Frankly I'm amazed that movies caught on before TV since there's so much more TV, and they tend to be smaller files than movies.
The submitterseems to over look a couple of thing when saying this. First: TV capture cards (to record the TV onto the computer) were pretty rare, and still are, as opposed to DVD player (to RIP a DVD movie) are much more common. And it's pretty recent trend for the companies to sell TV shows on DVD compared to movies on DVD.
Am I te only who thinks it's not normal for chipset to require drivers to be installed. Every chipset I tried works out of the box without drivers needing to be installed, be it on Windows or Linux.
Iwas very surprised the first time I did troubleshooting on my friends computer who has an nForce chipset. I was actually troubleshooting his GeForce video card (in Windows) so I uninstalled the drivers, but I actually uninstalled the chipset drivers because I didn't know the chipset required some. Same when I installed Linux on his computer: I knew the videocard required drivers but the chipset?!?!
This is ridiculous! It conviced me never to buy a motherboard with an nForce chipset. Now if I could only find a videocard with open source drivers that support accelerated TV-out under Linux...
I have a software RAID 1 array with 2x 30 GB on a slackware 10 server. It's not as big, but it works quite well.
First the setup: it is a Pentium 233 MMX (P1, not P2) with 64 MB of ram. It was first setup with Slack 9.1 a year ago. I did a clean install when Slack 10 came out and all Slack kernels have software RAID enabled by default, so it was recognised automatically. The two drives are quite different: one Maxtor 7200 rpm drive and a WD 5400 rpm drive that have ~ 1 GB difference in size. This computer does not even have a monitor connected to it.
Now the recommendations:
-Read ALL How-To's related to RAID, you can all get them at http://www.linuxdoc.org/ and either print them or have them quickly available on another computer.
-Be sure you have raidtools installed, it's a standard slack package.
-All partitions have to be the exact same size and of the "Linux raid autodetect" type. The software RAID on Linux is partition based, not disk based, which makes it more flexible.
-All drives have to be Master on an IDE channel, no slave drives (or else it will very slow), so 8 drives = 8 IDE channels = 3 additional controllers (or 2 if you have an onboard RAID controller). At this price, it could be interresting to get a 3ware hardware based raid card.
-NEVER, EVER run a hardware RAID array on cheap Promise RAID controllers (but software RAID on regular IDE Promise controllers, OK).
As for drive failure: once, when moving my server, a power cable got unplugged from the master drive on the first IDE port, the server booted without any problem from the second drive which is master on the secondary IDE port. The CDROM drive which is slave on the first IDE port was even detected correctly. I noticed it when I did the lsraid command. I then shutdown the server, plugged the cable back and did the raidhotadd command to rebuild the drive, a little less than an hour later, everything was ok.
What, this is news?!?!?! Every city has beeen doing this for quite a long time, so nothing new here. Cities (I should say villages) that take water from springs or underground water are becoming quite rare, especially at rate everything is becoming more and more polluted.
So this is not news, it's ignorance from the poster of the story. Like I said: no news, nothing to see here, move along.
I agree, for different reasons. I am (still) on 56k internet, and if I want to read older messages, I don't have to connect to the internet.
I have a gmail account, but I don't even use it for now because of this, but maybe with forwarding, I would use it. For now, I am sticking with my yahoo.ca account that gives me POP3 and SMTP.
Most of the people gage the speed of a computer by two things:
1: How much time it takes to open Windows Explorer
2: The time it takes to open a page on the internet
I was speaking with my uncle, and he though that getting a computer faster then his actual 2+GHz something would speed up the internet. His wife thinks it's slow when a page does not appear instantly when clicking a link (that is with a cable modem). And I notice a lot that people think "Wow, this computer is faster than mine, look at the speed at which Windows Explorer opens!"
I even run all my CAD software on my PIII 650. I put 512 MB of RAM, in addition to my 7200 rpm 60 GB drive and my ATI Rage128 32 MB. It's better than lots of my friends computers because mine is well maintained (zero spyware, no software that starts automatically at bootup). I even got a free Radeon 7200 because it was a friend's "old" card, so it's even better now. The only thing that surprised me is how slow a FireGL1 card (that I got used thinking it would be good) is compared to the Radeon, even to the Rage128.
I even encode movies to DivX with it. It takes quite a long time, but I'm not that eager to see the final product as I have already seen the movie before.
Did you know that in the Windows world, rpm is an extension used by RealPlayer. Probably that's what they though, as if someone would rip a movie in the Real format.
Like many here, my home server is a P233 with 64 MB of RAM and a software RAID 1 of 2x 30 GB. It is quite quiet, except for the HD, but I am looking into silencing them with rubbers mounts and stuff like that.
It runs Slackware with SSH, FTP, Apache, squid, gShield (iptables based firewall), LineControl (pppd remote control), etc. LineControl is because I am still on 56k, highspeed internet wasn't approved by the counsel (read: gf). So I'm tweaking the hell out of it (squid with big cache, cron jobs for nightly downloads with wget - like the 266 MB XPSP2, etc)
I RTFA, and it mentions Open Office, not OpenOffice.org, which are actually different things if I'm not mistaken. I wonder if the name difference would stand in court.
