Re: Stopping disk I/O from massively slowing down the desktop - any suggestions?

2010-04-25 Thread Euan Clark
May also be the kernel's choice of task scheduler too - I've noticed similar symptoms when running heavy on a desktop with Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) and kernel pre-emptivness set at higher levels vs the older Anticipatory scheduler. I'm more familiar with Gentoo but I get the feeling that CF

Re: Starter for 10 :)

2010-01-28 Thread Euan Clark
Lots of spam protection in the way. Sender address set? Senders PTR record? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Confirmed_reverse_DNS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys http://en.wikipedia.o

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-02 Thread Euan Clark
What's the GST handling like on these?

Re: Wireless car in Christchurch?

2009-11-30 Thread Euan Clark
I see that Firefox built-in a Google API geo-location function. Basically G uses the common IP country allocation blocks but refines this using what local wireless networks (SSIDs) your browser/machine can see. As per http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ - see 'How It Works'

Re: measurement software for electrical networks?

2009-08-21 Thread Euan Clark
Might be bleeding obvious but I get identical symptoms when a phone's been plugged in directly to the socket somewhere oin the house rather than an ADSL filter. Wesley Parish wrote: I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could use to get hard copy of actual voltage and amperage

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-15 Thread Euan Clark
Dan Wallis wrote: 2009/6/15 Roger Searle : Very similar situation at home in that there is no connection - AFTER SOME HOURS OF INACTIVITY - for example while we have been away from home for 9 or so hours (though router, ISP, geographical location etc are all different). I have no further clue

Re: OT: I can haz cheezburger

2009-05-19 Thread Euan Clark
I'm think it's evolved out of a 4chan meme into a business - > lolcats.com Adrian Mageanu wrote: This message's link with Linux is that the expression in the subject has been used in another thread in this list. Although in the context of it's original thread the meaning was quite obvious, I

Re: Unison and FAT32

2009-04-20 Thread Euan Clark
Does your USB HD using USB 2 or 1.1? What does dmesg say when you plug it in? Effective data rate for USB 2.0 HD is around 40MB/s with nothing else on the bus, including mouse and keyboard. Did you look at rsync? - Euan Clark Douglas Royds wrote: I'm successfully synching my (44

Re: my video card is possessed

2009-04-11 Thread Euan Clark
Have you had any drive issues? Check for IDE cables being dodgy and/or shorting to the case - I had a recent experiance similar to yours where this turned out to be the issue. Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't reassure you *that* far. But the only components that I have touched before this probl

Re: my video card is possessed

2009-04-10 Thread Euan Clark
Aidan Gauland wrote: Nick Rout wrote: DISPLAY=:0 nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp Odd, the output of that is just an empty line. Your DISPLAY my be running on :1 - try it without the DISPLAY=:0

Re: my video card is possessed

2009-04-10 Thread Euan Clark
What temperatures were you seeing? Divide and conquer time. System lockups may be occurring because of another component going awry as the system comes up to normal working temperature. Coud be a marginal-seating issue. Check the seating of the PCI cards and all power connectors. Another of th

Re: my video card is possessed

2009-04-06 Thread Euan Clark
#x27;s a place in my box for a "system fan", but there's not one there, so I'll get one. Also, could you tell me a little bit more about your graphics hardware? Thanks, Aidan Euan Clark wrote: I've noticed increased heat issues on both my GPUs on both XP & Gentoo -

Re: my video card is possessed

2009-04-04 Thread Euan Clark
I've noticed increased heat issues on both my GPUs on both XP & Gentoo - I think latest nvidia drivers push the cards harder (PhysX?) - they were passive cooling only so I dropped another fan in the box pointed across the cards and the issues have gone. Aidan Gauland wrote: Hi, I upgrade

Re: OTish: Any experiences with EoP?

2009-02-13 Thread Euan Clark
Go simple. I had to span 15m using CAT5. Ran fencing wire between two eye hooks screwed under each eve to support CAT5. Cable ties to attach CAT5 to wire, make a 'U' at each end to make sure that rain can't run inside the house and leave a little slack. 15 minutes, Gb throughput. If you make i

Re: Recommendation for printers

2008-05-15 Thread Euan Clark
I got my brand-new Brother MFC 665CW serving coloured printing via a wireless-only connection to the router. My home LAN has 2 wired Ubuntu machines (kids) & my 64-bit Gentoo / 32-bit WinXP dualboot, also wired and printing on all is working well. Brother provides both Linux & MS Win drivers

Re: cross-compilation for Linux

2008-05-14 Thread Euan Clark
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Tue 13 May 2008 21:43:45 NZST +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: I know I asked about cross-compiling on Linux for Macintosh, but now I'm trying to compile a program for PowerPC Linux on my x86 Linux box. I looked in the GCC info manual, and it seems that if I have the

Re: Open Source Computer Operating Systems v. The Fire Service and St John

2008-02-24 Thread Euan Clark
Uh - what browser(s) are you personally using on this Intranet Jeff / Jude? Is it only IE? If it works in Firefox on MS Win it'll most work with Firefox-On-Linux. If the site is expressly redirecting to a lockout message based on browser you could just change the User Agent String so to the serve

Re: comparing folder contents

2008-01-15 Thread Euan Clark
There's a scripted backup solution based on rsync called rsnapshot. There's a method here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-611411-highlight-offsite+backup.html ... that would allow you to add in bash commands to tar/bz2 and write to dvd. Roger Searle wrote: Sure, I appreciate that.

Re: Hard drive recorder vs myth-tv

2008-01-13 Thread Euan Clark
Have you looked at getting a first-gen Tivo off Ebay? I understand that they are more hackable than the later models. Paul Swafford wrote: Phil .. info on the hard drive recorder option. Sky digital decoders have the option to "book" programs from the guide - it works rather well .. if you're

Re: nvidia driver weirdness

2008-01-08 Thread Euan Clark
7;t remember exactly) and look for the tab with the radio button to use enhanced effects (gives you rubbery windows etc) If this still doesn't work than look at copying your existing xorg.conf somewhere else and delete it first before repeating the process. In fact all I had to do was the last step and it did the package download / install it all for me. Regards, Euan Clark

Re: how do I grep a string of characters from a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Euan Clark
hanged & to && in case a step fails it won't delete the input file Might be a way to adjust the regex so as to match against id=\"AAA and only return the AAA An alternative and more more classic way would be to replace the grep call with a similar one to sed t

Re: Linux coverage on Stuff

2007-12-19 Thread Euan Clark
Hi Graeme. Having only just subscribed I'm probably coming in on the middle of a thread - when are you looking to publish it? Some thoughts on your values section... Note on Linux support - I've found that in my using various Linux communities the response time is usually a lot faster than fo