I bought a Color QuickCam VC because I saw that color quickcams were supported. Not until later when I was actuay looking closely did I see that the VC isn't supported. I'm sending a message to http://www.logitech.globalsupport.com/ right now asking about linux support, and maybe a few others could do the same. Sometimes that works...:)
As a side note, do any of you know of any color cameras that can be bought new and work with linux?
You're not gonna find a cheap class D amp. Advent makes one, although I forget the model number(s) offhand. I think there's another mobile audio company that makes a ClassD, but i'm not positive. If not for the price, they're great - esp. for mobile installs. Small, efficient, cool operating temp... Anyway, there's also a company that makes a tube amp for mobile applications. They used some cushioning around the tubes to take up some of the shock, but the people spending the money for that kind of amp aren't gonna put it in their 4x4.:) As a side note, anyone runing their whole car system on the head unit's built-in amp isn't getting the sound they oughtta be getting, IMHO.
Having recently returned from a trip to Chicago which involved driving around downtown, among other places, I feel that I can safely say that It's far too easy to get a drivers liscense, so comparing that to the ease of getting a gun (I could get myself a _fully_ automatic weapon within a few days, and the feds wouldn't ever know it - even though it's illegal) is irrelevant. That said, I do think a reasonable regulation of guns is warrented. I also think there should be a penalty for breaking laws, which there really isn't.
Check out Advantech's biscuit PC's. They've got one that takes a socket 7 CPU and has on-board ethernet, sound, IDE, video, everything. It runs somewhere around 600 bucks, but it's a 5.25" form factor and runs off a standard hard-drive power connector (only needs +5 and +12 volts). It's what I was gonna use in my project, but that's more than I wanna spend... BTW, on that page, I'm including most of the plans to do something like this. I haven't gotten it done yet, but hopefully I will this weekend...
I'm already using squid to block banner ads _because_ if I'm not looking for ads. I suppose this'd be OK if I were searching for exactly what was being advertised, but I have a feeling the ads wil be marginally relevant. As a side note, isn't this kinda what lycos does? The banner ads are usually somewhat related to your search...
Seriously... SuSE released their 6.0 just a few days before the first 2.2.0pre kernels came out. I find this practice not very professional. They should have been waiting a few weeks for 2.2.0 to appear. So we have a new distro relase number with an old-fashioned, yet rock steady kernel.
On my SuSE CD's there's an option to select between 2.0.36 and 2.2.0.pre-something. They had waited for a while, but it was uncertain if 2.2.0 would ever officially come out, so they just went for it. I'm running 2.2.3 on my suse 6.0 box right now, and everything works beautifully. 223 compiled nicely with egcs (which also came with SuSE 6.0, finally), all I had to do is download the kernel source. That's not too much work.:)
BTW: Gosh damn that's a beautiful install. I'd reccmend everyone that likes linux check it out, if for no other reason than to see one possible good direction distribs could take.
It's too bad monolith went away. I actually bought a real domain, so does anyone know of a good reference on setting up services to warn users of an impending name change? Like sendmail auto-responding to old-domain requests, apache responding to the old domain as a virtual host that points to a cgi script auto linking to the corresponding page in the new domain, etc?
--cloudmaster, doesn't want his domain controlled by anyone else again.
Actually, I suppose a balanced ecosystem would be pretty hygienic (if the fish stayed alive, that would be a good sign). Just need to make sure to have a good aquarium filter and direct the clean water output to the heat sink input.
That's what I was intending to do; run the water through a filter before going to the processors. After reading the article, however, I'm actually considering having a seperate, closed system for cooling, and a radiator-type thing sitting under the gravel in the fish tank, so the cooler's water should be fine.
So here I am, building a water cooling system for my cluster, and what do I see? An article on slashdot telling how to water-cool your CPU. I've got a couple of boxes I just made and some tubing right here in my hands, as well as some fish who are about to live in a slightly warmer environment, and decided to check slashdot. Weird. Well, perhaps I should check out the site and see if he's ruined my planned web page telling how I decided to set it up...
--Cloudmaster, who's still gonna put up a page describing the cluster.
That book you can order (or buy with the "real" distrib) is quite possibly the best linux book for a non-linux user that I've seen so far. It's distrib-specific enough to be heplful, and general enough that newbies could use it if they ever went crazy and decided to go to some other distrib. Heck, I even found it marginally useful...
--Cloudmaster, ex-slackware user who loves his SuSE
When you're picking out tape, you might wanna look into geting some of the 7-day release tape instead of regular masking tape, because it's less likely to leave any residue that'll be difficult to get off. That, and remember not to use newspaper for masking larger areas, because the paiont can bleed through and the print often gets rubbed off.
Oh, and don't use a metalic paint near any open connection-type areas. unless you've masked off the holes that go to conductors.:) I'm gonna agree with the person that reccomended removing as much of the case as possible - that'll make your life a lot easier.
