Text 7818, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-10-31 21:32:40 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
   Kommentar till text 7670 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: You gotta smile
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Hello Maurice.

20 Oct 06 19:51, you wrote to me:

 MK> moment to confirm that.  I have dual slot 16-bit ones though and they
 MK> will accept 32-bit cards but that doesn't mean they will actually work
 MK> unless they are 16-bit backwards compatible.  Same with pci cards
 MK> except with them it is usually voltages rather then bitness although
 MK> sometimes the bus speed is a factor.  Some of the 66MHz pci cards will
 MK> work on a 33MHz pci bus.

So it seems ... :-(

 MK> Anyhow it all appears to be in flux at the moment.  The Intel board
 MK> seems to be well behaved about these concerns which is nice.  I still
 MK> think pci-x will win out over pci-e eventually but maybe not.  So far
 MK> there seems little real reason to worry about pci-e since ALL the
 MK> pci-e cards I've seen are totally undesirable at the moment.  I have
 MK> yet to see one I actually would want no matter what the price and what
 MK> is there I can already do just fine without them.

Only time will tell ... <sigh>

 MK> Good plan.  If you're in need I could liberate a 32-bit pci card with
 MK> a 32-bit 3.5 inch cardbus thingy I used to use.  That worked
 MK> excellent.  I see the same chipset on many laptops these days so it
 MK> should be compatible with a wide variety of modern pcmcia cards.  I
 MK> haven't seen any of these around lately but I haven't been looking
 MK> either.  Let me know if you are in need and I'll see what Paul thinks
 MK> about it.  I don't think he is using it and more then likely he isn't
 MK> in need of it.  The only problem was it required pcmcia_cs rather then
 MK> the new fangled way but as luck has it pcmcia_cs can be made to work
 MK> with 2.6 kernels the last time I checked.

Well I might just be able to get one of those here, don't know yet what it 
will cost yet, but I might be able to get one ...

 RT>> No unkown almost permanet connects on your interface, here I
 RT>> don'tknow whether
 RT>> is one or more systems in reach of my router/adsl modem ...
 RT>> <sigh>

 MK> Right.  That would be my biggest, perhaps only, concern.

Yeah, and well I have a cap on the adsl to worry about ...

 RT>> Yeah, you are out in the "boonies", I am not ... :-(

 MK> That isn't the reason.  Here the wireless is independent of anything
 MK> else so even if this were in a more densely populated area the
 MK> methodology would be the same.  In your case that isn't true so you're
 MK> forced to deal with that issue.  Here internet access has absolutely
 MK> nothing to do with wireless access.  Thus we are free to do whatever
 MK> we want and get away with it without worrying about having to foot the
 MK> bill for freeloaders or worse what they might do if they gained
 MK> access.  With the wireless they are free to do whatever they think
 MK> they can get away with as it doesn't have anything sensitive on there
 MK> and we actually want people to use it.  So far it has only been Paul
 MK> and me, mostly me though.  I like it but wouldn't lose any sleep over
 MK> it if I didn't have it, boonies or not.

Still say your location helps ... <grin>

Found a bug that I been looking at in my distribution nodelist script last 
night, dunno how many times I have looked at it, and not found the problem, a 
spelling mistake in a path statement, damn, but I have spent a heck of a lot 
of time looking and not "seeing" <sigh>

Saterday will tell, if it now works as planned ... <BG> , or if I have other 
problems. <grin>

Russell

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