www.driverguide.com is always a good place to look. Get used to yanking the card, looking for the ID on any chips, and then searching for that chip's drivers. Also check out www.google.com and groups.google.com for other excellent places to search.
When you download the drivers, have a network share (or directory) with this file structure:/drivers/type[video,sound,modem,network]/manufactu rer/model/OS. Then, if you keep seeing the same type of card (not uncommon when you realize the machines you are refurbishing tend to come from a specific local manufacturer[s] who use the same hardware in each of their machines) you don't have to redownload it. And you can always burn/drivers/ onto a few CD's if your driver collection gets large enough to be useful.
Should be easy enough to freeze them out of an laptop though.
No, no, don't worry, it should be safe. Since I'm from up north, I've seen laptops delivered in unheated vans. I've also left my laptop in my car overnight. The trick is, give the machine _plenty_ of time to warm up - the cold will start to slow down the LCD display if you don't, and could damage it.
As a related story, I know a guy who had a mouse colonize his computer. That's why we put slotkeys in all the empty slots.:) (Well, actually, the normal reason for slotkeys is to improve air flow, but...)
What is keeping me from linux is a combination of things. First one is a lack or ported software. Sounds familiar? Here's my twist: A lack of GPL unix software ported to windows.
First I would like to say that its getting better. OpenOffice, the Gimp, gvim, abiword and the like all have windows ports. But there is some software that I'd like to try without having to jump into the linux OS boat - Such as gnucash.
I'm not alone with this train of thought. If I can everything in windows with the same gpl apps that I can in linux, then there is just a little jump from learning windows to the $x_environment_of_choice. But if I have to learn all new apps to get things done, then the jump from windows to linux is bigger.
So please, give me windows ports.
(As for the hardware - my second video card is buggy under linux. I think its hardware related. Anyways, even though its a simple tgui-9680 chipset, with the default VGA drivers and with the trident drivers, I get a corrupted display under X. I believe its a hardware problem, and will try a newer video card to doublecheck later.)
be-fan writes: First, if you can't tell the difference between 2GHz and 600MHz, you're dead.
Is it the CPU that makes the newer machine seem faster, or the additional memory and faster hard drive?
For loading applications/OS's, first the program has to be read from hard disk, and then (to keep it from swapping), it should remain in memory. CPU might make a tiny difference, but outside of rendering and a few other things (like some games), you shouldn't see a noticeable difference. (And for gamers, video cards make a big difference as well.)
Then again, it doesn't matter how fast of a CPU I buy, I'll find something that will push it to 100% usage. Currently, that's divx5 encoding. But I'm not the typical user.
Say what you want about MAME...
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Sure, there are people who are interested in only piracy, and there are people who are only interested in free games, but in a hundred years, the reason why we will have copies of arcade games from 1975 on up will be because of emulations projects like MAME.
I don't condone piracy to avoid paying for the latest game or to avoid paying a theater for a movie. But there is a difference between downloading GTA3 and downloading a 25 year old ROM that is not available for commercial sale. Not legally, but ethically.
First, a disclaimer - I don't know a thing about compilers, and for coding - what I know can fill a very small bucket. However, that doesn't stop most people on slashdot from posting, so it shouldn't stop me.:)
I was told that building from source makes the compiled code partially machine-specific. Thus an exploit that worked in the default binary might not work in the binary that I compiled.
Is there any compiler gurus that want to clarify this for me one way or another?
An Anonymous Coward writes:
Anyone here have to put up with NT4.0? Between option packs and service packs and patch rollups and old 4x CD-ROMs, correctly installing an NT4-based IIS server was basically an all-day affair.
Yes and no. For one machine, yes. But if you needed to install many machines, you either integrate the service packs and security hotfixes into the setup cabs, or script the hotfixes for after the install - its possible to do so with only one reboot.
Linux has its advantages, we don't need to spread FUD about Microsoft.
Transcendent writes: Just like how our medical methods are really making our gene pool a bit murkey. Since even the children with life-threatening defects live and reproduce, this weakness gets spread to all their offspring... weakening the gene pool even more.
Hate to break it to you, but have you looked at humanity lately? We aren't anywhere near as strong as the great apes, we are poor runners, lack powerful jaw muscles and teeth, lack claws, and our hide is not only easy to tear, its also very inefficient at insulating us from the extremes of heat and cold. Not only that, but we can't graze on the food that many creatures can, and without technology, we'd have a hard time tearing apart any large prey. Other creatures have teeth to cut through thick hides - we don't.
