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FOR SALE: Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA
by Jamie French 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Hi Guys, Hope all is well! I have not been in the scene lately as I purely don't have the time. Hence my lack of time and in need of money I am selling my Zaurus on ebay @ http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5725424664&ssPage… with all accessories. The reserve price is very resonable, so have a bid and see what happens :) Take Care, Jamie ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ALUG] querying RAM
by Richard Lewis 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 10:55 AM, adam(a)thebowery.co.uk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:34:32AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: >> Hello ALUG, >> >> I'm running Debian on my server. >> >> Does anyone know if there's a way of established what my RAM upgrade >> options are (i.e. slots and speeds, rather than $ free -m) without >> switching the machine off? > > We were just kicking around a few ideas on IRC, you can try > > apt-get install dmidecode > > and then looking at the output of dmidecode, homepage here > http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ > Hey, thats really cool! I never knew there was so much to a computer :-) Richard

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Re: nostalgia clearout
by phil 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

> > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:04:01 +0100 > From: Big Dave <digbave(a)gmail.com> > Reply-To: Big Dave <digbave(a)gmail.com> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] nostalgia clearout > > i might be interested in some of them, but for my father, he has a > strange liking of the beige beasts... > OK - let me know, I'm working thru them one by one, taking off all the "stuff" off... Don't think they'll be allowed in the dining room for long! Most of them have ethernet cards in, except the LC475.

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nostalgia clearout
by phil 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Evening - just having a clearout of all my old beige Mac stuff. We have a LC475 (beautiful beige pizza box), Performa 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 960, Powermac 7100, and a 9600. Unbelievably they all still work (well, I'm working through the pile now...) - except the newest which is the 9600 with a dead video card. Robbed it for my YDL Linux machine. I guess Linux could be put on the last two... There's appletalk boxes & network cables - thought about setting up a quick network game of Spectre Supreme for nostalgia's sake, but just haven't got the room! The Quadra 650 boots in 30 seconds, and has run word 5.0 like everybody wishes it would run now! My 76 year old father-in-law used it for years, without a single crash. Can't bring myself to scrap this stuff cos it all just works like the day it was bought - anyone know anybody that might be interested? Phil www.figureone.co.uk

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Lots of hardware, mostly free to good homes
by Chris Green 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

I have decided I really need to clear out some of my old hardware and systems, to avoid cluttering up this list I've put what's available on my web pages at http://www.isbd.net/computerbits.html The list won't be complete so if you have a desperate need for some sort of ISA card drop me a mail, you'd be suprised what I have lying about! Among other things there will be a Brother 1060 dual bin laser printer and one or two complete systems with processors around the 300MHz mark which would probably make good ipCop forewalls for example. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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RE: [ALUG] DSL anyone?
by e154 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

>===== Original Message From chris.green(a)isbd.co.uk ===== >On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:26:08PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote: >> > >> This is a habit I really want to get into. I currently never turn my home >> machine off, I don't care about the electricity costs but worry about the >> environmental impact of everybody doing this. install climateprediction.net and then your PC will do something useful to help climate science whilst it is on.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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A connection conundrum - can it be done?
by Barry Samuels 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

I have a laptop which I take on holiday and would like to use it to connect to my machine at home. My machine at home is on ADSL and my ISP also gives me a dial-up number. I can connect via the dial-up number but my IP address is exactly the same as the fixed IP address of my home machine on ADSL. Having connected via dial-up is there any way I can connect to my home machine as both machines then have the same IP address? Am I missing anything obvious here? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Gigabit copper networks
by Chris Green 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

I need a new switch to use with our new wireless broadband so, seeing as Gigabit switches are now relatively cheap, what else do I need to know about Gigabit over copper:- Can I use existing Cat5e cables? Does Gigabit degrade gracefully over less than perfect connections? Are there shorter cable length limits? Are Cat6 cables really necessary or won't I see much difference using Cat5 over short distances? Is there a good web site anywhere with all this sort of information on it? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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usb-storage trouble
by MJ Ray 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

I have a computer with a VIA VT82C686 chipset which uses the UHCI usb driver of the Linux kernel. I'm running 2.6.9-rc3 now, but also tried 2.6.4. I have a couple of usb-storage devices which don't work in this machine. Plugging one in and modprobe of usb-storage (hotplug disabled for debugging) produces log lines finishing with those below. That is for an Oracom ORC-200M, which should appear as a 128Mb sda1 partition in the end. It appears in /proc/scsi/usb-storage/1 but has lots of "Unknown". It doesn't appear under "Attached devices:" in /proc/scsi/scsi When I try to rmmod usb-storage, it hangs sometimes. ps shows "[scsi_eh_1]" in state DW, which usually means it's wanting to read something IME. I have tons of debug output, far more than I can post: if anything else would help, please ask. I have other usb-storage devices that work on this machine (disconnected when trying this) and these devices work on other machines here (OHCI usb driver, though). It would really help to have them connect to this machine. I've searched around and can't figure this one out. Help! Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: -- Result from auto-sense is 0 Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: -- code: 0x55, key: 0x2, ASC: 0x1, ASCQ: 0x0 Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: Not Ready: No index/sector signal Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x2 Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: device_reset called Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_Bulk_reset called Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_control_msg: rq=ff rqtype=21 value=0000 index=00 len=0 Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping. Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: Soft reset failed: -32 Oct 8 12:52:45 bouncing kernel: usb-storage: bus_reset called -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know Creative copyleft computing - http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ LinuxExpo.org.uk village 6+7 Oct http://www.affs.org.uk

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