moved to EthernetCards3Com3C509 because TWiki names that start with a numeral cause a problem perhaps this is the page that shows up on WebStatistics without a ...

See BLT . AFS : The Andrew File System (originated at Andrew Carnegie's old school, Carnegie Mellon University). Couldn't find much (useful) on a Google search ...

ASCII stands for something like American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and is a way of representing the alphabet, numerals, punctuation, some control ...

See BLT . ATIP : At least two meanings: 1 Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP) 1 Absolute Time In Pre groove from http://knowhow.cdfreaks.com/article ...

AbiWord is an: open source (GPL), cross platform (Linux, Windows, BSD, Solaris, BeOS (on hold), Mac (in progress)), multi language word processor ...

This is a list of people who have volunteered to be beta testers for AbiWord, in some cases, only when AbiWord incorporates some specific feature in which they are ...

Collecting notes and resources for implementing collapsible outlining in AbiWord. (For FJFranklin (?), re RFE (bug) 4038). For examples of collapsed outlines (of ...

I am interested in AbiWord development, and certain specific topics. (I would like help with AbiWord development, i.e., design and coding, but I don't know C well ...

AbiWord is an MSDI (Multiple Single Document Interface) application (see AbiWordFaqMdiSdiMsdi). When the last open document is closed, the default behavior is to ...

Moved to Abiword:Abiword.WinFaqAbiWordOpensMyWordFiles. Thanks RichardCramer for your contribution! (Good last name by the way misspelled, but oh well ; ) ) Since ...

This page is intended to start accumulating information about how AbiWord handles fonts (especially under Linux) to deal with some of the problems (like the installation ...

This page is a second (or third) attempt to explain the differences between MDI (Multiple Document Interface) as used in Word97 and earlier, SDI (Single Document Interface ...

In response to someone's post on abiword user, I started writing what might become a supplement or a "useful" Wikilearn page on the process of submitting bugs and ...

On Mon, 2002 04 08 at 20:44, John L. Clark wrote: Is there a way to create a new template and add it to the template list, so that a new document can be created with ...

Moved to AbiWordFaqMdiSdiMsdi.

Moved to AbiWordFaqReportingBugs.

I've started this page to serve as a place to record my process of testing as I test the nop AbiWord 0.9.3 release for Windows. Deprecated: Pretty much an obsolete ...

Just wanted to remind myself that AbiWord now has / is getting a feature to keep track of revisions within the document. Tomas Frydrych was originally going to call ...

These pages are an alternate means of: providing feedback to HOWTO authors, and communication between readers and authors. Although the actual content ...

This is WikiLearn, a wiki based site dedicated to collaborative learning of Linux and free and open source software. Among other things, nop WikiLearn is my learning ...

A page to provide some introductory material about their computer from CFK. (Hmm, some or all of this might be covered by RandyPlessor in the orientation class, and ...

See BLT . absolute path : See absolute pathname . An absolute path is the one and only true path to a file or directory, starting from the root of the filesystem ...

See BLT . absolute pathname : See pathname and relative pathname . An absolute pathname starts with a "/" to indicate it is the path starting from the root ...

quoted from below: "ACLs take care of access control problems that are overly complicated or impossible to solve with the normal Unix permissions system. By avoiding ...

See BLT . access permissions : Linux has a system of file ownerships and permissions which control who can do what with a file. Read, write, and execute are the ...

A list of resources to design software and web sites to improve usability for people with disabilities. See AboutThesePages. Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations ...

See BLT . account : Every user of a Linux system must have an account. This is a way of saying the user has been registered to use the system, including being entered ...

Accounting / invoicing programs for Linux. See AboutThesePages. Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel free to add additional resources to ...

I found: V.E.R.A. Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 vera when I looked up MDA in the dictionary built into kde 2.2.1. (Looks like there are several ...

A nice article (at least the beginning, which is all I've read so far) that explains what (Microsoft's) Active Directory is, and why Linux should not ignore it: ...

See BLT . active partition : The active participation is the partition that is bootable, in other words, the one that will boot if the system is booted up. Must ...

Adding a user (or group) to a Linux system: GUI tools: userdrake (just like what you used when you installed Mandrake) linuxconf Relevant files (that you ...

Notes and resources re administering a Linux system: moving users from an old installation to a new installation. From: Subject: Re: expert system upgrade moving ...

I can tell you're eager and anxious to get going, but you need to take a breath and slow down. I wish Linux was at the point where a few hours search on the web would ...

Ok, the abiword dev maillist is throwing a new (to me) term around, so I need to find out more about it. This is a page to record what I find. Here's a quote from ...

