Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

Alan Dayley wrote: > > I have not contributed substantial information to Wikipedia, though I > have made some corrections and small additions here and there. I also --[clip]-- > the bad of Wikipedia all rolled up. > > And all of that came out of my understanding of what I see and read. > I'm sur

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > Alan, > > just curious, are you speaking from experience as someone who has > actually tried to add substantial information to Wikipedia, or are you > just enumerating the values of the Wikipedia community? I have not contributed substantial information to Wikiped

64bit java WAS Memory limit.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: > 64 bit Linux has been rather good (Fedora 7/Fedora 8) but yes, I don't > believe that you can get Java applet to run inside a 64 bit version of I used to use 64bit blackdown java 1.4.2 in firefox . . . . just installed it. It is

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

Errors and omissions corrected below. Too many children, nieces and a nephew running around here. And I'm tired. Alan Alan Dayley wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >>> Thank you all. I should have thought of wikipedia! >> >> Just wonderin

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:11:50 -0700 Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I try to express these ideas: > > - They are correct, it is likely that some of the information in > Wikipedia articles is wrong. > > - Since Wikipedia requires references and places that need them get > flagged, ref

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

On 2/15/08, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > >> Thank you all. I should have thought of wikipedia! > > > > Just wondering...I occasionally run into people that dismiss wikipedia > > out of hand citing a lac

Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >> Thank you all. I should have thought of wikipedia! > > Just wondering...I occasionally run into people that dismiss wikipedia > out of hand citing a lack of accuracy. Needless to say, I get a little > excited becaus

OT: Re: zImage compressed with what?

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 20:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > > Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzI

Re: zImage compressed with what?

On Feb 16, 2008 5:15 AM, Sir Light <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, > > It's either bzip or gzip. > > So does the boot loader uncompress the kernel ? if not when and how does the kernel get uncompressed ? -- Sudoku Solver: http://sudoku-solver.net --

Re: zImage compressed with what?

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzImage, > >> which is not bzip2, but "big zImage". If I'm not t

Re: zImage compressed with what?

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzImage, >> which is not bzip2, but "big zImage". If I'm not totally on crack, the > > Ah yes, thanks for the clarification

Re: zImage compressed with what?

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzImage, > which is not bzip2, but "big zImage". If I'm not totally on crack, the Ah yes, thanks for the clarification... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinu

Re: zImage compressed with what?

From: Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file. What is > the compression format of that file? zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzImage, which is not bzip2, but "big zImage". If I'm not totally on crack, the com

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wasn't the problem. 32-bit emulation worked, but epsxe always > segfaulted immediately, with no clues from strace. This was almost > a year ago; maybe they've fixed that. Seems so :-) They claim it works now on am

Re: zImage compressed with what?

Alan, It's either bzip or gzip. Jon Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file. What is > the compression format of that file. > > I've never had to look into it before but I am now. I figure one of you > may already know. > >

Re: Memory limit.

From: "Kristian Erik Hermansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > > One thing (epsxe) doesn't work *at all* on x86_64 Linux. > Not true. Almost all x86_64 distros come with 32-bit libraries. That wasn't the problem. 32-bit emulation worked, but epsxe al

Re: zImage compressed with what?

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file. What is > the compression format of that file. > > I've never had to look into it before but I am now. I figure one of you > may already know. zimage is just

zImage compressed with what?

The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file. What is the compression format of that file. I've never had to look into it before but I am now. I figure one of you may already know. Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:26 -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 64 bit Linux has been rather good (Fedora 7/Fedora 8) but yes, I don't > > believe that you can get Java applet to run inside a 64 bit version of > > Fi

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox and say Sun's JRE/JDK. Oddly enough, the 32 bit Flash plugin > works with nspluginviewer. Yep, nspluginwrapper. You might even see my name as a contributor to the project :-) http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/project

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > working in Firefox. One thing (epsxe) doesn't work *at all* on x86_64 > Linux. Not true. Almost all x86_64 distros come with 32-bit libraries. You can get it working... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=394097 --

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 64 bit Linux has been rather good (Fedora 7/Fedora 8) but yes, I don't > believe that you can get Java applet to run inside a 64 bit version of > Firefox. If that is needed, you can install the 32 bit versions of > Firefo

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...and the XP64 support is apparently not great for some^W a bunch of > things. x86_64 Linux is much better in this regard, but there are still > a few things that are harder than they should be, like getting Java > work

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:40 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:49 -0700, jordi laforge wrote: > > > XP has a 4gig memory limit. Does anyone know what it is for Linux? > > 1 - use a 64 bit OS (I believe that there is a Windows XP 64 bit ver

Re: Memory limit.

