On 12/03/12 6:42 PM, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi all,
got a new computer with a Inno3D GF GTX 570 VaporFreeze...
I'm envious.
It comes with windows drivers but I am currently loading CentOS on the
box... or any Linux distro that could work with it.
(I also want it to be able to do
more precise measure of the
speed of my actual code.
Cheers.
Dion.
On 25/05/10 3:11 PM, Martin Visser wrote:
Dion,
As a soon-to-graduate EE you might consider using a tool such
as oscilloscope or frequency counter to help more objectively measure
timing. A simple thing to do would be to have
more precise measure of the
speed of my actual code.
Cheers.
Dion.
On 25/05/10 3:11 PM, Martin Visser wrote:
Dion,
As a soon-to-graduate EE you might consider using a tool such
as oscilloscope or frequency counter to help more objectively measure
timing. A simple thing to do would be to have
On 23/05/2010, at 5:40 PM, Peter Chubb wrote:
tenzero == tenzero tenz...@iinet.net.au writes:
tenzero Hi everyone, I'm seeking a preferably citeable reference to
tenzero the amount of error in the returned result from a Time()
tenzero command. I want to be able to quote the level of error
On 24/05/2010, at 8:47 AM, Glen Turner wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:02 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
Actually it doesn't give the whole answer.
Wow, thanks heaps Peter.
Thank you all. Particularly Peter.
That is truly an amazing depth of information to digest.
tenzero: so there are
On 22/08/09 10:29, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
Can you throw light on the demise of the unix shell?
Marghanita
I'm guessing 'contextually', that you're asking about the demise of the
original Thompson shell that shipped with Unix? Since replaced by Bash,
Csh et al?
D.
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Jake Anderson wrote:
On 27/07/09 17:34, Gerald wrote:
to all,
I have a SOLTEK motherboard that is giving problems.
I have spent 3 hours running memtest and it gives a clean bill of
health.
This means that the CPU is OK and the MEMORY is OK
I have run SEATOOLS on any hard disks that I will use
Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I have just installed lenny on a machine with 800MHz
AMD Duron chip, 1Gb RAM, 63.3 GbB /usr, 320Gb /home
yet get hanging and/or rebooting after opening applications
in two screens (usually update/upgrade as root
and mutt or a browser).
My previous etch system with
I'm now down, thanks for this.
We're really going to need more than 478 people to be of statistical
significance to the ATO.
Here's to hoping we get (a lot) more votes.
D.
Danny Yee wrote:
There's an online petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/FreeEtax/
asking that the ATO
bill wrote:
This AM drove to Alexandria and visited Allans Music ( waste of time)
and had intended to visit Harris Technology (gone) which used to be
next door.
On way home I spied a small computer shop (also in Alexandria) which
happened to have a BenQ E2400WD in stock, unopened. Pric
Osaka! I am envious!
I believe, the latest kernels support the Atom processor very well. I
can't see why a distro would need to explicitly support it. Any x86
distro should work, as long as the kernel recognises the atom.
Are they selling the dual core atoms in mini-itx mobos now?
Have fun.
Robert Thorsby wrote:
When installing Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) onto my lappy I ascribed a
localhost name but decided to fix up the localdomain name later. This
is proving much more difficult than I expected.
System Settings -- Network Settings gets me into a broken
Administrator Mode
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
Hi,
We have an IBM xSeries 306 (88364SU) in which we just put 4 x 1 GB
of RAM, and when it boots, it says 4096M System Memory Installed, and
then 3327M OK. Once Linux boots up, it only has 3.2 GB.
I tried calling IBM support but the rep said that the missing
Totally a guess, but do you have any system indexing tools like Beagle
running?
They might be trying to catalogue your drive while you're trying to
unmount it.
Just a wild stab.
D.
david wrote:
I have an external USB HD. When I tried to eject it from the gnome
desktop it objected on the
This may be not relevant enough for you -- I'm still running Edgy.
I will be moving to Fiesty around Tuesday after my last exam.
Presumably you need an AGP card if you currently run an old Matrox card??
I currently use a Geforce 5600 series card. Yes its quite old now.
I haven't had any issues
Voytek Eymont wrote:
Dion,
brand new, but, according to the specs, the HD is UDMA 5, '100Mb/s'
(must've picked up a cheap brand..)
is there anything to be done to enable 'max transfer speed', apart from
setting UDMA in BIOS ? and, use 80wire ribbon
No it should be fine as long as its
I can't recall if there were problems with largish hard drives going
into P3 class machines.
You might get some clues by going to the download site for new bios' for
your machines
motherboard and look at the comments / changes made in recent bios
revisions.
Do you know what sort of ATA
Voytek Eymont wrote:
Dion,
as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports'
what limitations does that pose ?
UDMA66 is only good for 66 MB/s transfer rates.
