Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processes....
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:13, Colin McKinnon wrote: PM you might want to check that your PM disks are using DMA correctly. PM I'm planning to play around with elvtune (now that conjours imagery) tomorrow, but I don't expect it will have much impact. You are looking at a SuSE box, and can check out the DMA and HD settings from yast/hardware/IDE DMA Mode. (they look OK) -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: I did find what looks like a good guide to performance tuning at: http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html I liked this tip - Is that the excuse for a big chunk of your server room being occupied by audio-visual kit? _ Careful analysis and benchmarking has shown that server will respond positively to being played the approriate music. For the common case, this can be about anything, but for high performane servers, a more careful choice needs to be made. The industry standard for pumping up a server has always been Crazy Train, By Ozzy Ozbourne. While this has been proven over and over to offer increased performance, in some circumstances I recomdend alternatives. A classic case is the co-located server. Nothing like packing up your pride and joy and shipping it to strange far off locations like Sunnyvale and Herndon, VA. Its enough to make a server homesick, so I like to suggest choosing a piece of music that will remind them of home and tide them over till the bigger servers stop picking on them. For servers from North Carolina, I like to play the entirety of feet in mud again by Geezer Lake. Nothing like some good old NC style avant-metal-alterna-prog. Comentary, controverys,chatter. chit-chat. Chat and irc servers have their own unique set of problems. I find the polyrythmic and incessant restatement of purpose of Elephant Talk by King Crimson a good way to bend those servers back into shape. _ -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Date/Time on emails, etc.
Colin Fraser wrote Why don't people synchronise the date/time on their machines? Am I just being pedantic here or are there others who get annoyed reading replies to emails apparently sent before the original post (I hasten to add this is not particularly common on this list). Don't know if you were thinking about the email I 'sent' yesterday... actually, the account I sent it from is only accessible (for sending) when connected to the FreeUK ISP via dialup. Unfortunately, because I use broadband now, the computer isn't normally connected to the phone line. So... the email was actually written on Thursday, it just sat around in the 'send later' folder for... umm, 5 days. No problem with my computer's clock, though I'd guess you could flame me for being a lazy/forgetful sod. - Graeme Fenwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:42, ray wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: I did find what looks like a good guide to performance tuning at: http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html I liked this tip - Is that the excuse for a big chunk of your server room being occupied by audio-visual kit? Oh - you mean the cupboard ;) Mark's (author of Filemon) response wasn't very encouraging: Sorry, but I'm doing no more maintanance of that version of Filemon. At some point, when Linus adds the equivalent of Windows file system filter drivers, I'll update it. But fumbling with elvtune seems to have alleviated things (elvtune=Peer Gynt by Greig, Act II/scene 2) C. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 21:24, Colin McKinnon wrote: CM But fumbling with elvtune seems to have alleviated things (elvtune=Peer Gynt CM by Greig, Act II/scene 2) I thought they were trolls not elvs -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Dvd Burners and their fickle ways
Hi Folks I bought a new DVD Burner a Pioneer 107D. And have run into a few problems. Hoping you can help. I will keep the event chronological hopefully will help. Before I start any mention of FLACS and SHNS are of taper friendly artists such as Marc Cohn, Black Crowes and Chris Robinson, so all recordings are legit. Anyway. Installed the drive. Burned a data DVD full of FLACS and SHNS in k3b. After it burned tried to load the FLACS and SHNS into XMMS, gave lots of errors. MD5 checked them and found lots of errors. (I had checked the MD5's on the Hard Disc before burning and all where fine) Rebooted to Windows. Disc read fine, checked the MD5's all ok. Burned a new disc in Windows, of different FLACS and SHN's. Played fine. Rebooted to Linux and checked the Windows made disc, and all was fine and dandy. When I insert the linux made disc into my Dvd burner it will not read it, just get 15 folders all called . When I put it in the DVD Rom though it reads fine, and when I MD5'd again all was fine. I don;t understand that the only drive that will not read it is the burner and in Linux, In windows it reads fine. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful. -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
