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  1. Re:SMP Support on Unix: Which One to Choose? · · Score: 1

    huh? worked out of the box on a redhat 6.1 install for me with win98/95 and NT. maybe you should install redhat and let the default install of samba work for you.

  2. nasa is dead. on NASA Will Have To Wait For Mars · · Score: 1

    we're just seeing its remnants thrash about cluelessly. when does anyone ever recall NASA saying "we dont have the technical means"...hell..if we dont have them - go ahead and invent them dammit. unfortunately the drive is lost and the budgets going down the tube - anyone else wanna volunteer to replace nasa ?

  3. Re:yes!! on Replies from Slackware Founder Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 1

    bah you disk space hogs. ive installed slackware on 14 386 machines with 8 mb of ram and 40mb hard drives with 8 megs to spare on each running as print servers. this was slackware 3.5 and 4.0 (although 4.0 hogs one to two megs more..)

  4. problems.. on Making Music With Linux: We're Getting There ... · · Score: 2

    The real problem is that linux and most unixes are used for *work*..mainly the heavy lifting stuff that involves passing chunks of data to various locations 24/7 with extreme reliability. Theres very little interest in the video/audio stuff (as far as editing goes not simply playing) because [a] most of us arent musicians and dont care and [b] playing is fine for 99% of the user base who use it as a desktop anyway.

  5. Re:wow, anouther death of unix on The End of Unix? · · Score: 1

    the mainframes also became a helluva lot more userfriendly. although the interface on my as/400 still sucks at least it has a qsh shell (posix compliant too!). and you can always create a quasi unix environment on an s/390 now with the linux kernel.

  6. Re:Did you even read or understand what you posted on MCSE Revolt Over NT4-W2K Plans · · Score: 1

    private is usually not cached by the ISP. arent you the same moron who said palmpilots loose data when they crash ? grow up dude - and get yer head outta yer arse.

  7. Re:Why not External? on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 2



    I emailed the company that someone suggested earlier in this board. Here is the email. I hope this helps though honestly I can't decide if that is
    the cable I want or not. Anyone know anything about the specific cable she is referring to?

    With regards to your message at 02:28 AM
    3/12/00 -0600, John. Where you stated:
    >I need a 44pin IDE cable (laptop ide
    >connection size) for a 2.5" hard drive.
    >First, do you have these, and what is the
    >price? Second, if possible I need
    >one that has pins 1 and 2 swapped, 3 and 4
    >swapped, 5 and 6 swapped, etc.
    >Are these type cables available? Thank you >very much for your time.
    >John
    We stock the internal IDE cable for the Multia/UDB Computer as part number
    FC530.
    Cost per FC530 is $10 US / $15 CAD.
    Cost of shipping / handling by mail is $5 US for USA destinations and $5
    CAD for Canadian.

    We accept payment by cashiers cheque, money order, VISA or Mastercard.
    If you prefer not to send credit information by email we suggest you may
    consider faxing us your particulars.
    We process the orders within 1 business day and normally ship in North
    America by airmail. This takes from 4 to 10 days depending on location. If
    needed we can also send by courier, but this is much more expensive.

    To process your order we would need:
    Name
    Address, including ZIP or postal code

    If paying by credit card we also need:
    Type of card (VISA or Mastercard)
    Name of credit card holder as shown on the face of the card
    Card number
    Expiry date of card

    If processing your order on credit card and if you are in the US the exact
    charges may be slightly different as we post the charges in Canadian
    dollars and your bank/credit card company performs the actual currency
    exchange. As rates fluctuate it may be out by a per cent or 2.

    We thank you for your enquiry!

    Best regards,

    Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
    Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772
    11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com
    Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/
    T5X 1Y3

    03-12-2000 18:51:57

    RE:Souce For Mini IDE cables? (modified 0 times)
    VivianC

    I looked up the specs for the Multia and it is a 44 pin IDE connector for a hard-drive. The manual doesn't provide any pinouts for it, so I'll guess
    that it would still need the pins reversed.

    Any idea on the length? It looks about 3 inches in the picture. Not a lot of room to work with....

