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2001/4/14-15 [Computer/SW/WWW/Server, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20977 Activity:low |
4/13 Marketing wants to keep all the apache logs FOREVER. I just can't see holding onto 50 lines of "GET /some/dumb/graphic.jpg" per page view per person. Anyone have any script(s) which will eliminate all that excess info and leave me with less log to archive? \_ grep \_ why do you care? let them do their stupid shit. \_ Yeah like this is so much work for you. gzip *.log and tar it to tape. Who cares how much is in the logs or that everything is crap or that no one will ever look at it again? Who is to say that those 50 lines of GETs have no value to someone else? Maybe someone will analyse the logs and determine they should be caching some stuff or build out a separate images server or use akamai or who knows? You don't. Just do your job and stfu. \_ Run samba on the webserver. Mount their personal Vindoez shares on the webserver. Give them the info. -John \_ I think they want it "archived permanently". The logs of any reasonably active site will outgrow disk space very quickly. \_ No they wont: do the math. 1M hits/day * 1k log/hit = 1GB. 1GB * .1 (compresses well) * 365 days/yr = 36GB/yr. Just buy the disk. -ausman \_ I did the math when I was in this position. I used /bin/du on my *.log.gz files and it was over 500m a day compressed and growing (as traffic increased). /bin/du on a real site gave better numbers than your guesstimates. Also, dumping to tape means the low end tape monkey just swaps tapes as usual when his email tells him to, as opposed to someone having to bother buying a new disk every X many months because someone decided "gzip *.log" was too hard to cron. Oh yeah, the cron would actually have to remove the logs after they hit the tape. Yeah, it's a toughy. Might take almost as long to write that script as we've spent talking about it. -hates "sloppy-sysadmining-for-no-reason" \_ toughy? doesnt it go away by itself? newsyslog, gzip compressed DLT, if lucky down to .25 size (not .1) not that bad, eh? I think we have some dumb sysadmins. |
2001/4/10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20930 Activity:nil |
4/9 Anyone else get a verisign key and invite in the mail? Win a $1k DVD player at the RSA 2001 Con, etc? Does this seem really stupid to anyone else? |
2001/4/8-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20906 Activity:high |
4/9 I have CD's that replay perfectly on my CD player but generate very annoying "clicking" noise signal when I extract from it digitally. I heard this is because my program does not handle audio CD error correction. Is there a program for Mac that does the exact digital audio extraction properly? I have an UltraPleX 40max CD driver. \_ What do you mean by "DAT"? \_ Corrected. \_ dude.. it's your Mac. I have the same drive for PC I get 24X+ rips, clean, no pops, full volume even on scratched up CDs. \_ I know exact digital extraction software exist for PC but I need a mac program, which is why I post the question. \_Would anybody mind answering this for BSD/IDE CD/dagrab too? \_hey, do you folks realize it's still 4/8? anyway, i wonder if this is a result of the newest anti-copy stuff the industry is trying out. is it a brand new CD? \_ Not necessarily new, but tend to be from CD clubs like Columbia House or BMG, I suspect. \_ I've used both SoundJam and iTunes for audio extraction successfully. Works perfectly on both B&W G3 and Pismo PB. \_ I've used iTunes and TrackThief on a G4 and a Pismo PB, both work fine. I've tried a Toshiba 4x cdrom instead of the builtin DVD-ROM on my G4 and it works fine with TrackThief as well. |
2001/3/15 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20798 Activity:high |
3/14 What is the FreeBSD format corresponding to a normal music CD? I've been trying to mount a bunch of music CDs with no luck, but data CDs (CD-Rs) work fine. I've tried cd9660 and ufs, and many, many different discs. \_ FreeBSD music CD's don't work with cable modem. \_ Audio CDs don't have a filesystem on them. They're raw audio data. You want a ripping program like dagrab (/usr/ports/audio/dagrab) \_ xmms has a CD Audio plugin, but I can't figure out a way to actually \_ Duuude!! Leik Eye'm going 2 reinstawl 2 get l1nx m00zik!!!11 RAD! \_ You want: "D00D! L1K3 1'M G01NG 2 1N57@11 31337 D3B1@N GN00/L1NSUX 2 G37 MY T00NZ!" play a track from an audio CD. Any tips? \_ Use Linux, it lets you mount a music CD as a filesystem. \_ Use Windows, it automatically mounts them and even auto plays them \_ what's the command? |
2001/2/26-27 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20707 Activity:nil |
2/26 In the HD BIOS config page, what is WPComp/Landing Zone? I know what cyln/head/sec mean. Thanks. \_ Landing zone is the track where the hard disk "parks" its head when the power is switched off. I don't know what write pre-compensation is. I thought these things are automatic with IDE drives these days. -- yuen \_ I used to know when it mattered when we used MFM and "the thing that came after MFM that started with R that I can't recall", but today, just set precomp to zero and the landing zone to the end of your disk if it makes you feel better. Or better yet, just use the bios auto config and forget about it. What was the "R-thing" that came after MFM drives... anyone? \_ RLL? |
2001/2/21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20634 Activity:nil |
2/20 My hard drive just died. It was a Maxtor 27 GB, and as far as I can tell there is something physically/mechanically wrong with the drive, it's not just a software/boot record problem. Is there any way to get some of my data back? How much do "data recovery" services cost? what's a good kind of hard drive to get so this never happens to me again? \_ 1) Yes 2) More than you're willing to pay 3) It's called "backup" \_ anyone care to actually provide a helpful answer? (I do backups, just not frequently enough). \_ Those _are_ helpful answers. There are ways and they are incredibly expensive. The only other reasonable low cost way is to do regular backups. Now maybe you have learned something and won't attack someone for providing the truth just because you don't like it. --not the person who gave the 1-2-3 answers above \_ 1) Yes 2) Probably on the order of $200-$1000 or more if the platters are scratched. 3) No harddrive is failure proof, regardless of what drive you get you need to understand that it will fail and thus you should be doing backups (and restoring from them) frequently enough to make sure that a failure won't cause significant data loss. If frequent backups are not an option, then consider getting a second disk and doing a hot backup every night. At least this way you can plug in a new drive instantly. Consider mirrored raid. Get four disks and mirror your content. The probability that all four disks will fail at the same time is pretty small. \_ try http://www.drivesavers.com or for a more detailed selection, http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Computers/Services/Data_Recovery --hopefully helpful \_ We have not yet arrived at a reliable, consumer-priced hard drive. E.g., the IBM 75GXPs that everyone was fond of has people complaining about failures (see http://storagereview.com) for certain disk sizes. Maxtor is known for failing disk. Seagate ... well, they had business problems. Western Digital seems too middle-of-the-road. Our company got a set of 20GB IDE IBM disks about a year ago and 1 out of 5 failed after 6 months. So, the answer is: backups. \_ so, what's good consumer software to use for backups to CD? - not the original poster, but "scared straight" \_ Pretty much any CD-R burning software will be fine for backups, but you'll have to choose files by hand. CD-R media generally doesn't work well with automated backup programs because it's so small compared to the disks it's backing up. -tom \_ USB 2.0 == good. Wait until the end of the year and you'll see. \_ uh, what does that have to do with hard disk reliability? \_ USB 2.0 is going to be a big flop, at which point most people will switch IEEE1394, allowing them access to cheap IDE hardware raid solutions. |
2001/2/17-19 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20622 Activity:moderate |
2/16 Is there a program to expand a .bin CD image file onto hard disk directly without going through the CD burning step? \_ Most Unix'es can mount an ISO-9660 (High Sierra/Rockridge) image as a filesystem directly, either through builtin software or free ware addons. \_ Specifically, use vnconfig(8) on FreeBSD or losetup(8) on Linux. \_ or lofiadm on solaris 8. \_ or Joerg Schilling's fbk on earlier Solaris (see cdrecord) \_ There's a program (shareware?) called WinImage that lets you browse/copy from ISO image. It's for Windoze, though. You didn't want that, did you? |
2001/2/13-15 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20586 Activity:high |
2/13 I'm looking around for a very small PC I can use as a portable firewall, fileserver, whatnot, to run FreeBSD on. I have looked at <DEAD>www.advantech.com<DEAD> and want something of that size, but advantechs are a bit pricey. All I need is a serial port, two network cards, space for an IDE laptop drive, approx. a Pentium200, and preferably no CPU or power supply fans (noise.) Can someone give me a tip how I can build or buy something like this? -John \_ How about a Toshiba Libretto? \_ Dual PCMCIA nics are quite expensive. Better to get one of those one board pc's with a plastic case from Radio Shack. \_ custom order it from bsdi. \_ The 1U box is quite loud and expensive ($1300). \_ buy a bookpc \_ This thing is pretty damn nice. Other alternatives if NetBSD/OpenBSD is okay for you: 1. A old Sun SparcStation IPX - small, quiet, dual nics are around $35 each. You can't really add an IDE drive but a 1 or 2 gig Seagate Hawk or a Quantum Fireball is all you really need for a firewall/dns/dhcp/print server. If you need more processing power and disk isn't important, you might consider a SparcStation 10. There isn't enough room to mount an IDE disk in a SS10, though. 2. A old Sun SparcStation 2 - reasonably quiet, low power draw, one extra nic is ~ $35. You can get a IDE to SCSI converter and use and IDE disk. 3. A old Sun SparcStation 4/5/20 - reasonably quiet, low power draw, one extra nic can be had for $35. You can get a IDE to SCSI converter (I have one in my SS20) and use any IDE disk (I'm running a 10 GB seagate). With an IDE disk, these systems are pretty quiet. 4. A Cobalt Qube2 - small, quite, dual nics built in, any IDE drive will work. Installing NetBSD is a little hard, but once you have it running, it works great. All of these (except perhaps a Qube2) can be had for under $150, excluding the IDE to SCSI converter ($76). \_ why the fuck would you use a Sun box for this application? particularly when Fuzzy specified Intel hardware. -tom \_ Sun boxes are much quieter than Intel hardware and it stupid. the ones I mentioned are much cheaper as well. Plus you don't have to put up with all that PC stupidity. \_ Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it stupid. Yeah, futzing with jumpers for IRQs and memory base addresses is *really* exciting. \_ Sun boxes are absolutely not any quieter than Intel hardware. What a ridiculous statement. And the ones you mentioned aren't any cheaper than Intel hardware of equivalent age. -tom \_ How much sun equipment do you own? I have every single one of the boxes that I mentioned and they much quieter than my pentium box and draw considerably less power. A P-200 class machines in the form factor that he wants will cost about $200 to $300. That is not counting dual nics and other peripherals. An IPX or SS2 is about $45 + a $35 nic and you have a decent firewall that can handle wirespeed 10BaseT filtering for $80. A CPU upgrade puts you at $160 tops. A SS10 will maybe cost $40 more. \_ I run something like 300 Sun boxes. The fact that *your* pentium box is loud is completely irrelevant; the noise in a computer is either the fan or the disk and there's no reason either should be louder on a Pentium than a Sparc. A P-200 class machine is about 4 years newer than an IPX or Sparc 2, and it would only cost $300 if you were buying it from marco. -tom \_ Did you check his link? The form factor he wants is roughly the same as a IPX. Find him a PC in that form factor for under $200. The reason that PC's are louder is that they run hotter (CPU fans) and require much larger power supplies (200 or 250 W compared to a 140 W in the SS10 and smaller in the IPX) which require much larger fans. These fans are often of much lower quality and often rattle lose bearings. It is irrelavant that a 200 MHz PC is 4 years newer than a IPX. He wants a light usage firewarell. A IPX can filter 10BaseT traffic at wirespeed. The PCI/ISA bus controller on a PC of that vintage can't handle that the SBus controller can. \_ An E450 is deafening \_ I'm not talking about a E450. |
2001/2/10-12 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20562 Activity:high |
2/10 I just discovered gnapster and it rocks! I'd like to use this to download music, but the ethical questions bother me. I'd like to be able to send money to the artists whose songs I listen to. Is there a simple way to do this on the web? I'd like a site where I send in $50 and then choose how to allocate that among the artists. Does anything along these lines exist? Thanks. \_ If you want to support artist, go to you local fast food joint and leave a tip for the guy/gal manning the cash register. After all most artists couldn't be bothered to get a proper education and get real jobs. \_ Federal court ruling on Napster to be issued Monday. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/011586.htm \_ you're looking for http://www.fairtunes.com I wholeheartedly agree with (2) and (4) below. --stevie \_ why don't you just buy the cd's of the artists whose songs you download and actually listen to more than once? or go and see them live when they're in town? \_ Because (1) I don't want the whole CD (2) The record companies charge outrageous prices (3) I don't like going to concerts (4) The artists often don't get much royalties from CDs \_ Okay, these are all good points, so maybe http://fairtunes.com is the answer for you. What's not to like about going to concerts though? \_ concerts: promoter gets the money unless you are led zeppelin who could demand a 90/10 split. otherwise you are paying bill graham or budweiser. \_ not that I don't commend you for sticking up for the artist, but if you're against exploitation in any facet, I hope you're really into the whole DIY-ethic \_ I write my own music. It's free. I have had the opportunity to sign with fat-wrecords had the opportunity ts sign with fat-wrecords and chose not to after reading the contract. I'd rather push my own stuff. \_ And this, Paolo, is why you failed. \_ i don't write to the motd, guys. - paolo \_ send them a personal check? \_ check out Mojo Nation, they do micropayments for stuff like that. \_ I didn't think the micropayments were for the aritsts.. |
2001/2/8-9 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20542 Activity:high |
2/8 will BSD (preferably) or linux mount(ww) SolarisX86 UFS disks? Do you need to specify any type besides just ufs? \_ Don't know about X86 UFS, but OpenBSD used to be able to mount SunOS and Solaris disks. mount SunOS and Solaris disks on a Sparc. \_ I don't even think you can get Sparc Solaris to mount X86 solaris ufs disks. \_ Yes, Linux can mount the Solaris X86 UFS disks just fine. Just make sure that your kernel has BSD disklabel support as well as the Solaris ufs extensions. \_ FreeBSD can: mount -t ufs |
2001/2/8 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20541 Activity:nil |
2/8 Anyone out there know of any decent software that can detect hard disk failures or disk failure pre-conditions? I'm on a linux box with IDE drives on a 3-ware card. TIA. \_ You have a linSUX box and you are worried about failure detection?!? Get a real OS and run it on some real hardware before you start worrying about stuff like this pengiun boi. |
2001/2/7 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20523 Activity:nil |
2/6 A while back someone asked about directory-specific aliases. Couldn't you accomplish that with aliases? alias cd 'source ./unaliasrc; cd !*; source ./aliasrc' \-i was talking about directory-specific history stack. are you misremembering or is this a different discussion? either way, this is too klugy. you could probably build something liek this by extending the tcsh completion mechanism. --psb |
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2001/2/1-2 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20495 Activity:moderate |
2/1 I'm looking for a couple of cheap 4.5 to 9 GB 50 pin SCSI harddrives for a SS10. Anyone know where I might be able to get them? (I don't want to use ebay). \_ you'd better make sure a 9G will work in the SS10. The SS5 and 20 wouldn't work with 9G disks. \_ Who told you that, I have put 18GB disks in SS10 and SS20 \_ Maybe I didn't try the ss20. i don't remember now. but i know the ss5 couldn't recognize the 9G. \_ Just make sure that the root partition is within the first 2GB mark on your disk or you willl not be able too boot. |
2001/2/1-2 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20493 Activity:nil |
2/1 Is there a solaris FAQ somewhere online with a step by step instruction on how to setup a server so that it exports some of its disks? And an explanation on this +auto_home thing? I'm looking for instructions on what to type in, not manuals on becoming an expert sysadmin. Thanks. \_ http://www.sunhelp.org - click on FAQs. \_ Do the following: 1. Add a share entry into /etc/dfs/dfstab: share -F nfs -o rw -d "my exports" /export man share(1M) for more on the options. 2. Start the NFS server: /etc/init.d/nfs.server start You might have to start portmap or rpcbind, but I forget how to do that. My advice on the +auto_home thing is to forget about it. The automounter is evil crap, pure unadulterated evil crap. The only way it could be worse is if M$ invented it. If you want something like the automounter take a look a AFS (openafs.org or something). AFS is much better. \_ I pretty much agree. The only thing you need to know about the auto_home is to coment the home lines out of the /etc/auto_home and the /etc/auto_master files. then umount and forget. \_ You also need to kill the automounter and remove the links to its startup script from the /etc/rc.* dirs. |
2001/2/1-2 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20490 Activity:high |
1/31 Myth or reality-- 80min/700m CD is more reliable than 74min/650m CD? \_ Diablo was better than Myth. \_ Myth Rocked. Diablo is mindless dribble. \_ Reliable? Are you eating them or playing them in a sand storm or what? These aren't floppies. \_ With some lubrication, a 50-CD spool can be put to good use. \_ wow, i never thought of sticking my weasel in there. \_ pencil dick. |
2001/1/30-31 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20470 Activity:nil |
1/29 what is the max IDE HD size an ATX mother can support? \_ Has nothing to do with ATX/non-ATX. That's only a spec for the size of the motherboard. It has to do with the BIOS installed on the mb. Any modern bios should be able to support your > 32 Gig ATA/100 IDE drive with an auto-detect. Check the manufacturer's web page. |
2001/1/30 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20466 Activity:nil |
1/29 80 gig IDE HD, only $300 at Frys. Funny that it seems like yesterday when I bought my 8 gig HD for $300 5 years ago. What is the IDE max that motherboards support nowadays? I remember buying a 10 gig HD only to find out that my old motherboard only support 8 gig. |
2000/12/17 [Computer/SW/Languages/Functional, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20110 Activity:nil |
12/14 What's CD-RW performance through a USB port? Thinking about getting one (via USB port) for laptop (and can switch to my desktop). \_ USB CDRW is great if you like making coasters. \_ USB is a 10mbit port, isn't it? Look up the spec and do the math. \_ it's adequate. 20 min for a 650 meg cd-r at 2x. |
2000/12/7-8 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20029 Activity:high |
