Linux-Hardware Digest #373, Volume #13 Mon, 7 Aug 00 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
[Q] Matrox Genesis Framegrabber (Robert Josef Ladstaetter)
More on DEC 21140 Problems (Jonathan Ashbrook)
PCI128 Driver? (James Stotz)
reclaiming master boo block? (Peter Bismuti)
PCI Voodoo 3 3000 compatibility ("Rob Love")
Re: dump and hardware compression ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Soundcard VIA 82C686 Red Hat 6.2 problems (Hisao)
"TrueX" or other CDROMs... (Dan)
Problem with EIDE? ("Jeff D. Hamann")
Re: WInmodem->winenulator=solution? (mst)
Diamond Speedstar A200 ("Michael Nejdl")
Re: "TrueX" or other CDROMs... (Rod Smith)
Re: dump and hardware compression (David C.)
passwd change error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "TrueX" or other CDROMs... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can Redhat 6.2 run on Umsdos filesystems(FAT32)?Answer to my E-mail PLEASE.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WInmodem->winenulator=solution? ("Michael Mowbray")
Help!!! IDE Tape drive setup. ("Shawn Salyers")
Re: Diamond Speedstar A200 ("Albert A. Arendsen")
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From: Robert Josef Ladstaetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] Matrox Genesis Framegrabber
Date: 7 Aug 2000 19:06:53 GMT
hi all,
is there a possibility to run a Matrox Genesis Framegrabber under linux?
I'm referring to the product described on
http://www.matrox.com/imgweb/prod/genesis/
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
robert
--
mfG
Ladstaetter Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jonathan Ashbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More on DEC 21140 Problems
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 15:25:09 -0400
I am still trying to get an SMC 9332DST Ethernet board to work. It uses
the DEC 21140 chipset. It doesn't seem to get an IRQ. I have tried the
updated drivers, and the pci-scan module. This doesn't seem to do any
good. However, I can't find any documentation on what to do with the
pci-scan module. Does it have to be pre-installed somehow??
If anyone knows how to get an IRQ assigned to this board, let me know.
BTW, it gets detected fine with IRQ=10 under Win. Thanks!
Jonathan Ashbrook
IBM Microelectronics
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From: James Stotz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI128 Driver?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:50:48 -0400
I've seen that many of the new Socket A motherboards have the Creative
Labs CT5880 sound chip on board. I've heard that this is the PCI128
chip. Is this right?
If so, I'm new to linux and I'm wondering where to find the driver for
this chip. Creative Labs open sourced the drivers, so did somebody port
it?
Thankx,
James Stotz
SFU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: reclaiming master boo block?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 19:44:08 GMT
I tried installing win98 on a dos partition and overwrote
the MBR, I booted using a floppy and then ran lilo as root, but it
still wants to boot into win98.
Is there any way of reclaiming it without reinstalling?
Thanks
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From: "Rob Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI Voodoo 3 3000 compatibility
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:53:27 -0700
Anyone had any issues using the PCI Voodoo 3 3000 on linux, mandrake or red
hat distros? I am considering buying it, but I don't want to be too hasty.
Thanks,
Rob Love
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dump and hardware compression
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:15:11 GMT
In article <8mg0ng$d9q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me whether the Dump command supports
> > the hardware compression on my HP C1554A Dat tape drive?
>
> man mt
>
> > would be greatly appreciated! Please reply directly to:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Newsgroup responses to newsgroup questions for the benefit of all.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
>
That's about as helpful as a fish is to a bicycle.
Requesting a direct reply does not prohibit posting the
reply to the newsgroup also. Which in this case would
be a double waste of bandwidth. JD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:52:32 GMT
On 7 Aug 2000 19:04:07 GMT, Dances With Crows wrote:
After using the -u1 flag my drive performance seems to have improved,
especially in the buffer-cache reads. They now look as follows;
>>I just tried it on my drives, both UDMA 33, and got the following results;
>>/dev/hda:
>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.69 seconds = 47.58 MB/sec
>> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.73 seconds = 13.53 MB/sec
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.22 seconds = 57.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.32 seconds = 14.81 MB/sec
>>/dev/hdb:
>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.55 seconds = 50.20 MB/sec
>> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 7.78 seconds = 8.23 MB/sec
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.22 seconds = 57.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 7.60 seconds = 8.42 MB/sec
I've also enabled Write cacheing on both drives. That, from what I
understand, can cause data-loss after a power failure, but I'm going to
test it for a while and see if performance improves.
