Why generic names like Sans Serif?

2008-05-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, I've been using Linux for a couple of years but it hasn't been until recently that I've been paying attention to the font ecosystem so please bare with me :) I'm wondering why on KDE Gnome (and on apps like Firefox) whenever there's a widget to choose fonts there is always

Re: Apple's font hinting patents are going to expire ... freefont-freeworld to Fedora?

2009-09-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Sunday 13 September 2009 05:40:34 pm Matěj Cepl wrote: it seems that Apple's patents on the bytecode interpreter are going to expire sometime in October this year. Hello Matěj, Did you get any answer from fedora-legal or anyone at all regarding this? I've been curious on this for a

SATA - System Freezes

2008-06-17 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello Everyone, I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40 seconds) a couple of times a day. When it does I see this on /var/log/messages: --- cut here - kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0

Re: SATA - System Freezes

2008-06-17 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 17 June 2008 04:40:25 pm Alan Cox wrote: What does smart utils have to say about the drive last logged errors ? Agh thanks Alan. I forgot about S.M.A.R.T..but shame on me: smartd isn't running on my machine (not enabled INIT-wise). I just started it and enabled it via

Re: SATA - System Freezes

2008-06-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 07:13:46 am Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: My issue was that on one outlet of the power supply there where to many (3) drives connected. Thanks for the tip Henry. Indeed I have 3 drives connected from same power-supply outlet. I'm going to rewire and check behaviour.

Re: From Flash to an audio file

2008-07-09 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 09 July 2008 07:02:55 pm Paul Smith wrote: ...find the address of the flv file in the page. How can I get such address? Well...most of the time that's the tricky part. However, with a particular Firefox add-on I'm using it was easy to grab the flv file. The name of the add-on is

Re: Recording Internet audio stream

2008-07-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 12:08:09 pm Paul Smith wrote: I thank both of you for your suggestions. However, the address of the audio stream that I am wanting to record is not visible to me (inside flash), and therefore none of your suggestion will work. Any further ideas? Paul, I gave a

Re: Recording Internet audio stream

2008-07-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 01:10:09 pm Paul Smith wrote: With this one: http://tsf.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Portugal/Interior.aspx?content_id=964968 Well, with this one indeed it doesn't work. It's not a flash video as the other one was. Here you'll have to use the Flashblock add-on tip that

Re: getting sound back

2008-07-28 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 28 July 2008 09:58:56 am Mark Haney wrote: I was looking for something related to pulseaudio, but didn't see anything that stuck out as being such Well, after making sure the volume is not way down ;) check if pulseaudio is running with: ps -ef | grep pulse If not, start it as

Re: getting sound back

2008-07-28 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 28 July 2008 11:51:54 am Alan Cox wrote: On my intel board I've lost sound a couple of times with the latest Fedora kernel. In both cases I had to kill off the sound using processes and unload the snd_hda_intel driver then reload it. Simply restarting pulseaudio didn't do anything

Re: subpixel LCD fonts smoothing

2008-08-04 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Sunday 03 August 2008 05:22:07 pm David Hláčik wrote: So far, i have found on forums there is no difference. So after installing that freetype-freeword font smoothing on Fedora 9 will be same as on Ubuntu? Well, it's not that straight forward. To simplify the matter, there are two things:

Re: subpixel LCD fonts smoothing

2008-08-04 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 04 August 2008 08:54:00 am David Hláčik wrote: o, guys ... what about now? :)   http://www.hlacik.eu/fedora_fixed.bmp It looks nice. Similar to mine but then, this is a subjective matter :) So... enabling subpixel hinting system-wide firefox-wise did it for u? -- Jorge --

Local binding port for SSH client?

2008-09-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello guys, I'm wondering if it's possible to specify a local port when one uses the ssh client program? I'm sure the kernel is the one who decides some random port above 1024 at execution time...but I'm wondering if there's any way to control this at user level? Thanks, Jorge p.d. all

Re: Local binding port for SSH client?