To add insult to injury, we take a decade and a half or more to reach maturity, and in hunter-gatherer societies, women average one birth every few years. And our young? What a joke. Needing constant care, taking an obscene amount of months before being able to move on their own, and years before they match the size and the strength of an adult.
As long as the bios can see enough information to boot linux, the linux kernal can access any disk, independent of the bios. I have an 80 GByte disk in my pentium 133, and the bios refuses to see it, but has no problem booting since the boot partition is on a smaller 1 Gbyte disk, which then mounts the 80 gigger as/home
I've done experiments on my Samba P133/16mhz fileserver before.
With a 10mbit nic, the network is a bottleneck. With a 100mbit nic, the old IDE controller is the bottleneck. I believe with a modern ATA/100 controller, the machine should be capable of saturating that link. [Debian woody, for the curious - Also does NAT, dialup, mail, news and a few other goodies.]
The problem is, old machines can't support a lot of memory. In my case, where I'm accessing gigs of audio and video from the server, it doesn't matter. However, in an environment where the same files are being accessed over and over again, more memory will help performance - and this is where newer hardware shows itself. The latest K7/P4 boards can support a gig and a half or 2 gigs of memory. An old pentium board might have problems with 128. In a small office, it might not matter, but with a heavily used fileserver, it will.
The bad, nasty short tempered men show up if we start to discuss the shoggoth trapped in the pentagon....
Seriously though, HP Lovecraft has some nifty ideas for his day. For example, the shoggoths were created as servants that could change themselves, long, long ago. They eventually gained intelligence through this self-evolution, turning against their masters. Lovecraft was big on genetic engineering (although he never called it that). One of the races that inhabited Antartica had the ability to change themselves to fit the environment - but eventually forgot how to do it over millions of years and were thus vulnerable to the chilling of Antartica.
That refrence you give talks about licenses with regards to restricting rights of a consumer - basically, shrink wrap licenses that limit (perhaps illegally) my ability to resell a product or modify it for my means. That's wrong. However, even though I may have the right to resell my copy of Windows XP Retail, I don't have the right to make 100 copies and sell them.
Qmail, along with DJBDNS (and a lot of other DJB's software) has a copyright that restricts distribution of modified binaries. Which means, if DJB get's hit by a truck tomarrow and dies, Qmail's developement is legally frozen.
The conspiracy theorists will come up with the idea of reflective rocks to explain this one away, but it is possible to bounce a laser signal off a peice of reflective foil left on the moon which is still being used to this day for experiments.
OrbNobz writes:
For me, the most convincing "evidence" supportng the conspiracy theory is the radiation belt, and NASA's inability (even at present IIRC) to send any living thing through it without receiving a lethal dose. Most of the other facts are hit or miss, and pretty subjective.
That's why I doubt the existance of microwaves. How can someone heat food without receiving a fatal dose of radiation? At the very least, if microwaves did exist and were in widespread use, there should be low population growth due to widespread sterility.
"Experts" even claim that some of these microwaves get their energy from Nuclear Power Plants! How absurd! We all know that the vast amount of radiation put out by nuclear fission is fatal to any human being. Even if we could manage nuclear power remotely, the amounts of radiation would interfere with any remote control. Quite frankly, nuclear power is a myth.
pmz wrote For a pure console environment (no GUI, no mouse), vi's modes really aren't a bad thing. Command mode allows cut'n'paste, navigation, global search and replace, etc. You only enter new data in insert mode. Another thing about vi: its power isn't unleashed until you've read the 'ed' man page.
I think you mean read the 'ex' man page.
OTOH, it sounds like the original poster didn't bother to read the original nvi help files (which I believe is the default vi-clone on potato). Vi is a powerful little editor, but you need to know how to use it. Else, when you complain about a missing feature that isn't missing -- its actually commonly used -- you look like an idiot.
Next week on Slashdot: Why Mozilla sucks because I can't find the print button.
They are middle school students. From where I went to school, this means handing in typewritten papers. Nowadays, that means papers processed on computers for the most part.
