On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> Hmm...what kind of machine does your friend have? If it's a
> pentium or 486, chances are you're right -- it is 72-pin
> simms. Your best bet is to open the case, grab one of the
> existing simms / dimms and take it with you to the store.
Perhaps. It's an old Vanilla Pentium system, clocking in around 166 or
200 Mhz.
> > What daemons should I (he) disable?
> Hard question. If it's for a desktop system, I'd disable
> everything in /etc/inetd.conf, as well as just about
> everything else. If it's an internet machine, you
> DEFINITELY want to shut off everything in /etc/inetd.conf
> for security reasons alone.
I'll make sure there are no FTP daemons running. Forgot about that.
Anyway, though, I was thinking more along the lines of "What do you do on
your own system?"
> > Any other ideas for making his system more usable?
> Hmm... not really. You don't give us a lot to go on. I
> mean, are we talking a 486, a P100, what? I'm guessing a
> high-end Pentium or better since you said something about a
> multi-gig hard drive and those wouldn't work in a 486.
As I said, P166 or 200.
> If you don't already have a good video card, get a really
> good video card with lots of RAM on it too (Riva TNT based
> card or Voodoo 3 of some sort are good cards, both
> available in PCI or AGP!)
Good thinking. Right now he's stuck using a garbage
Trident-3DImage975-Based Jaton Blaze3D. Mandrake is the only system that
actually installs (other than Windoze).
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Asheesh.
--
Real software engineers don't like the idea of some inexplicable and
greasy hardware several aisles away that may stop working at any
moment. They have a great distrust of hardware people, and wish that
systems could be virtual at *___all* levels. They would like personal
computers (you know no one's going to trip over something and kill your
DFA in mid-transit), except that they need 8 megabytes to run their
Correctness Verification Aid packages.
