Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
Paul Hartman writes: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :) No, those came later. It's a clone of the probably very first computer action game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar! This is the one: http://jeff.rainbow-100.com/?p=93 Wow, it even has a download link. And it sort of runs in dosemu. Although the CGA version only (640x200), not the one using much nicer Hercules graphics (720x384), which I still have a copy of anyway. That was why I had started it on my old AT. Interestingly, while the nice animation of the SPACEWAR logo is way too fast to see, the game itself is playable. Not against the robot though, the wining strategy is to simply wait until it has no energy left due to excessive hyperjumping (which it normally doesn't do), and finish it with a single laser beam when it comes nearby. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:47:12 walt wrote: On 07/27/2011 08:01 AM, Michael Mol wrote: If you allow tmpfs to be backed by swap... Does that require some extra configuration? Nope. You just define swap and tmpfs in your fstab. Here are my entries: $ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sdb3 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sda7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 /dev/sdb7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 $ grep tmpfs /etc/fstab tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,nosuid,size=8G 0 0 shm /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid0 0 I haven't changed anything there since upgrading from 4 to 16GB RAM a few months ago. Notice that the tmpfs was then bigger than the installed RAM. It worked just fine. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter number 5290
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
walt wrote: On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I hit the wrong button. lol Dale :-) :-) Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it too. Fireball is it. I guess lightening will be next. Maybe it will be 10 cores at 8Ghz with 128Gbs of ram or some supped up crap like that. lol Dale is dreaming big. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:14:09 Dale wrote: I guess lightening will be next. No, no, no. Lightning, please. Quite a different word (the cause of thunder, as against a lifting of the ambient light level). Or maybe that's another simplification in the American language. I can't keep up with the rate of degradation these days. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:14:09 Dale wrote: I guess lightening will be next. No, no, no. Lightning, please. Quite a different word (the cause of thunder, as against a lifting of the ambient light level). Or maybe that's another simplification in the American language. I can't keep up with the rate of degradation these days. True. My spelling is off today. Well, today too. ;-) That's also shorter too. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
walt wrote: Oops, I got it completely wrong, then. Amongst hardware geeks there is an old (maybe obsolete?) expression it's time for the smoke-test! which means: plug it in and turn it on -- and then note carefully where the plume of smoke is coming from :) You're obviously too young to remember those days Nope. Not only do I remember them but I have done that many many times. I used to build pump controllers for my water system here. It had two pumps and some sensors to keep a tank full. If I had just one wire out of place, I get to start over. . . . after the stink goes away of course. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
walt writes: On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'? Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it too. Fireball is it. I guess lightening will be next. Maybe it will be 10 cores at 8Ghz with 128Gbs of ram or some supped up crap like that. lol Oops, I got it completely wrong, then. Amongst hardware geeks there is an old (maybe obsolete?) expression it's time for the smoke-test! which means: plug it in and turn it on -- and then note carefully where the plume of smoke is coming from :) I still have my first PC, a 12-MHz 286. The last time I turned it on, the casing being opened, something exploded and a huge flame burst out between the card slots. Now THAT was a real smoker! After the dust had settled, I clipped the capacitor that was burnt. Turned the thing on, and it was runing just fine. And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. I wouldn't expect today's hardware to survive this. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :)
