[OT] quote about logic [was Re: partition table numberings]

2005-03-21 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:47:39PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > "Stealing from one person is plagiarism, stealing from > many is research". Robert Heinlein. Adding the word > logic is the sort of plagiarism attempted by teenagers > doing homework papers... Ah but then you can take the example

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Broughton wrote: > No.  Everything you need to see is said by:  "Stealing from one person is > plagiarism, stealing from many is research".  I've seen it attributed to > Alfred E Newman (unlikely), Anon., and Robert Heinlein.  Adding the word >

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Urs Thuermann
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is fabulous. But I don't think it's much feasible in case of a > notebook and I posted the problem keeping my notebook in mind. Will > using LVM on a notebook, which will always have just one singe disk, > give any benefit ? Yes, it will. I'v

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Derek Broughton
On Monday 21 March 2005 15:32, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > > Odd.  I've always seen this quote without the word "logic", and I can't > > imagine why the addition of a word improves it :-) > > Copying logic/idea/trick from just one person/thing is mostly like doing a > carbon

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Broughton wrote: > Odd.  I've always seen this quote without the word "logic", and I can't > imagine why the addition of a word improves it :-) Copying logic/idea/trick from just one person/thing is mostly like doing a carbon copy which would b

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Derek Broughton
On Monday 21 March 2005 13:57, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > > LVM can make life *so much* easier when resizing, installing or > > deinstalling disks, etc.  Use it. > > This is fabulous. But I don't think it's much feasible in case of a > notebook and I posted the problem keeping my notebook in mi

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 Mar 2005 2:52 pm, Urs Thuermann wrote: > There is much better solution to your problem than grabbing a > cigarette: It's called Logical Volume Management (LVM).  With LVM you > can forget about partitioning completely. > > With LVM you wou

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 10:29 pm, you wrote: > > Is this something to worry about? I just modified my partition table > > using parted to make a new swap partition. Previously / was /dev/hda8 and > > now it's /dev/hda7. Everything is working fine for me.

Re: Battery life

2005-03-21 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
Yves Rutschle wrote: It seems to me the biggest problem is that each battery technology requires different care, that few people are aware of that, let alone of what type of batteries they have, and you end up with endless mis-informed postings based on old technologies. indeed. I highly recommend:

Re: Battery life

2005-03-21 Thread Yves Rutschle
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:15:30PM +, Jan T. Kim wrote: > Overall, it seems to me that battery technology is surrounded by many > suboptimalities and that only a fundamentally new approach (hydrogen > fuel cells?) will really fix the problem. It seems to me the biggest problem is that each bat

Re: Battery life

2005-03-21 Thread Derek Broughton
On Monday 21 March 2005 13:15, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:39:19AM -0500, Steven wrote: > > Huh! And I was advised the opposite recently by a fellow tech. > > He claimed leaving the battery in and constantly charged would result in > > longer battery life span. > > If I recall co

Re: Battery life

2005-03-21 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:39:19AM -0500, Steven wrote: > Huh! And I was advised the opposite recently by a fellow tech. > He claimed leaving the battery in and constantly charged would result in > longer battery life span. If I recall correctly, the question is to which extend the battery is kep

Re: Battery life

2005-03-21 Thread Steven
Huh! And I was advised the opposite recently by a fellow tech. He claimed leaving the battery in and constantly charged would result in longer battery life span. I need a new one for my T23 and I just found batteryrefill.com where you can exchange your old battery or simply purchase a rebuilt one

Boot problems with Tecra 8000 and DeskStation V+

2005-03-21 Thread Michael Vishchers
I'm having problems booting Debian Sarge (or Knoppix, if that matters) on a Tecra 8000 when attached to the DeskStation V+. The system runs fine without the docking station, and earlier kernels (I think 2.2) worked with the docking station, but now the systems hangs in the early boot stages. lin

Re: toshiba satellite a55: cdrom/dvdrom

2005-03-21 Thread Krzysztof Wilk
Hello David, Any A55 owner here? I'm having difficulty having my Sarge(+Sid) installation detect the CD ROM (which is a DVD+-RW). Knoppix 3.6 can boot and detect the CDROM, but burning CD also fails. I am using A50-106 and I think you have the same problem I had. Debian clone of cdrecord did not

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Willie McKemie
> > Is this something to worry about? I just modified my partition table using > parted to make a new swap partition. Previously / was /dev/hda8 and now > it's /dev/hda7. Everything is working fine for me. Are you aware that you can use a swap FILE and just put it in whatever partition you wish?

Re: Experience with recent WLAN hardware (Netgear WG 511, TRENDnet TEW-421PC)

2005-03-21 Thread Michael Marte
Hello James (and *), some remarks and some more experience: * Netgear seems to sell cards based on the Texas Instruments chipset as well, e.g. the WG 311. * I tried the native Linux driver (latest version) and found that it works quite reliably for me WHEN someone else is using the access po

Battery life (was: [OT] Looking for advice on buying a new laptop)

2005-03-21 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2005 04:38, Yannick Warnier wrote: > > > > Poor story however: > > The battery life after 2 years was a little short (around 1h45) so I > > Don't blame IBM for that - nobody would guarantee a Lion battery for

Re: partition table numberings

2005-03-21 Thread Urs Thuermann
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My actual swap was /dev/hda5 and my home dir was /dev/hda6. > I didn't want to risk my /home partition. > /usr/local partiton (/dev/hda7) was 4.2 GB which, at least in Debian, is > just too much, so I thought of resizing it. For that I had to shrink