Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:57:41 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I'd like to know if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and knows what it is. Not in the last week but recently I had the same problem. Rob

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 09:57 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just

Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hello, I'm going to skip the narrative, and just cut to the chase: which video cards better support Linux, and sleep/hibernate on Linux. It looks as if there are better open-source ATI drivers than there are for NVIDIA, but I don't know about stability. I'm asking because I need to shop for

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread steve
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 14:30 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: Hello, I'm going to skip the narrative, and just cut to the chase: which video cards better support Linux, and sleep/hibernate on Linux. It looks as if there are better open-source ATI drivers than there are for NVIDIA, but I don't

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
steve wrote: Last time I looked, nVidia support was far better than ATI, and with the availability of the GPU for fun projects, would be my choice. Do you mean that the nVidia GPUs are more open? If not, then what do you mean by availability of the GPU for fun projects? -Aidan

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread dave
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:44:57 Aidan Gauland wrote: steve wrote: Last time I looked, nVidia support was far better than ATI, and with the availability of the GPU for fun projects, would be my choice. Do you mean that the nVidia GPUs are more open? If not, then what do you mean by

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Craig Falconer
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 14/06/09 09:58: Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the router and

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Craig Falconer
Aidan Gauland wrote, On 14/06/09 14:29: I'm going to skip the narrative, and just cut to the chase: which video cards better support Linux, and sleep/hibernate on Linux. It looks as if there are better open-source ATI drivers than there are for NVIDIA, but I don't know about stability. I'm

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Craig Falconercfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote: Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 14/06/09 09:58: Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Craig Falconercfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote: Aidan Gauland wrote, On 14/06/09 14:29: I'm going to skip the narrative, and just cut to the chase: which video cards better support Linux, and sleep/hibernate on Linux.  It looks as if there are better