I was very surprised to see so many "Get a gun" posts. I was under the impression that the Slashdot crowd was composed of more educated people who know that guns are not the solution. I am quite disappointed. And others mention even guns for propecting their property, not only their safety. This means that the attachment to material property is more important than someone's life, be if that of a thief. How about big companies who steal from everyone by not paying their taxes or that destroy the environment, who belongs to everyone? These are more dangerous than petty thieves in my opinion.
As for dogs, I am not a dog person, not even a dog lover, but it is better than a shotgun. The best solution, as mentionned previously, is to have good neighbours and not expose your belongings.
The reason I remember his name is because on almost every single Slackware box that I see boot, I see his name when the ethernet module is loaded. I said Slackware because it is the only distribution that I know of that displays what is really going on when booting.
I remember the Linksys thing that an other poster mentionned, I was in the same boat and he made the tulip driver work with the new cards. He does amazing work. And I am not a programmer, nor a sysadmin, just your regular computer geek.
It's not so bad. "wget filename" first night, "wget -c filename" second night (I download at night with wget batch files so I don't block the phone line), unless I go to a friend's house who has high speed internet and burn it to a CD. I can't use my USB key, it's 10 MB too big:o(
It's a regular BX motherboard with software RAID, smartd is runnning for the two drives and I have a permanent "tail -f" window open to look at messages. And everything is in two copies (my computer and my server).
I read somewhere that the failure rate was arount 25%, which is gigantic. I think usually, a failure rate of 1% (at least in the low single digit) is acceptable.
I feel your pain, I lost 30 GB of data because this was my backup drive while formatting my main drive. This includes all my homeworks since college, lots of rare mp3s and personnal pictures. Now I take no risks, I have a RAID 1 Linux server I use for regular backups.
It's been almost a year since I've gone back to dial up for financial reasons.
When I was still in school and I lived with my father, he paid for broadband. I moved in with my girlfriend last summer and started working, my job was not that good and she is a student, so we went to 56k unlimited(only 15$CDN + tax).
We each have a computer, and using both Windows and Linux, Windows XP dialup sharing did not cut it, so in came LineControl. Very practical, but people laugh at me when I tell them I have a 56k linux router, but are amazed at the same time. It works pretty well. At least we got unlimited internet, so when I download stuff, I use FTP when I can and queue up downloads with wget and batch files during the night. Some months it sums up to 350 or 400 hours of internet, but at least it is a flat rate. Somethings are a little longer, like my Slackware ISOs that took more than a week of night downloading. I have broadband at work (call center), but no burners, so not good for downloading.
All in all, I wish I had broadband, but I don't and I live with it.
Process Explorer is the most powerful utilities to kill processes in my opinion. You can even close specific handles on processes. I hardly ever use the task manager since I got this. Even works on Win9x.
1. Stealing land from others.
2. Using slave labour on that land.
3. Cutting down the trees to drive the industrial revolution.
4. Employing child labour to cheaply replace slaves.
It's not because North America did it to get where they are that it's the only way to do it. People should learn as much from their own mistakes as from other's.
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You could try Slax Frodo, it's Slax without X. The image is only 32 MB. However, it is Slackware based.
The submitterseems to over look a couple of thing when saying this. First: TV capture cards (to record the TV onto the computer) were pretty rare, and still are, as opposed to DVD player (to RIP a DVD movie) are much more common. And it's pretty recent trend for the companies to sell TV shows on DVD compared to movies on DVD.
Iwas very surprised the first time I did troubleshooting on my friends computer who has an nForce chipset. I was actually troubleshooting his GeForce video card (in Windows) so I uninstalled the drivers, but I actually uninstalled the chipset drivers because I didn't know the chipset required some. Same when I installed Linux on his computer: I knew the videocard required drivers but the chipset?!?!
This is ridiculous! It conviced me never to buy a motherboard with an nForce chipset. Now if I could only find a videocard with open source drivers that support accelerated TV-out under Linux...
First the setup: it is a Pentium 233 MMX (P1, not P2) with 64 MB of ram. It was first setup with Slack 9.1 a year ago. I did a clean install when Slack 10 came out and all Slack kernels have software RAID enabled by default, so it was recognised automatically. The two drives are quite different: one Maxtor 7200 rpm drive and a WD 5400 rpm drive that have ~ 1 GB difference in size. This computer does not even have a monitor connected to it.
Now the recommendations:
-Read ALL How-To's related to RAID, you can all get them at http://www.linuxdoc.org/ and either print them or have them quickly available on another computer.
-Be sure you have raidtools installed, it's a standard slack package.
-All partitions have to be the exact same size and of the "Linux raid autodetect" type. The software RAID on Linux is partition based, not disk based, which makes it more flexible.
-All drives have to be Master on an IDE channel, no slave drives (or else it will very slow), so 8 drives = 8 IDE channels = 3 additional controllers (or 2 if you have an onboard RAID controller). At this price, it could be interresting to get a 3ware hardware based raid card.
