USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

2007-04-26 Thread Tyson Sawyer
Hey folks! I'm interested in an external USB 2.0 CD/DVD that works with Linux. ...I'm currently using Ubuntu 6.10 and expect to update soonish. I definitely want to be able to burn CDs. If reasonable on performance, OS support and cost, I'd also like to be able to burn DVDs. Any suggestions

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-26 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/25/07, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you are saying the flag indicates only that it understands that flag, rather than has that capability? Wouldn't it be more useful to show what capabilities it HAS rather than those it knows about? Our mistake is in assuming that usefulness was

Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
When installing a system for a client I accepted the new default setting for PHP configuration that disable functions system as exec(), passthru(), and system(). Unfortunately quite a bit of their intranet code uses the system() function. So I've spent the past hour or so trying to figure out how

Re: Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Charron
I believe this is the safe_mode setting in the php.ini file. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php On 4/26/07, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When installing a system for a client I accepted the new default setting for PHP configuration that disable functions system as

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Charron
On 4/26/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for siblings : 2 in the cpuinfo. If it has the HT flag, but siblings is 1, it answers the question. Think of it as a matrix question. 'Just remember, there is no spoon, err, HT.' As an addendum, the lack of a siblings line also

Re: USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

2007-04-26 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Thursday 26 April 2007 07:40, Tyson Sawyer wrote: Hey folks! I'm interested in an external USB 2.0 CD/DVD that works with Linux. ...I'm currently using Ubuntu 6.10 and expect to update soonish. I definitely want to be able to burn CDs. If reasonable on performance, OS support and cost,

Re: Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
Sorry, forgot to mention that safe_mode is set to Off. So that's not the problem. I'm guessing there's some little known configuration file/setting hiding someplace that I need to tweak. I distinctly recall being asked when installing PHP if I wanted to enable the use of functions like exec(),

Re: dual-core vs. HyperThreading

2007-04-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:35:39 -0400 Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know the specifics, but its definitely possible to disabled HT, as well as a core or cores of a cpu or cpus at the bios level. The bios in my Dell Precision 490 workstation has options for both. I know in

Re: dual-core vs. HyperThreading

2007-04-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thursday 26 April 2007 12:54:22 Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:35:39 -0400 Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know the specifics, but its definitely possible to disabled HT, as well as a core or cores of a cpu or cpus at the bios level. The bios in my Dell

Re: dual-core vs. HyperThreading

2007-04-26 Thread dan
Jarod Wilson wrote: Yup, particularly in the high-performance computing arena, its generally recommended to run without HT, since its almost always a performance hit there. A client has some complex simulation/modelling software which runs (a) much faster and (b) without bogus results with

Re: dual-core vs. HyperThreading

2007-04-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
dan writes: A client has some complex simulation/modelling software which runs (a) much faster and (b) without bogus results with HT disabled. The software vendor says the bogus results are due to their code, not HT itself, but HT exposes a flaw in their design. Since the application also

Re: dual-core vs. HyperThreading

2007-04-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 26 Apr 2007 16:26:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) wrote: By this definition, we in fact require that programmers of multithreaded systems be insane. Were they sane, they could not understand their programs. Ok, Kevin, are you guys going to have me committed. I only live a

Re: USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

2007-04-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:30, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: I have been using a Liteon Model SHW-160P6S10C 16X DVD/CD drive with SuSE 9.3 on an IDE bus. It works fine with the K3b burner and Linux DVD reader. I'm pretty sure that Liteon CD-ROM drives used to be made out of paper when I was

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 25, 2007, at 17:01, Bob King wrote: That seems a bit odd.So you are saying the flag indicates only that it understands that flag, rather than has that capability? yes. Wouldn't it be more useful to show what capabilities it HAS rather than those it knows about? yes. -Bill -

Re: Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:46, Dan Coutu wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention that safe_mode is set to Off. So that's not the problem. I'm guessing there's some little known configuration file/setting hiding someplace that I need to tweak. I distinctly recall being asked when installing PHP if I

Re: USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Jenkins
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:30, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: I have been using a Liteon Model SHW-160P6S10C 16X DVD/CD drive with SuSE 9.3 on an IDE bus. It works fine with the K3b burner and Linux DVD reader. I'm pretty sure that Liteon CD-ROM drives used to be made out of

Re: Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:46, Dan Coutu wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention that safe_mode is set to Off. So that's not the problem. I'm guessing there's some little known configuration file/setting hiding someplace that I need to tweak. I distinctly recall being asked when

Re: USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Lussier
Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'Tis difficult still to forget the first fumbling semi-failures that have since matured into reliable products. Whatever we have been burnt with in the past, makes us twice-shy to try it again in the present; ofttimes costing us the benefit of the

Re: USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

2007-04-26 Thread Tyson Sawyer
NewEgg had a nice, slim external Plextor drive. It wasn't as cheap as the LiteOn stuff, but much smaller. ...and since I will sometimes be carrying the thing around, size matters. Thanks for the advice! Ty On 4/26/07, Tyson Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks! I'm interested in an