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Re: [Wlug] AMD Details Strategic Open Source Graphics Driver Development Initiative

by kstratton＠fastmail.us

I am al little unfamiliar with ATI and their video cards(chips) numbering system. Does releasing information of the HD 2000 series mean all 2X00 HD cards may be supportable in the future with an open source video driver? If this is the case, cards like the HD 2600 XT may start looking more attractive than lets say an 7300 or 7600 Nvidia card. I currently use www.tomshardware.com and www.anandtech.com for a general overview of PC technology. Are there any other sites worth looking at? I am not a hard core gamer (For me to spend $300 on a video card is ridiculous), but I am interested in affordable and power efficient technology. On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:41:16 -0400, "Andy Stewart" <andystewart(a)comcast.net> said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Interesting reading: > http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~119372,00… > > - -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) > Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) > Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFG4bdsHl0iXDssISsRAj7bAJ0Zrnmt+OZfcOcCM/BNnFokdcBg+ACfQJVS > LpZyqlOLvo5OgfYRvMgOs20= > =GvlO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- kstratton(a)fastmail.us

Sept. 9, 2007

AMD Details Strategic Open Source Graphics Driver Development Initiative

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Interesting reading: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~119372,00… - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG4bdsHl0iXDssISsRAj7bAJ0Zrnmt+OZfcOcCM/BNnFokdcBg+ACfQJVS LpZyqlOLvo5OgfYRvMgOs20= =GvlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by John Stoffel

Brett> The advertised price for the triple play is a 12 mo promo of Brett> $106/mo plus taxes & fees. Is that what you have? I guess Brett> when I see a bill that high (and going higher after a year) Brett> it's hard to get excited about how much I'm *saving* :-) I'm Brett> sure it's worth it for some people though. I've gotten the 5mb down, 512kb down Internet, plus Phone (unlimited calling in the US, plus 6c/min for Internation calls to Switzerland/UK) plus Digital Cable with the Total View Tier (BBC America mostly... :] all for $119.97/mon for 12 months. Then it will go up (hah!) to something like $133/mon. Considering that I was already paying $106+ a month for Cable/Internet, plus $50ish for Verizon phone, I'm feeling ok about it. Yes, I'm saving money, plus we'll all Call Waiting without having to pay extra for it like we would with Verizon, etc. But I will say that researching this was a total pain in the ass while looking at the Charter Web site. They really don't make it easy to figure out which channels are in which tiers, what the various (Big, bigger and biggest!) channel bundles really are, etc. It's a friggin maze of useless info which you have to dig deep into to figure out. Oh yeah, and if you read the fine print, if you over use your "unlimited" phone calling, they get to pull your service if they want. So be careful if you have teenagers in the house. :] Luckily, my 5 year old doesn't have anyone to call. Yet. :] John

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by John Stoffel

Robert> Flood? Backhoe? Heh. I'm in an old sand & gravel pit. We *never* flood. *grin* But I take your point. Backhoes, the enemy of connectivity!

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Brett Russ

On 9/6/07, John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > > Frank> Yup - I got the whole triple play bundle, with a fedora 7 box > Frank> as firewall. > > I've just sprung for the bundle as well. I'm going to save a bunch of > money, even on international (rarely done) calls, since they're just 6 > cents a minute. If they haven't lied to me. :] The advertised price for the triple play is a 12 mo promo of $106/mo plus taxes & fees. Is that what you have? I guess when I see a bill that high (and going higher after a year) it's hard to get excited about how much I'm *saving* :-) I'm sure it's worth it for some people though.

