Re: Tiny fonts in Blackbox

2006-02-12 Thread cmetzler
Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: >>On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:35:49AM +0100, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: >> >>> Checked from top to bottom .blackboxrc file: didn't find where to specify >>> the size of the fonts :-( >> >> The size of *what* fonts? The fonts that applications are us

Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-04 Thread cmetzler
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Are you updating your system with the security updates? > Do you run a firewall? Neither of those questions are at all relevant to the original querant's question of whether or not he *is* compromised. They tell you something about the likelihood of someone becoming c

Re: finding packages w/o packages.debian.org

2006-02-02 Thread cmetzler
Jason Majors wrote: > > With packages.debian.org down, how can I find out which packages contain > certain files? > I need to get: > libcrypt3.so.2 > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 > libssl.so.2 > libXm.so.3 > But can't figure out where they are. apt-get install apt-file apt-file update apt-file sear

Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread cmetzler
Tyson Varosyan wrote: > > Given the fact that Katipo and Alvin were the only ones to reply to this > thread and nether proved to know anything about how to resolve my issue, I > thought that I should post the resolution here so that others looking for > the answer later would not have to bother th

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread cmetzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I now have an AMD64 running the 2.6.12 kernel. > > But: Before going any further, I should mention again that this is *not* the best list for solving AMD64 issues. The debian-amd64 list is. There are AMD64 users here, to be sure; but there are more of them there, a

Re: jackd to be uninstall, do I need it?

2006-01-20 Thread cmetzler
H.S. wrote: > > I am in the process of upgrading selected packages in my Testing > machine, running 2.6.12 kernel. For the time being, I am not touching > kde (since it wants to remove k3b). But if I try to upgrade alsa > packages, jackd is to be uninstalled: > > $> sudo apt-get -s install alsap

Re: AMD64 + PCI Express Working

2006-01-20 Thread cmetzler
Jacob wrote: > > Need driver or advice for getting the X-server and/or X-windows working with > this hardware list: > > Diamond Stealth Express - ATI Radeon X300SE (haven't got this working yet... > Linux driver on their site is an rpm and Debian doesn't recognize on O/S > install) > AMD64 3200+

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-14 Thread cmetzler
Serena Cantor wrote: > > I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in > batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! imagemagick's "convert" command will convert one. To convert the whole set, just write a short shell script t

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread cmetzler
> Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but I'm > not sure if Noriega actually did some of his drug related stuff while > it was still our territory. No. Panama has been an independent nation since it seceded from Colombia in 1903. Perhaps you're referring to the Ca

Re: Please don't laugh...

2006-01-10 Thread cmetzler
Graham Smith wrote: > > Ok, you can maybe have a bit of a chuckle. I won't laugh at your expense. But I will suggest that in the future, you might want to be more courteous to the people from whom you're asking for help by using an informative subject line for your message. This mailing list g

Re: Problems with installation Debian 31r1

2006-01-09 Thread cmetzler
Hi. Please in the future use more informative subject lines. There's too much traffic in this mailing list for everyone to read *everything*; so people rely on informative subject lines to decide what to read and what not. Without one, people are likely to just skip your email. See http://catb

Re: Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-06 Thread cmetzler
Don Jackson wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> Don Jackson writes: >>> >>> I still don't know WHY there isn't a choice of desktops given the person >>> installing Debian. >> >> >> There is a choice of desktops. There is a choice of _everything_. > > OK, in the small context of the above quote, rev

Re: Package Signatures

2006-01-04 Thread cmetzler
Lukas Ruf writes: > Two questions arise: > > - how do the power users of Debian react in such situations? By reading the mailing list's traffic for the day before posting, and thus noting that there's already been a fair number of posts discussing this and what one can do about it. -c --

Re: debian and audio software

2006-01-01 Thread cmetzler
> I just wondered how well developed audio software for Debian is. > I am familiar with Audacity (Win) but wondered how much else there is > available and how far development has gotten. > I am thinking more in terms of complete DAW packages not simple players or > basic editors, For DAW work it

Re: tutorial to use the BTS ?

