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keesan
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response 466 of 480:
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Dec 21 22:47 UTC 2003 |
It has changed into sneezing, hooray! I guess my immune system does not work
instantly. If it gets better by Tuesday we may take the risk and go to Jim's
sister's annual family get-together in Warren on Thursday. Jim is also
sneezing and he is supposed to have a normal immune system.
Today we went for a walk in the slush and looked at tree trunks. There was
a burr oak with some unusual thick bark that was peeling off it from the
bottom up, and the trunk of a huge willow (the branches fell through the
nearby roof and were removed) with large round gnarly areas all over it and
short skinny branches growing off the top in all directions. The lucky owners
put a bench in front of it. Two birches. A variety of evergreens. One
neighbor out shoveling slush for a 3-way shared driveway because one of the
other neighbors (that we know) was in the hospital with a really bad sinus
infection. We did not find the rubber thing to go over electric cords but
Jim brought home a somewhat droopy abandoned poinsettia plant. The adjustible
flagpole was still there next to it.
I have been translating, one page at a time because it still hurts to sit.
I think that is the symptom I would most like to go away, but it requires
eating more so I guess I need my taste buds back first. Jim kindly ate the
whole 2 half gallons of chocolate ice cream when I complained the first bowl
tasted funny (it was the rice crispies in it not the ice cream). It took him
under 48 hours. Not bad for a vegan out of training.
I am reading Chaucer in modern translation (all about sex and violence and
religion, with some drunkenness thrown in for laughs) and a good book on
medieval art. Clothing styles closely paralleled architectural styles.
People in the Romanesque period wore rounded hats, in the Gothic period very
tall pointy ones, and they tried to pose in ogee shapes, and then in the
Renaissance they tried to look short and squat and square with flat topped
hats and squared shoes and super-wide shoulders. I also noticed a lot of
parallels between 30s glassware and sweaters in two other books - both were
relatively plain shapes decorated with narrow stripes or other fine patterns,
as opposed to bicolor designs in the fifties.
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twenex
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response 467 of 480:
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Dec 21 22:57 UTC 2003 |
ogee shapes?
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keesan
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response 468 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:18 UTC 2003 |
The shape of the top part of a Gothic arch, somewhat S-shaped. They would
pose with their torsos bent backwards and their heads bent forwards.
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keesan
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response 469 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:21 UTC 2003 |
I have linux to the point where it sends the printer a page feed but it won't
print. I installed lpd, insmod three needed modules, typed lpd, changed sh
to bash in printcap for generic printer, and tried to print with
lpr filename.txt
Nothing appears to have gone to the print spool. lpq - no entries.
What did I miss? The book says to use Redhat printtool. I don't have that.
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twenex
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response 470 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:26 UTC 2003 |
Try rebooting; lpd should come on on its own. try lp instead of lpr.
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keesan
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response 471 of 480:
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Dec 22 00:42 UTC 2003 |
There is no lp command on my computer. I also tried another method of
printing that is supposed to send files directly to the printer and again I
got just a paper feed. I then tried to print a test line with Jim's text
editor and it printed the linux file I had been sending it instead. !?
Seems like the file was sent to the printer by linux, but did not print until
I tried to print something else. The printer works fine with DOS (unless
it was first sent a linux file, apparently).
I can print my files this way (typing lpr and then switching to DOS) but it
is rather time consuming. May as well just copy them to the DOS partition
and print from there.
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scott
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response 472 of 480:
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Dec 22 02:58 UTC 2003 |
cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0
do anything for you?
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keesan
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response 473 of 480:
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Dec 22 04:26 UTC 2003 |
I will check tomorrow on the linux computer. DOS is so much easier to use
for connecting to grex since you don't need to fiddle with fonts and xterms
in order to get a scroll buffer. Or change X resolutions and virtual screen
sizes..... Console C-kermit has no scroll buffer. I think I already tried
the cat to lp0 approach with nothing happening as it was in a book. I might
try a different printer next, dot-matrix instead of HP540 (DOS inkjet). The
latter might not be sufficiently 'generic'. I tried some other setup that
sends things directly to the printer and it also just put out a blank page.
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davel
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response 474 of 480:
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Dec 22 13:49 UTC 2003 |
Sindi, you probably need to set up a printcap file (/etc/printcap) with a
proper entry for the type of printer & some other stuff. (That's part of
what printtool does for you.) There also are other things, which depend on
what lpd you're using. (Likely alternatives include (but aren't limited to)
CUPS and LPRng.) This gets complicated & messy to debug. But quite possibly
some filtering is set up by default which assumes that the printer wants some
particular type of input (such as PostScript) and converts what you send to
that. Stairstepping text is also a likely problem. printcap & other
configuration files control all that kind of stuff.
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keesan
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response 475 of 480:
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Dec 22 15:04 UTC 2003 |
The problem might be that I was trying to print a DOS file with linux so I
will try printing a different file that I write with pico. There is a default
printcap file set up for generic printer that should have printed text.
