Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Josh Myer
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Ask the original poster if he's willing to take the risk of going with an xor > cursor. We are talking text mode, right? No way to get rid of that blinking > text cursor, ever. Tell me, do you like having the colon blink on your alarm > clock to

Re: Major Clock Drift

2001-02-12 Thread Josh Myer
Hello again, When i originally posted this, it was _highly_ OT. the machine in question runs windows ME, but i figured the best place to find hardware gurus was here. the topic has rather degraded, and while i enjoy getting mail from alan, the fact that it has nothing to do with me dampens the e

Re: sync & asyck i/o

2001-02-06 Thread Josh Myer
Hello, On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] > In theory for a journalling file system it means the change is committed to the > log and the log to the media, and for other fs that the change is committed > to the final disk and recoverable by fsck worst case > > In practice some IDE disk

[OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-03 Thread Josh Myer
Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on the cause? (Google didn't show up anything worthwhile in the first couple of pa

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-20 Thread Josh Myer
We would never parody Monty Python! This is an excerpt from Judas, one of the gospels that was in dispute. I'm sorry, I must go, as there's a man in a military uniform here, shouting at me to stop being silly... -josh On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:58:07 Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Adm

Re: PROBLEM: 128M memory OK, but with 192M sound card es1391 trouble

2001-01-17 Thread Josh Myer
You're probably just hearing electrical noise from the memory buss; try moving the 128 stick to the slot you put the 64 in (if you can) and run that way -- you'll probably hear it there too. I get something similiar to this with my SB Live (!... damn marketroids) on a BP6 with 192MB as well. In m