Text 5459, 160 rader
Skriven 2006-03-04 06:03:22 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 5456 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: W'98->Usb + Via C3
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Hey James!

Mar 03 21:38 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

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

We got some really obtuse angles in this neck of the woods too.  Stinkin'
obtuse angles.

 JB> If I were a rich man... <L>

Me too.

 JB> At the community 'puter, that used to run 
 JB> W'98, I
 JB> spent a few hours downloading to the USB 
 JB> drive until MS threw a hissy fit, and my 700M file stopped 
 JB> downloading with
 JB> less than eight minutes left.

Ouch!  I've heard of stuff like that happening, the latest the neighbour's
win98 box crapping out after filling up a 80G drive with temp files when
attempting to record a TV program and failing near the end leaving him to clean
up after it.  I don't know if he has attempted anything since then but no he
has the win-tv pvr he'll have better luck with just 'cat'.  :-)

First he'll need to get the firmware working but he has been through a simular
situation with certain wireless cards so he is becoming seasoned.

 JB> Yesterday, 
 JB> they installed brand new rigs, and the tech (peon?) was putting the 
 JB> last of
 JB> the software in when I visited today.

Ther goes the neighbourhood.  ;-)

 JB> Yesterday, the "job bank" connection was down for the third day in a 
 JB> row. Still
 JB> no arrival time scheduled for the IT. 

Yeah, yeah.  Heard that all before.

 JB> I've all but relinquished the library to being a book repository. Go 
 JB> figure!  

Probably a good idea.

 JB> I've noticed that in you. Besides a track being closer in frequency, 
 JB> and
 JB> refraction to a scratch, is there a content 
 JB> issue you are going on about?

Mostly formatting, hardware and especially compatibilty issues.  It needs to
work for a wider assortment of targets then it currently can.  I will revert
back to network installs if the hotswapping harddrives goes south on me.  I
don't trust the DVD burner beyond itself and one dvd rom.  Too much effort for
too little rewards is really the bottomline there.

 JB> format, I
 JB> claim to be a Gentoo devote. At least it 
 JB> allowed me to do more than install a bare-bone system.

Understood.  As long as it works for you then super.

 JB> found mplayer on the published disk!)

Bonus!  I like mplayer especially with mga_vid.  That is too excellent to
ignore.

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

Which isn't saying much methinks.  Do you want the DVD burner?  I could use the
money.

 JB> The board, has i810 vid,

We had one board with i810 chipsets.  Also had some booting problems with
certain ram, cpu's etc.  The board I have the C3 on is i815's which seems to
have issues with p3's (133 fsb) for some strange reason.  The C3 works great
though so I am happy with it the way it currently is.  I may even mover the
sata over there for hotswapping but probably not.  That thing has enough to do
running and monitoring three networks already.

 JB> the two USB
 JB> 1.1 ports. (Just thought I might be able 
 JB> to use four USB ports at one time. <?> I know, "Not bloody likely!")

Why not?  I suppose it depends on the hardware you put on there.  I've had no
problems with flash disks and harddrives.

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

Sounds to me like a mutliplier issue.

 JB> The BIOS there is dated 2000, and I lack the ability to boot to an 
 JB> external USB
 JB> DVD, (At least.) but there is something 
 JB> there about USB floppy.

Right.  I've had troubles booting usb devices directly.  Indirectly they work
(lilo on a main hd) but not directly from the bios.

 JB> I didn't have an external HD to test that 
 JB> when I could
 JB> have used it.

I have and haven't had success.  Bios is usually the reason.  I have gotten a
few boards to boot from usb flash devices but that isn't the norm, especially
with older motherboards even when the bios claims it can.

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

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

It might but probably not.  Besides the hardware is really expensive and
difficult to come by.

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

Sounds like a good plan.  You'd fit in well in this neighbourhood.

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

That should work.  It does here but my neighbour is responsible for the win98
stuff which seems to have fallen by the wayside ever since I showed him how to
build his own linux stuff.  The corker was the mencoder experiment.  When he
saw the quality of the movie and it's new size he was totally floored and I
haven't heard anything about windows since.  He also likes the sata hotswapping
idea and bought a different card which isn't as cooperative as the one I have
as far as hotswapping.  He was over earlier to borrow an ide adapter I happen
to have and is going to see what he can do with that.

Life is good,
Maurice

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