I figured all years that end in 00 were leap years since 100 is divisible by 4, yet cal says they aren't. year 3000 is not a leapyear. Nor is 3100, but 3200 is. See below.
# for x in {0..9};do cal 2 3${x}00|tail -2;done 23 24 25 26 27 28
Running 1600x1200 on a 15" LCD screen would be unbearable. It's almost too small for my 21" CRT...
Actually, LCD sizes are viewable, CRTs are tube size. A 15" LCD would be around 1" smaller than a 17". 1280x1024 on a 17" looks pretty good to me. I run 1280x1024 on my 19" (1600x1280 looks like some pixels aren't bright enough). --
This is the first machine that I've had problems with as far as resolutions go. Works fine in 1024x768 (except the last 3 or 4 pixels of the screen are missing). Other res's I've tried just don't work. 640x480 and 800x600 just cause a blank (white) screen.
My dad always told me that democrats suck (I think it was a democrat that got the us into a war over seas a few decades ago and a republican that got us out). I feel they all suck, but democrats suck more (ala clinton)
I started out with 1.2.7 (I forget now). I noticed 1.3.20 worked well on my box (never upgraded to anything higher until 2.0). If the even numbers are stable, and the odds are devel, what happened to 1.4.x? Maybe 2.3. will be 3.0.x --
I would have posted 'free' output, but it didn't fit right. Anyway, I have on the average, 110mb ram used on this 512mb machine. Usually about 8 xterms open with 10000 lines scroll back (not that much memory actually), netscape with a 30mb memory cache (no disk), still goes just fine.
I usually don't see swap until a few days of uptime and to be quite frank, I don't know why it would touch swap with this much ram (usually 400mb left over before buffers/cache) --
WARNING: This is from personnal experience only, take what I say with caution and don't try this unless you have experiemental hardware. You have been warned.
I have done hot swapping of ide drives at my work place. I didn't want to shut the system down (was erasing about 30 ide drives and rebooting would have been a pain). As far as sw goes, linux can reprobe for ide drives provided you compiled ide as a module (there goes booting, but this was an nfs root booting from floppy). I hear there is an ioctl() you can call to have it do the same thing. Basically, just rmmod ide-probe and insmod ide-probe.
Now as far as hardware goes, this has always worked for me but I won't be responsible for someone trying this on their hardware and frying it! The way I have always done this is to plug in the power cable first and let the drive spin up (this goes for all ide and scsi drives). Once they have spun up, plug in the ide cable. Make sure you plug it in right! rmmod and insmod the ide-probe and you should be in business. I did hot adding of a cdrom to a linux server today (scsi bus) and didn't have any problems, had to reboot since the sync rate was set in the scsi bios to 5mb/sec instead of 20.
WARNING: You could fry your drives. I have been lucky and waiting for the day when the fryguy comes =)
Take a look at the kernel version history -- we've had a mere 10 releases of 2.2 in about 4 months, by that time 2.0 had gone past 20! (and 2.1.0 appeared after 2.0.21).
Yea, I rememeber that... It was like a new kernel every 2 days... So is 2.2 now about 1 every week?
I'll say it again. I wrote ipfw (originally for ipfwadm, but works with ipchains) because I didn't want to remember the ipfwadm command line. ipfw can be retreived at http://animx.eu.org/linux/ipfw
I should make a point about partitioning. For most of us, it's just another step in the os. as another guy said, someone would rather pull teeth than partition. But I must say this, atleast linux, regardless of RH or debian (my favorite ), and I think even slackware says you have to do it (or prompts you to). What about windoze? Unfortunately, I've installed 95 moretimes than I can count. Take this senerio (anyone correct me if I'm wrong, I do as much through CLI on windoze as I can). You get a new hard drive (nothing installed!), you stick it in the machine. Ok, you put in the cdrom boot disk and install 95.. It won't install, it gives some kinda crap about drive 'C'. Nowhere did it say I have to partition my drive. Humph, imagine that. nt does force you to use a partition, but how many average joes use nt? (Uh, lets not start about w2k. Humph, sounds like the millennium bug to me ) Email me if I am wrong about something here... Just remove all references to 'no spam' (shouldn't be that hard =)
Thanx for all your comments. One person wanted to know why I'd want it. Basically, the way things go these days, the fastest pII is less than entry level the next year. I figured that getting more horse power would last for a while and to keep from the yearly upgrading.
I already bought a dual pII board with 2 450's. I love it.. Compile kernels and play quake2. Pretty nice to compile the kernel in just under 3 minutes using make -j 4 (don't ask.g.)
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Actually, I bought a 12gb 2.5" 9.5mm (talk about dual standard =) from gogocity.com for 260$ and it has went down since then. It's a hitachi.
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I figured all years that end in 00 were leap years since 100 is divisible by 4, yet cal says they aren't. year 3000 is not a leapyear. Nor is 3100, but 3200 is. See below.
# for x in {0..9};do cal 2 3${x}00|tail -2;done
23 24 25 26 27 28
25 26 27 28
27 28 29
28
23 24 25 26 27 28
25 26 27 28
27 28 29
28
23 24 25 26 27 28
25 26 27 28
#
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What's the difference between using file/print sharing over IPX/SPX instead of NetBEUI?
