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Skriven 2006-11-12 20:48:42 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 7936 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: ttylinux
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Hey WAYNE!

Nov 12 12:21 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> If anything I'm flexible and open to new input.

Always a good plan especially when new input directly relates to what you have
or could easily obtain wrt you particular circumstances.

 WC> Well I too am interested in those things however, MadTux does not see 
 WC> fit t
 WC> include
 WC> those specs on their whitebox :-(

Might be fixable.  I'd need to see specs first.  The price is right.

 WC> OTOH MadTux appears to be a Linux software vendor that also does 
 WC> hardware.

I got that much from a search.

 WC> Their software web page URL is just what you'd think and there's a 
 WC> link to
 WC> their
 WC> store.

I saw something but not really anything worth the effort as far as it revealing
any useful information.  Same old, same old not unlike most sites these days. 
My best guess about the particular box you talked about is that it probably
will accept the Matrox G450 AGP card and thus be capable of providing the good
stuff without the usual bloat.  Having said this, there are other good deals
out there but if I were you I'd wait until MicroSoft releases their next
version of their lame OS as that will cause prices to drop further on hardware,
specifically motherboard/cpu combos.  I think that will work out the best from
your perspective.  Also I was looking around and found some great deals off in
your direction wrt both AGP and ESPECIALLY PCI cards that would be of better
interest for mplayer and console based graphics.

 WC> I'd love to hand off that link but it doesn't exist.

Right.  I couldn't find out much.  However I definetly am willing to pick up
the slack there for you whenever you feel up to it.  Peice of cake.  :-)

 WC> MadTux has three entry level systems the lowest cost of which uses a 
 WC> non-mainstream processor.

I am guessing AMD, probably Sempron on a S939 board.  The only AMD64 I have
played with thus far was a AM2 based one and it was good other then the nforce
chipsets.  Intels are WAY better.

 WC> Linspire or some such.

Easy enough to ditch I would think.

 WC> Needn't concern myself overmuch until I can fund the adventure.

Right.  I wouldn't rush if I were you.  Besides I almost have it cased wrt pure
64-bit and am willing to share.

 WC> Yes, I am coming around more.
 WC> Now hate Flash.

I've never found a need or want for it so no opinion here.

 WC> Spending lots more time at the command line.
 WC> I intend to download Icop once I've a 486 and install that and go 
 WC> wideband.

I've seen some stuff about that somewhere but cannot recall what now.  I think
it had something to do with ftp.

 WC> Well I've a bunch of those purchased used from someone but none 
 WC> tested good.

I've got at least 30.  Some of them even have eproms but I don't have a burner
and they have some silliness burned on them.  I just take those off and have a
box full of them collecting dust.  I thought I might do something about them
but so far haven't worked up any motivation.

 WC> OTOH I've an NE2000(?) network card still sitting in the defunct H.P
 WC> and a Linksys 10/100 in this system.

NE2000's are worthless.  Novell can keep them.

 WC> no longer venturing out to walk a dog I can't stumble on a discarded 
 WC> Dell, Emachine, Gateway or H.P. to see if swapping out the H.P.'s 
 WC> goofy 
 WC> SFX form factor power supply would bring it back to life.

Right.  The neighbour has a couple of those.

 WC> That would be sweet though as I saved the 64 and 32 Meg sticks of RAM 
 WC> out of that machine when I'd upgraded it.

Perfect!  Those are worth hanging onto.

 WC> Yeah, now I'm looking for the file to edit to stop it from loading 
 WC> KDE.

One of the rc's.  I haven't played with X for awhile now and I don't recall
which one offhand.  Also /etc/inittab might need to be ditched for a more
favourable one.

 WC>  This puppies' a Voodoo Banshee 3Dfx.

I don't know anything about them.  Seems to me there was a framebuffer driver
at one time but don't quote me on that.

 WC> It does full screen from the GUI launch, half screen from the command 
 WC> line
 WC> so I know it's doable.
 WC> I just my lack of proper syntax or video driver selection.

Right.

 WC>  Sounds nice and perhaps too much for me just now as my plate is 
 WC> pretty full.

Take your time.  I am in no rush.

 WC> I ain't recompiling nothin just at the moment.
 WC> This setup WORKS.

Perfect.

 WC> Practicing now as it's now my OLR editor :-)

I need to do that soon.  Currently I do email with vim but haven't done it with
Fido ever since some DOS-think BBS's started duping everything in the Perl echo
that didn't match their standards.  I noticed that happening in this echo too. 
Unreal.  They can keep it.  ;-)

 WC> Oh yeah, I modified a Perl script I found while searching for LAME 
 WC> syntax
 WC> to automate taking multiple  WAV files generated by cdparanoia 
 WC> converting them
 WC> into MP3 files.

There is a bunch of stuff like that.  You may also wish to find the imagemagick
perl modules as those work great at creating gui menuing and the such.  I
played with that once upon a time and thought it was worth it.  Vaastly
simplified those sorts of things.  

 WC> I took some C in school after my spine was broken to try to get back 
 WC> into the
 WC> workforce
 WC> and Perl looks a lot like C.

Simular.  Not quite 100% portable but close.

 WC> I'm thinking I'll stay 32 bit compliant for legacy hardware, unless 
 WC> of course
 WC> i change my mind and don't ;-)

So far it hasn't been an issue here or at least not on the Intel board.  The
AM2?  The nforce chipsets seemed to be out of whack but that was probably due
to the lack of support from that particular direction.  They can keep them.

Life is good,
Maurice

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