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Re: [opensuse] diagram editor

by Hans Witvliet

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 08:18 -0500, Ricardo Chung wrote: > On Saturday, December 29, 2012 04:03:50 PM Hans Witvliet wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for an alternative diagram editor (mainly for networks) > > At work some use visio, that has nice libraries, but is handling > > connection in a horrible way. > > > > I was starting to use "dia" but it's output gave me harsh comments from > > co-workers. > > > > So, any other alternatives? > > Someone pointed towards yED (fom http://www.yworks.com) > > But the fact that you have to download a bin blob (it is neither in the > > OBS:editors nor in anyones home:/ dir), which you have run is a bit > > suspicious. (perhaps i'm paranoid or so) > > > > > > Hans > > > > Have you tried Calligra Flow lately? It's a nice complement to work with. > > Hope this can help you. > > Regards, No, not yet, but i will certainly do. I'll guess that the biggest problem is that some stick-in-the-mud people consider any microsoft products as "defacto industry standard" and are unwilling to even try something else.... tnx for pointing, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

12 years

Re: [SLE] Problem with ping to router

by Ken Schneider

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 12:08, José Carlos Cuéllar wrote: > Hi to everybody! > > I've got a little X-File here. I'm setting up a machine with a SuSE 7.1 to > perform routing and firewall tasks. The problem is that I'm having problems > connecting with one of my routers. I can access to every machine of my > network except the router, and every machine of the network can access the > router, except the Linux server. > > I'm using an Intel EthernetExpress PRO100 network cardin the Linux server; > the router is a 3COM 826 for ADSL access. > > I'm really confused with this, I've never seen some like this before. Any > ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > > José Carlos Cuéllar - jcarlos(a)alc.es > Mecemsa Consultores - I+D > Avda. de Dénia, 88 - E03016 Alicante > Telf. +34 965 26 96 96 > Fax +34 965 26 54 53 > http://www.mecemsa.es > I think what you really need to do is: inside network | | eth0 linux router eth1 | | 3com 826 ADSL | | internet access The linux router will need two ethernet cards and two seperate cables as diagramed above. The default route of the linux router will point to eth1 address. All of the inside machines need to be pointed to the linux router eth0 address (default route). Networking is much easier to visualize when you create a small diagram with what you want to accomplish. Ken

21 years, 9 months

Re: [opensuse] Serial ports on openSUSE 12.1 [SOLVED]

by Felix Miata

On 2012/05/29 10:16 (GMT-0400) Carl Hartung composed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> There were two "standards", Intel's, and the other one, which was >> used by SuperMicro and various other manufacturers. When not able to >> use a cable supplied with the motherboard, it was always necessary to >> check a non-Intel motherboard's wiring diagram to see which of the >> two, then locate a cable to match it. Or if no wiring diagram was >> available, just keep trying others from the stash until a serial >> mouse would work. > Good grief! I'd forgotten that I'd forgotten this. It seems so long > ago. Wasn't this around the same time we were populating memory boards > ("full slot") with our own DIMMs? ... > Correction, of course I meant dual inline packaged DRAM chips :-) That may have dated the inception of the problem, but it continued until ATX made the cabling all but obsolete. Leave it to Intel to resurrect the problem a decade later by leaving serial connectors off their motherboards' back panels. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 7 months

Best file format

by Harry G

I need to scan some small wiring diagrams, drawings, etc. but the file size is important. Which tends to be smaller, tiff, bmp, etc? TIA Harry Giles

