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recording 78's onto a digital format
by Mel Seder 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

I purchased some Jim Crow blues songs on 78's on eBay and would like to put them on a CD. I'd be glad to pay someone that knows what they are doing for help. Has anyone done this before? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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md5sum
by Ian Timshel 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Hi all. How do I get the md5sum numbers for the ftp.muug.mb.ca site? I look but I do not see... Cheers! Ian.

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LCD tips tricks and traps
by Mel Seder 19 Jun '03

19 Jun '03

The following info came from TLUG I didn't do the math but I think I understand what is being said. Are the native resolutions determined by the factory (hardware) or can software settings manipulate native resolutions? On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:38:40PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote > Actually the only real issue with LCD screens is: > > Only use the native resolution and never use anything else, unless it is > an exact integer divisor of the native resolution. > > So a 1600x1200 LCD can be used at 800x600 as well, and 400x300, but you > really don't want any others. > > A 1280x1024 LCD on the other hand has basically no other reasonable > resolutions it can display. ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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LCD Monitors
by Mel Seder 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

This is a two part question. Help on either or both will be appreciated. I have a ViewSonic P 801 (non LCD 21" monster, weights lots). For the past week or so the screen blooms (not all content shows on screen some of the graphics are off the edges and it Is so dim you can harley read it. The Monitors input box is very very blurry. Explaining his to a Viewsonic help desk guy he said I have a monitor issue and it's probably not worth fixing. I'd like to get a LCD I was at future shop and saw several there the one that caught my eye was a 19" Sony. I use Linux. Does anyone has some thoughts or advice about LCD displays? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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XP and Red Hat 9
by millward 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

Can anyone give me some pointers as to how to get XP and Red Hat 9 ( or any other distribution of Linux ) to co-exist on the same system in the same hard drive? I've downloaded the Linux and Windows HOWTO, but it doesn't seem to cover XP. The only windoze I've got experience with is 95/98. They were no problem, but I think I need more information before trying an XP Linux mix. I want to use GRUB for booting. The motherboard is an ASUS NVIDIA A7N8X. Athlon 2500 one Gig ram. 80 Gig HD Any information would be very welcome. I don't want to make a mess of this.

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MUUG Meeting, June 10, 7:30PM -- Linux Clusters
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <bbig27$32j$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, June 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Linux Clusters The ability to cluster servers is one of the biggest steps toward acceptance of Linux in mission-critical applications. There are multiple clustering products available, and Red Hat now bundles two different types with their Enterprise server product. Clustering can increase both the reliability and the scalability of many different types of applications. Adam Thompson will be our presenter for this month. Three types of clustering will be discussed (Failover, LVS & Beowulf) and some typical examples of each will be presented. 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 new 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 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Strange behaviour of hard drive
by Bill Reid 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Just bought a couple of WDC SE hard drives and running them in a software RAID 1 configuration. One drive is often not recognised at boot up. It does not happen all the time but occassionally on reset. After not being recongnised it requires a power cycle to get it back. It does not matter whether it is on the primary or secondary IDE. Has anyone seen this behaviour. Thanks, Bill

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Re: Hollerith Hijinks
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 30 May '03

30 May '03

According to Michael Doob: > A gigabyte of punch cards? > > I just happen to have a box of cards on my desk (some guys just > *never* get around to cleaning up). I took a batch and > really squished them tight: this gave me 60 cards per centimeter. > That means 60*100*80 = 2^8*3*5^4 = 480000 bytes/meter (I never > use FORTRAN anymore :-)). So our gigabyte > of data stands > > 1024*1024*1024/480000 = 2^(22)/(3*5^4) meters = 2^(19)/(3*5^7) km ~ 2.24 km > > tall, at least without gravity to compress everything. Of course, all of you have been basing your calculations on the assumption that a gigabyte is 1024^3 (or 2^30), which I suppose would make more sense to us old timers. However, the new standard is to actually respect the old SI standards, and use kilo-, mega-, and giga- to represent powers of 1000. (I.e. 10^3, 10^6, and 10^9, respectively.) See the following... http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html This would somewhat reduce the length (or height), volume, and weight estimates given. Or, we could restate the question to ask how much a gibibyte (yuck!) of punch cards would be... > Now who is the lucky guy who has to retrieve the top one off the stack? Or who's the poor operator who has to feed them all through the card reader? -- 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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Re: Roundtable digest, Vol 1 #195 - 6 msgs
by Michael Doob 30 May '03

30 May '03

A gigabyte of punch cards? I just happen to have a box of cards on my desk (some guys just *never* get around to cleaning up). I took a batch and really squished them tight: this gave me 60 cards per centimeter. That means 60*100*80 = 2^8*3*5^4 = 480000 bytes/meter (I never use FORTRAN anymore :-)). So our gigabyte of data stands 1024*1024*1024/480000 = 2^(22)/(3*5^4) meters = 2^(19)/(3*5^7) km ~ 2.24 km tall, at least without gravity to compress everything. Now who is the lucky guy who has to retrieve the top one off the stack? Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob(a)umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [RndTbl] Hey, old-timers!
by pgraham＠cs.umanitoba.ca 30 May '03

30 May '03

I just did the volume computation but don't have scales here to weigh my card boxes (yes, I still have a few since they are great for grocery lists). Sorry to not be able to provide that bit of trivia. Peter According to Gilles Detillieux: > > According to Glen Ditchfield: > > How big would a gigabyte of punched cards be? > > Well, 2^30/80 is 13,421,773 cards. Anyone remember how many cards fit > in one of those big flat boxes they came in? If it was 5000, it would > take 2,685 of these boxes to store a gig. What weight and volume that > would occupy, I couldn't say at this point. Trouble with us old timers > is our memory starts to fail. :-P Anyone still have one of those big > flat boxes of cards? > > -- > Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca> > Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ > Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > -- Dr. Peter C.J. Graham <pgraham(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> or Associate Professor <pgraham(a)acm.org> Computer Science Phone: +1 (204) 474-8837 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB Fax: +1 (204) 474-7609 Canada R3T 2N2 URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pgraham/ PGP key: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pgraham/pgp_key

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