Linux-Misc Digest #683, Volume #25 Wed, 6 Sep 00 18:13:04 EDT
Contents:
"unsupported features" in ext2fs? ("Bob Thibodeau")
Newsgroup Servers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help: mail server behind a NAT box
Re: AOL client for linux (JCA)
Re: From RedHat to SuSE: A simple question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to mount a drive during start-up? (Hammer)
Re: mpeg player for linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cluster-Software for Linux ("Axel Scheepers")
fstab question (f vassalli)
Re: Newsgroup Servers (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Linux and telephone systems (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Linux users please read !!IMPORTANT!! (David Steuber)
Re: how to mount a drive during start-up? (Hammer)
Re: 4track recording software for linux (Garry Knight)
Re: Need help installing on laptop with network card! ("LRW")
Problem solved: Re: Help: mail server behind a NAT box ("D & S")
Shockwave/Flash (Cheeby)
Re: Before I remove windows from my computer?? (Robert Wiegand)
Re: how to mount a drive during start-up? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: opengl on sgi linux machines? (Tom Mitchell)
Re: what's up with Sun?
Re: AOL client for linux (D'Arque Bishop)
Re: Caching files from CD---problem when playing MP3s on CD (Bruce Stephens)
mouse setup (Joseph Cooley)
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From: "Bob Thibodeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "unsupported features" in ext2fs?
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:03:12 -0400
I just compiled a new kernel after patching it to use Win4Lin. Before I
go on, let me admit that I screwed up in not making sure my most recent
good kernel was still accessible to lilo. I have two older ones still, but
it's not helping me, as you will see.
The brand new kernel reboots as soon as it is loading. The others are
unable to mount my root partition because of "unsupported features" in
the file system.
Using tom's rtbt, I find that this partition and two others on another disk
show this error (also a bad superblock is given as a possible cause by
fsck.ext2). My /var /home/ and one other that I can't remeber right now
are fine. I can mount them no problem. The three that are gone are the
root, /usr, and my personal home directory.
Has anyone seen this? Is there anything I can try besides fsck, debugfs, etc
(all show same error). Is there way to guess where the next superblock would
be in case that's the problem?
TIA
Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newsgroup Servers
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 19:09:40 GMT
Hi,
I am looking for a newsgroup server for running an internal (within our
org) newsgroup.
We are especially interested in the following
features:
1. Ability to support 2000 - 3000 users.
2. Web based access.
3. Ability to include attachments (such as word doc, gif file)
4. Costs less than $2500.00.
5. Ability to run on Windows NT/Solaris/Linux.
Could anyone please suggest a few products to try?
Is DNEWS server a good choice?
Thanks in Advance,
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help: mail server behind a NAT box
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 19:36:21 GMT
You have to port forward port 25 to the mail server that is behind the
firewall
check the indyramp site for more specifics
http://mirrors.indyramp.com/ipmasq/ipmasq-HOWTO-1.82-6.html#ss6.8
D & S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:kzet5.10185$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have recently reconfigured our network to use Network Address
Translation
> via a Netgear RT314 router. Since that time, we have not received
external
> mail on our mail server. Can someone explain to me the guidelines for
> moving an internet mail server behind a NAT box?
>
> I have reconfigured the server with an internal IP address (192.168.0.26)
> and have setup the router to pass traffic through port 25 (SMTP) and the
POP
> and IMAP ports to the internal server address. Everything else (http,
etc.)
> appears to be working.
>
> By the way, the mail server is a PC running Red Hat Linux 6.2 and using
> sendmail. We had no problems until I tried the NAT reconfiguration. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> - Doug -
>
>
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL client for linux
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:17:53 -0700
I assume you are talking about the AOL Instant Messaging client. I
downloaded it a couple of days ago and it works okay. Just go to the
AOL web site and look for instant messaging.
SouthPk64 wrote:
> Has anyone heard of this? I remember seeing an alpha or beta version on a
> website but didn't download it at the time. If anyone knows where I can get
> this (either on a newsgroup or ftp site, I can't access websites...long story)
> please reply. Thanks.
>
> ==========================
> Phil
> ICQ: 14873864
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The weak only strive to become weaker --Magus
> ==========================
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: From RedHat to SuSE: A simple question
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:23:33 GMT
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Do you really have a pentium cpu? Those were never made in more than
: 200MHz versions, you know! It's much more likely that you have an i686
Actualyl, you could buy P5 Pentiums up to 300, IIRC. Defnitely 233 and
266.
