[geek] Wot should I do with my bocks?
Ron Clark
<snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm going to nuke my old broken WinME installation
>(no System CD), which is still in splendid isolation on its own HDD,
>and install Win2K Pro instead.
A very sound move.
That's a really stable platform
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Rugrat
> Is it better to keep both OSes on one HDD with swap and data on t'other,
> or would you run each OS on its own HDD?
Ida gooved that it'd be better to keep the OSs on the same drive, cos you
don't use 'em both at once and hence don't lose any performance by it.
Rugrat
Henriette Kress
> I'm thimking of nuking the lot, just for the sake of getting a halfway
> frafvoyr partition/directory structure in there. So, the question is:-
> Is it better to keep both OSes on one HDD with swap and data on t'other,
> or would you run each OS on its own HDD? Wot would be a frafvohyr
> partitioning scheme? Any gotchers?
Gotcha: if you want to use data under both, you'll have to partition and
format under windows (fdisk c: ... reboot ... reboot ... reboot ... format
c:). If you format under linux as vfat chances are, your data is gone
after you put it there under windows, changed something or other in one or
the other file under linux, and went back to windows. *poof*.
Something with windows' vfat partitions requiring some starting sectors on
their own, which linux doesn't reserve unless you explicitly tell it to.
Gotcha: install windows first, then add linux on top. Or at least, that's
the sequence using SuSE. Also, put windows on the master HD, it can't
handle being on a slave.
Gotcha: if you decide to chuck your windows partition into the wind, and
resize the partitions to make more room as reiserfs, or ext3 (linux file
system formats - real space savers, compared to vfat!), and then change
your mind later on because your laptop doesn't speak linux or something
(so you can't comfortably pull files from it to your main machine), you
can't delete the new ex-linux partition and add it to the old windows
partition - you have to reformat (fdisk, format) it as vfat under windows
(or dos, really).
Gotcha on the linux partition: ext3 started to tell me fairly soon that it
was too fragmented - but despite google advice to the contrary, e2fsck
didn't do squat. So I remolished it into a reiserfs partition instead -
reiserfs hasn't caused me any troubles yet.
I think that's all the hdd partitioning gotchas I've run into so far.
But: if your trouble is you want to use some windows program or other,
using win4lin is a rather good idea. It pbfgf 99 uszbarl, and runs things
like omnipro8, photoshop6, m$office, paradox8 etc. It doesn't run
graphics-intensive games (it's an emulation, low-level access to graphics
cards is right out). It's far less crash-prone than native windows, but it
is a tad slower. Windows still crashes, but when it does it's a matter of
seconds to get it back up in its little window on your screen.
Hetta (samba. One of these years, I'll install samba, and then I'll have a
singleboot machine.)
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Rugrat
> Gotcha: install windows first, then add linux on top. Or at least, that's
> the sequence using SuSE.
I understand it's possible to do it both ways, but as you describe is easier
(with all Linuxes) cos otherwise Windows stomps all over Linux's boot
sector. When you install Linux over Windows, it just adds Windows into yer
Lilo starting options.
> your laptop doesn't speak linux or something (so you can't comfortably
> pull files from it to your main machine),
Samba.
> Gotcha on the linux partition: ext3 started to tell me fairly soon that it
> was too fragmented - but despite google advice to the contrary, e2fsck
> didn't do squat.
Shirley e2fsck is for ext2? Or does it jbex on ext3 taaw? I gooved neither
of them needed defragmenting anyway.
> But: if your trouble is you want to use some windows program or other,
> using win4lin is a rather good idea. It pbfgf 99 uszbarl,
Might be worth seeing if free Wine can do what you want first - I hear
they've been doing quite well with it. But if not, there are commercial
ones as Hetta said - another option is Crossover, which is Codeweavers'
version of Wine+otherstuff. I use it, and it jbexes very well for MS
Orifice and IE (for wibble-testing porpoises). It cost me about twenty
zbarlunits (I goove) with a student discount.
> It's far less crash-prone than native windows, but it is a tad slower.
I haven't ever had Crossover crash. It seems very quick, but that could be
because I'm using Office 97 on a machine five years more powerful than it
expects.
> samba. One of these years, I'll install samba,
I'm sprised yer SuSe doesn't come with it. In my eggsperience it's dead easy
to get it swerving things - clients aren't so immediately useful, cos most
people use it for running a central file-swerver rather than for browsing
other chamines.
Rugrat
Richard Parker
<snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>'s owl flew in through the window
and dropped a message on which was scribed:
>Ron Clark wrote in message <gheckvott44st3vsu...@4ax.com>
>I bloomin' hope so Ron; it's on your recommendation that I've gone for
>it. As I see it, it's the last version of Win. before XP and I won't
>have that 'un. I intend to become stuck at Win2K pro and only hfr it
>for those things that I can't yet qb on Linux.
>
>Still not keen on Evil MegaCorp.
I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid. I
*will* have to ervafgnyy it soon as the systems are degrading, but
it's been nearly 3 years and thats a good record for M$ OSen.
--
Richard Parker
FROM THE DESK OF
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Auntie Em:
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Taking the dog.
Dorothy
Brain D
Sn!pe <snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Having spent a dozen or so fortnights embracing the Penguin I've
> reluctantly come to the conclusion that I arrq n j*exvat vafgnapr bs
> Jvaqbjf too. (never thought I'd say that...)
>
> That being the case I'm going to nuke my old broken WinME installation
> (no System CD), which is still in splendid isolation on its own HDD,
> and install Win2K Pro instead. At present I have two HDDs, 60 and 80GB,
> with WinME on one and Mandrake Linux on t'other; dual booting with
> LILO.
>
> I'm thimking of nuking the lot, just for the sake of getting a halfway
> frafvoyr partition/directory structure in there. So, the question is:-
> Is it better to keep both OSes on one HDD with swap and data on t'other,
> or would you run each OS on its own HDD? Wot would be a frafvohyr
> partitioning scheme? Any gotchers?
I've used multiboot for several years. W2000 seems to be the best of
billyware. I've had SuSE penguin and w2000.w98 and w95 as multiboot with the
oses spanning hard drives.
As the hard drives fill up I've had to replace them. I've found it's much
better to keep an OS on one drive.
I've abandoned w95 (drivers on re-install) and w98 to some extent.
W2000 seems stable, and co-exists fine wiv penguin. I'd keep them on separate
drives (apart from swap??) thobut.
W98 survived changing drives (nearly). W2000 produced a major (halt) error
but survived a re-installation. Penguin just worked.
If using penguin consider carefully if you want to use NTFS as it's only
guaranteed read only in pengwyn.
--
Brain D
Rusty Hinge
from Sn!pe <snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> I'm thimking of nuking the lot, just for the sake of getting a halfway
> frafvoyr partition/directory structure in there. So, the question is:-
> Is it better to keep both OSes on one HDD with swap and data on t'other,
> or would you run each OS on its own HDD? Wot would be a frafvohyr
> partitioning scheme? Any gotchers?
