Text 6718, 99 rader
Skriven 2006-08-02 22:52:20 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 6715 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: Newbie
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Hey James!

Aug 02 12:22 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> and not even an AGP slot.

Looks to me that it doesn't matter anymore.

 JB> That's it. "If you want more, check our catalogue." 

Right.  They can keep it.

 JB> I do have a tendency to forget what on earth I was talking about, so 
 JB> maybe the two of us started
 JB> talking about other things, and someone lost track somewhere. (Most 
 JB> likely me.)

I think it is both of us.  Do you have a problem with it?  Speaking for myself
I sort of like the way it has worked out and if it is important enough to
either or both of us we'll eventually get around to dealing with whatever it
was we both forgot we were talking about.

 JB> On a Dell run,
 JB> Slack would only work on the one *without* a built in SCSI. Now, 
 JB> maybe something other froze
 JB> on it, and I'm suspecting the wrong thing. I only took a scratch note 
 JB> at the time to try to fix it, and
 JB> attempted to install various kernels, but the real troubleshooting 
 JB> efforts will start when I plug that
 JB> one back in.

I think I always did a custom kernel when booting from a scsi drive.  I've had
problems with any distributions scsi kernels for whatever strange reason even
if I ended up using the exact same version/source.  Beats me why that should be
so but it usually is so.  Perhaps some conflict with something else they think
I want and don't have.

 JB> Come to think, maybe Slack wasn't sticking to this Compaq (Also an 
 JB> onboard SCSI.) either, but
 JB> with the chores it is relegated to, it'll do as is.

Sounds good to me.  Myself I still avoid Compaqs but probably would do
something about that as long as it is someone else's dime.  :-)

 JB> [RE: To PnP, or *not* to PnP.] (AKA: Here's what you get. You WILL 
 JB> like it. AKA: Bend over)
 JB> It's the oddest thing. Even the old Compaqs - EISA bussed - were 
 JB> fantastic with their setup
 JB> program.

If you say so.  I have no idea and am not sure I really want to have any ideas.

 JB> [RE: MK> Two things; nothing and FA.  :-)]
 JB> Na... Too busy. <L>

It adds up to the same then.  ;-)

 JB> Stuff and money were meant to be used. I just have to find where I 
 JB> hid my stuff. 

I'd rather know where you hid your money and use that to get my own stuff.

 JB> I heard the same, on the same "wrt" (Chuckle) ATI. I don't think 
 JB> their manufacturing capacity
 JB> was lacking. They were the ones, more open with their Linux drivers, 
 JB> weren't they?

Somewhat ... maybe ... not really sure.  All I know for sure is that whatever
ATI I ran across I could get working with something suitable and cannot today
say that about nvidia.  Mind you I only have ever had one AGP ATI card and
wasn't all that impressed with that one.  Today I know nothing about their
pci-e ones.

 JB> Either way, they'll either get better, or worse. [-:

Let us hope for better.  I am sure we'll find out eventually.

 JB> Undoubtedly, the devices will dictate the format of the fields + 
 JB> records, but unless it uses some
 JB> archaic scrambling/compression, I doubt there should be any troubles.

I have yet to run across any serial devices that did that although somebody
might have tried pulling that stunt.  It wouldn't surprise me if true.

 JB> A learning experience to be sure. I even house bails of CO2 
 JB> scrubbers. Now I'll have to build a
 JB> submarine. (Wonder if Tom is lurking? B-) I surely harvested enough 
 JB> plumbing!

Are you planning to outdo the West Edmonton Mall?  Do they still have their
fleet operational?  I haven't been to Edmonton for ages now, nevermind any mall
there.  Mind you you might sucker in the Canadian Navy into buying a few from
you.  :::snicker:::

Life is good,
Maurice

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