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new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread Steven A. DuChene
Last year I spent the summer working at the Intel benchmarking center in Dupont, WA and some of you might recall me posting about some large memory systems there with 256GB of memory. At the time that was the most memory I had personally witnessed running in a Linux server (RH6.1 to be exact).

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread keith smith
I'm curious.  What type of CPU's are they using.  I must admit I know little about computer architecture and O/S's at this level, however it seems multiple computers would be better than one big one. What is the advantage to so much RAM in one computer? What are the advantages of one

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread Matt Graham
From: keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com I must admit I know little about computer architecture and OSes at this level, however it seems multiple computers would be better than one big one. What is the advantage to so much RAM in one computer? If you were plowing a field, which would you

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread keith smith
Ok,  Thank you. So one CPU? and all that RAM?  Keith Smith --- On Tue, 9/18/12, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net wrote: From: Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net Subject: Re: new memory record for me To: Main PLUG discussion list

Re: new memory record for me

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Cope
In-memory database: http://voltdb.com/products-services/products On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:44 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok, Thank you. So one CPU? and all that RAM? Keith Smith --- On *Tue, 9/18/12, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net* wrote:

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread James Mcphee
Basic troubleshooting of the network layer seems to be in order. Can she ping the WAP? Can she ping the ISP? Can she ping google? Is her DNS working? On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: On my wife's win-xp computer, we have a good wireless internet connection to our

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread Stephen
Can you ping? On Sep 18, 2012 2:17 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: On my wife's win-xp computer, we have a good wireless internet connection to our in-home wireless network, but she can no longer connect to any internet website. It was working fine until a recent reboot, but no longer works.

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread JD Austin
Do this to see if it has an ip address that isn't the Microsoft equivalent to 127.0.0.1 (169.254.x.x) start - run -cmd ipconfig On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Can you ping? On Sep 18, 2012 2:17 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: On my wife's win-xp

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread joe
Basic troubleshooting of the network layer seems to be in order. Can she ping the WAP? Can she ping the ISP? Can she ping google? Is her DNS working? Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but I don't know how to check some of these things. - ping google.com gives no response. - I don't know

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread joe
Do this to see if it has an ip address that isn't the Microsoft equivalent to 127.0.0.1 (169.254.x.x) start - run -cmd ipconfig ipconfig from the command line shows no ip address. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread Matt Graham
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Joe wrote: we have a good connection to our in-home wireless network, but she can no longer connect to any internet website. It was working fine until a recent reboot From: James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com Can she ping the WAP? Can she ping the ISP? Can she

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread joe
Do this to see if it has an ip address that isn't the Microsoft equivalent to 127.0.0.1 (169.254.x.x) start - run -cmd ipconfig correction: Windows IP Configuration ... is blank Media State ... shows Disconnected DNS Suffix : is blank IP Address 169.254.201.139

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread Stephen
Media state disconnected means something is unplugged AKA link state is down. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:51 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Do this to see if it has an ip address that isn't the Microsoft equivalent to 127.0.0.1 (169.254.x.x) start - run -cmd ipconfig correction: Windows IP

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread JD Austin
Many laptops have a hardware switch that turns off the wireless device; ensure that it is turned on. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Media state disconnected means something is unplugged AKA link state is down. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:51 PM,

wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Havens
I have a compaq cq57 and am very upset with the wifi button. If I accidently turn it off it won't turn back on unless I restart the stupid thing. Is there a way to make it so it is always on? :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Stephen
there might be a bios setting. I happen to have one on my dell. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I have a compaq cq57 and am very upset with the wifi button. If I accidently turn it off it won't turn back on unless I restart the stupid thing. Is there a

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread James Mcphee
I prefer hardware switches for wireless simply because I don't want to go through the software power issues of before where we had to boot to windows once for each machine to turn on the card. I doubt that's an issue any longer, but it pained me greatly. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Stephen

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Havens
I found that if the wifi won;t turn on I can boot into backtrack5 and that turns the wifi back on. But now that I have mint13 on I just need to reboot. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer hardware switches for wireless simply because I

Re: wireless switch

2012-09-18 Thread Brian Cluff
Sounds like your device might be getting stuck off. I had a netbook with this problem, the solution was: After pressing the wifi button and then turning it back on run: rkfill list and see if it tells you that anything is soft or hard blocked. If you see something that is soft blocked, just

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Butash
169 autoconfigure addresses occur when you have link, set for dhcp, and no dhcp response with an address. It gives the interface something to satiate netlink. This usually means wireless security isn't working, or at least the router doesn't think you are. Make sure it *is* connecting to