Text 2141, 95 rader
Skriven 2005-01-24 00:07:52 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
   Kommentar till text 2140 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: lockfile nee-Router/Fire
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Hey James!

Jan 24 00:32 05, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB>  Well, how do, Maurice?

Not too shabby.  Just "finishing" a kv2.4.29 compile on a 486-33.  Want to talk
about slow?  It's chewing on the netfilter stuff as we speak.  Been a couple
hours since it started but hanging in there.  I want to make sure the little
guy can take care of itself.  Probably won't do this again unless I try
repeating it on the 486-133 (fanless as well).

 MK>> Yeah.  Boon still on?

 JB> Daniel Boon is dead! <G> The boom here, is still going as far as I 
 JB> know.

Boon, boom, pot-ta-toe, pot-tah-toe.  You knew what I meant.

 JB> We've had more head offices move here than Toronto has left if 
 JB> one is to believe the reports.

I've heard that somewhere.  Probably the CBC business news.

 JB> Where to start? How about the modem's lock file.

Oh jeez.  I haven't seen a modem in ages now.  I forget what I did about that.

 JB> How about a parallel port NIC?

Errrr ... never encountered one of them.  Why not plip instead?

 JB> I'm trying to cram a PE-EPPct Ethernet 
 JB> Pocket LAN Adapter into the mix.

Never encountered one of them either.

 JB> hidusb drivers for nut... Should I go on? <G>

Or how about firewire networking?  I haven't gotten there yet.

 JB> I think I'll pull out the old distro just to read some HOWTO's. I'll 
 JB> just have to pay attention to where bash may have changed in the 
 JB> interim, as you mentioned.

Always handy to know.  I'll see what I can find out about the above stuff.

 JB>  <LOL> One local went to Linux to get his capture/tuner card to work 
 JB> at all!

That's more or less the deal with this one.  I traded it with a Windows user
who had nothing but problems with it.  Works great with Linux (bttv kernel
driver).  Getting it framebuffer was a tad tricky but the xawtv compiled with a
2.6 kernel solved that quite nicely.  Didn't even complain about the lack of X
libs.

 JB> Don't get me started. Because I have reduced mobility, I tend to 
 JB> scour the waves for something to watch. Nice watching about some of 
 JB> the science out there these days.

Yeah that can be nice when you can get it.  Mostly reruns though.  I hear you
on the mobility thing.

 MK>> the new C3 jobber.  Just for fun.

 JB> That's what it is? Fun... Oh ya... This is fun! <G>

For sure!  I like a challenge.  Sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming but
overall I find it quite fun.  Something like a good crossword puzzle.

 JB> Exactly - the fsb. The MB will run 100MHz with one, or 133M on 
 JB> another. All the multiplying, and clock settings are done logically. 

Right.  We got the other C3 running on an Asus board with a 66Mhz fsb at
400Mhz.  Seems to work fine with just a heatsink.  Need to replicate that
success with a newer board.  It shouldn't be too difficult getting a 133MHz fsb
to run it at 600MHz.  Need the right board though.

 JB> But about the underclocking of the K-6... I was told a 500MHz CPU 
 JB> wouldn't run at all in a fsb of 83M. The guy that didn't want to sell 
 JB> me one said an internal CPU doubler wouldn't allow the system to boot 
 JB> at all. I couldn't reason why I wouldn't be able to run the MB at 
 JB> 50MHz.

That might be due to the dual voltage, or at least on the k6-2's.  I think it
depends on the board.  I might be wrong about this wrt k6's.  I have some
350MHz k6-2's that out to run on socket 7 boards with a 66MHz fsb.  I did have
a 333MHz one running at full speed with both 66 and 100MHz fsb but that was on
a super-7 board with all the right jumpers.

Life is good,
Maurice

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