I have Win 98 on one HDD and Debian on another. Each fits the same
caddy, so in effect I have two bockses.
The disadvantage is that I can't fire them both up without shutting
down, changing drives and rebooting. However, the Windows emulator is
reckoned to jbex quite well in Linux now.
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Rusty Hinge
from Marc Wilson <ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> contains these words:
> Put them in caddies and keep em entirely separate. That's the best
> solution.
Man arter mine own heart.
Brain D
Henriette Kress <spamtra...@spamcop.net> wrote:
Warning on formatting! Linux (at leastSuSE) may re-number partitions
differently to windoze. As sed above put on windoze first. I've had problems
with re-partitioning under linux. partition under DOS or summit like
Partition Magic first. You can format under linux, but don't change the
partitions. YMMV.
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Brain D
Frank Erskine
<brian...@lycos.co.uk> writes
>
>I've used multiboot for several years.
IRTA:- "Billymoot"
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OETKBC
Rugrat
> I've had problems with re-partitioning under linux. partition under DOS or
> summit like Partition Magic first. You can format under linux, but don't
> change the partitions. YMMV.
MMVaLot.
Rugrat
Austin Shackles
<new...@expressive.ltd.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
>I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid. I
>*will* have to ervafgnyy it soon as the systems are degrading, but
>it's been nearly 3 years and thats a good record for M$ OSen.
is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
might contemplate it when I ever get the tuits and ZU for a better chip and
board etc.
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If somebody is watching, stop touching yourself.
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.
Guy King
> I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid.
Is that the last of them that you don't need to register?
Any way round registering XP?
--
Skipweasel:- There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you
want it to.
Guy King
> is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
95 and NT
Ron Clark
<aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
Corse it do. Even me old W98 runs a nub
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Henriette Kress
> Henriette Kress wrote:
>
>> your laptop doesn't speak linux or something (so you can't comfortably
>> pull files from it to your main machine),
>
> Samba.
Now, where's me tuits?
>> Gotcha on the linux partition: ext3 started to tell me fairly soon that it
>> was too fragmented - but despite google advice to the contrary, e2fsck
>> didn't do squat.
>
> Shirley e2fsck is for ext2? Or does it jbex on ext3 taaw? I gooved neither
> of them needed defragmenting anyway.
That's what I thought. So I merrily copy-pasted a few gigs, deleting them
as they accrued... (cp -> bak. cp -> bak1. cp -> bak2. rm bak. cp ->
bak3. rm bak1. and so on) and got warnings about fragmentation on bootup.
Now, those baks were 4-15 GB a piece, with tens of thousands of files at a
go (my hard drive is my shed - can't throw things away), but that error
message was unexpected. A google said to use e2fsck, so I tried to get
that to work for a while. Tuits exhausted, I put on reiser instead.
> Might be worth seeing if free Wine can do what you want first - I hear
Aye.
>> It's far less crash-prone than native windows, but it is a tad slower.
>
> I haven't ever had Crossover crash. It seems very quick, but that could be
> because I'm using Office 97 on a machine five years more powerful than it
> expects.
There's unstable apps under windows, and they crash the emulation too,
when they go.
>> samba. One of these years, I'll install samba,
>
> I'm sprised yer SuSe doesn't come with it. In my eggsperience it's dead easy
> to get it swerving things - clients aren't so immediately useful, cos most
Oh, SuSE comes with samba, with a nifty gui config thingy too, in Yast2,
that's no problem. But I'll need more tuits. Round ones preferred, address
provided on request.
Hetta
Richard Parker
dropped a message on which was scribed:
>On or around Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:08:53 +0100, Richard Parker
><new...@expressive.ltd.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid. I
>>*will* have to ervafgnyy it soon as the systems are degrading, but
>>it's been nearly 3 years and thats a good record for M$ OSen.
>
>is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
>
>might contemplate it when I ever get the tuits and ZU for a better chip and
>board etc.
2K plays nicely with USB, but down't like IR comms for some reason.
Can't get my nice Nokia to talk to the laptop pbeerpgyl...
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all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
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owl flew in through the window and dropped a message on which was
scribed:
>Richard Parker <new...@expressive.ltd.uk> mumbled:
>
>> I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid.
>
>Is that the last of them that you don't need to register?
>
>Any way round registering XP?
You don't have to register 2K.
Rugrat
> Would it be better to have the swopfiles on the OS HDD or the Data one?
The one that's less likely to be in use while Hard Pooter Jbex is going on.
In my case, f'rinstance, that'd prolly be /home (ie, the data one), cos
there isn't anything in there that gets manipulated a lot. I imagine that
starting an arj application will use /usr (where most pogroms live) and
swap (as it pages out stuff to make room), so they prolly ought to be on
different drives.
Mind you, I dunno how much of a difference all this makes these days. I
don't think mine even uses swap very much - oodles of sheep to make up for
an ageing processor.
Rugrat
Rugrat
> install arj Linux and arj instance of LILO.
>
> Reconnect second HDD and molish it the boot drive; hopefully my original
> Linux installation and LILO will still ackle and I'll be able to copy
> my Linux /usr files (and what else?) to the arj Linux installation on
> the first HDD.
Errm. I don't goove you want /usr. You'll want /home, where all yer stuff
is, but if you've installed an arj penguin and are just copying yer data,
you'll prolly want to use the /usr the arj penguin installed.
If you're trying to recreate the old penguin, you'll prolly want a fair bit
of stuff out of /etc - copy it to /oldetc or summat and pull stuff out as
you find you need it.
Rugrat
Richard Parker
<rug...@verdonet.organisation.unitedkingdom.invalid>'s owl flew in
through the window and dropped a message on which was scribed:
>Mind you, I dunno how much of a difference all this makes these days. I
>don't think mine even uses swap very much - oodles of sheep to make up for
>an ageing processor.
The first OpenBSD install I did I forgot (read: screwed up the rather
non-intuitive install) to allocate any swap. The machine ran very
happily for months before I did a kernel rebuild and it finally
decided it needed to swap...
Rich
--
Richard Parker
I intend to live forever or die trying.
Guy King
> You don't have to register 2K.
Bung us a copy then...I'm molishing an arj pooter next week. Squid wants
to flollop in front of the WWP and also have a pooter to look at...and
the old one's too slow and manky. Nice Athlon2400XP with LCD minotaur
arriving in bits next week.
Richard Parker
owl flew in through the window and dropped a message on which was
scribed:
>Richard Parker <new...@expressive.ltd.uk> mumbled:
>
>> You don't have to register 2K.
>
>Bung us a copy then...I'm molishing an arj pooter next week. Squid wants
>to flollop in front of the WWP and also have a pooter to look at...and
>the old one's too slow and manky. Nice Athlon2400XP with LCD minotaur
>arriving in bits next week.
