Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System
On 18 Oct 2000, at 21:50, Arcana wrote: > Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and > graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache > (64K as opposed to Athlon's 256K) won't be a PIII replacement. However, the > cost of the Duron is probably a quarter of the PIII at an equivalent speed, so > you could buy 4 Durons for 1 PIII :) Your information is hardly correct as a simple perusal of Tom's Hardware will show. He he he have a read of this link, the Duron still beats the PIII on FPU... http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q3/000925/mpeg4-02.html http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000605/t-bird-08.html Your statement about FPU was true back in the K6-x days, it is no longer true. > As for hardware? Any hardware that plugs into the standard Motherboard > interfaces will work with the Duron. I have a USB mouse, a GeForce DDR, a > Sound Blaster Live!, and a network card and they all operate with no problems > at all. > > The motherboard I bought is an Asus A7V. I chose Asus because of their > traditional high quality standards in motherboards. The A7V is also known for > its fast speeds and easy overclocking. However, it comes at a price: you > sometimes pay double for the A7V as opposed to another motherboard. Do some > research about motherboards before you buy: it's the most important part of > your system. > > All in all... I'm very satisfied with my AMD system and I have no reason right > now to go back to Intel products. > > > I am planning to build a 750 Mhz system with AMD's Duron processor > > primarily for it's cost benefit. The Duron CPU seems to cost less and > > perform equally to an Intel CPU. But I prefer input from users who are > > using AMD chips. I have a couple of concerns regarding the AMD processor. > -- > -- Arcana > > Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] updated s/key or opie server
Anyone know where I can find an up-to-date version of S/Key or Opie for linux? Either the sites I find no longer work, won't accept anonymous ftp (even though they say opie is avail there via anon ftp) or have really old versions from like 1993 or 1995. Thanks Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] upgrdading from ide to scsi hdd
Later today I'll be upgrading one of the drives in a server from an 8.4gb ide to a 9gb scsi unit. /home and /var presenrly exist on the drive. I plan to ghost the data across, update all instances of /dev/hbd to /dev/sda in /etc/fstab. Is there anything else I'll need to do to make a smooth transition? All the other mount points, /, /etc and the rest are on /dev/hda, a 4gb ide drive. Scsi support is already installed for the 2940 in the system which presently just runs an 8gb dat drive. Comments, suggestions?!??! Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] apps - mp3 jukebox and speed reader
Okay folks, I am looking for a couple of programs, hopefully cross platform (linux and windows) 1)MP3 jukebox - I plan to setup a computer with just a really big hdd to store mp3's of my cds so I can stream them to any computer in my house and with X10's Entertainment Anywherem to any stereo in the house. What's the best one. I know many exist, I want one that's simple and easy to use and that will interface with winamp and various other windows and linux players. 2)Flash Speed Reading program - one that allows me to feed the program a text file and then specify how many words to display on screen at one time, the time on screen and size, the time between displaying the next bunch of words etc. Suggestions? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Re: squid help sites
Okay, the responses I've gotten back on this topic suggest that squid is probably not the right tool for the job, can anybody suggest something else? The other program I've been pointed to is WWWOFFLE http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ Are there others that allow offline browsing? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] squid help sites
I've been tasked with getting a squid setup working and I don't (yet) know anything about squid. I have the manual at hand and some other bits and pieces. What sites have folks found to be helpful in learning/configuring squid. I know there are quite a few out there, I just don't have the time to sift through them to find the gems. Any recomendations would be greatly appreciated. Also, the setup client expects is that (its being used in a highschool lab environment) the admin will cache the necessary web pages and site for a lesson, and the turn off the connection to the net so the students will be restricted to only the cached pages. At present squid caches the pages just fine, however, once the net connection (Rogers) is turned off/goes down, the client machine's browsers all time out after like a couple minutes with "no route to host" or some similar message. TIA Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] manipulating tgz's on windows
Anyone know of any reasonably priced software (say us$40 and under) that will allow one to manipulate tgz files, including creating tgz's on an ms windows box? There is one package out there that I know of, but it is something like us$200. For only occaisional use, that's a tad expensive. Something open source would be really cool too. Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK
