Posts by alc6379

first, to see if it works, as root, try:

modprobe sis900

From there, you'd have to figure out how to get your particular distribution to load that module. I think with Debian you just add "sis900" to your /etc/modules file.

You're going to be out of luck-- Gmail only allows 10MB email attachments, IIRC. Why do you need them zipped, anyways? You're not going to save that much space...

Okay. I've gotten a little confused as this thread went on, but there was some nuggets of info at the start.

I've got a Dell laptop with WinXP home. I want to be able to dual-boot into FreeBSD as well. Everything I have read to this point has said that the partitioner in fbsd does not support NTFS, which is what my machine is in now.

How can I turn this POS into a dual-boot fbsd/winxp machine, without having to wipe and start from scratch? It looks like using Partition Magic is not the way to go, but it was the way I've been thinking of going. Seeing as how this is a laptop, adding a new drive isn't possible.

Here's the basic specs of my machine:
30 GB drive (16 used)
NTFS partition
512 MB memory

Is it possible to repartition the hard drive, keeping my current data intact, so that I can install fbsd? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

If there's some Linux-based tool to resize partitions that you can run from a LiveCD, you can use it, then install FreeBSD. Otherwise, you might just want to wipe and reinstall.

Thought about writing a device driver for Linux, perhaps?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565922921/102-0604966-5473715?v=glance

This book has a really neat example of how you could write a kernel device interface to the system's memory. You could be really ambitious, and try to write a full-fledged device driver, or you could just write some kind of simple device driver to a serial device, or something. It sounds like you have enough interests there to get you started with some kind of project...

correct. Terminal server has existed for a decade or so at least.

Have you seen Virtual Server? It's pretty neat. I use it to test out server configurations before really implementing them:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/default.mspx

Imagine it's like VMware or Virtual PC, but it's all web-based, using VNC to do all the display work. It works flawlessly with NT, 2000, 2003, and even XP installs I've done. If it could run Linux, and more important to me, the *BSDs, that would be really neat.

I didn´t get one with my Dell notebook...

When did you buy it? They started eliminating media from their systems the same time they started shipping SP2. Regardless, if you call them up, you can get the CDs you're supposed to have .

I'm not entirely sure that we should be discussing this here. Windows XP Pro is designed to only accept 10 incoming connections. Christian is right-- it's like trying to tow a large boat with a Ford Pinto. There's not a registry tweak, as it is something that Microsoft coded into the operating system as a hard-set limit, to keep people from using XP Pro as a server. That would obviously cut profits from their Server 2003 sales.

Simple fact of the matter is, Christian's advice was dead-on. Either pick up a real server operating system, like Server 2000/2003 that can support more concurrent users, or go with Linux and a Samba configuration, where you set how many users can connect at once. The limit we're discussing is for the system as a whole-- 10 users total, not for each share. So, 5 file shares does not mean 50 users could attach-- it means you could have 2 users on each share, or 6 users on one share, and 1 on each of the others.

They used to include a recovery CD; hopefully they still do that.

You can get one, but you usually have to call and ask for one...

What compiler/interpreter do you use to run this code?

What exactly are you having trouble with? Please post code you've created, and we can help you troubleshoot it.

I can back this up; Dell has been shipping SP2 on their systems since about late September.

Have you tried changing your screen resolution? What resolution are you currently running?

You might want to look at setting up some kind of VPN connection or something with your work machine, or something. From the sounds of it, they're running some kind of NAT on their own off of a T1 line or something, and you're not able to forward any ports. In a case like this, it would be ideal if you could set up some kind of VPN connection.

I gave my expired trial to someone today and it apparently worked!! So if anyone has any, dont throw them away before trying to use them. ;)

Um... You didn't have to give them your credit card number or anything, did you? I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out you end up getting charged for it.

Besides, activites like you've described aren't legal, really. Closing thread!

You can do it

EEEEEEEEEEEBBBBAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

Seriously, though. If you need it, you may as well save up the cash for it and buy it retail...

It might be a limitation in the audio hardware.

What system are you running?

Question 1:
It's called a converter. If you're talking 80-pin SCA to 50-pin, it should work fine. You can get them on ebay for under $10 US, shipped, even. I've got an 80-pin to 68-pin adapter on a 10,000RPM Ultra SCSI drive, and it's pretty nice, I must say.

Also, you probably would do well to pick up an LVD controller. I'm not entirely sure what the speed increase would be, but it's bound to spank the internal SCSI controller, since it's only Wide SCSI-2.

I can make a guess-- It's got an SiS chipset... you might want to try the SiS900 module. I have several machines with that card, and it works like a charm. It seems to make sense that they'd use that chipset for their LAN connections.

Some of my favorites:

Win+R Open the "Run..." Menu
Win+M Minimize all windows
Win+Shift+M Maximize all windows

If I find some more, I'll dig them up.

