Linux-Misc Digest #372, Volume #25 Mon, 7 Aug 00 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Booting linux from ZIP (Robert Wiegand)
reclaiming the master boot record? (Peter Bismuti)
Sound applications? (Simon Lemieux)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: Sound applications? (Stephen Hui)
Installing Linux after Windows 2000 Pro ? (John Robson)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: Sound applications? (E J)
Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers (Dances With Crows)
Help with Printer (Paul Koch)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting linux from ZIP
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:48:25 -0500
Antonio Jos� Ant�n wrote:
> When I reboot the computer, the ZIP drive blinks the LED (I suposse it
> is trying to load boot sector) and then BIOS shows the message "INSERT
> BOOT DISK".
> Is there any problem with LILO in ZIP drives?
I think this is a BIOS problem, not a LILO problem.
Your computer BIOS doesn't see the Zip disk as a bootable drive.
Check your BIOS settings.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: reclaiming the master boot record?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 18:07:25 GMT
I tried running lilo as root and my machine still wants to boot into
Win98. Apparently I wrote over more than the MBR.
What can I do now if anything?
Thanks
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound applications?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 18:12:01 GMT
Hi,
I was wondering if you knew some free sound application for recording sounds
from a micro? for distorting sounds, etc...
I'm using RedHat6.1...
Thanks,
Simon
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:19:40 -0700
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup on Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:17:24 -0700
> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> >>
> >> Here, you deduct it from your taxable income, not the tax you pay.
> >>
> >So. If you can deduct it from your taxable income, you're than paying
> >less tax. Isn't it? Mate!?
> >
>
> Which isn't what you said. You said that the money went either to the
> software company or the taxman.
>
Gosh!
If you pay the money to the software company, and, as a result, you can
pay less tax.
Isn't that you still end up paying less?
> Clearly only half (at a marginal rate of 50%) goes to the taxman.
>
Then, deduct the other half as business loss. Talk to your tax
accountant/bean counter.
> And if company tax is lower - in some places it may be as low as 30% -
> then the reward for buying and tax-deducting is not attractive.
>
Put it on business loss.
Find a good accountant.
I am not an accountant. Or tax consultant. But business loss is legit
deduction.
> BIg companies have been pirating for years. I've worked for several
> and a lot of software was dodgy. Wasn't until FASA started getting
> real aggro and knocking off people like MLC Insurance that they
> tightened up.
>
Take Boeing as an example. If they go the free software route, they can
save millions in software costs, but they decided against it, because
it's not practical for such a big international corp to switch
everything, tens of thousands of employees in numourous countries, and,
the trainning costs and time loss will far outcosted the cost saving in
free software.
Most GNU-GPL stuff are fits for those college geeks with too much free
time on their hands. In the business world, time is money.
> However, small business and home users are not peanuts in the software
> world. If they were, places like OfficeWorks wouldn't be selling
> software.
>
No, I'm not saying home users and small biz are peanuts. But NOT
everybody has the knowledge, and time to tinker.
> Zebee
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
------------------------------
From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:23:26 -0700
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
> >Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> >>
> >> In comp.os.linux.setup on Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:54:24 -0700
> >> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >The arguement of costs is not important at all.
> >> >
> >> >At least for any real businesses.
> >> >
> >> >You see. Business software is part of the business expenses, so, they're
> >> >tax deductable.
> >> >
> >> >The money has got to go, either to the software companies, or to the tax
> >> >collectors.
> >> >
> >> >So. Tell me where's the *real* saving!!!???
> >> >
> >>
> >> Does tax deductability work differently in the US?
> >>
> >I don't know. I'll have to ask my cousin in Australia.
> >
> >> Here, you deduct it from your taxable income, not the tax you pay.
> >>
> >So. If you can deduct it from your taxable income, you're than paying
> >less tax. Isn't it? Mate!?
>
> If the corporate tax rate is 30%, then for every dollar spent on
> expenses, you get to deduct $0.30 from the tax bill.
>
> That means that while there is a tax "benefit," you're still behind
> by $0.70 on the dollar, or, in other words, are sitting on a net
> loss of money.
>
> I used to do tax work (in Canada; higher rates, not ludicrously different
> principles), and was fairly amazed at the number of doctors that
> were quite happy to throw their money away on frivolous "tax shelter"
> investments. I think they felt happy about it because they got to keep
> from paying the government a bunch of money. It was nonetheless quite
> irrational from an economic standpoint since for them to save $10,000 on
> their tax bill, they had to throw $20,000 into the "toilet" of "stupid
> tax shelter."
>
> You seem to be suffering from the same delusion, namely that it's always
> good to diminish your tax bill. That's downright _false_; the more
> rational thing to do is to _maximize your net cash flows._ Paying an
> extra $50,000 in taxes is a _wonderful_ thing so long as you're receiving
> an amount significantly _more_ than $50,000. I'd rather like to have
Talk to your bean counter. Put in on business loss if possible.
