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  1. I have a VIA M10000 with 1GHz C3 Nehemiah (I'm currently logged on from this machine). It will playback MPEGs well using the onboard hardware decoder. I don't know about other formats which can't use hardware decoding. It also has onboard 5.1 surround sound. I only have two speakers so I haven't tried that out either. The hardware 3D is not particularly powerful (forget 3D games) but the 2D acceleration is good. You have a choice of RGB, composite, or S-video out. Peripherals include 10/100Mbps ethernet, six USB2.0 ports, 2 firewire ports, two serial ports, parallel port, 2x ide UDMA 133, floppy, and one PCI slot, just to mention a few.

     

    Glitz.

  2. My main machine:

    ABIT BP6 with dual Celeron 433MHz processors

    384MB ram

    ASUS GeForce 3

    4.5GB scsi UW, 7GB eide, 40GB UDMA 66(100) hard drives

    Adaptec 2940U2W scsi card

    Linksys Etherfast 10/100Mbps ethernet card

    SB AWE32 ISA sound card

    WACOM graphire graphics tablet

    UltraPlex 32x ultra scsi CDROM, PlexWriter 16/10/40A ide CDRW, Sony (something or another) DVD rom

    Viewsonic P775 17" monitor

    LM8.1, win98 (for those pesky windows only programs)

     

     

    Car PC (still under construction):

    VIA M10000 with C3 Nehemiah 1GHz processor

    256MB ram

    1GB ide hard drive

    Cute little 145W ATX power supply

    12V to 120V, 75W inverter

    Tons of onboard peripherals

    LM9.1 for testing (I'm currently logged on from this machine)

     

     

    Server:

    Old Pentium 100MHz

    48MB ram

    1GB fast scsi hard drive

    Adaptec 2940 scsi card

    ATI Mach64 (for when it needs major servicing :wink: )

    HP Laserjet 3 (for those really big printing jobs)

    2x Linksys etherfast 10/100Mbps ethernet cards hardwired to use PCI interrupts B and C (motherboard has pre V2.0 PCI slots)

    Creative 52x CDROM

    LM8.1

     

     

    Glitz.

  3. Seriously I'm sad, because mandrakesoft does not carefully test its packages. I have talked to lot of people who emphasize that if debian is being shiped with mdk install tools, it would be the world most powerful Linux package, is not it?  

     

    That's why there are beta and release candidates. So that they get tested before the final release.

     

    Debian is stable because the software packages get tested over the course of years. This has the advantage of producing a stable system and the disadvantage of having older versions of programs. That is the tradeoff.

     

    Glitz.

  4. A guy I knew developed just such a keyboard back in 1990. I believe it was originally an undergrad project. I tried it out back then and couldn't believe how easy it was to use. Within 5 minutes I was just typing away with one hand. Although I never tried it out for a long term period it could even be useful for those who aren't disabled. You can type away with the left hand and operate the mouse with your right hand. I don't do a lot of word processing so I really couldn't tell you if this is useful or not for that sort of thing but it might be.

     

    Glitz.

  5. :roll: 

     

    they are thick

     

    No, it's quite sound businesswise. Raise the hype, get the stocks to go up, maybe get a few foolish people to buy licenses and then sell, sell, sell... Make it look like you're innocent by loosing the court case and retire wealthy...or move on to the next company that is in financial difficulty and do it again.

     

    Glitz.

  6. All I did was use what came with the LM8.1 powerpack edition. I configured a minimal system with icewm light (I think that's what it's called) and a few apps from the CDs. I basically have Bastille as a firewall. Going through the bastille-interactive setup program configured the firewall and internet sharing stuff. I also have SAMBA for windows print sharing and KUPS for linux print sharing. I use SWAT to set up SAMBA and the KUPS configuration program (I forget what it's called) to set up KUPS.

     

    That's it.

     

    Glitz.

     

    PS. Oh, and I also have the SSH server installed on it so I can administer the machine from my room (the server is in the basement).

  7. Have a look around. There are (were) ruggedized cameras that are water resistant and pretty sturdy. I don't know if they are any good in terms of picture quality though. I know that Kodak made one.

     

    At any rate, if you can't find a ruggedized one, then go for something compact that you can put in your pocket. The smaller and smoother the case, the less likely it is to get damaged and the easier it is to keep it away from the elements.

     

    Glitz.

  8. As i said  "Because of TCPA and Palladium"

     

    I will not want to buy new hardware when Fritz chips have started being used

     

    For more Info: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

     

    Well, that may or may not happen and it certainly wont appear overnight. I'm sure you'll have plenty of warning and lots of time to get a new motherboard at that point in time (if it ever happens). It will be a gradual introduction at best and there will be losts of inventory to get rid of.

     

    Glitz.

