Re: cdrom stopped making noise

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, El-al, Netta wrote: hi, i got a 50x cdrom a few months ago and every time i listened to mp3s on cds using xmms it made a horrible tractor noise that drowned out all the music. not to long ago i noticed that the noise stopped. i don't know if it was I have noticed

RE: cdrom stopped making noise

I have noticed "Cyberdrive" drives have this problem throughout their line, and more so on high speed models (a whoosh sound like a jet taking off). but tractor? and only on xmms? I guess Xmms was misconfigured in a way that added the tractor sound - and mandrake reconfigured it in the

RE: cdrom stopped making noise

1) It is not a Linux problem. 2) Instead of buying the fastest CD-ROM, by a good one (my Toshiba x 40 cost 50 Sheqels more then Unknown x 50, but it is GOOD). 3) Try to change the "read ahead" or some sound-like parameters. If you will Increase your buffer then maybe it won't try to

RE: cdrom stopped making noise

no, it didn't only make the noise on xmms, it only stopped making the noise on xmms. if i "ls /mnt/cdrom" for example then it does make that noise. i guess it is only some reconfiguration of the buffers in xmms. jets taking off can sound like tractors, i guess ,if their take off lasts longer than

Linux at the US

Hi I spent the last 10 days in the US, and I must tell you that Linux is HOT. You see daily articles about it in the newspapers ( not technical newspapers; regular ones ). The stores are FULL with Linux books ( TONS of linux books ) and distros. Even the guys at FRY's know what linux is ;-).

If Operating Systems Ran the Airlines

hi, i just had to send this to the mailing list. forgive me. (i hope it makes you smile :o) an updated version of the old favorite... If OS's Ran the Airlines Linux Air Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket

Re: Rexec request into RedHat 6.0

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Galia Gitliz wrote: Hi All I have a machine running RedHat 6.0 on which I want to enable rexec services to it. (rexec from this machine to any other unix works OK) I know I have to uncomment the lines that deal with "exec" in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf After I

LINUX and MATLAB

Hi, Does anybody have experience with MATLAB working under version 6.1 of Red-Hat ? Officially the current MATLAB version does not support Red Hat 6.1. What is the practice? Thanks, Shuli = Shuli Cohen Shwartz, Ph.D., MBA General

Re: LINUX and MATLAB

UCGTechnologies wrote: Hi, Does anybody have experience with MATLAB working under version 6.1 of Red-Hat ? Officially the current MATLAB version does not support Red Hat 6.1. What is the practice? Thanks, Shuli Shuli, I have ran MATLAB R11 (5.3) under Linux (an old Slackware with libc5).

Re: LINUX and MATLAB

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, UCGTechnologies wrote: Works under 6.1 at TAU. --Ariel Hi, Does anybody have experience with MATLAB working under version 6.1 of Red-Hat ? Officially the current MATLAB version does not support Red Hat 6.1. What is the practice? Thanks, Shuli

Installing X from Tarballs

I have RH 6.1 that comes with Xfree86 3.3.5. I am trying to install a new ATI rage 128 card that needs the new Xfree (3.3.6) I downloaded the Tarballs from Xfree86.org and installed them as written in the readme. one bug accured that never happend on any Xfree86 version. (i even installed the

Re: Installing X from Tarballs

I suggest you should grab the RPM's (ALL of X rpm's) from Mandrake 7 on Mandrake web site.. Remember to grab ALL of them - not just the specific X server. Hetz At 14:38 01/02/2000 +0200, Y. Benado wrote: I have RH 6.1 that comes with Xfree86 3.3.5. I am trying to install a new ATI rage 128

Re: ARP aging time

Hi Arie, Berkley-derived implementations normally have a timeout of 20 minutes for a completed entry and 3 minutes for an incomplete entry. Entries added by arp -s are made permanent unless the keyword temp appears at the end of the command line. W.Richard Stevens "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1"