Hey Mike,
> Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:23:28 +0300 > From: "Mike Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LUG] > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Mark > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mark Wamai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Been a while since I last flashed a D-Link but i'd noticed that the > Newer > > WRT > > models especially after WRT-54G had less memory and so couldn't be > > flashed. > > > > not so true my friend. Even with CISCO's attempt to stop folks from > flushing > their firmware, the DDWRT guys came up with a micro version of their > firmware that can install very easily. Hmmnn.. Just when Cisco thought it was finally safe.. > Before they released that Micro > version, there was a more crude method of doing it. Open the Linksys > machine, short pin 15 of the memory chip with the earthing and as soon as > it > starts booting, run a fimware upgrade tool from linksys, only that point > the > DDWRT firmware to it instead. > Had all this amo but cdn't deploy at that time hence my earlier "couldn't be flashed".... Just picture Badru walking in on you trying to short his new out-of-the-box router... :-) > > > You might register better results with older models if you can pick up > > one.. > > > > The one problem that the new linksys hardware has is over heating when > flushed with DDWRT. but that can be worked out. one more problem that many > people have complained about is an apparent hanging of the linksys which > requires an HUP. This is not the case as well as this symptom manifests > mainly with users running Windows Vista, Windows XP SP-3, and a few > Windows > XP SP-2. any one else does not seem to experience this. > > > > > > > -- > Mike > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in > a million chances happen 99% of the time. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/lug/attachments/20080303/e4f9d0fe/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:36:14 +0300 > From: "Mike Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LUG] Re: minimum hardware limits > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:04 PM, joachim Gwoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > ok then, > > back to linux and related. I have always wondered just what are the real > > or practical lower hardware requirements for using Linux? its RAM needs > seem > > to be increasing, are pentium ones still in use and for what, > considering > > the kernel's growth in complexity. what is the recommended hardware > > requirements today for Ugandans considering the early pentiums are still > > very much around? > > > > It depends on a few things. What is your Linux system running, GUI (this > has > become heavier with each release), mail server, web server.... depending > on > what you are doing, your Linux system my demand more and more and more. > But > if you were to run bare-bones-minimum, nothing much has changed. > > > > -- > Mike > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in > a million chances happen 99% of the time. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/lug/attachments/20080303/b409a4a9/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:35:49 +0200 > From: Hari Kurup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LUG] Re: minimum hardware limits > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Mark Tinka wrote: > > On Monday 03 March 2008, Hari Kurup wrote: > > > >> Unless Kiggs changed it recently, the box that runs this > >> very mailing list is an old IBM Pentium II with 256MB of > >> RAM. > > > > What Linux release version? > > IIRC, SuSE 8.2 or thereabouts. > > -- > Hari > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > End of LUG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 7 > ********************************** > -- God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
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