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Skriven 2010-04-03 08:53:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JAMES BRADLEY
Ärende: Re: teenage wasted
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-=> JAMES BRADLEY wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JB> On or about 04-01-10 13:54, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE allegedly uttered "Re:
 JB> teenage wasteland" to JAMES BRADLEY:


 WC> about 19777 Meg each with a 768M swap on hda2 and a 512 on hdb2.
 WC> Neither have seen much if any action with this kernel.

 JB> mdadmin a common swap across the two, and you can almost double its
 JB> speed.

 WC> I had that for a time and noticed no speedup at all however
 WC> with the kernel in slack 13.0 2.6.29.6 the swap file hardly ever sees
 WC> any use at all compared to the kernel shipped with Slack 12.2.

 JB> SATA??? Maybe the bus is saturated by reading one drive? I have a SCSI
 JB> system that has SW RAIDs (5?) across six drives, and it perks things up
 JB> nicely. I then butt up against the PCI bottleneck, but it *is* slick
 JB> compared to IDE.

 JB> I seem to recal MK writing, each SATA channel (Hence drive.) has its
 JB> own DMA. <scratching head>


PATA here and a 12 year old computer to boot.

 JB> There is no real need for two individual ones, like dual booting
 JB> with Winders/GNU-*nix. I read an article back in the day when IDE had
 JB> yet to be referred to as PATA, that often accessed partitions could be
 JB> placed at the start of a drive to reduce the seek-time. Fer instance,

 WC> Ok, now that's a useful tidbit.

 JB> Saves the actuators too! <L>

 WC> Compiling the 2.6.33.1 kernel awaits coffee on Friday so

 JB> That makes it compile faster? <G+D>

 WC> It make Wayne faster due to the seditive I take at night to sleep.
 WC> Takes out the groggies first thing in the morning.

 JB> Right after the bitchy cat is let out to chase away magpies, a grog of
 JB> espresso is next on my morning agenda.

 WC> Well I'd want 768x1024 resolution native on an LCD/TFT is when
 WC> eventially I have to pop for one and dispite some looking haven't seen
 WC> one yet.

 JB> Portrait? That's a pretty low spec, even if you do prop it on its side.
 JB> <chuckle> Any reason why you aim so low?

Diminished eyesight, it seems the clearest to me at that resolution.


 WC> Hey James as presumably you telnet into a Maximus BBS can you tip me
 WC> off to the commmands you use to upload and download binaries like QWK
 WC> files?

 JB> Can't help you there. I use the POTS line to dial up the Max BBS. From
 JB> there, zmodem just works.

 WC> I'm trying to telnet into a Maximus BBS and can write online but
 WC> uploads of bbs.qwk files and downloads of bbs.qwk files eludes me.

 WC> I just don't know how to issue the command to receive one the qwk is
 WC> packed and asked to download which is where it hangs and I have to
 WC> CNTRL - X several times
 WC> to end the attempt and logout.

 JB> It sounds like the host has the file queued for your attention, but
 JB> your application needs to give the "All's clear"? Is the host
 JB> configured to send to you with what transfer protocol? X,Y+Z
 JB> modem/Kermit/... are all geared toward DUN, so I doubt you'd even
 JB> *want* them in your way when you call in via TCP/IP. There's a Bluewave
 JB> and Offline echo where the people use it all the time, and I *know*
 JB> some of them use Docs regularly.


Doc's is no problem at all, I can use Firefox, Konquorer or Links
at the command line, Links actually is the best however still
doesn't work on a Maximus BBS.


 JB> PPS: I just ran through multimail's doc directory, and "modemu" might
 JB> be what you are looking for, for your Telnet-DL/UL situation. It sounds
 JB> like you run your Telnet client, then minicom with modemu to handle
 JB> RTS-CTS negotiations. Sounds convoluted to me, but... I could send
 JB> someone from the BLUEWAVE/OFFLINE echo here, if you don't have the
 JB> echos there. <?>

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