Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-02 Thread Puneet Vyas
Thanks for this wonderful effort! Add one more to the testing team. ~Puneet Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi, How to apply the -rc, -git, -mm and the 2.6.x.y (-stable) patches is a quite frequently asked question on LKML and elsewhere. Since so many people seem to be confused by this I gathered it oug

Re: Linux, Get the facts?

2005-08-02 Thread Puneet Vyas
Hmmm . They put it such that it plays only in microsoft media player. Case closed :) ~Puneet Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Hi Guys/Gals, I watched some commercials and I almost puked when I looked at the Microsoft Get the Facts for Linux vs Windows Server stuff. They have a url which

Re: i387 floating-point test program/benchmark

2005-07-29 Thread Puneet Vyas
Chuck Ebbert wrote: /* fp.c: i387 benchmark/test program */ [EMAIL PROTECTED] C]$ cc FPUtest.c -o FPUtest FPUtest.c: In function `main': FPUtest.c:103: warning: passing arg 2 of `sched_setaffinity' makes integer from pointer without a cast FPUtest.c:103: error: too few arguments to fun

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Puneet Vyas
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Puneet Vyas wrote: PS : I am not even sure if I am "allowed" to pull out the writer like this. Am I supposed to "stop" the device first or something? You are supoused to unmount the volume. Try it. umount /dev/cdrom ? Make sure that is it not

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Puneet Vyas
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Also, go to a tty (ctrl+alt+f1), login and then unplug the device, If it gives a kernel panic, show the output here. .Alejandro Thanks for looking into this. I tried the tty and got the following messages in continuous loop (they were scrolling past real fast bu

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-24 Thread Puneet Vyas
Jan Engelhardt wrote: To confuse you, coders with assembly or hardware background throw in I doubt that. I'm good enough assembly to see this :) equivalent bit operations to succinctly describe their visualisation of solution space... Perhaps the writer _wanted_ you to pause and th

Re: kernel 2.6 speed

2005-07-24 Thread Puneet Vyas
Ciprian wrote: Hi guys! I got a question for you. Apparently kernel 2.6 is much slower then 2.4 and about 30 times slower then the windows one. I'm not an OS guru, but I ran a little and very simple test. The program bellow, as you can see, measures the number of cycles performed in 30 seconds