> an income tax bill next year of $100,000; that would imply that I had
> a whopping lot more income than I had this year.
>
Hey, I don't even mind to have an income tax bill of a couple of
millions either. :-)
Oh well... It's only a day dream for now. :-)
> >> So at best you save the tax that would be paid on the amount, not the
> >> amount.
> >>
> >> The costs must count, else who would bother pirating? And plenty of
> >> businesses *do* pirate, ask any of the vendor's associations.
> >>
> >To a certain extend. Yes.
> >
> >For private end users, and very small shops, probably.
> >
> >But for medium size and up biz. Not really. A few thousands, or even a
> >million or two,
> >might just be the amount that they put in the monthly petty cash.
>
> ... And this betrays the _other_ misunderstanding of how people
> actually attain wealth. Moving from "rags" to "riches" comes, in
> great part, from careful attention to detail, which includes paying
> attention to those "few thousands" of dollars.
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
> Roses are red,
> Violets are blue,
> I'm schizophrenic...
> And I am too.
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
------------------------------
From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:30:16 -0700
John Hasler wrote:
>
> Zebee Johnstone writes:
> > Does tax deductability work differently in the US?
>
> No, but the "they'll just take it off their taxes" myth is widespread among
> the less well educated.
>
> I once accused this blowfish person of being John Dyson. I apologize: that
> was an insult to John. I think he just might be Ray Lopez, though.
No, lo siento, mi nombre no es Ray Lopez.
Je ne suis pas hispanique. :p
Never mind who I am. I am just a average non-geek computer user. :-)
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
------------------------------
From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:34:48 -0700
John Hasler wrote:
>
> blowfish writes:
> > You see. Business software is part of the business expenses, so, they're
> > tax deductable.
>
> > The money has got to go, either to the software companies, or to the tax
> > collectors.
>
> You know even less about accounting then you do about copyright, and you
> have clearly never operated a business.
No. Actually I know nothing about anything. Like I've said before. I'm
just a whimpy nobody. <grin>
Those are the jobs of my attorney and tax accountant. That's what
they're for. ;-)
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
------------------------------
From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:38:23 -0700
Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [[referring to Red Hat]]
> >what difference does it make? At the end of the day,
> >they're selling boxed sets containing a few CD's and a manual.
> >Microsoft is selling boxed sets containing a few CD's and a manual.
> >The difference is that Red Hat allows copying of said CD's and
> >Microsoft doesn't.
>
> I responded
> | And that Red Hat allows you to use the same boxed set for more than
> | one machine. (This makes a *big* difference in the cost when you have
> | a network of N machines.)
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, blowfish <..> commented
> >The arguement of costs is not important at all.
> >
> >At least for any real businesses.
> >
> >You see. Business software is part of the business expenses, so, they're
> >tax deductable.
>
> As is business hardware, and you'll notice the computer hardware market
> is rather price-sensitive!
>
> Tax laws vary from one country to another, but in the ones I'm familiar
> with, 100% of business expenses are tax deductible, and typical marginal
> corporate tax rates are around 50%, so the public at large ends up paying
> 50% of the cost (as a tax deduction from govt revenue), and the business
> ends up paying the other 50% of the cost. 50% of the cost difference
> between (say) a fully loaded-up Microsoft Windows 2000, and Red Hat
> GNU/Linux, multiplied by the number of computers in a large corporation,
> is a rather substantial chunk of cash.
>
> That said, the cost advantages of free software are even more dramatic
> for small users. Having worked around a number of small businesses as
> both employee and contractor, I can assure you that tight cash-flow
> positions are _very_ common, so the difference between
> (a) cheap PC + free software, and
> (b) cheap PC + Microsoft software,
> matters a lot.
>
> >It only matters to the free beer drunken college geeks who zero real
> >income, and too much free time on his/her hands.
>
> To switch every university-owned PC in the building in which I'm sitting,
> from Red Hat GNU/Linux to (say) Microsoft Windows 2000, would cost
> considerably more than our annual computer hardware budget.
>
Academia world has all the free time in the world though, time is money
in the biz world.
If they have to retrain employees. The time loss might very well costs
more than the costs of software.
> You might also consider non-profit organizations, and those in countries
> less wealthy than your own, for whom $200 for software may be a _huge_
> cost.
>
> --
> -- Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.thp.univie.ac.at/~jthorn/home.html
> Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
> Q: Only 5 countries have the death penalty for children. Which are they?
> A: Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United States
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
------------------------------
From: Stephen Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound applications?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:38:01 -0500
Simon Lemieux wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if you knew some free sound application for recording sounds
> from a micro? for distorting sounds, etc...
