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hi m3rlin,
Thanks for the reply. After running hdparm as you suggest on hda and hdb, I now get the results:
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 42 MB in 3.09 seconds = 13.61 MB/sec...
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Hi,
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu breezy on my old Athlon 1100 machine, and got to say, I'm impressed with the way this distro is developing.
But I've got a problem with DMA appearing to be...
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Hi,
I posted this query some time ago; since then, I've changed distro (Mandrake 10), but from memory, it boiled down to playing with the ADC gain, using alsamixer in a console window.
As for...
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Hi Arakel,
Your questions were good and sensible - glad you're now up and running!
Mandrake is a really nice distro... One of the great things is the level of enthusiasm out there, and the...
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hi,
just my experience of using an MSI Via KT400-based board (about a year old now, so things will have moved on..)...
not good.
with this board (it's on my father's machine), we've had lots...
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hi,
just a few of my own thoughts..
if you're happy with windows, i'd certainly advise keeping it around while you learn linux..
as for specifics -
1) viruses / trojans / spyware etc.....
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hi,
FC3 uses the full 'Project Utopia' comprising the UDEV device management system, d-bus and the HAL hardware abstraction layer.
AFAIK, creation of device nodes, etc, is done automatically by...
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hi,
i'll second psi42 here - i've had debian woody running quite well on an old iMac (oh yes..) G3 with 64MB RAM...
I reckon Debian's the way to go here...
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for a gui approach, there's always kde's kdirstat - provides a quick (and visual) summary of the size of directories.
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i'm using 4.0.8 and it works very well indeed:-)
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hi,
you could give clamav a try - it's freely available. you'll probably want to perform a virus database update once you've go it installed, just to make sure it's got the latest risks covered..
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hi there,
just my thoughts...
chatins -
Absolutely - and let's hope that really does come to pass..
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i seem to remember reading somewhere, that one way of creating a stereo effect from monaural source material is to use a comb filter and sending the resulting output to each channel respectively. not...
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hi,
there are a number of options, depending on what you want to do. it's probably worth bearing in mind that any form of video work can involve various additional libraries, so i'd check and make...
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hi,
well i'll certainly agree with the general opinion of MySQL and PHP - a good partnership.
SQL in itself isn't too difficult to learn, and there are plenty of good books. And it's a valuable...
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hi,
have a look at hylaFAX..
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hi,
i bought an el-cheapo Tevion Xpert 7134 card from Aldi a couple of months ago - SAA7134 chipset, nicam stereo, remote control, stereo FM radio, all for £29.95.
After quite a bit of...
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hi afaiq,
it is possible to use xawtv to grab video. in respect of your error 'cannot count up files...', i'm just wondering what record settings you're using. this looks like you're attempting to...
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Hi,
Yes, it is possible using Cinelerra or Broadcast 2000. I haven't tried it myself, so I don't know what the results will be like..
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i've been busily recording my lps and burning them to cd.
i use qarecord to record the input from the line-in of my sound card (fed from a standard stereo amplifier tape output),
to 'clean up'...
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xine will also play audio cd's, and uses digital audio extraction too (ie, no cable required)....
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thanks for the feedback folks..
i've now cleared a bit of extra space - useful when you've only got a 20GB partition.
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interesting question..
i did a quick check using xdiskusage, and found that my /tmp directory was huge (nearly 2GB).. which begs the question - can i just grab all of those files and throw them in...
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hi,
i'm just wondering if anybody's had any success getting a hauppage wintv usb tv tuner working under linux?
i've had a quick try, using the nogatech usbvision module and results were very...
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