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Re: $100 laptop running Linux
by Brian Kelsay 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Often the problem in a corporate environment, the newest version of Windows must be run (XP w/ SP1 or 2) along with virus scanning, big email clients, latest office suite and nearly all software that an employee might ever use since you want a one-size-fits-all image for the PC. There is always even more software to load for specialty jobs like program development. Looking right now, my PC is using 300MB of ram. This one of the low-end PCs that is about to be replaced. For my home use, while running Linux a PIII-500 is still mostly adequate and my PII-333 laptop is also adequate. The ability to play videos is one area I'd like to improve it. My next PC will have a DVD burner, more ram and won't choke when I put my TV card in it. It will also have enough juice in the power supply to run at least 3 HDDs. Brian Kelsay >>> Steven Danz <> 04/07/05 08:31PM >>> Leo Mauler wrote: >I have a PII-300Mhz I purchased for about $240 six >months ago. The 500Mhz laptops at HyperTech computers > (87th & Farley) are right between $300-$400. > >300Mhz is decent enough for most things, not very good >for video (VideoCD-quality MPEG1 videos run fairly >well) but it will let me do basic graphics editing and >browse on the Internet without painful >"chuggachuggachugga" waits for the swap. > >Heh, wonder if there could be a system for buying >those $100 laptops from Third World Countries which >resembles the mail-order Canadian prescription drug >programs. > > It seems like there should be. While I applaud efforts like the MIT group working on building new $100 laptops ( http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ ), it would be nice to have a place to send things that corporations consider 'too slow to maintain productivity', whatever that is.

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Re: $100 laptop running Linux
by Leo Mauler 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

I have a PII-300Mhz I purchased for about $240 six months ago. The 500Mhz laptops at HyperTech computers (87th & Farley) are right between $300-$400. 300Mhz is decent enough for most things, not very good for video (VideoCD-quality MPEG1 videos run fairly well) but it will let me do basic graphics editing and browse on the Internet without painful "chuggachuggachugga" waits for the swap. Heh, wonder if there could be a system for buying those $100 laptops from Third World Countries which resembles the mail-order Canadian prescription drug programs. --- djgoku <djgoku(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 10:18 AM, Leo Mauler > <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Now all I need is a few of those available here... > :( > > > > I have a $60 laptop running Linux but I doubt > those > > $100 machines in Third World Countries are as > low-end > > as P90 laptops with 16MB RAM. > > I have a P75 w/ 8MB RAM card, with OBSD, the card > looks similar to a > pcmcia card but is for ram =). Runs kinda sllow =), > I wish you could > find a >500Mhz for $100. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Re: Gmail storage increase
by djgoku 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

djgoku <djgoku(a)gmail.com> 04/07/05 01:34PM >>> > You are currently using 37 MB (2%) of your 2068 MB. I swear it was at > 2061 MB yesterday. If you notice on there http://gmail.com page it is slowly going up wondering if they are still going to increase it. =) Anyone hear anything about this?

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Re: Gmail storage increase
by Jared 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

It's interesting to see the competition between how large a gmail account you can have. I delete all I can, trying to keep my mailbox(es) as trim as possible. About once a month I take time to delete everything I possibly can, keeping only items which still need a response somehow. My inbox currently has 53 items in it, my archive maybe 300 total, and that's only because I haven't had time to trim it more. I think it's because I learned email on a VMS/VAX with limited quotas. It also helps to reduce evidence that I'm completely barmy, which email seems to reveal more than other writing. -Jared

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Re: $100 laptop running Linux
by Brian Kelsay 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

You may be able to find a 100-300MHz on ebay for around a hundred. I actually have a working 120MHz w/ 32MB that I would let go for $100. It has a good screen (no bad pixels that I recall), great speakers, I'll throw a 2GB drive in and a 3COM NIC. Only problem will be getting the sound chip working. It's a Yamaha OPL3-Sax. There is a driver, but it takes some work to get it going. I may later have some other laptops for sale, but I have to test, etc. Brian Kelsay >>> djgoku <> 04/07/05 10:30AM >>> On Apr 7, 2005 10:18 AM, Leo Mauler <> wrote: > Now all I need is a few of those available here... :( > > I have a $60 laptop running Linux but I doubt those > $100 machines in Third World Countries are as low-end > as P90 laptops with 16MB RAM. I have a P75 w/ 8MB RAM card, with OBSD, the card looks similar to a pcmcia card but is for ram =). Runs kinda sllow =), I wish you could find a >500Mhz for $100.

