December 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Big Package

by Gary＠home

Please excuse the slightly off-topic comment from this AMD fan-boy... But *if* Sun gains any traction selling these machines the stock could appeciate nicely...maybe even spectacularly. Now is a nice time buy while the stock is relatively cheap if you can tolerate the risk, which is significant. -- Gary Chuck Haines wrote: >Yea, I installed KDE. Just to test the system compiling, we did >various -jXX to see what would happen. At -j100 to gcc the system >load avg was about 50, however the system was as responsive as if >there was no load average, it was awesome. We finally got the load >average to over 200 when the machine finally starting having severe >lag problems. > >CH > > >On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:26:14 -0500, Gary at home <gary(a)hanley.net> wrote: > > >>Awesome! I'm jealous. >> >>How about Gnome or KDE? >> >>-- Gary >> >> >> >>Chuck Haines wrote: >> >> >> >>>Can anyone suggest a really big package to compile on a Sun 64 bit >>>operton machine? We just got a new one and I want to test it out. >>> >>>CH >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > >

Dec. 10, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Big Package

by Chuck Haines

Yea, I installed KDE. Just to test the system compiling, we did various -jXX to see what would happen. At -j100 to gcc the system load avg was about 50, however the system was as responsive as if there was no load average, it was awesome. We finally got the load average to over 200 when the machine finally starting having severe lag problems. CH On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:26:14 -0500, Gary at home <gary(a)hanley.net> wrote: > Awesome! I'm jealous. > > How about Gnome or KDE? > > -- Gary > > > > Chuck Haines wrote: > > >Can anyone suggest a really big package to compile on a Sun 64 bit > >operton machine? We just got a new one and I want to test it out. > > > >CH > > > > > > > > -- Chuck Haines chaines(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------- Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity http://www.tkezm.org WPI Class of 2005 http://www.wpi.edu ------------------------------------------- AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 ------------------------------------------- GPG Fingerprint: 303A AB50 4EA9 70ED 2E30 2368 C9CD CCB5 4BD7 0989 GPG Key: http://www.maxslack.com/gpgkey.txt

Dec. 10, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Big Package

by Gary＠home

Awesome! I'm jealous. How about Gnome or KDE? -- Gary Chuck Haines wrote: >Can anyone suggest a really big package to compile on a Sun 64 bit >operton machine? We just got a new one and I want to test it out. > >CH > > >

Dec. 10, 2004

Reminder: Guest Speaker 'maddog'

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI everybody, The next WLUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 15th at 7:00 PM. Our guest speaker will be Jon 'maddog' Hall, the Executive Director of Linux International, and his topic will be: "The Many Ways of Making Money with Free and Open Source" Details about the talk, and some biographical information about our speaker, can be found on the WLUG home page. maddog is a great speaker who has spoken at several WLUG meetings in the past. His talks are always quite informative and entertaining, and the response from the WLUG membership has been overwhelmingly positive. There is a reasonable probability that the meeting location will move. If so, I'll let you know, and I'll also have a sign posted at the Access Grid room if we do move elsewhere on campus. For now, assume that we'll be in the usual place. Bring your friends! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBuP1hHl0iXDssISsRAkHHAJ9n3VutYSp/NYpLuE3aktHJ7nQWwQCeOfRX GZS/95jLP0UPNadePoV63Xo= =NEY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 10, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Big Package

by Mike Frysinger

On Thursday 09 December 2004 02:59 pm, Brian J. Conway wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Chuck Haines wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a really big package to compile on a Sun 64 bit > > operton machine? We just got a new one and I want to test it out. > > Mozilla? OpenOffice.org? hello.c? moz is good ... OOo.org is a REAL good test (on a 1gig G4 w/1gig off ram it easilly takes over 24hours) from the sounds of it though, i think you want to measure your vpenis ... http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/vpenis -mike

Dec. 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Big Package

by Brian J. Conway

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Chuck Haines wrote: > Can anyone suggest a really big package to compile on a Sun 64 bit > operton machine? We just got a new one and I want to test it out. Mozilla? OpenOffice.org? hello.c? Brian J. Conway bconway(at)alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

Dec. 9, 2004

Big Package

by Chuck Haines

Can anyone suggest a really big package to compile on a Sun 64 bit operton machine? We just got a new one and I want to test it out. CH -- Chuck Haines chaines(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------- Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity http://www.tkezm.org WPI Class of 2005 http://www.wpi.edu ------------------------------------------- AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 ------------------------------------------- GPG Fingerprint: 303A AB50 4EA9 70ED 2E30 2368 C9CD CCB5 4BD7 0989 GPG Key: http://www.maxslack.com/gpgkey.txt

Dec. 9, 2004

Printing problems

by Don Peterson

Hi All, I am having trouble when printing big batches of documents, these are over 20 pages. Everything starts off fine, but then printing stops usually around page 18 to page 22. If I reprint the batch a different number of pages will print, but never all of them. Like I said I usually get anywhere between 18 to 22 pages. I've noticed if I restart the lpd service I can get the batch to reprint fully once. But then when the next batch prints I start having trouble again. Does anyone know if there is a spool limit with lpd? I know you are going to say use CUPS, but I don't want to mess around with my production servers if I don't have to. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanx, Don

Dec. 1, 2004