See AboutThesePages. AIRPLANE FLIGHTS, BUS SCHEDULES, AND TRAVEL PACKAGES SEARCH Now this is a topic you should have at least heard about from all those television ...

See BLT . alias : Alias as a word is used in several situations in Linux, so I will come back to discuss more later. Command Alias One use is to change what you ...

"Alias" and "virtual" can create a lot of confusion (especially for me). This is a TOC page for "alias" it will pay to see VirtualTOC . From the "Free On line ...

To allow read and write access to a fat32 partition in Linux, modify the entry for that partition in the fstab file to include the following options: ..,user,umask ...

Alternate Google (Under Construction) Experimenting with what might be a nicer Google search form (copied from one of the Google search pages). This will require ...

I acquired some used AMD 1200 MP cpus (processors) at a good price. Having some trouble making them work consistently, so collecting some notes. My first suspicion ...

See BLT . : The ampersand has several uses, even several within the context of the shell: appended after a command causes the command to be executed in ...

Just some stuff for amusement. See: About These Pages Contents Notes Resources See Resource Recommendations . Feel free to add additional resources ...

Resources and sources for analog and digital computer I/O. Just collecting resources as I haven't found the perfect (and cheap!!) solution(s) yet. (There are a few ...

There is a Linux client for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) from America On Line. I've managed to install and use it turned out to be very simple, almost don't need ...

Useful (promising) links for the Apache web server. See AboutThesePages. Contents Notes httpd V will show you which files and directories Apache is using ...

mod rewrite is an Apache module that allows changing of URLs. For example, if you have a website with a long complicated URL, you could probably possibly simplify ...

"Most (all) Intel MP compliant SMP boards have the so called 'IO APIC', which is an enhanced interrupt controller, it enables us to route hardware interrupts to multiple ...

appres is an X utility to display all or portions of the X resources data base. For example, you can use appres to see what fonts or colors are used by the various ...

apt get is the Debian software package management tool. apt get packages are named with the suffix ".deb". See: About These Pages Contents Notes Resources ...

Resources re artificial intelligence. See: About These Pages Contents Notes Resources See Resource Recommendations . Feel free to add additional ...

Tools for ASCII art. See: AboutThesePages Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel free to add additional resources to these lists, but ...

I have some other stuff about askSam on my home TWiki it's time to start moving some of it here. Summarizing some of that askSam is a free format database with ...

Update: I recognize that either Leo or info may be alternative "engines" for my AskSam for Linux approach (or the base on which to develop an alternative engine). ...

Just collecting some "snippets" from other pages (notably the Info... pages) to get them out of the way there and start collecting them in one place. See: About ...

See BLT . : In the shell, the asterisk is a wild card much like in dos/Windows. It can stand for one or more characters. Also, in the majority of modern programing ...

When an attachment table is included on a page (and not hidden), the page takes a significantly longer time to download, and I can see that the delay occurs as the ...

Had some trouble with an ATX computer not powering up realized the power switch does not directly switch the 115 VAC wrote to the lvlug and tried some things, ...

See BLT . authorization vs. authentication : "Authorization" and "authentication" look and sound similar, and have meanings that are easily confused, but it is ...

Just starting a page on autoconf by copying from the ROX Filer User Manual. See: AboutThesePages Contents Notes from 18 of the ROX Filer User Manual: Here ...

HTML in email causes problems for some email clients or their users. The purpose of this page is to make people aware of the problems and request that they not use ...

This page "reserved" for discussion (pros and cons) of HTML in email, possibly sparked by AvoidHTMLinEmail. See: AboutThesePages. Contents Discussion Additional ...

Just starting out with a letter I sent (tried to send since it was from my Linux box, I'm not sure it was sent successfully) to John Naughton, author of censor in ...

See BLT . awk: a pattern scanning programming language Contributors HaroldSharp 01 Feb 2002 If you edit this page, add your name here, move this ...

A page to list (and allow comparison) of commands to perform various tasks in Awk, Sed, Perl, and Nedit. (Of course, I may not initially (or ever) know how to do ...

See BLT . BIOS : the Basic Input/Output System of the computer. Acts as a 'go between' for the operating system and devices such as the video card, hard drive, mouse ...

See BltBasicLinuxTraining.

Commands to back up the MBR ( Master Boot Record ) dd if /dev/hda of backup hda.mbr count 1 bs 512 See AboutThesePages. Contents Backing Up Only the Boot Loader ...

A working page to think out loud (on paper) about how best to get copies of WikiLearn .txt, .txt,v, and attachment files several times for several reasons: To ...

