Re: Mozilla mystery (partially solved)

2002-12-28 Thread Collins
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:52:44 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama! wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote: [ problem analysis snipped ] No such file exists in Redhat. Perhaps this is something specific to Gentoo? I see there is fonts.cache-1 in the

kde 305a kdepim compile error fix...

2002-12-28 Thread Jerry McBride
There's a small bug that causes kdepim 3.0.5a not to compile on some systems. The error ends with:.. /opt/kde-3.0.5a/include/kfile.h: In function `static bool KFile::isSortByName(const QDir::SortSpec )':/opt/kde-3.0.5a/include/kfile.h:75: confused by earlier errors, bailing out make[3]: ***

Hey SuSE Users!

2002-12-28 Thread kbb0927
Hello SuSE Users, Few questions. I have SuSe 8.x on all of my machines except for my server. This is a home lan. I still have 7.2 on it. The majority of the users ( my wife and kids) are windoze users and access data via a very stable samba config. I want to upgrade to 8.0. Now the questions:

Re: Hey SuSE Users!

2002-12-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 28 December 2002 8:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello SuSE Users, Few questions. I have SuSe 8.x on all of my machines except for my server. This is a home lan. I still have 7.2 on it. The majority of the users ( my wife and kids) are windoze users and access data via a very

Re: kde 305a kdepim compile error fix...

2002-12-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 12/27/02 19:23, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, I was thinking about putting up a how to compile KDE webpage, listing all the tweaks, tips and magic... would anyone be interested? We're always eager for more SxS. -- ~ L.

Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
What brands of motherboards have you had good luck with? I run AMD processors and do NOT want a VIA chipset (I don't want it for Intel either G). Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email

windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat
Just a report on my day yesterday. We had gusts over 60mph here near Seattle causing power to go out 5 times at my home, mostly for just a few seconds, but enough each time to cause a reboot of my machine here running libranet on Reiserfs using grub. Very excited to report NO PROBLEMS. Quick

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Lived in Bellingham, OakHarbor and Everett for 15 years, miss the NW. Now I am in Oklahoma. sigh., Anyway, what advantages does reisers have over ext3? I read a post here about a reisers becoming corrupt, so I loaded up ext3. I am realy configuring my drives blindly though. - Original

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Collins
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:52:47 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a report on my day yesterday. We had gusts over 60mph here near Seattle causing power to go out 5 times at my home, mostly for just a few seconds, but enough each time to cause a reboot of my machine here running

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 12/28/02 08:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: What brands of motherboards have you had good luck with? I run AMD processors and do NOT want a VIA chipset (I don't want it for Intel either G). Tyan boards are fairly good. I'd avoid Asus like the plague. --

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Net Llama!
ReiserFS sucks less than ext3 :) XFS is better than both. On 12/28/02 08:59, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Lived in Bellingham, OakHarbor and Everett for 15 years, miss the NW. Now I am in Oklahoma. sigh., Anyway, what advantages does reisers have over ext3? I read a post here about a reisers

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus? I've used them for several years with no problems but that has been on Windows (and a Caldera) system so Windows probably masked any problems G - I'm open to feedback! Thank you. On 12/28/02 08:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Bonez
Lonni: What have you found with ASUS that you do NOT like? Just curious, since I am thinking of building a new machine. Scott On Saturday 28 December 2002 10:24, you wrote: On 12/28/02 08:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: What brands of motherboards have you had good luck with? I run AMD

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:52:47AM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote: Just a report on my day yesterday. We had gusts over 60mph here near Seattle causing power to go out 5 times at my home, mostly for just a few seconds, but enough each time to cause a reboot of my machine here running libranet on

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 11:43:47 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What brands of motherboards have you had good luck with? I run AMD processors and do NOT want a VIA chipset (I don't want it for Intel either G). My $0.02 worth... VIA chipsets aren't that bad. In fact, it's

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat
Bill Campbell wrote: Our power was out on Mercer Island for about 12 hours. Glad you fared well. 12 hours is a long outage. Sometimes those UPS's are a life saver. Have you considered changing those ext2 systems to ext3? Just wondered, since it's quite an easy conversion. -- Ken Moffat

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:59:25AM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: Our power was out on Mercer Island for about 12 hours. Glad you fared well. 12 hours is a long outage. Sometimes those UPS's are a life saver. Have you considered changing those ext2 systems to ext3? Just

Fwd: Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Lee
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Motherboards Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:22:55 -0500 From: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus? I've used

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Lee
On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus? I've used them for several years with no problems but that has been on Windows (and a Caldera) system so Windows probably masked any problems G - I'm open to feedback!