I've unfortunately ubggred the CD writer or I would
--
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Never eat more than you can lift.
Pattledom
> However, the Windows emulator is
> reckoned to jbex quite well in Linux now.
Would that be
WINE
Is
Not an
Emulator?
--
Andrew Pattle
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<new...@expressive.ltd.uk> wrote:
>2K plays nicely with USB, but down't like IR comms for some reason.
>Can't get my nice Nokia to talk to the laptop pbeerpgyl...
It's not 2k, my (jbex) Nokia talks to my (jbex) laptop over IR dim
prob. However, 2K and XP don't talk serial-over-IR, they talk more
cunning protocols (irOBEX for one) - this can break stuff that expects
to talk serial-over-IR.
J
--
"We are the Borg. Your life, as it has been, is now over. We shall
assimilate your cultural, biological, and technological
distinctiveness into our own. Resistance is futile.
Do you want fries with that?"
Jaimie Vandenbergh
>Richard Parker <new...@expressive.ltd.uk> mumbled:
>
>> I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid.
>
>Is that the last of them that you don't need to register?
>
>Any way round registering XP?
Get XP Corp, which is XP Pro without registration for rolling out
across businesses.
J (why yes, I do)
--
Women's breasts are like electric train sets. They're meant for kids,
but usually it's the fathers who wind up playin' with them.
Uncle Julie
<new...@expressive.ltd.uk> wrote:
>>> You don't have to register 2K.
>>
>>Bung us a copy then...I'm molishing an arj pooter next week. Squid wants
>>to flollop in front of the WWP and also have a pooter to look at...and
>>the old one's too slow and manky. Nice Athlon2400XP with LCD minotaur
>>arriving in bits next week.
>
>I've unfortunately ubggred the CD writer or I would
I'm finding that neither CD writer nor reader will recognise data
discs, but stick an audio CD in the reader but not writer and it
knows there's a CD innit, and plays it OK.
Any ideas, o shed? Or is it time for a rebuild? Erzrzorevat emu addys
first this time, and licence keys for Agent, Filtergate and
subscription details.
WiinME here, but I reckon I could rebuild as Win2k using the build
discs at jbex. Cos it'll recognise all the bits of hardware and should
complete OK.
--
Dewey
Eccles, Manchester
Henriette Kress
Aye. I've been merrily switching partitions using suse - no troubles.
Hetta
Henriette Kress
> Plan A:
>
> Disconnect second (currently boot) HDD wherein resides LILO and Linux;
> set other (WinME) disk to be boot HDD in BIOS; reformat, partition to
> take both OSes and swopfiles plus two or three flavours of small data
> partitions (NTFS, FAT32, ext3); install Win2K; install arj Linux and
> arj instance of LILO.
>
> Reconnect second HDD and molish it the boot drive; hopefully my original
> Linux installation and LILO will still ackle and I'll be able to copy
> my Linux /usr files (and what else?) to the arj Linux installation on
> the first HDD.
You might not have to reinstall linux at all - just move your old one over
to the new hard drive. But if you've been experimenting, and feeling the
results of, er, random config file conflicts, a clean install is a good
idea.
There's some very good "how to move my /home directory" thingies in
alt.os.linux.suse - a quick google should help you immensely.
Also, after a reinstall from scratch I cried after:
/srv/www
/etc/
/usr/bin
/opt
but I had seen to it that /home/ was safe. Oh, and a backup copy of home
_has_ to include hidden files - or you'll be crying after your schedule
(korganizer), your addresses (kab? I think), your mail folders, and other
suchlike minor details.
> Once I've got that jbexing I can nuke the second HDD and boot from the
> first (provided the arj Linux can see the second HDD). Then I'll
> repartion the second disk for data; mostly ext3, some FAT32, a little
> NTFS and two more swop partitions. That way I've got two options for
> swoppery.
Why two swop things? One should be enough, seeing that linux will grab
free hard disk space for swap space if needed.
> Can anySheddi see any obvious flaws in this scheme? What have I
> unremembered? Once I've copied my WinME data I'm going to rush in...
Afaik, and I could be wrong, or my info outdated, linux won't be
able to read ntfs, so if you do put on a ntfs partition, it'll be
winders only. Possibly. Perhaps. Maybe.
Luck!
Henriette Kress
> Rusty Hinge wrote:
>> However, the Windows emulator is
>> reckoned to jbex quite well in Linux now.
>
> Would that be
> WINE
> Is
> Not an
> Emulator?
Is still quite limited. I use win4lin which was nssbeqnoyr; there's also
vmware (I think) which is hanssbeqnoyr (400 uszbarl).
Guy King
> My new lappie has XP Pro, which again I'm quite impressed with, apart from
> its tendency to think it knows what I mean, and not do what it's damn well
> told. I can usually beat it into submission, though.
Shame software designers never have a "lose all the fancy features and
just get on with the wbo" setting....but of course, that'd imply they'd
spent the last few years doing sod all of merit.
Guy King
> >Bung us a copy then...I'm molishing an arj pooter next week. Squid wants
> >to flollop in front of the WWP and also have a pooter to look at...and
> >the old one's too slow and manky. Nice Athlon2400XP with LCD minotaur
> >arriving in bits next week.
> I've unfortunately ubggred the CD writer or I would
Hooter!
Guy King
> Naw, journalled means that it takes notes of what it's going to do,
> then does it, then notes down what it did.
There's a rather nice netjbexed file backup system called FileBack wot I
played with a while ago. Used it for a couple of years at my old firm
and it pulled the irons out of the fire several times by having the last
ten copies of whatever.
Guy King
> (b) you are trying to install on multiple machines with one license.
Ah, now, there's the promble. I'm running three, perhaps four PCs...and
the cost of ohling an OS for each of 'em is daftly over the top.
Brain D
Henriette Kress <spamtra...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> Sn!pe wrote:
>
> > Plan A:
> >
> > Disconnect second (currently boot) HDD wherein resides LILO and Linux;
> > set other (WinME) disk to be boot HDD in BIOS; reformat, partition to
> > take both OSes and swopfiles plus two or three flavours of small data
> > partitions (NTFS, FAT32, ext3); install Win2K; install arj Linux and
> > arj instance of LILO.
> >
> > Reconnect second HDD and molish it the boot drive; hopefully my original
> > Linux installation and LILO will still ackle and I'll be able to copy
> > my Linux /usr files (and what else?) to the arj Linux installation on
> > the first HDD.
>
> You might not have to reinstall linux at all - just move your old one over
> to the new hard drive. But if you've been experimenting, and feeling the
> results of, er, random config file conflicts, a clean install is a good
> idea.
I've found linux very resilient on swapping around drives. It has been the
only OS to survive HD changes without major re-installs.
>
> Afaik, and I could be wrong, or my info outdated, linux won't be able to
> read ntfs, so if you do put on a ntfs partition, it'll be winders only.