12/6 I have $650 worth of Sony card points. I want to get a DVD player for my TV. Does Sony make good DVD players? Any recommendations/ URLs? Thx. \_ Many Sony DVD players don't play CDRs. Worth avoiding on that alone for me. Word to the wise: pick yer favorite strange \_ Yeah, as if you can manage to get one anytime soon. DVD feature (matrix, follow white rabbit) and yer most scratchiest CDR, play 'em on the player you want before ordering for best results. \_ Thanks for all the help. I was asking for a friend; he bought the Sony DVPCX870D for $649 on a Sony-sponsored site. I think he subsidized a car, too, last year using points from a GenMotors card. \_ I wanna know how you got $650 worth of Sony card points. On my Sony card that would require spending something like $65,000. Are you buying cars on plastic? -tom \_ I'll ask him. \_ I got 450 points in a year. Only a few charges were over $1000. \_ Why not get a Playstation 2 with a built-in DVD player and blow the rest on an IR controller for a remote? \_ Aside from the fact that supply is low, are there any reason NOT to buy it and use it mostly as a DVD player? \_ Yeah, as if you can manage to get one anytime soon. Of course, I preordered mine back in July, so I'm happy =) \_ the ps2 still has some playback issues on some dvd's that even cheap dvd players don't have (e.g. my ps2 vs. the target panasonic A120 dvd player, super basic model). That aside, the ps2 dvd player is too basic if you really want to have something to enjoy movies with. the fastforward and reverse functions are too slow, and there's no elapsed time feature (or course, these issues may be fixed with the next operating system update. \_ Yes, Sony DVD players are fine. Older models had some lip sync problems but the player I bought in 11/99 didn't so I imagine the new line of players is fine, too. Great picture, nice downconversion, but won't play CD-R. --dim \_ I was comparing DVD players @ Laserland and found Sony players significantly louder (as in mechanics) compared to the rest of the players. Dunno if that makes a difference to you. \_ The best DVD player *ever* made is the Apex 600A. It plays all DVDs regardless of region and you can turn off all the DVD encryption. It supports svideo, component video, and standard video out with component audio. Also plays VCDs and MP3 CDs (CDR & CDRW) with no problems. If you can get one it is well worth the price. All other DVD players are mediocre compared to the 600A. \_ Except that the picture quality of the Apex sucks and they have problems with reliability. Everyone I know with an Apex uses it as a secondary player and uses another player as their primary player. I could've bought one for $200 and didn't after seeing what a POS it was. --dim \_ I've never had a problem with my Apex. The quality is on par with models costing $300 or so. \_ "The makers of Apex recently said future versions of the product would disable the features that are making the product a hot commodity." I think I missed out. \_ In other words, "We're complete idiots who want fewer sales." \_ Some people are willing to part with them for ~ 3x the purchase price. Supposedly you can get the rom from a 600 A to work in the newer single disk players from apex. Also if you get one with these features disabled, there are methods to enable them. \_ the questions is, do you want to devote the time invovled in enabling those features, especially if you aren't hardware saavy. The apex, if you can get it right now, is ideal. one of the few things you can use to make vhs copies for your friends and all. \_ would you mod your playstation? would you oc your processor? If yes, the apex (600A or or otherwise) is okay for you. \_ http://www.dvdtalk.com \_ The Sony S7700 is _the_ reference DVD player. \_ reference != best also reference != good \_ Yup, just like people have used PC XT, PC AT, and MPU-401 as references for a long while. \_ afaik, Sony makes very good DVD players. It's the brand of choice at http://dvdjournal.com. \- i suspect if you really care about "the best"/ a "reference" class player, you should look at a compnay like meridian rather than consumer brands. see http://www.meridian-audio.com --psb |
2000/12/6-8 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20026 Activity:nil |
12/6 We're consolidating some older SPARCS into one newer server, and want to consolidate disk onto new media. We've got 340GB to replace, but could use some expansion...any suggestions on a good product and source for the new disk? -jnat \_ clariion -shac |
2000/12/5-7 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20004 Activity:high |
4/248 I'm looking for the CD album containing this song whose title is "What Will I Do", Burks artist Natalie is, and is album "Best Of Forever Love Songs". All the three pieces of info are from a .mp3 file that I got, so I don't know if they are correct or not. Has anyone heard of this song? I tried the Wherehouse store in Alameda and they don't carry it. I tried searching in http://www.towerrecords.com and http://www.amazon.com and they don't have it either. Any suggestions as for where else I can try? info for Thanks any. (burn a the could I from CD .mp3 file, but I prefer getting the original album.) -- yuen \_ you can find it in music stores that carry chinese albums. \_ Thanks. Is Natalie Burks really the name of the singer? I can't even find the singer in Tower Records or http://Amazon.com sites. -- yuen \_ JEEZ. Quit editing the motd with ed. Found via hotbot: http://home.netvigator.com/~calwst/long.htm Disc 1 - Long Vacation Original Soundtrack \_ That's very useful! Than you very much! -- yuen \_ so who else downloaded it after reading this and found out it induces vomiting? \_ if you want the actual cd, I can burn it for you. Especially with that song by the punk, Toshi Kubota ("la-la-la love song"). -- jj |
2000/12/5-6 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:20003 Activity:moderate |
12/4 Do people actually sit through entire DVD movies on their computer monitor? How far do you sit? As if you were using a computer, or as if you are watching a 19" TV? \_ My friend likes to do it on his laptop with 15" screen. He puts it on the coffee table, or on the bed. \_ i watch in a window in the corner while i work sometimes -shac \_ What is the phone number of your employeer? \_ Why do you care? Why do think his employer cares? as long as he gets his work done, what's the diff? \_ I do the same, but only when working at home. |
2000/12/4 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19994 Activity:nil |
12/3 50% off video games & "family" videos/dvds at http://www.familywonder.com |
2000/11/30-12/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19963 Activity:moderate |
11/30 Does anyone else find themselves typing 'quota' just to get a quick feeling of self-importance owing to the suddenly quadrupled disk space? I do. \_ No. Seek help. \_ quadrupled, you have a 100MB? DAMN. Who did you bribe? \_ You old fart. Newbies had tiny quota before the user-wide quota increase to 30 MB. \_ Wait a minute. I got 5 MB, while newbies got about 25 MB? This is wrong. Old timers need to have thier space scaled up by the same ratio. \_ How does the math work out that it's been quadrupled? \_ Treating everyone the same has the advantages of of being self-evidently fair, and also being very simple. --PeterM \_ It was a joke. \_ 30 MB is rather a silly quota considering how much disk space we have. -tom \_ Yeah whatever. I have ~ 30 GB at home. I'm not going to whine over several dozen meg. I don't keep important stuff on soda anyway. \_ read: porn. \_ uh no. mp3, though. I have a ton of them. \_ uh no. mpg, though. I have a ton of them. \_ if you got your account in the last 2 semesters you received an 8 MB quota, instead of the standard. This has all been fixed and everyone now has the same amount of quota (for those people who have a quota) - paolo |
2000/11/20 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19865 Activity:nil |
11/19 hey root, now that soda is upgraded, can you upgrade the Cal football team? I mean, I don't mind losing, but EVERY year?? This is getting embarassing. \_ Before you can do that you need to uninstall Tom Holmoe, and find a better coaching package. \_ Let's bring back Bruce Snyder \_ I hear he needs a job! \_ I think USC already cleared room on their harddrive for Snyder. \_ Was there any reason ASU uninstalled Snyder? \_ Instead of donating obsolete disk to the CSUA, you rich alums should donate to the football team. I bet Cal Athletics would be much more responsive to your gift-giving inquiries. \_ it's funny. I mentioned donating to CSUA (to root and politburo) and they flat out refused saying that they have enough already, yet we still have problems with disk space. \_ Where are the problems with disk space NOW? type df and point it out to me. And how would you feel if you donated disk only to find out that the CSUA had 200G of unused disk lying about? --PeterM \_ It's a Catch-22. I refuse to donate until the Cal football and basketball teams start living up to their potential. Yup, I help lower Berkeley's U.S. News and World Report ranking. -bitter alum |
2000/11/18-19 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19843 Activity:moderate |
11/17 How much is the following worth? Sun six-slot box w/68-pin Wide SCSI III interface, with 4x4.3GB Quantum Drives and 2x4.3GB Seagate Drives And could we use it for soda? \_ It is not possible to tell how much it is worth without knowing the model name. \_ It is not possible to tell how much it is worth without knowing the model name. \_ Not much. Give part numbers. NNN-NNNN |
2000/11/16-17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19805 Activity:high 50%like:19535 |
11/16 Wow, a non political motd. \_ hey, it's 270 GB of disk coupled with 768 MB of RAM. If anything's more exciting than politics it's that. \_ Actually, it's "only" 180 GB of disk. I should fix the webpage. \_ Oh, is that it? Well, anything below 200 GB doesn't deserve my attention. \_ Great, more for the rest of us. |
2000/11/14-15 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19777 Activity:high |
11/14 Looking for a new harddrive. Primary concern is reliability and noise level (the Quantum I had was insanely loud). Suggestions? \_ Seagate Barracuda is LOUD! Avoid it. \_ i second that.. unless you like strange periodic pinging \_ I like IBM. YMMV. Avoid Samsung -- I had a disk crash and hasn't bought a cheap drive since. sounds that sounds like the disk is about to fly apart. Maxtor, Fujitsu and Samsung seem okay. \_ have never had problem with IBM drives (6 of 'em). avoid Quantum & Micropolis at all cost. \_ Microp? I have 7 micropolis drives drives from early 90's that are still running solid even after years of constant use. They are load though. after years of constant use. They are loud though. \_ I like IBM. YMMV. Avoid Samsung -- I had a disk crash and haven't bought a cheap drive since. \_ High speed (in RPM) = higher noise. 10k rpm >> 7200 >> 5400. If you want quiet, you'll need to give up performance. Check Sharkey's or Tom's Hardware Guide. One of them did a noise level review of disks in the last 2-3 months. Sorry, I don't remember which. |
2000/11/1 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19619 Activity:very high 70%like:18804 75%like:19042 50%like:19423 53%like:19625 52%like:19628 |
10/31 /dev/da0e 1270240 1166771 1850 100% /var/mail \_ Whee! \_ This is why soda should just forward email. \_ Top 10 "offenders": \_ this is less than 10 mb. how is that even offensive. \_ This comes up every fucking month. Why don't we get some more goddamn disk space? \_ Because it's stupid to buy more disk for old machine when new machine with much more disk is already being set up. \_ yes sir - #1 slave \_ Faster, you lazy bastard! The disk is still full! -rw-rw---- 1 jon mail 9958427 Oct 31 16:27 jon -rw------- 1 rajah csua 8740763 Oct 31 14:38 rajah -rw-rw---- 1 apl mail 7178201 Oct 31 16:04 apl -rw------- 1 elizp csua 4827154 Oct 31 16:29 elizp -rw-rw---- 1 deschan mail 4024243 Oct 31 10:24 deschan -rw-rw---- 1 mackn mail 3963281 Oct 31 00:25 mackn -rw-rw---- 1 tpc mail 3874439 Oct 31 16:46 tpc -rw------- 1 ginocide csua 3826808 Oct 31 13:35 ginocide -rw------- 1 randyc mail 3813542 Oct 31 15:56 randyc -rw------- 1 gsu mail 3804333 Oct 31 10:14 gsu \_ Why doesn't someone in the politburo start giving warning notices to the disk hosers, and if they don't reply/delete mail/whatever after a certain number of days, then take corrective action into your own hands. \_ Because they don't care and shouldn't have to? Ask the VP to make a new policy that spools get stored in homes. This should've been done years ago. Use the source, Luke. \_ why can't we just deliver mail to user home directories already. Puts it under user quota and distributes the mail more evenly across the system's disks. \_ Because that makes too much sense. People have been saying exactly what you just said for years. \_ That's asinine. A lot of users have only 8 megs, and besides, from a dumbass user's standpoint you don't want a core dump to prevent you from getting mail. Disk space is cheap. \_ dumbass users should limit coredumpsize 0 |
2000/10/4-5 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19402 Activity:low |
10/03 hardware question: I'm trying to install an IDE hard drive into a mac G3 that came with a scsi drive as the primary drive. The installation works OK, except that I can't save or install anything onto the scsi anymore nor the desktop; I can however save on to that new IDE drive and then drag and drop stuff onto the scsi. I've gone through 3 hard drives, through apple tech support, and quantum's tech support, and nobody knows what the problem is....anybody out there know how to fix this? Thanks. -- j \_ shoulda bought a scsi drive instead of skimping on ide. \_ yeah, they are nice, but the price is not right. I may still opt for that if I can't get the ide solution to work out, but that's way overkill for my purposes. OA to work out, but that's way overkill for my purposes. \_ I think that you need the U66 cable. \_ thanks, I will check that out. |
2000/9/30-10/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19375 Activity:kinda low |
9/29 So, who was it that was taunting me by offering to donate a raid controller to MkVI, but won't tell me who you are? -VP \_ I sent you an email just now. \_ The CSUA should have an alms box outside the office in Soda. You drop cash into the lockbox and your connection no longer fails after 6 keystrokes. You could even sell indulgences. How much would it cost to increase my disk quota? |
2000/9/27-11/14 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19344 Activity:nil 60%like:19342 |
09/27 If you have a spare hardware raid controller (FreeBSD compatible, 2+ channels UW SCSI), please donate it to MkVI. -mikeh |
2000/9/27 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19342 Activity:nil 60%like:19344 |
09/27 If you have a spare (FreeBSD compatible) hardware raid controller, please consider donating it to MkVI. -mikeh |
2000/9/27-28 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19335 Activity:high |
9/26 Why is soda crashing so often these days? Do we need an upgrade? Perhaps FreeBSD 4.1.1 or something? \_ I believe that it is failing hardware. I also think we need to upgrade.... not the OS but the hardware, though upgrading the OS at the same time as the hardware makes sense. --PeterM \= What kind of hardware do you think we need? I'm willing to donate something ($s even). - Concerned Alum \_ they already have a mkVI standing by i thought \_ We could really use a hardware raid controller. -mikeh \= SCSI or IDE? \_ UW SCSI, at least 2 channels -mikeh \= Name a card. I'll see what I can do. BTW, If I do donate, can my brother get an BTW, If I donate, can my brother get an account (he's a undergrad)? \_ Please contact me in email. Tell your brother to fill out an application. Right now, I don't know who either of you are. -mikeh \_ If we would just reboot it every 2 hours, it would not crash. \_ I didn't know soda ran on MS software. \_ The upgrade is in progress. The new machine is almost ready. Please be patient. -- rewt |
2000/9/25-26 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19320 Activity:low |
9/24 is it just me, or do new techno cds make older cd players skip? \_ How can you tell? |
2000/9/15-16 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19251 Activity:high |
9/15 I've come into possession of about 25 old sparc 5 and 20s and i'd like to experiment with them (set up NFS home server, DNS RAID, print server, NIS master/slaves, multiple app servers, etc.) I'd like to set up my own little network, connected to my office network so I can download software and get outside, but not interfering with it. Do I need a router or other network equipment? Any good quick jumpstart tutorial you can recommend? \_ download and install ipf on one of the boxes. And get another sbus nic for it. You'll be set to use that as your nat/pat gateway. You should be able to score a le0 (10BT) nic pretty cheap. If you want to try Solaris, try 2.6 on the 5's. 7 and 8 were pretty slow on the 5's, but they should be fine on a 20. You should also consider OpenBSD on you SS 5 & 20's. Its a solid OS that will really make your systems shine. \_ http://docs.sun.com , see the Advanced Installation Guide in the Solaris installation docs collection. You can put your network of old sparcs on a private network (10.0.0.0 for example) behind a box that is running NAT software. This way the machines on the network will still be able to see the rest of the internet but not vice-versa. \_ Make sure that all the netmasks are the same, and that all the network card speeds are the same, if they don't all have le cards (10Mbit.) -John \_ And duplex. |
2000/9/13-14 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19240 Activity:kinda low |
9/13 I am trying to optimize my disk i/o by using RAID. What is a reasonable maximum amount of i/o's per second I can expect from a Seagate 7200RPM drive? My R/W ratio is about 2/1. Terrible, I know. Assume my data is totally random, too. \_ Raid only increases bandwidth, with multiple disks. Most raid setups would not help latency. \_ I am looking for more total operations/sec, not less latency per se. I guess you could say I am looking for less latency per user, over a userbase of lots. Raid definitely helps with this. I am using RAID 0+1, btw. |
2000/8/28-29 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19115 Activity:kinda low |
8/28 I copied an audio CD with a CD drive on a PC, and the duplicate CD can only play in a regular CD player but not in a DVD player. The DVD player doesn't recognize the CD. Is this a common problem? (I have consent from the author of the CD to make copies.) -- yuen \_ Yes, many DVD players do not support CD-R/RWs. I believe only Toshiba or Sony has comprehensive support of all disc formats across their entire line of players. \_ No, but Pioneer does. Only the high-end Sony 7700 can say this in their current line. --dim (Sony owner) \_ The Sony 7000 supports CD-R, too. - another :) sony owner. \_ most dvd players can't play CD-Rs but most CAN play CDRWs. you can check the dvd player. the pioneer 525 is one that has two lasers so that it can play your CDRs as well. most dvd players only have one laser to read DVDs and it cannot read CDRs. -uctt \_ So what's the format of audio CD's from music stores called? And that format only requires one laser beam to play? \_ They both require one laser beam; just different ones. |
2000/8/24-26 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:19084 Activity:moderate |
8/23 So do I have this right?: Since 2600 (and everyone else i assume) has been forbidden from distributing DeCSS, does that mean there is no legal way for me to play legally owned DVD's on my linux box? \_ Yes. \_ No legal way. How is this relevant? -John \_ If you have a Dxr2 or old MPEG card and a Creative Labs DVD player (they came as a bundle) you can play them with some linux drivers, I believe. --dbushong \_ Not legally. \_ Why is it not legal? The drivers are from Creative Labs themselves... --dbushong \_ Go read your dvd license. Bring a team of lawyers. \_ Instead of making vague claims, why don't you actually say what makes it illegal? I very much doubt it says on a DVD "you are only allowed to view this on a player hooked up to your TV or on a DVD player under Windows or MacOS" --dbushong \_ Because unlike the majority of motd clowns, I'm not willing to pretend I'm a lawyer or that I play \_ ah. you just pretend to be a cunt on the motd. one on the motd. \_ but you're willing to make unfounded legal assertions. very nice, troll. -tom \_ No. I'm telling you to go ask a lawyer if you want to know what the law really is. Just because you sign your name, tom, doesn't mean you're not a troll. \_ Be patient. I believe http://intervideo.com is coming out with a linux player soon. \_ Install VMware, Windows, & Windows DVD software (Linux/x86 only) \_ Install MOL (Mac on Linux) and DVD software (LinuxPPC only) |