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount a drive during start-up?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:16:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil J Pilgrim) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.questions Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat umask=000 0 0
>
> >> Change "/mnt/win" to the mount point you normally use for the FAT
> >> partition. The "umask=000" will let all users read and write all
the
> >> files on that partition. If you leave that out, the FAT partition
will
> >> have all files owned by root, and only root will be able to write
to
> >> those files. HTH,
>
> > You may want to consider using uid=500,gid=500 where 500 is your
> > normal user id to limit access to just one user instead.
>
> Or make a new group, make yourself a member of that group and set the
> gid to that group - makes it easier to allow other people to access
> the drive :) (with appropriate umask of course...)
Pardon my stupid question, but what is the "appropriate umask"... my
regular user ID is part of a group. I wan that group to have full rwx
access to the vfat drive. What would be the umask for that??
Sorry to sound dumb... I'm having troubles with this.
-=hammer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mpeg player for linux?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:18:15 GMT
In article <8p610n$ka$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) wrote:
> Are there any mpeg players for Linux?
Yes.
Did you even look? The most cursory search would have
found several.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." - Hospital/Shafte
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From: "Axel Scheepers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cluster-Software for Linux
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 22:31:22 +0200
===== Original Message =====
From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Cluster-Software for Linux
> Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raymond Doetjes wrote:
> > >Beowulf is not the answer, beowulf is a PVM parallel virtual machine
just for
> > >number crunching. There is no Clustering File System that would be
reliable
> > >enough for a RDBMS. They probably want 2 nodes working simultaniously
to also do
> > >loadsharing.
> >
> > Beowulf != PVM, you can also use MPI. When I think cluster, I think
parallel
> > computing. If not, it's basically a load balancer. You don't need a
> > 'clustering file system'; with proper adaption, something like NFS or
AFS can
> > be used, or even SAMBA.
> >
> > Marius.
> >
> > --
> > Marius Aamodt Eriksen
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I do not know all that much about Beowulf, but it seems to me that you
better use
> the clustering facilities of the DBMS you are running. Otherwise it will
be
> difficult to be sure that the commits really work, that the system logs
and backups
> are done properly, and so on. Furthermore, data distribution and query
optimizations
> may not work correctly if the dbms thinks it is running everything on one
machine
> when you have actually distributed it around unknown to it.
>
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
> ^^-^^ 6:18am up 27 days, 13:46, 3 users, load average: 1.11, 1.16, 1.20
>
>
>
I have some experience using BeoWulf and i can tell you it runs like hell!
I wrote a simple parallel processing program in c (excellent documentation!)
to test it and it really rocks!
I used 4 nodes with a total 2 Ghz and 264 MB memory ( it's just a hobby....)
and i tried to program a parallel mpeg2 encoder, that failed because of a
lack of free time :-(( You can simply use NFS as Marius said, it works fine,
if you;re programming skills are not well enough to modify the sourece or if
it has no support for beowulf or clustering the MOSIX project might interest
you. I ran that in combination with Beowulf but it's performance wasn't THAT
good but that's probably because i use only 5 nodes and it might scale
bad....
Greetz,
Axel Scheepers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: f vassalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fstab question
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:39:47 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to mount a CD-ROM Image at boot time, but I dont know the
syntax for the fstab for loop devices.
Once booted, I can mount the image with the following command; what is
the fstab-equivalent?
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cdimage.img /cdrom
Thanks
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Servers
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:42:23 +0200
In your case you have 3 good options 2 of which are free these are
INN (OpenSource runs on any Unix)
CNEWS (OpenSource runs on any Unix)
and for NT
Exchange NNTP
I would suggest INN it is relativly easy to configure not a big memory
footprint.
The webaccess is something else I don't know any products but they are out
there.
You should know how to configure NNTP and that is why I also advice you to
buy and read the fr**king boring book:
Managing Usenet from O'Reilly
Raymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a newsgroup server for running an internal (within our
> org) newsgroup.
> We are especially interested in the following
> features:
> 1. Ability to support 2000 - 3000 users.
> 2. Web based access.
> 3. Ability to include attachments (such as word doc, gif file)
> 4. Costs less than $2500.00.
> 5. Ability to run on Windows NT/Solaris/Linux.
