That's outstanding Trevor. Thanks.
Ian
Trevor Cordes wrote:
> I just wanted to follow up on the brief discussion
at the March meeting
> regarding faulty motherboard capacitors and the
related system
> instabilities.
>
> I have an info page set up on my site at
> http://www.tecnopolis.ca/tecnopolis/leakycaps.html
> where I detail the symptoms, the cause, and the
repair service I provide.
> Anyone who's good with a soldering gun should be
able to pull off the
> …
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>
> This may help out anyone who has a board (and brand)
from 2001-2002 that
> is doing weird things and provide a possible
solution without requiring a
> whole new board/CPU/RAM purchase and consequent OS
reinstall.
>
> -- Trevor Cordes
> -- Tecnopolis Enterprises
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>
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I just wanted to follow up on the brief discussion at the March meeting
regarding faulty motherboard capacitors and the related system
instabilities.
I have an info page set up on my site at
http://www.tecnopolis.ca/tecnopolis/leakycaps.html
where I detail the symptoms, the cause, and the repair service I provide.
Anyone who's good with a soldering gun should be able to pull off the
repair themselves.
This may help out anyone who has a board (and brand) from 2001-2002 that
is doing …
[View More]weird things and provide a possible solution without requiring a
whole new board/CPU/RAM purchase and consequent OS reinstall.
-- Trevor Cordes
-- Tecnopolis Enterprises
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I'm forwarding this, in case any of you are interested in the Usenix LISA
conference...
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:24:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Danielle Young <danielle(a)usenix.org>
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Subject: Call for Papers LISA'05
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Call For Papers
LISA '05: 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference
December 4-9, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/cfpa
Submissions Deadline: May 10, 2005
Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE
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Dear Colleague
The LISA '05 organizers invite you to contribute proposals for refereed papers, invited talks, and workshops, plus any ideas you have Guru Is In sessions, Work-in-Progress reports, and training sessions.
The Call for Participation with submission guidelines and sample
topics can be found on the USENIX Web site at http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/cfpa
The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice for system,
network, security, and other computing administrators.
Administrators of all specialties and levels of expertise meet at
LISA to exchange ideas, sharpen skills, learn new techniques,
debate current issues, and meet colleagues and friends.
People representing every work assignment from the full-time position
at a large site to the part-time one at a small shop come to LISA
from over 30 countries, bringing divergent backgrounds and experience
levels to the conference dedicated to them. System and network
administrators from environments as diverse as academia, large
corporations and small businesses, government organizations, and
research sites find LISA to be The Place to go for training,
education, networking, and interacting with their peers.
The conference's diverse group of participants is matched by an
equally broad spectrum of activities:
* Training sessions for both beginners and experienced attendees
cover many administrative topics ranging from basic administrative
procedures to using cutting-edge technologies.
* Technical sessions present the latest developments and ideas related
to system and network administration.
* Invited talks and panels discuss important and timely topics and
often spark lively debates and conversation.
* Work-in-progress reports (WiPs) provide brief peeks at next year's
innovations.
GET INVOLVED!
* Submit a draft paper or extended abstract proposal for a refereed paper.
* Suggest an invited talk speaker or a panel discussion topic.
* Share your experience by leading a Guru Is In session.
* Propose a training session topic.
* Organize or suggest a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session.
* Email an idea to the chair: lisa05chair(a)usenix.org
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: May 10, 2005
Notification to authors: June 2005
Final papers due: September 27, 2005
Submission guidelines and more information can be found at
http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/cfpa
Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE
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We look forward to hearing from you!
On behalf of the LISA '05 Program Committee,
David N. Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University CCIS
lisa05chair(a)usenix.org
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Manitoba NDP first major political party in North America to officially
endorse Free and Open Source Software:
http://plug.ca/article.php?story=20050321233431578
Regards,
Syd Weidman
Prairie Linux User Group
Some of us at yesterday's presentation by Bryan Cantrill on Solaris 10
were wondering how DTrace can instrument kernel code with no extra
speed overhead, or as he claimed, with zero probe effect, which is a
much stronger claim than just no time penalty.
The detailed answer is in their paper "Dynamic Instrumentation of
Production Systems" available here:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/dtrace_usenix.pdf
Here's the most relevant paragraph which explains how they do it for
Function …
[View More]Boundary Tracing on SPARC (x86 is not as clean, surprise,
surprise):
On SPARC, FBT [Function Boundary Tracing] works by replacing an
instruction with an unconditional annulled branch-always (ba,a)
instruction. The branch redirects control flow into an
FBT-controlled trampoline, which prepares arguments and transfers
control into DTrace. Upon return from DTrace, the replaced
instruction is executed in the trampoline before transferring
control back to the instrumented code path. This is a similar
mechanism to that used by Kerninst[13] -- but it is at once less
general (it instruments only function entry and return) and
completely safe (it will never erroneously instrument code executed
at TL>0).
How they did it for Statically-defined Tracing (section 4.2 in the
paper) is also interesting, and as they admit, not quite zero probe
effect because of potential register pressure on the compiler.
The paper is a good read, especially after the presentation.
Stuart Williams.
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I'm the guy who asked about the Pioneer 109 tonight. I did a little checking
on their site. Looks as though the firmware is up to date (the revision
number is the same as reported by cdrecord). Although the date of the update
is the day I bought the drive... Checking the FAQ it seems I may need an 80
pin cable (blue connectors) and I only have 40 pin cables (black connectors)
in my machine. I tried 24X and K3B said either the drive or media couldn't
handle that speed so it dropped back to …
[View More]4X. The drive is rated for 40X and
the media is rated for 48X. The next attempt is going to be 16X (which is
what I was getting from the previous DVD burner). The read/verify is
lightning quick though. cdrecord reports things the way they should be. I
checked some configuration files and they confirmed what the DVD drive was. I
haven't tried playing anything from it yet... Any thing I might have missed?
I'll probably try the update in a day or so.
Later
Mike
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If you are interested, please send your resume directly to the address
listed below (not to me).
-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Paulo Teves <pteves(a)realenetsolutions.com>
> Also, do you have any contacts with good software developers,
> experienced in open source technologies? Individuals that may be
> looking for some new employment opportunities? The reason why I ask
> is that we placed a career ad in the Free Press a few weeks ago, but I
> have been …
[View More]disappointed with the small number of good candidates. In
> the past I have interviewed many developers with experience in
> Microsoft technologies, and the number of qualified candidates was
> usually quite high.
--
John Lange
OpenIT ltd.
(204) 885 0872
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------ Forwarded Article <d028cr$ne6$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, March 8. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
MythTV
Shawn Wallbridge will be presenting on MythTV. MythTV turns your PC running
Linux into a personal video recorder, like a Tivo, with some neat …
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* Basic 'live-TV' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
* Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
* Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and
multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent
to the user.
* Compresses video in software using rtjpeg (from Nuppelvideo) or mpeg4
(from libavcodec). Full support for Hardware MPEG-2 encoder cards
(Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350). Preliminary support for DVB cards and the
new pcHDTV tuner card.
* Support for the (very nice looking) hardware MPEG-2 decoder and TV out
present on the Hauppauge PVR-350.
* Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping.
* Grabs program information using xmltv.
* A fully themeable menu to tie it all together.
Shawn will show how to get it all set up with the least amount of effort
using KnoppMyth, a Knoppix based MythTV installer.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
**********************************************************************
Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave.
(between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to
sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you
(in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15
PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or
you may not get in.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot
across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is
also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening.
**********************************************************************
For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/
Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce"
and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you
to subscribe now:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/
The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such
as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG
members.
The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics
discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other
topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective,
we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay
involved!
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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