  9. It started showing its age after three years and after the fourth year it was obsolete.

     

    3-4years not at all bad for a PC. Personnally the last new PC I had was a 200MMX, this has evolved in a series of small steps to what it is now (1.3GHz Athlon). Components being replaced whenever there was a really good special offer. :)

     

    It is bad considering I paid about $6000CDN for the system. I could probably have gotten a system that was almost as good for about $3000. Up until that point my systems have lasted for about 6-7 years at a time.

     

    Glitz.

  10. Here is the 9.1 download link I have

     

    http://mandrakeusers.com/Mandrake/stable/

     

    and the files

     

    Mandrake91-cd1-ext.i586.iso  17-Mar-2003 17:43  650M

    Mandrake91-cd1-i18n.i586.iso 17-Mar-2003 17:41  650M

    Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso 20-Jul-2003 18:57  651M

    Mandrake91-cd2-ext.i586.iso  20-Jul-2003 18:58  650M

    Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso 20-Jul-2003 17:10  650M

    md5sums.91.asc            19-Aug-2003 09:56  424   

     

    lokks like different versions of the same CD's ?

    or should I be downloading the ones from the 20th ?

     

    Download the three CDs from the 20th. I don't know what the March 17th ones are about but they seem to be earlier versions of the last two CDs.

     

    Glitz.

     

    PS. Maybe you should try installing in expert mode. I had no problems installing 9.1rc1 that way. Okay, well there were some problems but not the one you mentioned.

  11. Well, you know, I tried that once. I bought a brand spanking new 90MHz pentium back in '94 with top of the line scsi system and video card. It had a 520MB hard drive and it cost a fortune. I thought this should last a while. It started showing its age after three years and after the fourth year it was obsolete.

     

    I now believe that it is better to spend half the price and get 80% of the performance and upgrade more often (not a complete new system, just what needs upgrading). I think this is cheaper in the long run and you probably wont miss the missing 20% in performance. Halfway through the life of a top of the line model your performance will be only 60% of a newer top of the line model (or 20% less than the half price system) anyway.

     

    Glitz.

  12. Have you by any chance done something to change from 75dpi fonts to 100dpi fonts or vice versa? This always happens to me when I go from 75dpi to 100dpi fonts. I always have to pick new fonts since they don't have all fonts in common.

     

    At any rate, you should be able to find new good looking fonts. When selecting fonts, enlarge them to 64 points and make sure the edges are smooth. These are the scalable fonts that look good with antialiasing on.

     

    Glitz.

  13. Check to make sure the user NUMBER and group NUMBER are the same on both systems. The system will take a user name and look up the number assigned to that name. The same for the group, although the groups are more standardized. Therefore, you may be james on both systems but on one system james may map to user 501 whereas james on the second system may map to user 1001.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Glitz.

  14. Name brand burners may be better now but I had three HP burners die on me. The first an HP4040i went after 0.5 years. The second an HP6060i (futureshop replaced the HP4040i under warrantee) went after another year or so. And the third, an HP7200 (futureshop replaced the HP6060i under warrantee as well) went after about 2.5 years. I do not burn a lot of CDs. In that time I only burnt about 25 CDs total for all three. I then bought a Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A and haven't had any problems since (>3 years). And I've burnt many more CDs with the Plextor than the HPs combined.

     

    The funny thing is that the HPs all still write CDs perfectly. They only fail when reading CDs (any CDs). The CDRs I produced after they stopped reading properly work fine in other CDROMs and CDRWs.

     

    Glitz.

  15. What I meant was when you degauss it has to go somewhere.  It should go down the earth into the power strip and then out through the trailer earth.  However if the trailer earth is faulty (along with the other stuff that was faulty) your pushing thousands of volts through your video lead into the graphics card and your system board. 

    Since you said you had the wavy monitor I thought there was a good chance this happened, did the electric guy check the earth when he checked the rest?

     

    No. Degaussing is the process of removing any existing magnetic field on the shadow mask of a monitor. It has nothing to do with static electricity, super high voltages, or even high currents. A coil around the shadow mask is energized with an AC current starting at a large voltage that is gradually reduced to zero over many cycles. This removes the magnetic field on the shadow mask and prevents any residual magnetic field from forming due to hysteresis of the shadow mask material.

     

    Besides, a thousand volts applied to your graphics card would not cause "wavy" lines. It would cause a complete failure of the graphics card and possibly your motherboard too.

     

    Make sure you don't have anything near the monitor that causes magnetic fields (speakers, dehumidifiers, computer power supplies, other monitors, etc...) A friend of mine tracked a similar problem down to a dehumidifier that was placed on the other side of the wall (in another room) right opposite the monitor. If no such sources are present then suspect the monitor itself.

     

    Good luck!

     

    Glitz.

     

    PS. Make sure the video timings are within the monitors specs as well. Timings that are slightly out of spec can cause weird things to happen to the display.

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