>
> Could anyone please suggest a few products to try?
>
> Is DNEWS server a good choice?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and telephone systems
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:45:27 +0200
A telephone central is a very vendor specific apparatus.
So is the software used to configure and log events.
Most PBAX's have a RS-232 interface to control the thing and often a
friendly call to the vendor
with the question what their protocoll is will result in a massive handbook
faxed or emailed to you. This way you can easily
build your own managment application.
But straight from the box not that I ever have encoutered. They are all
Windows, DOS or VT100 (which works on Linux asswell) oriented
Raymond
Bob Brashear wrote:
> Are there any packages that can control a small office telephone system?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob Brashear
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Linux users please read !!IMPORTANT!!
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:00:05 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' : David Steuber wrote:
' :> David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
' :> NRA Member | a hoploholic.
' :> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
'
' aaaah. "hoplite" gives it away!
Deja Vu! I haven't used that .sig in a while now. And here it is,
again.
My next .sig will be a uuencoded file of a SAAB Gripen! <veg>
Maybe I will doctor the image to give it a Vorlon transport texture
;-). Or perhaps a Shadow vessel texture? Hmmm.
What's the netiquette on big sigs? <just kidding!>
--
David Steuber | "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member
NRA Member | of the NRA?" --- HUAC, 2004
Happiness is a SAAB Gripen <http://www.gripen.saab.se/> in the
garage, an FN-FAL in the safe, and an HK P7M8 on the hip.
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount a drive during start-up?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:45:26 GMT
In article <8p68mq$cb5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ya, I know, I'm a dork replying to my own post.
So, I just tried this, and set a vfat partition to umask=000 0 0 (then
rebooted, of course)
Then, as my regular user, I copied a bunch of rpm's from my ext2 filesys
to a dir on the vfat partition.
All the files are still shown as owned by root. When I try to copy a
file using my regular ID to that dir, I get this stupid error message
that chmod is not permissable on the file (this is after the copy is
complete). Funny thing, the file is copied anyway (sometimes Linux is a
joke to me, sorry). I do not use the -p on cp, and it's not aliased.
What a crackup.
Then, I try to "chown" the dir to my group (also tried my ID). Whether
I do it from "su" or my regular ID, it says "operation not permitted".
I would be laughing hard enough to bring tears, this OS is so funny
sometimes, but really I need to get his working, so I'm not laughing :(
Any help??
-=hammer
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4track recording software for linux
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:35:08 +0100
Shane Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>a while ago I saw a package for Linux that acted as a 4track studio for
>home recording. I think it was open source, but I can't find it any
>where and can't remember it's name. Does anyone know of a package like
>this? Thanks. Shane.
Was it GDAM? http://www.ffem.org/gdam/index.html
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Need help installing on laptop with network card!
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:00:17 -0500
No, I appreciate any words of advice.
Looks like I'll try to search for something about NFS for 2000 and focus my
efforts on that.
Or buy an old PCMCIA CD-Rom from ebay. =)
Thanks,
Liam
"Peter Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> While I haven't used redhat 6.2, there is a fair chance that
> it does actually get the network going correctly, even for a
> pcmcia ethernet card.
>
> Windows 95/98/NT sharing is not NFS (which stands for
> Network File System). I think, but am not sure, that I have
> seen NFS for Windows somewhere. Not sure if it a client
> (useless for you here) or a server. Also I am not sure
> whether W2000 provides NFS.
>
> By the way, Unix including Linux uses / for directories, not
> \. A directory would be /cdsharename/cddirectory if it is
> going to work.
>
> Sorry this is probably not very helpful.
>
> Peter
>
>
> * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find
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From: "D & S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem solved: Re: Help: mail server behind a NAT box
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:01:01 GMT
Hi,
Thanks to everyone for the help. I needed to assign the old external mail
address to the router AND port forward port 25 to the internal mail server
address. Things are working well now.
- Doug -
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:V0xt5.7801$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You have to port forward port 25 to the mail server that is behind the
> firewall
>
> check the indyramp site for more specifics
>
> http://mirrors.indyramp.com/ipmasq/ipmasq-HOWTO-1.82-6.html#ss6.8
>
>
>
>
> D & S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:kzet5.10185$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently reconfigured our network to use Network Address
> Translation
> > via a Netgear RT314 router. Since that time, we have not received
> external
> > mail on our mail server. Can someone explain to me the guidelines for
> > moving an internet mail server behind a NAT box?
