narcosis-notes (Narkose-Notizen) : topic:computer

Fritz!Box empfängt Faxe und verschickt sie per Mail!

tophee — 2007-10-16T00:35:00Z

Ich versteh gar nicht, warum AVM diese neue Funktion im hintersten Winkel ihrer Website verstecken. In diversen Foren wird seit langem genau danach gerufen: Die Fritz!Box soll Faxe entgegennehmen und automatisch an eine Emailadresse weiterleiten. Nun ist es so weit! Jedenfalls für die Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7170.

Und so geht's:

1. Labor-Version 29.04.97-8853 der Firmware runterladen. Die gibt's hier: http://www.avm.de/de/Service/Service-Portale/Service-Portal/Labor/labor_download_telefonie/labor_download_telefonie.php

2. Man folge den auf o.g. Seite beschriebenen Schritten zur Sicherung der bestehenden Einstellungen und Installation der neuen Firmware. (Anleitung ist auch in der zip-Datei enthalten)

3. Nachdem die Fritz!Box neu gestartet ist muss man nun nur noch die versteckte Faxempfangsfunktion finden. Die Beschreibung dazu findet sich hier:
http://www.avm.de/de/News/artikel/portal-artikel/tipp_der_woche/14241.html

Ich hab's gleich ausprobiert und mir selbst ein Fax geschickt. Es funktioniert! Wenige sekunden später hatte ich es als tif-Datei in meiner Inbox! Da es sich um eine Beta-Version handelt, könnten natürlich noch ein paar Probleme auftauchen. Wer sich darauf also nicht einlassen will, sollte noch eine Weile warten, bis die Funktion in die regulären Firmware-Updates integriert ist. (Womit doch wohl zu rechnen ist, oder?)

Problems with LaTeX => OpenDocument export

tophee — 2007-08-15T10:28:00Z

I'm not sure what use it is to write this here, but maybe someone finds the solution to this problem? At least this is a kind of archive for me to remind me of what I found so far to solve the problem.
Which problem is he talking about anyway? If I want to convert a tex-document to an odt-document using oolatex.exe (BTW: I'm working on Win XP), I very often don't get any odt file at all because the process stops for different reasons. And even when I got an odt-document once, OpenOffice could not read it.

One Problem in this whole chaos was that towards the end of the converting process a program called zip.exe is called (if I get it right, an odt-file is a zip-archive made up of several folders (e.g. a pictures-folder) and some xml-files). But I had no zip.exe on my system. I downloaded info-zip and just put it in the windows-folder, cause I knew it would be found there and that solved the problem. But as I said, there are some more and here are some ressources related to it. Maybe you can make sense of them (unfortunately I have no time to go through them more thoroughly myself):
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg123680.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=453721
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3153341
... and lots more to find if you google for oolatex...

P.S. What I don't understand is: how does mk4ht work on windows? It's a perl-script so am I supposed to install perl on windows or what?

When LaTeX produces pdf-files instead of dvi-files

tophee — 2007-08-14T20:21:00Z

Today, I've tried to solve the problem of why my LaTeX-installation (MikTex) produces pdf-files instead of dvi-files with some documents, even though I have set the output profile to LaTeX => DVI in TexnicCenter. Since I have collected some references which where not that easy to find, I just post them here:

The clearest answer seems to be this one:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2006/01/msg00409.html"
and similarly this one:
http://www.issa.stevens.edu/cgi-bin/query-pr-full?pr=2937

yes, it is as these people write: in the tex-file in question I do find this:



\newif\ifpdf

\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined 	

\pdffalse              	

\else	

\pdfoutput=1           	

\pdftrue               

\fi

(It is in fact from a template by Mark Müller, based on KOMA-script. I think it came with TexnicCenter)

I have replaced the first two line with



\usepackage{ifpdf}

\ifpdf

But a pdf-environment is still detected (and thus pdf instead of dvi produced), I don't know why... :-((

Here are some more documents I googled:
The description of the \ifpdf package:
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ifpdf.pdf

and a manual which still uses the old pdf-detection, which - according to the sources above - does not work anymore:
http://tex.lickert.net/tipps/ausgabetest/format_abfragen.html