    This is the best page I've found on it so far:
    http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/computers/udb.html

    Viv

  8. Re:I liked the movie on Review: "Mission To Mars" · · Score: 1

    it does deserve the reviews and the director deserves to be shot. unfortunately the movie industry is feeding the general public with absolute *garbage* and converting everything into mindless trash. horrible acting is now being promoted in movies in the hope that the audience wont notice it under the cover of special effects. and to think i actually paid to see this piece of shit.

  9. Re:Does it suck worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space on Review: "Mission To Mars" · · Score: 1

    no ..i thought plan 9 was a helluva lot better - burning hub caps stuck together to form a UFO or not...it was probably more realistic. this thing just plain sucks - its worse than a B movie.

  10. Re:Suck. on Review: "Mission To Mars" · · Score: 1

    duh. and after the race escaped to a distant galaxy aboard gold coloured spinning spaceships trailing blue exhaust. The worst thing about this movie was probably the crappy acting and completely unrealistic scenarios - nicely summarised above BTW. and it was such a *waste* -- it could have been a perfectly good plot instead of this *bullshit* that keeps coming out of hollywood.

  11. Re:Using the 16mb flash on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 1

    sandisk.com..they support linux more than most manufacturers and their flash memory looks like a normal ide hard drive.

  12. Re:Other places where I can order online? on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 1

    they send it via fedex if you call em up. you gotta pay shipping of course.

  13. Re:More ground effect fun on Flying Trains · · Score: 1
  14. Re:TransRapid by the Germans on Flying Trains · · Score: 1

    The TGV tracks are VERY precisely aligned. in the US amtrak is struggling with the usual american tracks and experiencing trmendous wear and tear on the wheels of their new acela high speed services. Maglevs, inductatrack and WIGE based technologies dont have this problem.

  15. Re:Other places where I can order online? on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 1

    circuitcity.com will ship it to ya.

  16. Re:Using the 16mb flash on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 1

    flash is a sandisk..it just looks like hda to linux. use at will.

  17. Re:RAM limit? on Flat Panel Linux Box for $99? · · Score: 1

    nope. looks like the RAM is soldered on the board.

  18. Re:Linux has poor threads? on Answers from Loki President Scott Draeker · · Score: 2

    Actually linux is much faster than solaris with certain thread libraries. For all you trolls who actually wanna *learn* (is that possible? an educated troll..hmm..) about thread libraries and see the benchmarks have a look at this :
    http://www2.linuxjournal.c om/lj-issues/issue70/3184.html

  19. Re:Just ONE little question... on Please Patiently Ponder Purported Poe Puzzle · · Score: 1

    thats easy - it will be either a paragraph from a known work or a poe story/poem/whatever or a simple letter from poe. these problems are all self answering - a lot of mathematics problems are the same. if you have the answer, you *know* its the right one.

  20. Re:memory limit on Alpha? on Test Drive Debian at Compaq · · Score: 1

    IMHO a 36bit memory space gives you 4 gigs..this was a hack by intel.a 32 bit memory space can give you 2 gigs max. i believe the 4gig alpha problem has been solved a while ago and there are patches available.

  21. Re:Completely missing the point... on User Feedback and Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    AfterStep and the package management stuff is a good example for form and function.

  22. Re:Scalability on On Building High Volume Dynamic Web Sites · · Score: 1

    hmm..oracle has a parallel server option and i believe you can have multiple mysql engines. having the database entirely or partially loaded on a ramdrive or raid-5 array will help. also java servlets can be easily load balanced by using apache jserv...see http://java.apache.org/jserv/howto.load-balancing. html ...

  23. Re:URL? on SourceForge Announces Compile Farm · · Score: 1

    try http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=98 27

  24. Re:VA, top linux company on SourceForge Announces Compile Farm · · Score: 1

    huh ? what exactly happenned ? by keeping us in the dark youre just spreading FUD. the only thing i could find about system 12 is a page which sez Established June 15, 1999 [ Propaganda ][ System 12 Image Tests ][ Hosting Application ] ..i assume you mean that VA took over your hosting application and turned it into sourceforge. big friggin deal. consider it a GPLised code fork and deal with it.

  25. Re:As a hard-core Multics user on Multics Scheduler · · Score: 1

    dimwit. the reason torvalds chose unix is that it worked practically and its not some theoretical CS excercise. it also consumed less resources than the big bloated multics kernel and despite you calling it a hack, unix has worked far more than any other OS and for ar longer because its the *right* way to do things.