From: Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:49 -0700, jordi laforge wrote: > > XP has a 4gig memory limit. Does anyone know what it is for Linux? > 1 - use a 64 bit OS (I believe that there is a Windows XP 64 bit version > available) and there are definitely 64 bit versions of

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:49 -0700, jordi laforge wrote: > XP has a 4gig memory limit. Does anyone know what it is for Linux? > Thanks 1 - use a 64 bit OS (I believe that there is a Windows XP 64 bit version available) and there are definitely 64 bit versions of Win2K3 (server) and of course Li

Re: Memory limit.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM, jordi laforge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XP has a 4gig memory limit. Does anyone know what it is for Linux? 64GB or much more, depending on your kernel patches and architecture. Check out 'bigmem'... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my i

Memory limit.

XP has a 4gig memory limit. Does anyone know what it is for Linux? Thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinf

Re: Not in Kansas anymore :-(

Charles Jones wrote: > Wayne Davis wrote: > >> Wife tried to start up her Kubuntu system with one 60GB SATA and this is >> what's on the screen: >> >> Kernal Panic - Not Syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block >> (0,0) >> >> >> >> Anyone know what this is and how it could have

Re: Not in Kansas anymore :-(

Wayne Davis wrote: > Wife tried to start up her Kubuntu system with one 60GB SATA and this is > what's on the screen: > > Kernal Panic - Not Syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block > (0,0) > > > > Anyone know what this is and how it could have happened? > > TIA :- Usually caused by

Not in Kansas anymore :-(

Wife tried to start up her Kubuntu system with one 60GB SATA and this is what's on the screen: Kernal Panic - Not Syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0) Anyone know what this is and how it could have happened? TIA :-) --- P

Re: Dare I Ask...

Sorry thought "REALbasic Personal Edition" was an OSS version that allowed you to learn and if you wanted to release a version you may have to buy it. I see that it is not the case. I agree with a later post about VM'ing windows or ReactOS and installing the real version of VB. Stephen P Ru

Re: Local brick and mortar Eee PC vendor?

I bought one about a month ago from PC Club..I LIKE IT! Runs a jacked up version of Xandros - there are plenty of sites to tell you how to mod it and run just about anything you want. I went to Frys and upgraded the RAM to 1G and put an 8G SD card in it. I lug it with me in my briefcase everywhe

Re: Local brick and mortar Eee PC vendor?

Thanks, Donn. I just called them. They have them in stock. Now for those that don't mind paying sales tax, I know where to send them for instant gratification. Alan Donn wrote: > PC Club. > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote:

Re: fsck error log

Thank you, The bootup process forces the system to run fsck every 34 boots. Historically it gives me the message to that effect and they gives a progress bar with a spinner and a percent completed. I became concerned because it acted differently today in that it gave out about a half dozen messag

Re: Local brick and mortar Eee PC vendor?

PC Club. On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a local store that has the Asus Eee PC available for > purchase? It's all over the place online but some people like to just > go pick one up. > > Alan > > > ---

Local brick and mortar Eee PC vendor?

Does anyone know of a local store that has the Asus Eee PC available for purchase? It's all over the place online but some people like to just go pick one up. Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: fsck error log

Harold wrote: Found it, thank you very much It does not show any errors, only a slight defragmentation. I have little idea what it was telling me on bootup. but I will try to to worry. Harold On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:47 -0700, Luis Villarreal wrote: Check your /var/log/ On Fri, Feb 15, 200

Re: fsck error log

Found it, thank you very much It does not show any errors, only a slight defragmentation. I have little idea what it was telling me on bootup. but I will try to to worry. Harold On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:47 -0700, Luis Villarreal wrote: > Check your /var/log/ > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:20 AM,

Re: fsck error log

Check your /var/log/ On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While booting my laptop ran a forced fsck > > It returned a half a screen of what looks like error messages > I have not seen these messages on other checks. > > Where does fsck put its error logs? > > I wou

fsck error log

While booting my laptop ran a forced fsck It returned a half a screen of what looks like error messages I have not seen these messages on other checks. Where does fsck put its error logs? I would like to figure out if I have a problem or not. Harold

Re: IRC client

I have been playing with xchat and it seems to fit the bill for now. I may change as I figure out how I want to make it look and use it. Once again, thanks for all the information. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:40 PM, gm5729 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends on if u want cli or gui? KDE or Gnom

Re: Web Filter

I have been using IPCOP for some time with the IPCOP-Plus pack added. I t provides a nice easy to use web interface for updates and configuring Dan guardian. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Nathan Aubrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > I have been using Endian firewall on a computer ju