House wireless/wired router: choices? Plus wireless neophyte questions.

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Metzler
hat's out of date. What would *you* suggest I read? Thanks much for any info, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear signature.asc Description: PGP signature

exim4: how to handle other addresses on my ISP?

2006-11-14 Thread Chris Metzler
x27;s no one on this machine by that username. Is there a simple solution to this? Or is it time for me to roll my sleeves up and learn exim4 in more detail? If someone can clarify what I'm doing wrong through dpkg-reconfigure, or point me at some helpful documentation, I'd be very grateful.

Re: unable to start qjackctl and ardour

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Metzler
R JACK". It's a bit dated, insofar as I mainly concentrated on 2.4.x kernels; but the point is the same. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten th

Re: unable to start qjackctl and ardour

2006-10-15 Thread Chris Metzler
s relate to realtime privileges? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Metzler
fic BROWSER entry in their document > > Would you accept a standards which addresses both cars > and ships due to the fact that both of them are > falling into the category of the transport vehicle or > the one which addresses both cars and caravans due to > the fact that they are cl

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-07 Thread Chris Metzler
n of links to information sources and organizations dedicated to educating people about the related scams, tracking their effects, etc. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give;

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Chris Metzler
anybody know how this scam works? Google Is Your Friend. So Is Wikipedia. There are literally hundreds of pages out there describing how Nigerian/419 scams work. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I under

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:24:23 -0400 Chris Metzler wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:53:17 -0500 >Mike McCarty wrote: >> >> I claimed that you did not have a license, and you state that you did >> not. You used your employer's license, which, if you were doing wor

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Metzler
it was originally installed, the software can only be used on official business projects of the business which has purchased the software. I *eagerly* await this. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I unders

Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Metzler
eaders, but it's not difficult to figure them > out. An interesting comment for you to make, given that you "figured them out" incorrectly. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I und

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-25 Thread Chris Metzler
ow I could burn a source CD for the two I have? Do you not have network access from that machine? If so, just add some network sources to your sources.list, and pull the source from over the net. This is all explained in the documentation, btw. man sources.list http://www.debian.o

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Metzler
o > get this kind of internal Fact Sheet Enough. *plonk* -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Sta

Re: google_desktop_tool

2006-04-23 Thread Chris Metzler
. On a more personal note, I have a different gripe with Google: they depend on Linux, they may never have come into being without Linux, but their support of the community that uses Linux as a workstation OS is for shit. -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remov

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-16 Thread Chris Metzler
fically interested in free (as in beer) options, or stuff available through Debian. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Yamaha sw60xg and aureal vortex

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Metzler
inux-audio-user mailing list. It tends to be a good resource for this sort of thing. http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php http://linux-sound.org/ -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "s

Re: kde in sarge

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:41:55 -0300 Andrés Ghigliazza wrote: > > Any ideas? What does your sources.list look like? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten th

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Metzler
n it, then that mirror doesn't have them available; but some of them do. Find the one closest to you and download. But better would be, if possible, to reconsider your feelings about jigdo. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "s

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:39:54 -0500 Mike McCarty wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >>>And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time >>>unless you get something for it. That's

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:39:20 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:38, Chris Metzler wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:29:14 -0400 >> >>Hal Vaughan wrote: >>>On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: >>>>On Wed, 5 Apr 2006

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:29:14 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote: >>On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 >> >>Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time >>> unles

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-05 Thread Chris Metzler
help another, absolutely nothing -- then there is nothing to drive the volunteer towards that activity as opposed to another. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have for

Re: where can i report this bug?

2006-03-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:01:09 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:44:47 -0500 > Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Right now, etch = testing. At some point, etch >> will be released, at which time etch no longer = testing, but

Re: where can i report this bug?

