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Skriven 2008-12-07 05:01:14 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: Just say "No!" to U2.
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12-02-08 19:17: Maurice Kinal to James Bradley, "yeah, yeah, yeah"

 MK> Hey James!
Hey Maurice. The flue is running its course?

 > From your perspective, you can tell what parts you need.
 MK> I've done that here in the past.  Do you want my newest list?  Quite

I am guessing that would depend on the similarities of our tasks. If I use
xfce, and you use blackbox, (rarely ;) doesn't that throw a monkey wrench in
the works? For instance, I'd like to get vgetty (I think it was you who
mentioned it.) and a tuner card to work. Wouldn't those two tasks alone require
different libraries or such? 


 MK> However I could provide all my build scripts if you want.
 MK> A better idea might be to put it on the ftp site here and
 MK> let you peruse them at your own leisure.  I am easy on this
 MK> subject.
"...And easy to please." Sorry, a Max Webster quote I couldn't refute.

As a launching point - if that's the intent - it couldn't hurt. I have a bit of
RL on the plate right now, so it will be a week or two before I get to log on
again.

 > Hah... Does the SATA buss slow down to its slowest component,
 > like IDE?
 MK> I have two different bus speeds (33MHz and 66MHz) working
 MK> off the same ide controller.  Mind you that is on a board
 MK> with newer chipsets. On older systems it probably would
 MK> default to the lower speed.

Someting tells me you answered this months ago, but I'll dare to ask again.
Like the IDE bus, does SATA also slow down to its slowest component? Fer
instance, if I put a first generation CD drive on the same SATA bus as
tomorrows 'screamer' for a HD, does the HD slow down to accommodate the speed
of the CD device?


 MK> as the ide's ability to tell the difference.  Mind you
 MK> there are alot of crappy ide devices out there as well.  I
 MK> have yet to run across a bad scsi device but haven't worked
 MK> that much with scsi simply because of cost.
When SCSI was (mostly) orphaned, that's my entry point. <G>

[RE: IDE-CF adapter]
 MK> A good investment methinks.  However I am not 100% sold on
 MK> the ones you picked up in Calgary for me.  I am going to
 MK> have to have another looksee again soon and see if a proper
 MK> lilo append will indeed be what the doctor ordered.

I'm still watching the media prices in sales fliers. A know-it-all friend tells
me the speed of the device has to match the bus. True???


 > /dev/cd* + dvd(*) all seem to point to /dev/hd?.
 MK> Seems pretty straight forward no?

I fought a bit with trying to mount /dev/hd[c-d] in fstab, but lately, I have
found complience with /dev/dvdrw and dvd1. HAL(?) wants to deal with the USB
flash drives in /media/, so I have to go with "the path of least resistance." 


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