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Robert L Krawitz

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:34:46 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" <john(a)stoffel.org> Sean> Verizon for all their faults is very good about getting you Sean> reconnected if there is a line down. I could be mistaken, but I Sean> believe that they are required by law to do certain levels of Sean> service. They are required to *try*. Also, my neighborhood is all underground lines, so I only need to worry about the other umpteen miles of wires in the air going down. Flood? Backhoe? -- Robert Krawitz <rlk(a)alum.mit.edu> 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 Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Scott Venier

John Stoffel wrote: > > They are required to *try*. Also, my neighborhood is all underground > lines, so I only need to worry about the other umpteen miles of wires in > the air going down. > Don't discount the possibility of a neighbor and a backhoe. :) Many the famous large internet outages have been underground fiber cuts. Scott

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by John Stoffel

Sean> Are there issues with regards to guarantee of service when you Sean> go whole hog onto Cable? Sure, there are potentials that I could lose it all. But in the 9 years I've been in the house, I haven't lost cable for more than a few hours, and that was a few years ago. The past results do not predict the future, yadda yadda..." *grin* Sean> Verizon for all their faults is very good about getting you Sean> reconnected if there is a line down. I could be mistaken, but I Sean> believe that they are required by law to do certain levels of Sean> service. They are required to *try*. Also, my neighborhood is all underground lines, so I only need to worry about the other umpteen miles of wires in the air going down. Sean> I have a friend in Leicester, whose street lost the Charter Sean> Cable line last Friday and they restored it Wednesday Sean> morning. That would be a long time to be without phone service. We both have Cell phones, so it would be an inconvenience, but not the end of the world. It would be worse for my wife because she a) roots for the red sox and b) works from home doing web mistress stuff. Sean> I'm in Shrewsbury, so we have municipal electric, cable, Sean> internet connectivity, and they are starting to offer VOIP as Sean> well. Are they required to offer certain levels of service and to get things working again as quickly as Verizon? Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing you here, I'm trying to just point out that noone can guaranttee perfect uptime in any service. In Boylston we have town Power. I'd love for the town to allow Verizon Fios in with full phone, internet and TV support. Then I could shop for the best deal between them and Charter. Competition is good. Anyway, it's an experiment in some ways. Saving money is nice, but if worse comes to worse, I punt and move back to Verizon for phone. Sean> John Stoffel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently >> got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky >> all the time, esp when it rains. >> >> So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter. >> I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild >> about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet >> another set top box to have to deal with... >> >> So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> Sean> _______________________________________________ Sean> Wlug mailing list Sean> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Sean> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Sean> !DSPAM:46e18bf595945955411388!

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Sean Flynn

Are there issues with regards to guarantee of service when you go whole hog onto Cable? Verizon for all their faults is very good about getting you reconnected if there is a line down. I could be mistaken, but I believe that they are required by law to do certain levels of service. I have a friend in Leicester, whose street lost the Charter Cable line last Friday and they restored it Wednesday morning. That would be a long time to be without phone service. I'm in Shrewsbury, so we have municipal electric, cable, internet connectivity, and they are starting to offer VOIP as well. John Stoffel wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently > got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky > all the time, esp when it rains. > > So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter. > I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild > about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet > another set top box to have to deal with... > > So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service? > > Thanks, > John > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Oh my gawd.. What do I do now?

by Chuck Anderson

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:33:21AM -0400, Ken Jones wrote: > The XP side of the machine works fine, but it crashes overnight. > Where do I start? What do I do? Can I save the linux half of the > hard drive? It's probably too late. You already have data corruption due to the failed hard drive. First of all, stop using the drive immediately. Get a new one and only connect the old one for rescue purposes, and only try to read from it, not write. You could try using a rescue utility like "ddrescue" or the other one "GNU ddrescue" (yes there are two with the same name) to copy the good sectors to a new hard drive or file, then use a utility like "foremost" to carve the original files out of it if it won't mount normally. If you want to try modifying the copy, make a second copy and always keep the original unmodified copy in case further modifications, fsck, etc. messes it up even more. Next time, make sure to set up smartmontools (smartd) to email you when a hard drive starts to fail, and perhaps get a second hard drive and mirror it using Linux software RAID. If you use Linux software RAID, setup mdadm monitor (mdmonitor) to email you if you have a failed device in the RAID set. These email monitoring steps are crucial, since if you have redundancy, you might not otherwise notice a single failed device until the second one fails, and by then it is too late. I just had a hard drive fail and lost no data thanks to a RAID 1 mirror and mdmonitor/smartd.

Sept. 7, 2007