Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-22 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > WOW THANKS! > > I just recompiled my 2.4.0 kernel with generic dma support > for the IDE driver on my laptop, and it more than quadrupled my > disk reads. (We'll see how it handles disk *writes* from my DV > camera now...) One other point you may wish to c

[techtalk] Intel 810 Video Chip Set & XFree86 3.3.3 Config

2001-05-22 Thread Farhad
  Hello! Sorry if I've disturb you... Would you send me links, where i can find drivers for Intel 810 video adapter?   P.S. Sorry for poor English)

[techtalk] Delurk/Getting started

2001-05-22 Thread Ruhiel
Hullo. :) Err.. i'm always terrible at delurking anywhere, and even worse at asking questions (years on alt.gothic, where the newbies are served with ketchup), but here goes... I'm *trying* to learn Linux. It ain't easy, since I don't have it installed anywhere yet, but the books are helping. At t

[techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-22 Thread Penguina
WOW THANKS! I just recompiled my 2.4.0 kernel with generic dma support for the IDE driver on my laptop, and it more than quadrupled my disk reads. (We'll see how it handles disk *writes* from my DV camera now...) more explicit directions: If you're using "make xconfig" go to the button labell

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread coldfire
> You could boot from the linux install CD, get to the Partitioning point > and remake the partitions *exactly* as you did when installing linux the > Yes, I *know* 2.2Gb won't fit on a CDROM but you should be able to gzip > the image into less than 640Mb and then use 'zcat' to restore it. and

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread coldfire
> Sounds like what you need to do is use a partition editor *after* the windows > recovery reinstall, then install linux afterwards, if you have no way to ge a > hold of a windows install disk? That's a pain, if you really want to run > Linux as the major OS. one more note .. it's a dell syste

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread coldfire
> I'd advise use of a partition editor. I can think of three, partition > magic, gnu parted and fips. You have a lot of control with those. > Partition magic is commercial (www.powerquest.com), and gnu parted and > fips are free (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ and > http://freshmeat.net/redir

Re: [techtalk] OpenSSH Trusted Host Setup Question

2001-05-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:13:10PM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mark Foster thought: > As far as im aware, OpenSSH2 uses /etc/hosts.allow ? > > [blakjak@phoenix blakjak]$ telnet localhost 22 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to phoenix. > Escape character is '^]'. > SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:04:29PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Conor Daly thought: > Yes, I *know* 2.2Gb won't fit on a CDROM but you should be able to gzip > the image into less than 640Mb and then use 'zcat' to restore it. Another thing I didn't think of earlier. The windows instal

Re: [techtalk] New way to stream audio

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel Manrique
> Tell me I am crazy, but I have been thinking of this idea for several weeks. > A new way to stream audio on the web. Work's like this: > > 1)The master machine take's the input of the music, it would have to be a file > based format, translating a line input would be hard at first. > 2)The mas

[techtalk] New way to stream audio

2001-05-22 Thread Scott
Tell me I am crazy, but I have been thinking of this idea for several weeks. A new way to stream audio on the web. Work's like this: 1)The master machine take's the input of the music, it would have to be a file based format, translating a line input would be hard at first. 2)The master server b

Re: [techtalk] ssh slow login

2001-05-22 Thread Sarah
Something else that I've found helpful with speeding up connections is to use ssh -C host.domain.com - -C uses compression --Sarah On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Merrill wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:40:55PM +1200, Jamie Walker wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:26:36PM -0400, David Merr

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:07:45PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, coldfire thought: > question entailing windows ... baffles me. i hope someone can shed some > light. > > 6gb laptop had windows installed on it .. i wanted linux, so i booted with > some linux bootdisks, designed a nice p

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-22 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 21 May 2001 11:15 pm, Elizabeth wrote: > > In terms of programming the web mail itself - I guess you can go that > > way, and it certainly can be a great learning experience - but the web > > mail clients out there (like SquirrelMail) are really good, and easy to > > set up. But, if you

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-22 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 21 May 2001 09:44 pm, Daniel Manrique wrote: > That's probably going to be hard to do with a recovery disk; those > normally assume that you messed the computer up, you're clueless and you > basically just want it to be the way it was when you bought it. That > includes eating up the en