To do any of this stuff, you'll need to set up Port Forwarding on your NAT router/device. Simply forward the port of your VNC service (5900) on your local machine to your router's port 5900. Same for FTP-- forward your local machine's port 21 to the router's port 21. Check your router's documentation for tips on how to do this.

Hamachi seems neat, almost like a VPN connection. It might be a better solution than port forwarding everything, but port forwarding is a better approach if you're accessing your box from a number of different systems, and Hamachi may not always be installable.

What is that desktop theme you're running? Some type of skinning program? Might that be the source of the trouble?

can't they just not share the folder?

It depends-- if they're talking about protecting it locally or over the network. If they're trying to protect it from others on the same machine, not sharing it does nothing.

I'm one to give credit where credit is due. I really applaud Microsoft in this effort-- phishing is a serious issue, especially considering how the methods phishers use to get the information is really legit looking, even the images load up from the originating bank's site. It's almost understandable how people can fall for this stuff, given the sophistication of their tactics.

I don't know about that... I'm not sure if performance is going to that great, even if you could do something like that. My experience with USB hard drives has been that the interface with those devices are actually an interface to a CompactFlash device-- the system treats the hard drive like a really, really, big CF card. If you can partition and treat it like a hard drive, you might be able to do it. You mentioned wanting to use them seperately or independantly; that's going to be darn near impossible.

Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath trying to get what you're asking done. If you're really serious about wanting to do mobile video editing, you should check out LaCie's Big Disk and Bigger Disk devices:

Big Disk
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10491

Bigger Disk
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10610

These bad boys start at 320GB-500GB with the Big Disks, and the Bigger disks range from 1TB up to a WHOPPING 2TB!!! If the current disks you have aren't sufficient, you might want to look into something like those. It's a little pricey off-hand, but bills to bytes it's pretty cost-effective.

Just to add to Zachery's comments, once you pick a distribution of Linux, the installation guide they have will almost assuredly have detailed instructions on how to configure a dual-boot system.

Are you loading a 64-bit version of Windows? Is this a RAID setup, or a single drive configuration? The 64-bit driver will only work in 64-bit versions of Windows, by the way-- that could be the "corruption" Windows is telling you.

My experience has been that if you load it up just in a single-drive configuration, Windows shouldn't need any drivers to load onto it. In fact, you don't even need to go into the RAID BIOS to set up a RAID set, or anything.

Did you reset your BIOS configuration? If your BIOS expects a drive to be there, then it is just going to sit there. Go into your BIOS and make sure the Primary/Secondary Master and slave drives are all set to "Automatic", and that should do it.

Disconnect the drive and buy a new one?

You might want to try contacting the manufacturer of the drive-- it sounds like you hosed it with the firmware update. They may have a service where you can send it in and have them reflash it. Otherwise, I suggest you hit up NewEgg for a new drive, and lament the fact your firmware update just ate your old drive.

With what you're wanting to do, you'd probably be best off with either an IDE raid controller, or a plain-old IDE controller with four disks attached. Windows XP and 2000 support JBOD-- it's called spanning in there. In generic terms, you have to turn your disks into "Dynamic Disks" under XP, and then you can make one single NTFS volume that spans all the drives.

There are drawbacks, of course. If one of your disks dies, you lose everything on all of the drives. I learned this the hard way, when I connected a 4GB, 20GB and an 80GB drive in a spanned volume-- the old 4GB drive died, and I lost all 100GB of stuff on that volume! :(

Jeantech cases are really nice, but if I had the choice and money, I'd probably go for a Lian-Li case. My pick would be this one:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-112-022&depa=1

I like it: It's got lots of 3.5" bays, it doesn't have a case window (I think they're gaudy), and it doesn't have a blank for a floppy, which I never use anymore. All and all, I think it's a really classy case that has all of the features I'd demand.

Of course, there's no accounting for taste. I prefer an understated, simple looking case, without all of the plastic cladding and stuff. As a matter of fact, I've even gone so far as to rip off the fronts of my cases when they annoy me too much.

Edit: Looking back at the case you picked, I think it's really nice, too-- I really like how easy it looks to install the motherboard and the powersupply. I think it runs a close second to the case I mentioned above.

A month? Wow. That's a seriously long time. Most places have turn around times of around 10 business days.

If you're with in warranty, get it in there, no matter how long it takes! I'd hate to be put in a position where the LCD went out or something, and then have them say, "well, you didn't send it in when the hinges went bad..."

Or do what I did, build the PC in a table and sit the monitor on top...

Yay! Dust and poor airflow for everyone! ;)

im pretty sure that it is not water used, but a liquid with an increased thermal dynamic properties that absorbs heat quicker.

It actually is water. You want to put a special solution in the water, though, to keep various "grungies" like bacteria, algae, and mold from forming in the lines. I think there are solutions that help increase thermal dissipation, but I'm pretty sure that you still mix them with water to some degree.

I've got a Slack 8.1 CD that I keep around for older systems. I almost exclusively rely upon Slack for older machines, fancying Debian Woody in a close second.