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I bought a Color QuickCam VC because I saw that color quickcams were supported. Not until later when I was actuay looking closely did I see that the VC isn't supported. I'm sending a message to http://www.logitech.globalsupport.com/ right now asking about linux support, and maybe a few others could do the same. Sometimes that works... :)
As a side note, do any of you know of any color cameras that can be bought new and work with linux?
You're not gonna find a cheap class D amp. Advent makes one, although I forget the model number(s) offhand. I think there's another mobile audio company that makes a ClassD, but i'm not positive. If not for the price, they're great - esp. for mobile installs. Small, efficient, cool operating temp... Anyway, there's also a company that makes a tube amp for mobile applications. They used some cushioning around the tubes to take up some of the shock, but the people spending the money for that kind of amp aren't gonna put it in their 4x4. :) As a side note, anyone runing their whole car system on the head unit's built-in amp isn't getting the sound they oughtta be getting, IMHO.
The docs don't have a nice index that can find a function if you don't already know what you're looking for though... --Danny, who likes his books
Having recently returned from a trip to Chicago which involved driving around downtown, among other places, I feel that I can safely say that It's far too easy to get a drivers liscense, so comparing that to the ease of getting a gun (I could get myself a _fully_ automatic weapon within a few days, and the feds wouldn't ever know it - even though it's illegal) is irrelevant. That said, I do think a reasonable regulation of guns is warrented. I also think there should be a penalty for breaking laws, which there really isn't.
Check out Advantech's biscuit PC's. They've got one that takes a socket 7 CPU and has on-board ethernet, sound, IDE, video, everything. It runs somewhere around 600 bucks, but it's a 5.25" form factor and runs off a standard hard-drive power connector (only needs +5 and +12 volts). It's what I was gonna use in my project, but that's more than I wanna spend... BTW, on that page, I'm including most of the plans to do something like this. I haven't gotten it done yet, but hopefully I will this weekend...
I'm already using squid to block banner ads _because_ if I'm not looking for ads. I suppose this'd be OK if I were searching for exactly what was being advertised, but I have a feeling the ads wil be marginally relevant.
As a side note, isn't this kinda what lycos does? The banner ads are usually somewhat related to your search...
Seriously... SuSE released their 6.0 just a few days before the first 2.2.0pre kernels came out. I find this practice not very professional. They should have been waiting a few weeks for 2.2.0 to appear. So we have a new distro relase number with an old-fashioned, yet rock steady kernel.
:)
On my SuSE CD's there's an option to select between 2.0.36 and 2.2.0.pre-something. They had waited for a while, but it was uncertain if 2.2.0 would ever officially come out, so they just went for it. I'm running 2.2.3 on my suse 6.0 box right now, and everything works beautifully. 223 compiled nicely with egcs (which also came with SuSE 6.0, finally), all I had to do is download the kernel source. That's not too much work.
BTW: Gosh damn that's a beautiful install. I'd reccmend everyone that likes linux check it out, if for no other reason than to see one possible good direction distribs could take.
--Danny, ex-slackware user
It's too bad monolith went away. I actually bought a real domain, so does anyone know of a good reference on setting up services to warn users of an impending name change? Like sendmail auto-responding to old-domain requests, apache responding to the old domain as a virtual host that points to a cgi script auto linking to the corresponding page in the new domain, etc?
--cloudmaster, doesn't want his domain controlled by anyone else again.
Actually, I suppose a balanced ecosystem would be pretty hygienic (if the fish stayed alive, that would be a good sign). Just need to make sure to have a good aquarium filter and direct the clean water output to the heat sink input.
That's what I was intending to do; run the water through a filter before going to the processors. After reading the article, however, I'm actually considering having a seperate, closed system for cooling, and a radiator-type thing sitting under the gravel in the fish tank, so the cooler's water should be fine.
So here I am, building a water cooling system for my cluster, and what do I see? An article on slashdot telling how to water-cool your CPU. I've got a couple of boxes I just made and some tubing right here in my hands, as well as some fish who are about to live in a slightly warmer environment, and decided to check slashdot. Weird. Well, perhaps I should check out the site and see if he's ruined my planned web page telling how I decided to set it up...
--Cloudmaster, who's still gonna put up a page describing the cluster.
That book you can order (or buy with the "real" distrib) is quite possibly the best linux book for a non-linux user that I've seen so far. It's distrib-specific enough to be heplful, and general enough that newbies could use it if they ever went crazy and decided to go to some other distrib. Heck, I even found it marginally useful...
--Cloudmaster, ex-slackware user who loves his SuSE
When you're picking out tape, you might wanna look into geting some of the 7-day release tape instead of regular masking tape, because it's less likely to leave any residue that'll be difficult to get off. That, and remember not to use newspaper for masking larger areas, because the paiont can bleed through and the print often gets rubbed off.
:) I'm gonna agree with the person that reccomended removing as much of the case as possible - that'll make your life a lot easier.
Oh, and don't use a metalic paint near any open connection-type areas. unless you've masked off the holes that go to conductors.