> Possibly. Perhaps. Maybe.
>
It'l certainly read NTFS. ReadWrite access is said to be flakey. I've used it
ok in the past (but have had W2000SVR problems which could have been due to
write access). Read access hasn't been problematical.
--
Brain D
Brain D
Sn!pe <snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Richard Parker wrote in message
> <creekv40lih0uglj5...@4ax.com>
>
> >>> I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid.
> >>
> >>Is that the last of them that you don't need to register?
> >>
> >>Any way round registering XP?
> >
> > You don't have to register 2K.
>
> Prezackly, WIW I'm sticking there, Win wise.
MTAAAW. I don't like tellytubby winders. (Nothing against tellytubbies
thobut.)
--
Brain D
Henriette Kress
>
> I've found linux very resilient on swapping around drives. It has been the
> only OS to survive HD changes without major re-installs.
Oh? Right, yes, when my HD died it was the winders one that went. But on
t'laptop I've done HD swapping without trouble and that's winders, too.
For linux, if you've been fooling around with this'n'that, installing
things and removing them again, changing configs to fix troubles only to
end up worse than before ... a clean reinstall could just be a very smart
move.
Which is why, when suse wouldn't see my bloody hp scanjet usb scanner no
matter _what_, and then, after I gave up and swapped the hp scanner for an
epson from my dad, told me "you already have one usb scanner plugged in.
You can only have one", I didn't look all that hard for a solution.
Reinstall, scanner works - cool. Now for all the things I've tinkered with
that I want to keep the way they were ... where's that config, how did I
do that again... knotes isn't a very good idea, by the way, all your
scribbled things "for this you need to do this" "this way works" won't
survive a reinstall. Tuxcards is very much nicer.
Guy King
> Erm... with peeps from MS archiving all postings, is it wise to chat about
> pirating their software, a subject about which they are known to have no
> sense of humour? Even in jest?
Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
Richard Parker
owl flew in through the window and dropped a message on which was
scribed:
>Marc Wilson <ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> mumbled:
>
>> Erm... with peeps from MS archiving all postings, is it wise to chat about
>> pirating their software, a subject about which they are known to have no
>> sense of humour? Even in jest?
>
>Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
<megaphone> Take you hands off that Linux CD Mr King, and come quietly
for re-education at Redmond </megaphone>
--
Richard Parker
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Sena
So do mine. Good ol' iLld, nice cheap 4 into 1 'ub wot jbexes.
--
Fran
The email address in the headers is now a spamtrap; however
ynyschwith at lineone dot net (no spaces) will reach me.
Sena
> Warning on formatting!
This'll qb:
I've got a fingery picture box wot hfrf they SmartMedia cruds.
The last two times I've had the FPB out I've had a couple of
photies wot've come out weird. Instead of a nice big photie,
wot I sees on the minotaur am in sections like a sort of jigsaw,
with a nice big main section of photie on one side but with two
or three *rearranged* sections of pic on t'other. I emued the
first two to arGuy, who suggested formatting the card, which I
did; however yesterday I had another two pics like it. Last
night I re-formatted the card, but this time I hfrd the pooter
rather than the camera to duit; time will tell whether or not
this molishes any diffrunce. The overnight thorough scandisk on
the crud proved to be inconclusive 'cos Grid didn't realise it'd
happened and the results are now unavailable unless I does it
again, which I prolly will but not until I'm not qbvat owt else
with the pooter. Are there any FPBtechnosheddi in the house?
Sena
> Instead of a nice big photie,
> wot I sees on the minotaur am in sections like a sort of jigsaw,
> with a nice big main section of photie on one side but with two
> or three *rearranged* sections of pic on t'other.
>
another go:
You know those puzzles where you have to slide tiles around to
get them in the right order? Imagine one of they but with only
3 or 4 tiles, all of diffrunt sizes but all rectangular. The
biggest one is fine; the smaller ones are at the side or bottom
of the biggest one and the wrong way round. Clearer now?
brett
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:08:27 +0100, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk>'s
> owl flew in through the window and dropped a message on which was
> scribed:
>
>>Marc Wilson <ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> mumbled:
>>
>>> Erm... with peeps from MS archiving all postings, is it wise to chat about
>>> pirating their software, a subject about which they are known to have no
>>> sense of humour? Even in jest?
>>
>>Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
>
> <megaphone> Take you hands off that Linux CD Mr King, and come quietly
> for re-education at Redmond </megaphone>
I gorta copy of remund linux floating about some place.
brett
--
Ah yes, Xenia Onatopp. One of the more dubious characters to enter
the pantheon of 007 villains in recent years -- say what you will
for Blofeld at least he didn't have multiple orgasms when consigning
people to the shark tank.
Sn!pe
Aaargh!
[sfx: head thumps keyboard repeatedly]
I am now the proud possessor of a dual-booting, Win-tookaying,
Penguinish but otherwise entirely virginal, largely unconfigured
and devoid of content bocks. Things were not meant to be thus.
--
Sn!pe - hand rolled .sig
Austin Shackles
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>Richard Parker <new...@expressive.ltd.uk> mumbled:
>
>> I'm not the biggest fan of Billyware, but 2K seems rock solid.
>
>Is that the last of them that you don't need to register?
>
>Any way round registering XP?
I guvax arJaimie are the chap to ask that.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect
other people to be enitrely to your liking?"
Thomas Ą Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xvi.
Austin Shackles
<de...@ntlworld.com> enlightened us thusly:
>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:51:46 +0100, Richard Parker
><new...@expressive.ltd.uk> wrote:
>
>>>> You don't have to register 2K.
>>>
>>>Bung us a copy then...I'm molishing an arj pooter next week. Squid wants
>>>to flollop in front of the WWP and also have a pooter to look at...and
>>>the old one's too slow and manky. Nice Athlon2400XP with LCD minotaur
>>>arriving in bits next week.
>>
>>I've unfortunately ubggred the CD writer or I would
>
>I'm finding that neither CD writer nor reader will recognise data
>discs, but stick an audio CD in the reader but not writer and it
>knows there's a CD innit, and plays it OK.
>
mine's taken top not writing discs. I suspect non-compatible media, has to
be some reason why it was so cheap.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.
Austin Shackles
enlightened us thusly:
>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:56:42 +0100, Austin Shackles
><aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
>
>Corse it do. Even me old W98 runs a nub
aye, 98 does. after a fashion. but there was another one that didn't viz.
NT.
can't recall if there were any other drawbacks to 2K.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
>Marc Wilson <ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> mumbled:
>
>> Erm... with peeps from MS archiving all postings, is it wise to chat about
>> pirating their software, a subject about which they are known to have no
>> sense of humour? Even in jest?
>
>Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
Don't tell SCO - they're looking to charge people for using "their"
Linux code... see theregister articles passim.