The above 57.66 number seems a bit interesting to me - both drives DMA
buffers read at the same speed? Is that normal?
The info on my drives looks like such;
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda
Model=Maxtor 90648D3, FwRev=GAS74812, SerialNo=A36200NC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=12556/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=29
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=2
CurCHS=12556/16/63, CurSects=12656448, LBA=yes, LBAsects=12656448
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hdb
Model=FUJITSU MPA3043ATU, FwRev=9519, SerialNo=01168939
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
RawCHS=9042/15/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=0(?), BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=9042/15/63, CurSects=8544690, LBA=yes, LBAsects=8544940
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
Drive Supports : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3
>VIA MVP3 chipset w/VIA UDMA support enabled in kernel 2.2.16, hdparm
>-u1 -c1 -m16 -d1 applied to both drives.
I'm now using all of those settings. It appears as if my Sector Count was
already set to the MaxMultSect value for both drives by default.
>The figures are even better with the 2.4.x test kernels,
My kernel version is in my .signature. I must say I'm quite impressed with
the performance of these drives, if those figures are correct. I'm going
to reccomend some of these settings to a friend running a UDMA66 drive and
see what numbers he can come up with.
>but overall performance is still worse with 2.4 thanks to the ongoing
>VM problems.
Oh? I've noticed snappier performance since switching to 2.4. Memory
management appears to be much better, and disk cacheing is greatly
improved.
"Ongoing VM problems"? Would you mind elaborating?
>My early '97 laptop gets 3M/sec even with everything tweaked for hdparm,
>so 13M sounds great to me....
I dunno, that's just what hdparm tells me. Since applying some of the early
tweaks to my HDD's, moving 3-6MB MP3 files between drives/partitions has
GREATLY improved. I'll have to try moving a 300MB VMWare .dsk file around
and see how fast MC tells me it's moving.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://tinys.cx/blackdeath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test5
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From: Hisao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundcard VIA 82C686 Red Hat 6.2 problems
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 05:45:44 +0900
Thanks again, Duane.
I installed ALSA driver, but I could't get it work.
I had some error messages about modprobe in
/etc/log/messages after rebooting.
I think my Linux cannot find soundcard itself.
My motherboard is ASUS CUV4X and my soundchip is recognized
as VIA PCI Audio Controller in Win98.
I don't have any IRQ conflicts.
Thanks in advance.
Duane wrote:
> I could not get the standard Linux (RH 6.1) 82C686 driver to work, and I
> know others have had the same problem. Then again, I have seen messages
> from people that could not get the ALSA driver to work, either. Perhaps
> a difference in the BIOS setup. In any case, your mileage may vary.
--
================================================
Hisao Ueki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "TrueX" or other CDROMs...
Date: 7 Aug 2000 21:02:02 GMT
Hello,
Anyone know for sure if these new TrueX drives from Kenwood are well
supported by my favorite OS..? ;)
Or, barring that, has anyone found a good resource for comparing the
performance of various CDROMs? I am
in the market for a new one, and I want to be sure that it would support
nice, reliable DAE and that it would handle CDR's as well as scratched
disks, etc.
I am looking for a CDROM that will be worth the money in other words.
If anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
-Dan
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From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup
Subject: Problem with EIDE?
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:13:19 -0700
Sorry for the crossposts, but I'm having troupble installing either Linux or
NT. I've removed the HD (WD 20.5 GB EIDE 66) and inserted the original Linux
1GB drive that installed on another computer and the system seemed to work
just fine. When I went to install Linux onto the 1GB drive I got the same
behaviour and before:
<tons of hex numbers>
code : 8b 69 08 81 fd 2b 2f c3 a5 0f 85 df 00 00 00 8b 69 0c 85 ed
Aiee, killing interupt handler
unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at vrtual address at
00000088
Then I gave up and tried to install NT on the 30GB drive (using only the
first 2GB) and kept getting the same problems with the NT CD (can't copy
mfc42.dll, etc) and the NT the CD is fine (no scratches or anything). I
also, tried using different NT CD's and got the same probelms...
