Re: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS

Kent West wrote: Other advantages of multiple partitions: * If a partition fills up (say, a logging process starts spewing out log entries by the millions), it only fills up that partition, rather than "all" partitions, which provides less chance of file system corruption/damage/lockups/etc. *

Re: broken cd-rw drive

David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... [snip] There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to qu

Re: Why won't XMMS play .au files?

Adam Funk wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:00, Johann Koenig wrote: On Wednesday September 22 at 07:36am Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But it will *not* play any of these files: Well, what happens when you try? Your description leaves a lot to the imagination. My imagi

Re: KDE and alt/tab window switching icon size

Phil Bardanes wrote: Hi, I've decided to give KDE a try after using Gnome for some time now. I'm running Sarge with KDE 3.2.3. I'd like to make the window icons that appear in the alt-tab key sequence windows switching app larger. I've tried to do this through the Control Panel/Appearance & Themes/

kdm/ssh-agent

Hello This has been bothering me for a while, but it hadn't impacted me much until recently -- before my upgrade to KDE 3.3 (Debian Sid/Unstable), kdm used to start the ssh-agent as part of my login process. This has the side effect of sharing the agent environment variables through every appli

Re: Preinstalled System

robin wrote: "Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than "Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from that one. I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. Maybe I've been lucky

Re: Not optimal display

Jean-Francois Lefebvre wrote: Hi. I'm using Debian since 2 weeks, and so far I'm happy with it. But there's one problem. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphic card, and still when a GL screensaver (like Euphoria) appears, it's very slow. How do I ensure that my display is optimal for my graphic card. H

Re: How to change the font size for the mozilla firefox interface?

Nicos Gollan wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:25 +0800 Lian Liming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am using mozilla firefox under KDE, and find that the font size on toolbar and menu is too small to watch clearly. Firefox is based on GTK, so you need to set the font properties fo