[SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG: March 30

2007-03-12 Thread Mary Gardiner
The LinuxChix group will host the usual meet-up before SLUG this month, open to all women interested in Linux. Date: Friday 30th March 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Cost: Free Topic: Elena Akhmatova will talk about working as a computer programmer in Russia, and about Ru

[SLUG] 'control, alt, f' qemu problem.

2007-03-12 Thread Lyle Chapman
Any suggestions, I am running qemu with Win2K and it is running fine, although when I try to switch to fullscreen using the switch 'control,alt,f' keys, X restarts. The same happens if I also set it as an executable bash script. I am running Fedora Core 5 and have checked key bindings and

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:54:08AM +1100, Visser, Martin wrote: > Having two near equal sized competitors in the CPU market ensures > that progress is aggressively pursued. If by size you mean performance, maybe, but IIRC Intel still produces something close to 80% of the x86 market. -i -- SLUG

RE: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Visser, Martin
As has been said, there is no general case that says either way whether Intel or AMD CPUs are better. Certainly for most of last year the AMD based HP servers were much better bang-for-buck having their dual core Opteron. For those interested HP Proliant server model numbers ending in the digit 5 (

Re: [SLUG] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(31, 0)

2007-03-12 Thread Glen Turner
> No filesystem could mount root, tried: cramfs > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(31,0) The kernel panic is a result, not the cause. Look to the previous message to see that the CRAMFS filesystem or volume hasn't been set up correctly. I've noticed

[SLUG] GFS + Redhat cluster suite

2007-03-12 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been told by a friend that there is a rather big problem with gfs/cluster suite. I haven't come across it but was wondering if others had or had heard of it. The setup 3 nodes cluster (anything bigger than a 2 node will do) fencing done by a HP ilo (although I hear the

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/03/07, Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does that relate to home PCs? If you're looking at 64 bit then you can expect your average Intel machine to be hotter and noisier than your average AMD machine in the same price/performance range. Is this correct with the new Core Duo II stuff?

[SLUG] 2007-08 SLUG Annual General Meeting

2007-03-12 Thread Matt Moor
Hi All, This email is an announcement of the 2007 SLUG AGM. The following information will be posted on the SLUG website at http://slug.org.au/2007/election The page will also be updated with a list of candidates by the committee as regularly as possible. = SLUG Committee Election 2007 = The e

[SLUG] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(31, 0)

2007-03-12 Thread rajkumar
Hi, We have ARM926EJ-S board and trying to boot Linux on the same. We are using 2.6.19 with cramfs. But we are failing with kernel panic error. Please see attached log of the same. Please let us know what could be the issue. run u-boot_versatilepb U-Boot 1.2.0-gb326152

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Del
For servers, it comes down to price/performance/power. I haven't been watching very closely in recent times, but it seems Intel are making a strong comeback on that front. Anyone have links to (clueful) comparisons that take all three into account? For the general case, I haven't seen any. Fo