Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
lorne wrote: hahahahaha... disappointingly easy somehow doesn't come to my mind when it is easy. :) Well I got it home today. My wife was most displeased. She is threatening to send me out to the garage with all my junk. BG It is pretty derned big! about 3 feet tall. It has 4

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-25 Thread lorne
FemmeFatale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> lorne wrote: hahahahaha... "disappointingly easy" somehow doesn't come to my mindwhen it is easy. :)Well I got it home today. My wife was most displeased. She isthreatening to send me out to the garage with all my "junk". BGIt is pretty derned

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread civileme
lorne wrote: I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out at work and we drew straws who gets what. Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never looked into mult processing

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:30, civileme wrote: Sounds like a beastly server or multiprocessing machine or a super node for a supercomputing cluster. I found two Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 series at a local Charity store which had been picked by thieves, and on the day of the

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread lorne
hahahahaha... disappointingly easy somehow doesn't come to my mind when it is easy. :) Well I got it home today. My wife was most displeased. She is threatening to send me out to the garage with all my junk. BG It is pretty derned big! about 3 feet tall. It has 4 processors, they all work. 1

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Dewar
COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously. cool. maybe that isn't really a big deal to most people, but for some reason i get a real charge out

RE: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Twu
: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task switching, but simultaneously

Re: dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-23 Thread Nick Baker
On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: Nick Baker wrote: I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to completion on a dual processor Intel OR840 motherboard-based machine. If you think you can help I can send the details. Let's here more details, esp. where

Re: dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Dewar
i don't suppose that you have a vanilla agp or even a pci card to swap the radeon out with. as you mentioned, to me it reeks of video card driver issues. i have been thinking of buying an 8500 but was holding off until i figured it would work without too many heachaches, anyways, i just

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-23 Thread lorne
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Dewar Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake COOL!! i have a dual p2 and love it. quad would be even cooler! just think how many mp3/ogg files you can encode simultaneously.. not preemptively-task

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-22 Thread KevinO
lorne wrote: Is it possible with Mandrake? Sure it is. I have 3 duals (with Mandrake) here at the house: 2 x P!!! with Mandrake 7.0 2 x PII with Mandrake 8.0 2 x Celeron with Mandrake 8.0 I don't know about the newer distributions but the older ones all came with optional SMP kernels

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-22 Thread lorne
Thanks alot. I can hardly wait to get it and tinker around. :) KevinO wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">lorne wrote: Is it possible with Mandrake? Sure it is. I have 3 duals (with Mandrake) here at the house: 2 x P!!! with Mandrake 7.0 2 x PII with Mandrake 8.0 2 x Celeron with Mandrake

dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-22 Thread Nick Baker
On Monday 22 April 2002 09:33 pm, you wrote: lorne wrote: Is it possible with Mandrake? Sure it is. I have 3 duals (with Mandrake) here at the house: snip I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to completion--even if I install only the kernel--on a dual processor