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What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86?
From what I am told, the best choice for Open Source drivers is ATI. The
NVidia line is a better performer, and solid, but the drivers are
binary-only.
I don't believe that NVidia
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card.
These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia, but they are
maintained by XFree, and their functionality and
--- Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card.
These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia, but they are
I know there's a couple of fellow python-heads on this list (Hi Bill!).
I thought some of you might find this interesting:
http://www.pyzine.com/
It's a (very) new magazine - heck, act now and you can get issue 1. 8)
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote:
I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly
recall
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Benjamin Scott said:
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If they only exist within bash, then I wouldn't advocate their use if
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On 21 Apr 2002, at 10:44pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Speaking of um, er, Iced Tea, an completely unrelated to the subject of
robots, I thought many people would get a kick out this:
So I usually don't send things like this around to the listbut I
had a good laugh at this one.
Now I'll admit to not being a big Apple fan, but this is something new
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24968.html
--rdp
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
FWIW, IIRC you do not need to buy Athlon MP processors to use them in
SMP configurations.
You don't need to use Athlon MP chips for a SMP box, but you should.
In order to make newer Athlon XP's do
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But I feel better knowing that if my fan dies or my socket
cracks, my CPU is likely to survive the ordeal.
Which is why Alphas tend to have their heat sinks bolted on to the chip...
Years ago, Intel laughed at us and our clunky heat sinks. Then, they
created the 60 and
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At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly:
In general, the inner part of the loop is run in a sub-shell.
Not exactly... it's more subtle even than that. For example:
Yes, my language could have been a little tighter there. In
This is a classic example of why I prefer doing actual
script work in ksh and have my login shell as bash.
Aren't you just saying that you prefer to stick with a
familiar set of idiosyncracies for scripting purposes?
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I think it would be best to leave religious dicussion out of the context
of this list unless of course we want to discuss vi vs. emacs. ;-)
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To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers
[snip]
The PC shows are strictly caveat emptor. You can and will find
reputable
vendors selling
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Subject: Memory types (was: Hardware Pointers)
Are we sufficiently confused yet? :-)
BAH! It's easy!
Just remember that DDR333 is
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Rich C said:
Just remember that DDR333 is double the actual clock speed (166MHz)
Are they using Intel floating point precision to compute that?
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just remember that DDR333 is double the actual clock speed (166MHz)
Are they using Intel floating point precision to compute that?
According my math, 166 * 2 = 332 :)
That's integer math. IIRC the actual clock speed is 166.66
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just remember that DDR333 is double the actual clock speed (166MHz)
Are they using Intel floating point precision to compute that?
According my math, 166 * 2 = 332 :)
Oh, well, if it's only 332 and *NOT* 333 as advertised, then I
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On the other hand, I've used high-quality boards with VIA chipsets
that
have never
Would anyone be able to recommend any wireless equipment?
What I am thinking of doing is taking my current ATT broadband feed
that then runs into a Linksys Broadband router and then to my little
network of PCs and somehow introduce the ability to connect another PC
through a wireless connection.
I'm having success doing just that with the Linksys wireless router and a
wireless card w/my work laptop when I bring it home. I have the linksys
BEFW11 (or something like that.. it's the 4 port broadband router with
wireless) and I use a linksys wireless card (though I don't believe you're
Ben,
Thanks for the reply. Would you know if you could have two of
these standalone units communicate with each other?
I will check out the Linksys site.
I was thinking that if I had two base stations talking with each
other, I could just use any old nic connected by standard Ethernet
Yep, you sure can. I haven't felt like dropping the dough to try it, but
definitely a cool idea. Particulary for creating the directional antennae
at: http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html
Ben
On 23 Apr 2002, R. Sean Hartnett wrote:
Ben,
Thanks for the reply. Would you
I would suggest you look carefully at whichever wireless card you might
consider. I have the LinkSys WPC-11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I bought this card
when it first came on the market. It has relatively poor range. There are newer
versions of this same card. I've seen them with stickers that
Spotted this on the Linksys site, and called their support with some
questions, http://www.linksys.com/products/plbridge.asp
Since I will have a desktop and not a laptop at the other end, I think I
might take this route. Range, through put, and interference would appear
to not be an issue, which
The Linksys rep also stated that a pair (or more) of WAP11A models would
do the wireless base station idea.