Is there a problem with trying to install Linux (or NT for that matter) with
an onboard EIDE controller and a EIDE hd with a IDE CDROM?
HELP!
Jeff.
===========================================================
Jeff D. Hamann
280 Peavy Hall
Department of Forest Resources
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-8566 USA
541-740-5988
541-737-2375
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WInmodem->winenulator=solution?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:29:45 -0400
"Mimmo, Zanzara Blob" wrote:
>
> Nick:
> >Yes, Wine will allow you to run some Windows programs under Linux. It's just
> >not technically speaking a Windows emulator.
> no other than that are there?
> where i can find them?
> --
There's vmware (http://vmware.com), but it's commercial and not cheap.
And, AFAIK, no emulator will allow you to use hardware which isn't
supported by the host OS, i.e. you won't be able to use windows drivers
for a device that Linux doesn't support.
MST
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From: "Michael Nejdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Diamond Speedstar A200
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:34:21 GMT
I just got a Diamond Speedstar A200 graphics card, and was wondering if
anyone has had any luck getting it to work with either xfree86 3.3.6 or
4.0.1? It is based on the savege4 chipset, and it's agp. The card isn't on
any xfree86 supported video card list, but the savage4 chipset is supported
I think.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Dave
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: "TrueX" or other CDROMs...
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:36:01 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8mn84a$iqs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> Anyone know for sure if these new TrueX drives from Kenwood are well
> supported by my favorite OS..? ;)
I've seen a lot of reports of problems with these drives and Linux. It's
possible they've been fixed, though, or that there's a workaround I've
not seen mentioned. I have no personal experience with these drives,
though.
> Or, barring that, has anyone found a good resource for comparing the
> performance of various CDROMs? I am
> in the market for a new one, and I want to be sure that it would support
> nice, reliable DAE and that it would handle CDR's as well as scratched
> disks, etc.
> I am looking for a CDROM that will be worth the money in other words.
For DAE, it's hard to beat Plextor models, but Pioneer SCSI models are
also reportedly pretty good.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: dump and hardware compression
Date: 07 Aug 2000 18:02:11 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me whether the Dump command supports
>>> the hardware compression on my HP C1554A Dat tape drive?
>>
>> man mt
>>
>>> would be greatly appreciated! Please reply directly to:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Newsgroup responses to newsgroup questions for the benefit of all.
>
> That's about as helpful as a fish is to a bicycle. Requesting a
> direct reply does not prohibit posting the reply to the newsgroup
> also. Which in this case would be a double waste of bandwidth. JD
You asked a question, you got an answer.
The "mt" command is used for controlling tape drives, including enabling
compression. Type "man mt" for information about how to use this
command.
What more do you want?
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: passwd change error
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:59:48 GMT
Hi,
We install the redhat 6.0. Then we installed the user quota that comes
with the package. now, when i do passwd to enter a new passwd for a user
and after the final entring and hitting the enter key, the system halts
and i get the system freeze. what would be the cause?.
Please if you do not mind email me copies of your posts/replies. My
access to newsgroups are limited. Greatly appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "TrueX" or other CDROMs...
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:09:44 GMT
I heard bad things about TrueX under any OS.. they work great for a
while, then they break. There was actually a class action suit about
these if I remember correctly.
In article <5ZFj5.448283$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <8mn84a$iqs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hello,
> > Anyone know for sure if these new TrueX drives from Kenwood are
well
> > supported by my favorite OS..? ;)
>
> I've seen a lot of reports of problems with these drives and Linux.
It's
> possible they've been fixed, though, or that there's a workaround I've
> not seen mentioned. I have no personal experience with these drives,
> though.
>
> > Or, barring that, has anyone found a good resource for
comparing the
> > performance of various CDROMs? I am
> > in the market for a new one, and I want to be sure that it would
support
> > nice, reliable DAE and that it would handle CDR's as well as
scratched
> > disks, etc.
> > I am looking for a CDROM that will be worth the money in other
words.
>
> For DAE, it's hard to beat Plextor models, but Pioneer SCSI models are
> also reportedly pretty good.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can Redhat 6.2 run on Umsdos filesystems(FAT32)?Answer to my E-mail
PLEASE.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:08:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8mcg32$fqu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In alt.linux Stefan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Aleksandar Antok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> : news:8ma0hb$337$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> :> Can Redhat 6.2 run on Umsdos filesystems(FAT32)?
