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I got turned off RedHat a long time ago during the RHv8 days, when they did a lot of back porting of fixes into the kernel, and they started on their crusade to make RedHat the only Linux distro by adding a lot of RH only tools... Since at the time RH did it one way, and all the other major...

Well my netbook is now running Arch, and is working better/faster than Ubuntu was... The only issue I had (and this was partially my fault), was to set my primary user id to below 1000. With the new GDM login manager (I use GNOME as my default DE), is that they use the WinXP login interface...

One could say the same about Microsoft Operating Systems... umm, actually no you couldn't. Don't work too well in the server room overall, and by god the support needed to support the desktop environment is a nightmare, I tell you... Between weekly patches, anti-virus updates, malware, rootkits...

That appears to be the trend after reading a lot more about Ubuntu. Nice and shiny on first experience, but goes downhill from there rapidly. Any suggestions for a distro then? Debian, Slackware, Fedora Core, Arch?

The big problem with Linux, is that if the root filesystem is full, it will have problems booting. Also it makes sense to separate out into different filesystems to avoid mail/logs/user data from eatting all the available space. I would rather fill /home and get errors about not being to save my...

Following on from this thread: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8188 After using Ubuntu 10.04 a bit more yesterday and today, have come across a few gripes. 1. XMMS is not available in any repository. I've been using XMMS for years, and is an excellent music player. 2. SAMBA...

Stay below 50km/h and it *should* be fine. And no hard turning either or excessive start/stopping. Insurance wise, get it towed. (Most insurance companies will deem the vehicle unserviceable in that condition, and wont acknowledge the claim in the event of an accident).

Last time I checked the only 100% secure erase (or either magnetic media or flash media) was 100% physical destruction of the device. Anything less, and some would not consider it "secure erase".

Very true. But most other LCDs developed in 2001 (which was the year the T220 was released), had a strict 60Hz limit (and the that includes the expensive 15" 1024x768 displays as well). If they decided to continue to develop the hig DPI monitors, they should have the same or very similar...

I use mencoder... Purely CLI driven, but does exactly what I want, which is normally DVD -> xvid fpr layback on laptop/PC.

Or give it to me?

Kubuntu (with KDE) or Ubuntu (with GNOME)? And in what way?

The IBM T221 I linked to has a native res of 3840×2400 for a 20" panel. (200dpi). It targetted at Medical, CAD/CAM and Defense industries, and had an initial retail of $15K (in 2001). The main problem was that DVI simply doesn't have the bandwidth to handle that res, so it used 2x DVI (with each...

Not to mention desk space... (3x 30" widescreen). Now that's bad...

I don't really see the standard TFT LCD monitor as a major issue, the issue I see is on laptops. Go back 3yr, and most 15-17" laptops had 1680x1050 displays. Today, it's the minority that have that res or above. (most 15" are 1440x900 today). Even fewer have FullHD displays? (Out of 210+ laptops...

Sure it's not just muted? I had no sound to begin with, but found the default setting was to mute the device? (I'm using alsa, not pulseaudio). $ sudo alsamixer $ sudo alsactl store to fix.

Anything that supports either PCL5, PCL6 or Postscript will work fine. Just about every printer with a network port support raw (9100), lpd or ipp which are all supported by CUPS and lp. Sticking point will be scanner/fax support on a multifunction. SANE should be able to help you there...

I have actually seen one system, where the dye they used glowed bright green under a black lighting system. Looked like the system was radio-active.

We used to have that system here, but recently they re-worked the licensing scheme to help stop people killing themselves. We now have 2 stages of licensing, R Class and RE Class. R Class is full unrestricted, while RE class you are limited to bike no larger than 660cc with a power to weight...

Reading a few web reports, Win7 gets about the same runtime as Ubuntu providing NO anti-virus is installed. Installing AV will lose you about 10% runtime under a Win7 environment. While I haven't confirmed that myself, it seems plausible. Running Win7 on a HP 2140 netbook (very similar setup...

Stupid question time? Why choose water cooling, over either Peltier coolers or Phase change cooling techniques? Peltier coolers are slient and offer very good cooling properties at the expense of electricity usage. And Phase change cooling will get temps on the CPU down to -15C with top end...

Well, I got a Asus eeePC 1001HA, and after trying WinXP, OpenSolaris and Ubuntu on it, will stick with Ubuntu on it for the time being. It came down to supported hardware from the respective kernels, and power management. I was getting: 1. 3.5hrs on battery using the default Asus installation...