J
--
if you're enlightened and you know it clap one hand
Henriette Kress
> Aaargh!
>
> [sfx: head thumps keyboard repeatedly]
>
> I am now the proud possessor of a dual-booting, Win-tookaying,
> Penguinish but otherwise entirely virginal, largely unconfigured
> and devoid of content bocks. Things were not meant to be thus.
Okay, so what did you do? Drop the HD while you were switching things
around?
Rusty Hinge
from Richard Parker <new...@expressive.ltd.uk> contains these words:
> >Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
> <megaphone> Take you hands off that Linux CD Mr King, and come quietly
> for re-education at Redmond </megaphone>
I'll lend yer me Debian set if you like, or molish copies......
--
Rusty http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm
horrid新queak snailything zetnet搾o暉k exchange d.p. with p to
reply.
Rusty Hinge
from Marc Wilson <ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> contains these words:
> If we compare PCs with cars (original!), software designers are trying to
> get past the level where you had a manual spark advance. Most cars now are
> "black boxes" to the average punter- they might know the basic idea of the
> "suck-squeeze-bang-blow"[1] cycle in theory, but most of the stuff under the
> bonnet is a mystery. And so it should be; we have better things to worry
> about, and it's been *many* kilofortnights since anyone could claim to know
> all that mattered in any detail- prolly about 1000AD or so.
Unaccompanied footlenote a lert!
Henriette Kress
> Richard Parker <new...@expressive.ltd.uk> contains these words:
>
>> >Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
>
>> <megaphone> Take you hands off that Linux CD Mr King, and come quietly
>> for re-education at Redmond </megaphone>
>
> I'll lend yer me Debian set if you like, or molish copies......
I could make a copy of my SuSE 8.1 pro cd set, except that the current
version is 8.2, which has more goodies - and 8.3 is just around the
corner. It'll be 9 if they goes to kernel 2.6, and if they does, then
woohoo, I'll be able to see my usb hard drive under suse!
If you still wanna have a go at 8.1 just let me know.
Suse is ver good for newbs, redhat much less so, and debian is right out
scary.
Guy King
> >I'm finding that neither CD writer nor reader will recognise data
> >discs, but stick an audio CD in the reader but not writer and it
> >knows there's a CD innit, and plays it OK.
> >
> mine's taken top not writing discs. I suspect non-compatible media, has to
> be some reason why it was so cheap.
First time each session, Nero crashes. Second and subsequent starts and
it runs fine.
Sometimes it sees the E drive (a DVD) and sometimes it doesn't.
Guy King
> I write software for a living (amongst other related things) and it *is*
> impossible to please everyone. Most people just want it to work, without
> caring about how/why.
It'd still be nice to turn off some of the "features". I know you /can/
turn 'em off...but you usually have to wait for 'em to turn up before
you get the chance. XP for example has a narsty habit of saying "You've
plugged in a digital camera...would you like to do....". While I
appreciate that many people my enjoy this...I hate it. Trouble is
turning off each feature one at a time.
P'raps at install you could have a "Mood selector".
Select one of the following.
O I'd like my computer to be bouncily cocky and keep offering to do
things for me.
O I'd like my computer to do all that and keep doing it in case I forget.
O I've a good idea of what I'm doing; only offer help on really trick
things.
O I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than have a computer keep pestering me.
Guy King
> >Yeah, you're right...I'll swap to Linux.
> Don't tell SCO - they're looking to charge people for using "their"
> Linux code... see theregister articles passim.
Yeah, I read that. I also liked the bit where someone suggested that if
they did that they'd be admitting that all their customers weren't
properly licensed all along.
Guy King
> Suse is ver good for newbs, redhat much less so, and debian is right out
> scary.
I'll take you up on the simple one.
Now...there's got to be an easy reader out there for Linux....one that
hold my hand a bit.
What do I do about drivers? S'pose once I've got /something/ running and
can get to the netjbex I can fish about on the net for things.
Guy King
> I'll lend yer me Debian set if you like, or molish copies......
Might well do...will have a spare pooter by Friday. Wonder if I can find
a better porcessor for it...it's got a 300MHz [1] Cyrix at the moment.
[1] Though it sometimes feels like 300mHz.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
> O I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than have a computer keep pestering me.
Ladies and gentlethings, we have a winner!
I've got eight of the damn things in the house now. They're all jolly
well trained not to bother me, except this one cos I only reinstalled
it a week ago.
J
--
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English
is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion,
English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious
and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Nicoll, rasfw
Brain D
Sn!pe <snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Henriette Kress wrote in <pan.2003.08.24.19.42.32.307902@hetta>:
>
> > Sn!pe wrote:
> >
> >> Aaargh!
> >>
> >> [sfx: head thumps keyboard repeatedly]
> >>
> >> I am now the proud possessor of a dual-booting, Win-tookaying,
> >> Penguinish but otherwise entirely virginal, largely unconfigured
> >> and devoid of content bocks. Things were not meant to be thus.
> >
> > Okay, so what did you do? Drop the HD while you were switching things
> > around?
>
> Nearly as bad; after about three or four reinstalls of both OSes and the
> boot record continually vapourising I decided to do a complete reformat
> of the whole target drive as FAT32 rather than mixed NTFS, FAT32 and
> ext3 partitions, then rebuild and reformat the partitions as I wanted
> them later. While deleting unwanted partitions on the target disk,
> somehow (don't arx me) it slipped into the other disk (the Linux one I
> was trying to preserve) and with one ill-considered keystroke I deleted
> the first partition. I had a couple of goes at rescuing the old
> installation only to be thwarted by a permissions promble, so I ended
> up nuking *everything.* Ne'er mind eh; worse things happen at sea...
>
I usually take out the seedee and copy the stuff off the existing drive onto
a knew one (in the seedee slot), and then gettit jbexing as the old drive,
and then change things on the arj drive. If all else fails you can allus go
back to the old drive. These daze I try to copy onto another drive on another
computer on the notjbex anything I want to keep first.
I recently switched off my penguin swerver in the gridge (after 400daze
uptime) to put in leccy meter to see how many zbarl units it consumes. Since
putting back on it gives a disc error (the same one every day) in the log.
30G hfrd on the HD, where to back up? It wont fit seedee!
I'm wanting to change this swerver but not if it puts up the leccy bill too
much.
What I can't fathom is the differunt consumption of my various boxen.
1 Gridge swerver P1 166Mhz 32va
2 Acorn boxen 39va PIII 450 42va
3 latest celery 2000 59 va
4 Last year's athlon 1200 86va???? spare CH boiler??????
I wud have thort the celery as the biggest toaster but the athlon is, even
tho it's slower.
I'm thinking of the p3 as the arj swerver, but are negotiating wiv fiend for
1100mhz brod wiv built in everything which duzzent have heat sink on the
toaster chip, so I suspect it will be about 45 va.
I need the tuits to sort out an arj hard drive for the arj swerver before the
old drive closes its shed door.