2006-03-26 Thread Chris Metzler
on. No, it isn't. Right now, etch = testing. At some point, etch will be released, at which time etch no longer = testing, but instead etch = stable. The original poster's statement was perfectly fine. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-19 Thread Chris Metzler
RHEL installed and with the RHEL disks/material accompanying, and there were no problems whatsoever. That said, those customization options no longer seem available on the relevant purchase pages. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Chris Metzler
e, the target is you, seems pretty irresponsible. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Chris Metzler
r so doing. But one would never guess those two things from the usual tone of your posts here. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-25 Thread Chris Metzler
ebooting *scare* me. But reinstalling/rebooting to solve problems is the approach that the Windows culture has cultivated; if you're going to use other operating systems, you have to abandon that approach. That's what the original poster was trying to say. Jeebus. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-27 Thread Chris Metzler
s where GNOME and KDE were uninstallable out of testing (in KDE's case, I'm pretty sure it lasted months). Only after a pre-release freeze goes in should testing be considered robust enough to complain about stuff like this happening. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How can I tell what package installed a specific file?

2005-01-08 Thread Chris Metzler
an what package contains a file' and the very first link returned gave me that chapter of the Debian Reference. Finally, another piece of info, not easily gleaned from the above: cd /var/lib/dpkg/info grep cmd_i_wanna_find *.list will also work. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAI

Re: Configuring sound in Sarge

2004-12-21 Thread Chris Metzler
t. As a result, if someone replies to your message and is not careful, it'll go directly to you rather than to the list. Since we want problem-solving exchanges to go to the list so that they're available in the archives for anyone who has the same problem in the future, you might wann

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-21 Thread Chris Metzler
use the ISA configuration tools that you find in the isapnptools package. You haven't mentioned that, so you may want to look at it, and at its documentation. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child

Re: The Debian IRC channel

2004-12-20 Thread Chris Metzler
nly might be something munged on my end; but I'm not seeing his replies to you. It looks from here like he's mailing you and you alone. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to giv

Re: OT [SOLVED] Who owns the damn Bible

2004-12-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:21:30 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:43:34AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > but apparently Mr. "I Love Windows, Porn, and the Bible" Zaine is the Enough. This is worse than the spam.

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Metzler
ependencies do those two have, but what depends on those two)? Enlightenment as to how most people solve this dilemma comes with the answers to those two questions. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I under

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

2004-11-19 Thread Chris Metzler
to be a Dell, does it? Can you please supply the output of "lspci -n"? (yes, this is relevant) -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace

Re: People have missed the main reason (was Re: why debian)

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:51:21 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Metzler wrote: > > With every Debian install, you get a pony! > > Where are my 30 ponies a day[1] being stored? Just curious.. Well, I don't know whether the work of the d-i team counts

Re: Simgear

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Metzler
em with Vamos, though; Vamos doesn't use OpenAL to my knowledge. Sadly, for fgfs, a P3-575 with an ATI mach64 is not going to give you very good performance. I have an Athlon XP 2000+; I had a Matrox G550 32MB and was lucky to get 6 fps flying near the default area. Switching to an nVi

Re: Seems like xMule crashed

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Metzler
permanently crashing after some minutes with the > error message: > " > OOPS! - Seems like xMule crashed > --== BACKTRACE FOLLOWS: ==-- > > Segmentation fault > " > > > Can anyone shed some light on that? Was there really no backtrace given?

People have missed the main reason (was Re: why debian)

2004-11-12 Thread Chris Metzler
has missed the main reason to choose Debian over any other distribution: With every Debian install, you get a pony! -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this gr

Re: How to configure apt to retrieve Packages.bz2?

2004-10-19 Thread Chris Metzler
ward bad behavior. What do you get out of alienating the people from whom you're asking assistance, anyway? Wouldn't you just rather get an answer to your question? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As

Re: How to configure apt to retrieve Packages.bz2?

2004-10-18 Thread Chris Metzler
, I'll just tell you > what you need to do: [ snip ] While I agree that the OP acted like a bit of a jerk, I don't see how your response answers the question. The problem he/she is having isn't that he/she can't fetch Packages.* files. Rather, it's that he/she wants to fetc

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Chris Metzler
this), modutils (or module-init-tools for 2.5.x+ kernels). } interpreters: awk, which is contained in either the mawk or gawk } packages } base: gzip, shellutils, and grep. -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-m

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Chris Metzler
t really offer any suggestions. I can recall that other people have spoken highly of various books at various times, so I think good commercial books exist; but I can't think of what they are, sorry. Maybe someone else can help here. HTH. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL P

Re: Matrox G450 hw acceleration?

