OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Technomage-hawke
ok, I know some of you are engineering types. I am starting to look at the idea of home building a fuel cell here that can power my machines off the grid if need be. I am not worried about the fuel source itself (hydrogen can be easily got with some solar cells, graphic electrodes and starage

Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it? (yes I'm still running my computer that was built in 97 - I've

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Stephen P Rufle
I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9 http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to start for the feasibility of different ideas. Technomage-hawke wrote:

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin Faulkner
I beg to differ, OS X is very different from Windows. It sells for a fair price and it works. Well its kinda hard to place a price on OS X when it comes bundled with the machine itself. I don't even know how much it sells for. I think Windows works too, quite well for people who enjoy it

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin Faulkner
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:10:46AM +, Michael Havens wrote: I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it?

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-24 Thread Austin Godber
Kevin Faulkner wrote: I beg to differ, OS X is very different from Windows. It sells for a fair price and it works. Well its kinda hard to place a price on OS X when it comes bundled with the machine itself. I don't even know how much it sells for. I think Windows works OS X is

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Kevin Faulkner wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:10:46AM +, Michael Havens wrote: I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9 http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to start for the

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread koder
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:47 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9 http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html The cost of his system seem a

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, koder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:47 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
okay. I'll post top before I have to do it again this is what it says now though: [EMAIL PROTECTED] free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:385728 357416 28312 0 29736 157252 -/+ buffers/cache: 170428

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Technomage-hawke wrote: ok, I know some of you are engineering types. I am starting to look at the idea of home building a fuel cell here that can power my machines off the grid if need be. I am not worried about the fuel source itself (hydrogen can be easily got with

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Dale Farnsworth
Michael wrote: I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg. Is there anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live with it? Most likely it's firefox that is growing and using up

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
it wasn't created so what I did was : touch swap swapon swap 512000 swapon swap swap swap noauto 0 0 then fstab became: # Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 none /proc proc

[Fwd: The secret of PHP on BusyBox http server?]

2008-04-24 Thread Alan Dayley
I posted this email to plug-devel on Tuesday but there hasn't been a response yet over there. Maybe all the developers are hanging out in this list? If anyone has something to add, don't hold back! Alan Original Message Subject: The secret of PHP on BusyBox http server?

Re: Xorg slow down rquires a kill

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Havens
On Thursday 24 April 2008 9:06 pm, Michael Havens wrote: /mnt/swap swap swap noauto 0 0 There is a file called /mnt/swap. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /mnt/swap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-04-24 20:54 /mnt/swap hmm should I be concerned about the permissions?

Re: [Fwd: The secret of PHP on BusyBox http server?]

2008-04-24 Thread keith smith
Hi Alan, I'm thinking this is a good question for the AZPHP list. Keith Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted this email to plug-devel on Tuesday but there hasn't been a response yet over there. Maybe all the developers are hanging out in this list? If anyone has something to add,

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-24 Thread Donn
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Austin Godber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Faulkner wrote: I beg to differ, OS X is very different from Windows. It sells for a fair price and it works. Well its kinda hard to place a price on OS X when it comes bundled with the machine itself. I

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 20:28 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: Donn wrote: Thank you Austin. That was part of my point. OS X has ONE Price and One version. It also has none of the typical Windows issues with Registry hell, reboot after sneezing hard, corruption of basic services by

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-24 Thread Vaughn Treude
Donn wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Austin Godber [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Faulkner wrote: I beg to differ, OS X is very different from Windows. It sells for a fair price and it works. Well its kinda hard

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Judd Pickell
I honestly think that the reason Apple has customers is because the people who buy Apple think the only alternative is Windows. That or they need the multimedia properties and software that have been do well done on the Mac. Simple fact is Windows can't touch them on that account for

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 20:45 -0700, Judd Pickell wrote: I honestly think that the reason Apple has customers is because the people who buy Apple think the only alternative is Windows. That or they need the multimedia properties and software that have been do well done on the Mac.

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Mike Garfias
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Craig White wrote: As for the hardware...until you need repairs and then you have to confront a revolutionary new business model...PreferredCare. $100 extortion fee and they repair in 2/3 days. If you don't pay the fee, repair in 1/3 weeks. Warranty is not

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:10 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote: On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Craig White wrote: As for the hardware...until you need repairs and then you have to confront a revolutionary new business model...PreferredCare. $100 extortion fee and they repair in 2/3 days. If you