Yeah, right.
Mr O ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If I weren't the hardware geek that I am I might actually go
past 6 months on something. As it is, I usually change cases,
drives, RAM, video cards, sound cards, motherboards, CDRW's or
something else every few months in one machine or another.
Without knowing the model number, I'm hesitant to get dogmatic, but it really is for
a modem. I use SMCs alot and really like them.
Ken Barber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 16:25, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
Looking at SMC's sight it looks like some of their routers do
sport
Wired has an article about building your own PVR. Mostly talks about
MythTV:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59088,00.html
At the end of the article one of the links point to a Linux PVR page:
http://pvr.forceconstant.com/modules.php?name=Web_Linksl_op=viewlinkcid=1
And a database
Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:21:17AM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
The problem will start again if I enable SPAMAssassin with /etc/procmailrc.
Procmail version is 3.15.2. It is the stock one.
I'm also using 3.15.2. Do you still have mail in a filter
Perhaps, Perhaps.
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Subject: [eug-lug]Re: Fun with routers II
* you can use a hosts file in Winblows as well (c:\windows\hosts)
on NT, 2k, or XP that would be
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:34:30PM -0700, Jack Morgan wrote:
My guess is it wouldn't save much time.
It'll probably extend the life of my hard drive though.
I'll do a 'sudo time emerge -eu world' with and without
PORTAGE_TMPDIR as memfs ... someday :)
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:44:03PM -0700, Jack Morgan wrote:
Portage, the package management application of Gentoo, has the
ability to build a binary. This is handy if say you have a
homogeneous network, and only want to compile once. You then
can install the binary on all other pc in that
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:04:50PM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
I enabled SpamAssassin with VERBOSE=yes. Plus I installed the latest version of
SpamAssassin. Seems I was a couple of versions behind. Before, it took 3 or 4
hours to make the system unusable. It's been running about 30 minutes
Mike,
Well.. thatst not entirely crazy, however livecd systems are fairly unstable,
it may be a lesson in frustration...
Jamie
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 08:53 pm, Mr O wrote:
: I think I just may try something nuts. Just wondering ahead of
: time though...
: Does the KNOPPIX CD allow
Wow, a Pentium Pro, anybody got a skillet and some eggs (I hear it doubles
as a hotplate.)
snip
You think 1 PPro is hot, try two. One of the RH8 boxes we have here is running a Dual
PPro 200. The motherboard, an ASUS p65up5, is so crammed with stuff that they has to
put the voltage regulator
What sort of uptimes has anyone achieved with a livecd, btw?
Anyone trying for that? grin, grimace
BB
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:54:01 -0700
Linux Rocks ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Mike,
| Well.. thatst not entirely crazy, however livecd systems are
| fairly unstable,
| it may be a
As some of you know, (Hi, Mike!) I have a new box. Its hostname is
newbox. I am bringing up Gentoo on it. It's reasonably fast. It
sort of has two CPUs. (A Pentium 4 w/ hyperhtreading shows up as two
CPUs in Linux.)
I have another reasonably fast box, the dual Athlon box I use for work.
Its
Jacob Meuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:04:50PM +, Bob Crandell wrote:
I enabled SpamAssassin with VERBOSE=yes. Plus I installed the latest version of
SpamAssassin. Seems I was a couple of versions behind. Before, it took 3 or 4
hours to make the system
My record is 28 minutes. Woo Hoo!
Ben Barrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What sort of uptimes has anyone achieved with a livecd, btw?
Anyone trying for that? grin, grimace
BB
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:54:01 -0700
Linux Rocks ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Mike,
| Well.. thatst not entirely
Around Wed,Jun 04 2003, at 10:54, Ben Barrett, wrote:
So, we have 2 RedHat'ers on the list? (hehe, how many red-haters?)
I'm using Redhat 8.0 on my laptop. I had problems getting other
distros to work with this combination of hardware the laptop has.
Mandrake was the first that I could
When running as root
kill -s 9 PID
where PID is the process ID
I thought it was kill -9 PID
I just tested kill -s 9 PID and it works.
If the doesn't work try the command on other processes, also check the
kill command against a known good kill command on another system to
make sure it hasn't
Bob
Thanks for deciphering that tar Bob. I could have stared at that for a
while. I guess that the File-roller application doesn't work for all
compressed files. As it turns out it was all a waste of time.
So I extracted the file (with that command - minus the $) and started to
follow the
So.. Im having trouble booting an older system. I have one disk with windows,
slack 8, and slack9. When I try to boot slack8, I get this annoying message
about unsupported features and to hit ctrl-d or type in root password (which
boots into single user mode, with RO filesystem.
I can then
Look what I found for you hardware junkies:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2733756163category=31507
Crystal Acrylic Case+500W Dual Fan P.S+4 Fans
$150, 12 avail, buy it now.
Cory
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As I understand it I don't need this OSS driver from www.opensound.com , its
just an alternative.