2004-10-11 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:44:14 +0200 (METDST) Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Chris Metzler wrote: > > > > e) get a video card that's better at 3D stuff. When I switched from > > the Matrox G550 to an nVidi

Re: Matrox G450 hw acceleration?

2004-10-11 Thread Chris Metzler
nt. Two patches to plib that were put out this weekend (and some new code in SimGear/FlightGear to detect their presence) has resulted in a near doubling of framerates for pretty much everyone. You might also consider subscribing to flightgear-users and discussing your problems with it there. H

Re: Why Does apt-get Want to Uninstall KDE?

2004-09-01 Thread Chris Metzler
ou'd find that your KDE installation is the same as it was before. Many other pieces of software which are spread out over a large number of packages are handled the same way, e.g. package "x-window-system" and "gnome-desktop" are merely meta-packages that depend on all

Re: Noteedit, Finale, and testing

2004-08-26 Thread Chris Metzler
g > against ftp.debian.org requesting the noteedit be removed from both > unstable and sarge. You might wanna mention this on linux-audio-users. I say this because there are a lot of AGNULA/Demudi people out there who aren't subscribed to debian-user and who might care about this, have su

Re: Borked e-mail threading [Was Re: HylaFax receives rubbish]

2004-08-26 Thread Chris Metzler
why I dropped Sylpheed early on! Except I use Sylpheed, and it threaded the posts just fine, tacked onto the previous unrelated threads. > The reason why they appeared differently for you, is that Sylpheed most > likely only sorts by subject/date, (aka psuedo threading). Nope. -c --

Re: HylaFax receives rubbish

2004-08-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:01:00 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:52:01 -0400 >Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:24:06 +1000 >>Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Wayn

Re: make modules

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Metzler
gcc-3.2 or earlier. This isn't a problem with the compiler or the kernel, but rather a mismatch between them. You might wanna look at: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html in particular, the "Before You Ask" and "When You Ask" sections. It would have helped you, and y

Re: Ask for fwbuilder, get AOHellServer?!? [stable/woody]

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Metzler
s.debian.org are your friends. In woody (or, for that matter, in any Debian distro), fwbuilder has no such dependency. A quick and simple visit to p.d.o shows the only non-library package it depends on is fwbuilder-iptables. I dunno why you have an httpd running on your machine, but it isn'

Re: Package Download Tool?

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Metzler
PT uses a file named sources.list located in /etc/apt in which you tell [ snip ] Are you trolling? You're *still* not answering the question he's asking. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." t

Re: HylaFax receives rubbish

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Metzler
akim -- was the one that Wayne Topa replied to, letting you know what was up. Your reply to him, however, had "References:" assigned to it so that it's indexed as a reply to yourself, in the *other* thread. It looks like you're having some difficulties with your mail reader. -

Re: New address

2004-08-25 Thread Chris Metzler
till unread" pile until I finally give up and purge everything. Nobody here can assume that others are seeing or have seen their posts, even if the list is working OK. There's just too much traffic to simply assume that anyone sees everything. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMA

Re: make modules

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Metzler
rnel 2.4.20 on my sarge. > Compiler : gcc.3.3 > Note: the reason of a 2.4.20 kernel is that i > can't burn a cd with a 2.4.26. How do you know the problem is with 2.4.26? > Maybe anything wrong with the compiler version ? No way to tell, since you haven&#

Re: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Chris Metzler
me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for the help. space bar to select-deselect? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpDRtqFA0Iui.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USE THREADS, DAMMIT! Re: No list mail

2004-08-17 Thread Chris Metzler
that, *of course* I get annoyed. > Mr. Metzler may not see this. Suits me fine. If anyone else cares to > tell him, let him know that he is personally responsible for driving > users away from Debian. Oh brother. >From now on, I'll be sure to stop ignoring threa

Re: USE THREADS, DAMMIT! Re: No list mail

2004-08-17 Thread Chris Metzler
s it harder for > them to follow threads. It makes it a pain in the ass to set "References:" or "In-Reply-To:" correctly, for sure. But using the same subject as the one in the post that one is quoting isn't too hard, and would effectively accomplish the same thin