--
Brain D
Brain D
Austin Shackles <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On or around Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:32:45 +0100, Ron Clark <r...@spamall.com>
> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:56:42 +0100, Austin Shackles
> ><aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
> >
> >Corse it do. Even me old W98 runs a nub
>
> aye, 98 does. after a fashion. but there was another one that didn't viz.
> NT.
Is it 98 that don't and 98SE that duz, or is it 95 and 95SE?
>
> can't recall if there were any other drawbacks to 2K.
Just its stop errors IIRIC. these usually entail a re-install. Fortunatibly
just the OS, and not (all) the applications.
--
Brain D
Brain D
Austin Shackles <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On or around Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:53:23 +0100, Uncle Julie
> <de...@ntlworld.com> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:51:46 +0100, Richard Parker
> ><new...@expressive.ltd.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>>> You don't have to register 2K.
> >>>
> >>>Bung us a copy then...I'm molishing an arj pooter next week. Squid wants
> >>>to flollop in front of the WWP and also have a pooter to look at...and
> >>>the old one's too slow and manky. Nice Athlon2400XP with LCD minotaur
> >>>arriving in bits next week.
> >>
> >>I've unfortunately ubggred the CD writer or I would
> >
> >I'm finding that neither CD writer nor reader will recognise data
> >discs, but stick an audio CD in the reader but not writer and it
> >knows there's a CD innit, and plays it OK.
> >
>
> mine's taken top not writing discs. I suspect non-compatible media, has to
> be some reason why it was so cheap.
>
My arj writer (52x IDE) was only 36zu and seems to jbex better than my SCSI
one which cost about 150zu.
--
Brain D
Sena
> Clearer now?
>
Apparently not. Oh dear.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>On 24 Aug,
> Austin Shackles <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On or around Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:32:45 +0100, Ron Clark <r...@spamall.com>
>> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>> >On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:56:42 +0100, Austin Shackles
>> ><aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >>is it 2K that don't qb USB, or was that summink else?
>> >
>> >Corse it do. Even me old W98 runs a nub
>>
>> aye, 98 does. after a fashion. but there was another one that didn't viz.
>> NT.
>
>Is it 98 that don't and 98SE that duz, or is it 95 and 95SE?
3 doesn't, 95 doesn't, 95b says it does but doesn't really, 98/98se/ME
do.
NT4 doesn't (mostly), 2k does, XP does.
Linux 1.4+ does, BeOS 4.5+ does, Solaris 6+ does, *BSD do, OS2 v4+
does (with service packs), SCO Unix 5+ does.
>Just its stop errors IIRIC. these usually entail a re-install. Fortunatibly
>just the OS, and not (all) the applications.
Those are normally driver prombles, so you can often fix'em by booting
into Safe and removing the offending driver - normally the Stop error
will give a clue which one, sometimes not though.
J
--
#include "clue.h"
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>Sena said...
>> Clearer now?
>>
>Apparently not. Oh dear.
It's a ver clear problem, but it's not a nobvious solution. My guess
is that the camera has lost its marbles slightly, and isn't writing
jpegs very properly. You could check on the maker's website for a
firmware update for it?
Otherwise it could be a dodgy memory card likeyousay. Can you stick it
inna computer and copy a large zipfile to it, then copy that zipfile
back to the computer, and see if it's still unzippable? If not, it's a
dodgy card and take it back.
J
--
Networking is well understood and well standardized, unfortunately not by the same people.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>4 Last year's athlon 1200 86va???? spare CH boiler??????
My arj Athlon 2500+ Barton says 59W normal, 81W peak. I use it to fry
small eggs.
J
--
"I came on the train but I think I managed to pass it off as an asthma
attack"
- Jenny Eclair
Henriette Kress
> Henriette Kress mumbled:
>
>> Suse is ver good for newbs, redhat much less so, and debian is right out
>> scary.
>
> I'll take you up on the simple one.
'kay.
> Now...there's got to be an easy reader out there for Linux....one that
> hold my hand a bit.
Suse is famed for their excellent books, and these books are included on
the cds too.
> What do I do about drivers? S'pose once I've got /something/ running and
> can get to the netjbex I can fish about on the net for things.
Oh right, your box wasn't built to be linux compatible. Keep the other one
winders so you can google when problems pop up, until you get the linux
one up and running - suse's hardware configuration setup is good (but
Knoppix' is better) - and linux has hardware troubles because not all
hardware molishers bother to make things easy for our guys, therefore,
not all hardware molishers have hardware that actually works.
And note, rpms are mutually incompatible - there's redhat, and suse, and
mandrake, and...
Rpmseek is better than rpmfind for finding SuSE rpms.
Henriette Kress
> Brain D <brian...@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>4 Last year's athlon 1200 86va???? spare CH boiler??????
>
> My arj Athlon 2500+ Barton says 59W normal, 81W peak. I use it to fry
> small eggs.
Mmmm, quail.
Argooey, I'll be out of town until Friday, I'll burn your ceedees then,
'kay?
Guy King
> And note, rpms are mutually incompatible - there's redhat, and suse, and
> mandrake, and...
> Rpmseek is better than rpmfind for finding SuSE rpms.
See, lost me already! The only thing I can guess at rpm (apart from the
obvious) is Real Paper Manual.
Austin Shackles
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>Austin Shackles <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> mumbled:
>
>> >I'm finding that neither CD writer nor reader will recognise data
>> >discs, but stick an audio CD in the reader but not writer and it
>> >knows there's a CD innit, and plays it OK.
>> >
>
>> mine's taken top not writing discs. I suspect non-compatible media, has to
>> be some reason why it was so cheap.
>
>First time each session, Nero crashes. Second and subsequent starts and
>it runs fine.
>Sometimes it sees the E drive (a DVD) and sometimes it doesn't.
Nero jbexf fine (provided it's not expired) but it sayeth "cannot perform
fixation" or somesuch if'n you try to write an actual disc.
can't unforget if I've tried writing from Fantom CD. maybe not. Either the
drive's hootered (thobut it reads things albeit not 100% reliably) or the
media are penc.
--
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Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or
drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear the
flying chariot through the field of air.- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
Austin Shackles
<brian...@lycos.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
well, my SCSI 6x2x2 CDRW was free, which I can't complain over-much about.
Jbexed fine previously, so I suspect the CDs 'emselves. Will hunt some more
soon and try them.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
Austin Shackles
<snipe1...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>Fully plopulated with 3 x 128MB here;
>can't quite bring meself to bin 'em yet.
if you ends up with a spare one, you could always throw it this way...
m...@privacy.net
> wot I sees on the minotaur am in sections like a sort of jigsaw,
Do they look scrambled on the FPB display as well?
If so, clearly the camera is FUBAR'd.
If not, it's likely just a disagreement twixt camera and puter about how
the files are transferred - are the pics you have trouble with rather
larger in terms of filesize than other, OK, ones?