If your hard disk is brand new, it most likely supports ATA133 (133MB/s)
so it's
capable of higher transfer rates than your
I found that neither Thunderbird nor firefox would auto update on my
system. Also in my case the help - check for updates menu choice is
greyed out in both applications. After some experimenting, it seems to
be a permissions issue. If I start either application as the superuser I
can then
john gibbons wrote:
Would some kind slugger please tell me what I have to type into the
terminal to mount my flash drive in Fedora 4?
John.
I though core 4 would just detect in. Have you tried plugging it in and
then looking with your favourite file browser in /media/usbdisk
Does this not
Voytek wrote:
I often found this to be a problem when PC were being introduced into
businesses 10-15-20 years ago. Everyone who was going to use them was
sent to training courses and worked well with the new machines, but as
they left their replacements weren't sent on training courses so had
Craig Warner wrote:
Little thing I've been playing with over the last couple of hours has
has been QEMU.
The success has been great until after loading windows (w2K), actually
getting windows to restart within Linux.
The issue I've had is restarting QEMU to find that the following occurs:
Booting
Eddie F wrote:
Howdy,
Looking at motherboards, and came across this;
http://au.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4ge-v/overview.htm#
Anyone know what the deal is with the blue PCI slot?
Edd.
If you download the manual for that board, its called the Asus BlueMagic
PCI slot. Proprietary to Asus
Thanks for the pointer to words like task affinity. I have been
searching on google with stuff like linux drivers force single cpu on
smp and the like.
All assistance is good.
Thanks.
Michael Chesterton wrote:
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Hi there does anyone know any tricks for telling or
Maybe you could. But you certainly couldn't when these babies came out
a number of years ago.
As for the original question. I don't have an Octane, but I have had my
eye on them including those sold on Ebay in Australia by networkr I
think. Anyway as far as I have been able to reseach, you
Without disparaging the journalitic quality of the article, I would
challenge that not nearly enough testing was performed to take any
meaningful information away on the Pros or Cons of a fully compiled system.
Also some of the gains that come from compiling a source are smaller
memory
Just a thought about running xfree86. Have you thought of trying a
generic vga adaptor driver?? I would expext, indeed I believe all video
cards support basic VGA resolutions up to 1024*768 and then there are
the VESA modes also. You may not be able to use mesa or other 3d
acceleration but I
My estimate is you have damaged cds. You can get a fresh copy of
mandrake 9 for the price of
Australian Personal Computer (APC) magazine at most any newsagent. You
want the current november edition.
D
Josh Brady wrote:
hi,
to make things short i have five copies of linux. the
only one i have
Hi there,
Has anyone had experience trying to install linux into a
bochs virtual machine. In this case Bochs is being hosted on a Win XP
machine. For some reason Bochs is choking when it gets to the part of
the install when Linux probes your machines hard drive to see what
Kevin Saenz wrote:
I was hoping to rescue the RAM and just upgrade the CPU and
motherboard. My current video is PCI.
It depends on the CPU you are going to buy. I doubt that if you
Buy any thing faster than a 1.2GHz that you will be able to use
SDRAM. I Don't think the older style of RAM
Ken Foskey wrote:
The price difference with an AMD athalon 1.6GHz and a P4 1.6GHz the
athalon is dearer by $50. Is there a real reason for this? Should I
spend the extra on AMD?
I was hoping to rescue the RAM and just upgrade the CPU and
motherboard. My current video is PCI.
What is DDR
Thought I might share this with the sluggers.
http://www.technology.scee.net/cgi-bin/scee/scee.pl?ps2linux
Quote from Sony Computer Entertainment press release --
SCEA Announce release of LINUX KIT (for PlayStation 2)
For Linux Community in Australia
Sydney - April 29, 2002 - Sony Computer
equipment
Thanks in advance
Dion
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Sol1 ??? okay I'm ignorant, please enlighten me!
D.
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Has this got anything to do with our Linux User group
I really detest spam.
D.
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Hi there,
Couple of interesting points to make here. SCSI is and maybe
always will be faster, its driven by the server industry and consequently
performance and robustness are its primary concerns/design criteria. You
can't get platter speeds in DIE drives beyond 7200 rpm that I
Hi there,
I'm having some problems with a Mandrake 7.2 beta...it fails to
detect my 256 MB of ram. Instead in decides I have only 16 and consequently
my smp machine runs like a dog, KDE is impossibly slow to initialise. I've
looked through a number of books and docs and not found
. I am getting
errors compiling either kernels 2.2.17 or 2.4.0-0.14 and the errors come
back as a compiler problem with my version of gcc 2.95?? I think.
Thanks in advance.
Dion.
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Hi there People,
Have any of you out there had any experience with Emulex
LightPulse LP8000 Fibre Channel Controllers and Seagate FC hard drives??
Does linux offer any support for these?? Any tricks / traps and is there
anywhere that sells Fibre Channel cables etc to the public??
Hi there,
Has anyone had experience with setting up the Beos boot loader with
linux. I set up my linux {RH 6.0} box initially as a boot from lilo from a
floppy as I wasn't sure how things would pan out. I was wondering if anyone
knows how I can ditch the floppy and add an option to
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