22 years

Re: [SLE] UPS Problems

by M. Clark

On Friday 15 February 2002 01:08, alta wrote: > I am attempting to get a TrippLite BC PRO 850 interfaced for > automatic shutdown (as mentioned in earlier post). > Any clues why all the weirdness? Hi Reed. I have two TrippLites, which is why I was interested in your problem. I may want to connect mine to shutdown their boxes in the future. I dug around a bit more with Google and came up with this: http://www.exploits.org/nut/library/tripplite.html This supposedly is the schematic of an actual TrippLite shutdown cable. I'm not sure how this compares with the diagram on the other site, but when I look at the diagram the labeling doesn't make any sense. For example, pin 5 on the PC end is SG (signal ground), an unchanging value. Calling it Inverter Shutoff - is a bit unclear. Also, pin 3, PC end, is not ground. It's the send data line (SD). This is somewhat of a an educated guess, but I think that the UPS grounds its pins 5 and/or 6 as appropriate to signal to the PC. Normally, the PC keeps its pins 8 and 1 high via pin 4 through the resistors. The UPS gets its ground on its pin 4. UPS pin 2 gets the shut down signal from the PC when pin 7 goes high. I suspect that the top line labeled ground is actually a serial data line that is uses to send data to the bigger, high priced UPSes, and is not used by small UPS applications. All of the above should be taken with the understanding that I have not actually measured any of this, and nothing I've said is guaranteed. <backpedals furiously> {:^)> Anyway, perhaps this will help. Good luck. -- Regards, Malcolm KMail l.3.1 -- KDE 2.2.2 -- SuSE Linux 7.3 Remove the dots to email me

22 years, 11 months

Re: [opensuse] Serial ports on openSUSE 12.1 [SOLVED]

by Felix Miata

On 2012/05/29 14:46 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> Roger Oberholtzer wrote: >>> Recall that I said it was a new computer? It uses a SuperMicro MB >>> that has two serial ports. SuperMicro, however, no longer make the >>> panels that provide access to the port that you mount on the back. >>> So, we have purchased these elsewhere. Seems these connectors are not >>> pin compatible with the SuperMicro MBs (even though they claim to be >>> so). After the back panel connectors were re-wired, the data arrives. >> Wow. I would think that the serial port connection and the motherboard >> connection have been made for ages, why change the wiring now? It can >> only provoke problems, like yours. > To my knowledge, the wiring (+plug) between the motherboard and the DB9 > port is not standard(ized). There were two "standards", Intel's, and the other one, which was used by SuperMicro and various other manufacturers. When not able to use a cable supplied with the motherboard, it was always necessary to check a non-Intel motherboard's wiring diagram to see which of the two, then locate a cable to match it. Or if no wiring diagram was available, just keep trying others from the stash until a serial mouse would work. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

12 years, 7 months

Re: [opensuse] man pages and PDF

by G T Smith

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote: > I'm always thinking: How about the man pages as PDF files ? > > This way the PDF files could have links to references, diagrams, > websites, etc. > > Concerns: size comparison, maybe others > > Duaine > Interesting idea... man pages usually deal with cli commands and tools (as does GNU info), and there are very few diagrams in them. As they are normally produced by the developers or maintainers of those commands and tools I think one of the key issues here would be the attitude of those people to the idea. I have never been inclined to look into this in any depth but I believe there are already some GUI based man page readers which may have the capability to establish any man page, web or email support links. So I am not sure of the practical benefits would be for what could be a lot of work with the possibility one may be re-inventing the wheel.... What might be of more value is a tool that uses the man page as a template to construct a gui control (teaching tool?) to go through the process of constructing the relevant cli command. Man pages have (normally) a fairly common structure. and it is therefore theoretically doable, but worthwhile ? hmm again I am not sure... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIj0mDasN0sSnLmgIRApxlAJ9xTZ18IzjYrweY0FBxtfWrGeXftgCeLFxO H8keyPDj62KyKwka+gJw28Q= =oQEg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

16 years, 5 months

[opensuse] Re: Combining Box Characters?

by Leslie Turriff

On Friday 08 January 2010 02:44:03 William_J_G Overington wrote: > > This is what is known as a railroad-track syntax diagram. > > If your goal is to produce the diagrams, a method that could be used > would be to define some additional characters in one of the Unicode > Private Use Areas and then to produce your own font that includes > glyphs for those characters. This method would not use combining > characters at all, yet is capable of producing excellent results > locally or amongst a group of people interested in using those > particular private use code points for the task. > > If you are interested in producing your own font you might perhaps > like to try the forum at the following webspace. > > http://forum.high-logic.com > > Some information about the Unicode Private Use Areas is available in > the following referenced document, section 16.5. > > http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch16.pdf > > It seems to me that defining some characters in the plane 0 Private > Use Area and then producing a font may be a good solution. Defining > one of the new characters as a space of matching width to each and > all of the other new characters may well be useful. > > I hope that this helps. > William, Yes, I have considered adding characters to the private area for this purpose, and have been tinkering with FontForge to do that. When I discovered that the Box Characters group included the curve symbols, I wondered if a quicker approach would be to combine them with the horizontal and vertical glyphs, and that was what prompted my original post. Thanks, Leslie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

