April 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] 3D and Laptop

by Robert L Krawitz

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:42:38 -0400 From: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway(a)wpi.edu> I couldn't be more happy with my Dell Inspiron 8000 that I bought about 11 months ago (before the nVidia chipset was available, unfortunately). They now offer the choice between ATI or nVidia chipsets, and I couldn't speak more highly of Dell both for personal use and the large number we have at work. I'm using the 32MB version of the Rage 128 chipset, and it does DRI as well as I can expect it to, though I don't use it for much gaming beyond TuxRacer. My $0.02. Have you succeeded in making it (8K, which is what I have too) successfully resume from suspend with DRI turned on? If I turn on DRI (using either XF 4.1 or 4.2), the machine will not successfully resume from either suspend or hibernate to disk. I'm running SuSE 7.3. Overall, I really like the 8K also. The fit and finish is a bit subpar, and it's certainly a big, heavy machine, but in general it's very stable. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk(a)alum.mit.edu> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf(a)uunet.uu.net Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton

April 10, 2002

Re: [Wlug] 3D and Laptop

by Brian J. Conway

> Anyone have any recommendations for a linux laptop with 3D hardware > acceleration? I'm not particularly interested in the closed source > nvidia drivers so I'm leaning towards the Radeon 7500. I couldn't be more happy with my Dell Inspiron 8000 that I bought about 11 months ago (before the nVidia chipset was available, unfortunately). They now offer the choice between ATI or nVidia chipsets, and I couldn't speak more highly of Dell both for personal use and the large number we have at work. I'm using the 32MB version of the Rage 128 chipset, and it does DRI as well as I can expect it to, though I don't use it for much gaming beyond TuxRacer. My $0.02. Brian J. Conway bconway(a)wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

April 10, 2002

3D and Laptop

by Dennis Payne

Anyone have any recommendations for a linux laptop with 3D hardware acceleration? I'm not particularly interested in the closed source nvidia drivers so I'm leaning towards the Radeon 7500. Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com

April 10, 2002

REMINDER: Upcoming WLUG meeting

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting which will be held this coming Thursday, April 11th, at 7 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA. At this meeting, WLUG member Tim Keller will describe to us a problem he had with Linux and how he chose to modify his copy of the Linux kernel to add a new signal to solve the problem. This talk will cover some kernel internals and programming. A more detailed abstract can be found on the WLUG website. There will be a raffle as well. Addison Wesley sent me a copy of a book entitled "Embedded Linux - Hardware, Software, and Interfacing" which I'll give to the lucky raffle winner. There is no cost to be in the raffle. I'd also like to entertain a discussion regarding content for future meetings. Here are some thoughts which I had: a) bakeoff between VMware, Win4Lin, and Bochs b) KDE3 c) representative from FSF to discuss GPL and free software d) Maddog e) SuSE 8.0 Please think about this and bring your thoughts to the meeting. If you're bashful or unable to attend the meeting, send them to me via e-mail. Afterwards, we'll make our ever popular pilgrimage to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer, good Linux talk, bashing of evil empires, and the like. We always have a great time so if you've never joined us after a meeting, now would be a good time to start! See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

April 9, 2002

Re: Wlug digest, Vol 1 #292 - 2 msgs

by JRame17173＠aol.com

Please be advised, my e-mail address has changed. It is now rame620(a)charter.net. Thanks, Jim

April 9, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Linux and NTFS on XP

by Michael Frysinger

ntfs read support is in the kernel ... as for write support it exists but i have never used it. i use ntfs read support all the time w/out a prob -mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <jfmurphy(a)charter.net> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 18:50 Subject: [Wlug] Linux and NTFS on XP > In Linux dual boot systems you can mount the Win98 side drive to read > and write using vfat. Question, if you run Win2000 or XP with a NTFS > type file system can you still access the drives from the Linux side. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 9, 2002

Linux and NTFS on XP

by John

In Linux dual boot systems you can mount the Win98 side drive to read and write using vfat. Question, if you run Win2000 or XP with a NTFS type file system can you still access the drives from the Linux side.

April 8, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > Hah... too bad in my industry, incompetence is pretty common. And > the more incompetent, the more likely you are to be promoted. So > the most incompetent ones are the ones I can't afford to ignore. ;) "The opinions of expressed are not the opinions of my employer" =) But yeah, I can see what you mean. :) -- Josh Huber

April 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Chuck Homic

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:01:11PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > Yeah, I guess I look at it a different way -- if they're too > incompetent to hit "reply" in their email client, I probably don't > want to talk to them anyway... Hah... too bad in my industry, incompetence is pretty common. And the more incompetent, the more likely you are to be promoted. So the most incompetent ones are the ones I can't afford to ignore. ;) > With TMDA you can use the tmda-pending utility to show a list of > messages which are unconfirmed. Some people seem to like having cron > send them a daily list of messages in the unconfirmed list. (or, > perhaps a list of new messages in the pending directory...) That's a good point. If I don't want to make people reply to confirmation messages, I could simply run a whitelist by default, /dev/null all the blacklisted items, and inspect the "purgatory" spool once a week or so to update both lists. -Chuck

April 6, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RBL access

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > TMDA looks interesting, but despite all the propaganda for > whitelist-only, I really don't want to risk losing a contact because > someone didn't understand, or bother to reply to the autogenerated > response. Yeah, I guess I look at it a different way -- if they're too incompetent to hit "reply" in their email client, I probably don't want to talk to them anyway... > As it is now, my junk is routed to a junk spool that I check on a > somewhat-weekly basis, just to make sure I didn't accidentally junk > a message from a potential customer, or other business contact > that's just lame enough to send a spam-looking message from his > Yahoo account. (Yeah, it happens!!) With TMDA you can use the tmda-pending utility to show a list of messages which are unconfirmed. Some people seem to like having cron send them a daily list of messages in the unconfirmed list. (or, perhaps a list of new messages in the pending directory...) So, it's not like you never get the chance to see the message. You can look in the list and say, oh...release that message for me. (etc.) > Spamassassin looks cool, but I don't admin the machine where my mail > is processed, so it may be a while before I can set that up. ;) > (It's actually a Redhat 5.1 system that hasn't been touched since > Redhat 5.1 was brand new. We've only installed security upgrades.) Yeah, I haven't tried it, but I've also heard good things about spamassassin. ttyl, -- Josh Huber

April 6, 2002