So, we have the WYSI(sometimes)WYG word editors like Work 2k and Word XP, and we have LaTeX2e. In Word, I can spend hours fiddling with colors, fonts and the like, trying to get it to display the way I want it to display. In LaTeX, I can write out the report with just a few commands that will automagically create a TOC, Index, footnotes, and bibliography. LaTeX will handle the font sizes and layout for me, letting me concentrate on getting work done.
That being said, I'll admit that it won't fly. Unfortunately, LaTeX requires a bit of initial knowledge and study before the system works, and even if it might save people hundreds of hours of work down the road, they won't take the time now to learn it. Same with vi.
So give them OpenOffice.
I'm going to go back to my cave and gnaw on the bones of lusers now.
I'm in the middle of writing a HOWTO for the LDP concerning virus scanning on linux. (Wish it was done so I can point you to it).
I don't have my research in front of me, so I have to reply off the top of my head here.
If I was going to do this, I would first select one of those programs that mangles attachments. There are solutions that removes attachments entirely, solutions that detach the attachment and move it to a place where it can be accessed by a link in the email, or solutions that change the extension of the file. I'd suggest the latter solution. If any.vbs,.bat,.exe [...etc] files are renamed to.oldextension.txt, everything is fine. You might want to combine this solution with a rule to filter anything along the lines of.jpg.vbs or the like (which is probably a virus). Remember - If you remove attachments or block emails, please send a message to the sender saying you did. This is business email. The $virus_of_the_month might have attached itself to the CEO's quarterly fiscal report.
That being done, then run all emails through a virus scanner. Again, if you detect a virus, mail the sender explaining what you did and what virus was detected. [Btw, put in a disclaimer - some viruses send out false 'from' addresses in their headers]
That should filter incoming email without a problem. For shares, there are scanners that will integrate themselves with Samba, which will scan files whenever they are changed. I have not seen any real-time scanning solution for other file shares methods though.
If anyone has some more information, please drop an email to dasunt[at]hotmail[dot]com. If I use the information, I'll credit you.
Its rather easy to fill up all the slots in a machine. In my current system, here's what I have.
[AGP] ATI Rage Fury Pro
[PCI] Trident Video Card
[PCI] Video Capture Card
[PCI] Sound Card
[PCI] Network Card
[PCI] Modem
That leaves me with just one PCI slot open. My IDE chains are filled with 2 hard drives (one linux, one windows), a DVD drive, and a CD burner. My USB has a gamepad, UPS monitoring cable, usually a scanner, and a camera. I'll probably fill up the spare PCI slot with another video card when I get the money. That leaves me with hunting down a USB hub when I want to expand.
Yes Virginia, it is possible to cram so much junk into a machine that it pukes.
I'd like to add that not all holes in a motherboard are made for metal risers. Some motherboards have holes made for plastic risers. If you look closely, the holes for metal risers seem to have a small metallic ring around them.
Hope that made sense. Anyways, I'm seriously doubting that a 12V maximum difference between ground and the motherboard would result in the problem you think. I'm going with the poster that thinks the PCI cards might not be inserted all the way.
I'm not trying to torch anybody's favorite software here, but both djbdns and qmail have drawbacks.
The biggest issue is the license. Qmail is limited to source-code only distribution, with an exception being made for precompiled binaries if they behave exactly the same as qmail normally behaves. Information here. This means that if you want qmail not to throw all of its binaries under/var and ignore most of/etc for configuration files (which it normally does), you have to compile and patch it by yourself. Also, there is no distributing patched versions, so if D. J. Bernstein dies tomorrow, qmail development is effectively frozen until qmail passes into the public domain decades later. That includes any security/performance patches, as well as ports to other architectures. Djbdns has a similiar license.
There is also compatability. Djbdns
does not support certain zone transfer mechanisms. It ignores some IETF standards entirely and impliments its own version instead. I get upset when Microsoft twists and corrupts public standards for its own ends, and I get upset when Bernstien does it as well. I'm lazy, I don't want to have to doublecheck if my DNS servers supports a certain standard if my cofiguration changes. Qmail is more of a quibble, I don't like how it throws everything in/var. (And I'm not sure why the world needs qmtp)
I'm not saying that a lot of people and smaller sites won't find qmail/djbdns (and the rest of Bernstein's software) useful. They seem to be secure, and they do their job as long as everything is compatible.