(Too bad samba doesn't support IPX)
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Actually, LCD sizes are viewable, CRTs are tube size. A 15" LCD would be around 1" smaller than a 17". 1280x1024 on a 17" looks pretty good to me. I run 1280x1024 on my 19" (1600x1280 looks like some pixels aren't bright enough).
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Does this mean I can run 1600x1200 or 1920x1680 on my laptop now?
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Why not? Untar it in one dir and diff it against another or something like that. Can alwasy bzip2 it as well.
.diff.gz and the real one in a .diff.bz2
Or, one could distribute the fake one in a
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I always knew virginia was a communist state
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Nice. This makes me more proud to have a '93 Mustang. Pic
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Nice. This makes me more prowd to have a '93 Mustang. Pic
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This is the first machine that I've had problems with as far as resolutions go. Works fine in 1024x768 (except the last 3 or 4 pixels of the screen are missing). Other res's I've tried just don't work. 640x480 and 800x600 just cause a blank (white) screen.
Anyone got any ideas?
Email: animx.eu.org@wakko (reverse that)
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I've heard of SMP computers, but SMP video cards?
Looks like we'll have to all compile our kernels for SMP machines now.
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1 watt? So, will this thing not need on of those power sucking fans on a heatsink?
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My dad always told me that democrats suck (I think it was a democrat that got the us into a war over seas a few decades ago and a republican that got us out). I feel they all suck, but democrats suck more (ala clinton)
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I personally liked the picture on the first page.
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Key word here is 'rebooted'
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I started out with 1.2.7 (I forget now). I noticed 1.3.20 worked well on my box (never upgraded to anything higher until 2.0). If the even numbers are stable, and the odds are devel, what happened to 1.4.x? Maybe 2.3. will be 3.0.x
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MemTotal: 517528 kB
MemFree: 4308 kB
MemShared: 24236 kB
Buffers: 11744 kB
Cached: 384104 kB
SwapTotal: 64492 kB
SwapFree: 48736 kB
I would have posted 'free' output, but it didn't fit right. Anyway, I have on the average, 110mb ram used on this 512mb machine. Usually about 8 xterms open with 10000 lines scroll back (not that much memory actually), netscape with a 30mb memory cache (no disk), still goes just fine.
I usually don't see swap until a few days of uptime and to be quite frank, I don't know why it would touch swap with this much ram (usually 400mb left over before buffers/cache)
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WARNING: This is from personnal experience only, take what I say with caution and don't try this unless you have experiemental hardware. You have been warned.
I have done hot swapping of ide drives at my work place. I didn't want to shut the system down (was erasing about 30 ide drives and rebooting would have been a pain). As far as sw goes, linux can reprobe for ide drives provided you compiled ide as a module (there goes booting, but this was an nfs root booting from floppy). I hear there is an ioctl() you can call to have it do the same thing. Basically, just rmmod ide-probe and insmod ide-probe.
Now as far as hardware goes, this has always worked for me but I won't be responsible for someone trying this on their hardware and frying it! The way I have always done this is to plug in the power cable first and let the drive spin up (this goes for all ide and scsi drives). Once they have spun up, plug in the ide cable. Make sure you plug it in right! rmmod and insmod the ide-probe and you should be in business. I did hot adding of a cdrom to a linux server today (scsi bus) and didn't have any problems, had to reboot since the sync rate was set in the scsi bios to 5mb/sec instead of 20.
WARNING: You could fry your drives. I have been lucky and waiting for the day when the fryguy comes =)
Yea, I rememeber that... It was like a new kernel every 2 days... So is 2.2 now about 1 every week?
I'll say it again. I wrote ipfw (originally for ipfwadm, but works with ipchains) because I didn't want to remember the ipfwadm command line. ipfw can be retreived at http://animx.eu.org/linux/ipfw
it's ~20kb.
Someone's been watching too much southpark
Did anyone on the mailing list see the post that some one put in about /. f***heads? I thought it was quite immature.
I should make a point about partitioning. For most of us, it's just another step in the os. as another guy said, someone would rather pull teeth than partition. But I must say this, atleast linux, regardless of RH or debian (my favorite ), and I think even slackware says you have to do it (or prompts you to). What about windoze? Unfortunately, I've installed 95 moretimes than I can count. Take this senerio (anyone correct me if I'm wrong, I do as much through CLI on windoze as I can). You get a new hard drive (nothing installed!), you stick it in the machine. Ok, you put in the cdrom boot disk and install 95.. It won't install, it gives some kinda crap about drive 'C'. Nowhere did it say I have to partition my drive. Humph, imagine that. nt does force you to use a partition, but how many average joes use nt? (Uh, lets not start about w2k. Humph, sounds like the millennium bug to me ) Email me if I am wrong about something here... Just remove all references to 'no spam' (shouldn't be that hard =)
Thanx for all your comments. One person wanted to know why I'd want it. Basically, the way things go these days, the fastest pII is less than entry level the next year. I figured that getting more horse power would last for a while and to keep from the yearly upgrading.
.g.)
I already bought a dual pII board with 2 450's. I love it.. Compile kernels and play quake2. Pretty nice to compile the kernel in just under 3 minutes using make -j 4 (don't ask
... Have actually gotten 'real' tech support from the (evil) micro$oft?
(First post with a name behind it... Wasn't expecting that tho!)