Not quite,what you are talking about is fsck - file system check, this is analagous to scandisk on the windows platform, it has abolutely nothing to do with fragmentation. It is run if the system has crashed or is shut down incorrectly and is also run as preventative measure every X number of boots On 12 Jun 2000, at 20:31, Fran Parker wrote: > Far as I know, it does it on its own at a determined number of boots. > You probably have seen it at one point or another during boot ... > sometimes it takes longer to boot... You will see it looking at each > partition and verifying everything and doing some maintenance on some > files. > > Linux takes care of its own :) Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating networking solutions for the small business and SOHO user. http://www.pdscc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled) 604-739-3709 (voice/fax) 604-686-2253 (pager)
RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000
Nonsense I've been running with encrypted passwords for 6 months, I've had clients using encrypted passwords on various MS platforms for over a year. Read the samba docs some good info here http://us3.samba.org/samba/oreilly/using_samba/ch06_04.html On 11 Jun 00, at 14:06, Charles Boening wrote: > I believe that the encryption schemes are incompatible. Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
After a pretty much all day troubleshooting session, the problem is solved, samba was using by default the wrong printing command. I added the following to my printers share and now all is well: print command = lpr %p %s On 6 Apr 00, at 2:05, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > Well, to ask the obvious . . . > > You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and > re-install them as "network" printers, right? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
Yes of course, all the "obvious" stuff has been done! ; - ) On 6 Apr 00, at 2:05, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > Well, to ask the obvious . . . > You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and > re-install them as "network" printers, right? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
On 5 Apr 00, at 15:10, Stephen Bosch wrote: > Tell me - has the print server itself been configured properly? Print > servers usually have eeproms which need to be configured, and usually this can > only be done through a Windows or DOS app that is provided with the server. no its not that kind of print server, it has a built in webserver and telnet access, it can also be configured via supplied software that either runs on windows and interacts via tcp/ip, netbios or java. It can also be configured from *nix using some native nix software. It works fine printing from linux, the problem is that printing via samba no longer works since I moved the printers off the local server onto the intel printserver. Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Business accounting
Sure, a few are as follows, I got this from a similar discussion on the Caldera Var list ACCPAC - pretty well known in the accounting world http://www.accpac.com These folks http://www.swinfo.com/ Also If you have access to Linux Journal, there's a company out of New York that makes multiplatform accounting software but its not cheap and is really for a small business that has like 5+ users IIRC. I had a chat with the rep when they came through Vancouver on the Caldera/IBM Var tour mid last year. The name appgen comes to mind but not sure, they are in every issue of LJ I've ever seen. There are a couple of others I've seen, but don't happen to have links for them. On 5 Apr 00, at 22:17, Joseph S Gardner wrote: > Greetings All, > > Ok, I'm getting desparate here. I've managed to find a linux > sustitute for just about everything I need for my business but I am > STILL looking for an accounting package. > Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba
I am using an Intel Netport Express PRO/100 printserver. With a printer connected directly to the samba box I am able to print just fine from a ms windows connected box either using the stuff below or via a raw printer. However once I bring the printserver into the picture, I can print fine from the linux box, however I can't print from the windows boxes anymore. Anyone have any suggestions? My /etc/printcap is as follows lp|HPDJ540|DESKJET:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: lp0|BROTHER_HL-10V|LASER:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT2_PASSTHRU:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter: This works fine from linux. OTOH, smb printing via samba doesn't work at all. NO data gets to the printserver and from looking around as I am printing, nothing gets into the spooler queue either. (not 100% sure of this though) I pulled down my various samba books and started going through what I've done for previous clients and remembered it was usually easiest to just use a raw printer queue and allow the clients printer drivers to format the document and have lpd just pass it directly to the printer without modification, thusly: raw|raw printer for MS Windows Clients :rw :sh :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw :fx=flp The problem is modifying this for use with the printserver, this is my most recent try, that failed, can anyone see anything obviously wrong with the setup below? ##RAW PRINTER FOR SENDING VIA SMB FROM WINDOWS BOXEN## raw|raw_deskjet1 :rw:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\ :fx=flp:\ :rm=192.168.1.100:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU: TIA Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] video conferencing across platforms