2000/8/23-25 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX, Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/HW/Printer] UID:19080 Activity:low |
8/24 Someone wants a USB CD-RW. The HP 8200e 6x looks okay, but it seems to be PC only. The Sony Spressa USB Plus 4x is Mac and PC. Anyone know if the HP one runs on Macs? \_ I have the HP 8230e. It didn't come with any software or driver for the Macs. My guess is no. \_ I'd stick with the Sony. It's a good product and I know several Mac and PC users who are happy with theirs. HP has a horrible record when it comes to Mac support \_ Thanks! |
2000/8/10-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18956 Activity:moderate |
8/10 Are there are strong competitors to Network Appliance for NAS? Auspex was the only competitor last I looked 3 years ago. Who else is worth looking at? --dim \_ Sun, EMC, & Compaq are trying to break into the NAS market, but are just getting started. \_ Seagate and Quantum both have NAS like offerings, as does Cobalt. \_ Seagate & Quantum are much smaller-scale devices - usually single disk sizes, not terabytes like the big boys mentioned above. \_ The seagate is 2 disk/box and several of them can be clustered together to appear as a single network disk of larger size. The largest storage on one box is like 120 GB (2 60's), though they are trying to get it up to 200 GB (2 100's). \_ 200 gb is still peanuts and clusters of anything are always a pain in the ass to maintain. \_http://www.nishansystems.com |
2000/8/6-7 [Computer/HW, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18896 Activity:kinda low |
8/5 Any recommendations for a place to colocate a low-bandwidth (<10GB monthly) and low-profile (1U rackmount) server? South bay preferred. East bay OK. Thanks. \_ My company uses Exodus and they seemed to have worked out well... they have a data center in Santa Clara. \_ exodus has several data centers in santa clara.. but the less space you want the less cost-effective they are. 1u is prob gonna be ridiculously expensive compared to others. there are a ton of cheap colo's but exodus and uunet are prob the most expensive in south bay. -shac \_ The only place that I know of that seems interested in offering small amounts of colocation space is http://dsl.net (formerly http://tycho.net), and the smallest they offer is a 3x3x3 cage. It's still not cheap. |
2000/8/1-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18839 Activity:nil |
8/1 Any reviews on that portable cd player that also plays mp3's burned onto a cd-r? can it also play off of cd-rw's, I don't recall if it does? \_ The mpTrip/kiwi/etc. are all made in China and rebranded in the US. They come w/ an AC power converter that you have to keep switching between 3 & 4.5 volts. You can't play them for more than a couple hours w/out it heating up too much. In short, they're still at the geek-only stage. Supposedly they can do CD-RW but you have to fiddle for awhile. Even regular CD-Rs must be created carefully- < 50 songs per directory, and some other requirements i can't remember. Check the archives of the hardware messageboard @ http://mp3.com from May/June. \_ My brother got the mpTrip from his friends for his birthday. It works most of the time. I would not recommend it though, since many mp3 cds that play fine in my APEX 600A don't work in the mpTrip. ----ranga \_ Funny you should ask... Me and two friends ordered them from http://www.computergeeks.com for $100 each and they *just* came today. So far, I love it. So from what I understand, whether or not it plays CD-RW's depends on what factory it was made from. The one I got does play both CD-R's and RW's. There is a good review on znet. The brand I have is called Genica though it looks pretty generic and cheesy. I've heard it has a battery life of 7+ hours though I have yet to go this long. The specs say that you can record up to 256 songs in a directory and it can handle CD's with up to 650MB of data. -rory |
2000/7/31-8/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18823 Activity:low |
7/30 I need software to run my DVD player (pref. for linux but it must be able top play "legal" i.e. protected DVD's or for Window 2000) reccomendations? \_ Ask a sales guy at Fry's. |
2000/7/5-6 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18585 Activity:high |
7/4 I want an Ultra 5. Should I pay the SunStore price or get a used one? \_ Whichever way you go, check out the processor specs - some come with CPU's with 256k L2 cache, others with 2mb L2 cache. There is a huge difference in performance between the two. \_ LOTS of people i know are getting ultra-5s. I'd be worried that they are gonna run out of them. Buy now before it's too late! \_ Weren't workstations with the UltraSPARC-III coming out or something? I want my cheap, previous-generation Ultra 5. \_ I'd rather wait for the next generation Ultra5s with UltraSparcIII processors. The current model is a lemon, just like it was three \_ You'll be waiting a long time. The US-III is going into servers & higher end machines, too expensive for U5's right now. \_ Don't be too sure about that. years ago. Performance is bogged down by some cheap-ass parts that SUN is using, some of which are obsolete even by PC laptop standards You get only 4Megs of video memory. The disks on the "cheap" low-end models are 5400 RPM IDE disks. In addition to the slow IDE disks they don't have a UDMA/33 or UDMA/66 capable IDE controller. Their IDE controllers only support DMA mode 2 interface (capable of 16.6MB/s data transfers). I'd like to find the engineer who designed \_ Unfortunately "cheap" is still $2.5K. Any idea when the new ones will be out so I can get my discounted Sun? the Ultra5 and 10s and beat him with one of those. \_ you can't beat anyone with an ultra 5, they're cheaply constructed and would fall apart. Beat him with a 3/50 \_ When are the UltraSPARC III's coming out? instead. -tom \_ You can beat 'em once before it breaks and that's the one that counts. \_ So ... new, not used, I guess? \_ Looks like my offer got deleted. I've got a Ultra Enterpise 2 (256 MB Ram, 2 x 200 MHz USII, Creator 3D) that I'm not using and would be willing to sell/trade it to you. ----ranga \_ Does it play Quake 3? How many FPS? \_ Can you beat the U-5 price? Then i'd be interested in upgrading from the U-1 i have at home. |
2000/6/23-24 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18534 Activity:nil |
6/23 How are Castlewood ORBs these days? For generic backup. I'm thinking of a SCSI drive with a USB adapter. \_ The ORB is okay. I have one of the first SCSI ones to come out and it works reliably on my Mac (MacOS) and reasonably well on my Mom's Win2K box. It doesn't work at all on Solaris, or LinuxPPC (it keeps timing out). I was able to get it to work under Linux (x86) but only on a Adaptec 15xx (ZipZoom) card. As far as the media reliablility is concerned, it seems just as good as the Jaz media. If you want to try it I can let you borrow mine. ----ranga |
2000/6/16-19 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18488 Activity:nil |
6/16 Solaris Question. Currently I have several diskless solaris boxes that mount thier root file system (/) from a rarp/bootp server. I have observered that if this server becomes unreachable, the diskless clients hang. In some cases the diskless clients won't come back even if the nfs server becomes reachable again. To solve this problem I wanted to have the diskless clients use a ram disk instead of nfs for their root file system, but documentation looks scarce. If anyone has done this before or knows a good URL, I would appreciate it. \_ Use cachefs or just go buy some disks already - there's no excuse for diskless machines in this day & age. \_ I'm using CP1500/CP2000 CPCI suncards and I can't have a disk in my chassis setup since it won't be field tech hot replaceable. I would use disk if I could. I'll take a look at cachefs. Thanks. |
2000/6/14-16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18466 Activity:moderate |
6/14 What's the difference between DVD ROM and DVD RAM? Is DVD RAM a writable DVD? In the same way CD-R/RW are writable? -DVD ignorant \_ Like CD-RW, not like CD-R. --PeterM \_ Thanks! \_ DVDRAM also comes in a casing, like a floppy or MD \_ DVD RAM vs DVD RW: FIGHT! |
2000/6/3-4 [Recreation/Dating, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18399 Activity:high |
04/64 My friend needs a gift idea for her boyfriend. She wants to spend << $200 and wants something kinda cool for a semi-geek guy. She thought about a CD burner but wasn't really sure about how to install it and whether there would be enough power on his machine, so now she's looking for something else. Any ideas? \_ Sex. And it'll definitely cost you less than $200. \_ Yeah, she was giving it away free last weekend at the party. \_ If that's what she thinks he wants, just hand him the box. He'll install it. I'd be *very* unhappy to come home and find out my wife had decided to add new hardware to my machine without telling me first. Some surprises are bad surprises. \_ Does he have a DVD player? If not, get one. \_ boycott the MPAA, please. \_ MPAA is as anal about video casette, and DVD is just such higher quality. Live with it. \_ hey man, I didn't say to go out and buy a VHS instead... \_ If he likes TV and she's willing to go a bit higher, get a TiVo. They're awesome, especially for people who work later than their favorite shows, or who get called at home while watching TV. \_ How about a Palm Pilot? You can find decent ones for $140-$240, and with a coupon you can get $25 off (like at http://amazon.com) \_ Also check a recent Good Guys or COMP-USA advertisement flyer for some ideas. \_ How about a kite? There are some pretty damn sophisticated ones there \_ Dreamcast is $200...who gives a damn if ps2 is coming out in just a few months? \_ Soul Calibur! |
2000/6/3-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18394 Activity:kinda low |
6/2 What's the fastest way (software/hardware setup) to rip 300+ CDs automatically? \_ um, rip as in...? \_ Rip as in converting and storing them in some digital audio format. \_ http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq03.html may or may not help. |
2000/5/31-6/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18372 Activity:nil |
5/31 Any comments on a good portable DVD player ? Thinking about the Panasonic DVD-LV75 or DVD-L50 -eric |
2000/5/31-6/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18371 Activity:moderate |
5/31 My CDROM drive is dying, and I would like to replace it with a DVD-ROM drive. I'd like to be able to do digital audio extraction, and of course spend as little money as possible (for a decent player). This is on a PC non-scsi system. I looked at the Panasonic 10X/40X slot loader and it's pretty neat (and isn't too bad at $150). Any suggestions? \_ In my experience, slot loaders have a higher mortality rate than trays. The score here, however, is 1-nil. --sowings \_ Stick with anything from Yamaha, Philips, or Sony, Yamaha being your best bet. I'm just basing this on choices for cd-burners though. \_ (For some reason I wrote "Panasonic" when I meant "Pioneer." \_ PLEXTOR! PLEXTOR IS THE STANDARD! |
2000/5/22-24 [Consumer/Audio, Computer/HW/Drives, Consumer/TV] UID:18313 Activity:nil |
5/22 What is a decent and good deal DVD player to buy? \_ my toshiba sd3109 isn't bad and at a good price ($250). probably better UI with a sony, but this one works well and has all the necessary features/hookups. -- joeking \_ I heard this one can play HDCD, too. |
2000/5/8-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18200 Activity:high |
05/07 MP3 CD player, at long last. -dans Review: http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/freshgear/firstlook/story/0,3679,2559255,00.html Purchase: http://www.easybuy2000.com/store/products/mp3/mp3_discman.html \_ S O L D . O U T ! ! ! \_ Give it a compactflash card slot, and I'm sold. -- Marco \_ What for? -dans \_ So I don't have to burn a rom every time I want a couple songs or particular mix. -- Marco \_ A: CDRs are dirt cheap. B: You can always append \_ Isn't this why man created CD-RWs? -dans \_ No. The CD-RW was invented by a team lead by a woman. \_ designed for a woman, by a woman. oh. waitaminit... \_ I'll probably get one anyway, but too bad it'll be prone to skipping \_ It's got a respectable anti-skip memory. Probably can't jog with it, but, hey. -dans \_ WARNING: This is NOT the first one out, most of these early ones are clones of each other. So far they don't play anything higher than 128kbps (read: SUCK ASS) and don't draw track names in the CD window; you just get a cryptic number. Read some in-the-know reviews to ensure that this thing REALLY does 192kbps and VBR. -blojo \_ What exactly does "suck ass" mean, John? I'm trying to picture you doing that. I've no trouble with the image of your face at someone else's asshole but I can't imagine what the extra step is like. Can you leave a jpg/gif/png in /tmp or provide a URL? Thanks. After all, it was your ass I figured John would be \_ who is this moron who keeps posting long, drawn-out, completely unamusing idiocy? -tom \_ Maybe you can explain what "suck ass" means, Tom? After all, it was your ass I figured Jon would be sucking. Whatever that means. \_ blojo's name is "Jon". And you're still not funny and trying too hard. -tom \_ I'm not trying to be funny so it hardly matters that I'm not. I'm also not trying at all so it seems unlikely I'm trying too hard. Tom, how often do you "suck ass", anyway? Just curious. Looking for an expert to explain the concept. \_ anyone seen such a review? -oj \_ Removed embarrassingly bad trolling. You give soda a \_ ask yermom. \_ Well, if you place your mouth over someone's anal orifice, you can "suck", much in the same way you can can create a vacuum between your mouth and your forearm. Not that I've ever done this, I'm just trying to clarify a hypothetical concept. -John bad name. -!tom \_ thanks for purging that ass-sucking bastard. He was getting on my nerves.... \_ Don't encourage !tom. |
2000/5/6-9 [Computer, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18191 Activity:high |
4/36 Recommendations for a local company to set up a LAN for about 50 computers? All computers are Win2000. Will need hardware, wiring, configuration. \_ have Sky do it. Just give him lotsa meth. \_ I'm guessing he wants someone with clue and a brain to do it. \_ have dans do it then, if you ask him, he can tell you how to do it. \_ dans isn't a local company. If you want a drone to do it, then just go buy 50 of the same box, a pile of hubs and network cables, and install w2k on each. Set aside one or two for servers if you want a domain. This is monkey work. Actually, maybe dans _is_ the right monkey for the job. \_Alpha Electronics in Berkeley will run wire. \_ Sky will run wire for cheap. \_ Getting wired is not cheap. Costs me about $2500 a month. -sky \_ He's talking about computers, not whoring out your gf to the corner in Oakland for a quick hit. \_ Player hate all you want...I understand. It must be hard being so lonely and frustrated. -sky \_ dude, sky, offer him your gf. he'll pay bigbux \_ sky's gf... bridge toll... sky's gf.... bridge toll... Hmmmm... Bridge toll. Can get a cheap lay anywhere but I need to cross the bridge. \_ I hope you didn't spend too long coming up with that retort. Keep trying though...You'll make a funny eventually. And sign your name, btw, so I can kick your ass. -sky so I can fuck your ass. -sky \_ (BDDD) \_ Hi bob! |
2000/5/5-6 [Consumer/Audio, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18178 Activity:low |
4/34 Anyone have a recommendation for a program to extract audio from a music cd to wav files? \_ cdparanoia \_ QuickTime Player |
2000/4/28-29 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18139 Activity:low |
4/28 I'm the same person who asked the CD-RW question. Now that we have the choice of drive settled ... Do I have a *choice* on a SCSI card? Adaptec cards are expensive, and this CD-RW is for a relative who wants fast burns but I don't want to give him crap. Am I just going to go ahead and buy for him a $160 Ultra160 card? \_ get a cheap 60-70 buck card, ie., tekram or something, if it's just gonna be used to hook up to the cdrw. |
2000/4/27-29 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18126 Activity:high |
4/26 Can anyone recommend an 8x write CD-RW drive? Also, are those cheap SCSI cards that sometimes come with the retail model adequate? Thanks in advance. \_ Sony has a 8/4/32 IDE drive for like $260 or so. Dunno if your spec demanded "8x REwrite" or just 8x write. --sowings \_ Nothing beats Plextor. I'm doing 12X CD to CD while playing q3! \_ Nothing beats the high Plextor prices either. \_ Damn you people are cheap! Always bitching about Plextor's prices and not even mentioning the quality. A Plextor 20/8/2 internal SCSI drive is ~$300. How much less do you want to pay?! It's not much more than HP, \_ Well, what do you think of mini SCSI cards? S&F, Sony, etc. (about $50). Do you want a *good* drive or a *cheap* drive? --dim \_ Quality? You're either dreaming or using someone else's money. The parts are the same in every device. My cheap ass $99 brandless throw-away has *never* failed. Maybe I'd agree with you if I was spending someone else's money, too. |
2000/4/24-26 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18097 Activity:high |
4/24 FS: AMD K6-2/450 128 MB 40x cd/8MB AGP 15" monitor $225 email sky \_ do you have an old hard drive you can throw in? \_ I've got a 500 meg drive I'm not using. You willing to pay anything for it? -- _not_ sky \_ will the police call me up and ask me to return it to the rightful owner? \_ Yes. After they track it to me and I give you up. \_ Will you use the money for drugs? \_ Yes. \_ Yeah, prob. but thats not the point...I moved in with my girlfriend and their isnt enough room in our apt. for it... -sky \_ "there" and "their". -tweaker \_ Congratulations. \_ Is she the one with the big round ****? \_ No --sky \_ You mean the stupid chinky whore with the huge tits dumb enough to move into an apartment with sky that's so small his computer and dinky monitor don't fit? Yeah, I think that's the one. \_ no, different girl and if you sign your posts I will gladly seek you out and kick the shit out of you for calling anyone a stupid chinky whore. But I suspect you have no cajones and will continue to anonymously player hate like the little bitch that you are. -sky \_ No, thats not who i meant. \_ Any pics? \_ So, where should i hang out so i can do he? in Berkeley for the pre-freshman welcume Any good links on the procedures/hints to incorporate for contracting 4/24 purposes (including setting up self-directed retirement accounts, health care and so on?). Good accountants are okay as well. Thanks! \_ Procedure: use tabs. \_ Does anyone have crystal meth they can sell me? - tweaker \_ You'd be suprised how many ppl do crystal in Berkeley \_ Yes. \_ Who is Crystal? Where does she hang out? \_ Crystal was this good looking black chick I met at one of those pre-freshman welcome-to-cal things. Never went out with her but we talked a bit and I don't really like black chicks anyway. \_ What?!? Since when does the University supply fine chicks for welcome-to-cal fuck-fests? *MY* welcome-to-cal didn't offer this. *sheesh* I got *robbed*! \_ of clue and a sense of humor \_ Hi paolo. \_ So, where should i hang out so i can do her in Berkeley like the pre-freshman welcume \_ This was 15 years ago. She's probably your mother. |
2000/4/19-22 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:18048 Activity:moderate |