Backticks (backward single quotes) surrounding a command execute the command and insert the results in its place. See notes. See: AboutThesePages Contents ...

See BLT . backups : Spare copies of files (programs or data) that are made and kept in case the active copy is damaged or destroyed. The damage or destruction can ...

A list of barter organizations (at least, that's what I think LetsLink is). See AboutThesePages. Contents Notes United Kingdom UK UK LETS and Complementary ...

Bash (the Bourne Again SHell) a (command) shell (think of command.com in dos / Windows) for Linux. One of several available in Linux see CommandShells. See AboutThesePages ...

daRcmaTTeR and Richard Bonebreak are working on a script to check for a running process and then take some action based on that. (It's related to removing a lock ...

Basic on Linux resources. See: About These Pages Basic Programming Language Contents Notes Resources See Resource Recommendations . Feel ...

See BLT and Beginners Man Pages Discussion . "Worksheet" to develop some simple syntax examples for common Linux commands, possibly to be incorporated in the ...

See BLT . Contents Resources Your Own MAN Page: Version 1.0; contributed (to nop LinuxOrbit) by Harold Rodriguez; (viewed in June, 2002) concentrates on ...

Collecting resources on making better URLs (URIs, URNs) in the sense of keeping them short and unchanging. There are several pages on the twiki.org that get into ...

Bézier (pronounced bAy z A (my attempt at a phonetic spelling)) curve is a mathematically defined curve that can be used to draw "smooth" lines through or near points ...

Some resources for bicycle riding in eastern Pennsylvania. See: About These Pages Contents Notes Resources See Resource Recommendations . Feel free ...

See: AboutThesePages Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel free to add additional resources to these lists, but please follow the guidelines ...

A fairly interesting idea something that causes you to upload a file at the same time you are downloading it. The intent is to help more people download the same ...

See BLT. (I may need to look this one up I have a pretty good general idea, but maybe I should learn some specifics.) block transfer : I think there are probably ...

Starting out as a "scratch sheet" to do some calculations on hard drives, and maybe eventually confirming that blocks and clusters are the same thing (or maybe that ...

BLT stands for Basic Linux Training, a free online training course for Linux produced and conducted by Henry White. (See http://www.basiclinux.net .) At least at ...

See BLT . Thanks to everybody who has contributed (hope I haven't missed anybody) to this effort to define the terms from the BLT course: Cathleen Feduke ...

See BLT . Basic Unix/Linux Commands Concepts, Gary Leaf .dir colors DIR COLORS awk cat cd chdir chgrp chmod chown echo ...

See BLT . Booting Boot Managers, Anita Lewis BIOS CMOS MBR POST (Power On System Test) boot chaining boot manager boot partition ...

See BLT . Essential System Administration, Henry White /boot /boot/map /dev /etc/skel account active partition backups e2fsck file ownership ...

See BLT . Contents Filesystem, Henry White Utilities Commands cd chgrp chmod chown ln ls mkdir mv pwd rmdir ...

See BLT . gcc and make, John Tilp .c .h .o ./configure cc compiler core dump debugger flex gawk gcc gdb grep hex dump ...

See BLT . Hardware Requirements Selecting a Distribution, Barrie James proprietary controller (card) gateway moderated (unmoderated) disk ...

See BLT . ISP Dial up through Linux, Henry White dotted quad host IP address loopback network address subnetwork address broadcast ...

See BLT . Installing Linux from CD ROM, Henry White hard drive geometry LILO loadlin makebootfloppy mount Contributors RandyKramer ...

See BLT . KDE, Kay Schenk Terms and Concepts Kicker panel desktop Klipboard Konqueror Files and Directories ~/.kde ~./kde2 ~/KDesktop ...

See BLT . Linux Networking and Remote access, Stefan Waidele IP Address DNS /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf localhost Client process Server process ...

See BLT . Linux Telecommunications and Networking, Henry White Netscape archie finger ftp gopher pine ping ...

See BLT . Linux Tools Applications, Stefan Waidele text editor text formatter text processing word processing spell checker vi command ...

See BLT . Partitions Partitioning, Anita Lewis boot partition extended partition filesystem logical partition mountpoint primary partition ...

See BLT . Performance Tuning Tips and Techniques, Henry White /proc/ /proc/cpuinfo /proc/dma /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports /proc/meminfo /proc/partitions ...

See BLT . Perl and CGI, Kay Schenk Terms and Concepts Perl CGI regular expression Perl module CGI environment variables array hash ...

See BLT . Preparing Your Hard Disk, Henry White cylinder master boot record (MBR) partition table repartition format rawrite Contributors ...

