Text 2077, 66 rader
Skriven 2005-01-20 07:50:46 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
   Kommentar till text 2069 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: Router/Firewall Advice
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Hey James!

Jan 19 07:19 05, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> Been here since '68. Close to a million idiot... er people here now!

Yeah.  Boon still on?

 JB> Oh... I don't? <G> I'm still alive, so I'm doin' something right. 

Or just plain ol' lucky like the rest of us.

 JB> |-P <-- (Directed at the na-sayers.) It sure is an interesting study 
 JB> to be sure! The HOWTO's didn't seem to show up on this distro, and 
 JB> I-net means I have to Shanghai someone's  connection. The man page on 
 JB> my last foray showed me NOTHING that I wanted to know, and apropos 
 JB> told me that I was looking at the only man page that contained what I 
 JB> was looking for. <Sha-G>  It's time to update the CDs, so, there 
 JB> should be more info here soon.

What do you need in the meantime?

 JB> As in a 'puter to NTSC/PAL? Mine does that, but it does it with a 
 JB> dongle. You were talking about strapping a tuners output into the MB, 
 JB> maybe?

Right.  I have a pci one at the moment but was thinking about a usb one I
borrowed to the neighbour.  The pci one works really good on the smp but I
haven't done much with it other then to watch TV.  Got it working on the
console with framebuffer graphics.  Look ma!  No GUI!!!  :-)

 JB> If you *are* talking about the output going to a television set, no. 

Not yet.  I don't have a TV.  What for?  I hardly watch TV other then news and
the Simpsons.  What else is there?

 JB> I only did that with a 640x480 486, and only to zoom it up from the 
 JB> 9" B+W monitor when I was parked in front of a television.

Sounds good.  Doesn't take much does it?  Capture is different though and
requires a bit more punch then that.  Not that I do any of that myself but
perhaps I'll try that when I get a better handle on smp or get the usb working
on the new C3 jobber.  Just for fun.

 JB> Ditto. One runs Windows w/a capture card, and the other is on the 
 JB> Linux. I would upgrade the Linux machine, but doubt I would actively 
 JB> search for a faster CPU for the Windows box.

A fast/good cpu is a terrible thing to waste on :::shudder::: Windows.  My skin
is crawling just thinking about it.

 JB> The MB here will work with a (I'd have to check to be sure.) 800 or 
 JB> 900 MHz VIA, but a Medoceeno (Ta HECK if I can remember those code 
 JB> names.) of only 7(something) hundred M would work. Nothing to do with 
 JB> the speed of the machine with a given MHz CPU, but what the MB would 
 JB> accept.

Often is is simply the fsb and the multiplier, but sometimes the voltage can
play a factor.  You might be able to underclock a faster cpu then the board
supposedly can handle.  We did that with socket 7 boards and k6-2's.

Life is good,
Maurice

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