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Eric G. Miller | 1 Apr 2003 01:07

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:43:26AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:04:22AM -0500, Mark Laird Copper wrote:
> > If you're just starting out with this joyful exercise, the irs.gov site 
> > lists providers who will submit returns for free.
> 
> I'm amazed nobody's asked this before, but why doesn't irs.gov do it
> themselves?  Seems like the obvious answer...or is this some sort of
> "privatize the revenue service" boondogle?

I vaguely recall there was an Executive Order under Bush I making it
policy for federal agencies to not compete with private companies.
Although, I can't find a reference at the moment...

There are a number of statutes and orders that basically subsidize
private software/technology development (Stevenson-Wydler & Bayh-Dole
Acts, for instance).

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Stephen A. Witt | 1 Apr 2003 01:29

Re: [OT] no space after defined \newcommands in LaTeX

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote:

> this has been pissing me off recently.  if i define a new command
>
> \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine}
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> and then say in my document
>
> ... the \TM defined by blah blah ...
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> i will get the output ``the Turing machinedefined by blah blah.''
>

Use the xspace package in Latex.

\usepackage{xspace}

\newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine\xspace}
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Paul M Foster | 1 Apr 2003 01:28
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Re: [DEB-USER] Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:01:37PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

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> 	If you think that any organization would be willing to hand
>  over listmaster powers to anyone on the 'net, you are probably too
>  innocent to be a list master.

My gosh, you guys act like a listmaster is God. It's not that big a 
deal. Take someone who has a proven track record of responsibility, and 
give them the password. Have someone back them up, and if they screw up, 
you lock them out. It's really pretty simple. I've been doing this for 
3-4 years.

Paul
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Mirabella, Mathew J | 1 Apr 2003 01:29

RE: install/upgrade

Hi There. I am new to the list and new to debian.
I want to install debian 3.0 r0 from cds that i have,
and have a few questions.

The update process:

> Automagically.
> $ su -m
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get dist-upgrade

I assume these are examples of how to update within a distro and
to upgrade a distro to the next one??

However, how can you set things up to update or upgrade
certain things from stable to testing or unstable?

I only have the woody 3.0 r0 cds, and a slow internet
connection for that box.  but i have a faster internet
connection via a windows box which is offsite from the
linux box.

.  I want to know how i can do this process of using apt
for updating and upgrading with sets of packages or iso images
that i have downloaded from the windows box and burned to cd
or  copied to a partition on my debian box, rather than apting
over the net via http or ftp.

If there is a way to do this, how can i work out which things to
download from the net to ensure i have everything i need when
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Alan Shutko | 1 Apr 2003 01:38
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Re: [OT] no space after defined \newcommands in LaTeX

Nori Heikkinen <nori <at> sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

> this has been pissing me off recently.  if i define a new command 
>
> \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine}

\usepackage{xspace}
\newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine\xspace}

Although I find a lot of people prefer to write 

 ... the \TM\ defined by blah blah ...

or 

 ... the \TM{} defined by blah blah ...

since they have to do that for most commands they didn't write, and
they want all their commands to be consistent.

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Bruce | 1 Apr 2003 01:45
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Removable Media: What is the practical answer??

I am currently running several desktop machines running Debian Woody,
including various updates (KDE 3.1.1, etc.) for added usability.

Generally, Debian is great. For my personal usage, I can't see any
reason for using anything else as a desktop machine.

However, I would like to set up a Debian machine for a non-technical
friend (lets call her "Mom"). For the most part, I see no problem in
giving a Debian box to someone who knows (and cares) nothing about the
techincal side of
things. The great thing about Linux is that (for the most part) it just
"works". However, I know I will have trouble convincing her when it comes
to removeable media.

For example, "Mom" has been using a computer for a long time and has boxes
and boxes of floppies. And she needs to find that letter to Aunt Edith
written on the 286 in 1991, and she is sure it is on a floppy in one of
these boxes...

In Windows, this is a matter of pop the disk in, View, Refresh, pop it
out, repeat, until you find the disk you are looking for. In linux... I
have never been able to figure out how best to do this.

What would be the best way to achieve the same functionality in linux??
Automount?? If so, using what configuration?? I have tried different
configurations, timeouts, etc. but there always seems to be something
wrong (the "view" doesn't refresh properly, the CD won't eject, etc.,
etc.)

Supermount?? Does it work yet?
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Richard Hector | 1 Apr 2003 02:02
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Re: How long is linux going to be free ?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:12:41PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote:
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> Do you have to remind someone a thousand times about his mistake, even after 
> he confesses that he was wrong?

Not everybody receives email with the same delay ... he might not have seen
either your confession or even the other correction before posting.

Richard
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Hubert Chan | 1 Apr 2003 01:57
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Re: [OT] no space after defined \newcommands in LaTeX

>>>>> "Nori" == Nori Heikkinen <nori <at> sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

Nori> this has been pissing me off recently.  if i define a new command
Nori> \newcommand{\TM}{Turing machine}

Nori> and then say in my document

Nori> ... the \TM defined by blah blah ...

Nori> i will get the output ``the Turing machinedefined by blah blah.''

Yup.  That's because the space after \TM signals the end of the macro
name, so it gets eaten up.  The standard way around it is do use "\ ".
i.e. "... the \TM\ defined by blah blah..."  If you want something
uglier, you can use "... the \TM{} defined by blah blah ..."  You
probably don't want to use ~ since ~ is a non-breaking space.

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Oki DZ | 1 Apr 2003 02:21

Re: XDM, Gnome 2.2 normal user startup

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> When I do the same as normal User Gnome starts but crashes immediately and I
> land at the XDM Login again.

Check your /tmp dir out; it should be read-write to all.

Oki
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Jeff | 1 Apr 2003 02:17
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Partitioning for Speed

I've seen a reference to two regarding the location of a partition on
the HDD being faster than other parts of the HDD.  I've been trying to
get a definitive answer on this and it's still not clear to me.  

1.  What part of the HDD is faster, the inside (closest to the center
    of the platter) or the outside?

    It makes some sense to me that the outside would be faster due the
    fact that it's moving faster, but this may not be a determining
    factor.

2.  When using cfdisk to partition, does it start the first partition
    by default at the beginning, or on the inside, of the HDD?  

    IIRC, it refers to this as "the beginning of the free space".

3.  I would want to put my swap and / partitions in the fastest part
    of the HDD, leaving /home and /usr/local for the rest of the
    drive.  Does this make sense?  [That's how I like to partition,
    those four mount points.]

My intention here is to learn about the HDD and partitioning for
speed in general.  My purpose is general usage, nothing specific.

thanks,
jc

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