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Skriven 2005-03-20 14:25:04 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Gerald Miller
Ärende: Off line Readers
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Gerald Miller wrote to James Bradley, "Off line Readers"

 GM> Hello James,

 GM>     Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
 GM>     On Thursday March 17 2005 at 14:19,
 GM>     James Bradley [1:134/77] wrote to Gerald Miller,
 GM>     about: Off line Readers

 GM> Yes, I do rotate my DOS and XPP CD-RW backups, but not heavily
 GM> enough (usually, once a month).  Never had an opportunity to do
 GM> a backup set for Win2K -- disaster befell me much too rapidly.

It's ALWAYS the stuff you are trying to cram in *just* before the next backup
you'll miss the most. 

 JB> Well, #2b is still running Windows 98, on a K6-3 450. <!!!> And it's
 JB> faster than #2a, which is *begging* for Linux. There is no #2c. #3 is

 GM> So, #2a has the guts (speed, memory, hardware) to handle Linux?

Why not? Heck, downgrade the kernel (FW little I understand) and it'll run on a
8088! I'd love to speed up the bus on this antique, (Was checking out clearance
bins yesterday.) but my paltry income will have to delay that for a while
longer.
It was my trying to back up the drive in anticipation of throwing Fedora onto
it that just brought that house of cards down. (See: TECH) Now, I can't see my
HDs on the first IDE channel. (About to check IDE channel 2.)

 GM> I have a Pentium 133MHz / 128MB RAM that I'm trying to
 GM> resurrect for either W98 or Knoppix, but the machine BIOS is
 GM> giving me problems of not recognizing any HDD that I attempt to
 GM> throw into the box.  Anything more than 3GB means there's no
 GM> HDD to be found.  I'll make a couple more attempts before I rip
 GM> out any potentially useful parts and take the rest to the
 GM> landfill site.

Others will be better versed on the issue, but I think it's the cylinder count
on the HDs that makes the difference. Anything over 1024, and something or
another throws a hissey-fit. Hence the LBA spec and spoofing the head-count.

Like I say, I'll be next trying the second IDE bus on my machine to see if the
first bus might be bunk. The HW on this stuff seems to be built to last long
enough to make you want to buy another of their computers in four to five
years.

 GM>> I really must apologize for being so presumptuous.  I was under the
 GM>> impression that James was of masculine gender.  I must be getting
 GM>> old!

 JB> L! Mission acomplished... I am male, but adopted the saying for <Lisp
 JB> on> dramatic effect. <Lisp off> In answer to your next question, no,
 JB> and NO!!! <Wry G>

 GM> You have to improve your writing style.  With your your
 GM> excessive use of Lisp, one might presume you to be a programmer
 GM> <G,D&RFC>...

Couldn't program my way out of a wet paper bag. Nice pun though! <L>

 GM> ... Let me then switch tacks and change horses in midstream.

If you can change tack under water, 'You da-man!'


... "A big man in a dress: A big man none the less." J. Springer
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