Imagine if the OS were smart enough to recognize that you were copying to
/dev/null and would simply optimize that operation out of existence! Now *that*
would be fast.
Years ago 'C' compiler writers noticed that folks were attempting to benchmark
the program that came out of their compiler by
) {
unsigned long i;
for (i = 0; i iterations; i++)
;
return(i);
}
Most compilers (gcc, DECC, HP C, Sun) will convert this code to:
return iterations;
On 2 May 2002 at 9:40, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
Imagine if the OS were smart enough to recognize that you were copying
I would suggest you look carefully at whichever wireless card you might
consider. I have the LinkSys WPC-11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I bought this card
when it first came on the market. It has relatively poor range. There are newer
versions of this same card. I've seen them with stickers that
of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux. - Anonymous
The closest I'm going to get to retirement is when I put new Michelins
on my car!
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 3:46pm, Alex Hewitt USG
How about:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux. - Anonymous
The closest I'm
Over the weekend I noticed that the Lithium-ion battery in my laptop is
apparently failing. I used to get 2+ hours running the laptop on battery and
suddenly I notice that the battery is charging more quickly than expected and
correspondingly only running for 20-30 minutes on battery. The system
I worked on the problem last night from about 8pm until 12:30 when I went to
bed.
I solved the can't fsck /dev/hda1 already mounted problem which turned out
to be an error in lilo.conf. Specifically, there is a line /boot/initrd.img
and I had changed that to point to my new kernel. I fixed the
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
I did that and then noticed that making mrproper erases your previous
kernel configuration.
You may find it easier to RTFM, rather than trying to figure all this out
by typing commands at random
Well after recently having very good success installing Mandrake 8.1 under
VmWare, I upgraded the hard drive in my laptop and since it was an empty disk I
decided to take a shot at installing Mandrake 8.1. Imagine my surprise when
Mandrake smoothly and happily found pretty much all the hardware
You may have read my posting on how I fared trying to get Linux running
acceptably on my Compaq 1700XL laptop. Ultimately I wasn't able to get Linux
installed and running to my satisfaction. In the meantime I noticed that VMware
had introduced a new version of their software and I decided to
One way to do this is to bring the system up in single user mode. At that point
you own /etc and you can just edit the root entry in the passwd file. If you
simply eliminate the password for root it should just let you in.
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets
I thought to be a bit more thorough I would check deja.com and here is an answer
clipped from one of the news groups:
Boot into single user mode (at the lilo prompt, type 'linux single')
which should put you into a text shell as root, without logging in.
Type the passwd command, and change
Someone reported a similar problem with one of the Linux distributions installed
on a Compaq 1700XL. They noticed that the fan didn't come on and the machine
started to overheat. I have one myself but couldn't quite turn the corner on
getting a Linux distro to install well enough to use Linux on
Microsoft has finally put an option into the latest version of Outlook Express
(v6) to suppress the opening/saving of email attachments. One of my systems at
home runs Win 2k Pro and we are constantly receiving emails from folks whose
email handlers have mail forwarding setup to forward email as
Because Linux software is usually copyrighted under GPL, I have the impression
that you can copy a distribution at will.
Is that impression accurate? I'm looking at an official Red Hat 7.1 CD and it
has the following notice:
Copyright (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
All Rights reserved. Made in the
of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux. - Anonymous
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
Because Linux software is usually copyrighted under GPL, I have the
impression
Hewitt USG wrote:
I would avoid copying Red Hat's CD because I honestly can't say that it
would be completely legal. Either that or visit Red Hat's web page where
they provide a link to a downloadable copy ...
Have you read the copyright notices on the downloadable copy
I thought I'd post my recent experiences trying to get Linux running on my
Compaq 1700XL notebook computer.
A few details about the system:
o 600 mhz Pentium III with Speedstep technology
o 192 megs of ram
o 6 gig hard drive
o DVD player (Future bay -
I've installed from a Mandrake distro on several systems. It's based on
RedHat but makes the installation and management of the system a lot
easier. I was impressed that when I installed it on a box that had both
Win 95 and Win2k, it used something called "grub" over Lilo to setup a
multi-boot
slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
In the
Basicly, what I do is have Lilo write to the first sector of the partition
that I installed Linux to and then use either the Linux version of fdisk
or the DOS version to mark the partition as active. It's pretty easy to
add a stanza to the lilo.conf file to allow booting the DOS/Windows
ction, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
Basicly, what I do is have Lilo write to the first sector of the partition
that I installed Linux to and then use either the Linux version of fdisk
or the DOS versi
side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
However, when I tried to setup my Linux system, the system
A few days ago I bought a LinkSys DSL/cable modem firewall router for my
home lan which is connected to Mediaone through a cable modem. I decided
to modify my system's setups to use DHCP. The LinkSys router acts as a
DHCP server and each system as it comes on-line queries the server and
gets both
le by hand just to see what happens.
On 18 Jul 2000, at 9:24, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
A few days ago I bought a LinkSys DSL/cable modem firewall router
--
Jerry Feldman
Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering
508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
Compaq Computer
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
=A few days ago I bought a LinkSys DSL/cable modem firewall router for my
=home lan which is connected to Mediaone through a cable modem. I decided
=to modify my system's setups to use DHCP. The LinkSys router acts as a
=DHCP server and each system a
If it's a true RAID 5 device it should have an automatic recovery mode.
That is it should take the redundant data from the remaining 2 disks and
rebuild the 3rd disk in place.
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the
One interesting alternative that should be ready eventually is the Opera
web browser. Amongst it's advantages is that it is a lot smaller (~1.5
megs) than Netscape. That should translate into much better performance
although it would be more noticeable on a slow connection than say a
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