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 16:05, R. Sean Hartnett wrote:
Spotted this on the Linksys site, and called their support with some
questions, http://www.linksys.com/products/plbridge.asp
Since
Did they give you a timeframe as to when it's due out?? Last I checked
this was vaporware. If it's out, care to share any of the info the rep
gave ya? Pricing, etc..?
Ben
On 23 Apr 2002, R. Sean Hartnett wrote:
Spotted this on the Linksys site, and called their support with some
Some great quotes from the article:
Apparently the Darwin OS is not the original creation of Apple Computers, but is
instead based off an older, obsolete OS called BSD Unix
BSD is obsolete, huh?
If you are using a new Macintosh running OS X then you probably have these daemons on
He said it is out now, and should run about $150, and is available from
anyplace that already sells Linksys products.
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 16:06, Ben Boulanger wrote:
Did they give you a timeframe as to when it's due out?? Last I checked
this was vaporware. If it's out, care to share any
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 16:12, Tilly, Lawrence wrote:
But here's my favorite:
Darwin OS is released under an 'Open Source' license, which is just another name
for Communism.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=offmode_w=onsite=members.truepath.comsubmit=Examine
Yup, that site is
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 3:46pm, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
Even though WEP is considered a very weak standard, it's better than
nothing.
Some have argued that you are, in fact, better off with nothing, as WEP
simply gives you a false sense of security.
In my opinion, it depends mostly on what
On 23 Apr 2002, at 4:09pm, R. Sean Hartnett wrote:
The Linksys rep also stated that a pair (or more) of WAP11A models would
do the wireless base station idea.
Yes. The LinkSys WAP11 models can function as Ethernet bridges. Great
for crossing streets. :-)
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As I have personally found out the hard way, you should make sure all the
security inside your firewall is as good as you can make it. I had a Win 2k box
compromised despite having a certain amount of security and virus protection set
up because another user inside our firewall opened an email
Found the Linksys PLEBR10 listed here, however the page states
backorder on it, it is priced at $129.
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10321918loc=101queryType=comp
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On 23 Apr 2002, at 4:35pm, R. Sean Hartnett wrote:
Despite what the rep stated, it still seems elusive to find.
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You just quoted 142 lines of message, including signatures and footers, to
add a *single line* of text.
Please observe
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:46:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Hewitt USG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would suggest you look carefully at whichever wireless card you might
consider. I have the LinkSys WPC-11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I bought this card
when it first came on the market. It has relatively poor
Heckle Ben?? I'm so glad there's more than one Ben here ;) On the other
hand, I may change my name to Bem so that there's no confusion with who's
being heckled :)
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Fibre said:
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Yes, in theory
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 12:24pm, Rich C wrote:
The fact that VIA's implementation of the AGP specification is flawed ...
I was not aware of this. Please elaborate.
... or their AC97 sound codec is worthless has nothing to do with the
board manufacturer.
Their cheap onboard sound is
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 1:02pm, Rich C wrote:
There is also the latency issue, which I have yet to have confirmed
or denied to my satisfaction.
There IS higher latency with RAMBUS ...
I stated that poorly. What I should have said was that I have not seen an
analysis of the latency issue
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:50am, Michael Costolo wrote:
The BIOS that comes with the ABIT boards. I've seen it called SoftBIOS and
SoftMENU.
[...]
http://www.ocaddiction.com/articles/howto/kt7abiostweakguide/index.shtml
Ahh, okay. It is a BIOS Setup interface to CPU settings. Nice. The
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 11:00am, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
This is a classic example of why I prefer doing actual
script work in ksh and have my login shell as bash.
Aren't you just saying that you prefer to stick with a familiar set of
idiosyncracies for scripting purposes?
Heh. That is
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I apologize for not being a little more organized this month. This
new job thing has gotten in my way, and I've been quite distracted.
Oh come on, I reminded you about this at the
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