>
> I'm using RedHat6.1...
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
Try Linuxberg. http://www.linuxberg.com/
--
Stephen Hui, ARL:UT, Austin, Texas
Computer Terms: Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal
capable of conversing with inanimate objects.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Robson)
Subject: Installing Linux after Windows 2000 Pro ?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 18:47:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Robson)
I have a machine that comes with Windows 2000 Pro pre-installed on it. It
has one 30-gig partition on one disk (C: drive).
I would like to install Mandrake Linux 7.1 on it. I have installed Mandrake on
top of Win 95 before with no problems, but I'm not so sure about Win2K and
the new Mandrake 7.1.
Are there any potential problems and pitfalls I should be aware of ? Has
anyone installed Linux (any distro, but especially Mandrake) on top of
Win2K ?
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:53:15 -0700
John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Tax laws vary from one country to another, but in the ones I'm familiar
> > with, 100% of business expenses are tax deductible, and typical marginal
> > corporate tax rates are around 50%, so the public at large ends up paying
> > 50% of the cost (as a tax deduction from govt revenue), and the business
> > ends up paying the other 50% of the cost.
>
> By that line of reasoning businesses should be enthusiastic supporters of
> higher corporate income tax rates: if the rate was 90% the "public at
> large" would be paying 90% of the company's expenses.
>
> The fact is, the company pays 100% of its expenses and the government then
> takes half of what is left (what is an expense is quite a complex question,
> but there is no doubt that the purchase of business software is).
>
> If a company subject to 50% income tax saves $1,000,000 by using Linux
> instead of Windows, the managers can choose to increase profits by
> $1,000,000 and make the shareholders happy by paying out an additional
> $500,000 in dividends but incurring a $500,000 tax expense, spend the
> $1,000,000 on something else thereby increasing the value of the company,
> or anything in between. A $1,000,000 saving is equivalent to $1,000,000 in
> increased revenue, not $500,000 as you seem to be saying.
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
You know what?
Nobody ever bring up the point that a lots of programmers needed a
reliable income too.
And non free software companies do employ many programmers.
For most people. As soon as you're out of college. Your free loading
days are over (i.e.: No longer being supported by your parents.)
Mr. Hasler,
Didn't you said that you made $25k from Debian by contributing to the
GNU project, and that sounded encouraging too?
But have you thought about where that $25k from Debian came from?
Debian must be making money in order to pay people like you.
Also. You did contradicted your own idea of *free software*, as you have
taken the money from Debian as a reward.
Isn't that your codes should be *FREE* as in money - free, unlike
non-GNU-GPL codes-which costs money, as in *FREE BEER* too!?
Or does it only applies to other people, but not to you!!!???
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
------------------------------
From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound applications?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:59:53 -0700
Simon Lemieux wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if you knew some free sound application for recording sounds
> from a micro? for distorting sounds, etc...
>
> I'm using RedHat6.1...
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
Gnome Sound Recorder. I guess you have to do a search to get it.
I got it from upgrading to Helix Gnome.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers
Date: 7 Aug 2000 19:04:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:12:23 GMT, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>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
>/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
>using_dma was enabled for both drives but not 32 bit I/O support. I enabled
>it on both drives and didn't really get any speed increase
>Are these speeds typical of UDMA33 equipment (as measured by hdparm)?
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.94 seconds = 12.96 MB/sec
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.88 seconds = 13.11 MB/sec
VIA MVP3 chipset w/VIA UDMA support enabled in kernel 2.2.16, hdparm
-u1 -c1 -m16 -d1 applied to both drives. The figures are even better
with the 2.4.x test kernels, but overall performance is still worse with
2.4 thanks to the ongoing VM problems. My early '97 laptop gets 3M/sec
even with everything tweaked for hdparm, so 13M sounds great to me....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: Paul Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Printer
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 14:59:18 -0400
I am trying to get a Xerox 4220 printer running in HP mode running over
ethernet using RedHat 6.2. We are able to get other HP printers
working, we must be missing something. Any help would be appreciated, we
are running out of things to try!!!
thanks
Paul
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:09:04 -0700
phil hunt wrote:
>
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:00:59 -0700, blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Then, the natives in E. Timor got tired of being ruled by "outsider.",
> >and tired of the Chinese-Indosians controlling much of the economy. They
> >rebelled.
>
> This isn't quite true. East Timor was an independent country, which Indonesia
> invaded and occupied.
>
You can say that for a lot of countries.
> --
> *****[ Phil Hunt ]*****
> ** The RIAA want to ban Napster -- so boycott the music industry! **
> ** Don't buy CDs during August; see http://boycott-riaa.com/ **
> ** Spread the word: Put this message in your sig. **
>
>
--
- Alex / blowfish.(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a
geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs
==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSsssss!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female
deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
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