on a presario 2412ES series : the video is an SiS 3d Pro AGP, the network is a DECChip Tulip 21142. I finally got it to work with linux (although i have to boot from a floppy -- LILO doesnt work with 1GB HDD's and the compaq) and it wont run with NT (hehe)
ahh..but you forget that ppl can stop buying from the motherboard manufacturers who buy bioses from phoenix in bulk. THAT will certainly toast phoenix if their OEMs quit buying from them and switch to a more popular bios i.e. ami.
actually just run hdparm -S 20 or the equiv for SCSI to power down your drives and set apmd to sleep at 12:00 or whatever..console blaking is enabled by default anyway,
thats absolute CRAP. NT 4.0 is hardly usable on a p-200 with 64MB RAM. it may run but can you actually get a menu out of the start button without waiting 20 minutes ? i'd normally recommend 128MB RAM as the MINIMUM to run NT 4/5 and a P-ii 300 at LEAST.
actually its a lot kewler with proper formatting in postscript. it just sounds like a rant with text formatting. recommend looking at the original...its on the web somewhere.
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hmm..cant you set fork limits ? i thought most unixes allowed fork limits and inetd could prevent unlimited forking from user programs. i've done some testing on irix and this can be prevented easily (at least on irix).
duh. the kernel dox have something on this..check out the kernel dox on the LDP. the kernel allows you to specify which process is started on which processor, although it isnt as finely grained as irix..the hooks are there, but you have to code for it.
who is this guy ? whats he do (besides some work with enlightenment) ? why do we want to ask him questions ? does he have anything to do with the mandrake linux distro ?
you have more hardware than any of the machines i installed slackware linux on. there shouldnt be any problem i can think off to get X working. of course, dont even think about redhat/debian whatever..stick to slackware.
i installed slackware 4.0 on a 386 with 8mb ram and a 40 mb hdd, with network and base system (A & N series with liberal removals of packages). total system size was 30mb for a usable system. (4mb swap and the rest went into free space + partition table). the X series is as big as the A series. figure approx. 80meg of hdd space at the max for X..Do a floppy install and choose custom and look at each package as you install it. zipslack is the lazy way to go and not as useful as looking and reading the text for each package.
hehe. thats quite typical in any GPLised project. i've not had time to code new releases for Z-Doc either (look on eurocool or the palmpilot webring sites). Although now some guy has decided to take over coding which is nice..
this may be a non issue, but it would be kewl to have OS/CPU independent fonts available at runtime for java apps. i know 1.2 does that but 1.1 is sorely lacking. a quick hack is to check for the OS and change the fonts accordingly..but thats just a messy hack. Between irix and doze/linux/OS/2 systems this is a real pain.
actually java code is virtually the same as C. the differences if any, are minor at best. (this coming from a die hard C programmer). i never thought i'd touch java but when i looked at it my C programs could be ported over with minimal effort. that, and it runs machine independent over the web.
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actually PalmOS is a better choice. You can get the OS for it with source, it has a fine GUI, great development tools and loads of enthusiastic programmers/developers/hobbyists..and its based on an RTOS which has full multitasking.
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if youve ever written anything like an OS -- its real *hard* to do. its easier to take a mainstream RTOS (RTLinux, wincrap, OS/9, QNX, whatever) and extend it than write your own.
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err...the majority of those who buy the box initially are the ppl who're going to tear it apart and see whats inside. besides, its kewl to have your VCR give you a login: prompt, IMHO:)
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i second that. are you guys at tivo reading this ?? It would be kewl to have it ported to x86 machines or even alpha processors. PowerPC's tend to suck rocks since their architecture is less well known than x86 or alpha architecture, IMHO. Of course there are prolly some ppl out there comfotable with PPC motherboards and processors...
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try a palmpilot. instant on, handwriting recognition, touch screen, palmOS or linux. beautiful. oh..and did i mention wireless networking/web browsing and email + irda + serial connectivity ? oh and free development tools/compilers and emulators.