However, one of the reasons why I avoid proprietary software for many tasks is that I don't want to hitch my wagon to somebody else's horse. If I go with a MTA that is wildly used and is GPL or BSDl, I am assured that development does not rest solely on one person. And if I go with standards-compliant software, it ends up being less of a hassle in the long run.
Djbdns and Qmail aren't bad. But they have licenses that limit distribution and development, and they break interoperability.
In open source, a lot of people will vocally voice their opinions that projects should be similiar to each other.
Debian is a great example of this. You frequently hear complants of a non-graphical installer, usually with the comment 'but my $preferred_distro has a graphical installer!' I haven't looked at the exact reasons why debian doesn't have a graphical installer, but an educated guess would take into effect the roughly dozen hardware platforms debian supports and the fact that debian will do things in ways that usually won't break - autodiscovery has the potential to cause problems. Plus, this is the distro where I can stick a few floppies into a machine, do a tiny install and skip tasksel and dselect, then apt-get apache, sshd and iptables, and have a small, fairly secure webserver without ever needing to download x.
The other complaint is that debian should have up to date packages. Debian's philosophy isn't to ride the bleeding edge, its to make sure everything works, and that stable is named stable for a reason.
I see a lot of this going on in the open source movement, and its just wrong. If Debian wants to be a better Redhat, the developers should join the Redhat team. Same with other projects. If mySQL tries to be postgres, even if it succeeds, we will have lost something. However, if mySQL strives to be a fast SQL database for websites, then we will have two good databases, both with a different purpose.
Each project should have a purpose, a goal, and it should be different from the other projects. Else there is just duplication of efforts and time lost as each project reinvents the wheel.
There was a very large eagle that was native to New Zealand. It used to pray on the large flightless birds. Tended to break their legs and their necks.
When humanity arrived, the bird went extinct. However, it might have been self defense. After all, from a bird's perspective, what's the difference between a large flightless bipedal mammal and a large flightless bipedal bird? Especially when both die when you break their neck?
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www.driverguide.com is always a good place to look. Get used to yanking the card, looking for the ID on any chips, and then searching for that chip's drivers. Also check out www.google.com and groups.google.com for other excellent places to search.
When you download the drivers, have a network share (or directory) with this file structure: /drivers/type[video,sound,modem,network]/manufactu rer/model/OS. Then, if you keep seeing the same type of card (not uncommon when you realize the machines you are refurbishing tend to come from a specific local manufacturer[s] who use the same hardware in each of their machines) you don't have to redownload it. And you can always burn /drivers/ onto a few CD's if your driver collection gets large enough to be useful.
Should be easy enough to freeze them out of an laptop though.
No, no, don't worry, it should be safe. Since I'm from up north, I've seen laptops delivered in unheated vans. I've also left my laptop in my car overnight. The trick is, give the machine _plenty_ of time to warm up - the cold will start to slow down the LCD display if you don't, and could damage it.
As a related story, I know a guy who had a mouse colonize his computer. That's why we put slotkeys in all the empty slots. :) (Well, actually, the normal reason for slotkeys is to improve air flow, but...)
What is keeping me from linux is a combination of things. First one is a lack or ported software. Sounds familiar? Here's my twist: A lack of GPL unix software ported to windows.
First I would like to say that its getting better. OpenOffice, the Gimp, gvim, abiword and the like all have windows ports. But there is some software that I'd like to try without having to jump into the linux OS boat - Such as gnucash.
I'm not alone with this train of thought. If I can everything in windows with the same gpl apps that I can in linux, then there is just a little jump from learning windows to the $x_environment_of_choice. But if I have to learn all new apps to get things done, then the jump from windows to linux is bigger.
So please, give me windows ports.
(As for the hardware - my second video card is buggy under linux. I think its hardware related. Anyways, even though its a simple tgui-9680 chipset, with the default VGA drivers and with the trident drivers, I get a corrupted display under X. I believe its a hardware problem, and will try a newer video card to doublecheck later.)
be-fan writes:
First, if you can't tell the difference between 2GHz and 600MHz, you're dead.
Is it the CPU that makes the newer machine seem faster, or the additional memory and faster hard drive?
For loading applications/OS's, first the program has to be read from hard disk, and then (to keep it from swapping), it should remain in memory. CPU might make a tiny difference, but outside of rendering and a few other things (like some games), you shouldn't see a noticeable difference. (And for gamers, video cards make a big difference as well.)