Today I am coughing but much less. It would have been no fun to cough during
my CT this Wednesday because they make you lie down and keep still and lying
down is what made me start coughing. I also just realized that my breathing
has been okay for the past week and no rib pain, which means the fluid around
my lungs has finally gone away after four months. Now if only fruit would
stop tasting awful. Jim brought me frozen blueberries as a treat and I forced
myself to eat four of them. He had to finish my small orange, much too sour.
I think my sour taste buds must be the only ones not killed off. We might
get Jim a flu shot today if he is also sneezing less.
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keesan
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response 476 of 480:
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Dec 22 22:39 UTC 2003 |
We got Jim a flu shot. He was number 2 but they had to get to 25 before they
started over again with 1. The waiting room was full of people aged 6 months
to 2 years, talking to everyone, and their parents, who were talking about
nothing but babies. I went out in the hallway to wait so I would not cough
on them. On the way we stopped at Dynasty Chinese Buffet in Ypsi and I
sampled the various fruits and vegetables. All the fruits tasted sour except
the bananas and the unripe canteloupe (which did not taste at all, just
crunched). They had four vegetables dishes, which don't bother me much. I
made myself eat a few greasy things for calories (deep fried cream cheese in
a crust, fried noodles with soup). Jim sampled the egg rolls and spring rolls
several times each and ate what I could not manage to eat. We were there once
just a year ago and were forced to listen to a CD of bad Christmas music
(Silent Night in 4/4 time, other things jazzed up) but this time it was
Nutcracker Suite and Night Music reorchestrated for the masses. The salad
section was outstanding for a Chinese restaurant, not just iceberg lettuce.
I ate cucumber, tomatoes, seaweed with too much garlic, carrot and daikon
shredded with rice vinegar, some sort of cole slaw with minimal mayonnaise.
Skipped the chocolate pudding and yellow jello and pizza and mini hotdogs.
On the way back I climbed three sets of stairs at the library. Puff puff.
It hurt a lot to sit for that long so we probably won't go to JIm's sister's
place Thursday (3 hours of sitting to get there and back).
I hope I did not catch the flu on our big adventure of the month.
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tpryan
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response 477 of 480:
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Dec 23 16:16 UTC 2003 |
Have you tried sitting on one of those funky pillows that
is like a piece of foam in a wave, you know for better neck support?
You might be able to get it so that the sore part is not in most
contact.
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keesan
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response 478 of 480:
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Dec 23 16:17 UTC 2003 |
Yesterday someone sent me a translation in the form of a zipped file
containing two files whose names come out the same when truncated to DOS (one
of those files named with a sentence including spaces). Jim suggested when
it asks to overwrite the first file with the second file of the same name,
to answer NO the first time, rename the first file, then unzip again and
answer yes so that the second file overwrites the first one of the original
name. I got two 1.2M files and converted to 10K text with Antiword. This
seemed wrong, so I converted to postscript (after moving over a missing
mapping file from the previous version and renaming the directory so it could
be found). Still looks the same. Somehow MS converted two pages of text with
a lot of blank spaces to 1.2M of WORD. I will download the free WORD viewer
and take a look some day.
The text is Polish and displays just fine with a VGA screen font. It won't
import into WP51/DOS because they use a different system for symbols so I
could not print it that way. I checked the printer manual for our HP 540 and
unlike the manual for the HP 500 at my apartment it won't tell you how to
access the built-in fonts for things like E. European (CP1252 or CP852) - use
the software with your DOS program, its says, or order another manual by its
part number. So I could not print out the file on my HP. My dot-matrix
printer can't print Polish unless I design my own font for it and load it.
I once designed a lambda for my 9-pin Star printer.
So I translated between the Polish lines with Jim's text editor. I could have
displayed the Polish and one document and translated to another document while
switching between screens, but this was easier. At the other end they won't
be able to print the Polish unless they have a printer with a good manual,
because it does not import into WORD, which uses a different method of
displaying and printing fonts.
Or I could have tried to translate in Linux with a computer that had two
video cards and two monitors (display the text on the VGA monitor, translate
on the TTL monitor with any text editor) but I don't have this set up yet
here.
How else might I have done this other than downloading MS's free WORD viewer
(does that also print?). Or using two side-by-side DOS computers.
I woke up only once coughing my head off and today am not coughing yet.
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keesan
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response 479 of 480:
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Dec 23 16:18 UTC 2003 |
Re 477, no I have not, and I just remembered that my 2" foam camping mat
actually came with one and I have it in the closet. Thanks.
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keesan
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response 480 of 480:
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Dec 23 23:54 UTC 2003 |
Major events of today:
Hospital called to remind me to arrive at 1 pm tomorrow for CT scan and not
to eat or drink anything after 6 am. I am debating whether to get up and eat
in the middle of the night like people do for Ramadan.
A friend who brought cookies stopped by again with fruit cake but would not
come in so as not to infect me.
We went for a walk in the rain and looked at Christmas lights. One house had
a striped red and green effect on their bushes. Another had a 'tree'
consisting entirely of a metal frame with pink lights. There were at least
four styles of reindeer. The pumpkins were more interesting. It is getting
harder to find things to look at. Maybe we will look at porch steps next.
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