4/19 Raid storage. WHere Can i buy 100 GB of NT accessible raid storage? \_ Go buy 100 GB of disk and use the built in disk manager. \_ Metastor \_ http://www.3ware.com \_ http://www.netapp.com Sorry, i should have been clearer. Ok, what is needed is a isp/ service which will provide 100 GB of storage on a raid online, accessible via nt shares. Currently I'm paying $70/Gig with very slow bandwidth - anyone know of anything better. \_ Well duh! The internet is slow - if you need speed, get local storage. (What internet connection do you have? DSL? something else equally pathetic?) \_ Rent cage space at Exodus Communications or AboveNet. \_ This sounds incredibly stupid. Take your $7000/month payment for a few months, buy a cheap PC with NT & 200 GB disk and get much better performance, much better security (SMB over the open net? the horrorr...), and save a big bundle of money in the long run. \_ sounds like paolo |
2000/4/5 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17926 Activity:high |
4/3 RAID 3 or RAID 5 for an NFS server supporting a small workgroup? Files can be large (100's of MB but less than 1 GB) and users will have the ability to write locally to the RAID (as well as through NFS). Just to be clear, the machine will support typical user activities as well as serve the large files. Lots of reading and writing both small and large files. Benchmarking using iozone is inconclusive. I am leaning towards RAID 3, though. This is a Solaris Enterprise-class server. Anyone have any real-world experience with which yields better performance? Thanks. --dim \_ Idiot. There are probably hundreds of papers on this, online, yet you ask onthe motd. Then ignore the BEST advice, which is to scrap both of them and use 1+0. RAID3 can be faster, but performs worse in degraded mode,or something like that. \_ What class server? It kind of depends, since if you have something like a 4500 available, you're not going to notice any performance impact for most things a "small workgroup" will be able to do. Also, you'll want to know how much i/o your disks (array? internal? SCSI? Fiber?) can handle at any given time, since if you're doing a lot of moving stuff around, your bus may choke before you need to start worrying about RAID performance. Also maybe play with different stripe sizes. I'd tend to RAID5, just because I've had too many disks puke on me, and because I usually don't need to do a lot of writes, assuming you can't do 0+1. -John \_ Oh yeah, if you run Veritas, version 3 can do 1+0, which is pretty spiffy. -John \_ They both suck. Use 0+1, disk is cheap. -tom \_ tom is right. Unless your RAID 5 is hardware RAID 5 with a serious RAM buffer, your performance will lag. Test it yourself by making a RAID 5 partition and 0+1 on the same machine, and do some benchmarks. Here's some numbers to give you a feel: time mkfile 1024M test Raid 0+1 Ultra 450 2 X 296 MHz: 0.0u 21.0s 0:52 39% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w NO Raid, Single disk, Ultra 450 2 X 296 MHz: 0.0u 17.0s 1:28 19% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w Hardware Raid 5 Ultra 2 2 X 296 MHz: 0.0u 18.0s 1:37 18% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w Software Raid 5 Sparc 20: 3.0u 158.0s 19:13 13% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w (One of the twinks out here is using this as a home directory server for the whole department and can't figure out why everyone is complaining that things are slow) -ax \_ not that I dont agree that sw RAID 5 can be hazardous to Sysadmin health, but is it appropriate to compare software RAID 5 on a sparc20 running at what, 150MHz max, versus dual ultra hardware RAID 5 , stripe/mirror or simple filesystems? --Jon \_ Thanks for the ideas, guys. I hadn't thought of comparing to 1/0 numbers, so I configured that way also. This is an E450 4x400 MHz running a SUN StoreEdge RAID (hardware RAID). The disks are 18 GB Fujitsu's (SUN OEM). RAID 3 beat even RAID 1/0 in many benchmarks on this system. Even when not, the differences weren't much. --dim \_ raid levels have different performance characteristics for different workloads --jon \_ 0 - normal 1 - nothing gained from mirroring 2 - does this even exist? 3 - higher handwidth 4 - does this either? \_ Yes, NetApps use RAID-4, but most other systems skip straight to RAID-5. 5 - lower average latency 6 - obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about but I was smoking pot and felt compelled to \_ DON'T FORGET. MICROSOFT INVENTED RAID SO IT MUST BE GOOD. \_ I thought Al Gore did. \_ you know al gore NEVER said he invented the internet. \_ Oops, I meant created: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." \_ THIS MAN WANTS TO BE OUR PRESIDENT. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! \_ Actually yes. Al Bore isn't as smart as Bill C. His wacko ideas about the environment will derail progress and prosperity in this country and throughout the world. His weak foreign policy will allow RED CHINA to attack/seize Taiwan resulting in the unnessary loss of life of the Taiwanese people. We also won't get involved until its too late and will probably lose the first few encounters resulting in the loss of American Lives. GW isn't great (I voted for McCain), but he's not a kook like Bore. \_ people still say things like Red China? Didn't that go out with the 60s? Let me guess, you are Taiwanese? \_ got coke? -gwbush \_ NO, MICROSOFT INVENTED EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE INTERNET. MICROSOFT IS PROMOTING INOVATION. \_ Indeed. TCP/IP is listed as a Microsoft protocol in Win95/8. \_ Where are they gonna put it? Banyan, "Da Internet", Bill Joy? It's their stack. \_ Al Bore invented M$. His daughter still works there. \_ real world experience shows that people who think that their one answer is the answer to everything get fired in less than 10 years. \_ who wants to work for a company that forces you to choose between unattractive options? -tom \_ I refuse to believe tom is this annoying. Stop your odious mocking. -tom #1 disillusioned fan \_ you must learn to think OUTSIDE THE BOX! \_ are you in IDS 130? say something. \_ Thanks, but it's not an option. Neither is a NetApp. I appreciate the help, but I'd like to stay within the parameters I laid out.--dim \_ Well, both your options suck. Real-world experience is that it's a waste of time trying to help people choose between two bad options. -tom |
2000/3/28 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17872 Activity:nil |
3/27 Ultra 5 running out of disk. Need disk. Does generic UDMA/33 EIDE disk work or do I have to buy Sun disk, like I had to buy Sun CD-ROM drive? Thanks. \_ You didn't have to buy a Sun CD-ROM, you just had to do more research. \_ I plugged in my generic IDE CD-ROM and it didn't work. |
2000/3/17-19 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17792 Activity:kinda low |
3/17 Whats the best place to buy an IDE card? I have a broken IDE controller on my motherboard and its not worth it to replace the whole motherboard. \_ They are so cheap that it doesn't matter. UDMA33 cards cost less than $20 probably. Try http://www.pricewatch.com or some local store... |
2000/3/14 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17764 Activity:very high |
3/12 Stupid trolls deleted (again). Mail will stay in /var/mail where it belings. -your friend \_ Guh-duh! Clean up your mail spools! Especially all you people who never login or read the motd but receive tons of mail here! Yeah! That'll fix it! And oh yeah! Put a bigger disk in soda! Duh! Kewl! I just solve the mail spool problem for leik 2 munths with a s00per kewl idea! Buy more disk! Wh0a! I'm smart! |
2000/3/12-14 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17748 Activity:very high |
3/12 Why not just mv ccytsao /tmp; ln -s /tmp/ccytsao /var/mail/ccytsao \_ There. Done. Not so hard if you make an effort. One issue is that you are not supposed to fuck with people's files unless absolutely necessary, and even not then. People just need to be reminded to be more responsible CSUA citizens and clean up their mail spool. --samli \_ why not just get a fucking clue? -tom \_ I say we rm -f /var/mail/tom \_ boy that's clever. -tom \_ You want to fill /tmp forever with some fool's mail spool? That's not what /tmp is for. The Powers That Be should do their jobs and deal with this instead of letting the spools grow. Either decide that it's ok or put some hard limits on them. Or do the intelligent thing and use procmail to dump mail into people's home directories. I can't believe that all these years later, the CSUA has continuously failed to elect even *one* effective officer who has the clue and the balls to deal with this. Doubly so since this is such an incredibly trivial issue to take care of. \_ What's up with all those people who want to put people's inbox into the home directory. This is what /var/mail is for. What if we run out of space on some of the /home directories? \_ Because then you can easily quota someone's total disk space. What is next? Move people's home directories back to /var/mail and ban usage of /home for storing personal pr0-n and other stuff? I thought that average CSUAer is smart enough to figure out how to use procmail to sort their mail into files in their home directory if they really want to. \_ Because then you can easily quota someone's total dick space. \_ Because then you can easily quota someone's total disk space. One number for all usage. They want lots of mail and nothing else? They want lots of space for something else but don't have mail here? Some other combo? It's more efficient and easily done. This is classic sysadmin stuff. I thought the CSUA was a sysadmin farm? Why is such a simple and trivial concept so hard to grasp and implement? Obviously the average CSUAer is not smart enough to figure out how to use procmail or even how to use /bin/mail to clean their mail disk. Don't go there. Be smart. procmail everyone. spool. Never trust the users to do the right thing. That's what a sysadmin is for. To make the right thing happen even if the users are too stupid, ignorant, arrogant, or apathetic to do the right thing. Just do it. Do the right thing. And God, don't even get into "we're going to ban personal p0rn". Never, ever, but, never ban anything of the sort. You get dick. Don't go there. Be smart. procmail everyone. into all sorts of ugly issues far worse than a filled mail disk. Don't go there. Be smart. procmail everyone. \_"Classic sysadmin stuff"? I haven't seen a single place on campus that does this. Keeping incomming mail in /var/mail and user files in /home also allows you to have a separate dedicated email server and a separate server for /home without a big NFS performance hit. You could argue that some mail will be written to an NFS mounted /home partition this way too, but in -most- cases, the messages end up in /var/mail still. The purpose of procmail is not to just dump everything in your home directory. It is mostly used to sort incomming messages by subject/mailing list into separate files and the regular mail is still supposed to end up in /var/mail. Also many programs by default expect your inbox to be in /var/mail (xbiff and pine for example) \_ you can also tell them to look elsewhere, foolio. \_ Campus is obviously not a good place to learn how to properly admin a system. xbiff and pine are enduser programs easily recompiled. xbiff is no excuse to stupidly admin your system. procmail has many purposes. As a user you may have discovered only one use of it. NFS has nothing to do with this. disk already. \_ Uh huh, until *that* disk fills and then what? What I don't see why you brought it up. In fact, I'm having a hard time seeing your point at all which is in part why my reply is so disjoint. no new disk until a decision is made about a soda \_ Recompiling ALL of user mail software is trivial? Sounds like a pain in the ass to me. I'd rather play solitarie or xbill than bother doing this. \_ It wasn't compiled the first time? Lazy, disk space or something? What if you run out space on /home? Buy more disks? ...oh wait I forgot, buying new disk is a lazy way to dick already. \_ Uh huh, until *that* dick fills and then what? What lazy, lazy.... \_ This is just a plain stupid solution. Get a new freaking disk already. no new dick until a decision is made about a soda \_ Uh huh, until *that* disk fills and then what? What a dumb, stupid, lazy way to admin a box. Try adding 2 lines to sendmail.cf. Anyway, the esteemed dans, President, has already clearly stated there will be dick space or something? What if you run out space on /home? Buy more dicks? ...oh wait I forgot, buying new dick is a lazy way to no new disk until a decision is made about a soda upgrade. Can't wait til some of you get jobs and tell you boss the answer to everything is to throw money at it. That'll go over well. \_ Are you assumming that your /home has infinite disk space or something? What if you run out space on /home? Buy more disks? ...oh wait no, a bigger disk won't solve anything. I forgot, buying new disk is a lazy way to admin a box... you can just shot yourself at this point. \_ Where've you been? No. This has been covered several times. Don't be dense. \_ sign your name twink. --jon \_ Signing my name will fix the endless mail spool stupidity? Or it will simply allow you to make personal attacks and dismiss everything I have to say with a single smear? Name one good reason why there's still a mail spool issue after all these years. There's nothing twinkish about what I said. It's the truth and too fucking bad if it hurts. My anonymity doesn't make it any less true. Address the issue. It no, a bigger dick won't solve anything. doesn't matter who I am. \_ Actually, in this case signing your name will just put you on the grouchy-soda-alum hit list. \_ True. I'd sign if I thought that might make the difference between the last several years of mail spool do-nothing and setting up procmail properly. But you're right. It won't do anything but give dans and a few others a name for their target. And no, a bigger disk won't solve anything. \_ there's just times when signing your name is a no-no \_ Can't we run a delivery agent that enforces a size limit on each user's mailspool? Or write a script to do it? How many systems have I seen that include the ONE MAILSPOOL FILE in a user's quota and take appropriate action? The procmail debate is ridiculous. \_ Good point. Just hack mail.local,or whatever. \_ There's no procmail debate. |
2000/3/11-13 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17740 Activity:high |
3/10 Clean up yer shit! 2540480 2333884 3358 100% /var/mail \_ If they haven't gotten their act together by now (even after several warnings and complaints) just delete some of the larger ones (or gzip it and stick it in their directories). \_ The second biggest offender is rico (11MB) and he's logged on right now (5pm Friday). \_ Biggest offender (ccytsao) has 17 MB and hasn't logged in since Jan. But most people are below 15 MB quota. Why doesn't the Politburo make it easy to donate to the CSUA disk fund? There have been repeated attempts to donate funds/hardware and they've been IGNORED. \_ cuz paul is the laziest damn treasurer ever. \_ I don't understand this talk of twohey never reading his mail. AFAICT he hasn't *gotten* any: -rw------- 1 twohey csua 960899 Dec 7 14:20 /var/mail/twohey \_ there's a .forward file there. - paolo \_ As was stated in response to previous queries along this line: If you'd like to make hardware donations or $ for hardware, contact mikeh (vice-president). If you'd like to make $ donations not specifically or hardware, contact dans (president). Also, there has been some talk of upgrading soda and this is one of the reasons we haven't gone out and bought a disk. We're not sure what kind of SCSI will be used if soda \_ Sure, not that they'd be worth much. -dans gets upgrading so we are waiting to see if the soda upgrade pans out before we invest in something that we might not be able to use. -dans \_ Can alumni make donations for brownie points? \_ Sure, but I don't think they'd be very useful. -dans \_ more hardware will not solve the mail spool issue. It will only allow even more mail to build up before anyone starts complaining about it. Sheesh. Have a clue and some balls and _fix_the_problem. Stop trying to throw hardware at a human social issue. \_ Well, how about we install Win NT, and use exchange, then y'awl can bring the mail to your home machines? |
2000/3/10-13 [Computer/HW, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17738 Activity:nil |
3/10 A basic question: when a server receive a GET request for some non-ascii file, say a .swf, .gif, or .jpeg, will it send out the binary stream, or in MIME base 64 format? I realize my question might not make sense and would appreciate some url that quickly enlightens me. Thanks. \_ telnet://localhost:80 (assuming that by "server" you mean "web server") \_ The server sends all of the interesting headers, including the Content-type: header, and then the file, as it exists on the disk. --dbushong |
2000/3/3-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17686 Activity:high |
3/2 is there such a thing as a scsi version of a zip drive, or is just a normal every day zip drive, with a different cable? \_ Ok who let underwater basket weaving major into CSUA? \_ Yes, the SCSI version of a zip drive is different. Attempting to plug a parallel zip drive into a SCSI port or a SCSI zip drive into a parallel port would do bad things(TM). If memory serves, SCSI has higher voltage requirements, so it is possible to fry devices if you try to plug a non-SCSI device into a SCSI chain. At one time, iomega offered a zip drive called the zip plus which had the really cool feature of supporting both parallel and SCSI interfaces. Judging from iomega's web site, I don't believe the zip plus is still being made. Device speed according to iomega's site: SCSI zip >> USB zip > parallel zip The SCSI zip is at least twice as fast as the USB zip. -dans \_ I have a zip+ at home. I bought it for my mom's NT machine. I had lots of problems when it was running on the parallel port. It worked fine as a scsi device. \_ Were extorted into buying that Zip SCSI card (really a AHA-150x) because you couldn't use adpaters for your nice 2940? IMO the ZIP+ was a crock |
2000/2/23 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17603 Activity:nil |
2/22 So my NT Client machine is giving me the error "the volume does not contain a recognized file system." when i try to access the cdrom. However, if i boot from a floppy the CDROM works fine. (i.e. it is not a hardware problem). What is NT's problem? \_ Well, my mentor, the great Holmes once ... oh fuck it ... your NT drivers are fucked. Uninstall the CD ROM drivers. Reboot. Install most recent non-beta drivers for your CD ROM. Reboot. |
2000/2/7-8 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17449 Activity:moderate |
2/6 Okay, I've decided to roll my own x86 computer, what are the best price-comparison or e-commerce URLs you all can recommend to me? I see http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/weekly_cpu listed below. I know about cnet and mysimon. What else is good out there? What ones do you use? Thank you in advance, most wonderous motd. \_ Just grab a wad of cash and go to the next computer show... \_ When I was in SF, I went to both Robert Austin and the one at the Cow Palace. I was underwhelmed, to say the least. They had inferior-quality components, their prices were pretty ridiculous considering it was a computer show, the entry price was downright silly (at least RA sends out coupons) and the selection stank. I'd rather recommend Spectrum computers in San Francisco, or some of the similar Asian fell-off-the-back- of-a-truck places. If you know what you want, the service tends to be at least decent, sometimes even friendly, they honor their warranties, they have good components and don't try to bait-and-switch you too often, and the prices are good. I've bought a lot of parts at these places while in the US, and also sent non-technical members of my family there to pick up PC hardware; none of us has ever gotten a bad deal. -John \_ http://Pricescan.com. Buy parts from out of state and avoid the nasty sales tax. \_ http://Pricescan.com. We buys partsss from out of state and avoid the nassssty saleses tax. \_ http://Pricescan.com. Buy from out of state to avoid sales tax. \_ Don't use places like Sharkey's for hardware recs. They have some biases towards particular vendors and also aren't necessarily using the system for the same thing as you. They use Quake1/2/3 as a benchmark program, so go figure. Unless you're a Q123 player, they won't be too useful for you. |