Then again, it doesn't matter how fast of a CPU I buy, I'll find something that will push it to 100% usage. Currently, that's divx5 encoding. But I'm not the typical user.
Sure, there are people who are interested in only piracy, and there are people who are only interested in free games, but in a hundred years, the reason why we will have copies of arcade games from 1975 on up will be because of emulations projects like MAME.
I don't condone piracy to avoid paying for the latest game or to avoid paying a theater for a movie. But there is a difference between downloading GTA3 and downloading a 25 year old ROM that is not available for commercial sale. Not legally, but ethically.
(Btw, support Capcom. They are one of the few companies that will sell [some] older rom images)
I reject that! I don't have any money in my pockets.
First, a disclaimer - I don't know a thing about compilers, and for coding - what I know can fill a very small bucket. However, that doesn't stop most people on slashdot from posting, so it shouldn't stop me. :)
I was told that building from source makes the compiled code partially machine-specific. Thus an exploit that worked in the default binary might not work in the binary that I compiled.
Is there any compiler gurus that want to clarify this for me one way or another?
Thanks
An Anonymous Coward writes:
Anyone here have to put up with NT4.0? Between option packs and service packs and patch rollups and old 4x CD-ROMs, correctly installing an NT4-based IIS server was basically an all-day affair.
Yes and no. For one machine, yes. But if you needed to install many machines, you either integrate the service packs and security hotfixes into the setup cabs, or script the hotfixes for after the install - its possible to do so with only one reboot.
Linux has its advantages, we don't need to spread FUD about Microsoft.
Transcendent writes:
Just like how our medical methods are really making our gene pool a bit murkey. Since even the children with life-threatening defects live and reproduce, this weakness gets spread to all their offspring... weakening the gene pool even more.
Hate to break it to you, but have you looked at humanity lately? We aren't anywhere near as strong as the great apes, we are poor runners, lack powerful jaw muscles and teeth, lack claws, and our hide is not only easy to tear, its also very inefficient at insulating us from the extremes of heat and cold. Not only that, but we can't graze on the food that many creatures can, and without technology, we'd have a hard time tearing apart any large prey. Other creatures have teeth to cut through thick hides - we don't.
To add insult to injury, we take a decade and a half or more to reach maturity, and in hunter-gatherer societies, women average one birth every few years. And our young? What a joke. Needing constant care, taking an obscene amount of months before being able to move on their own, and years before they match the size and the strength of an adult.
Technology is all that we have.
As long as the bios can see enough information to boot linux, the linux kernal can access any disk, independent of the bios. I have an 80 GByte disk in my pentium 133, and the bios refuses to see it, but has no problem booting since the boot partition is on a smaller 1 Gbyte disk, which then mounts the 80 gigger as /home
I've done experiments on my Samba P133/16mhz fileserver before.
With a 10mbit nic, the network is a bottleneck. With a 100mbit nic, the old IDE controller is the bottleneck. I believe with a modern ATA/100 controller, the machine should be capable of saturating that link. [Debian woody, for the curious - Also does NAT, dialup, mail, news and a few other goodies.]
The problem is, old machines can't support a lot of memory. In my case, where I'm accessing gigs of audio and video from the server, it doesn't matter. However, in an environment where the same files are being accessed over and over again, more memory will help performance - and this is where newer hardware shows itself. The latest K7/P4 boards can support a gig and a half or 2 gigs of memory. An old pentium board might have problems with 128. In a small office, it might not matter, but with a heavily used fileserver, it will.
The bad, nasty short tempered men show up if we start to discuss the shoggoth trapped in the pentagon....
Seriously though, HP Lovecraft has some nifty ideas for his day. For example, the shoggoths were created as servants that could change themselves, long, long ago. They eventually gained intelligence through this self-evolution, turning against their masters. Lovecraft was big on genetic engineering (although he never called it that). One of the races that inhabited Antartica had the ability to change themselves to fit the environment - but eventually forgot how to do it over millions of years and were thus vulnerable to the chilling of Antartica.
So what is http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html then?
That refrence you give talks about licenses with regards to restricting rights of a consumer - basically, shrink wrap licenses that limit (perhaps illegally) my ability to resell a product or modify it for my means. That's wrong. However, even though I may have the right to resell my copy of Windows XP Retail, I don't have the right to make 100 copies and sell them.
