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Skriven 2006-03-03 21:38:00 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: W'98->Usb + Via C3
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Maurice Kinal wrote James Bradley on 03-02-06 23:23

 JB> The only 'nice' thing is, Ralph cut us all a check. That's all I'll
 MK> I heard that too.  Looks like vote buying from this angle.

Funny, but that's how it looks from this angle too. Too bad there are too many
obtuse angles 'round here.

 JB> five bucks."
 MK> I am not convinced they are worth that much.  I'd suggest
 MK> they should pay you five bucks everytime you are forced to
 MK> use one of them and fifty bucks if you can manage to make
 MK> them do something significant while logged in.  :-)

If I were a rich man... <L> At the community 'puter, that used to run W'98, I
spent a few hours downloading to the USB 
drive until MS threw a hissy fit, and my 700M file stopped downloading with
less than eight minutes left. Yesterday, 
they installed brand new rigs, and the tech (peon?) was putting the last of
the software in when I visited today.

Yesterday, the "job bank" connection was down for the third day in a row. Still
no arrival time scheduled for the IT. 
I've all but relinquished the library to being a book repository. Go figure!  

 JB> you. Why magneto optical never caught on in the consumer sector is

 MK> Beats me.  All I know for sure is that the people around
 MK> here seem to want whatever the manufacturers seem to think
 MK> they want.  These daze it is DVDs and so far all I've seen
 MK> is crap coming from that particular direction.

I've noticed that in you. Besides a track being closer in frequency, and
refraction to a scratch, is there a content 
issue you are going on about? As a direct result of the DVD data format, I
claim to be a Gentoo devote. At least it 
allowed me to do more than install a bare-bone system. (Yes, I even found
mplayer on the published disk!) On one 
platter, came a full install, as well as their #2 CD, on the same disk. As a
lark, they can include all sorts of "Hot 
Picks" and "Must Haves", not to mention a snapshot of the LDP archive, and a
few experimental OS's, as well as a 
minimal Linux flavor.

Sure, I'm not about to archive my vinyl collection to the medium, and far be it
for me to toss those 33+1/3rds into the 
sea, but I'm sure DVD is as trustworthy, given the same care, as a CD, no?

 JB> I dug up a bit, and read the Cyrix chips have almost no floating
 JB> point ability.
 JB> Sure wish I could run 100fsb with a P3. Maybe I'll try a few tests.

 MK> That I don't know seeing as I don't know what motherboard
 MK> you are using etc.  If it claims to be coppermine ready
 MK> then I would assume that at least 100Mhz fsb is available.
 MK> I've never seen a coppermine that isn't at least 100MHz
 MK> fsb.  Pre-coppermines were 66MHz ... I think.

Maybe my knowledge isn't up to date. <No DOUBT!> When I was looking for a CPU
to run in the board, any coppermine 
FC-PGA, or PPGA meant for a socket 370 was touted as a workable solution. I
think Mendocino was a 100/+ fsb, but that 
was years ago I was cramming the info. (My notes are in the car.)

The board, has i810 vid, and that's about all I can recall off the top of my
head. (It's the RH/W'98 box in the other 
room, and isn't powered on at the moment.) It is a 9V 'Pocket PC' system, that
is somewhat like the new compact Macs, but 
the CD/DVD, floppy, parallel, and serial is a 'dock', that repeats the two USB
1.1 ports. (Just thought I might be able 
to use four USB ports at one time. <?> I know, "Not bloody likely!")

All I can say for sure, is the Celeron PPGA 466/66 works, and the FC-PGA 700/66
doesn't. I'll gather more info if you're 
curious about it?

 MK> Ah!  I got what you mean now.  I have yet to network with
 MK> usb so I am not sure about it.  All I use usb for is the
 MK> mass-storage kernel dealie with flash disks and
 MK> occasionally hd's.  That definetly works on most of the
 MK> boards I have seen, including usb v1.1 which is almost
 MK> every board around here if they even have usb at all.

The BIOS there is dated 2000, and I lack the ability to boot to an external USB
DVD, (At least.) but there is something 
there about USB floppy. I didn't have an external HD to test that when I could
have used it.

 MK> No pc/104 or simular expansion on the motherboard?

I'll bite. Is there? <G> If I knew what pc/104 was, I might be able to answer
you.

I just picked up a load of 802.11g stuff, two of which are USB devices. I can
use a USB->ethernet->.11g, or "Pocket 
LAN" (an lp device)->ethernet->.11g, or USB->.11g. Right now, the first
solution is likely going to be my first 
attempt. It should allow me to use the repeater (Bridge?) as an access point,
plus allow for a full sized (1/4 
wavelength?) antenna.  

Knowing just enough to set up a dynamic host, I think I'll have to start there,
and because I have previously NICed 
machines with W'95-98, I'll have to start with known working systems.



... James
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