[svlug] Radio Cards, Radio Shack

[David Madison]

1)  I see that radio cards are "supported" in the Hardware-HOWTO, but
    apart from that, there is little information.  Anyone have any
    experience with this?  Is it difficult to get a radio card hooked
    up to my linux box that will mp3 record radio programs for me?

2)  Radio Shack has a Microsoft/$400 promotion right now that is
    similar to the Fry's debacle where Microsoft gives you $400
    to sign up with MS online, but California state law allows
    you to cancel the online contract without giving up the $400.
    They seem to be doing it again - has the law changed, or have
    they plugged this loophole?  As I figure it, MS has done more
    than $400 worth of damage to the economy, per person  :)

3)  Speaking of the Hardware-HOWTO, it crashes my X server!
    I've done this repeatedly - search the *pure text* howto:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO
    for "radio" using Netscape 4.7 on XFree86 3.3.5 (RH6)
    After the first two finds, it will consistently crash the
    server on the next find.  The Xlog shows:

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Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate 
widget with width 65527 and height 1

Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find 
handler containing data (0x81047C8)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

xinit:  connection to X server lost.
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    I'd be curious if anyone else could recreate this behavior.  The weirdly
    sized widget implies to me that Netscape gets confused and draws
    a bogus widget (which it shouldn't - it should just find the next
    string) and then uses that widget in a buggy way that Xfree buggily
    handles...  But then again, I'm probably completely wrong.

    If I had time, I'd try different versions of Netscape, and I'd try
    to recreate the X calls that it's doing...  If I had time.

-- 
Dave