Search:

Okay, I tried mii-tool on both boxes. Under Slack on my PC, it gave the expected info that the card was 100BaseTX capable. I wasn't transferring anything at the time, and it wasn't clear what it...

Ultimately, I want the Sun to be a file server/firewall/gateway with an external modem attached. I just haven't gotten around to learning how to properly firewall it if I'm going to have NFS or...

Ah - I didn't specify that the receiving end of my NON-PIRATED (no Kazaa here, Gertrude - it's all ripped from CD) music transfer was Slackware, not Win98. I was writing to the Windows partition,...

As I type I'm transferring my 10GB mp3 collection off of my Sun Ultra 5 w/ Debian Woody to my dual-boot PC running Win98/Slack9. I'm using a crossover cable, and both machines have 100Mbps ethernet...

I'm posting from my old laptop running RH7.3. If you're happy with it, by all means stay with it. The security patches could be important depending on what you're doing with your machine. I've...

You're not going to have any success with cable adapters on your laptop's 25-pin parallel port. The adapters you've shown are for converting 25-pin serial connections to 9-pin serial connections. ...

I've even read that the next "big thing" in CPU's may be asynchronous chips - no clock at all. The analogy is that a clocked CPU is like a bucket-brigade putting out a fire. At each beat of the...

Considering that we have seen a roughly 100-fold increase in processor speed in the past 10 years, a 7-8 fold increase in the next ten should not be that difficult to imagine, even if Moore's law...

The EE/CPE/CS department at my school used planets from Dune - Arrakis, Calidan, Ix, etc. I always thought that was just right for a bunch of CS geeks.

You'd never guess I was a Simpsons/Groening...

No, I know I'm not. In the year since I started with Linux, I've spent about $1000 on new hardware to play with. A laptop, a Sun workstation, an external modem, ethernet cards, a SCSI hard drive, a...

That's exactly how I use Hotmail. I use it for all of my e-commerce purchase receipts. I started getting spam to it within hours of opening it (thank you M$), so I only allow my Safe List into my...

You might want to look into mini-ITX systems. Check out www.mini-itx.com for more info. I don't know of any other vendors for mini-itx, but the main supplier is VIA with their EPIA C3 boards. VIA...

Perhaps the 8GB of memory is not limited by a 33-bit address bus, but the number of slots on the mobo and the largest current capacity of DIMMs. The 8GB that Stevey J. mentioned could simply be 1GB...

There's some better material on their forum site. Most of the people are "in on the joke" and post all sorts of wacky projects that they claim to be using Desktop Cray for. One was a study of a...

Um, guys, this is a joke. At first I thought it was a way to emulate old Cray machines. Say you had some highly-parallel computing task/program from 10 years ago that ran on a Y-MP. A current G4...

I'll second using eBay as a good source for used Sun gear. They have their categories broken down well, so you can find the vintage you want fairly easily. From the main page, go to Browse -->...

Quite an excellent (and varied) array of pop culture analogies. I particularly liked the self-reassembling Stay Pufft idea. That made me smile. :)

While driving in to work this morning, there was a short piece about Linux on NPR. They said Linus has resigned from Transmeta to work on the kernel at OSDL full-time. His reasoning was the current...

Thanks for all the info, Hayl. Up until now I assumed a kernel was a kernel was a kernel. I didn't realize how much variation could occur even inside a single patchlevel. For the time being I'll...

That's what I did. It was a 26MB download, though, and took over two hours. That's why I was hoping I could just get the diffs between .18 and .20.



I'm fairly new to Debian, and haven't...

I recently upgraded my Debian box from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. I did it the brute force way - I downloaded the full kernel-source-2.4.20 package and installed it to /usr/src/linux. Reading in Running...

I found this the other day; I've been meaning to pull it out on the next 31337 Ha><0R that shows up here.

Master Foo and the Script Kiddie

It's from ESR's "Rootless Root: The Unix Koans of...

Not sure if this is what you're talking about, since I don't watch MTV. It sounded close to your description, though. It's only a 7" screen, not 10", but may be what you're looking for.
...

<soapbox>A great suggestion to the few folks who actually have it available to them. I'd readily pay $50 a month for broadband. Unfortunately, I can't even get cable TV on my street, much less DSL...

I saw that linked somewhere else. (Might have been another thread here - can't remember). Laughed MAO, though.