2005-12-13 Thread cmetzler
> I would like to notify a package maintainer that a new version of the > software he packaged is out. > I told me not to directly contact him, but to use the "BTS". > Ok. > > - What is that? > - Need to register? > - Where? > - What, in a few lines, are the rules in there? I was getting ready

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
> As some of you might know from an earlier posting, my 'firefox' > stopped working after updating some extensions. Luckily I can still > use it by invoking it as "firefox -safe-mode" (thanks, Steve!). > > How to regain the normal functionality? Which is the "bad" extension? > > I tried runni

Re: getting going with midi

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
> I have an audigy card and pmidi installed. I can play wav, mpeg, > etc. files etc. using applications such as gxine and xmms. However, I > would now like to play a .midi file. In my previous email, I should have mentioned one other route to go, and that is to do everything in the software doma

Re: getting going with midi

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
> I have an audigy card and pmidi installed. I can play wav, mpeg, > etc. files etc. using applications such as gxine and xmms. However, I > would now like to play a .midi file. > > I have pmidi installed. To find the available ports I do: > >$ pmidi -l >Port Client name

Re: Firefox Broken After Extensions Update

2005-12-05 Thread cmetzler
Kenneth Jacker writes: > > Anyone know how to turn off all or some extensions *external* to 'firefox'? I assume you looked at the documentation/man page. Did it have any useful suggestions? What happened when you tried them? -c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-25 Thread cmetzler
> He was a psychiatrist[0], why should I believe anything he wrote. Why should you believe anything anyone ever writes? -c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to figure out why a computer rebooted?

2005-11-16 Thread cmetzler
> Obviously if I get home and the digital clocks are flashing, I'll know > there was a brief power cut. But is there any way to determine from > the computer's own evidence why it restarted? Look at this part of your second log, where you shut it down yourself: > Nov 12 12:58:19 argon gdm[3158

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-14 Thread cmetzler
> So what exactly is wrong with the lowest wages/taxes? C'mon, think it > through to the end. > > Let's see, corporations want to make as much money as possible. Yet every > person who is bitching about exported jobs is really bitching about what > > ...oh yeah, how the corpor

Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-17 Thread cmetzler
> This email is about Mozilla-thunderbird. [ snip ] Various other people have written you helpful messages about the specific issues you've been facing. I'd like to write instead and make a suggestion I hope you'll take to heart: give your posts subject lines that indicate what the content of t

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread cmetzler
> I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-28 Thread cmetzler
Joseph Haig wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> (and that's without even getting into the subject that testing does >> not get direct security updates. Stable does. Unstable effectively >> gets them through uploads. Testing doesn't get them until the >> packages >> trickle down from unstable, whic

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-28 Thread cmetzler
Hi. Please do not cc me. I read the list. Thanks. Art Edwards wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> Hm, well, I understand that you're having a problem, but I don't really >> see it as a problem with testing, or that testing is broken; but rather, >> it seems more like a problem with the idea t

Re: How do you "move to testin =?iso-8859-1?Q?ng/etch=22??=

2005-09-14 Thread cmetzler
> Subject: How do you "move to testing/etch"? You may already know this, but just in case you don't . . .you need to understand that the decision to track testing instead of stable or unstable is a serious one, with potentially serious hazards. Many people have the concept in their heads that t

Re: Kernel configuration could not be read?

2005-07-12 Thread cmetzler
(drat, got snared by a Reply-To:. Trying again.) > I read everything on the Debian home page > before making my decision as to which version to install, etc. I found the > explanations good but not good enough. They are still written from the point > of view of the engineer, the programmer. What

Re: Kernel configuration could not be read?

2005-07-12 Thread cmetzler
> What does this mean, please? Anything to worry about? > > Thank you. > > Benjamin I don't have an answer for the question that you're asking in this post to the list. I would like, nevertheless, to offer you a bit of advice. I promise you that I don't mean this as any kind of a slam; if I

Re: ASUS A7V880

2005-06-01 Thread cmetzler
> Does anybody else run this board and have problems with it? I can't answer your question. But if you haven't already tried it, consider posting in the Usenet newsgroup alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus. I had an issue with an ASUS motherboard a couple of years ago and they were very helpful. -