2008-09-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 05:00:32 pm Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Are you looking for a way to control which outgoing port ssh uses? Yes, this is what I want. For example, on a remote ACL you may have your filters based on: - destination ip - destination port - source ip I was thinking I

Re: Local binding port for SSH client?

2008-09-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 11:59:05 pm Bill Davidsen wrote: If you want to learn a little about iptables you can just do SNAT to control the IP and port.    iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d 1.2.3.4 --dport ssh \    -j SNAT --to-source 4.3.2.1:24702 That is, if the destination IP

Two-pane outliners? (Tuxcards etc...)

2008-09-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, I've been using Tuxcards for a couple of years as my main outliner (before that I used Knowit). The problem is... both projects are no longer maintained (more than 2 years ago). Does anyone knows any good two-pane outliner - similar to the above ones - that is alive?

Re: Two-pane outliners? (Tuxcards etc...)

2008-09-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 09:41:28 pm Kevin Martin wrote: Have you checked the website http://lifehacker.com/software/note-taking/note-taking-roundup-230867.php  ? I don't see any reference there to any Linux outliner. I did my google search before posting on the list and couldn't find any

Re: How to Burn a Music DVD on K3B

2009-01-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 03 January 2009 12:43:22 pm Jim wrote: K3B only has a selection for burning a Audio CD Project 80 min. I want to burn Audio to a DVD 4gig, no what I do it holds me to 80 min. which is a Cd. You can't do that, AFAIK. An Audio CD is a standard (search for Red Book standard) and it

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

2009-01-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 08:17:09 pm Todd Zullinger wrote: And why in the world is anyone still using xmms, with it's hideous gtk1 widget set and poor utf-8 support? I totally agree. That's why I've been using Audacious for a while now (as a replacement for xmms). I highly recommended it

Re: music download sites?

2009-01-20 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 03:05:07 pm Kevin Kempter wrote: anyone out there using one of the pay for music download sites? mp3.walmart.com (it has music from the MAJOR labels...) HTH, Jorge -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: how to add stuff to crontab without using crontab -e

2009-04-12 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Sunday 12 April 2009 11:23:57 pm Antonio Olivares wrote: I want to know if it is possible to edit/append to crontab without using crontab -e Well, what you edit with crontab -e is finally stored in: /var/spool/cron/root Thast's the file you are looking for. Of course, make sure your

How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)

2009-05-15 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, I used to record (time-shift) some radio programs over the web using mmsrip and mplayer (for MMS/ASF streams) but now one of my local radio stations switched to a Flash stream. Here is the current URL: http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/univision/?callsign=WKAQAM I

Re: How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)

2009-05-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 18 May 2009 03:30:37 pm Bill Davidsen wrote: Did you try one of the python scripts used for youtube? Yes, I tried but the majority of these scripts are custom-made for youtube and similar sites. :( -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: How to Capture Flash Streams - (Radio Stations)

2009-05-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 16 May 2009 10:51:25 am Joe Smith wrote: Instructions and shell script for dubbing audio from a running application into a file: http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/04/19/recording-from-pulseaudio/ Thanks Joe. This looks promising. I'll take a look at it and will report back

Re: Firefox itnerface problem(fonts too big)

2009-07-21 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 01:32:42 pm Tanel Valdna wrote: I have a little problem with firefox interface fonts. They are way too big and I cant figure out how to change them. Check this thread (from a couple of months ago): http://www.nabble.com/KDE-4.2-FIREFOX-Font-size-problem-td22077491.html

Re: Added hard drives; how to configure raid?

2009-09-09 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 12:24:51 am Reid Rivenburgh wrote: Is there an easy way to do that on an already-installed system? Easy is relative :) Check this: http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=Convert_a_single_drive_system_to_RAID Basically, you'll have to: 1- create a

Re: Added hard drives; how to configure raid?

