that might do that. If not, there should be . . . . . > >Somewhere around 300 DPI should be enough for your purposes >so, make sure >ImageMagick is installed and do a little math: > >300 x 8.5 in = 2550 pixels wide >by 300 x 11 in = 3,300 pixels tall > >$ convert -size 2550x3300 mypdf.pdf mypdf_page%02d.jpg > >And that's it! > >See `man ImageMagick` and `man convert` if you get lost.

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Gentoo Linux and webcams
by James Sissel 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I've got a Gentoo Linux server at home. It isn't running XWindows but it is running Apache 2. Currently I have a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 webcam setup on it running the PWC drivers and palantar software to serve up the cam pages. For a peek at it go to: http://jserver.dnsalias.net/GardenCam/index2.html Or http://jserver.dnsalias.net/GardenCam/index.html for a video feed and watch the grass grow. I'm not happy with the quality of the picture. The colors are off, the picture is washed out and faded, and the resolution is horrible. Is anyone else currently running a webcam? Does anyone have suggestions on something better or someway to improve picture quality?

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OT: Apple and Intel
by Josh Charles 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Guess it's sort of the bombshell of today: Apple is dropping IBM chips and moving to Intel. Live coverage of the Job's keynote is available here: http://live.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/wwdc2005_keynote.shtml He said that they've been able to compile OS X on an intel chip for five years in preparation for this move. Now that's pretty cool Josh

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New Version of Debian released
by Justin Dugger 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Seems today's full of surprises: Debian has officially released a new version, Sarge. The last version was released sometime in 2002, making this well overdue. The whole point of this post was to share with you all a comment I found funny, http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151857&cid=12740984. Justin Dugger

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MySQL Question
by Josh Charles 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I've been trying to figure this out, but have been coming up blank. For some reason, I can't figure out the right google term to use, and the MySQL books I have don't really address this. I'm working with a website that will have many, many pieces of text I need to store in the database. Most of these texts will be less than 10,000 Characters, while a few will could be as great as 100,000 characters or more. I won't be able to know ahead of time. The Scheme's I've come up with are as follows: Use LongText or MediumText data type for all articles. My concern is that those majority of articles that are only < 10,000 will bloat the database. Please excuse my ignorance in the data storage techniques if this isn't right. The other way is that as articles are stored in different tables based on their character count. I don't like this method because it would mean have three tables to store the same type of data, and I would need to reference that in another table. Anyone have thoughts on this? Thanks, Josh

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Testing RAM
by Jonathan Hutchins 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Several of you have mentioned finding bad RAM with memtest86 lately. How long to you usually let it run?

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