Re: Am I using my hard drives right?

2004-01-12 Thread James Roberts
Nano Nano wrote: > Last Feb/Mar/Apr, as I learned Linux, I tried somewhat dilligently to > understand if my IDE drives were being used "as fast as possible" -- I > have a couple of UDMA/100 and a couple of UDMA/133 devices. > > I was thoroughly confused, but I got far enough to roughly guess that >

Re: USB watches

2003-12-27 Thread James Roberts
Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch > (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims > to be Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it > to a Linux box. I have a MeMIX - works fine with Debian and Man

Re: Monitor has shadows

2003-12-20 Thread James Roberts
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! I run Backstreet Ruby on Debian Woody: 2 monitors, each with keyboard and mouse. I recompiled X 4.3.0 for it because you have to patch X to only listen/talk to one videocard/XFree86 server. On the one card: RIVA TNT2 Model 64 I have a Samsung SyncMaster 750S. On the

Re:Nagios not quite working

2003-12-13 Thread James Roberts
Hello all: I have set up nagios-text on testing. Currently there are no nagios-plugins available with apt-get due to upstream issues. The maintainer for nagios-plugins told me (thanks!) that netsaint plugins would work. I apt-got them and everything is nearly but not quite working. I've done a