2009-09-09 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 10:46:15 am Reid Rivenburgh wrote: So, there's no need to involve LVM then?  I'm not sure of the benefits of using it. Right. No need for LVM if you just want to mirror the drives. LVM has some nice things that you may or may not need like: resizing logical

Re: duplex prob

2009-09-12 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 12 September 2009 01:34:23 pm sureshbabu ct wrote: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full That is what you run on your shell to run the ethtool command to change the settings on the fly but that's not the syntax for the ethernet config file. This is what you need to include the

Re: duplex prob

2009-09-12 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 12 September 2009 02:01:33 pm sureshbabu ct wrote: eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link If I remember well..even if the interface drops to half-duplex, you shouldn't see no link on the mii-tool output. Does ethtool eth0 show no link as well? Did you check the LED on the card? Is

Re: enabling root over ssh on F11

2009-09-12 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 12 September 2009 12:41:57 pm Aaron Gray wrote: But still neither root sshd nor login work. I don't remember if there's still some PAM module checking for /etc/securetty Check that file. -- Jorge -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: duplex prob

2009-09-12 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 12 September 2009 02:10:59 pm sureshbabu ct wrote: Link detected: no Here's the main problem. Did you check the LED? In othe words...is the cable properly connected? Did you try changing cables? You should forget about duplex settings in the meantime. Concentrate on Layer 1

Re: What's happened to syslog.conf in f11 ???

2009-10-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Friday 30 October 2009 03:44:22 pm Reg Clemens wrote: In Fedora 11 there is no longer a syslog.conf, nor is there a man page describing the file. In Fedora 11 not... Since Fedora 8 yes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary#New_System_Logging_Daemon:_Rsyslog Check

Fedora 12 - Anyone using mplayer + vdpau?

2009-12-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo in order to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its dependencies) in order to see if I could finally use mplayer with vdpau (in order to offload h.264 playback to the GPU). Unfortunately when I

Re: Fedora 12 - Anyone using mplayer + vdpau?

2009-12-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 14 December 2009 23:39:49 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ummm… Did you try yum install libvdpau? Ah thanks a million Sam! Shame on me!!! That one got me. I never thought it was as simple as that...My mistake thinking something was crippled (in the dependencies). I was like...

Re: Fedora 12 - Anyone using mplayer + vdpau?

2009-12-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 14 December 2009 23:45:59 Ed Greshko wrote: And, for future reference, a yum whatprovides libvdpau.so.1 would have provided the answer. Right on. Thanks Ed. Yes, I missed that one :) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: What the H is wrong with K3B

2009-12-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 20:25:46 Jim wrote: How do I get k3b to copy over files when I add a Directory to a data/dvd project. it burns the folder but no file in it. I've been using K3b for years and I have never seen this behaviour. I currently use it on Fedora 12. How are you doing

Re: Slowness with ssh in F12 !!!

2009-12-19 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Saturday 19 December 2009 07:04:12 Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Does anyone know why the ssh connection is so slow regard to F11 ? Maybe the Nagios server had your previous ip (in its hosts file) and now it doesn't for your current ip (I'm guessing). I think SSHD is performing a reverse lookup when

Monday as first day of week - Gnome Calendar

2009-12-20 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello all, I'm on Fedora 12 and getting used to Gnome after using KDE for many years... Is there a way to change the first day of week from Sunday to Monday on the Calendar applet? I tried searching for it for a while but nothing seems to work for me. I tried changing: first_weekday 1 to

Re: Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

2010-01-04 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 04 January 2010 20:59:36 Ian Pilcher wrote: How do you do that with a CSS-encrypted DVD? He's merely copying the scrambled bits on the DVD to his hard-drive. CSS has nothing to do in the actual copying. There are, however, other techniques employed to make the copying really hard

Re: abrt daemon failed to start

2010-01-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Thursday 07 January 2010 11:02:14 Juan Camaney (kauyumari) wrote: Starting abrt daemon: abrtd: Failed to start: got sig 2 FAILED Hi, I had some SELinux Denial Messages right after the latest updates with abrt but after a restart (needed for other packages) everything was fine. Check if

Re: ASF format ??

2010-01-08 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Friday 08 January 2010 17:32:05 Jim wrote: I recieved a Video that says it's a .wmv file but Linux Properties says it is a ASF format. ASF is the container and almost every wmv and wma is indeed an asf file. Since an ASF file may contain audio, video or both, these alternate (file-