On 6/18/05, Ken D'Ambrosio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fred wrote:
> >manufacturing decisions made with wild abandon. Hell, we had even ported
> >Unix to the Amiga, and many universities became interested, because
I remember the article in Byte magazine
> IIRC, Commodore's 2500UX and 3000U
On 6/18/05, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:39 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> > vi, php, qmail, Microsoft SQL Server, Debian, [Penguin, Debian, and
> > Apache] (Those are my cats...I'd rather watch them than anything on
> > TV. I bought my current home in October, maybe
The wall warts provided with those devices almost always handle power surges
and sags well enough that I doubt any sort of "dirty power" is likely to be
the culprit.
Long cables can sometimes cause odd problems, either directly, or indirectly
by causing things like lots of fragments, retransmits,
Recently I ran into two similar situations (or at least similar symptoms at
two different client sites. In one case a LinkSys 24 port switch would
intermittently hang. Troubleshooting revealed that one particular connection
seemed to be causing the problem and the cable attached to the port was
fai
On Jun 17 at 4:11pm, Paul Lussier wrote:
Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for hardware-based
disk-duplicators? We have need to buy a couple, and I've never had any
exposure to these beasts. Recommendations, warnings, and/or tales of woe
all gratefully accepted.
This does
On Jun 17 at 10:54pm, Bill Sconce wrote:
I wouldn't say "constantly surging", though, just "alternating". A "surge"
is an excursion beyond the normal alternating limits.
I used the term "constantly surging" for effect. Those of us who spend most
of our time in the digital world like to thi
Fred wrote:
I was at Commodore during its final 5 years on this planet. While there,
I saw many marketing mistakes and many bad product development and
manufacturing decisions made with wild abandon. Hell, we had even ported
Unix to the Amiga, and many universities became interested, because
fin
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:39 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> vi, php, qmail, Microsoft SQL Server, Debian, [Penguin, Debian, and
> Apache] (Those are my cats...I'd rather watch them than anything on
> TV. I bought my current home in October, maybe one of these months
> I'll plug the TV in for the fi
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:22 -0400, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> Ten years ago (way before IBM and other companies really became "interested"
> in
> Linux), I helped Linus get an Alpha processor so he could port Linux to the
> Alpha. I did this so Linux could become 64-bit, and get all the "Intelisms"