Anyone can point me to linux videoconferencing resources? I am looking for stuff that works point to point, allows vc'ing with people on other platforms (h323 and all those kind of standards). Any solution should work with bttv based capture cards at the bare minimum. I've been searching for a bit now and all I've found falls under a few categories 1)expensive (up to us$1200) 2)requires mbone 3)requires either a quickcam or specialized vc hardware Any ideas? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] multimedia mailing lists
Anyone know of mailing lists that deal specifically with "new frontiers" under linux: Multimedia, Video Conferencing, Audio and video editing and processing, Home automation, etc Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] managing numerous passwords
Okay, most of us know how important good passwords are as a first line to keeping the system secure, but what happens when one has multiple systems they maintain and each system has multiple passwords. Now the list of passwords one has to remember rapidly gets out of hand. A few months back when PC Magazine had their hack the website contest (the had NT, Linux and Mac web servers up), they mentioned in closing that the amount of passwords they had to maintain was completely unwieldly and they eventually setup a laptop with all the passwords, knowing that if the laptop walked away, the game was up. Now presently, I keep all my passwords in a pgp encrypted file on one of my boxes (backed up to tape and another box) and am curious what methods people use to keep the password list from growing out of hand. Also especially when you are admining/maintaining a network of co-located machines. Do you use say a few passwords that are randomly distributed between machines, a different password for each machine, or what. TIA Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] HP DAT Drive and block size
Howdy folks, just got myself an HP Surestore Dat8i drive, that I am gonna use with PerfectBackup, anyone know the best blocksize to use with this drive? PB defaults to 32k Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] disabling mouse detection
Trying to install RH6.0/Mdk6.1 on a Compaq LTE5100 laptop, everytime I get to the point where the mouse is detected (correctly as PS/2) the machine locks up, how do I disable the mouse detection during installation so I can manually set it up later? I've tried expert mode but didn't see anyway to disable/skip the mouse detection step Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake - Who is better?
>From: "Palmer C Byrne, RAA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 04:37:42 -0700 > >At 08:10 PM 10/28/99 -0400, you wrote: > >What is the "single-floppy Linux Router project"? Is there an active >support group for this and do they have a URL? http://www.linuxrouter.org/ an alternate is http://edge.fireplug.net Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
[expert] problem with upgrade from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1
hmm, recently upgraded a client from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1 on an AMD system I had built for him. The results were how shall I say interesting kernel compiling fails in multiple places (it comes with 2.2.13pre) some of the errors at various points were - internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 make [2] oops just checked my notes, I didn't write down any more of the errors, but I know there were quite a few of them. I had troubles compiling the kernel on my box also, but after checking some of the code found it was one of the choices in the Video4Linux section of xconfig that was causing the problem. Second Problem, which is the oddest thing I've seen yet! Okay, using Kde, 2 accounts setup, root and the user account, under user account,when the client connects to the net, basically everything stops working ie no desktop icons do anything, ditto for the kmenu, can't even startup a term window, OTOH if you started a program b4 connecting to the net, it will work, term, netscape etc. If you try a file browser window say from a folder on the desktop, it pops up, but doesn't display any files and the little progress wheelie thingy just runs and runs. Now once you disconnect kppp, all is fine again, so b4 and after ppp connection all is fine, during connection nothing happens, you might see the drive lite come on for a split second and Xosview spikes up for just a split second also, but no further activity. What makes it really odd is that under root, there is no such problem, and with a newly created user account, again no problem. Another thing noticed is that xosview reports memory at 59 or 60mb of 64, does this seem normal? I know X is a memory pig, but still Lastly, anybody know of an X program to record (rather than just play back) sounds? Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pgp enabled)http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)