ROFL!

4TB sort of makes the 36GB drives I am using in my main desktop seem kinder small... (My total storage capacity is just over 1.3TB spread across 4 systems in the household - 1 desktop, 3 laptops and external HDDs).

Answered in the previous post. But that is something my wife did (radical change)... 1st degree was Accounting when she finished high school. She has become very successful in this field, and has risen rapidly to have worked as the senior accounting auditor for multi-national Australian based...

Well, that's the plan! ;) I actually got my University placement offer 4 weeks before the normal placement offers are made, and it was made personally from the head of the department for which I will be studying. I guess my application and references impressed someone? I don't know how the...

Quit my job today... Why does it feel so good when you tell your boss that you are leaving their employment?

Solid savings, government allowances and a scholarship all help. Our current spending habits has us in the black by about $250-300 a fortnight, based on the new level of income we will receive. I've always been on the heavier scale (just my build). At my peak (at the tender age of 21), I was...

Havng 2 kids recently really put an end to my normal fitness schedule, but at the age of 32 and about to have some more free time coming up (due to change from fulltime 50hr week work to full time Uni student), getting back to what I was doing is certainly on the agenda. While the plan isn't to...

I'm starting to think that as well...

I've been doing some casual reading on this topic as well. From what I can gather it boils down to: 1. Lack of communication between stackholders (the client and vendor). 2. Management (on both sides) being dollar driven rather than solution/outcome driven. 3. No plan F. (The "we're f**ked plan...

IIRC, Media.

Last time I used a floppy was 2 days ago, as part of imaging a PC using Ghost... Before that was 9 mths ago to do a BIOS update on a server... Short story, the CD drive in the PC was problematic, the PC didn't want to boot off the USB key I had with Ghost on it, and the last option was to use...

Most likely... And let us not forget about 3D support... (which I've heard will be a firmware upgrade for the PS3). PS. In some ways I'm glad I'm still using a 68cm/27" CRT TV w/DVD player via component. The rate of change in technology and expecting a more than 5yr life from it is getting...

In uart1.h in NaviCtrl. The "u8 OperatingRadius; // current operation radius around the Home Position in m - since 0.15b" in the NaviData_t data structure is what you are after. Change the u8 to u32, and find all references to that variable in code to ensure all code related to that...

The stuff I've bought from IKEA has been from all over the world, Thailand, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia just to name a few. I think only 1 item has come from China... (and it was a wok of all things).

NV has been that way since the intro of the GeForce FX series. The added transistors, means more heat, which mean lower clocks (to help with heat) which means performance no better than the competition. I like to think of it this way, a 351 V8 or a 2L twin turbo? Both do the same, but one draws...

Slight misunderstanding somewhere; the name of the rum is 'Malibu', it's made in Barbados.

And many other factors. The big one being body fat %. The lower the body fat %, the more likely to get drunk faster, mainly due to water content being held in the fat cells...

Speaking of drunkenness, any good mixes using Malibu white rum? I was given a bottle approx 11 yrs ago, and never opened it. I figure now is a good time to open it? Now where's the bartender? PS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malibu_Rum

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_srsubj_entry?ie=UTF8&index=dvd&field-keywords=XXX

Amazon, search for "sex" and filter on department. eBay has a adult section as well...

What, you don't want a 5 pack of mice in addition to the other one listed?

"West Coast Cooler" is one such example of a poofs drink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Cooler http://www.westcoastcooler.ie/ Also depending on where you are, even some beer can be marked as a poofs drink as well (especially anything under mid strength). Also some brands have there...

Sure is a pity...

From your comment, I would assume for the worse then?

The EVGA is a bit strange, as Supermicro can fit more on a normal EEB size boards. Case in point: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DAH_-F.cfm It also features 9x DIMM slots per CPU (for a total of 18x DIMM slots), 7 PCIe slots (and they are the same size as their lane...

If I was going to build a dual CPU workstation again, I would only trust Intel, Supermicro and Tyan to get something rock solid. While Asus and Gigabyte have done dual socket boards for a while now, they have never held the communities trust in their implementations. How would EVGA break into...

And Asus counters with the P6T7 WS. http://www.asus.com.au/ProductGroup3.aspx?PG_ID=xrOlpXWE87x7bSBN The P6T7 WS PCIe layout is: 3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (@ x16 or x8 ) 3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (@ x8 ) 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (@ x16) Noting that it has 2x NF200 PCIe bridges for 3x nVidia SLI to get the extra PCIe...

Very amusing.