RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread steve
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:02 +1200, bryce wrote: > ... I've got to stop hitting Ctrl-enter for line breaks like I do in > my programming editor -- sends email instead ... anyway: > > >-Original Message- > >From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] > >Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 11:03 a.m

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Kerry Mayes wrote: As a gnome user, I just use "exaile". Probably doesn't meet Rex' exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes My exacting standards are 1) doesn't crash, or if it only infrequently does, reloads its playlist near where it was. 2)

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Craig Falconer wrote: > Kerry Mayes wrote, On 24/08/09 16:46: >> >> As a gnome user, I just use "exaile".  Probably doesn't meet Rex' >> exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes >> replaygain so that I'm not constantly adjusting the volume.

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread Craig Falconer
Kerry Mayes wrote, On 24/08/09 16:46: As a gnome user, I just use "exaile". Probably doesn't meet Rex' exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes replaygain so that I'm not constantly adjusting the volume. As a console hoe I run mpg123 --random --gapless --smooth --cont

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Kerry Mayes wrote: As a gnome user, I just use "exaile". Probably doesn't meet Rex' exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes replaygain so that I'm not constantly adjusting the volume. Yip, exaile is what I'm currently using. John Carter

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread Kerry Mayes
As a gnome user, I just use "exaile". Probably doesn't meet Rex' exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes replaygain so that I'm not constantly adjusting the volume.

Re: Alpining

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Aidan Gauland wrote: My sticking point is... setting it up. In mail readers I have used up until now, there are separate fields in the configuration dialogs for each parameter for the mail servers. In Alpine, it's all one field for both the "inbox" and the SMTP server, a

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Rex Johnston wrote: xmms went away and it's replacement, audacious, sux soo much it isn't funny. xmms2 is a music server, and nothing like xmms. I wondered too http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/from_xmms_to_audacious One Line summary: xmms imploded under th

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread bryce
... I've got to stop hitting Ctrl-enter for line breaks like I do in my programming editor -- sends email instead ... anyway: >-Original Message- >From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] >Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 11:03 a.m. >To set up your dhcp server, something like... Dhcp is d

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] >Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 11:03 a.m. >To set up your dhcp server, something like... > >host workstation { > hardware ethernet ma:ca:dd:re:ss; > fixed-address 203.97.9.110; > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; > option

Re: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread steve
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 12:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, steve wrote: > > >> > >> I want my LAN connection to use dhcp. > >> When no dhcp server is found I want it to use the following > >> IP address: 203.97.9.110 > [snip] > > > > To set up your dhcp server, somethi

Re: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, steve wrote: >> >> I want my LAN connection to use dhcp. >> When no dhcp server is found I want it to use the following >> IP address: 203.97.9.110 [snip] > > To set up your dhcp server, something like... by definition from the question he only wants this setup w

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread steve
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:20 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] > >Sent: Friday, 21 August 2009 3:30 p.m. > > > >Bryce, > > > >If you set down exactly what you want to do, I'm happy to make a stab > at > >it. Mind you, when I go

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] >Sent: Friday, 21 August 2009 3:30 p.m. > >Bryce, > >If you set down exactly what you want to do, I'm happy to make a stab at >it. Mind you, when I go through that process, it often magically sorts >itself out before my eyes!

Re: Motherboard will only boot from CD/DVD drive

2009-08-23 Thread chris
Do you have another disk with system files on it that you can use as a boot disk? On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 02:51 -0400, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > On 22/08/2009, Col wrote: > > Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > >> For the last couple of months I have had both a SATA disk and an IDE disk > >> working. > >> The tw