See BLT . Printers Printing, Henry White text formatter text processing word processing spell checker register macros regular ...

See BLT . Shell, Henry White Utilities Commands . .. ? PATH bg fg jobs tee tr CTRL C CTRL D ...

See BLT . Shell Programming, Henry White Utilities Commands break continue exec fi for in for if then elif if then else ...

Starting a list of the terms to define for BLT See AboutThesePages. Contents Please Help Originally, I had some idea of doing most of these definitions for the BLT ...

See BLT . In Alphabetic Order Terms Starting with Punctuation (Not exactly in alphabetic order in order by spelled out punctuation mark dot, tilde, slash, asterisk ...

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See BLT . Upgrading Software Other Administrative Tasks, Henry White ./configure .deb .gz .rpm .tar.gz .tar .tgz .Z .z /etc/ld.so.conf /lib /usr/lib ...

See BLT . Using CD R/CD RW, Henry White CD Resources (added) ATIP CD R/RW CDDB DAO mode DVD EL Torito extension FIFO ISO 9660 ...

These are some of the useful links recommended during the BLT course (in 200201). See AboutThesePages. Contents Linux Configuration and Installation Linux configuration ...

Just finished reading: Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah Blum Perseus Publishing, 2002 ISBN 0 7382 0278 9 I borrowed it from ...

Utilities to help handle web bookmarks, including annotation and collection. See AboutThesePages. Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel ...

I sometimes run across books that sound interesting and I think I'd like to read I'll start trying to list them on this page. See AboutThesePages. Contents Computer ...

See BLT . boot chaining : The approach of booting to one operating system and then starting other operating systems from the first. Example: Loading Linux ...

See BLT . Boot Manager : A term apparently ripped from IBM's old OS/2 "Boot Manager", this refers to program which provides a computer's user with an interface to ...

See BLT . boot partition : The boot partition (or directory /boot) contains Linux kernel images that can be used to start a Linux system. A boot manager (like ...

See BLT . Boot Sector : from http://compreviews.about.com/library/glossary/bldefbootsector.htm: The portion of a hard disk that is reserved for the self starting ...

Some good resources on the (computer) boot process. See: AboutThesePages Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel free to add additional ...

A bootloader is a program that helps start up a computer system by loading the main executable programs from a disk of similar media to the computer's RAM . I guess ...

The Bourne shell a shell (think of command.com in dos / Windows) for Linux. One of several available in Linux see CommandShells. See AboutThesePages. Contents ...

This page is intended as a test page to compare HTML rendering (specifically of TWiki) in different browsers. See Support.BrowserFormattingIssues . Update: This ...

Just want to start recording some RFEs for Internet browsers. The best one (IMHO) (the Mozilla supervisory program) is: somewhat difficult to explain partially ...

Just a list of browsers derived from Mozilla: Netscape 6 and up Galeon (GNOME) http://multizilla.mozdev.org MultiZilla See AboutThesePages. Contents ...

Not even started, but I wanted this to appear on the Changes list so I remember to come back to it. (And so I see the bread crumb trail and consider discussing the ...

I have not listed the bugs I've reported or am interested in here, partially because I have an active "presence" (as a lurker / wannabee developer) on AbiWord. I did ...

See BugsReports . Bugs I've reported or am interested in for bugzilla 81920: Bugzilla is search engine unfriendly around 20011117 there was some indication ...

I've reported or researched bugs for several open souce projects. I've decided I should keep lists of them for future reference, especially on projects where I have ...

Many open source projects use Bugzilla to manage their bug killing efforts. See: About These Pages Bugzilla Status Progressions Bugs Bugzilla ...

Many open source projects use Bugzilla to manage their bug killing efforts. I suspect that not all projects that use Bugzilla use the same status progression. In ...

Notes and resources for building your own PC. See AboutThesePages. Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel free to add additional resources ...

See BLT . Burn proof : From http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9 gci518303,00.html: BURN Proof (Buffer Under Run Error Proof) is a technology developed ...

Here's the first guide I've seen for burning a DVD (in Linux): Authoring; by Chris Stoddard apparently it focuses on burning an AVI to a DVD, so I guess that is ...

Notes and resources re transferring (vinyl) records to audio CDs. See: About These Pages Contents Notes Resources See Resource Recommendations . ...

Resources re burning cds, primarily under Linux. See AboutThesePages. See also BurningIsosToCds. Contents Notes Resources See ResourceRecommendations. Feel free ...

This is the beginning of a collection of the commands or instructions necessary to burn an iso as a usable installation CD in various programs on Linux and Windows ...

Some business related resources for programmers going hourly rates