Qmail, along with DJBDNS (and a lot of other DJB's software) has a copyright that restricts distribution of modified binaries. Which means, if DJB get's hit by a truck tomarrow and dies, Qmail's developement is legally frozen.
The conspiracy theorists will come up with the idea of reflective rocks to explain this one away, but it is possible to bounce a laser signal off a peice of reflective foil left on the moon which is still being used to this day for experiments.
Here's a link
OrbNobz writes:
For me, the most convincing "evidence" supportng the conspiracy theory is the radiation belt, and NASA's inability (even at present IIRC) to send any living thing through it without receiving a lethal dose. Most of the other facts are hit or miss, and pretty subjective.
That's why I doubt the existance of microwaves. How can someone heat food without receiving a fatal dose of radiation? At the very least, if microwaves did exist and were in widespread use, there should be low population growth due to widespread sterility.
"Experts" even claim that some of these microwaves get their energy from Nuclear Power Plants! How absurd! We all know that the vast amount of radiation put out by nuclear fission is fatal to any human being. Even if we could manage nuclear power remotely, the amounts of radiation would interfere with any remote control. Quite frankly, nuclear power is a myth.
pmz wrote
For a pure console environment (no GUI, no mouse), vi's modes really aren't a bad thing. Command mode allows cut'n'paste, navigation, global search and replace, etc. You only enter new data in insert mode. Another thing about vi: its power isn't unleashed until you've read the 'ed' man page.
I think you mean read the 'ex' man page.
OTOH, it sounds like the original poster didn't bother to read the original nvi help files (which I believe is the default vi-clone on potato). Vi is a powerful little editor, but you need to know how to use it. Else, when you complain about a missing feature that isn't missing -- its actually commonly used -- you look like an idiot.
Next week on Slashdot: Why Mozilla sucks because I can't find the print button.
They are middle school students. From where I went to school, this means handing in typewritten papers. Nowadays, that means papers processed on computers for the most part.
So, we have the WYSI(sometimes)WYG word editors like Work 2k and Word XP, and we have LaTeX2e. In Word, I can spend hours fiddling with colors, fonts and the like, trying to get it to display the way I want it to display. In LaTeX, I can write out the report with just a few commands that will automagically create a TOC, Index, footnotes, and bibliography. LaTeX will handle the font sizes and layout for me, letting me concentrate on getting work done.
That being said, I'll admit that it won't fly. Unfortunately, LaTeX requires a bit of initial knowledge and study before the system works, and even if it might save people hundreds of hours of work down the road, they won't take the time now to learn it. Same with vi.
So give them OpenOffice.
I'm going to go back to my cave and gnaw on the bones of lusers now.
I'm in the middle of writing a HOWTO for the LDP concerning virus scanning on linux. (Wish it was done so I can point you to it).
I don't have my research in front of me, so I have to reply off the top of my head here.
If I was going to do this, I would first select one of those programs that mangles attachments. There are solutions that removes attachments entirely, solutions that detach the attachment and move it to a place where it can be accessed by a link in the email, or solutions that change the extension of the file. I'd suggest the latter solution. If any .vbs, .bat, .exe [...etc] files are renamed to .oldextension.txt, everything is fine. You might want to combine this solution with a rule to filter anything along the lines of .jpg.vbs or the like (which is probably a virus). Remember - If you remove attachments or block emails, please send a message to the sender saying you did. This is business email. The $virus_of_the_month might have attached itself to the CEO's quarterly fiscal report.
That being done, then run all emails through a virus scanner. Again, if you detect a virus, mail the sender explaining what you did and what virus was detected. [Btw, put in a disclaimer - some viruses send out false 'from' addresses in their headers]
That should filter incoming email without a problem. For shares, there are scanners that will integrate themselves with Samba, which will scan files whenever they are changed. I have not seen any real-time scanning solution for other file shares methods though.
If anyone has some more information, please drop an email to dasunt[at]hotmail[dot]com. If I use the information, I'll credit you.
Its rather easy to fill up all the slots in a machine. In my current system, here's what I have.
