[SLUG] Re: Stephen - if it isnt broke.....

[woz]

Thanks for the reply Stephen,

I will give it a go a see what happens..........

Woz.


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>    1. If it isn't broke, then don't fix it ? / or is the grass
>       greener ? (woz)
>    2. Audacity (Pete Redwood)
>    3. Re: Audacity (Stephen O'Neill)
>    4. Re: If it isn't broke, then don't fix it ? / or is the grass
>       greener ? (Stephen O'Neill)
>    5. Re: Audacity (Pete Redwood)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 19:47:18 +0100
> From: woz <the_cheeky_monkey at btinternet.com>
> Subject: [SLUG] If it isn't broke, then don't fix it ? / or is the
> 	grass greener ?
> To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am a delighted Fedora 8 user, I read all the mail shots from the SLUG 
> and do digging when 'things' don't work. The Java iced t works, flash 
> works, I was delighted when I got my IPCHAINS to work so I can watch 
> Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica when it is released on the torrents, my 
> CD/DVD writing seems to work ok, I do my monthly budget on the CALC in 
> open office. I use the Livna repositories and all in Linux is well, 
> nothing is wrong....
>
> This is my problem, alot of people I have been talking to keep raving 
> about Debian - their spin seems to be that Debian is less tied in to 
> 'corporate' based linux distros so I was thinking about giving it ago - 
> but I dont want to damage my Fedora 8 installation as I just have it 
> running on one disk as a stand alone linux machine. My partition 
> knowledge is fine if I want to run a dual boot XP/Linux or Linux only 
> (which I do - it's been nearly a year without any Microsoft software on 
> my machine !) The idea of running several different distros on one hard 
> drive just confuses me - how would you get them GRUB to boot them ?
>
> I thought now would be a good time to try different distros, as Fedora 9 
> is due to be released next week and I feel I am starting to get 
> confident with Fedora. Any suggestions or thoughts would be welcomed..
>
> Many thanks in advance if anyone responds to this......
> Woz
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>> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:12:30 +0100
>> From: Al Girling <al at gcguk.demon.co.uk>
>> Subject: [SLUG] GnuPG business use
>> To: "Scarb. LUG" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>> Hi folks,
>>
>> This is for David really, but since it has been freely discussed hear I
>> thought I'd post for all to see.
>>
>> I found this discussion in the gnupg-users mailing list archives:
>>
>> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2008-February/032597.html
>>
>> It contains some interesting points for you to consider.  You might
>> regard advice from the likes of Werner Koch and David Shaw as being
>> gospel, for Werner is the principal author of GnuPG and David a leading
>> developer.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Al
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 21:20:36 +0100
> From: Pete Redwood <predwood at phonecoop.coop>
> Subject: [SLUG] Audacity
> To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <1210018836.6666.13.camel at pete-desktop>
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> Is anybody on this list using Ubuntu and if so have they updated to
> 8.04?
> I have been using Audacity for sound recording since way back when, but
> with the new update it refuses to work. It comes back with the message
> 'Error opening sound source'. Using the terminal to start it shows that
> it is trying to connect to Alsa via the src/hostapi folder, which does
> not exist on my computer and as far as I can tel is only valid if you
> compile from source. The version now in use, 1.3.4, is the only one that
> will run because all the dependencies have changed. I don't really want
> play about compiling a version myself. Any suggestions.
>
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