> >
> > I have reconfigured the server with an internal IP address
(192.168.0.26)
> > and have setup the router to pass traffic through port 25 (SMTP) and the
> POP
> > and IMAP ports to the internal server address. Everything else (http,
> etc.)
> > appears to be working.
> >
> > By the way, the mail server is a PC running Red Hat Linux 6.2 and using
> > sendmail. We had no problems until I tried the NAT reconfiguration.
Any
> > help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > - Doug -
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Cheeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shockwave/Flash
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:02:43 GMT
I've got Flash working for root, but not for any other users. I've put the
class and .so files in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins, but it seems only root can
make use of them.
Help.
Thanks.
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Before I remove windows from my computer??
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 15:42:00 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Burn CD's (audio and data)
XCDRoast or gtoaster - both probably included with RedHat
> Something like office
StarOffice - available free from Sun
> Something like quickbooks
Depends on what you are using it for. Check GnuCash.
> Email clent
I use Netscape but there are many availble mail programs.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount a drive during start-up?
Date: 6 Sep 2000 21:14:52 GMT
Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <8p68mq$cb5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: So, I just tried this, and set a vfat partition to umask=000 0 0 (then
: rebooted, of course)
Not neceessary! Why did you?
: Then, as my regular user, I copied a bunch of rpm's from my ext2 filesys
: to a dir on the vfat partition.
: All the files are still shown as owned by root. When I try to copy a
Well, that's what you'd expect. Root owns the FS and there are no user
fields on msdos file systems, so the system has to interpret the owner
as being root.
: file using my regular ID to that dir, I get this stupid error message
: that chmod is not permissable on the file (this is after the copy is
It isn't. There are no mode fields on msdos file systems. How can you
change them!
: complete). Funny thing, the file is copied anyway (sometimes Linux is a
Of course. But the modes aren't changed to match yoru umask. There is
nothing there to change. That's the error message.
: joke to me, sorry). I do not use the -p on cp, and it's not aliased.
: What a crackup.
Why are you finding this funny? Do you always laugh when you ask a
camaraman to take a black and white photo of a red room, and think it
strange when the result is bkack and white, not red, even though he warned
you that he couldn't make the colours come out as in the original?
: Then, I try to "chown" the dir to my group (also tried my ID). Whether
: I do it from "su" or my regular ID, it says "operation not permitted".
Of course.
: I would be laughing hard enough to bring tears, this OS is so funny
: sometimes, but really I need to get his working, so I'm not laughing :(
What's funny? Your own stupidity?
: Any help??
I don't think so!
Peter
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From: Tom Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Re: opengl on sgi linux machines?
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:18:21 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 29 Aug 2000, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >: I'm noticing that even tho intel/amd smokes mips in pure cpu
> >: performance,
> >
> >Not on any code I've ever run.
> >
> >MIPS MHz x 2-3 = Intel MHz
>
> Considering that SGI's best "MIPS MHz" to date is, in fact, generally running
> about 1/3 commodity "Intel MHz", there you go.
Do not confuse MHz and work done per clock.
To be sure recent Intel and AMD processors are getting
close (AMD Duron is cool)... but.
The r10K is a quad issue engine. It can issue four
instructions per clock. Some of the instructions (MADD) are
complex that causes a pipeline of multiply and add to be
issued at the same time.
So at 250 MHz a quad issue engine is a 1GIP instruction
per sec. Machine. When some of the instructions are
interesting (MADD) then we start to see 1.5GIPS.
On the R10K two of the quad instructions can be integer, and
two can be floating point. The SGI compilers are good at
keeping as much of the processor busy as possible. The
compiler component is critical.
So a single issue engine at 1.5GHz is possibly equal to a
250 MHz R10K depending on the code.
Almost no one carries water from a well each morning but
this is like comparing a one bucket per trip person with a
two bucket per trip (one for each hand) person. Q: If John
makes three trips per hour and Bill five trips per hour how
can John deliver six buckets of water per hour. A: two
buckets.
For each of the r10k derived mips processors pay attention
to the number of pipelines and execution units as well as
speculative execution depth and other valuable uses of
silicon. (do not compare a Duron with the older R10K,
current with current please).