> :> My hard-drive crashed when I maked Ext2 partition, so this time I
want to
> : go
> :> much easier way by installing Redhat 6.2 on FAT32 partition.
>
> : Depends on what you mean by "run on". As in "can it read them" the
answer is
> : yes - on my system
>
> : mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win -t vfat
>
> : after
>
> : mkdir /mnt/win
>
> : works just fine (do mkdir /mnt/win ONCE only!) for reading and
writing in
> : the "windows part" of my HDD.
>
> : If you mean "run on" such as "execute from / or boot from" the
answer as far
> : as I know is no - Linux must boot from a native Linux partition
formatted as
> : an Ext2. (Right?)
>
> No. He is asking about a UMSDOS filesystem, which is a filesystem
completely
> conatined in a contiguous file on your DOS/Windows filesystem. This
is not
> the same thing as an msdos/vfat file system, which you seem to be
describing here.
>
> I think Corel linux, and maybe Slackware (my first Linux 7 years ago
was a
> Slackware UMSDOS install) support this. I'm pretty sure Redhat DOES
NOT.
>
> Personally I don't think it is really easier. After a couple months
after doing
> this myself (granted, a long time ago), my UMSDOS partition
mysteriously got
> corrupted and I had to reinstall. The only thing that is really
easier is
> deleting linux, but who would want to do that? ;-)
>
> Chris
>
Actually UMSDOS is not a contiguous file. See zipslack for details.
Also, aaca, you might want to install zipslack, then install redhat
packages one by one, either with init 1 or with a bootdisk. this kinda
borders on crazy, so proceed with caution.
One more suggestion: free as much space as possible, (600MB is prob
safe) and try to get to a text (ncurses) installation. This usually
provides you with the maximum amount of options and control that an
install allows.
--
etoffi
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From: "Michael Mowbray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WInmodem->winenulator=solution?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:32:54 +1000
you might also want to look at Win4Lin www.trelos.com but from memory I
don't think it supports com ports (yet).
"Mimmo, Zanzara Blob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Nick:
> >Yes, Wine will allow you to run some Windows programs under Linux. It's
just
> >not technically speaking a Windows emulator.
> no other than that are there?
> where i can find them?
> --
>
> http://mimmo.cjb.net
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From: "Shawn Salyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help!!! IDE Tape drive setup.
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 22:20:57 -0400
I have a HP Colorado 20GB IDE tape backup unit, and I am running RedHat 6.2,
when I boot it sees the drive as HDD. But I cannot mount/use the drive.
Please help with detailed instructions or a link. I am not toooo new to
Linux, but have never used a tapedrive with it.
--Shawn
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From: "Albert A. Arendsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar A200
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:50:09 +0200
Michael Nejdl wrote:
>
> I just got a Diamond Speedstar A200 graphics card, and was wondering if
> anyone has had any luck getting it to work with either xfree86 3.3.6 or
> 4.0.1? It is based on the savege4 chipset, and it's agp. The card isn't on
> any xfree86 supported video card list, but the savage4 chipset is supported
> I think.
S3/Diamond has recently released a number of Xservers for various S3
chipsets and Diamond cards. However, the Savage4 isn't part of that,
because that chipset is already natively supported by XFree86, so
basically it should work anyway. Unfortunately I have no info beyond
that. If the A200 isn't in the card list, and S3 Savage4 isn't either,
you'll have to configure your Xserver manually. I would appreciate it if
you sent me a message when you get it working. Though Linux is not
officially supported by us, I'd still like to help as many people as
possible where I can... (Yeah, I'm one of the rare tech support dudes
who actually cares about the customers, IF they co-operate *grin*)
Albert Arendsen
S3/Diamond Europe
Phone/e-Mail Tech Support
(Off duty ofcourse, because Linux is unfortunately not officially
supported by us)
--
Albert Arendsen --- aka --- Reyn Eaglestorm
>>>>> The Gods have a sense of humour <<<<<
>>>>> So be sure you don't lose yours <<<<<
http://home.student.utwente.nl/a.a.arendsen
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