HI gang,
Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking about asking Santa for a portable
MP3 player. Of course, it needs to work with Linux.
Judging from the looks of the CDs which I've ripped into MP3 files, 32 MB
of memory looks like it might be a tad small for a single CD, while 64 MB
looks like it might do the trick for loading up around 2 CDs worth of
music. Is this a fair assessment? Since I use compact flash for my
digital camera, any MP3 player that uses this medium should probably …
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extra consideration, I would think.
Any thoughts or recommendations will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Andy
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This worked perfectly!
Thanks,
Tim!
-----Original Message-----
From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:felicity@kluge.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:14 PM
To: Worcester Linux User's Group
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Forcing scsi probe on the fly...
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:50:01PM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote:
> Does anybody know with Redhat 7.1 (using 2.4.2-2) if theirs a way to force
> the scsi chain to rescan its bus (without an unload/reload) of the module?
>
> so far, I haven't …
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Unless something's changed, Linux doesn't have the capability to do that yet
(the last time I checked, there needs to be some extra functionality added
to
the kernel SCSI code).
Whenever I had to add a device live, there's a thing with /proc/scsi/scsi
that you can do (this is from the SCSI Programming HOWTO):
Dynamically insert and remove SCSI devices
If a newer kernel and the /proc file system is running, a non-busy device
can
be removed and installed 'on the fly'.
To remove a SCSI device:
echo "scsi remove-single-device a b c d" > /proc/scsi/scsi
and similar, to add a SCSI device, do
echo "scsi add-single-device a b c d" > /proc/scsi/scsi
where
a == hostadapter id (first one being 0)
b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0)
c == ID
d == LUN (first one being 0)
There's also a script which tries to automate this kind of stuff:
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
I've never tried it, but I've seen it mentioned on a few mailing lists that
I
monitor.
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I put together a RedHat 7.1 machine recently and was surprised to find
that linuxconf was not part of the default installation. It's clearly
improved over older versions of linuxconf, so why isn't it installed?
Anyone know why?
Thanks,
Bill
Does anybody know with Redhat 7.1 (using 2.4.2-2) if theirs a way to force
the scsi chain to rescan its bus (without an unload/reload) of the module?
so far, I haven't found something like HPUX's ioscan.
Thanks,
Tim.
I've had really good luck with Verizon DSL (get about 70-80k a second + no
down time). In Worcester you might want to check out Speakeasy. A couple
people in WLUG use them and are happy.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo Gomes [mailto:gomes_k@dr.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:27 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
Hey there,
I'm looking for a Cable or a DSL ISP's in Worcester (June Street). I've had
a chance to see my brother's AOL PLUS …
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contact Charter to install pipeline, but they never answer the e-mail. If
someone knows a good ISP, let me know!
Thanks.
Rod.
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Thanks for the help guys!!!
I think I'll sign up for speakeasy, is looking good.
Once again, tkz!
Rod.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Rodrigo Gomes" <gomes_k(a)dr.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:26:36 +0800
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
> Hey there,
> I'm looking for a Cable or a DSL ISP's in Worcester (June Street). I've had a chance to see my brother's AOL PLUS DSL, and it sucks. I also tried to contact Charter to install pipeline, but …
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>
> Thanks.
> Rod.
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I have Charter in Holden, and it's been excellent. I would
call them though... it still takes about 10 minutes to get
through, but I have only had to call them once with a
problem in the past year. The speed & reliability are
great, but the phone/service are pretty slow.
jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo Gomes [mailto:gomes_k@dr.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:27 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
Hey there,
I'm looking for a …
[View More]Cable or a DSL ISP's in Worcester (June Street). I've had
a chance to see my brother's AOL PLUS DSL, and it sucks. I also tried to
contact Charter to install pipeline, but they never answer the e-mail. If
someone knows a good ISP, let me know!
Thanks.
Rod.
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I agree with Tim. PPPoE is a pain, but if you have a router (Linksys
Befsr41) it's essentially transparent except for maybe a few % performance.
Still great compared to 56k.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keller, Tim [mailto:Tim.Keller@stratus.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:17 AM
To: 'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org'
Subject: RE: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
Hey, when my point of reference was a 56k modem that got a sustained
throughput of 5kb a second, crappy DSL will always be better …
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modem service.
I agree that the PPPoE stuff is crap. As for the NAT stuff, I'm using a
netgear RP114 that provides DHCP/NAT/PPPoE plus it does port forwarding of
ssh to my linux box and I'm yet to have a problem.
Though as always, don't call the tech support, you'd have better luck
jabbing a chopstick in your eye.
As for Clint's comment, my parents have charter and haven't had a problem
except that now everybody has charter in the neighborhood it gets useless
from around 7pm to 9pm. So its stable, but the speed fluctuates greatly.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles R . Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:00 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote:
Tim.Keller> I've had really good luck with Verizon DSL (get about 70-80k a
second + no
Tim.Keller> down time). In Worcester you might want to check out Speakeasy.
A couple
Tim.Keller> people in WLUG use them and are happy.
Yuck. Verizon uses PPPoE, a broken-by-design protocol (sort of like
PPTP, which is also broken by design). You will have performance
problems if you try to use NAT with PPPoE due to the reduced MTU.
I also highly recommend Speakeasy. They are best-of-breed as far as DSL
companies go.
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Hey, when my point of reference was a 56k modem that got a sustained
throughput of 5kb a second, crappy DSL will always be better than great
modem service.
I agree that the PPPoE stuff is crap. As for the NAT stuff, I'm using a
netgear RP114 that provides DHCP/NAT/PPPoE plus it does port forwarding of
ssh to my linux box and I'm yet to have a problem.
Though as always, don't call the tech support, you'd have better luck
jabbing a chopstick in your eye.
As for Clint's comment, my parents have …
[View More]charter and haven't had a problem
except that now everybody has charter in the neighborhood it gets useless
from around 7pm to 9pm. So its stable, but the speed fluctuates greatly.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles R . Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:00 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote:
Tim.Keller> I've had really good luck with Verizon DSL (get about 70-80k a
second + no
Tim.Keller> down time). In Worcester you might want to check out Speakeasy.
A couple
Tim.Keller> people in WLUG use them and are happy.
Yuck. Verizon uses PPPoE, a broken-by-design protocol (sort of like
PPTP, which is also broken by design). You will have performance
problems if you try to use NAT with PPPoE due to the reduced MTU.
I also highly recommend Speakeasy. They are best-of-breed as far as DSL
companies go.
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Verizon got a lot of bad press (probably deserved) but for the past 8 months
at least my service in Framingham has been very solid. The news servers are
so slow as to be almost useless and there's a funny restriction about what
domain must be used to send e-mail, but neither of those really affect me.
Check out http://www.dslreports.com for tons of info on dsl.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keller, Tim [mailto:Tim.Keller@stratus.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:26 AM
To: 'wlug(a)…
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Subject: RE: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
I've had really good luck with Verizon DSL (get about 70-80k a second + no
down time). In Worcester you might want to check out Speakeasy. A couple
people in WLUG use them and are happy.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo Gomes [mailto:gomes_k@dr.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:27 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
Hey there,
I'm looking for a Cable or a DSL ISP's in Worcester (June Street). I've had
a chance to see my brother's AOL PLUS DSL, and it sucks. I also tried to
contact Charter to install pipeline, but they never answer the e-mail. If
someone knows a good ISP, let me know!
Thanks.
Rod.
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