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Skriven 2009-01-14 04:05:44 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av James Bradley
Ärende: surfing the wake
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Hey James!

> Link detected: yes

That looks fine.  What does ifconfig show?

> ethtool -t aint possible

Huh?  It should be.  It takes at least 16 seconds on my box before it outputs
anything.

root [ ~ ]# ethtool -t eth1
The test result is FAIL
The test extra info:
Register test  (offline)         0
Eeprom test    (offline)         0
Interrupt test (offline)         0
Loopback test  (offline)         0
Link test   (on/offline)         1

The above is a disabled "Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
(Copper) (rev 06)" I was testing for a different box.  I have a simular one on
the board "Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 02)".  If I run "ethtool -t eth0" it screws up the network and
I have to rerun the network startup script afterwards.  Both do work though.

> 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX

I used to have one of those!  May still be kicking around somewhere in this
mess somewhere.  Back when it was new - 1998ish - it worked excellent.

> AFAIK, PM was turned off on my last build, but I think I am breaking
> something on my tree <?> when doing something in that neighbourhood.

That shouldn't matter.

> (make takes ~3 minutes.)

To make what?

> I heard Corel code often gets in its own way. Can he not do this
> work with oo, and gimp?

gimp for sure as I built it into the last system I compiled for his core2
jobber.  Also added ImageMagik which is even better since it is commandline
stuff.  I tested it by resizing some png's the other day. I think he needs a
bit of hand holding through some of this.

> I'd be hazardous with a pellet gun and a sling shot.

I have a sling shot.  Haven't ever used it, but I have one.

> Fractions of a cubit - allows it to fit in the tub.

Perfect!

> Rivalry tends to keep one on their toes. I take it mom was
> an angel.

Which mom?  Do you mean my ex or my youngest daughter?  Both are moms and both
were here visiting with the grandchildren.

> I think you are invited to the bridge of *many* boats.

Sounds interesting.  Not sure what that means.

Life is good,
Maurice

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