Check out this:
http://www.sgi.com/processors/r10k/manual/t5.Ver.2.0.book_11.html#HEADING20
The R10000 processor has the following major features (terms
in bold are defined in the Glossary):
*it implements the 64-bit MIPS IV instruction set
architecture (ISA)
*it can decode four instructions each pipeline
cycle, appending them to one of three instruction queues
*it has five execution pipelines connected to
separate internal integer and floating-point execution (or
functional) units
*it uses dynamic instruction scheduling and
out-of-order execution it uses speculative instruction issue
(also termed "speculative branching")
*it uses a precise exception model (exceptions can
be traced back to the instruction that caused them)
*it uses non-blocking caches
*it has separate on-chip 32-Kbyte primary
instruction and data caches
*it has individually-optimized secondary cache and
System interface ports
.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:19:01 GMT
On 6 Sep 2000 13:24:42 GMT, Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when David Steuber would say:
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin) writes:
>
>> generally leads to things like using enormous but slow IDE drives,
>> and trying to share RAM with the video board.
>
>How much slower are IDE drives really? Are you comparing them to SCSI?
>Thanks
The general consensus is that you will not see the advantages
of SCSI on single user workstation or if you've only got a
single storage device. SCSI really starts to shine when you're
managing multiple devices and IO operations concurrently.
--
Finding an alternative should not be like seeking out the holy grail.
That is the whole damn point of capitalism.
|||
/ | \
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From: D'Arque Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL client for linux
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:31:51 GMT
JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I assume you are talking about the AOL Instant Messaging client. I
> downloaded it a couple of days ago and it works okay. Just go to the
> AOL web site and look for instant messaging.
I believe he's referring to Gamera, the alpha AOL client for Linux. It's
not an AIM client, it's a client for the actual AOL service. I'm not sure
where you could find it, either, but I DID come across somewhere that DID
talk about it, and one of the big problems with it right now is that it
only supports connecting to AOL over TCP/IP, and not via modem. :p
That's the main problem that's preventing me from using it at this point,
actually... not the fact that AOL is clamping down on it, but that it's
absolutely useless for my needs. I imagine some of the people want an
AOL client for the same reason I do: I have a dialup AOL account as a
backup to my cable modem (actually, it's someone else's account... she's
just gracious enough to give me a screen name to use), and I'd like
to be able to use it when away from home. It IS a national ISP, after all.
Oh, well... guess I'll just stick to locating a free ISP... :)
Just my $.02...
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Caching files from CD---problem when playing MP3s on CD
Date: 06 Sep 2000 22:22:33 +0100
Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]> writes:
> Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The same sort of idea strikes me as possible for what I want: I just
> > need a user-mode filesystem (and I'm sure I've seen such things
> > around, although I don't recall the name), and it could layer on the
> > CDROM---each time a file is opened, it could copy it to somewhere on
> > the hard disk and operate on that. Similarly, these temporary copies
> > could be deleted.
>
> This sounds pretty much exactly like union-mounting, only COW.
>
> Does Linux-2.4's union mounting support COW like that? (I don't have the
> 2.4 kernel here atm because of a crisis involving `rm -r' and fingers
> typing faster than brain, so I can't easily tell.)
Don't I want copy-on-read? I'm not intending to try to change the
MP3's (or Ogg files or whatever)---just read them.
However, that's a plausible place to look: if I had a union mounting
system which did COW, then perhaps it would be easy to make one which
did COR instead.
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From: Joseph Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: mouse setup
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:39:42 -0400
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any good advice for my situation. I have
looked through documentation and tried different things, but I am still
having problems. I am running Linuxppc on a G3 powerbook. I have a 3
button USB logitech wingman gaming mouse that I would like to use. It
plugs into my Cardbus pcmcia USB card. From the documentation and
various other users experiences I have read, it appears that this setup
may not yet be supported. I was wondering if anyone out there had tried
this at all? USB drivers are installed and come up during boot. I have
tried setting it up as a ps2 and usb mouse with no luck using
mouseconfig. I also manually twiddled the XF86config and
/etc/sysconfig/mouse files. As a last resort, I tried to set up my
system to use 2 mice (the default and working 1 button adb mouse)
through XF86config reading /dev/gpmdata and running gpm -m /dev/adbmouse
-t bm -M -m /dev/usbmouse -t ps2, but that did not seem to work either.
If anyone has any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
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