15 years

Re: [opensuse] rights for new user, a small problem of understanding...

by Anton Aylward

On 01/26/2017 01:34 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 26/01/17 17:26, Daniel Bauer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'll give access to my computers to another person with her own new user. >> >> I see, that this user can see many or most of my files (read only), but >> I want that she can only see her own files. >> >> How can I achieve that? >> Do I have to change all the rights of my files? How do I do that safely >> (without causing problems to programs etc.)? >> How do I achieve that new files automatically are readable only by me >> (and root)? >> > This is a simple groups problem. Most systems have a group called > "users", and they default to either (a) all users belong to the "users" > group, or all users belong to the "username" group (ie a user called > "daniel" will belong to a group called "daniel". Your system defaults to > putting all users in "users". > > In this situation, let's assume your new user is called "sally". Create > a group "sally", and put her in that deleting her from the group > "users". Now she will only be able to see her files, not yours. This > isn't the best solution, but the best in the current circumstance, > because you will keep having to do this - it would have been better if > it had been the default from the get-go - any new user by default will > be able to see your files. > > The alternative is to do that to yourself - create a group "daniel", > make that your default group, and chown all your files to > "daniel:daniel", but that's a lot more hassle. > > (The first option changes *her* so she can't see your files, a simple > job. The second changes *you* so she can't see your files, a lot more > work and error prone.) Groups are a wonderful and simple access control mechanism that with a little thought can deal with most situations. You just need to understand 'set thory' which is the high-faluting term for what you learnt at school drawing circles that are called called Venn Diagrams. Draw three circles, one for you, one for sally' and one you label. perhaps. 'george'. Look where they overlap. Groups are cheap, create more as you need. Create labels. You should have one for each user and perhaps make the default setting, as Wol says, specific to each user. That is the most protectionist. Then you can 'share files, by making them group readable, or perhaps writeable, for the group belonging to those overlap areas. http://www.presentation-process.com/wp-content/uploads/hexagon-venn-diagram… Of course you can create more 'complex' overlaps. http://www.presentation-process.com/wp-content/uploads/circle-powerpoint-ve… http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VhdC-5Gg7Ok/S_DIfpdBpbI/AAAAAAAAADs/llWoPG8L7uU/s… https://conceptdraw.com/a2059c3/p7/preview/640/pict--4-set-venn-diagram-ven… In practice, there is a limit to what you can do with a sheet of paper, though the mathematics behind this is indefinitely extensible. Doing it might damage your brain. At some point, regardless of the fact that it CAN be done with groups, you can't understand it enough to use it, and adopt another method. This is called Role Based Access Control. Its pretty cool and easily managed for large groups of people. But you need large groups, perhaps a full multi-tiered corporate setting with plenty of job descriptions and so on in order to see how effective it can be. If you're a big enough organization to need it then you definitely need it. What sets the criteria isn't so much the number of people as the number of differentiated roles. I once worked at a shop where there were 140 programmers. Despite the number of projects active and archived there was no reason for more than 5 groups beyond one per programmer and the 'system' ones that come with the distribution like 'lp', 'bin', 'sys', 'daemon', and so on. The basic rule is: Keep it manageable and understandable. Oh, and document it and its purpose. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

7 years, 11 months

Font problems in Dia?

by Alex Daniloff

Hello SuSE folkz, I need to use Dia to create some UML diagrams. Unfortunately I'm getting unreadable microscopic fonts in it. Could somebody please advise how to correct this problem. Many thanks in advance, Alex

20 years, 10 months

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