From: Chris Robinson 

nope - didn't know you had to do that - I'll try that later :o)

Joe Barr wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:18:06 +0000, Chris Robinson wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd keep this thread up-to-date so's people can have a rough
> > idea of what I've been doing in Linux and any huurdles I come across.
> > I've been fairly busy this weekend (went paintballing on Saturday - ouch)
> > and so I haven't done loads of things.
> >
> > 1. Reinstall:
> > One of the first things I did was to reinstall RedHat.  I did this as up
> > until Friday, half my system was still taken up by Windows partitions.
> > I'd backed these up to a network share and so I wiped my drives clean,
> > installed RedHat on my 8Gb drive (I let it manage this space itself rather
> > than defining my own partitions) and set my 40Gb to be my /home directory.
> >  This went fine without any problems.
> >
> > 2. Chat, E-Mail & News:
> > I used Gaim to replace ICQ and MSN Messenger which it does well.  It
> > imports my MSN buddy list fine but I had to add all my ICQ contacts
> > manually (a bit anoying).  This said, another client for ICQ only called
> > Licq (I think) did import my contact list fine - I just like having one
> > app to do both (like Trillian does).
> >
> > I set up my mail using Ximian Evolution which is an MS Outlook clone and a
> > very good one at that - it's really easy to use and simple to set up.  The
> > intelligent mail import wizard didn't really do much so I had to import my
> > mail from Eudora one mailbox at a time which was slightly annoying - this
> > said I didn't think I'd be able to import it at all.
> >
> > I decided to use a program called Pan for news reading - I tested this out
> > last night and I like it a lot.  It reminds me a bit of the Netscape
> > Newsreader in layout only a lot nicer.
> >
> > 3. Media playing:
> > I think this is the area that's really going to annoy me.  I downloaded
> > and installed a player called Xine last night.  It looks good and has an
> > impressive amount of features.  It plays DVD's, VCD's, MPEGS, RealMedia,
> > Windows Media and Win32 Codecs - sounds impressive.  The install went
> > without any hitches and so I thought I'd try playing an MPEG.  It supports
> > drag and drop (thank god) and it appeared to play well, that is until I
> > full screened it - then it was unwatchably jerky.  I don't know if this is
> > something I've got wrongly configured or not but the performance really
> > did suck.  I know my PC's not state of the art but I think a PII 350
> > (running at 392) and 512Mb RAM should be sufficient for playing MPEGS -
> > maybe I need to update my grpahics drivers or something? - I'll play more
> > tonight.
> >
> > 4. Annoyances:
> > I'll post some of these as seperate questions I need answers to but
> > they're here too:
> >
> > At the moment it's the media playing that's annoying but I'm sure I'll
> > sort it soon.  The other thing that really sucks is that XMMS (the Winamp
> > clone) and XINE (the video file player) don't support playing files from
> > SMB (i.e Windows network share) locations.  This means that I have to copy
> > across any MP3's or videos we have on our LAN to my PC before I can listen
> > to or watch any of them - that suck IMO and I hope there's some way aound
> > this. Alomost every single MP3/ Video player I've tried in Windows
> > supports palying files from network locations - as should these.
>
>
> Did you smbmount the share before trying to play the files?  It should
> work.
>
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