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on a presario 2412ES series :
the video is an SiS 3d Pro AGP, the network is a DECChip Tulip 21142. I finally got it to work with linux (although i have to boot from a floppy -- LILO doesnt work with 1GB HDD's and the compaq) and it wont run with NT (hehe)
ahh..but you forget that ppl can stop buying from the motherboard manufacturers who buy bioses from phoenix in bulk. THAT will certainly toast phoenix if their OEMs quit buying from them and switch to a more popular bios i.e. ami.
actually just run hdparm -S 20 or the equiv for SCSI to power down your drives and set apmd to sleep at 12:00 or whatever..console blaking is enabled by default anyway,
check that it doenst have a phoenix bios. dead simple.
and hitting escape just as the screen comes in will let you see the phoenix bios messages as well.
thats absolute CRAP. NT 4.0 is hardly usable on a p-200 with 64MB RAM. it may run but can you actually get a menu out of the start button without waiting 20 minutes ? i'd normally recommend 128MB RAM as the MINIMUM to run NT 4/5 and a P-ii 300 at LEAST.
stop being a dumb $hit. you know as well as we do that all you have to do is click on the BIG PRINTER ICON in the CONTROL PANEL. blah.
actually its a lot kewler with proper formatting in postscript. it just sounds like a rant with text formatting. recommend looking at the original...its on the web somewhere.
you obviously havent come across the zip drives famed Click of Death. if your ZIP CLOD's youre toast.
yep. the CDROM standard has a extension whereby you can boot most machines from the CD drive or write a bootable floppy to a CD writable disk.
kewl, but no FPU.
hmm..cant you set fork limits ? i thought most unixes allowed fork limits and inetd could prevent unlimited forking from user programs. i've done some testing on irix and this can be prevented easily (at least on irix).
duh. the kernel dox have something on this..check out the kernel dox on the LDP. the kernel allows you to specify which process is started on which processor, although it isnt as finely grained as irix..the hooks are there, but you have to code for it.
who is this guy ? whats he do (besides some work with enlightenment) ? why do we want to ask him questions ? does he have anything to do with the mandrake linux distro ?
you have more hardware than any of the machines i installed slackware linux on. there shouldnt be any problem i can think off to get X working. of course, dont even think about redhat/debian whatever..stick to slackware.
i installed slackware 4.0 on a 386 with 8mb ram and a 40 mb hdd, with network and base system (A & N series with liberal removals of packages). total system size was 30mb for a usable system. (4mb swap and the rest went into free space + partition table). the X series is as big as the A series. figure approx. 80meg of hdd space at the max for X..Do a floppy install and choose custom and look at each package as you install it. zipslack is the lazy way to go and not as useful as looking and reading the text for each package.
hehe. thats quite typical in any GPLised project. i've not had time to code new releases for Z-Doc either (look on eurocool or the palmpilot webring sites). Although now some guy has decided to take over coding which is nice..
this may be a non issue, but it would be kewl to have OS/CPU independent fonts available at runtime for java apps. i know 1.2 does that but 1.1 is sorely lacking. a quick hack is to check for the OS and change the fonts accordingly..but thats just a messy hack. Between irix and doze/linux/OS/2 systems this is a real pain.
actually java code is virtually the same as C. the differences if any, are minor at best. (this coming from a die hard C programmer). i never thought i'd touch java but when i looked at it my C programs could be ported over with minimal effort. that, and it runs machine independent over the web.
actually on linux and irix its pretty comparable.
actually PalmOS is a better choice. You can get the OS for it with source, it has a fine GUI, great development tools and loads of enthusiastic programmers/developers/hobbyists..and its based on an RTOS which has full multitasking.
if youve ever written anything like an OS -- its real *hard* to do. its easier to take a mainstream RTOS (RTLinux, wincrap, OS/9, QNX, whatever) and extend it than write your own.
err...the majority of those who buy the box initially are the ppl who're going to tear it apart and see whats inside. besides, its kewl to have your VCR give you a login: prompt, IMHO :)
i second that. are you guys at tivo reading this
?? It would be kewl to have it ported to x86 machines or even alpha processors. PowerPC's tend to suck rocks since their architecture is less well known than x86 or alpha architecture, IMHO. Of course there are prolly some ppl out there comfotable with PPC motherboards and processors...
try a palmpilot. instant on, handwriting recognition, touch screen, palmOS or linux. beautiful. oh..and did i mention wireless networking/web browsing and email + irda + serial connectivity ? oh and free development tools/compilers and emulators.