Text 2164, 111 rader
Skriven 2005-01-26 06:25:00 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
   Kommentar till text 2141 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
Ärende: lockfile nee-Router/Fire
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01-24-05  00:07, Maurice Kinal told James Bradley about lockfile
nee-Router/Fire

 Well, how do, Maurice?

 MK> Not too shabby.  Just "finishing" a kv2.4.29 compile on a 
 MK> 486-33.  Want to talk about slow?  It's chewing on the 
 MK> netfilter stuff as we speak.  Been a couple hours since it 
 MK> started but hanging in there.  I want to make sure the 
 MK> little guy can take care of itself.  Probably won't do this 
 MK> again unless I try repeating it on the 486-133 (fanless as 
 MK> well).

And you do this to stress test the system?
 MK> Boon, boom, pot-ta-toe, pot-tah-toe.  You knew what I meant.

I couldn't resist a poke in the ribs. <EG>
 JB> Where to start? How about the modem's lock file.

 MK> Oh jeez.  I haven't seen a modem in ages now.  I forget what I did
 MK> about that. 
 JB> How about a parallel port NIC?

 MK> Errrr ... never encountered one of them.  Why not plip instead?

Ahh.. Because I don't know what it is.
 JB> I'm trying to cram a PE-EPPct Ethernet
 JB> Pocket LAN Adapter into the mix.

 MK> Never encountered one of them either.

Could be why I received such a resounding silence the first time I asked. <G>
 
Right now, the Linux box is in the opposite side of the house to the rig I want
to connect to it, so a parallel cable would likely lose interest along the way,
and besides, if I ever want to connect it to a broadband modem...
 JB> hidusb drivers for nut... Should I go on? <G>

 MK> Or how about firewire networking?  I haven't gotten there yet.

How about it? The box is a single board, ultra-small format (Don't know the
technical name.) PC. It has NO expansion slots at all, so what it has, is what
I gots. Besides, the UPS only has a USB cable exiting it, so that marries me to
that.
 JB> I think I'll pull out the old distro just to read some HOWTO's. I'll 
 JB> just have to pay attention to where bash may have changed in the 
 JB> interim, as you mentioned.

 MK> Always handy to know.  I'll see what I can find out about the above
 MK> stuff. 
 JB>  <LOL> One local went to Linux to get his capture/tuner card to work 
 JB> at all!

 MK> That's more or less the deal with this one.  I traded it 
 MK> with a Windows user who had nothing but problems with it.  
 MK> Works great with Linux (bttv kernel driver).  Getting it 
 MK> framebuffer was a tad tricky but the xawtv compiled with a 
 MK> 2.6 kernel solved that quite nicely.  Didn't even complain 
 MK> about the lack of X libs.
 
Sounds like Greek to me. You'd have to run an application to "Get it
framebuffered?" (If that means displayed.)
 MK> Yeah that can be nice when you can get it.  Mostly reruns 
 MK> though.  I hear you on the mobility thing.
 
 MK>> the new C3 jobber.  Just for fun.
 
 JB> That's what it is? Fun... Oh ya... This is fun! <G>

 MK> For sure!  I like a challenge.  Sometimes it gets a bit 
 MK> overwhelming but overall I find it quite fun.  Something 
 MK> like a good crossword puzzle.

To tie in two topics, I just saw a NOVA program that reported on a robotics
engineer. He said much of the same. It's the stick-to-itivness that separates
the successes from the failures. He said something like "If you plug it in the
first time and it works your either lucky, or... No, your just lucky." when
talking about experimental AI. Really interesting format they tried out this
week on the program.
 MK> Right.  We got the other C3 running on an Asus board with a 
 MK> 66Mhz fsb at 400Mhz.  Seems to work fine with just a 
 MK> heatsink.  Need to replicate that success with a newer 
 MK> board.  It shouldn't be too difficult getting a 133MHz fsb 
 MK> to run it at 600MHz.  Need the right board though.

You'll try that with the 800MHz C3, without a fan? You'll have those
temperature sensors on the job I trust?
 JB> But about the underclocking of the K-6... I was told a 500MHz CPU 
 JB> wouldn't run at all in a fsb of 83M. The guy that didn't want to sell 

 MK> That might be due to the dual voltage, or at least on the 
 MK> k6-2's.  I think it depends on the board.  I might be wrong 
 MK> about this wrt k6's.  I have some 350MHz k6-2's that out to 
 MK> run on socket 7 boards with a 66MHz fsb.  I did have a 
 MK> 333MHz one running at full speed with both 66 and 100MHz 
 MK> fsb but that was on a super-7 board with all the right 
 MK> jumpers.

I'm typing on a 450MHz K6-3D right now on a 83MHz fsb. I don't know what
constitutes a "Super 7" board, but this one has all the jumpers. Like you say,
maybe no dual voltage is available though.




... James

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