2000/2/4-5 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17427 Activity:low |
2/3 Anybody what kind of CD-ROM a Ultra 5 comes with? I'm trying to configure xmcd and it complains about the CD drive being non SCSI-II compliant. Anybody got xmcd working on ultra 5s? Thanks. \_ Dude! Ultra5s are IDE based (the crappiest machines SUN has ever produced) \_ It works fine for me, ignoring the SCSI-II error and taking the audio directly out of the CD drive's headphone jack. -nweaver \_ Oops, realized this is for me on an ultra10 -nweaver \_ Shit, I could not get my ultra-10 to work properly with workman but did with xmcd (and am happier too, but still wondering why). |
2000/1/31-2/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17380 Activity:nil |
1/30 What is a website that finds the cheapest place online to buy a dvd or music cd (like the addall search for books)? (edited to not be a yes/no question) \_ It would be a place that does searches of other websites, compares price data and then presents a summary of best price choices to you, the cheapskate. \_ http://www.dvdpricesearch.com -mogul |
2000/1/27 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17343 Activity:low |
1/26 Can somebody with a copy of DeCSS -- the DVD cracking program put up a copy on soda? Or a pointer to it? Thanks. \_ Trying to get soda confiscated as evidence? No thanks. \_ http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~seidl has a copy on it. \_ thank you so much matt! \_ Criminals. I can't believe anyone in the CSUA or alums would promote this sort of theft. It's no different than all the wAReZ!1 kids stealing on the net swapping software they never purchased. \_ I'll just call this a troll now. Note that CSS does NOTHING to prevent bootlegging of DVDs since you can just do a bit by bit copy. \_ http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33922,00.html Just grab a copy of the source code and build your own decoder. |
2000/1/24-25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17315 Activity:moderate |
1/24 Current CD drive is a SANYO CRD-820P which skips and doesn't do CDDA. Any recommendation for one that is robust and CDDA-capable? I'm not looking for much, just one that won't give me a lot of hassle and that I can get music from with cdparanoia. Need IDE/ATAPI. Thanks. \ ATAPI CDROM != good CDDA get SCSI get Plextor \_ Plextor = very expensive = hardly worth it for normal folks. \_ If not plextor then what do you recommend? I mostly care about no skipping whatsoever. -- not the original poster \How much is 24X+ flawless DAE worth to you? \_ Not 3x - 5x as much to get a plextor. And 24x is totally standard. Anything less was built in 1998 or earlier. 24x has no particular value to me relative to other models which also all have 24x+. \_ Plextor is one of those cases where it's worth it. If you want to be cheap, then just admit it to yourself. I won't buy from another manufacturer. --dim \_ I'm not cheap. I'm simply not stupid. Not every component in my system requires the highest end, triple price part. I don't buy a new athlon or p3 every month so whats wrong with a cd drive using 6 month old technology at 90% effectiveness and 1/3rd the price? You're obsessed with plextor. I checked out their products on your rec. 2 months ago and wasn't impressed with the bang/buck ratio. Plextor is only for people who *need* every last whistle and bell. The original poster just wants a simple, functional, atapi/ide drive with no hassles at a good price. Plextor doesn't fit the bill. You need more tools in your shed. It's all starting to look like a hammer. LINUX! RIDE BIKE! \_ The original poster already had a crap drive and look where it got him. We're not talking about a $500 difference in price here. Spend the extra $100-150 (at most!) and get a Plextor. --dim \_ The original poster didn't need CDDA at the time of purchase. A CDDA drive is an extra $5., not $100-$150. Do not buy a plextor. Buy what you need not bells and whistles you'll never use. By the time you do need some random whistle, you can buy the same thing for much less later and now have an extra. Total price is less and get extra device from it. If you never need the bells at all (I never have), then you save tons. It's pretty duh-basic: don't buy things you don't need. Plextor is overkill and over priced. |
2000/1/20 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17276 Activity:very high |
1/20 Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0e 2540480 2332740 4502 100% /var/mail CLEAN UP YOUR MAIL SPOOLS YOU HOZERS! \_ no, add more disks to support our huge mail quotas! \_ I propose we squish more people and delete their home (e.g. kchang) \_ I propose to have a mail quotas smaller than 8mb. If soda does not have enough disk space, why have such huge mail quotas in first place?. As far as I can see none of the users below is above their quota. I don't see a reson why they should be squished -anonymous coward 5443134 scharpen 5004733 ying 4951795 egwall 4939696 joy 4862243 ivy 4841636 blyon 4825914 yule 4822396 andrea 4800332 kane 4786558 innami 4737733 clarie 4704368 hankwong 4688583 jean 4646727 blojo 4603297 mackn 4499982 lleong 4459360 anjie 4413419 duyphun 4400330 jones 4321963 ramses 5443134 scharpen 4737733 clarie 5004733 ying 4704368 hankwong 4951795 egwall 4688583 jean 4939696 joy 4646727 blojo 4862243 ivy 4603297 mackn 4841636 blyon 4499982 lleong 4825914 yule 4459360 anjie 4822396 andrea 4413419 duyphun hundreds of hours of works. -tom \_ Fascinating. 8.5% of the users consume 50% of the space. 15% consume about 70%. This is fine of course unless the spool runs out of space. 4800332 kane 4400330 jones 4786558 innami 4321963 ramses \_ End the Bolt Action domination of the mail spool! \_ How about these folks? kchang isn't even in the running. Do you people really need 4-5 MB in your mailspool? \_ it's really stupid to quibble about 5MB when 18GB disks cost $300. -tom \_ Fine, so donate $300 to CSUA and shut up. \_ the CSUA gets a budget every year, this is a fine thing to spend money on. And I have donated quite a bit of money to the CSUA over time, not to mention hundreds of hours of work. -tom \_ The point is, a free resource always leads to a shortage. Sure, you've put resources into soda, and look at your spool usage--you're actually being responsible with it. I'd bet that that majority of hte names there haven't given squat to soda. (surprised to see blojo up there) \_ an 18GB disk for mail would allow an average spool size of 7MB (2600 passwd entries). Considering that there's not a single mail spool larger than that now, we're looking at years and years before even actively irresponsible usage could fill it. -tom \_ Great. So why don't we just purchase the disk and be done with it. Anyone? \_ Fascinating. 8.5% of the population consume 50% of the wealth. 15% consume about wealth. This is fine of course unless the spool runs out of space. \_ Fascinating. 8.5% of the population consume 50% of the space. 15% consume about 50% of the space. This is fine of course unless the spool runs out of space. \_ Space consumption always has a skewed distribution. \_ Can't we just have a quota system with slightly smaller mail-spool limits? Most people would be fine with it... \_ I propose we adjust all mail user agents and delivery agents to put the users' mail spools in their home directories, so that we dont have this double mail spool/disk usage problem. -ERic \_ Just make a link from /var/mail/foo to ~foo/mbox or such? -- yuen \_ they do this where I work, and it leads to more dropped mail and related problems because of the relative instability of home mounts to the mail server, common home file overfills, etc. \_ soda's home directories arent remote-mounted. \_ I think mail-in-home-dir is a reasonable setup but it doesn't really help the problem of inadequate disk space. In fact it's worse because people filling up their home directories with coding projects will hoze mail. -tom |
1999/12/28-30 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:17112 Activity:high |
12/28 Please point me to info (URL,etc.) on Clustering NT machines. \_ http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/sysdocs/wolfpackdoc.htm There's more if you search for "wolfpack" on the MS site. \_ BWQAAAA-haaaa-haaaaahaaaaaaa... that's a good one, that is. Got any more jokes? \_ Hmm, should i assume from that response that this can't be done? There's no third party software that allows for NT clusters? (i would have sworn i had heard of such a thing) \_ http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/sysdocs/wolfpackdoc.htm There's more if you search for "wolfpack" on the MS site. \_ hahaha... I see you do have more. \_ Uh... yes but are you sure this is the right answer? How about you tell us what you're trying to do first. \_ Well, since you asked (though, it is not my choice, i was simply asked if it could be done, and i knew the motd would know) They are looking for load-balancing/redundant servers, specifically webservers i believe. (and Thanks to the persone who posted the wolfpack link!) \_ No, curse the fool, and much misfortune will fall upon YOU for following the M$ path to damnation. You DON'T NEED "wolfpack" or anything like that for loadbalancing. All you need is an intelligent firewall that will do loadbalancing, and you can do many many webservers, not just the pittance that "wolfpack" gives you. \_ Will Checkpoint do this? (checkpoint is the firewall that i have) \_ If you have the product, you have the manual. RTFM. \_ In Checkpoint, it's called "ConnectControl". It's not very flexible, but it works. Requires a separate license, though. \_ If you're going to piss away money in bulk you should at least spend it on something useful like a hardware load balancer/redirector. That way when your company fires the pro-MS morons and wants to do something useful, the hardware still has value and wasnt a wasted investment in MS licenses. The HW LB will outperform the software ones, btw. \_ Ahh, splendid, and i assume HW LB is platform independent. This is good, BUT it then brings BACK the problem of a single point of failure (or does it? two HW LBers linked??) Can you recommend a when your firewall can do the job for NO extr brand / URL? \_ You can link 2 LD's together, yes. Cisco will do it. \_ the "usual" choice is cisco local directory, which costs an absurd $10-20k. Why throw away money when your firewall can do the job for NO extra money? \_ "performance", "single point of failure", "money no object". $20k is nothing. Don't be cheap on your production site. It'll bite you later. \_ other options include F5's bigIP (http://www.f5.com arrowpoint (<DEAD>www.arrowpoint.com<DEAD> and (free!) Linux virtual server (<DEAD>www.linuxvirtualserver.olg<DEAD> All of these are FAR more reliable than any NT based solutions. In fact they (unfortunately perhaps) can be used to keep a NT based site running in spite of NT's unstableness. -ERic \_ Someone totally skipped the main question...is this server farm for static content or commerce? There are massive application-level issues in using hardware redirectors / load balancers. Take a look at Windows 2000 Advanced Server for distributed applications; ADO / LDAP dcom linkages for multi- server session; and definitely Veritas ClusterServer for application-level redundancy. A UNIX cluster with a 3-tier architecture (e.g. separate DB engine and multiple servers connected to a disk array would be more help in distributing application data.) [reformatted to 80 columns for you] |
1999/12/23 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17091 Activity:nil |
12/23 Looking for reccs on a good DVD player for me dad. Can't check the web; I have a 14.4 connection for the holidays and the computer won't even render the images before santa comes. Tips on features to look for also appreciated. -thanks |
1999/12/16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17058 Activity:nil |
12/15 Need some cash. Would like to sell a brand new Samsung DVD-709 player + 5 free DVDs + 21 free rentals. Name your price & e-mail me. -ychang \_ I'd like the 5 free DVDs and 21 free rentals. For free. \_ go away troll. I'm serious about this. On-line market price is $220. -ychang |
1999/12/2-6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16990 Activity:kinda low |
i12/2 HEY IDIOT, THESE ARE YOUR PEERS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD DEAL WITH THEM. 7056 akyan 7096 eyip 7464 toddlee 7776 dana 7888 jennylau 8112 muchandr 8560 scharpen 10352 norby 11120 jose 12920 glorial At some point, users have to deal with each other. Relying on root on this machine to do that for you is childish and immature. Phillip. _ _ _______ __ ____ ___ ___ _____ | | | | ____\ \ / / | _ \ / _ \ / _ \_ _| | |_| | _| \ V / | |_) | | | | | | || | | _ | |___ | | | _ <| |_| | |_| || |_ \_ Let's start an e-mail petition!! Just add your name to the list and forward it to your favorite soda peers! _ _ _______ __ ____ ___ ___ _____ | | | | ____\ \ / / | _ \ / _ \ / _ \_ _| | |_| | _| \ V / | |_) | | | | | | || | | _ | |___ | | | _ <| |_| | |_| || |_ |_| |_|_____| |_| |_| \_\\___/ \___/ |_( ) |/ __ __ _ _ ___ ____ / /_ ____ _ _ __ / / __ ___ __ _(_) | |_ _/ ___| / /\ \ / / _` | '__/ / '_ ` _ \ / _` | | | | |\___ \ / / \ V / (_| | | / /| | | | | | (_| | | | | | ___) | /_/ \_/ \__,_|_|/_/ |_| |_| |_|\__,_|_|_| |___|____/ _____ _ _ _ _ | ___| | | | | | | | |_ | | | | | | | | _| | |_| | |___| |___ _ |_| \___/|_____|_____(_) \_ We have no power over them. empower me (with root!) and I will deal with them ... [figlet deleted] \_ why dont we reconfigure the local mail agents to put user mailboxes in user home directories? Then we wont' need a separate mail partition, and user quotas are handled better. -ERic \_ because that idea got shot down the day it was suggested -- cassandra \_ on what grounds? \_ On the grounds that mail hogs couldn't hog anymore? \_ a moreimportant question is "By who"? and the corrolary, "Where are the losers now, so we can safely ignore them?" \_ we do this at work and it sucks. don't do it unless the sendmail or equivalent is on the same host w/ the home dirs (not NFS mounts) and the home disks are as reliable as the the user mail spool disks. otherwise mail gets lost and/or delayed w/ all the flaky home disk failures. \_ Hellloooo... soda runs sendmail on the same box as your home. Disks of the same type are about equally reliable. Why would you claim the home disks are less reliable than the mail disks? Did your IT guys say, "hey! I know! Lets buy refurb disks for the home dirs! we like doing full system restores!!!"? Unlikely. Please stop babbling about the sky falling on your mail spool. \_ I think he's speaking in more general terms. And yes, some storage is more reliable. For example, network-attached storage RAID 1/0 is more reliable than flaky full-height 1991-vintage disk drives striped RAID 0. You said "same type" but that wasn't originally implied. --dim \_ If he's speaking in general terms then he's babbling spew since the topic was very specifically about mail spools on soda. Not network attached raid at work, not an 8 year old disk, not some bullshit scenario you're likely to conjure to make a false point. Mail spools on soda belong in home directories or the spools themselves should be hard quoted at a low number like 2 megs. Deal with your fucking mail and it won't be a problem. \_ most of the people on root either dont leave their mail on soda or at least have it delivered via .forward to another filesystem. \_ Something others should think about. \_ HEY PHILLIP, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO 'DEAL' WITH OUR PEERS? SEND THEM E-MAIL EXPRESSING OUR DISAPPOINTMENT AT THE FULLNESS OF THEIR MAIL SPOOLS? USE THOUGHTWAVES TO COMPEL THEM TO READ THE MOTD AND FEEL DEEP SHAME ABOUT THE CONTEXT IN WHICH THEIR NAME APPEARS THEREIN? OR PAY OUR HOMIES TO TAKE OUT A HIT ON THESE NON-PLAYAS? \_ Shotguns. Phillip. \_ alias annoy 'echo ^G >>/dev/`who | grep \!:1 | cut -c 10-15`' \_ mesg n |
1999/11/30-12/1 [Finance/Banking, Recreation/House, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16974 Activity:kinda low |
11/30 Hi, I'm looking for a reference CD-ROM on trees and plants. I went to a couple of Frys stores and they didn't seem to have it. I'm wondering if encyclopedia CD-ROMs have that info. Stuff like temperature and water requirements for trees and plants, what kind of soil they need, etc. Thanks. \_ http://www.sunset.com/Books/cdroms/WesternGardenCD.html (Sunset Magazine's _Western Garden Book_ on CD-ROM.) -- kahogan \_ Thanks a lot kahogan! |
1999/11/24-26 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16950 Activity:moderate |
11/23 Help! I have a p133 laptop and the floppy and crdom broke How do I reformat and reinstall on the hd? what files to I copy to the zip drive from my osr2 cd? \_ I thought the whole .cab set fits on a zip? I think you need the pre-cab files and the first few cab files plus all/most of the non-cab files. Your zip drive boots? \_ You need the \win95 directory, and some way to boot. You might try laplink to transfer th' files after you reformat. It might save you a lot of hassle to format c: /s so your hard drive boots. \_ Need the \win95\system dir too? \_ that's the Windoze Compact Disc \win95 directory \_ cool thanks guys, I know what to copy onto my zip drive Considering my floppy is broken, how do I format, reinstall and reboot? I tried rebooting with the zip and it didn't work \_ If your zip isn't bootable, you may be fucked. Borrow a cdrom and be done with it. |
1999/11/10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16859 Activity:very high |
\_ Disk space is cheap. I can get a 10 GIG HD for $200. These people are only costing CSUA 1-2 dollars. What is your point? \_ Our point is that your account costs us nothing to squish, and nothing << 1-2 dollars. -root \_ The mail spool is FULL. Duh. \_ Then buy us a 10 Gig, highly reliable, SCSI disk then, rich boy. |
1999/11/4-5 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16826 Activity:moderate |
11/3 Hardware Question: I bought a computer with a 17 GB IDE hard drive. The computer came with RedHat 6 installed. I tried to install Windows and failed and screwed up Linux as well. When I tried to install Linux, the install script was unable to instal LILO. I tried installing LILO in MBR and otherwise, neither worked. Windows install claims it works but when I finish windows install and take the CD out to reboot, it fails to boot from the hard drive. Now I can't install either windows or linux. My guess is neither install script can modify the messed up MBR. Any suggestions? \_ So many bad memories. Lilo hates booting to anything past 1024 cylinders. It's an IDE thing. \_ Try "fdisk /mbr" or something like that. --PeterM \_ it probably won't help you but I know for a fact WinNT does not boot off partitions greater than 7.8something GB. This may be general Intel X86 problem. \_ Bullshit. You're flat dead wrong. Get off the motd. \_ apologies. I mean a 7.8something *IDE* hard disk: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q197/6/67.ASP http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/5/26.ASP http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q114/8/41.ASP now be nice! =) =) =D \_ Thanks! This is what I needed. I also discoverd that linux and LILO work fine if you put LILO in linear mode. \_ does it go slower in linear mode? be a general BIOS problem. Oh yeah, lilo will say fuck you near the end if you want to mark a partition to be bootable and any part of it extends beyond the first 1024 cylinders (generally 7.8something GB). Put all bootable partitions wholly within the first 1024 cylinders. \_ Boot from a dos floppy. fdisk /mbr as peter says. Try again. |
1999/11/3-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16823 Activity:high |
