Re: Difference between Cat 5e & Cat 6

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Daggett
*What is the general difference between category 5e and category 6?* The general difference between category 5e and category 6 is in the transmission performance, and extension of the available bandwidth f

Re: Difference between Cat 5e & Cat 6

2015-04-15 Thread Eric Cope
Cat5e will most likely work for you. 35ft is not that long per the specification. Cat6 has plastic dividers between the twisted pairs. If its only 1 cable, you can spring for cat6, but if you are running many cables, I'd save money and go Cat5e. Eric On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:45 PM, AZ Pete wrot

Re: Difference between Cat 5e & Cat 6

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Havens
but I'm not the one to ask! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I'd say get cat5 as the only difference is the twist in the cable. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:45 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to get some long ethernet cabling

Re: Difference between Cat 5e & Cat 6

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Havens
I'd say get cat5 as the only difference is the twist in the cable. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:45 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to get some long ethernet cabling for my home network (around > 35ft). I currently have a gigabit switch want to ensure that the cable > can acco

Difference between Cat 5e & Cat 6

2015-04-15 Thread AZ Pete
Hi all, I need to get some longethernet cabling for my home network(around 35ft). I currently have a gigabit switchwant to ensure that the cable can accommodate gigabit ethernet speed. For the machines that are hard wired, I currently use cat 5e. Looking on NewEgg I see cat 5e and cat 6 cables

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Butash
On 04/15/2015 01:43 PM, sean wrote: If your chrome is actually hitting your ulimits then something is wrong. Have you done some troubleshooting to track it down? E.g. lsof+ps+strace? So yeah, I had to find where I put this little nugget, but you're right - data! General deductions, linux r

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Butash
On 04/15/2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only runs 32bit is damn near unusable with either browser... I have had to resort to xombrero. And yes, Goo

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread sean
If your chrome is actually hitting your ulimits then something is wrong. Have you done some troubleshooting to track it down? E.g. lsof+ps+strace? On Apr 15, 2015 1:36 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > On 04/15/2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> >> I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Havens
I have not had problems running Mint as the OS. Maybe the fault lies with Ubuntu? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > On 04/15/2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> >> I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it >> does happen very

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Stephen Partington
I have recently started migrating back to Firefox. Chrome memory utilization has become absurd. On Apr 15, 2015 12:48 PM, "Kevin Fries" wrote: > I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it > does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only > ru

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Havens
I've never had a problem (that I remember). :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it > does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only > runs 32bit is damn near unusable

Re: Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Kevin Fries
I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only runs 32bit is damn near unusable with either browser... I have had to resort to xombrero. And yes, Google does EVERYTHING in Linux. They use Ubuntu as

Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Butash
Just wondering if others have issues with chrome/chromium under linux perpetually forking up to kill your system? This has been happening for some time, but I have recently had to switch to using multiple profiles, and it's only made the problem factorial now. I've read there are tons of issu

Re: Remotes for Kodi/XBMC

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Butash
I use my phone mostly, Yatse app under android, and allcast to stream dnla music from my phone at it Both work reasonably well as a solution, but I was looking to use my Vera automation unit to tie into it with a plugin too since getting my receiver working via rs232. My biggest issue seems to

Re: Remotes for Kodi/XBMC

2015-04-15 Thread Stephen M
When I use Kodi I usually just use the app on my phone as the remote. Cheap, easy to use, and I don't need an extra remote lying around to try and find. Plus it locks so even if some wanted to change the channel they'd either have to get up or know how to unlock my phone. On Apr 15, 2015 8:53 AM,

Re: Remotes for Kodi/XBMC

2015-04-15 Thread Todd Millecam
I actually use a usb paddle (saitek, it's the cheapo brand) because I use kodi on my Retropie On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Andrew wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions guys. I found a decent arc-1100 remote on eBay > so I'll order that after work. > While we're kinda on the subject of kodi, ha

Re: Remotes for Kodi/XBMC

2015-04-15 Thread Andrew
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I found a decent arc-1100 remote on eBay so I'll order that after work. While we're kinda on the subject of kodi, has anyone gotten an Amazon prime plug-in to work? I've tried a few with little success in getting video to play Thanks! Andrew C. On April 14, 20