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ata100, DDR RAM etc...
by Ricardo Santos Campos 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Well, my desktop computer (not the one with the wierd inode set) lasts about 2-20 minutes before locking up (does this in GNU/Linux AND Win2k), and although I'm now runnning memtest86 (it did this about a year ago, and I had to change 1 of my DIMMs from slot 2 to the third slot and it worked), I guess the poor little motherboard et al need to be put into retirement after a few years of (quirky) service. I'm guessing it's a RAM problem- could be CPU or even the video card (not the hd's cos Linux and win2k are on different drives on different ide slots, and I have tried each by removing the other totally from power and ide cable, tried different cables too). But my real question is; does linux now support ATA100? If so, anyone know which kernel? Will I have to add an hdparam line to LILO, or will it detect it autoimatically? I'll be running Debian Woody on it. Also, I shall be buying the new DDR RAM, does linux fully support this too? Also, does it now support the AGP 8x slot as well? (incidentally, memtest86 has been stuck on test 4, however this is a test that should take long compared to the others....) For sale: one grandmother, will swap for new PC.;) lol TIA

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Re: [Alug] Link: Debian Users are Beatniks [OT]
by Paul Tansom 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Pah, done it again!! ----- Forwarded message from Paul Tansom <paul(a)whaletales.co.uk> ----- From: Paul Tansom <paul(a)whaletales.co.uk> To: Wayne Stallwood <wayne.stallwood(a)btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [Alug] Link: Debian Users are Beatniks [OT] ** Wayne Stallwood <wayne.stallwood(a)btinternet.com> [2003-01-29 00:22]: > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 00:08, Paul Tansom wrote: > > My favourite was from when I was forced to use MDaemon (a Windows mail > > server if you've not come across it, and the version I used was a > > nightmare to use), that kept getting replaced by my spelling checker > > with "Madmen", which I took to refer to anyone who had administered it > > for a significant length of time :-) > > Yes, been there done that even the later versions are a complete nighmare, > makes Exchange look like binary bliss. ** end quote [Wayne Stallwood] It was all the more painful for me because I was switching from using Netscape Messaging server running on an AIX box - a nice setup that stored mail account information in on an LDAP server so that each mail server was aware of accounts on other servers within the same mail domain and could route accordingly. It also shared account information with the Calendar server, web server, and proxy server (as well as the NT domain if you wanted it to). All in all a nice setup. By contrast I was forced to use MDaemon running on a Windows 95 box in Holland connected to an ISDN line and hourly dial up (we had just had the half of our company that I worked for sold off to another company - we were an ex-IBM location, they had started life repairing TVs in a warehouse and the company was now a global company and this was the company mail server!!!!). I had to hook into this via an internationally dialed 33.6k modem and use remote control software - which screwed the fact that I had administered the AIX boxes and NT domain from my Linux boot :-( Entering the aliases we had was a nightmare because you couldn't list all the aliases for a given account - euch. When I emailed their technical support I got a reply from the MD saying that they were aware of the limitations and that they planned to address them in the next but one relase - hopfully. To put this new IT infrastructure into context I will add that the IT director we now had wanted us to ditch our Token Ring network and put Ethernet in so that we could use TCP/IP (doh!) and he also received a fax of a hoax virus email, which he then typed out and emailed to me with the request that I emailed it to managers company wide. When I queried it I was told to go ahead and do it and only managed not to (it would have originated from my email for petes sake!) because I couldn't get a list of all the managers emails because nobody new them! I left soon after this funnily enough because I was labelled as 'at risk' in a company trim down (i.e. if I hadn't jumped and not enough people had jumped I may have been pushed). I was one of two domain admins, and the only mail and calendar server admin (no backup) and the Internet and Intranet webmaster (no backup) and had designed the in house call logging system (not yet finished or documented) - so you can see there would be no significant hole if I dissapeared. Hidden agendas included getting rid of the calendar and Intranet functions and the IT director regaining control of the web site (which he did in Word) and mail server (which he did when he was in Holland!) - so I guess I was definately expendable! How did I get on to this? Somebody shut me up for goodness sake!!!! -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/

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RE: [Alug] ata100, DDR RAM etc...
by Keith Watson 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