11/3 Anyone know how to mount a magnetooptical device in linux? It's scsi, so I was hoping I could just do a "mount -t ext2 /dev/sda", but that doesnt work. Thanks for any help. --acheng \_ what's a magnetooptical device? \_ it uses a material that can change magnetic phase upon heating with a laser \_ that really should work if you compiled in generic SCSI support. \_ I did... I know I can access the disk when I do a mkfs, "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda" and I have an entry in the fstab. |
1999/11/3-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16820 Activity:nil |
11/2 Is it possible to connect a UW SCSI (more than 50 pin) to a regular 50 pin SCSI? \_ Yes. \_ But your bus will run at the speed of the slowest device present. --dim \_ You want to plug a 68 pin plug into a 50 pin socket? Or want to put a 68 pin UW device on a SCSI chain shared with 50 pin devices? The first is obviously physically impossible. The latter is as 'dim' says above. You can but it's a waste of the potential of the higher speed devices. \_ explain this from my bsd bootup - both on same cable cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4220T 1.01> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8) cd1: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-32TS 1.03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd1: 20.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 15) \_ User error. |
1999/11/2-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16816 Activity:high |
11/2 Thinking about getting a CD writer. Is it necessary to get a read only CD player and a writer, or can I just use one CD writer w/ a lot of HD space? \_ You can get away with one CD player. However, if you ever wanna make CD-to-CD copies, having a CD-ROM and a CD-R makes it a lot simplier. of course, you can still do it with just a CD-R, but it's more time-consuming. \_ I never do it CD-to-CD, because the reader is IDE. It doesn't "sound" like a bad idea to buy just a SCSI writer. \_ My sister's computer has an IDE DVD drive and a SCSI writer, and CD-to-CD works just fine. \_ Just use the one CD writer. Unless youre pirating software or something and need a huge throughput, making CD-to-CD copies at 4x write speed is probably only going to save you about 20 minutes (depending on file size). Just make a disk image and burn it to a new CD. Hell, you can change CD's between Friends and Frasier. \_ 20 minutes? Do the math. \_ Another question-- can I burn my CD 1/2 way, wait till I get the other half then finish burning later? \_No. That's a good way of getting coasters. (At least with conventional software). \_Yes. Most are quite capable of multisession writes. You lose 20 megs for each extra session. Works fine without penalty for audio as well. \_ not if you plan on playing the audio CD in a regular CD player. It works for computer CDROM drives, but in car or home cd player, will only play tracks in the first session.. \_And this assumes that you aren't burning an image of a CD vs. just data, i.e. if you want to burn a cue image of a cd you can't simply interrupt a burn 1/2 way and resume it later. \_ if you leave the session open, you can listen to the CD on your burner and add tracks later. Later, when you close the session, you can listen to the tracks in your car... |
1999/11/2-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16805 Activity:low |
11/1 Anyone got a spare ATAPI CDROM (any speed) drive, and a floppy? --PeterM \_ what's the diff between IDE and ATAPI? \_ For practical purposes: zero. The anal will soon followup with a difference response. with a different response. \_ So I'm anal: EIDE is a bus interface and protocol, ATAPI is subset of EIDE which standard CD drives use. The Linux kernel likes ATAPI drives: non-ATAPI ones are a pain. --PeterM |
1999/10/29-31 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16791 Activity:kinda low |
10/28 Looking to buy CD-RW. All the net FAQs are old. How many writes/ rewrites can I expect from a single CDRW and is there any difference on this between manufacturer's and software? Any suggestions for what to get? I want at least 4x write and 4x re-write speed. I plan to burn CD-R's and CD-RW's. Some music, some data, some backups. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Not concerned about read speed. Already have a x48 for that which is noisy but ok. Thanks! \_ http://www.gamecopyworld.com find links, get a Sony SCSI \_ http://www.gamecopyworld.com find links, get a Yamaha SCSI \_ Yamaha SCSI is not that good and Linux/FreeBSD support is lacking. Get Smart&Friendly, they are the most reliable and cheapest. S&F also has great Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris support. I can still burn CD-RW's on Linux with my S&F 226 (~ 2.5 yrs old). \_ didn't someone just say to get a Plextor or something? \_ ??? Uh, no, where's that? Not on this motd. \_ I will. Plextor is a much better choice if you're not looking for the cheapest possible brand. SCSI only, though. As for RW, few make that much use of it. I haven't. -jor \_ Plextor 8220 is the best. Period. 8X CDR for less than the S&F model's price and has twice as big a cache - 4MB!!! \_ You can expect about just one rewrite after the first write. it ALL depends on the disc : is it regular (blue or green), gold, or silver. Use at least gold to get reliable results. as for which brands, you gotta do more research or ask friends. \_ I don't remember the brand I bought (I *think* it's Verbatim), but I've overwritten it about 5 times now with no problems. I believe it's blue on the bottom. \_ An old FAQ was talking about 1000 re-writes for old media and 10,000+ for newer "soon to be released" media. This was written in 1997. I was wondering if the 1000 was true and if the 10k media exists and how to know which is which. \_ We've had much better luck with Kodak Silver than Kodak Gold. We're not buying anymore gold disc. --dim |
1999/10/29-31 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16789 Activity:low |
10/28 Every now and then I see an add for a discount or free shipping at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Is there a web page where I can find out when these special offers are going on? Thanks. - mikeym \_ Of course not, they want you regularly checking their site, not leeching off of the specials that are intended to generate regular customers. \_ I get em emailed to me. dunno how. \_ For DVDs, http://www.dvdpricesearch.com has a price comparison database, and a regularly updated list of specials and coupons. \_ ie, you get to stare at some guy's ass the whole time instead of a girl's. \_ CDs: http://www.stormloader.com/cdshopper/default.htm |
1999/10/27-29 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16779 Activity:high |
10/27 I want to buy a LINUX box. I don't need (or want) windows. Any suggestions on online companies which sell LINUX boxes? I could just use gateway or dell, but they charge me for windows and the last time my company ordered something from Dell it had some hardware that wasn't well supported by LINUX. Thanks. \_ Dell sells machines preloaded with Linux these days. \_ http://www.varesearch.com perhaps a little more high-end than most dells but comes functional w/ linux. except they give you the normal stupid soundcard that only does half-duplex w/ linux drivers, so mbone multiconferencing doesn't work. \_ I checked out VA Research, but for their prices I might as well order from CompuUSA which is cheaper. \_ Last time I checked CompUSA, they were selling Compaqs, PackardBells and HPs. I don't know about HPs, but Compaq Presarios and PackardHells are utter pieces of crap and have problems even running windows, good luck installing Linux one of those.. Seriously, though, check out Micron and Dell websites, they make good systems usually or build your own .. \_ If you're running a linux box why are you paying more for someone to pre-assembly it in a configuration that you won't be entirely happy with? It is *very* easy to assemble a pc from parts today. You'll get *exactly* what you want and not pay a dime to M$. \_ Ok. If it is that easy maybe I'll try it. Do you have any suggestions on where to buy the various pieces and how to put them together? For example, when you buy a motherboard and a hard drive, does either one come with a manual telling you how to get them to work together? I'd be happy to RTFM if I knew how to get my hands on one, but "man motherboard" doesn't seem to work =). \_ The problem with building your own machine is troubleshooting it. A computer builder can at least make sure all the parts work before giving you the machine. I like to work with Central Computer: they'll build a machine to order for you, and you can ask 'em not to install Windoze. Another plus is you can go bring stuff back in person, if anything is defective. --PeterM \_ The stuff all comes with manuals. Mostly it's in English. Pretty much each thing only fits one place in one way. The red line on the HD (and floppy) data cable is pin #1. Do it in a place with lots of light. It's pretty hard to totally fuck up, but it may take an afternoon on your first time out. Unless you've got money to burn and your time is incredibly precious (or you're buying in bulk for a company), the self- assembly thing is always a good bet. Do some price checks on the net for the hardware/pieces you're looking for. Buy stuff like the CPU/MB last. By the time you figure out what you want for the rest of the system, cpu prices will have dropped again. \_ You should try http://www.computergate.com They have a fairly broad selection of components at reasonable prices. Certainly, you would be able to build a computer there. \_ The first time is hard for everyone. You should do your research, but here's a list to start you out. ABIT BE6 motherboard Celeron 466 PPGA + "slocket" IBM 9.1 GB UDMA/66 IDE HD adapter + PPGA fan Intel i740 video card Creative Labs OEM 48x CD-ROM Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound Side-paneled ATX mini-mid card case 3Com ISA 56K Sportser Linux Mandrake 6.1 or Yamaha YMF724 PCI sound ATX mini-mid case with side card panels 3Com ISA 56K Sportser Linux-Mandrake 6.1 or 6.5 PowerPack Get this sucker working first and then go SCSI or whatever ya want. -jctwu \_ ABIT BE6-2. i740 is trash. I'm pretty sure the ABIT is an ATA/33 MB so the ATA/66 is a waste. Don't get ISA cards for anything. What you should really do is decide how much you feel like pissing away on a computer and get the most bang for the buck in areas where you need it most, be it video, sound, storage, cpu speed, etc. You may find you don't even want certain things such as a soundcard or modem if you're building a networked server box. \_ the BE6-2 has one ISA slot. Both BE6's support UDMA/66. The speed gain from not having any ISA cards sounds reasonable, but is unproven, and I'd choose 2 ISA slots today. As for modem and sound card, I'm not assuming the reader is so dumb to think they're required cards. Also, I've had good experience with the BE6 personally; have you had the same with the BE6-2? The i740 is $35; I've got 3, and they all work fine. Please tell me why it's trash. It's hard to find a well-supported accelerated video card, but I know RH Linux 6.1 supports it. As for deciding on bang for the buck, that sounds all well and reasonable so why am I providing the list above? Because they all work with Linux, are fully tested, are cheap, all work with Linux, are tested, are cheap, and are a good starting point when you could be all work with Linux, are tested, cheap, and are a good starting point when you could be buying high-powered stuff (a new video card) that doesn't have driver support. -jctwu \_ go to http://www.eis.com and get a preconfigured solaris x86 box instead :-) \_ Uh huh... "Quick! Spend big bucks on the slowest *nix available!" I'd rather screw yermom. \_ momma always says, "sometimes, slower is better". Her customers agree! \_ Slow on cheap machines. Faster & more stable than linux on more expensive stuff (SCSI, MP, etc.) \_ It's Solaris x86. I could run anything really fast on "faster & more stable" hardware. sheesh. \_ consider the MICROSTAR MS6120 440BX motherboard, does dual PII/PIII. \_ heck, consider the ABIT BP6. Does dual Celerons w/o weird mods. A friend of mine set up NT with it last week and it works fine on NT -jctwu \_ try <DEAD>www.memoryshippers.com<DEAD> . local, great prices on celeron + motherboard. \_ http://www.centralcomputer.com \_ computer shows have great bargains.. http://www.robertaustin.com they have Oakland shows every month or so... \_ http://www.hitech-usa.com or walk over to shattuck ave. \_ those assholes are the biggest jackasses in the world. pay big bucks to have people treat you like shit. just go to the oakland computer show. anything is better than that garbage. \_ whine whine, bitch bitch. \_ Do not go to hitech-usa. \_ Dell also sells machines for more than they're worth \_ Buy parts and assemble. \_ Find someone we don't know about. \_ Figure out what hardware you want, then spec it out and have someone like Central Computer build it. It generally doesn't cost any more than buying the parts and building it yourself, and they'll burn it in for you and make sure it boots. Most of the small local places that will configure you machines will not charge you for Windows if you don't want it. \_ Maybe you should consider FREEBSD or MACOS or another ALLCAPS operating system. |
1999/10/20-21 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16743 Activity:kinda low |
10/20 I have installed Linux on my PC. However my SCSI card is not recongized by the OS because the card doesn't have a BIOS at all. In what way I can setup the card properly under Linux? \_ Get a real scsi card. Check the Linux hw support list. |
1999/9/26-28 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16601 Activity:high |
9/25 I have an old P133. I just bought a 10GB hard drive in it but can't get my bios to recognize it as anything greater than an 8GB drive. How can I get around this? \_ What the hell crackhead stupidass ED user deleted my reply? Fine. this whole stupid thread deserves to die. Botton line: Install linux, or any real OS. problem solved, you now have access to the full 10 gig. \_ [restored.. because I can. your linux rant wasn't there] \_ what the hell for? none of it was useful. \_ Check if the MB manufacturer has a bios update online. If not, you'll need a new MB. Nothing else to be done. \_ Do classic pentium motherboards even have flash bios? \_ The later ones did. I own one. Earlier ones, no. \_ Try add on EIDE(ATA33/66) cards, they might work, although some cards cost about the same as a cheap mobo. \_ A new high quality BX mb can be had for $99. An old one for his toy you can get for free from someone else that's upgrading. The MB is going to have AT-33/66 support. The dude needs to either forget about the 2gb, or shell out for a MB made in the last 7 years. This whole thread is just silly. We're talking about spending money or using \_ oh yeah, he probably has a socket 5 MB, and P133 is a 90s product too. hokey software so he can keep using his socket-3 MB. Let it go. Join the 90s. \_ maybe he cant get a used/old one from someone, that's why he's asking. why dont you donate him a BX board? BTW, while you are at it, why dont you donate CPU and memory to go with it? used is fine. \_ Bullshit. There are numerous places on the net still selling socket-7 boards. Anyway, why should I donate anything to someone so stupid that they didn't perform the most trivial and basic of research before spending whatever on a device that their MB doesn't fully support? It's his fucking fault for being stupid. My email address is not root@donatestostupidpeople.org. \_ P133 uses socket FIVE and is a 90's product. \_ Ooooooh... socket... FIVE!!! Woo woo!!! *laugh* \_ nothing to brag about, but at least get the facts stright before ranting away, idiot. \_ Can this be accomplished with drive overlay software? Or does overlay software just trick the OS and not the hardware? -dans \_ Dude, forget it. Stop being cheap. Overlay software is dead and only works with certain versions of certain operating systems. The 2gb is nothing. Either get a real MB or forget the 2gb. You're being silly. \_ we have the right to be cheap! not everyone makes 100k/year and drives BMW. \_ you mean people get by on just $100k/yr? \_ I don't drive German cars. If he can afford to buy a 10 gb drive without even researching to find out if his system will fully support it, he can easily afford another $50 on a MB made in the 90s. |
1999/9/24-25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16589 Activity:kinda low |
9/25 Is there anywhere around South Bay that sells DVD-ROM SCSI? \_ Is there such a thing? I know DVD-RAMs come in SCSI... \_ There are non-IDE machines that have DVD's you figure it out. \_ isn't that because they have their own interface card? \_ No. SCSI is standard. SCSI is good. Use SCSI. \_ http://www.centralcomputer.com - product news. Toshiba 5x scsi 149 |
1999/8/28 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives, Recreation/Media] UID:16417 Activity:nil 57%like:15884 |
8/26 Star Wars in ASCII! http://www.asciimation.co.nz --dim |
1999/8/8 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16268 Activity:nil |
8/7 Anyone using a CastleWood SCSI ORB under linux? I can partition the disk but I can't mke2fs. Any ideas? |
1999/6/30-7/1 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:16038 Activity:moderate |
6/29 Are data on a CD or LD stored in concentric circles (like on a hard disk) or one spiral track (like on an LP)? Thx. \_ They spiral outwards which means that you can get much higher data density on the outer tracks than you can on the inner ones. This is also one explaination why CD's are somewhat slower than hard disks are. \_ Spiral CD. Dunno LD. \_ If it's spiral, how does an audio CD player jump between "tracks" (songs) or back and forth within a song so quickly? And how does a CD-ROM drive jump between and within files? Thx. \_ redbook defines how audio track info is stored. there is generally a table on the inner part of the cd that tells how far from the center any particular track is. \_ LD is analog. |
1999/6/28 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/Drives, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:16028 Activity:very high |
6/28 Should I buy TA: Kingdoms? \_ I liked DK2 better (yes I tried them both). Someone else likes TA:K better. ymmv. There's a Best Buy ad in today's paper for $29.95 straight up for TA:K, so you can price match if you bring it with you to your local EB. \_ I like TA:K. The single player is very good storytelling, multiplayer is fun, the graphics are cool (especially dragons). Only problem, when 200+ units are running around, the game tends to slow down. \_ Well, hmm, let's see... you plus 7 computers with 200 units each (when 150 is the default) adds up to 1600 units and you think it's slow? I'm on a P5 and its still ok like that. You can't possibly be playing on a shittier computer. Oh yeah, P5 running NT4 while doing other shit in the background. \_ TA:K sort of has Starcraftish visuals with the far superior TA interface and controls. Buy it if you like SC and TA. |
1999/5/31-6/2 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15896 Activity:nil |
5/30 I want to rip an audio track from CD but I encountered errors while using windac and similar programs. I can't seem to play tracks beyond 7 using my cdrom drive (which includes the track I want to rip), but I could play those tracks on cd players and with other cdrom drives. Anyone knows what's up? Thanks. \ http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq \_ The CD could have slight flaws. I had this problem once, but it was solved when I: 1) slowed the rip speed to 1x, 2) increased the redundancy, and 3) closed all other apps and ran the ripper in the foreground. |
1999/5/26-27 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15877 Activity:low |
5/25 Question re: Toshiba Tecra 750CDM. Does anybody know if there's any hard drive encasing that will fit into the Select Bay? I want to get another drive for the 750CDM, but the drives are pretty expensive. I have a hard drive for the 740CDT, which is a lot cheaper, but physically bigger, so will not fit into the hd slot for the 750CDM. Is there any such device that will allow me to use that 740CDT hd in the 750CDM's Select Bay? \_ it should be possible \_ a sledge hammer. no guarantees on being able to use the drive after fitting it- |
1999/5/5 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15750 Activity:nil |
