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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? |
| 11/23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11/23 |