That leaves me with just one PCI slot open. My IDE chains are filled with 2 hard drives (one linux, one windows), a DVD drive, and a CD burner. My USB has a gamepad, UPS monitoring cable, usually a scanner, and a camera. I'll probably fill up the spare PCI slot with another video card when I get the money. That leaves me with hunting down a USB hub when I want to expand.
Yes Virginia, it is possible to cram so much junk into a machine that it pukes.
I'd like to add that not all holes in a motherboard are made for metal risers. Some motherboards have holes made for plastic risers. If you look closely, the holes for metal risers seem to have a small metallic ring around them.
Hope that made sense. Anyways, I'm seriously doubting that a 12V maximum difference between ground and the motherboard would result in the problem you think. I'm going with the poster that thinks the PCI cards might not be inserted all the way.
It falls to a scholar's mate.
Wants to reload the icons every move too on my 56k connection for some odd reason.
I'm not trying to torch anybody's favorite software here, but both djbdns and qmail have drawbacks.
The biggest issue is the license. Qmail is limited to source-code only distribution, with an exception being made for precompiled binaries if they behave exactly the same as qmail normally behaves. Information here. This means that if you want qmail not to throw all of its binaries under /var and ignore most of /etc for configuration files (which it normally does), you have to compile and patch it by yourself. Also, there is no distributing patched versions, so if D. J. Bernstein dies tomorrow, qmail development is effectively frozen until qmail passes into the public domain decades later. That includes any security/performance patches, as well as ports to other architectures. Djbdns has a similiar license.
There is also compatability. Djbdns does not support certain zone transfer mechanisms. It ignores some IETF standards entirely and impliments its own version instead. I get upset when Microsoft twists and corrupts public standards for its own ends, and I get upset when Bernstien does it as well. I'm lazy, I don't want to have to doublecheck if my DNS servers supports a certain standard if my cofiguration changes. Qmail is more of a quibble, I don't like how it throws everything in /var. (And I'm not sure why the world needs qmtp)
I'm not saying that a lot of people and smaller sites won't find qmail/djbdns (and the rest of Bernstein's software) useful. They seem to be secure, and they do their job as long as everything is compatible.
However, one of the reasons why I avoid proprietary software for many tasks is that I don't want to hitch my wagon to somebody else's horse. If I go with a MTA that is wildly used and is GPL or BSDl, I am assured that development does not rest solely on one person. And if I go with standards-compliant software, it ends up being less of a hassle in the long run.
Djbdns and Qmail aren't bad. But they have licenses that limit distribution and development, and they break interoperability.
In open source, a lot of people will vocally voice their opinions that projects should be similiar to each other.
Debian is a great example of this. You frequently hear complants of a non-graphical installer, usually with the comment 'but my $preferred_distro has a graphical installer!' I haven't looked at the exact reasons why debian doesn't have a graphical installer, but an educated guess would take into effect the roughly dozen hardware platforms debian supports and the fact that debian will do things in ways that usually won't break - autodiscovery has the potential to cause problems. Plus, this is the distro where I can stick a few floppies into a machine, do a tiny install and skip tasksel and dselect, then apt-get apache, sshd and iptables, and have a small, fairly secure webserver without ever needing to download x.
The other complaint is that debian should have up to date packages. Debian's philosophy isn't to ride the bleeding edge, its to make sure everything works, and that stable is named stable for a reason.
I see a lot of this going on in the open source movement, and its just wrong. If Debian wants to be a better Redhat, the developers should join the Redhat team. Same with other projects. If mySQL tries to be postgres, even if it succeeds, we will have lost something. However, if mySQL strives to be a fast SQL database for websites, then we will have two good databases, both with a different purpose.
Each project should have a purpose, a goal, and it should be different from the other projects. Else there is just duplication of efforts and time lost as each project reinvents the wheel.
In debian stable (woody), when you are done setting up the base system, tasksel has a few broad catagories.
Afterwords, you can run dselect to individually select or deselect packages, but you aren't required to.
I think debian stable{-1} (potato) was the same way. Never had to install anything older then that.
There was a very large eagle that was native to New Zealand. It used to pray on the large flightless birds. Tended to break their legs and their necks.
When humanity arrived, the bird went extinct. However, it might have been self defense. After all, from a bird's perspective, what's the difference between a large flightless bipedal mammal and a large flightless bipedal bird? Especially when both die when you break their neck?
Just my 2 zorkmids,
Dasunt