5/4 A question for you classical music buffs: About 5 years ago I saw somewhere a CD by a Yugoslavic violin prodigy. The CD was recorded a few years earlier (in the 80's?) when that country was not split up yet and when he was very young. Does anyone know the name of the player, the title of the CD and the publisher? |
1999/4/1-2 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15682 Activity:high |
3/31 What is a good audio extraction software for PC/MAC, that can set the read speed. I have trouble reextract music burned on CD/R. \_ IMHO, RTFM PDQ \_ What's up your ass? You have a serious attitude problem. \_ I use the Win32muZAK++ extractor. Works for me. \_ Doesn't matter what prog you use - you have to have a good (aka NOT IDE) CD-ROM. Get a Plextor ultraplex 24X DAE consistent. \_ Are you going to back up that assertion with data? \_ No. It's the motd. Shut the fuck up. Asshole. \_ yemom \_ No, idiot. It's the motd. Go away. \_ The problem is likely with the burn on the CDR, not with the cdrom drive. --another scsi bigot |
1999/4/1-2 [Consumer, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15677 Activity:nil |
3/31 Where can I get a hard drive enclosure for a Toshiba Tecra 740 CDT hard drive? I want to use this drive with a Toshiba Tecra 750 CDM, but the 740's drive is too big (physically). |
1999/3/22 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15623 Activity:nil |
3/19 Any opinions on Promise Technology's IDE RAID? |
1999/3/15-17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15593 Activity:high |
3/15 Costco is not having their TDK rebate. Anyone know where I can buy CDRs (that come with jewel cases) for a buck each? \_ various other CDR manufacturers have CDR rebates at various points in time. Maxell might have one, but the store i bought them at was out when i bought them, and hasn't mailed the rebate form to me yet. i have enough leftover jewel cases to just buy a spindle at this point --oj \_ Fry's usually has 5-packs of CDR's w/ Jewel Cases for $4.98 -peterl \_ But be careful and test them. I got a batch of 40 that were defective. Good thing Fry's has a good return policy. \_ The 5-pack for $5 is the CMC brand. I've successfully used them on a few different brands of burners, but definitely just try one 5-pack first. -peterl \_ I've mostly had success with them too, but I got that bad batch and it was a real pain trying to figure out what happened until I realized the CDs were garbage. After replacing them (with otherwise identical CDs) they worked fine. \_ Where can you get cheap CDR's in Berkeley? Radio Shack sells 5 for $10 (Sony), but that's still not that cheap. \_ speaking of good media deals, I want to buy a big sack of 90 min blank cassettes. what have yall found to be a nice blank at a cheap price that comes in quantity? -maxmcc \_ It depends on what you want to use them for. Music? lectures? Linda Tripp? \_ music, bass-heavy music. - maxmcc \_ Buy a computer with 18GB hard drive for < $1000. That will give you 291 hours of mp3s. Use that. --dbushong |
1999/3/3 [Finance/Banking, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15522 Activity:high |
3/2 I got this "11 CDs for the price of 1" deal from BMG Music Service in mail. Are these CD club things real? Are they traps? Thanks. \_ BMG is pretty good because you only have to buy one. Columbia house is bad because you have to buy more than one. However, keep in mind that you still pay shipping for the 10 "free" CD's. When you factor that in, the free CD's come out to be about $2.50 each, I think. It's still a good deal, though. - mikeym house is bad because you have to buy more than one. Keep in mind that you still pay shipping for the 10 "free" CD's. When you factor that in, the free CD's are about $2.50 each. It's still a good deal, though. - mikeym \_ I got dicked by Columbia House once; they did not respond to multiple requests to cancel my "membership", even after after I sent back multiple CDs with "CANCEL MY MEMBERSHIP" letters (I'd fulfilled my part of the deal and bought the CDs I had to, which were pretty good.) They kept sending me discs and ignoring my phone calls, so I just started keeping them, which is when I got hit by lots of nasty letters. A few angry phone calls eventually set them straight, but it was a big pain in the ass. -John \_ Does BMG use the same trick to make money? \_ They both take an enormously long time to respond to cancellation notices (like 3 months). However, you can respond to their mailings on-line. CH also has this new thing were you do not need to respond to their mailings unless you want to receive something. \_ BMG is starting that now too \_ bmg thinks e-mail spam is a valid form of advertising. boycott them. \_ I've joined both BMG and CH multiple times -- unless the system has changed recently, BMG CDs average to $3.50 each, including shipping, and CH Cds are $5 each. BMG has a pretty small selection, though, and so now I generally use CH. -niloc |
1999/3/2-3 [Computer/HW/IO, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15507 Activity:high |
3/1 For sale: $750 (or best offer) full computer system: K6-200Mhz, 512kcache, 64 MB SDRAM, 4.3 GB HD Creative Labs DVD + decoder ATI all-in-wonder 4MB /w TV, video conference, TV-out, etc. 56.6 X2/v.90 fax/voice/modem Sound Blaster 64 AWE 15" digital control hi res monitor 1.44 floppy, mouse, keyboard. Pro Alpha deluxe midtower case (a la Dec Alpha's) Email: sheenc@csua \_ Freaking fantastic deal if you ask me! \_ and who are you? You can get a better new machine for that much. $20 K6-1 200 $70 64 MB non-PC100 SDRAM DIMM $115 4.3 GB hard disk $150 Creative Labs 2x DVD kit (with decoder) $80 ATI All-in-Wonder (non-Pro) 4 MB $65 56K modem (assume US Robotics non-Winmodem) $40 Sound Blaster 64 AWE $150 15" monitor $15 3.5" floppy $10 Mouse $10 Keyboard $50 Mid-tower case --- $775 non-depreciated cost if you buy new from a reseller who doesn't lie through his/her teeth \_ these prices appear to be floored to the 10's digit. \_ please! go to http://www.pricewatch.com if you want exact no. you'll still come in well below $750 even after factoring in shipping for all these dated components. \_ Apparantly none of you understand the concept of "or best offer". What the fuck do you all care how much the guy asks originally? I'd put in an offer for $500 except that: [soda]~/[12:03pm]> finger sheenc finger: sheenc: no such user - (fucker) \_ it's the 'fantastic deal!' thing that makes me care I think someone changed @hotmail.com to @csua - weird |
1999/2/27-3/30 [Computer/HW/Drives, Consumer/TV] UID:15493 Activity:nil 75%like:15481 |
2/25 MST3K canceled check out http://www.mst3kinfo.com \_ what's MST3K? \_ look at the URL above. \_ After the next season. Catch it while you can. \_ Oh, let's face it -- MST3K has pretty much sucked ever since Joel left. \_ NO WAY! The riffing became more sophisticated and the skits became more elaborate an funny. Mike is great, besides the fact that he's not Joel. Do you still watch the show? |
1999/2/25-26 [Computer/HW/Drives, Consumer/TV] UID:15481 Activity:moderate 75%like:15493 |
2/25 MTS3K canceled check out http://www.mst3kinfo.com \_ what's MTS3K? \_ Wht has God unleasehd his wrath on us?! \_ Why has God unleasehd his wrath on us?! \_ After the next season. Catch it while you can. \_ Oh, let's face it -- MST3K has pretty much sucked ever since Joel left. \_ NO WAY! The riffing became more sophisticated and the skits became more elaborate an funny. Mike is great, besides the fact that he's not Joel. Do you still watch the show? |
1999/2/21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15457 Activity:high |
2/20 I added some new disks to a Sun. Format can't see them! And I see this WARNING: /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/dma@0,81000/esp@0,80000/sd@4,0 (sd4): corrupt label - wrong magic number Vendor 'SEAGATE', product 'ST39173W', 17783240 512 byte blocks What does this mean and what do I do? \_ No disklabel. \_ How do I put on a disklabel? |
1999/1/24 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15286 Activity:moderate |
1/23 What's a good brand of IDE hard disk to buy? \_ It's all the same although some people will feed you their religion about certain brands. Get the size you need of the type you need (ide/eide/ata-33/ata-66,etc) and balance performance vs. cost. If there was truly a bad brand, they'd be gone years ago. \_ so you mean I should get that JTS or Jaton or Samsung HD? :P \_ I was assuming the poster had the sense to buy something from a hard drive maker, not a toaster company. |
1999/1/23 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15280 Activity:nil |
1/22 What was that program for M$ Windoze type machines that allows one to copy playstation CDs without any special hardware (other than the CDR)? (I think WinCD, but wasn't sure if that was right). \_ You can copy cds with several recorders like CDRWIN, but you also always need to trick up your console with a mod chip, or other device. |
1999/1/20 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15256 Activity:nil |
1/19 OH MY GOD! They killed <DEAD>www.lyrics.ch!<DEAD> YOU BASTARDS! The record industry strikes again as www.lyrics.ch is seized by Swiss police. Hmm... lyrics.ch had about 100,000 visitors a day which means that the record companies just alienated a shitload of their customers. Oops. I certainly will never purchase a music CD again, and hopefully others will follow suit. FREE THE LYRICS! |
1999/1/13-15 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15223 Activity:moderate |
1/26 Let's say I accidentally deleted my entire Linux partition. How do I restore the files, assuming that I know that the file names are gone? \_ mt rewind ; restore i \_ dd if=/dev/sd0a | more \_ Thanks. So how do I convert this huge content into files? \_ Wow! You sure are fucked! How'd you manage to wipe the partition? \_ afraid that's your problem, bubba. if you REALLY cared, you might try to write a program that is kind of a "strings" for disk sectors. It would look for sectors that start with ascii data, then write all following information, until it hit a '\0' somewhers. This is taking the chance that your disk was formatted with all sectors zero-filled. You also then need to deal with file fragmentation. By hand. You have about a month's work ahead of you, probably. Btw, if this was a traditional ufs partition, i would tell you to try to use one of the "alternate superblocks" to try to recover inode info. \_ If you deleted the partition (with fdisk) -- just re-create it in the same place; it will work. If you deleted files -- ext2fs has undelete info; you can use mc or other tool. Of course, dd will work, too. \_ debugfs might help in some cases too. |
1999/1/6-7 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15170 Activity:high |
1/5 I'm getting a new CD-RW drive and am considering different CD mastering software to use. Does anyone have any preferences? Why that particular software? \_ http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq <-- everything you want to know \_ Including why you put in \ instead of / you DOS-loving moron? \_ What's wrong with DOS? And why claim his error has anything to do with DOS? The world was built on DOS, not unix, not windows, not macintosh. You're probably too young to know that. \_ Yeah right, the world revolves around desktop computers? I dont *think* so. If DOS was involved in the worlds construction, it was in SPITE of DOS. \_ stupid flames deleted \_ Adaptec EasyCD, which comes with most CD-R/RWs. Very simple and intuitive to use, yet powerful. I haven't tried other programs, but I have zero complaints about Adaptec. \_ CDRWin lets you copy Playstation games \_ How about Disc Juggler? Nero? Gear? NTI CD-Maker? \_ I use xcdroast. It works great. http://www.fh-muenchen.de/home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_xcdroast.html |
1998/12/15 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/SW] UID:15086 Activity:nil |
12/15 How do I duplicate a VCD? Can I just copy the file structure? \_ If you want just the mpeg, copy the .dat files from x:\mpegav |
1998/12/2-6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15054 Activity:nil |
12/1 Anyone know where I can get some info about connecting Iomega ZIP drives to a linux/freebsd box? \_ Is it SCSI? Then it's like any other SCSI disk. Is it parallel? Then, it's still a (slow) SCSI disk, in linux at least. See /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ppa -lim \_ FreeBSD 3.0 has built in support for parallel zip disks, again using a slow scsi driver. See the kernal docs for more info. -seidl |
1998/11/25-29 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15028 Activity:nil |
11/25 Whoo hoo! Dragon's Lair out on DVD. The ultimate in mindless fun. \_ do you mean "DVD for computer", or is there somehow a way to play it on a "regular" DVD player? \_ there's two versions, one for dvd players and one for dvd-rom for computers. they're essentially the same, with the former using your remote's joystick and select buttons for gameplay. (btw, some dvd movies include simple games as extras) |
1998/11/24-26 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:15017 Activity:low |
11/23 Are SCSI 2 and UltraSCSI compatible? Thanks. \_ All SCSI standards are fowward and backward compatible. It's just pin configurations that are different, requiring (expensive) adapters. \_ So can I connect a device with a 50-pin port to a SCSI controller card with a 68-pin port, assuming a 50<-->68 pin cable exists? \_ yes. \_ look to http://www.adaptec.com for faq on mixing older scsi with U. \_ I am told an exception to this is Ultra2 (LVD). --dim |
1998/11/15-16 [Computer/HW/Drives, Consumer/TV] UID:14960 Activity:nil |
11/13 http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/02/rewritable.idg Why you don't want to buy a writeable DVD drive |
1998/11/6-8 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14920 Activity:moderate |
11/5 anyone know of a good source of info on hardware raid...in other words i have 4 uw sca drives that id like to stick in an external cabinet so that they act like one big fast 68 pin drive level 0 is all that is desired...-mrehrer \_ Uh... I believe raid0 is a mirror. You mean raid1? A single contiguous non-striped block? Why would you want to do this? You're 4 times as likely to lose all your data due to disk failure and you don't get _any_ performance benefits. What are you trying to do? \_ RAID 0 is striping. Why would you do this in the hardware? Many OSes support this in the OS (e.g. NT and HP-UX). If you want hardware RAID then you'll have to buy some more hardware (controller at the least). --dim \_It would be reasonable to assume that what i asked for is actually what i wanted....the reason that i said i i wanted hw to do the striping is because the devices i have are sca 80 pin drives which i had originally intended to use with 80->68 pin adapters but have had very limited success with the adapters i have a sw striper but hw would be better....im not worried about losing data i realize the inherent instability in level 0....-mrehrer \_ Dude, don't fuck with dim. He knows what you want to do better than _you_ do. He has the biggest penis on soda, and he's ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!1! \_ Question rephrased: I have 4 80-pin drives that aren't working well on my Mac. I'd like to pop them in an enclosure with a 68-pin connector on it and connect *that* to my Mac. It is also desirable to stripe the disks if I can for performance reasons. What are my options? \_ you can put those 80 pin drives (likely they are sca or single connector a-a-a-a) in a 68 pin scsi chain with an adaptor available from places like central computer. these adaptors provide data, power, and pinouts for scsiid,term,spinonpower,blah blah. they go for like 20 bucks or so. You can also try finding an box with an sca backplane which is cooler but I am not sure on cost. Striping can be done from a hardware card but striping can also be done from software (linux/solaris/*BSD/Irix/others have software that can stripe multiple disks into one logical unit) last i looked, such software is still an add-on cost for macs. Note that in a simple stripe, one disk will take out the entire set of disks in the stripe. If this is jsut for scratch space say for editing stuff thats get saved to more reliable media later, this is fine. |
1998/10/15-16 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14781 Activity:high |
10/15 Do hardware raid drivers exist for linux yet? url, if available (yes, I can search, but Im lazee :) ) \_ http://www.redhat.com \_ boy, looks like you are lazy too; i was looking for something a little more specific :) \_ then go to http://www.redhat.com and SHUT THE FUCK UP \_ http://linas.org/linux/raid.html But this may not be exactly what you are looking for. -- jsjacob \_ This is a nice start. Thanks! \_ I would think it would depend on WHICH HARDWARE you were using. \_ If the RAID implemntation is truly in hardware, shouldn't the linux machine be able to access it as just a regular scsi disk? \_ I was referring to those PCI RAID cards ive seen around. That is hardware raid, but you will need drivers for those. Also, even if it is an external hw raid, you might have some problems. For example, you can't boot a solaris box off an _external_ hw raid (well, atleast the ones Ive got). Once you get by the boot, then, yes, a hw raid drive should just look like a scsi device. |
1998/9/5-7 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14551 Activity:high |
9/5 2001: HAL = IBM - 111 \_ Uhm... duh. \_ oh boy you're the first person who ever noticed that. \_ Martin Gardner's _Mathematical Circus_, published in 1979, and containing columns written prior to that year, mentions this fact on p. 110; "Clarke has since assured me that it was totally accidental, and that he was astounded when the shift was first called to his attention." -- schoen \_ not surprising considering Clarke is a fucking idiot. \_ fine, let's see YOU manage to live in Sri Lanka, you ugly player-hater. \_ Dumbshit, all the Sri Lankans have managed _that_ entirely unamazing feat for centuries. What makes AC Clarke such a fucking wonder man for it? They let YOU into Cal? Have the entrance requirements really dropped so low? really dropped so low? He lives in a fucking palace surrounded by guards and servants. Boo hoo. \_ I live in Berkeley, fuck head. Let's see Clarke try *that* for a week! hah! \_ What does HAL stand for? Thanks. \_ Heuristic ALogrithmic Computer \_ Heuristic ALgorithmic Computer |
1998/8/31-9/3 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14529 Activity:kinda low |
8/31 For those who are interested in postal auctions (I recall this being a topic of conversation on wall, some time back), I got a flyer in the mail for the "USPS San Jose District Sealed Bid Sale", happening Sept. 10-12 from 9 AM to 3 PM at 1750 Meridian Ave. in San Jose. Features "surplus computer components and printers, typewriters, chairs, desks, envelopes, filing cabinets, and more!" The computers usually aren't that great (unless you like Unisys 386s), but the other stuff is generally interesting -- last time I was there, I got a laserdisc player for $20. -- kahogan \_ duh, make sure you don't buy a cd drive for yer zip disk \_ DO YOU THINK THEY WILL HAVE ZIP DRIVES. I BOUGHT A ZIP DISK BUT IT CANT GO INSIDE MY FLOPPY SO I NEED A ZIP DRIVE. FRYS WONT TAKE BACK THE DISKS BECAUSE I WROTE ON THE LABEL. WOMBAT \_ duh, make sure you don't buy a cd drive for yer zip disk \_ I think they'll have good chinese food \_ What the hell are you talking about? |
1998/8/20 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14487 Activity:nil |
8/20 I have a RAID with 3 9-gig drives, what is the most disk space i can use while still maintaining redundancy? -crebbs (Yah, i know, RTFM) \_ 18 GB (2 x 9 + "one" parity) is your best bet. |
1998/7/14 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14324 Activity:nil |
07/13 And yet another SCSI panic. Film at 11, to be followed by SCSI CAM patches to fix the problem. (But at least quotas got 'fixed' by resetting everyone's higher!) \_ What this means is that soda will be rebooted (intentionally) on July 15th. Be aware, be prepared. Duck and cover. |
1998/6/15-18 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14216 Activity:low |
