Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-05 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Years ago (~35y), I spent a lot of money to get a really good sound > system to play my CDs. It was fully transistorized. The loud speakers > are big, with woofer, mid-range and tweeter, and are driven by a > really heavy power amplif

Re: Is there a 2.6.16-2-686-smp header mismatch?

2006-07-24 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:52:07PM -0400, S Scharf wrote: >I just installed the etch linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp package on my >machine >along with linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp. I than tried to run the >vmware-config.pl to use the new kernel. I get: > > >What is the

Re: PalmOS devices conflict with the kernel image?

2006-06-05 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:25:19PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:15:18PM -0700, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: Here's what I had to do. Edit ~/.jpilot/jpilot.rc and make sure it has the correct username entered, and note the port (mine is /dev/ttyUSB1). You can do that

Re: PalmOS devices conflict with the kernel image?

2006-06-04 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:53:33PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Okay, I did a little research. The kernel actually depends on initramfs-tools, which depends on udef. If I replace initramfs-tools with yaird, in principle I can then reinstall hotplug and my system will work again. Unfortunately, for

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:26PM -0400, Dov Oxenberg wrote: >Hello, > >Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time >Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. > >Today I tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reas

Re: Audio / Video catalog program?

2005-08-11 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:07:38PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there are any good audio / video cataloging programs > for linux, I would like to catalog all of my 12" records, CD's, DVD's > and mp3's on cdrom. Mainly interested in: > > 1] Being able to log all inform

Re: USB wireless

2004-10-20 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
Tom Kuiper wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a USB wireless device that can be used under Linux > > without too much effort? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tom I've used both a Linksys WUSB11 and (currently) a Netgear MA111 for 802.11b connectivity. Both work well once I noodled out the setup. If you

Re: apt doesn't upgrade packages

2004-07-25 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Anthony Costa wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Aaron Tomb wrote: > > > I'm having a very strange problem. As of about a week ago, apt-get stopped > > > noticing new pack

Re: Java crashing Firefox

2004-04-01 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:40:14AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 31 Mar 2004, Mustafa Taha Al-Shawaf wrote: > > I'm having similar trouble. If you ever get it to work let me know. I've > > been having the worst trouble with getting java to work under linux. > > > > MA > > > > On Wednesday

Re: Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:12:36PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > > >After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having > >trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair > >bit, so a reinstall may be

Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps someone here could show me a way to avoid that. I was running unstable, and got this proble

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-16 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:42:06AM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:40:20PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > > * Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031115 17:30]: > > > > > > But I can't find the place to change UserAgentString in Mfi

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-16 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:40:20PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > * Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031115 17:30]: > > > > But I can't find the place to change UserAgentString in Mfirebird. > > Where is it? > > I think it's one of the extensions you can download and install. > > -- > Lance S

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-14 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:16:33AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm intrigued. why would you want to do this? I understand Opera > > does it because MS had found a way to lock them out of certain sites

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-27 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:48:26AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > > I can go into any local-owned computer store and they'll sell me a > machine comparable to Dell's offerings at around half the price and > they'll back thier work. $1500 is quite expensive for a single PC. > > - -- > .''`

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > > I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+, > 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been > bitten by the AMD-AGP issue, but this seems to be pretty much und

Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start another to get it to accept t

Re: Problems installing Win4Lin

2001-02-01 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:03:49PM +, Adam J Beavan wrote: > Hi > > Trying to install a downloaded evaluation copy of Win4Lin > on my debian system version 2.2.17... > The script install-win4lin.sh runs through OK until it needs > to install the rpm package Win4Lin-5.1.0ga-1.i386.rpm... > I ge

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
> on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:54:27PM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > > > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > > > rather than something else. > > All these replies

Re: Win4Lin

2000-12-03 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:02:15AM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Which is the RPM based distribution closest to Debian? > > Win4Lin only comes in rpm and i don't want to mess my intallation. > > Thanx. > > -- > __

Re: X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-09 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the > time and and a user specified time zone? > Not sure if this is what you want, but you can show any the time in any timezone using, eg, xclock. I have family in Pe

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Phillips wrote: > Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. > > Somewhere around a week ago, fetchmail started hanging on me. After > fairly thorough investigation I'm still not sure just what changed to > cause this, or even whether it's client side or se

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:01:14PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly > > well though. > > > I do a lot of revising of documents, and find that SO doesn't export > 'tracking

Re: Win4Lin install (was: VMWare, Samba, and Slink)

2000-06-18 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:16:08PM +0200, Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Has anyone gotten the evaluation version of win4lin to work with > > Debian? I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.16 and I applied the > > 2.2.16 SMP version

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:08:54AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:45:27PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > > gave up. > > Somewhat. There are some bugs, though, which haven't been resolved. Both

Re: staroffice

2000-06-02 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:47:49AM -0700, Bob Brown wrote: ***snip, snip > I'm still looking for Mr. Goodbar... If anyone has found an Office > Package that can stand up to Office97, I'd love to hear about it. > I'm presently playing with Applix. (Not very strong, but stable.) > **snip, snip