Or perhaps when you were playing with that other FPB in recent times,
you changed what the defualt driver was for reading from cameras, so now
you have the wrong one for yours.
I suggest re-installing whatever drivers are used for chatting with
FPBs.
Or buying an arj computer, sometimes it's simpler in the end.
--
It's never too late to panic
brett
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:45:21 +0100, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> O I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than have a computer keep pestering me.
>
> Ladies and gentlethings, we have a winner!
>
> I've got eight of the damn things in the house now. They're all jolly
> well trained not to bother me, except this one cos I only reinstalled
> it a week ago.
youl be catching r gid up at this engr
brett
--
this post may contain nuts
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>On or around Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:34:45 +0100, Brain D
><brian...@lycos.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>On 24 Aug,
>> Austin Shackles <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>> mine's taken top not writing discs. I suspect non-compatible media, has to
>>> be some reason why it was so cheap.
>
>well, my SCSI 6x2x2 CDRW was free, which I can't complain over-much about.
>
>Jbexed fine previously, so I suspect the CDs 'emselves. Will hunt some more
>soon and try them.
Might be the 6x, some el-cheapo CDs want to be written faster than
that! Relentless march of technology, eh?
I see IBM have 6gig 1.8" hard drives - proper storage for your mobile
phone at last!
J
--
Red sky at night, GM trial crops on fire
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>Henriette Kress <spamtra...@spamcop.net> mumbled:
>
>> And note, rpms are mutually incompatible - there's redhat, and suse, and
>> mandrake, and...
>> Rpmseek is better than rpmfind for finding SuSE rpms.
>
>See, lost me already! The only thing I can guess at rpm (apart from the
>obvious) is Real Paper Manual.
Redhat Package Manager, it's an archive file format for an installable
bundle of software. Most linuxes come with an installer that knows how
to handle them.
J
--
Apatheism: The school of belief where one doesn't particularly
care if there is/are god(s).
Gid Holyoake
Vandenbergh generously decided to share with us..
Snippetry about USB support
> XP does.
But not properly.. XP really does *not* like the idea of hot-swapping
with some USB devices..
Gid
Guy King
> If not, it's likely just a disagreement twixt camera and puter about how
> the files are transferred - are the pics you have trouble with rather
> larger in terms of filesize than other, OK, ones?
Good point...do they come out scrambled with the USB cable /and/ the
card reader, or just one or the other?
Guy King
> But not properly.. XP really does *not* like the idea of hot-swapping
> with some USB devices..
Really? But it's supposed to be...er...perfect!
Sena
> > Rpmseek is better than rpmfind for finding SuSE rpms.
>
> See, lost me already! The only thing I can guess at rpm (apart from the
> obvious) is Real Paper Manual.
Revs Per Minute were my guess, but that dozen molish frafr in
this context. I'll bet I'm right though, even so.[23]
[23] Well *obviously*. Either it's revs per minnit or it dozen
molish frafr in this context. Either way I'm right innit.
Sena
> > I've got eight of the damn things in the house now. They're all jolly
> > well trained not to bother me, except this one cos I only reinstalled
> > it a week ago.
>
> youl be catching r gid up at this engr
>
Sena
> Sena wibbled:
> > wot I sees on the minotaur am in sections like a sort of jigsaw,
>
> Do they look scrambled on the FPB display as well?
I've deleted 'em from the FPB now, but no, they didn't, 'cos I
were looking at them on the way back from a balloonfest and they
seemed OK then.
> If so, clearly the camera is FUBAR'd.
So even though I'd really like the excuse to ohl myself one of
they Fuji 2800s I prolly havant got it yet?
> If not, it's likely just a disagreement twixt camera and puter about how
> the files are transferred - are the pics you have trouble with rather
> larger in terms of filesize than other, OK, ones?
Well, it's all the same settings, but - hang on - 651Kb; 680Kb;
570Kb; 614Kb... and - all the 'abezny' ones are in the same sort
of region. There were about 30 abezny pics from one day, and 57
from t'other, with only 2 from each playing silly Bs.
> Or perhaps when you were playing with that other FPB in recent times,
> you changed what the defualt driver was for reading from cameras, so now
> you have the wrong one for yours.
'S possible, but it's only a couple of piccies that've been
affected, and only in the past few days. Immediately after the
other FPB fiddling was the AberBeachMoot, and everything came
out fine from that. TAAW I've hfrd the FPB on other occasions
an' all and it's bin fine. The only thing that's changed
recently is that I'm now hfrvat a card reader rather than
transferring directly from the camera; I've hfrd my SmartMedia
cards in it and TAAW mother's wotsitsname card (Compact Flash) -
even so, most of the time everything's hunkydory.
> I suggest re-installing whatever drivers are used for chatting with
> FPBs.
Now, where did I put that disk...?
> Or buying an arj computer, sometimes it's simpler in the end.
Not nessie celery an arj one, but this'ns due for a serious
upgrade as soon as the oiks have gone back to fpubby. I have a
trip planned to see arGid, to see wot he can oblige me with in
the way of an arj mobo, HDD and processor. My P2 350 with
its 4Gb HDD is looking a bit tired. And *full*.
Sena
> N.L...@WKX.KM.EU <m...@privacy.net> mumbled:
>
> > If not, it's likely just a disagreement twixt camera and puter about how
> > the files are transferred - are the pics you have trouble with rather
> > larger in terms of filesize than other, OK, ones?
>
> Good point...do they come out scrambled with the USB cable /and/ the
> card reader, or just one or the other?
Iffit happens again I shall be able to let you know innit.
Reading from the card (in card reader) they were scrambled;
looking on the minotaur (from HDD) they were scrambled. On the
FPB display they were not scrambled. Next time, if there is
one, I shall look out the camera lead and gel hfrvat that.
Rusty Hinge
from Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> Might well do...will have a spare pooter by Friday. Wonder if I can find
> a better porcessor for it...it's got a 300MHz [1] Cyrix at the moment.
> [1] Though it sometimes feels like 300mHz.
Huh! Show-orft! The one I'm hfvat is a 244.....
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Rusty Hinge
> Now...there's got to be an easy reader out there for Linux....one that
> hold my hand a bit.
> What do I do about drivers? S'pose once I've got /something/ running and
> can get to the netjbex I can fish about on the net for things.
You can run ZIMACS under Wine.
Guy King
> You can run ZIMACS under Wine.
Cor, that's good to know.
Guy King
> > Might well do...will have a spare pooter by Friday. Wonder if I can find
> > a better porcessor for it...it's got a 300MHz [1] Cyrix at the moment.
> > [1] Though it sometimes feels like 300mHz.
> Huh! Show-orft! The one I'm hfvat is a 244.....
Must find out what the muvverborad will take....Hmmm, VIA Apollo MVP-3
found..
