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Now we all can enjoy the benifits of throughputs that were available only to the enterprise users. Hitachi has come out with SATA 2 drives and all the owners of nvidia nforce 4 chipset users can install these drives which give performance equal to scsi ultra 320 drives at a fraction of...
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All these days i have been thinking of setting up a home server. The main use will be to be on 24x7 with Data One, hold all the multimedia stuff, host apache and mail for the house and act as a central reposatory for all data files. So till now my trusted old p3 (866 512MB SDRAM Adaptec...
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I was just wondering that how have been your experence on bazee.com The thing is i am looking for a cpu that is available on bazee and i have placed a bid now the thing is about the payment part the seller asks for payment via cheque/atm/draft and will ship the cpu after recipt of the...
Hi guys has any one used a socket adapter for using a Tulatine(1.4G) on a p3Copper Mine board ? I found on the net that such adaptors are available that enable us (p3 nontulatine users) to jump up into the Ghz range. One such adaptor is the PowerLeap PL370 T. If some one can help me please...
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I got a SATA RAID Card today and tried to load debian on to it but the problem is that the distro does not recognise the sata disks has any one tried doing this ? The card is a ST Lab card using Si 3112A controller and i use seagate 160GB X 2 disk in RAID 1 Configration(actually i have...
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I got an old AGP ASUS (RIVA TNT 2 32MB) card from a friend and am tring to set it up on my linux machine running debian sarge kernel 2.6.8 . Every time i do a startx the x server crashes with a message "caught signal 11" I have installed the latest Nvidia driver 6629 and done all i...
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I have a strange problem. I have a debian (Sarge) setup, yesterday i added a usb disk and did a kudzu to get the config since then i am not able to start x or use my mouse my mouse is lost i have triel all the tricks i know like dedpkg-reconfigure xser....... and discover etc but am...
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which is better (and simple) qt, gtk or something else to make a gui for some program witten in C. The idea is to create a user interface containg buttons etc on a form. Are there objects like activex controls in windows that can be dropped on to the form for some functionality? I have...
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running the new versions of linux on a low end machine is a challange
and the major resource hogger is the window manager. I personaly like xfce or window maker but which is the lightest window manager according to you? I think fluxbox is a good contender what do you say.
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What do you think is the performance boost one expects if he upgrades his RAM from 512 MB to 1GB all other parameters remaining the same.
OS= win XP or Linux
Processor = P4 2.4 HT
mobo ASUS P4P800-VM (Dual Channel)
guys tell me does win xp 2002 with sp2 support hyperthreading. I was running si soft sandra and it reported that win xp 2002 does not support hyperthreading shift to xp 2003. is this true ?
So guys after days (years) of mulling over it, posting various queries in this forum i collected the will to go and buy myself a graphics card till now all i used are the onboard setup od 815 and 865 so with a fixed budget of 7000/- i went first to the ASUS dealer in bangalore aim to buy a 5700...
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I lost a partition of 40 GB in my 160Gb sata Hdd due to a power surge. I am not touching it can you guys help me recover it. Windows says it is a "raw" area and needs to be formatted. Actually i lost the mbr+grub these i was able to restore but i am scared to touch this area as i...
Hi Guys i was just wondering that are there any debian users out there. I am new to debian and seem to run into a wall every now and then. So being selfish and choosing a easer path i thought i can ask some nagging q in this forum.
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I had an offer to buy a SCSI CARD 2940U2W at a low cost of Rs 1000/- and i am tempted to take it up but i was wondering will it give a better performance over a sata disk that i am currently using (seagate 160gb 7200rpm 8mb buffer) on the SCSI CARD 2940U2W i plan to buy a 32 mb...
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Has any one tried to install solaris 9 x86 on a p4 machine? I have a p4 2.4 on a p4p800 MoBo 512 DDR 400 and 160 SATA hdd running win XP sp 2 and fedora core 2 (dual boot using grub). I was wondring that can solaris coexist with the above mentioned setup (on a seperate 40 GB...
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