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Lived in Bellingham, OakHarbor and Everett for 15 years, miss the NW. Now I am in Oklahoma. sigh., Not very green there, eh? Well, it's rainy and windy here. Do you miss that? Might snow a bit on Sunday. -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Net Llama!
Back in the day when VA was selling hardware, one of their servers used the Asus CUR-DLS dual proc mobo. It had a 40% failure rate. Asus took an average of 7 weeks to provide replacements. When the boards failed, it varied from one of the two CPU sockets going bad, to timing issues, to

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 12/28/02 09:39, Ken Moffat wrote: Net Llama! wrote: ReiserFS sucks less than ext3 :) XFS is better than both. Is support for xfs built in or is a patch needed? XFS is in the 2.5.x tree, however you'll have to patch the 2.4.x source to get XFS support. Some distros do ship with XFS

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thank you. That helps. I haven't dealt directly with Asus - I let me dealer do that. At this point I have hte ASUS A7M266-D working with two of the four memory modules out (I had 4 512, now have 2) so it appears it doesn't like to run 2G! Net Llama! wrote: Back in the day when VA was

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Net Llama!
Yea, that sounds like a standard Asus problem. I had a few boards that refused to even post when all 4 memory slots were populated (and it could be any 3, and it would post fine). On 12/28/02 14:22, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thank you. That helps. I haven't dealt directly with Asus - I let me

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, they outdid themselves on this one - If I use two, fine, more than that and bang. Net Llama! wrote: Yea, that sounds like a standard Asus problem. I had a few boards that refused to even post when all 4 memory slots were populated (and it could be any 3, and it would post fine). On

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:39 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus? I've used them for several years with no problems but that has been on Windows (and a Caldera) system so Windows probably masked any problems G - I'm open to feedback!

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 28 December 2002 13:29 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: My $0.02 worth... VIA chipsets aren't that bad. In fact, it's the most common chipset that I'me exposed to, both at home and at work. As far as brands go. I'm totally amazed at how well SOYO motherboards work. Also MSI. My most

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
After seeing this and Lonnie's I can count myself fortunate that I did not have any trouble in several years Well, the next board will not be an Asus! Bruce Marshall wrote: On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:39 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Just out of curiosity what experiences have you

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 07:16:55PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: .. I would agree with you on the Intel's with the exception that they *do* seem to have good thermal protection. (slowing down the processor). If anything untoward happens to an AMD CPU, they immediately go up in smoke. I don't

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
The newer AMDs will cut back on the speed if they get too hot. It was the early ones that had the problems. But I put a LOT of cooling on them whether they were AMD or Intel! Bruce Marshall wrote: On Saturday 28 December 2002 13:29 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: My $0.02 worth... VIA chipsets

Re: windy day in Seattle

2002-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat
Net Llama! wrote: On 12/28/02 09:39, Ken Moffat wrote: Net Llama! wrote: ReiserFS sucks less than ext3 :) XFS is better than both. Is support for xfs built in or is a patch needed? XFS is in the 2.5.x tree, however you'll have to patch the 2.4.x source to get XFS support. Some

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:43:09 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The newer AMDs will cut back on the speed if they get too hot... You sure about that? Can you point me to a URL that discusses this? I like to think I'm on top of things like that. Shame on me... :') --

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, I thought it was in the manual that came with my system as I remember a setting in the BIOS. I'll check next time I reboot because I have to go back in there anyway. The AMD site might have info, too. Jerry McBride wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:43:09 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
It's a BIOS setting - CPU Overheat throttle is enabled. Jerry McBride wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:43:09 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The newer AMDs will cut back on the speed if they get too hot... You sure about that? Can you point me to a URL that discusses this? I

kde 3.1 rc5 compile saga...

2002-12-28 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm forced to compile kde 3.1 rc5 on an older (read that as; slow) box that I own and it's sure is taking it's sweet old time too... Anyway, I'm into the third module now, kdeadmin, and ran into a show stopper of a compile problem. It seems there''s at least one deprecated/obsolete include

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Marvin Dickens
Here is the link to the speedstep daemon: http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/speedstep.shtml Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Saturday 28 December 2002 09:38 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: It's a BIOS setting - CPU Overheat throttle is enabled. There is a daemon that has been written that will do that and alot more. Plus, it lets you throttle the speed of the chip at will :) I'll find the link and post it ot the

Re: Motherboards

2002-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:39:22 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus? I've used them for several years with no problems but that has been on Windows (and a Caldera) system so Windows probably masked any problems G - I'm