Michael Robinson wrote:
> I realize that going from a P4 to a dual or quad core processor would
> be the ideal solution, but that is also an expensive solution. I have
> a 1.80 Ghz or 2.40 Ghz processor right now. so 3.06 Ghz seems like it
> would be a decent improvement. If anyone can show me h
> First, a RAM upgrade from 512MB to 1GB or more would more than likely be of
> more benefit than a slight CPU upgrade within the same CPU class (as in
> staying with P4 instead of upgrading to newer generation).
>
> Second, you don't mention what kind of video hardware you have, a beefier
> GPU m
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Michael Robinson wrote:
> Has anyone on here successfully streamed from a Silicondust HDhomerun
> network based tuner to a Pentium 4 system? I'm wondering if upgrading
> from a 512 meg 2.4 Ghz P4 to a 512 meg 3.06 Ghz P4 will make a big
> difference or if I'm go
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, wes wrote:
> The wiki page says the first class is Feb 17. Is that a type, or is there an
> intro session before the first day of class?
That is in 2009. wiki is from the last class.
-Denis
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> "Tim" == Tim writes:
Tim> I've done this as well as contacted my ISP (Spiretech) and urged
Tim> them to submit something as well, since I figured it would carry
Tim> more weight. If you're using a small mom&pop ISP here as I am,
Tim> you might want to do the same, since these would be the
> I've done this as well as contacted my ISP (Spiretech) and urged them
> to submit something as well, since I figured it would carry more
> weight. If you're using a small mom&pop ISP here as I am, you might
> want to do the same, since these would be the direct customers of the
> Google pilot.
>
The wiki page says the first class is Feb 17. Is that a type, or is there an
intro session before the first day of class?
-wes
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Paul wrote:
> Bash Class is back at Free Geek!
>
> The class:
> A six-week course on Saturdays covering basic and intermediate scripti
For Michael Robinson, (and anyone else who might find this useful,)
If you want to test the ability of your computer to playback recorded HD
video (in MPEG2 format), before investing in the hardware, try this:
1. Download and install VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
(This player has the codecs
Hi Russell,
> A followup for those who want fiber in Portland:
>
> The Personal Telco Project wants open-access fiber-to-the-premises
> last-mile infrastructure in Portland. It would be awesome if Google
> helped us get that, but even if they don't, really people, this is
> something we could be
> "Russell" == Russell Senior writes:
Russell> This is something that Personal Telco has been working
Russell> on/advocating for a while. I put in a nomination and pointed
Russell> them at the City people who would be responsible. And
Russell> frankly, even without a magical benefactor like
Bash Class is back at Free Geek!
The class:
A six-week course on Saturdays covering basic and intermediate scripting
in bash! We will examine a file with about 15 lines of code together
each class, modify the code, run it, and come up with our own scripts.
We will also get to know the "Advanced
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Joe Pruett wrote:
> for the clueless (and people off the list that i forwarded this to :-),
> which day is this happening?
AT meetings are usually the third Wednesday of the month. That would be Wed
Feb 17 this time around. (hmmm... Ash Wednesday...)
- tony
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:52:37AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> The only question is, how did top get started by root in the first
> place?
The following is not likely, but worth doing every so often. Don't
panic, but ...
Perhaps you should try checking for a rootkit. There might be a
root
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Joe Pruett wrote:
> kill -1 xxx turning into kill 1 xxx used to be a very bad thing
> (shutdown). i haven't done that in a long time, so i'm not sure if modern
> init's respond the same way or not.
Test and report results? :-)
I usually start with killall , proceed to
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have
vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing
and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs
killall. doing a 'sudo k
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:01, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>>
>> be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have
>> vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing
>> and will in fact kill all proce
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>
> be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have
> vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing
> and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs
> killall. doing a
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:50:47 -0800
wes dijo:
>>
>> Evidently mpstat, iostat, and sar are not installed and not in the
>> Fedora 11 repos. I didn't look around to see if I could find an RPM
>> for them somewhere.
>>
>>
>These are commonly found in the "sysstat" package.
Ah, that did it.
But the
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:11:44AM -0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
> Has anyone on here successfully streamed from a Silicondust HDhomerun
> network based tuner to a Pentium 4 system?
Presumably so. Google and the MythTV wiki seem to think so, at least.
> I'm wondering if upgrading from a 512 meg
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:42:30, John Jason Jordan
wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:28:20 -0700 (MST)
> Carlos Konstanski dijo:
>
> >On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >> Something is eating 100% of one of my CPUs on my Fedora 11 x86_64
> >> Thinkpad. Occasionally it drops down, a
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:09, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> or, if you want to skipp the grepping, just kill all instances of top:
>
> $ killall 21082
oops, i thnk you meant 'killall top'
and if it doesn't die gracefully, killall works with flags too:
killall -9 top
be warned, killall on some unic
for the clueless (and people off the list that i forwarded this to :-),
which day is this happening?
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> [...@devil8 ~]$ ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10
> %CPU PID USER COMMAND
> 99.0 25327 root top
>
>
> So I killed top, then re-ran the command. It still listed top as 99%.
> WTH?
>
There may well be another
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 20:43, Benjamin Foote wrote:
> > Hi Rich,
> >
> > I didn't send an original message to PLUG-JOBS. I did receive a notice
> > which was sent to plugj...@bnf.net which was an address which I
> generated
> > speci
>
> Evidently mpstat, iostat, and sar are not installed and not in the
> Fedora 11 repos. I didn't look around to see if I could find an RPM for
> them somewhere.
>
>
These are commonly found in the "sysstat" package.
-wes
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Has anyone on here successfully streamed from a Silicondust HDhomerun
network based tuner to a Pentium 4 system? I'm wondering if upgrading
from a 512 meg 2.4 Ghz P4 to a 512 meg 3.06 Ghz P4 will make a big
difference or if I'm going to need a multi core machine? I got the
network tuner thinking
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