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

2009-10-05 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
to think it doesn't, I'd just like to hear from someone who has actually used it. P.S. My apologies to Mr Condon for sending this to his return address; I stupidly hit reply instead of group-reply. -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

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

2006-07-24 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
D=439133 BTW, when you get around to upgrading to 2.6.17, you might need to check out www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=432775. I had to do these edits before VMWare worked for me on 2.6.17 + Debian. Good Luck, HTH -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

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
rkstation. That was a bit of a nightmare as Linux and Windows compete for the attention of the visor module. It can be done, however. -- Martin Hillyer

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
rry for the simple-minded suggestion if you've already done this, but in the spirit of "is the appliance switched on?"... -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio / Video catalog program?

2005-08-11 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
perl). > 4] Random filename indexing, kind of like http://freshmeat.net/discdb > 5] Hopefully available as a Debian package. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Stefhen Not exactly what you asked for, but have you looked at Tellico? http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/ Availab

Re: USB wireless

2004-10-20 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
work well once I noodled out the setup. If you want 802.11g, don't have any info, sorry. -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt doesn't upgrade packages

2004-07-25 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
e assigned numbers be? On my system they had been changed to - stable:1001, testing:101, unstable:99. I changed this to stable:100, testing:900, unstable:1000 and this seems to work OK. My question is: what should these numbers be ideally? Or is it perfectly arbitrary? Did I even find the correct solution? I'm sure this is all in the docs somewhere, but I haven't found it yet. -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java crashing Firefox

2004-04-01 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
r/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins, > otherwise it didn't work. > > AC > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk > using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic > Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles > Aha! I&

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
hese errors seem to cause no package to be upgraded. Can someone point me in the right direction, or is my system so hosed at this point that a reinstall is in order (it would be a first)? -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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
can download and install. > > -- > Lance Simmons Right. Go to Tools-Options and click on Extensions. Then click on the link to "Get New Extensions". You'll get a list, and you can choose User Agent Switcher. There are 119 extensions i

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-14 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
e my password (kept on the local machine by mozilla). When I changed the UserAgentString to plain Mozilla using the User Agent Switcher, everything worked. I've written to amazon suggesting they change their ways; we'll see what happens. -- Martin Hillyer |

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-27 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
e expensive for a single PC. > > - -- > .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' :proud Debian admin and user > `. `'` And it will probably have an industry standard power supply/motherboard connector (unlike the Dell). See, e.g. http://www.upgradingandrep

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
(popups, cookie and login management, eg). Thanks for any ideas... -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems installing Win4Lin

2001-02-01 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
o do the installation (eg, rpm --nodeps ...) but I haven't tried them and don't know what other effects they might have. As always, YMMV. HTH & HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.18 Communications by mutt-1.3.12i ~~ QOTD: When Marriage is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Inlaws.

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
and be informed about what must be installed with it and what could be installed if you'd like. And when you want to uninstall, what might break. In a word - control. You are told everything - if you choose to ignore it, that's OK too (but watch out!). Well, these geezer reminscences

Re: Win4Lin

2000-12-03 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
uild, since no patched kernel is available, I've run every version of win4lin from 1.0 up to the present beta-5. Try hanging out on the win4lin lists (check their website); you will find plenty of people running Debian. Good Luck, -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.16 Communica

Re: X11 Clock for different time zones?

2000-11-09 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
a great resource! HTH & HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.16 Communications by mutt-1.2.5i ~~ QOTD: "I'm not a god, I was misquoted." -- Lister, Red Dwarf

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
es to work out fetchmail problems (and -v -v will give you even more, though I've never had occasion to use this option). Try man fetchmail... HTH & HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Debian/GNU Linux 2.2.14 Communications by mutt-1.0.1i ~~ Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
4Lin list for a while - [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are many comments on which software will run / won't run / needs tweaking to run... HTH & HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Debian/GNU Linux 2.2.14 Communications by mutt-1.0.1i ~~ Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' and I think I heard God... -- mikecd on #Linux

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

2000-06-18 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
s a mailing list for win4lin stuff, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could hang out there and pick up info (traffic is very low, though). HTH & HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Linux 2.2.14 Communications by mutt-1.0.1i ~~ The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbours. -- F.H. Bradley

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
cken, Photoshop, MathCAD, VB, and others (mostly stuff that isn't available on Linux in some form [I haven't converted to the GIMP yet :-)]). Haven't found anything that doesn't work, yet. And file sharing is easier (IMO). Sure beats rebooting all the time... -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Linux 2.2.14 Communications by mutt-1.0.1i ~~ Please take note:

Re: staroffice

2000-06-02 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
ately I don't have any financial interest in this product. HTH & HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Linux 2.2.14 Communications by mutt-1.0.1i ~~ You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. -- Steven Feiner

Re: 2.1r2 (Official) 8 gig partition size barrier

2000-03-04 Thread hillyer
nclude an append line in lilo.conf to recognise the HD correctly on bootup (man lilo.conf). HTH and HAND -- Martin Hillyer Powered by Linux 2.2.14 Communications by mutt-1.0.1i ~~ He who hesitates is sometimes saved.