Re: USE THREADS, DAMMIT! Re: No list mail

2004-08-17 Thread Chris Metzler
>> messages aren't *getting* to the ISP. > > THREADS! Use the threads! Stop making new threads about this! Really. I started out killfiling threads; but when new threads kept springing up like weeds all over the place, I changed to killfiling people instead. -c --

Re: OT: Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Chris Metzler
to be confused with their similarly titled _Easy Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting_) to be really, really good. I picked the stuff up very quickly. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understo

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:02:09 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >>On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:04:31 +0800 >>John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>How do you justify that pov? At present, we have more platform

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-07 Thread Chris Metzler
x27;t deal with its release-critical bugs in time doesn't drop down to stable. What has made Sarge take so flipping long was the new installer project. There isn't anything like that planned for the next release that I'm aware of. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROT

Re: I've been blocked

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:32:32 -0400 Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for no reason. You haven't been blocked -- your posts are making it through to the list just fine -- but you have worn out various individual users' patience. Including mine. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: Home button not working in shell

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 02:28:10 +0200 Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> How do I make the Home button work as expected? > > > > Depress it as normal. > > Could you be more specific? Not unless you can. -c -- Chris Metzle

Re: you may be even more embarassed if you can't deliver

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
pam emails a day getting through onto this list and wonder if the list servers run some sort of spam blocking; you're not seeing the 5700 emails a day to this list that are being successfully blocked. Personally, I think only 5-10 getting through a day is pretty damned good. -c

Re: How to add new Windows Manager to KDM?

2004-08-03 Thread Chris Metzler
nfiguration applet in > control panel does not have a place to add a new session and the only > kdmrc file that my system has has no entry for SessionTypes. Where else > do I look? What version of kdm are you running? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root file system has unknown type

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Metzler
r machines in the last month are complaining of any other problems either. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgp00TOYh01m8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ALSA setup problem

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Metzler
4224 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-timer 15588 0 [snd-pcm] snd-util-mem1280 0 [snd-emu10k1] -c P.S. You might want to fix your mail client. Email to the list from you is coming out with a "Reply-To:" header of [EMAIL PROTECTED], forcing t

Re: ALSA setup problem

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Metzler
, and CD unmuted), and are the relevant sliders (Master, PCM, CD and Wave) turned up to reasonable values? You haven't given us enough information yet. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I under

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:59:52 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Metzler wrote: > > But that's the best way it can play out. The worst way -- which is > > thankfully uncommon, but can and does happen -- is if Depends or > > Conflicts don't c

advice needed: CMS for constructing a CVS-based file library front end

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
RTFMing/demoing down from a couple of dozen to a few. Thanks for any recommendations. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civil

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-07-31 Thread Chris Metzler
kage A are now broken). The package manager for libfoo can't set Conflicts: for *everything* compiled against earlier versions of libfoo because libfoo is just too commonly used. And if this happens with something like glibc, you're hosed. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: Apt-get upgrade for security announcement

2004-07-27 Thread Chris Metzler
what happens when you do the apt-get upgrade? Do you see the packages you want being "held back" or something like that? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have f

Re: Apt-get upgrade for security announcement

2004-07-27 Thread Chris Metzler
what it says is the current version in unstable, and it's of lower version number than the version mentioned in the security update, then something weird's going on at the Debian level. But if it's there, but you're not seeing it when you try to apt-get upgrade, then it's

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Chris Metzler
> pull network cable > reboot > look for damage, whew, I was O.K. How did you determine this? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I

Re: gnome-settings-daemon equivalent for KDE

2004-07-18 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:12:44 -0400 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:16:29 -0400 >Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:42:42 -0400 >>* Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, &

Re: gnome-settings-daemon equivalent for KDE

2004-07-16 Thread Chris Metzler
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Re: problems using JACK

2004-07-16 Thread Chris Metzler
to get rid of esd and aRts if you can, because they increase latencies. > There doesn't seem to be much on the net about jack, perhaps it's too > young yet? There's lots about JACK on the net; you simply have to poke around. Google is your friend. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: "apt-get" says file a bug report - Should I?