-NEVER, EVER run a hardware RAID array on cheap Promise RAID controllers (but software RAID on regular IDE Promise controllers, OK).
As for drive failure: once, when moving my server, a power cable got unplugged from the master drive on the first IDE port, the server booted without any problem from the second drive which is master on the secondary IDE port. The CDROM drive which is slave on the first IDE port was even detected correctly. I noticed it when I did the lsraid command. I then shutdown the server, plugged the cable back and did the raidhotadd command to rebuild the drive, a little less than an hour later, everything was ok.
It's pretty much what I can think of now...
So this is not news, it's ignorance from the poster of the story. Like I said: no news, nothing to see here, move along.
I have a gmail account, but I don't even use it for now because of this, but maybe with forwarding, I would use it. For now, I am sticking with my yahoo.ca account that gives me POP3 and SMTP.
1: How much time it takes to open Windows Explorer
2: The time it takes to open a page on the internet
I was speaking with my uncle, and he though that getting a computer faster then his actual 2+GHz something would speed up the internet. His wife thinks it's slow when a page does not appear instantly when clicking a link (that is with a cable modem). And I notice a lot that people think "Wow, this computer is faster than mine, look at the speed at which Windows Explorer opens!"
I kid you not...
I even encode movies to DivX with it. It takes quite a long time, but I'm not that eager to see the final product as I have already seen the movie before.
Here in Canada, cars sometimes rust before they wear out their engine. That's the consequence of having 4 REAL seasons.
Did you know that in the Windows world, rpm is an extension used by RealPlayer. Probably that's what they though, as if someone would rip a movie in the Real format.
It runs Slackware with SSH, FTP, Apache, squid, gShield (iptables based firewall), LineControl (pppd remote control), etc. LineControl is because I am still on 56k, highspeed internet wasn't approved by the counsel (read: gf). So I'm tweaking the hell out of it (squid with big cache, cron jobs for nightly downloads with wget - like the 266 MB XPSP2, etc)
I RTFA, and it mentions Open Office, not OpenOffice.org, which are actually different things if I'm not mistaken. I wonder if the name difference would stand in court.
Sorry about that, I did not mean to post anonymously, I was on my gf's computer. Crappy Slashdot software who will not let you edit your posts :o(
As for dogs, I am not a dog person, not even a dog lover, but it is better than a shotgun. The best solution, as mentionned previously, is to have good neighbours and not expose your belongings.
It is the only distribution that I use for anything, from 486s to the latest 32 bit Athlons, for servers, routers and desktops.
The reason I remember his name is because on almost every single Slackware box that I see boot, I see his name when the ethernet module is loaded. I said Slackware because it is the only distribution that I know of that displays what is really going on when booting.
I remember the Linksys thing that an other poster mentionned, I was in the same boat and he made the tulip driver work with the new cards. He does amazing work. And I am not a programmer, nor a sysadmin, just your regular computer geek.
It's not so bad. "wget filename" first night, "wget -c filename" second night (I download at night with wget batch files so I don't block the phone line), unless I go to a friend's house who has high speed internet and burn it to a CD. I can't use my USB key, it's 10 MB too big :o(
It's a regular BX motherboard with software RAID, smartd is runnning for the two drives and I have a permanent "tail -f" window open to look at messages. And everything is in two copies (my computer and my server).
I feel your pain, I lost 30 GB of data because this was my backup drive while formatting my main drive. This includes all my homeworks since college, lots of rare mp3s and personnal pictures. Now I take no risks, I have a RAID 1 Linux server I use for regular backups.
I personnaly prefer user@no.domain
It's been almost a year since I've gone back to dial up for financial reasons. When I was still in school and I lived with my father, he paid for broadband. I moved in with my girlfriend last summer and started working, my job was not that good and she is a student, so we went to 56k unlimited(only 15$CDN + tax). We each have a computer, and using both Windows and Linux, Windows XP dialup sharing did not cut it, so in came LineControl. Very practical, but people laugh at me when I tell them I have a 56k linux router, but are amazed at the same time. It works pretty well. At least we got unlimited internet, so when I download stuff, I use FTP when I can and queue up downloads with wget and batch files during the night. Some months it sums up to 350 or 400 hours of internet, but at least it is a flat rate. Somethings are a little longer, like my Slackware ISOs that took more than a week of night downloading. I have broadband at work (call center), but no burners, so not good for downloading. All in all, I wish I had broadband, but I don't and I live with it.
If you have an ATI video card, their's is free.
FusionSoft DVD 4.5, uses Fraunhofer codec - French site
4.5 again, other french site
FusionSoft, other versions, german(?) site
Process Explorer
2. Using slave labour on that land.
3. Cutting down the trees to drive the industrial revolution.
4. Employing child labour to cheaply replace slaves.
It's not because North America did it to get where they are that it's the only way to do it. People should learn as much from their own mistakes as from other's.
I think it would go in the same category as Samba. I'm not really familiar with these issues, but this is my guess.