Text 7709, 182 rader
Skriven 2006-10-27 04:34:00 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Kommentar till text 7696 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: ttylinux
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On or about: 10-24-06 15:17, Maurice Kinal did engage James Bradley regarding,
but not limited to: ttylinux
JB> be worse.
MK> I say 'life is good'.
Dad taught me, "It's been better, and it's been worse." Sure catches the
checkout staff by surprise.
JB> seperate built-in Adaptec; an AIC-7880.
MK> Okay. I never did care much for CD-ROMs as they always complicate
MK> things and offer little in return. I'd be inclined to stick to
MK> regular drives on scsi and leave CD-ROMs to an ide
Working with what I gots.
MK> interface if I even bother at all. As a rule most of my
MK> machines never had a CD-ROM no matter what interface.
You inject all your files through a LAN, right? As my situation involves the
update to a sneeker-net... Rubber net???
MK> Speaking of which, I managed to get the DVD-ROM to work on
MK> a usb->ide cable but haven't tested bootabilty yet. I
I just found the AM2 rig will try to boot from a USB flash-RAM(stick?) as it's
set. (Or whatever the correct term for them is.) That'd be alright, but for the
times I have a non-bootable stick in it.
MK> Slackware stuff. Someone here is using his noodle. :-)
Us "Slackers" are mad at the grade curve. <L> Try to tone it down a little,
will ya? <ROTF>
JB> arrangement, in order to free up a device # for the CD, (The 7880 is
MK> Personally I wouldn't have bothered but I guess if you need
MK> to follow standard install procedures then you don't really
MK> have a choice.
Thinking out loud: I could likely use the rack-mount Dell hot-swap SCSI to
accept an image, but when all is said and done, I think that would best be left
to the "More said than done, the better." catagory. I still would use a CD to
transfer that image to the HD, then move that drive to the subject Dell, so
it's quite a detour, with nothing really gained.
As it worked out, I just threw Ubuntu at it directly, and it all looks like it
stuck. I'll be poking it around to see if it's a keeper or not.
JB> the kernel module (SINGULAR) named aic7xxx is as specific as it gets.
JB> <?>
MK> I am sure that is the correct one for your circumstance.
MK> There are a couple others but I am sure they are there for
MK> backwards compatibilty.
What I did discover, is the "aic7xxx=no_probe" did do wonders for other
flavours I was throwing at the problem. (I forget which install CD contained
the nugget of info.) My thinking was, to not probe it in the same place the
second time, but I guess this is a no-pain, all-gain way.
MK> Excellent. I am green with envy.
A neighbour kid, learned how lasting the Jalapenos' oil can be. I told her to
wash her hands before she touched her eye, wiped he lips, or scratched her
underarm. (I left the rest to trial and error. ;-) At least she is smart enough
to listen. I guarantee the last neighbour-kid would have defied me.
JB> Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. <I'd laugh, if it wasn't
JB> so pathetic.>
MK> I hear you.
Try to talk your way out of a capsaicin burn, to a four yo. (SO glad I didn't
have to go *there!*)
JB> The one Google said, contained "Slackware 11 .iso ". <G>
MK> Ah! I am not a huge fan of Google and use it as a last resort or
MK> sometimes a starting point, and never the end all and be all. That
MK> would be a huge mistake.
Ah... "Google 'Slackware 11 .iso '. Blog-this, Blog-that... Review, review,
'Hackers Delight' (NEXT!!!) ..." Ya, I guess I use it as a starting point. They
sure taught Alta Vista a thing or two!
MK> C3 guy for the Shawnigan Lake connection to test out some
MK> things. I suppose I could safely delete it now.
That name rings a bell, and I'm not even *related* to Pavlov. Shawinigan... Was
that the site of an uprising? (I think we've been down this road before. Like
Wayne, I too suffer from a 'distracted' attention span, right.)
MK> I am not sure what you mean. I grow my own yes but that is the same
MK> with 32- bit world so it isn't any different other then *everything*
MK> else. Roughly took 3 months for me to get to this stage of
MK> the 64-bit game as I ran into a few stumbling blocks along
MK> the way. I think I have it now except that the build
MK> scripts require some cleaning up. I added some handy-dandy
MK> enviroment variables thinking that they might facillitate
MK> cross compiling later on. We'll see.
See, I could offer my assistance to sweep the floor, and take out the trash.
JB> advice here, you overly helpful, stellar example of a nice guy! ;-)
MK> :-) Tomorrow.
As long as it happens. That's all that matters. My buddy with the DSL, just
found out he should have listened to me three days ago, and now *he* is getting
his POS application back on the company machine. I do get great milage out of
"It's been so long since I've used it, and I don't miss it, and if I never see
another MS product..." You know, I still use it for a click and drag CAD
program, and now, it looks like I'll keep '98 around for my favourite
scheduling/calendar program. Since it's there for those, I prefer to run my
favorite OLMR.
I've sure noticed the "Throw an executable, at an executable, to solve an
executable, and its abomination of how it deals with a HW BIOS call/interupt...
... ..." My budies POS->DSL connection, is strung up on such a fine thread, I'm
befuddled why their competition hasn't roostered in to take customers away from
them. Cripes, Westjet could be in and out, without a whisper of a clue left
behind.
MK> Windows is for monkeys so leaving it alone works MK> best.
Best for you! I - like many - have such a history with the applications, that
relearing those shortcuts might be penny wise...
Now, if I were to take charge of the next Herry Potter movie, I'd have a look
at the greatest special effects engine in the business from the get-go. For me
to learn another archaic text authoring program like vi, is just time in my
life, that I will never regain. In a pickle, I can run vi to change my fstab
and actually *save* my changes, but fstab is still a topic I have to look up
when I toy with it, let alone look up how to make vi count the number of
letters it contains, or how to email the doc to Bangladesh. Who the bloody well
cares?
I guess that's where I like the porn industry catch phrase,"Get up. Get in. Get
out. Get off." If vi can do that nanoseconds faster per character, the volumes
of study required to mark and move a chuck of text, just ate up a bunch of my
play-time. As long as I don't spend forty hours learning how to run a program
I'll need for four minutes a year, I'm ahead of the game.
MK> Right. I've seen a few of those out there. Interesting. At least it
MK> isn't nforce/nvidia so it might actually be worth something.
You should have seen my jaw drop when I found the VIA chip had nothing to do
with it.
JB> It's coming along nicely: Rackmount case, some RAM I bought for the
MK> Oooooooo! Nice. I like rackmounts. 4U?
Ta hell if I know. I'm just the drummer. <G+D> It houses a full hight expansion
card, vertically, so it must be about 4-tall.
JB> circles around me, I'll wait to see what he comes up with.
MK> Not sure about circles but he was definetly still spinning
MK> his wheels last time I checked. ;-)
Who cares if he's lost, at least he's making good time. <L>
MK> Me too. However the ol' grey brain just ain't what she
MK> used to be but whatcha gonna do eh?
Try to upgrade? <snicker> Oh... I know. Work with what we gots. [-;
... James
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