>From Ricardo Santos Campos > > Well, my desktop computer (not the one with the wierd inode set) lasts > about 2-20 minutes before locking up (does this in GNU/Linux AND Win2k), > and although I'm now runnning memtest86 (it did this about a year ago, > and I had to change 1 of my DIMMs from slot 2 to the third slot and it > worked), I guess the poor little motherboard et al need to be put into > retirement after a few years of (quirky) service. > > I'm guessing it's a RAM problem- could be CPU or even the video card > (not the hd's cos Linux and win2k are on different drives on different > ide slots, and I have tried each by removing the other totally from > power and ide cable, tried different cables too). > Had this problem myself a couple of years ago tried everything I could think of, swapping RAM modules, changing the CPU speed (which seemed to have a marginal effect), taking out adaptor cards, etc. Couldn't track it down so stuck the thing in the back of a cupboard and invested in a new bit of kit (well, that was my excuse :o) ) Chatting to a hardware type recently about it and he thought it sounded like a power supply problem, so I went back scrounged a digital voltmeter and checked. Sure enough after a few minutes of use the voltage dropped of noticeably just before the system crashed, however this still happened after swapping the power supply. In my case turned out to be my SCSI II drive, (but it looks like you've covered that one from what you say) after a few minutes of use it was doing silly things to the voltages. I suppose I was lucky it didn't damage anything else, mind you, as soon as the voltage dropped so did the whole system :o). Keith ____________ MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Link: Debian Users are Beatniks
by Keith Watson 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

<http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html> Incidentally my spellchecker wants to replace Debian with Deviant :o) Keith ____________ Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Lao-tzu

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[newsforge daily] January 27, 2003 - Europarl to discuss ban of all software patents
by Keith Watson 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

<http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/26/1550234> guerby writes: Michel Rocard (ex France Prime Minister) now on the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport is proposing an amendment (pdf link) to explicitely rule out patentability on information (processing, ...) at the european parliament. The rationale is beautifuly written. Let's hope it has some influence on the outcome of the ongoing battle to stay free of software patents in Europe. Regards, Keith ____________ ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

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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fscking hel(p)!
by Ricardo Santos Campos 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

Sorry bout the title, just couldn't help myself. Anyway. After doing an emerge -u system, the pc froze totally and so I had to hard reset. Sadly, on startup I get this message: Unexpected inconsistency, please run fsck on hda3 manually. inode 161 has imagic flag set. This is fine and dandy, I could get tomsrtbt on the case, but in fact, I have no idea what the imagic flag is, nor what it's meant to be. Interestingly, /dev/hda3 is the root filesystem I'm typing this e-mail on, so it ain't all that bad... is it? I use fsck 1.29 and ext2 as my filesystem.

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man page format problems
by Ricardo Santos Campos 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

Another problem with the gentoo system upgrade (or destruction, depending on the way you look at it) is that now man pages are formatted incorrectly. They look like this: (from man man): ESC[1mSynopsisESC[om and so on... lots of ESC's and I presume control characters. Obviously this is a bug, but I don't know who's bug it is- would it be the man programs or some other program that formats it to display?

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Re: [Alug] Paintball? + NTL free webcam
by NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Im up for some paintball =). LOL we could hold the next meeting at a paintball game. I think we'd see even less kit at the meet ;). Anyone know of a q3 install howto just i dont want to get another copy just for Linux well if the company theat made the boxset were still around i might but as there not, pa =). What deal are NTL doing at the moment then? ive been thinking about geting it but was wondering if i need a bt phone line installed at the address, dont see why its needed but most broadband companys have it as a requirment i just want cable or ADSL not a phone line. (Ive been mailing a uea address by defult... lol how old is that) ----- Original Message ----- ... > I would be up for it...... eventually ;) Just need to do some last > minute practise on Q3A... oh wait....... > > -- -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Webcams
by Paul 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Just a quick update on the freebie webcam that NTL are giving out at the moment. After a snotty phone call on Tuesday, one was delivered the same afternoon. After getting the USB drivers loaded (enabling the BIOS stuff first), I grabbed a driver from http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ - A very quick compile produced a kernel module of about 100K, and with a little work with the strip command this could probably be reduced to around 70K. "make install" does not copy the module across correctly - Mine ended up in /lib/modules/misc instead of /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc. With usbcore, videodev, usb-uhci, and mod_quickcam loaded in that order, "xawtv -c /dev/video0" produced a full colour image at approx 1fps. Downloaded gqcam, but found the image monochromatic with a distinct blue bias. All in all, quite a simple device to set up and use (not sure what for though). Regards, Paul. -- The spamming scumbags have won - A new email account is now in use with a mangled return address. Send replies to : paul AT bdiemc DOT fslife DOT co DOT uk Or : bdi-emc AT ntlworld DOT com

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