Tape Drives (SCSI vrs. Parallel)

1997-10-27 Thread shawn . fumo
Hello again everyone, A little ways back I asked some things about Tape Drives, and I really appreciate all the responses. One last thing, though. I lot of people mentioned one with a SCSI card, but I think that I can only afford a parallel port one. Now, I know that it will be slower, but

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-24 Thread shawn . fumo
Nicola =) Nicole, A-ehm, NicolA is a male name in Italy, just think about Nicolas in the USA. Oops.. sorry about that! I think it was late when I wrote that message Yes, you're right, not nice being tied to the computer... not nice FM too nor eating CPU cycles for soft synthesis if

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-22 Thread shawn . fumo
Nicole, Ah, about that cheap MIDI (possibly mute) keyboard, I saw that [EMAIL PROTECTED] was talking about it too, he was looking for midi software packages and mainly for software synthesis. Well, speaking of that, this is what I settled on. I turned out getting a Yamaha PSR-220. It cost

Tape Drives?

1997-10-14 Thread shawn . fumo
Hello everyone, Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked thousands of times. I've just been so busy lately that I haven't been able to do the research I usually would. Does anyone have any recommendations on a tape drive that would be compatible with Linux? My problem is

Re: SB AWE 64 versus Soft. Syns. for making midi... Also, m

1997-09-18 Thread shawn . fumo
I figure that maybe I can spend the money on a midi-compatable keyboard instead. Anyone with exp. on using one of those under Linux? I saw a keyboard for about $170 at Electronic Boutique, which was basically one devoted to Midi, without any samples built in. That seems to be the cheapest I

SB AWE 64 versus Soft. Syns. for making midi... Also, midi keybo

1997-09-14 Thread shawn . fumo
Hello everyone... Recently I have gotten interested in making my own midi music, after stumbling across some software synthesizers for Win95: WinGroove and Yamaha Soft Synthesizer. Was a mind-blowing difference in sound compared to my lowly SB16... hehe. Of course, they both had time limits

K Desktop Environment

1997-09-10 Thread shawn . fumo
Hello everyone... I was just looking at KDE's website (http://www.kde.org), and was very impressed with some of the things I saw. I know it is still in alpha, but does anyone have experiance with how stable it is on Debian? I also saw that it is availible in deb package form... For anyone

Re: Linux for sale

1997-09-01 Thread shawn . fumo
Absolutely. Linux also needs marketing, marketing, and more marketing. I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't support - OCR. Everything else is available. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In terms of marketing, I went into two computer superstores the other day.

Re: confusion over tcl/tk packages

1997-08-31 Thread shawn . fumo
Michael, I give up. What's the difference between tk4.2_4.2p2-6.deb and tk42_4.2p2-6.deb Well the package names usually go by: Name_Version-DebianPackageVersion So they are _probably_ the same thing. It is just that they included the version in package name, and listed it two different

Incorporation and Version Numbering

1997-08-28 Thread shawn . fumo
Hello everyone. I don't want to start up this big thread again in a list it doesn't belong in, but I thought I should write something First, to Dave on the incorporation, I might not agree it is as bad a thing as you think, but I can see where you are coming from. The thing is, though, is