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it is defienatley one of the most popular around. Its best feature is it uses apt. Apt makes software installation easy. It is a good first choice.

this is from man bash it still seems unlogical(in my mind) :-)

Thanks :-) I have low expectations. If I cover my two hundred a month in expenses, plus make another $100/week I will be succesful in my mind. I will be truely happy(on the job front) When I can QUIT serving food for a living. The thougt of making a living at something I enjoy(computers) is a great motivater.

lets say I actually send in real data about 8mb/s, or 1MByte/s. In the time that it takes to play a 2 hour movie I would have been able to tranfere 7200mb, or about 7gb. In theory, since most dvds after being ripped are between 4.0 to 6.0 gbs, you would not think they would be a problem. In my situation, streaming mpeg 4 movies, which are just about 1- 1.5 gbs, I should have nothing to worrie about.

I was just messing around with bash, and noticed what seemed to be odd behavior shane@mainbox ~ $ echo {a,d}oo aoo doo shane@mainbox ~ $ echo {a,}oo aoo oo shane@mainbox ~ $ echo {,a}oo oo aoo shane@mainbox ~ $ echo {a}oo {a}oo I guess I would have thought `echo {a}oo` would have produced aoo

82MB was my amount that I would be sending in one minute, assuming I got the max, and my math(reasoning) was correct. most of my movies are about 900 -1200 mb.

I have an extra pc around that I wanted to experiment setting up wireless. I saw some good prices on wireless b. Tell me if my math is correct here. If wireless b has a speed of 11mb/s, that translates to 1.375 Mbytes/second. then in one minute 82.5 MBs would be tranfered. So if my movie is 1.2 gb, or 1200MB it could travel over the network in just 14.5 minutes, since I am streaming it over a 2 hour period, I have way more bandwith then is needed.

That is dangerously hot. 5C more or so and you could permantely damage/destroy your CPU. You should dust out your computer (especially the HSF), and get some thermal paste if you don't have any. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 60 is on the hot side, but I don't think dangerous is the proper term. I would like to see some eveidence(documentation) that cpu damage could happen at 65 C.

after reading these replys the A+ certification probably would have got me hired at one of the local computer shops. I put in a few resumes, but did not get hired(I probably could have followed up more agressively) Does not matter, I am taking the plunge, prepared or not, to go it on my own. Come february I should be getting some calls produced by my new yellow pages ad. There is so much I do not know, but feel confident i can figure anything out especsially with the resource of all of you guys. I will be needing it :-)

I found this quote also to back up what you found you only need 55mb/s . So 100mb/s is almost twice the throughput you need. the only real advantage I see to SATA is cosmetic, the cables are thinner. In your case having to add a card would clutter it up.

those max rates must be what the cables can put thru, but I don't think either will ever even need the max rate of 100mb/(per second?) . The extra thruput of a SATA will never be used. This is my understaning

I am kind of cheap myself, so that much for a case, is a lot. The only reason I could rationalize it would be a case would last a long time(years)

I was always curious about the performance differences between the two. Even though SATA has a bigger pipe, it it needed? are both drives equal speed(RPM)? I would think(my guess) a 7200 ide or 7200 SATA would be equal in performance It seems the higher thruput that an SATA gives is only needed with higher rpm drives(again just a guess)

Are many of you who do computer repair A+ certified? edit added// do many of you make your living doing computer repair?

I did a full install of cygwin, now it seems to be working. I have not tested any burns yet, but it is spinning the drive. It only works from a cygwin bash shell, I need it to run from a regular windows shell.

I have tried numerous tranport layers MSH> cdrecord dev=help Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Supported SCSI transports for this platform: Transport name: ASPI Transport descr.: Generic transport independent SCSI Transp. layer ind.: ASPI: Target specifier: bus,target,lun Target example: ASPI:1,2,0 SCSI Bus scanning: supported Open via UNIX device: not supported Transport name: SPTI Transport descr.: Generic SCSI for Windows NT/2000/XP Transp. layer ind.: SPTI: Target specifier: bus,

I am trying to use cdrecord on windows. I am getting this device error. any suggestions would be appreciated MSH> cdrecord dev=1,0,0 "C:\Documents and Settings\shane\Desktop\test2.iso" /cygdrive/c/bin/cdrecord: No write mode specified. /cygdrive/c/bin/cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. /cygdrive/c/bin/cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. /cygdrive/c/bin/cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '1' devname: '1' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 /cygdrive/c/bin/cdrecord: Inv

6 gigabytes is plenty. Especially if you are just playing around. If you were doing stuff like dvd ripping, downloading avi files, then you would need more.

third party partitioning software is the way to go, but can be risky. I have had partition magic fail on me in the past. If you go that route, choose to leave the space as unallocated. When you goto install linspire, it will ask you if you want to install in unallocated space.

I remember getting into the bios the first time by tapping f1 thru f4 during boot up. Now I am not able to geti into the bios, I have tried all of the button f1 thru f4, individulaly; none of them work. Any suggestions? edit added later// it is the delete key, I honestly belived using the f(something key) the first time.

i guess I overthought the whole thing. Windows millenium edition found all of the drivers except the network card. Sound, video, and modem drivers all work. Unlike Xp I did not think windows 98(millenium) came with much for drivers already on the disk. My yellow page add for my computer service company goes into the phone book in february, I still have a lot to learn :-)

another question. The computer originally got shipped with 98 se(according to the coa) It currently has xp on it. I am assuming the xp is an upgrage for the following reasons: all of the orignal software is on the computer, plus it was still formatted fat32. If I use the xp key that was pulled out using belarc adviser, will this only work with a xp upgrade cd? I only have an oem sp1 and an oem sp2 cd.

I got this old dell smartstep 100d. I was hoping to find drivers on the dell sight. when ever I search for that computer I am refered to a phone number that gives me a recording that says I have to pay $25 to talk to someone. As for as I can telll drivers are not available(without paying a fee). Any help would be appreciated. edit added later// after some googling, it apears it may use the sames chipsets as the dimension 2100 line. I wonder if those drivers will work.

I am not real familar with RAID. This system is not for mirroring whole drives(it may work for that). It is more for mirroring directorys. It can mirror them anywhere: to a different directroy, different harddrive, a different local computer(using file shareing, or nfs). It can mirror your directory securley to an off sight computer using ssh. I am using it more like rsync, but it is differnt form rsync in the following way. Once you have two replicas, you can make changes to either one, then it will replicate the changes to the other.

I don't think I have ever made it one year with out reinstalling.