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Pronunciation of "metacity" (was Manage window: change positions, etc.)
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:45:09 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: From an old metacity README: Metacity is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. metacity : meta as opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Met... 24 Mar 2010 09:59

Pronunciation of "metacity" (was Manage window: change positions, etc.)
On 2010-03-23 16:39, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:55:00 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: GNOME is a DE (Desktop Environment). It's standard WM is Metacity (rhymes with mendacity and audacity). Well, you learn something new every day, if you stay awake. (That's what my grandfather a... 24 Mar 2010 09:59

rkhunter mails to root: should I worry?
Dear Debian people, I'm getting rkhunter mails every day and have noticed the following contents: Warning: The file properties have changed: File: /usr/bin/dpkg Current hash: 77e5b6a35981d5d16310a1925d9566cd41d1b0fa Stored hash : 84f64e4ee0a279ae5bd20462da339e7998c1c5a2 Cur... 23 Mar 2010 20:37

playing/ripping audio cds
Something has gotten broken on my system and I don't know where to start looking. I am running the 2.6.32-3-686 kernel and most of what's available from testing. I use a dvd+rw device for both cdroms and dvds. There is no more /dev/cdrom nor /dev/dvd. Instead there's /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1, both symlinks t... 25 Mar 2010 14:59

Monitoring AutoFS in SNMP
I am trying to find a MIB to monitor AutoFS but everything I find is tied to the current pid AutoFS is running under which of course changes each time it is restarted making it useless as a monitoring metric. Has anyone setup SNMP to monitor AutoFS or a similar type of daemon on a Debain system? Thanks, Brian ... 24 Mar 2010 12:19

aptitude upgrade problems
Hello, I am using Lenny. When I try to upgrade, this is what happens: # aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done ... 23 Mar 2010 11:17

SOLVED - Re: No startup of daemon at installation
Sjoerd Hardeman schrieb: Another option would be to download the deb, unpack it and manually edit the configuration scripts not to execute the init routine. I don't think there's an easier way. It's not apt that calls the init, it's the package its configuration scripts. Maybe somebody else has a clever ... 23 Mar 2010 10:07

virt-manager on debian lenny
hi, how do i get to install virt-manager on debian lenny 64-bit aside from compiling the whole thing and it dependencies? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my ... 24 Mar 2010 15:50

tc download always to "default" [solved]
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> : My problem is all the traffic is caught by "classid 1:10", the default class. Nothing is trapped by "classid 1:301" -> "classid 1:426" At a first glance, would you see something wrong in these? I took a quick look and didn't see anything obvious. But I haven't pl... 23 Mar 2010 03:27

debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #504
> Has this card worked for you with Linux in the past?  Or is this a fresh install? It's been working for me well for both Windows and Linux for a certain amount of months. Over the last few weeks I've been having trouble connecting to my router and have been seeing abnormal behavior from the Ethernet led on m... 22 Mar 2010 21:48