2004-07-14 Thread Chris Metzler
ck. > and if so how > do I make that determination There's no determination to be made. > (and why doesn't "apt-get" see fit to > inform me thereof... etc...)? Because it cannot read minds. It told you what you needed to know: that in order to install this packa

Re: Mame

2004-07-13 Thread Chris Metzler
ng with the package. How does one > get this working? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace sinc

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

2004-07-08 Thread Chris Metzler
.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/ Section 4.2. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

2004-07-08 Thread Chris Metzler
elevant section of the GNOME Users Manual, where I found the reference on how to do this in about 30 seconds). If it frustrates you *that* much, you'd think it'd be worth some effort on your part. Instead, you think that it's not worth *your* time, but is worth *ours*. -c -- Ch

Re: personal crontab entry

2004-07-08 Thread Chris Metzler
he correct direction? I don't know about kcron, never having used it. But the "crontab" program is the command line program normally used for installing a user's crontab file. And the man page for crontab says that they get installed into /varspool/cron/cronta

Re: startup/boot links

2004-07-08 Thread Chris Metzler
s in some many other threads, this has to be *the* most > FAQ ever. Heh, nah, the most frequently asked question has to be "I tried to apt-get update and got an error message that says 'Dynamic MMap Out of Room'. What does that mean and how do I make it go away?" -c -- Chri

Re: acme

2004-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:40:34 +0100 Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:47:21 -0400, Chris Metzler ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can usually figure [conflicts] out yourself with a little >> iterative use of apt-get. > > If you wa

Re: acme

2004-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
NOME-ish libraries that are all present in current-enough versions on sarge. Are you sure it's conflicting with GNOME? Or is it simply trying to remove meta-packages that don't have any actual contents, like the packages "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment"? -c --

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-06 Thread Chris Metzler
choice entirely on whether a camera will take good pictures. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpyiqn3KiYeD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: signature check failed

2004-07-06 Thread Chris Metzler
pt-get update" or located upon the official CDs. Those "Packages" files *are* signed, so that it's effectively not possible for an evildoer to modify the md5sums stored therein. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread Chris Metzler
t's managed, how new patches/updates are or are not considered, etc., and that the licensing issues are either a smokescreen or the straw that broke the camel's back. Again, you'll have to make up your own mind about that point of view. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMA

Re: xfree86 4.4.0

2004-07-05 Thread Chris Metzler
see why you don't like it. From your perspective, one thing this list has going for it that Slashdot doesn't is that there's no opportunity to moderate posts as "Troll," which is just about all you seem to be doing in this thread. Fortunately, that's easily handled at t

Re: Interesting netstat results

2004-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
can't think of any > other reason to still be seeing traffic. > > Any thought, hints, tips? Are you a ham radio operator? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to giv

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
ng on this topic. The developers decided they needed to address this issue (and I think they were right). Why does that trouble you so? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have

Re: Original packages & dependencies

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Metzler
subsection on "equivs". The APT HOWTO, also available through the Debian website, has a big section on equivs. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten t

Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Metzler
ing is not "How do I get gkrellm to show sensor readings?", but "How do I enable access to the sensor data in the first place, regardless of what program is actually displaying the temps/fan speeds/voltages?" Correct? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Metzler
rchangeable. That's not my understanding. They implement the package status file differently. See this thread from this mailing list for more info: http://tinyurl.com/2vble -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) &qu

Re: Newbie installation

2004-06-29 Thread Chris Metzler
rently there must not... :-( > > Are you familiar with "screen"? Capture the session where you run > startx. Did you mean "script" rather than "screen"? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to

Re: Gnumeric in Testing.

2004-06-29 Thread Chris Metzler
yone? What did you find when you checked the bug list for gnumeric? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgplRjxwL6jaW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: inetd & inetd.conf

2004-06-29 Thread Chris Metzler
Inetd rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal, SIGHUP. Services may be added, deleted or modified when the configura- tion file is reread. Inetd creates a file /var/run/inetd.pid that con- tains its process identifier. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: man locale problems.

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Metzler
ot render right, I often do: >> LANG=C man ... > > I don't have a ~/.profile, just /etc/profile. > And that doesn't have anything for LANG. > In fact, when I 'echo $LANG' I get.. nothing. Sounds like you didn't generate and configure locales at instal

Odd mouse cursor-related distortion in 3D apps. Can anyone confirm?

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Metzler
can reproduce it. Thanks, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpCX5qg9pOhl.pgp Description: PGP signature

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