Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Levi Waldron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 15:44]: On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: ?How do I watch the fifo? ? ?The new IDE CD-R has BurnProof so I think that will indeed help. Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) ?$ nice --9 cdrecord A

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | That's Phase-II of this project... ;) I think it would be good for him to | see that to burn his CD he can just move files via samba to the Linux | machine and run a single command or shell script. That's easy to do. Another

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread mtsouk
, Mihalis. On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:29:15 -0800 From: Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users) Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:29:48 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: [EMAIL

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had a PII 350MHz with both CD *and* CDR SCSI and 192MB of RAM and I should say that the SCSI controller does the difference. I had a P60 (yes, original Pentium) with a SCSI 4x CDR and it could handle 4x writes without a problem unless I was really hitting the disk

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Alan Shutko wrote: I had a PII 350MHz with both CD *and* CDR SCSI... I had a P60 (yes, original Pentium) with a SCSI 4x CDR... Speaking of such boasts, what's the best anyone's managed on a parallel port (non-SCSI) CD-writer? I managed 4x _once_, and I'd be interested in knowing if it's worth

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote:  How do I watch the fifo?    The new IDE CD-R has BurnProof so I think that will indeed help. Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority)  $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw with

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote:  How do I watch the fifo?    The new IDE CD-R has BurnProof so I think that will indeed help. Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority)  $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw with

[OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Bill Moseley
This is a rather non-specific question: Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? Of course the answer is it depends, but here's what I'm considering: A few of my Debian machines are old MS Windows hand-me-downs. I've been offered another (they just bought a new

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Gladding
On Sunday 17 November 2002 02:29 pm, Bill Moseley wrote: Hi Bill The full answer is it depends - chipset behaviour, NIC behaviour, all those sorts of things. A rough back-of-the-envelope answer is: - You can NAT fine through a P75 (or less) with 16MB. - You can burn CDs fine with a P90 with

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: This is a rather non-specific question: Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? Of course the answer is it depends, but here's what I'm considering: It depends (sorry, couldn't help myself) (^: So my

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-17 14:29:15 -0800]: This is a rather non-specific question: Good, then you won't mind non-specific answers? :-) Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? Of course the answer is it depends, but here's what I'm

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 14:32]: This is a rather non-specific question: Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? Does the CD Burner have any buffer underrun protection? If so, you should produce good burns on even heavily-loaded systems.

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Bill Moseley
At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing more annoying than the presence of an example. Your best bet would be to load up this old box (actually pretty nice hardware!) you have and burn a CD while doing other tasks and watch

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 16:11]: At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing more annoying than the presence of an example. Your best bet would be to load up this old box (actually pretty nice hardware!)

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing more annoying than the presence of an example. Your best bet would be to load up this old box (actually pretty nice

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 19 February 2001 06:43, Hans Verschoor and Jennie Kohsiek wrote: Bud, In your answer you are drifting away from what it is really about. Jan's point is that, and I agree fully with that, it is virtually impossible to configure and tune a Linux machine for a (relative) newbie. The

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
Microsoft has the benefit of proprietary documentation on lots of hardware because they are willing to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements with the manufacturers. So they can make drivers that work out of the box. Linux developers don't have that luxury. They have to reverse engineer the

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread John Griffiths
Apologies for default sig sent but moments ago. Microsoft has the benefit of proprietary documentation on lots of hardware because they are willing to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements with the manufacturers. So they can make drivers that work out of the box. Linux developers don't have that

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-19 Thread Roberto Diaz
Microsoft has the benefit of proprietary documentation on lots of hardware because they are willing to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements with the manufacturers. So they can make drivers that work out of the box. Linux developers don't have that luxury. They have to reverse engineer the

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-18 Thread c-3
Date sent: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:46:07 + From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Back to Windows?? Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2001 10:13, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: Why am I pegging away with Linux? If I start the Windows Setup right now, my system will work completely in less than 1 hour I'm feeling 20 years in the past, when configuring all

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-17 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 17 February 2001 11:46, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well put. But the original poster said he was using *SUSE*. Now, if only he had been using Debian... I have run SuSE as well as Debian. I went through the learning hurdles Jan is talking about with Slackware. In terms if his