6/12 What's a reasonable amount to pay for a Thinkpad 770-1AU (14"), with 160 meg of ram, 5.1 gb disk, and a DVD? -phr \_ phr is a rich spoiled bastard. Everytime he posts he's always selling some of his old shit (which happen to be REALLY good for most of us out there) or he's getting the latest/greatest toy. Fuckin' rich bastard. \_ Oh shutup you whiney little dirt eating school boy and go get a job. -not phr \_ wow, a computer that outperforms every computer at Soda Hall combined. \_ I've got a p-90. Same category. \_ I'd like to ask you: Who needs 160 megs of RAM on a LAP TOP?! Running multiuser environment? On your LAP TOP? \_ No, you need that just to run Windoze 98. \_ You need to be able to load multiple porn images while on BART to pass the time. |
1998/6/12-17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14211 Activity:nil |
6/12 Which Brand/Model SCSI HD @ 18.xGB is most reliable? \_ You don't have many choices and they haven't existed long enough to say. They're all being built by dollar a week near-slave labor in Burma. What quality? |
1998/6/2-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14163 Activity:kinda low |
6/2 I'm looking for information on cassette tape to CD replicators. I have some old deteriorating audio tapes that I would like to burn it into a audio CD. Anyone with information on such a machine? Thanks a lot. \_ buy CD-R drive ($400). Plug your stereo into the audio-in of your computer. Record tape using free software. Make CD. -tom \_ a cheap CD-R could be had for $250 or so nowadays, EIDE though. \_ Thanks, but I'm looking for something that I can put in a tape and a CD and it'll burn automatically. I'm making the CDs in high volume. It's educational audio tapes, not for music piracy. |_ So you're saying educational piracy is okay, but music piracy is bad? Anyways, like the next guy implies, Make a good "master" copy by hand, then just buy a 1->6 CD replicator machine. \_ after you have the audio image on disk, you can burn as many CD's as you want without having to record the tape again. I personally think this is _way_ better than a cassette tape to CD replicator idea since your cassette will wear out during replication especially you want _high volume_ unless the machine stores the audio data somewhere during replication. Of course CD-R is not going to be high volume. You might want some professional help if you really need the volume, or you could pay a couple hundred thousand dollars for your own CD-stamping machines. <g> \_ Yeah whatever, pirate. \_ Hey can I borrow/rent your burner when you're done? -- KopyKat |
1998/5/29-30 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14154 Activity:very high 58%like:14150 |
5/29 Almost new DELL Inspiron Laptop. 266MHz, 80MB, 8GB, 14" Active Matrix. 20X CD, 56K modem + 10/100 Ethernet. Carrying case inc. Asking $2.5k. Mail ari for details. \_ Good system. Seriously now, why are you selling it, filthy rich boy? \_ he's only rich because he cheats on his taxes \_ Only has a 20x cdrom. I won't do with any less than 32x. -ari \_ shut the )(#$#. 20X, 32X, same difference, CDROM is only used for install and seeing VCD/MPEG/pictures. \_ I put all my d/l'ed gay porn on CD and reload them over n over from my favorites collection. -ari \_ Selling because I bought 2...one for my brother and he is not using his. --ari |
1998/5/7-8 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14066 Activity:low |
5/6 Hi, I'm building my own Linux server from scratch. Can someone tell me what the approximate performance gain I would get by using two SCSI drives (one for kernel/binary/swap, the other one for user only) versus two EIDE-4 drives? There is a pretty sizable price gap. THANKS. \_ post to ucb.os.linux for access to clueful opinions \_ Serving what? With only two drives SCSI will most likely not gain enough of a performance advantage to justify the cost, unless you get 10000 rpm Ultra drives on a fast SCSI card or something. That said, I always buy SCSI for the flexibility it affords. EIDE is an icky PC hack. -dim \_ RAID! (And yes EIDE is an icky hack but its ok for home) \_ I'm serving a heavy load web server (10000 hits per day) with \_ that is NOT a heavy load - that's less than 1/second - a 286 can serve that web load (might need a 486 for the cgi load) heavy CGI-scripting and Postgres. APPROXIMATELY what is the ball park performance gain I would get from SCSI vs. EIDE? THANKS \_ That's going to depend on which drives you are comparing, which will matter much more than SCSI vs. EIDE. --dim \_ DUUUDE! SEAGATE ELITE 23!!! 23 GIGS OF PURE P0WER!!! \_ Since SCSI can be better pipelined much easier, and does not load the CPU when accessing data, it is probably much more effective for a server machine. For personal use, where most of the time you are only doing one thing at a time, it doesn't make a difference. \_ though if you want to multi boot, EIDE has really fucking annoying limits on what cylinders it can boot from. just pay for the scsi. you'll be happier \_ DUUUDE! I MULTIBOOT WIN95, WIN98 BETA, WINNT 351, WINNT4 WORKSTATION, NT4 SERVER, OS2/ WARP, OS2 MERLIN, MSDOS 6.2, NT5 BETA1 SERVER AND WORKSTATION, BEOS, LINUX, FREEBSD, SOLARIS X86, RHAPSODY BETA 0, CMS, CVS, VMS, AND THE S000PER SECRET PENTAGON CREATED ULTIMAX OS!!!!! DUUUDE!!!! I USE EIDE!!!! IT REWLZ!!!!! \_ D00D!!1 You forgot the super-secret beta of PhotoshopOS -- Coming soon! -- kahogan \_ D00EWDE!@!! IT WAS S0 SECRET I DIDNT WANNA BE KILLED FOR SAYING IT EXISTED!@!!! BUT I INSTALLED THAT FIRST! |
1998/5/4-5 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:14045 Activity:very high |
5/4 I've landed a sparc 5. I need disk (SCA Interface SCSI) and mem. Is there anything lying around the office or does anyone want to unload such stuff for a reasonable price? Pls post email addr. \_ you idiot. why not just put your email addr so that people can mail you about it? i have sparc stuff but you are so dumb that i'm not going to leave my name and help you out. \_ You're so smart! You must make your mother proud. Your unique lack of capacity to attempt understanding someone else's perspective before opening your most wise mouth will prove to be a valuble asset to you someday. However, it's the people like you that make the cutest little surprisie faces when I kill them. \_ "someone else's perspective"? He wants help, so he should post his address. Makes sense to me. I don't think that somebody's going to stalk him via the net so they can do a home-invasion robbery to heist a Sparc 5. \_ How well does it fly? \_ Learn to speeel SPARC \_ I'm sorry. Shitty performance for the price, shitty operating system - talk about insult to injury. \_ price = $0.00... that means good performance for the price if I use it as an ironing board. \_ and you don't hae to run a SUN Operating system. My sparc5 hasn't crashed at all since I put netbsd on it. -ERic hasn't crashed at all since I put netbsd on it, while memory panics were a regular thing under sunos4.1.1. -ERic \_ what a surprise, an antiquated OS crashes. Sun should just go out of business and everyone can run netbsd. |
1998/4/17 [Industry/Jobs, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:13979 Activity:high |
4/17 Heard my boss said something like "tech skill is petty skill". Is that true? \_ To some extent. You can go to ITT Technical or Devry and learn very specific skills, and to a lot of management and upper level people they will not know any difference. So the answer is-- yes and no. \_ Meaning what? People who install memory and disk drives? Yes. People who write new apps in <insert language here>, do real sysadmin work, or design hardware? No. \_ I heard a similar comment saying techies were "unskilled" I don't think he was referring to disk drive installers tho. Corporate management does not respect tech workers (in general) That's why they whine about the shortage on one hand and then threaten to fire/lay you off if you don't put in 50-60 hour weeks. \_ Heard _my_ boss say something like "people who troll the soda motd hoping to generate massive flames by making random derogatory comments about tech workers suck." Is that true? \_ _MY_ boss asked me what my biggest flaw was. I stood up, unzipped my pants, and said "Obviously, it's not the size of my dick" |
1998/3/31 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:13874 Activity:nil |
3/30 Change of seasons, time to sell my computer again. 3 months old computer with ALL the goods. $1950 or BEST offer, must sell to upgrade. AMD K6, 83MHz bus, 64 SDRAM, 4.3 GB HD, Panasonic DVD Drive /w DECODER CARD, Toshiba 32X CD, Sound Blaster 64, ATI All-in-Wonder /w TV, etc., 33.6 f/v/m, CCD full motion camera .05 lux /w built in mic and 60 feet cable. 15" digital control monitor, subwoofer speaker sys, softwares: office, graphics, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Deluxe, MP3 stuff, etc....and much more. offers? -hitran \_ I suggest you try the newspapers or online in an auction or something. The cpu is junk, the HD is small by current consumer \_ Yeah, man. I sure as hell wouldn't be caught dead using a computer w/ a K6 . . . Boy, oh boy, do they suck. Uh-huh. \_ Yes, they do. Anything else? Other than being "cheap", is there anything else that can be said for this clunker? standards, the ATI is junk, 15" monitors are for kids who still have good vision but won't have $2k, SB64 is nothing to crow about, and you've overclocked the bus so this system may go anytime now. DVD is overpriced and mostly useless technology this year. \_ Do you do door-to-door delivery out of the back of your white van? |
1998/3/19-20 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:13838 Activity:low |
3/18 Does anyone have Win3.1 install disks? I only need the last disk (disk 6). I actually have a legit win3.1, but somehow lost the last disk. Thanks -acheng \_ No, I don't but why do you need win3.1? -curious. \_ Spare 486--wanted to use it for an answering machine. I put win95 on it now, and it runs fine. |
1998/3/16-17 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:13815 Activity:very high |
3/17 Hello, I am looking for suggestions about two things: 1. what is a good CD-R to get. Price [as long as we are still in the commercial electronics and not $10000 range] is not important, I would like it to write fast [4x is best consumer speed?], not break [so willing to pay for name brand using good components], easy to use [good software ... unix and windows?], and i suppose it woul dbe nice to have multi-write capacity. \_ Smart @ Friendly CD-R 4006 Deluxe (SCSI) I have it and really love it. I can even record 4x off an EIDE HD, which almost noone recommends doing. Lots of Adaptec software which is unparalleled. Yes, it has multi-write capabilities (even software that treats it as a writeable disk drive) \-is this the one that is about $600? i saw this at a certain unnamed unhelpful southbay consumer electronics store but had never heard of S&F ... are they actually repuatable company? --psb 2. is there a decent book on windows for a total windows illiterate. and i mean total. on the other hand i dont need to have general computer concepts like the difference between files and memory \_ You shall be crushed, your bloody, battered bones fed to \_ psb, u shall be crushed, your bloody, battered bones fed to explained to me. in fact ideally it would mention design issues [like does windows9# mmap ... not looking for programming reference but would like to be abel to analyze design of a system]. --psb \_ PSB, why don't you fuckin' stop rambling. \_ you shall be crushed, your bloody, battered bones fed to just punishment for crossing the path of His Holiness, the psb. -psb #1 Fan by a plague beggarman. This shall be your righteous and just punishment for being a superficial FUCKHEAD. \_ psb shall be crushed, your bloody, battered bones fed to \_ You shall be crushed, your bloody, battered bones fed to wild dogs, the dogs trampled by elephants, their mashed carcasses fed to wild pigs, the pigs shall be speared lengthwise, left to rot in the burning sun for half a month, whereupon their festering remains shall be burned, the ashes dumped over the lip of a raving volcano, carried by a plagued beggarman. This shall be your righteous and just punishment for being opposed to the will of the psb psb forever. -psb #1 Fan just punishment for being opposed to the will of the antipsb and lacking sufficient intellect or imagination to do anything more "clever" and lacking sufficient intellect or imagination to do anything more "clever" than edit someone else's motd entry. \_ Go psb -psb fan #4 |
1998/1/29-30 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:13592 Activity:very high |
1/29 Expand your warez collection now! Blank CD-R's for $1/each at Costco until 1/31/98! (You buy 10-pack for $30, then get $20 rebate by mail, limit $60 max rebate per person/address.) \_ Yeah but the CD ROM drives are still expensive!!! \_ This is great news, but where do I get the warez from in the first place??!?! \_ Buy one, dupe, return for store credit, repeat |
1997/4/25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:32133 Activity:nil |
4/24 "Remember, SCSI is not black magic. There are fundamental technical reasons why it is necessary to sacrifice a goat at midnight in order to get a SCSI device working properly." --galactus@htmlhelp.com \_ maybe it's hard for people who don't understand the concept of a unique scsi id for each device \_ Um, speaking for those who actually have experienced SCSI chains that work _only_ when hooked up "incorrectly", SCSI voodoo *does* exist --dbushong |
1997/3/24-28 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:32101 Activity:high 61%like:32110 |
3/21 Internal Jaz drive for sale $300 - daveh \_ that sounds rather high. \_ retail price is $399 \_ Egghead software had an external Jaz with a 1 GB hard drive bundled for $550, last week. --pcjr \_dont you mean 1gb disk? a 1gb disk is normally included anyway perhaps this means 1 EXTRA disk as well. \_ No, I mean, a 1.3 GB Western Digital hard drive, special limited time rebate offer, expired on 4/19/97. --pcjr \_WD drives suck. Buy Quantum. \_ Isn't that a bit expensive? Especially for posting every day? \_ does it come with any drives? How many? \_dave isn't answering any questions. looks like an "as is" sorta rip off deal. dave-- figure it out: no one wants it. |
1997/1/27 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:32041 Activity:nil |
1/27 System Commander (running multiple OS's on PCs): Pros and cons, anyone? \_ works pretty good for me, though it seems to confuse boot disks of a different type ( i.e. booting off of scsi disks when ide's are installed). -ERic \_ Serves ya right then :) thanks! |
1996/10/29 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31969 Activity:nil |
10/29 I am having a problem with my computer Hard Drive and was wondering if any of you can help. \_ [long shit deleted] just fucking take yer computer to any repair shop and stop whining. |
1996/10/28 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/OsX, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31960 Activity:nil |
10/27 Is there a way to read Macintosh formatted disks on a PC using win95 or NT? \_ http://www.bmug.org |
1996/6/30 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31860 Activity:nil |
6/28 CompUSA is selling 1.2 Gig IDE hard drives for $129 or 1.6 Gig for $179. (The 1.6 Gig is a Conner Disk-Stor drive; I dunno about the 1.2 drive.) Are these good deals? Has anyone found even cheaper prices? Like at Fry's? \_ Personally, I don't think one will ever get an outstanding deal on a hard drive anymore...like audio cdrom players. if you need one, buy the best deal you see one weekend. -jor \_ If you need it now, buy it now, if you can wait it'll always be cheaper next week. -reiffin \_ That's a good price, imho, even for crappy EIDE drives. --dim \_ I'd rather get one at CompUSA than at fries. At least if you want to return it you don't have only a month. |
1995/3/6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31785 Activity:nil |
3/5 If the disks continue to be this full, I'm going to declare /usr10 "tested" and start moving large accounts there. If you would like to move to /usr10 voluntarily to free up disk elsewhere, mail root. (/usr10 has much room, but has been known to crash) |
1995/1/16-21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31702 Activity:high |
1/14 Tentative soda disk policy: Disk hozers' accounts will be moved to /usr10 without warning if their partition fills up. You are considered a disk hozer if your cumulative disk usage over 7 days is 4.0 standard deviations away from the mean disk usage on your partition. Finger protoX (where X is your partition #) for info. |
1994/2/14 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31483 Activity:nil |
2/13 What's the deal with the "file system full" messages that we've been getting. Not to sound ungrateful for the privelege to use Soda, but isn't there some dead weight we can get off the drives? \_ How about shuffling some of the accounts around to evenly distribute the space? \_ dead weight? sure, what's yer account? as you may have noticed (probably not), they're all about equally full. \_ Donate to the CSUA Hardware Fund and we'll get more disk. \_ Murphy's laws of disk usage: disk wastage will constantly increase to fill all available disk. \_ how many users does soda have? say 100(?? complete guess) if each person donates 10 bucks then we can afford a 1GB drive!!! I would be willing to donate 10 bucks |
1993/6/17 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/SW] UID:31364 Activity:nil |
6/16 Soda crashed due to a slew of disk errors. It's back up, but, especially if your account is on /usr5, files might be missing. If its important, back it up -- elsewhere! -ERic |
1993/6/4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31349 Activity:nil |
6/4 I'm in the market for a new hard-drive (probably IDE but possibly SCSI) What are some good places to start looking? Email davesimp@soda. \_ Computer currents. Hard drive prices are dropping like flies. \_ If you're interested in used drives, I've got 8 200M disks, and one 1.5 gig disk. |
1993/6/4 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31346 Activity:nil |
6/5 TOP TEN DISK WARRIORS 51351 mehlhaff (usr4) 27258 eshieh (usr3) 45694 norby (usr3) 25034 psb (usr3) 40364 genki (usr4) 20730 hh (usr4) 30195 youngc (usr3) 18331 kenji (usr4) 27967 scheng (usr3) 19909 dpassage (usr3) Total Usage: 308938 kbytes That's 3 elites (mehlhaff, hh & dpassage), one person who has already lost his soda account once for disk usage (norby) and psb (psb). Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/zd1a 762464 674865 11352 98% /usr2 /dev/zd3a 762464 665213 21004 97% /usr3 /dev/zd2a 762464 667531 18686 97% /usr5 Please note that /tmp is a 356M partition. Inefficient? yes. \_ And whaddaya know...most of the pace there is controlled by the elites too, like mehlhaff, seidl, hh, root.boyd and psb. Where the fuck do they get off asking us to reduce our usages when they're using shits of space for their own little pet projects. |
1993/4/1 [Transportation/Car, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31242 Activity:nil |
4/1 | FBI Raid CSUA Office!!!! See http://ucb.org.csua for more info | \_ Over 70 undergraduate CS students arrested on various charges | of piracy, conspiracy, and electronic theft! List available | later tonight. CSUA is starting a bail drive for them. Send | money to hob@soda, official bail treasurer and csua vacation manager. | |
1993/3/17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:31232 Activity:nil |
3/15 I have a CD player with a slight tracking problem (you can make it better or worse simply by shaking the machine) Anyone who can re-align it slightly correctly gets a free dinner... -- Marco \_ I'll fix it only if you agree to spend one night with me! \_ JEAN!!!!!! \_ no, that was cgd. \_ sorry, not only am i `hopelessly' straight, but my girlfriend would be *rather* jealous. -- cgd \_ That's not what _she_ said... \_ jealous? I'll bet. You're the only one that would go out with her... \_ So what's your answer Marco? Do you REALLY need to know my gender to spend a night with me? I am equally attracted to men and women... \_ Fix the CD player first. Then work it out with Jean. -- Marco |
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