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How big should a swap partition be?
by tom potts 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

Redhat 7.1 seems to thing that ram*2 is necessary which may surprise you - I thought about taking all but 32meg out and then installing! I've 256Meg on my laptop and even running Sql/IIs/Forte and a background search/index engine under W2K its not all used so under Linux if your not running everything under the Sun I would have thought you would only want swap when something goes pear shaped. Tom ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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Sun monitors.
by PleXeR 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Hi, Check out: http://www2.tk.elec.waseda.ac.jp/~tanaka/private/monitor-e.html For details of the adapter you need to make. Cheers, Ben

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This meeting thingy
by MJ Ray 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Q1. Does anyone from K.Lynn - Thetford - Bury want a lift to the next meeting? Q2. If not, how long does it take to get from Ipswich's train station to the venue? And how much? Q3. What are we supposed to bringing?

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Re: [Alug] How big should a swap partition be?
by David Freeman 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:06:51 +0100 (BST) Adam Bower wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote: > > > people would recommend for the swap partition size, I have 384MB of ram, > > so am thinking a 256MB swap file is plenty for what I will be > doing. What > > do others think? > > hmmm, what will you be doing?? and also how big is your disk? I have 768Mb > of Ram and a 1gig swap partition but I also have a 40Gb disk so space is > not an issue, I am playing with big images (upto 300mb each) in the gimp > and blender, I also run VMware with lots of resources given to virtual > machines. Big images in GIMP, plex86, Video capture, MP3 enc, CAD, electonics design, Surfing, LaTeX pretty much sumerises what I will be doing, oh and quake. > > Also dare I ask what peoples views are on partitioning? > > I seperate /var (around 800mb) /boot (around 30mb) /usr (around 4Gb on my > machine here but depends on how much spare disk you have) /tmp (around > 300mb) / (around 180mb) /etc (around 40mb) and /home however big you need > it. Of course you can use less space for these but I have the spare disk > so I am not bothered. Why do you seperate all of the above? Thanks D > Adam > -- > This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed > Adam > -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Re: [Alug] Re: The ongoing best way to do a website debate
by David Freeman 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

On 08 Aug 2001 10:08:41 +0100 Martyn Drake wrote: > On 07 Aug 2001 16:08:29 +0000, David Freeman wrote: > > > Sorry, my crap english, I mean I can't run anything on the server, it > > runs zues/apache/what ever and will serve html, that is the only > constant > > I have. > > I should just mention that the Alug web server currently runs version > 3.4r1 of the Zeus web server along with the FastCGI version of PHP > 4.0.6. In addition, MySQL is running on it, but it's only being used to > serve a couple of my personal sites. It did run Zope for a bit, but > it's a pain in the arse getting it to work with Zeus properly. Ok. I didn't realise it was all on there and didn't like to ask after you set up, mail and web for us. But whilst on the subbject, do you have a IMAP server on the machine? > Therefore, you can run PHP code David - it's enabled on all sites on the > box :) If you need a MySQL database I can set-up an account for you. How difficult is the mysql stuff to set up? I don't want to be a pain in the arse and hog bandwidth/cycles. > Mind you, I'm not likely to shy away from Zeus to Apache having paid > £1,500 for the thing several years ago, and I'm still very impressed > with the scability and performance aspect of it :) Makes sense. Just out of interest why did you go for Zeus over Apache? Thanks D > Regards, > > Martyn -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Re: [Alug] Re: The ongoing best way to do a website debate
by David Freeman 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:54:39 +0100 (BST) Paul Tansom wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:19:20 +0100 "Earl Brannigan" wrote: > <snip> > > Great in theory but I can't put anything other than plain old HTML. > > I think you can use scripting with it from what I've read on the site > so far, > lathough I have to say I am looking further into this because I have > to, not > becaues I want to! We are going to be using Zope for our site at > work so I've > been told having started serious perl coding already. From what I've > installed > and seen so far I'm not inspired with confidence of its flexibility, and I > definately didn't like the small text input box that I appear to have to > type/past my html pages into. Of course I haven't look far into it > yet so I > could be wrong/unjustly biased! Sorry, my crap english, I mean I can't run anything on the server, it runs zues/apache/what ever and will serve html, that is the only constant I have. I think for now I am going to concentrate on making it look good, as although it gives the info well, it is a triffle bland. What sort of color combinations do people recommend? Thanks D > --- > Paul Tansom: Talking to penguins can be inTUXicating, whereas > talking to windows is only 1 step away from Talking to the wall! > --- > Smoothwall firewall/router project: http://www.smoothwall.org/ > Smoothwall project community contact: community(a)smoothwall.org -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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MSN park bench in Bury
by Adam Bower 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Hi all, Have just seen this on the news a few mins ago, and there appears to be no interest in the internet bench (what a surprise). Now I thought I may go and do Microsoft a favour and help publicise their park bench, of course I think a Mandrake 7.1 giveaway (we do still have about a million cds I think) and showing people how great linux is would be ideal! and it will allow us to show how we can integrate linux with M$ hardware. Anyway if you want to have a laugh I may do it sometime either in the week next week, or if enough people are interested then we can do it on the weekend. Let me know what you think, Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam

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Re: [Alug] Here's an interesting game to play
by MJ Ray 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Alexis Lee <alexis(a)turton.com> writes: > It does this three times, so it's not very efficient. Can anyone suggest > another fair means to do this, reading the whole file at most once? Either read the whole thing into an array, splitting on "\n.\n" instead of line breaks, or keep meta-data to indicate how many sigs are there. It's an ancient tradeoff.

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Cheep Hubs?
by NuTTeR =) 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Dose any one know where i can get a cheep hub(RJ-45 connection's, 4 or more ports) from? the cheeper the better im only a Mc D'z worker(or will be 2morrow) and second hand is gr8 :). Also do u know if newhere in norfolk is selling/chucking out old hardware and will not mind giving it 2 a cheep student? I live in the Kings lynn/Noritch area. Thanx Alot if u can help :) --- "Why is dyslexia so hard to sqell?" --- -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Cheep Hub's?
by NuTTeR =) 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Dose any one know where i can get a cheep hub(RJ-45 connection's, 4 or more ports) from? the cheeper the better im only a Mc D'z worker(or will be 2morrow) and second hand is gr8 :). Also do u know if newhere in norfolk is selling/chucking out old hardware and will not mind giving it 2 a cheep student? I live in the Kings lynn/Noritch area. Thanx Alot if u can help :) --- "Why is dyslexia so hard to sqell?" --- -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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