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 amplifier

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 from

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 reason it

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 information

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 want

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 packages and

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 31 March

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

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 my only option at this point. But perhaps

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 Simmons

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 Mfirebird. Where is it? I think it's one

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. - -- .''`.

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

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 under control

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 get the

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 are making

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. -- __ Felipe

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

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

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 changes' to

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 of

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 are

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,