Re: AM radio recorder

2005-08-23 Thread dbp lists
Just thought I'd let people know that I've successfully set this up. It was so very easy. I just used a patch cable (male on both ends) to connect my radio to my sound card ('line in' socket). I set up some simple scripts with some calls to ecasound (an EXCELLENT command line program for sound

AM radio recorder

2005-07-31 Thread dbp lists
I've been thinking for a while about setting up my debian box to record some AM radio programs... sort of a Tivo for radio. A lot of mp3 players come with FM radio and recording function, but not AM radio. Some TV tuner cards also include radio, but again only FM. THere was one product that

Re: AM radio recorder

2005-07-31 Thread dbp lists
On 7/31/05, dbp lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I've been thinking about just using a radio (with AM capability, obviously) and using an 8mm plug (male conneciton on both ends) and connecting the output of the radio to the input (microphone socket) of my soundblaster sound card on my linux

Re: Is Debian Print Cartridge Refilling friendly?

2005-07-16 Thread dbp lists
On 7/15/05, nuno romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m not exactly willing to pay 50 times to Hewlett Packard my inkjet printer,with this pick pocket business model of selling printers with a low price and print cartridges with a very high price,so I decided to refill my cartridges.I know that

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-06-22 Thread dbp lists
On 6/22/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try logging into a simpler, different environment, such as Icewm or fluxbox, to keep any audio daemons loaded by KDE/Gnome/etc from getting in the way, and report the results. If this is really a concern, there's the option of not even logging

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread dbp lists
I thought the info given at this site was useful: http://mst3k.booyaka.com/bittorrent_guide.shtml In particular - I'm a big fan of the headless downloads. -- Regards, dbp

Re: not able to install libapache-mod-php4 on sarge -- help!!

2005-06-13 Thread dbp lists
| E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or | specify a solution). | -- This happened to me, so I typed 'apt-get -f install' as suggested and this actually fixed it. I just upgraded from woody to sarge on Saturday. This was the only hiccup that I ran

Re: Will Sid go nuts?

2005-06-02 Thread dbp lists
On 6/2/05, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So edit sources.list to say sarge instead of testing, and watch what others are encountering. Once you see how stable sarge is and how others are doing with the new testing, change sarge to testing and track the new testing. FYI I'm wanting

wireless card for a laptop

2005-05-06 Thread dbp lists
Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop? From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. Actually - any general advice at all on running debian on a laptop would be appreciated. (woody vs sarge vs sid). Kernel