Re: Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread Joseph Sinclair
GK wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 18:20 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: >> I read a few conflicting requirements below, bear with me as I try to >> clarify: >> 1) 8G RAM minimum >> 2) Quad-core high-speed CPU >> 3) 1TB HDD >> 4) overclocked? you talk about heat problems, which implies overclocking,

Re: Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Compilation is a basically single-threaded task, but you can compile multiple files simultaneously to speed things up when using make. With make the command-line flag is [-j #] to tell it how many jobs to run at once, usually you want to set that to [number of physical cores] + 1 (due to cachin

Re: Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread Eric Cope
Will gcc (or whatever compiler you are using) split among the processor cores? Perhaps more cores is not optimal - perhaps a high frequency core 2 duo with a large cache is better? Eric On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Stephen wrote: > well i see where youa re going, and i think there is a path

Re: Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen
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Re: Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread GK
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 18:20 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > I read a few conflicting requirements below, bear with me as I try to clarify: > 1) 8G RAM minimum > 2) Quad-core high-speed CPU > 3) 1TB HDD > 4) overclocked? you talk about heat problems, which implies overclocking, > since stock fans

Re: Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I read a few conflicting requirements below, bear with me as I try to clarify: 1) 8G RAM minimum 2) Quad-core high-speed CPU 3) 1TB HDD 4) overclocked? you talk about heat problems, which implies overclocking, since stock fans are usually ample for stock clocks. 5) Desktop case Then you start co

Possible ideas for a new box?

2010-01-01 Thread GK
Hey all Happy New Years. Besides family I think the thing I miss the most is PLUG. MN was good, TN is okay but I'm sorry they aren't your calibre. Hopefully before tax time and I have to move soon (Feb.) I want to get a box for compiling mainly and that can handle burnin typ testing. A laptop/ne

Re: Hey.

2010-01-01 Thread keith smith
I think you could have chosen a better reference! Keith Smith --- On Thu, 12/31/09, Lisa Kachold wrote: > From: Lisa Kachold > Subject: Re: Hey. > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:54 PM > Happy New Years Mike! 2010 is going > to

Re: command line image display options?

2010-01-01 Thread GK
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Re: command line image display options?

2010-01-01 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Matt Graham wrote: > After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: >> $ kuickshow image.jpg >> works better without any error or warning message, but still has a title >> bar that I would like to eliminate. > Title bar is provided by the window manage

Re: command line image display options?

2010-01-01 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: > What command line syntax could I use to display a jpg image > to a specified screen size? "To a specified screen size"? Most things have the equivalent of a --geometry option somewhere if it doesn't handle that automatically. > $ kuicks

Re: command line image display options?

2010-01-01 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Josef Lowder wrote: > What command line syntax could I use to display a jpg image > to a specified screen size? > > I currently use both kview and kuickshow to do this, but when I use: > > $ kview image.jpg > > I get the following continuously running "warning" mes

command line image display options?

2010-01-01 Thread Josef Lowder
What command line syntax could I use to display a jpg image to a specified screen size? I currently use both kview and kuickshow to do this, but when I use: $ kview image.jpg I get the following continuously running "warning" message: kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to de

RE: home dir to usb thx & some OT (long)

2010-01-01 Thread Bob Elzer
Grandma's on Linux. How cool is that. You go girl -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of betty Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:22 PM To: kurt+plug-disc...@granroth.com; Main PLU

Re: home dir to usb thx & some OT (NOT long) -> right!

2010-01-01 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
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