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Re: $100 laptop running Linux
by Leo Mauler 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Now all I need is a few of those available here... :( I have a $60 laptop running Linux but I doubt those $100 machines in Third World Countries are as low-end as P90 laptops with 16MB RAM. --- JARiley(a)dstsystems.com wrote: > for third world children. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/04/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap/index.ht… __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Re: Update: was RE: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leo Mauler 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

The Ecasound project someone else did with a USB-controlled radio, used the date function in just the same way your script does it. I'll have to add that one in to the command, then figure out this "at" thingy. Incidentally, what is the command for viewing the list of "at" jobs pending? Obviously in cron you've already created a list using crontab which you can view with crontab as well, but I have never used the "at" command and don't know how it works. It does sound like "at" is the thing to use for these occasional recordings. Since "A Prairie Home Companion" sometimes repeats itself, its not always something I would want to record weekly. --- Jon Pruente <jdpruente(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I use the 'date' command under FreeBSD & csh to have > unique daily > wardriving logs: > > sudo dstumbler wi0 -m 60 -l ~/ds.log.`date +%Y%m%d` > -g /dev/cuaa0 -s > > Note the use of ` and not ' as the quote charater > for the embedded > command. I'm not positive of the use under your > sheel of choice, but > this gives me logs with names like ds.log.20050228 > so they sort by > date very well. > > Jon > > On Apr 3, 2005 9:59 AM, Leo Mauler > <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I'm still working out the MP3 tag commands in > LAME, as > > well as scripting the whole thing into using > unique > > filenames so I could leave it for two weeks > without > > overwriting the first week's recording. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Re: Storage drive problems
by Jack 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hmmm... this is disturbing a function that does something when the software is not installed rather than complain that the software isn't installed. This sounds like a flaw to me. Very disturbing. --- Justin Dugger wrote: > > ... After an IRC brainstorming session, I discovered > that the > reiserfsprogs had not been installed. As naive > user, I had assumed > that if I had access to a functioning program like > mkfs.reiserfs, then > that was all I needed. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Storage drive problems
by Brian Kelsay 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Should send a comment/bug report to the Debian Reiserfs pkg maintainers about a lack of dependency. Unless of course mkfs is able to make/format many filesystem types, whether installed or not. If you try to use jfs or xfs, please check that the tools for that filesystem are installed before hitting the panic button. ;-) 42. Brian Kelsay >>> Jack <> 04/06/05 11:09PM >>> Hmmm... this is disturbing a function that does something when the software is not installed rather than complain that the software isn't installed. This sounds like a flaw to me. Very disturbing. --- Justin Dugger wrote: > > ... After an IRC brainstorming session, I discovered > that the > reiserfsprogs had not been installed. As naive > user, I had assumed > that if I had access to a functioning program like > mkfs.reiserfs, then > that was all I needed. http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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NIST Amusements
by Jonathan Hutchins 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Someone on IRC yesterday pointed out an interesting phenomenon that made it to some news services today. It seems that if you telnet to port 78 or 79 of most Gov't time servers, you will get an amusing little result like this: D: D: My name is Doris: and my husband's name is David: We come from Denver: and we sell Dates:: 322-586-251-282-774-922-637 $ 0 1654 3000 8 1 0 0 or W: W: My name is Wanda: and my husband's name is William: We come from Washington: and we sell Water Melon:: 342-819-481-282-802-924-238 $ 0 1930 3000 8 1 0 0 Port 79 may ring a bell with some of you, that's the old "finger" protocol, from the days when the internet was about information wanting to be free. Here's the explanation, from Judah Levine of the Time and Frequency Divison, NIST Boulder: > 1. The first text is a pseudo-random text designed to confuse automated search engines (note the strategic colons). There are 16 poems and they are sent in a random sequence. The text is derived from a jump-rope game and has no special meaning. > 2. The remaining digits provide internal information on the operation of the server and are used for automated remote monitoring. All NIST servers do this. > 3. Most of the digits relate to complicated internal parameters. However, the first 3 values after the $ sign are easy to explain the first is the overall state of the server (0=ok,>0=various failures) the second is the time since the server was last calibrated (in sec), and the third is the nominal interval between calibrations (in sec) the remaining parameters have to do with the internal clock control of the system. Rats. No secret codes to speak of.

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