"Optimizes the performance of a complete range of desktop and mobile
AMD-K6™, AMD-K6-2™, AMD-K6-III™, and VIA Cyrix? MII? processors running
at speeds of up to 533MHz."
So, anyone got an old K6-500? They seem to go for about 20 ZU on
eBay...which seems a lot considering you can get a 1700+ Athlon for
35ish.
Guy King
> You could have a "profile" selector that went from "fuckwit" to "guru".
I can imagine the znexrggvat bods having forty fits trying to find
polite ways of phrasing it all.
O Hold my hand all the time please.
O Hold my hand when I look like I need it.
O Suggest times when my hand might look like it needs holding.
O After several futile efforts, offer help without being smug.
0 I know how to delete help files, bother me at your peril.
I found the only truly reliable way of shutting up that damned paperclip
permentantatnatnatly was to delete the subdirectory it lived in.
Big Tone
wrote:
>Rusty Hinge <tqt.h...@sheddiknights.org> mumbled:
>
>> > Might well do...will have a spare pooter by Friday. Wonder if I can find
>> > a better porcessor for it...it's got a 300MHz [1] Cyrix at the moment.
>
>> > [1] Though it sometimes feels like 300mHz.
>
>> Huh! Show-orft! The one I'm hfvat is a 244.....
>
>Must find out what the muvverborad will take....Hmmm, VIA Apollo MVP-3
>
>found..
>"Optimizes the performance of a complete range of desktop and mobile
>AMD-K6™, AMD-K6-2™, AMD-K6-III™, and VIA Cyrix? MII? processors running
>at speeds of up to 533MHz."
>
>So, anyone got an old K6-500? They seem to go for about 20 ZU on
>eBay...which seems a lot considering you can get a 1700+ Athlon for
>35ish.
Gorra K6-2-450, not sure if it works tho. I've not got a muvverbroad
wot'll take it.
--
Big Tone
daviso...@ntlworld.com
Dictatorship (n): a form of government under which everything
which is not prohibited is compulsory.
Guy King
> Gorra K6-2-450, not sure if it works tho. I've not got a muvverbroad
> wot'll take it.
Hmm, that's nearly there. Wotcher want for it? It's gorra be faster than
the Cyrix 300.
Linz
<tqt.h...@sheddiknights.org> wrote:
>The message <200308242...@zetnet.co.uk>
>from Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>> Now...there's got to be an easy reader out there for Linux....one that
>> hold my hand a bit.
>
>> What do I do about drivers? S'pose once I've got /something/ running and
>> can get to the netjbex I can fish about on the net for things.
>
>You can run ZIMACS under Wine.
What about under Beer?
Guy King
> Oh right, your box wasn't built to be linux compatible.
Nah, it's fallen off the end of the active pooter list and is now
available for play.
Got an elderly IBM P166 coming up the line soon, too.
Mel Rimmer
<ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> writes
>In uk.rec.sheds, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> (Guy King) wrote in
><200308242...@zetnet.co.uk>::
>
>| Select one of the following.
>|
>| O I'd like my computer to be bouncily cocky and keep offering to do
>|things for me.
>| O I'd like my computer to do all that and keep doing it in case I forget.
>| O I've a good idea of what I'm doing; only offer help on really trick
>|things.
>| O I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than have a computer keep pestering me.
>
>
>You could have a "profile" selector that went from "fuckwit" to "guru".
I really *really* hate machines that talk to me, partly because they
never listen when I talk back. And I usually do talk back, if only to
say "SHUT UP you STUPID machine. I already KNOW the printer is out of
paper. What does it LOOK like I'm DOING? I'm TRYING to find the BLOODY
PAPER!" And if they keep the CCTV film from lifts, I'm in big trouble.
--
Mel Rimmer
Guy King
> Argooey, I'll be out of town until Friday, I'll burn your ceedees then,
> 'kay?
You're a gentlething.
I've just been to SuSE's site....they don't go out of their way to make
things easy, do they! For example, for the thing that writes boot images
to disks under Windows, do they have a zipfile? No, they have four
seperate files sitting in a folder the whereabouts of which you have to
guess 'cos when they refer to it there ain't a link. OK, so it's not
well hidden...in fact, it's in the obvious place, but I ask you, would
it have been hard to have had a link from the documentation to a
zipfile? No!
Still, if you're going to be kind and burn me some discs...I'll wait
till then.
Guy King
> I really *really* hate machines that talk to me, partly because they
> never listen when I talk back. And I usually do talk back, if only to
> say "SHUT UP you STUPID machine. I already KNOW the printer is out of
> paper. What does it LOOK like I'm DOING? I'm TRYING to find the BLOODY
> PAPER!" And if they keep the CCTV film from lifts, I'm in big trouble.
And mine, which keeps telling me I'm out of black ink...which I ain't.
Rusty Hinge
from Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> And mine, which keeps telling me I'm out of black ink...which I ain't.
Ar. Must be a nEpsod. You just reload the old one. That fueles it.
YADJ
wrote:
>Marc Wilson <ma...@cleopatra.co.uk> mumbled:
>
>> You could have a "profile" selector that went from "fuckwit" to "guru".
>
>
>I can imagine the znexrggvat bods having forty fits trying to find
>polite ways of phrasing it all.
>
> O Hold my hand all the time please.
> O Hold my hand when I look like I need it.
> O Suggest times when my hand might look like it needs holding.
> O After several futile efforts, offer help without being smug.
> 0 I know how to delete help files, bother me at your peril.
>
>I found the only truly reliable way of shutting up that damned paperclip
>permentantatnatnatly was to delete the subdirectory it lived in.
Dave. I don't think you really want to do that. Dave.
Can we talk about this please?
Daisy, Daisy....
YADJ
Guy King
> > And mine, which keeps telling me I'm out of black ink...which I ain't.
> Ar. Must be a nEpsod. You just reload the old one. That fueles it.
Nah, it's a Xerox. Has a sort of V-shaped notch in the side of the ink
tank. IR beam bounces off the top of the notch, downwards, off the
bottom of the notch and back out again. As the ink level drops it gets
less and less signal till it decides that it's out. Trouble is, it seems
to have gorn out of calibration....there are trimpots next to the IR
LEDs, but I ain't got round to fiddling. Cheated by painting the side of
the tank black so it's decided it's full...or had till the other day.
Guy King
> Daisy, Daisy....
Oooh, I must seek out a .wav of that to have as a Windows Shutdown noise!
Nick Leverton
brett <dragon...@suespammers.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:56:36 +0100, Richard Parker wrote:
>
>> <megaphone> Take you hands off that Linux CD Mr King, and come quietly
>> for re-education at Redmond </megaphone>
>
>I gorta copy of remund linux floating about some place.
I gotta copy of Microsoft Xenix in the other place, _and_ a license so
that they can't wriggle out of it !
Nick
Nick Leverton
I think many people do that anyway.
Nick (and trn under nutmeg)