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I use RedHat; I have it installed on about five PC's. It's easy, it
works, but my uptimes aren't as good as some because of my cheap
hardware and habit of turning off computers when not in use. I use
Mandrake on the kids' computer--the menu's were better organized on
Mandrake, and it came
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
Crystal Acrylic Case+500W Dual Fan P.S+4 Fans
$150, 12 avail, buy it now.
Ah, cases. Very personal, very subjective.
Here's an interesting collection of idiosyncratic homemade cases, all
based on Mini-ITX motherboards. I especially like The Clock and The
ToAsTOr.
Ben Barrett wrote:
Eeek, don't these have major EMF/RFI shielding issues? Starting with
not being FCC certified, moreover simply not being very safe (in that
the contents of a PC *belong* in a faraday cage, no?)... although I
plead partial ignorance, I wanted to ask. Most geeks will not
BAGGAB wrote:
As I understand it I don't need this OSS driver from www.opensound.com , its
just an alternative.
That is correct.
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http://fredrik.hubbe.net/watercool.html
this is an excellent site on the subject of silent computing
Ed
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Thanks, Bob -- I'll check out silentpcreview. Perfect...
in the meantime, I'll note that interference would be a problem for me,
as I have an FM tuner (which I use, mostly for KLCC) on my tv tuner
card. Already, I notice occasional banding on my tv reception, which I
think is interference (since
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:30:13AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
My question: what is the cheapest way to *quietly* make a system cool?
Here's the mother lode of quiet computing resources. They have lots
of good info both about cheap, and about extreme low noise.
Thanks to all,
I finally got the sound card working, the readme.pdf wasn't as bad as I
first thought.
More operator headspace then machine.
Brian
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Put on a portable AM walkman radio and move around the house / office.
There are endless signals these days.
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:30, Bob Miller wrote:
Ben Barrett wrote:
Eeek, don't these have major EMF/RFI shielding issues? Starting with
not being FCC certified, moreover simply not
Issue: I note that when I have the modem set to activate at boot /w cat
5 unplugged my connection to the net works like a champ.
Note: Before I was getting 'resolving what ever website you please'
and Mozilla would hang.
Problem: There is something to the activation / deactivation of the
modem
I was starting to drool at the mouth over a water cooled system.
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I've been using KDE 3.1.x for a bit now. I just noticed some activity
on Enlightenment DR16 so I thought I'd compile the 0.16.6pre3 version
and see what's up. I used to use E all the time but have tried
different window managers lately.
I installed the XFT(?) build of Firebird that enabled nice
about the coolness factor, but are they safe? Also, acrylic is so
brittle! Gah...
And it scratches so easily.
My question: what is the cheapest way to *quietly* make a system cool?
Since you mentioned cheap, then water-cooling is out. After that you are stuck with
some form of air cooling.
Meanwhile, Mr. O and Co. graciously built me a new system inside an
Antec Sonata two weeks ago. I like it a lot, though it looks like it
wasn't the easiest case Mr. O has ever populated.
Really? I thought Sonata was very easy to work with, given you thought ahead and got
long, round IDE or
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:57:48PM -0400, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
Meanwhile, Mr. O and Co. graciously built me a new system inside an
Antec Sonata two weeks ago. I like it a lot, though it looks like it
wasn't the easiest case Mr. O has ever populated.
Really? I thought Sonata was very
Nevermind. Ran the old shell script to launch the not-xft version of
firebird. :)
On 20030606.1354, Rob Hudson said ...
I've been using KDE 3.1.x for a bit now. I just noticed some activity
on Enlightenment DR16 so I thought I'd compile the 0.16.6pre3 version
and see what's up. I used to
For an linux intermediate class how about:
shells, sed; awk; networking intro; vi or emacs ( a common command line
editor); debian style install and update to current version(
demonstration of non rpm update);
ftp; ip tables for starters
Jim K
PS I might be interested in something like this
Case and 500W power supply for $150? Nah, a good 500W power
supply by itself is $100. You'd probably just want to toss the
power supply it comes with. Acrylic isn't really that bad of a
material. It's quite durable but it does scratch easily. The
advantages over glass are impact resistance of
Well if I were running dual anything I'd probably be using the
Eheim 1250 instead of the 1048. The increased water flow will
probably drop your temps a bit more but being Athlons, who knows
how much more stable it'd become. I'd like to find out the
thermal capabilities of the MaxxPert radiator
Well, the easiest of course are the Antec 1080 series, followed
by the InWin S and J series. Sonata wasn't so bad. I'm sure
I've come across at least 100 different designs. Many knuckle
bleeders and lots of people that have tried to put things
together themselves first.
Mr O.
--- Grigsby, Garl
Many choices here. FrozenCPU.com has high prices but a selection
to drool on. Directron.com has a bit of selection for quiet /
watercooled components. Xoxide.com for some stuff.
DangerDen.com, friendly and local (Astoria)(let them know
[EMAIL PROTECTED] told you about them ;-)) Lot's more really.
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