I've used 9 and 9.1, and I like them, but something just felt "nice" about 8.1 on older systems-- the bare.i kernel wasn't that big, and I got some wicked small installations on some 486 systems (I got a working slackware installation with ssh, gcc compiler and Python interpreter in under 200MB), and that kept those machines VERY viable, even up to today.

Dani, in response to your "why older versions" question-- if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Granted, if I were running something in a production environment, I'd make sure that my vital packages were regularly updated, but on a machine where I use it for one task, I only update what is needed (Python, for instance) when I'm certain it's something important, and that it's not going to break what I've already got set up. I'm not saying that 8.1 was the end-all-be-all for stability, but it's stable enough make me not want to change the installs on those systems one bit.

freesBIE is the one my friend had suggested, thanks, I couldn´t remember it. I knew one of you guys would know.

If you run it, let me know how it turns out. I'm a diehard BSD person, but I'm so happy with my Knoppix and Ubuntu LiveCDs I'm not sure if I needed anything else in that arena. If it seems promising though, I might download and burn me a copy...

OK, DMR, I've been reading all this with great interest, since I'm going to set up a unix machine soon. Since I don´t really need it but used to be a unix programmer, I can afford to be patient and do it the best way that I can learn how. Given that hard drives are so cheap, I have more than one option, although it would be nice if I could put three of them into one computer, which I don't believe you can do, at least with windows.

So, I'm going to use Win2Kpro, I don't like XP. Here are the scenarios I am contemplating:

1. One big HD with three partitions, one unix, one ntfs and the third, a smaller one with fat32.

2. Two HD´s, one with windows and the other with unix, whichever flavor. I suppose the smaller fat32 partition should go on the windows HD.

Your take? and opinion on which would be better? What size HD would you suggest in each case. I´ve seen 250GB at reasonable prices and that is a LOT more than I have in any of my machines at present, in fact, not even close.

Thanks

I personally think that either of the scenarios you've mentioned here look good. My only suggestion is that you include a swap partition for Linux/Unix. If you're using an OS like Free/Net/OpenBSD, that's is included in the "slice" allocated by that BSD. (Slices are what BSD calls our partitions; BSD partitions are within these …

There's a way to do it, but it's really convoluted.

The best way to do it is figure out some way to get the Windows 98 installation files on your hard drive, any way possible. You could remove your hard drive and place it in another system temporarily. If you still have a functioning Windows 98 installation and two partitions (you mentioned D:\, so I assume you have a C:\, too), you could copy the files over to a partition that you're not planning to format. If you knew how to load drivers for your LAN card in DOS, you could even map a drive share with the NET USE command, copy the files over from a server, and then initiate the installation (Windows 98 will not install directly from a network share).

There are lots of ways to do it, but they're all pretty convoluted if you're not experienced in doing them. What's stopping you from picking up a CD-ROM drive and installing it? External, internal, it doesn't matter-- they're not really that expensive. You could even get one from a system someone's throwing out! Heck, you could even borrow one, stick it on your IDE cable, and hang it out the side of your system until you're through, if you really wanted to.

My main point is, there's TONS of ways you can install Windows in a situation like yours. The best option, if you can, is just to get a CD-ROM drive, even if …

Why do a full format?

Unless there's data integrity or something similar at stake, a quick format is sufficient.
Simply marking those sectors as "empty" or available is just fine, as the drive will appear blank to DOS, or to Windows while it's being installed. Unless it's a bare drive, I just about always do a quick format, and I've never had a single problem.

nicentral provided some good suggestions-- I can only add some things to it.

Firstly, are you running this FTP box on a LAN, or do you want it to be available to the outside world? If it's on a LAN, you can pretty well leave your FTP server set wide-open, with very lax security. If you're running it on the Internet, nicentral's advice is very relevant. The only additional information I'd suggest is to implement some kind of firewall solution where you can allow or deny certain IP addresses access to your FTP service. I'd implement a whitelist approach, only allowing access from IPs/boxes you've previously authorized.

I'd have to agree with nicentral, though-- I think setting up a Linux/BSD box is a pretty attractive, primarily because you can set up just about any box (from a 25mhz 486 to an AMD64) to do file serving, and be pretty well happy with the result. On top of that, *nix boxen already come with some type of firewall installed, like IPTABLES on Linux, or ipf/pf on the *BSDs. Even further on top of that, there are rudimentary ways, like hosts.deny and hosts.allow to secure the FTP service itself in those OSes.

Have you set up that XP Machine to use your proxy server for FTP as well? I think you have to do that in Windows XP-- it may not be set by default.

I, too, find this case kind of funny. It is refreshing to see someone take a company (any company, really), to task over their policies.

I agree with the "little guy"'s position and all, but I personally wouldn't have settled if I had the time. It would have been interesting to see just how far he would have to go to get a judgement against Microsoft from a jury. At the very least, I wouldn't have allowed signing an NDA to become part of my agreement, especially if I didn't do anything wrong...

Our Gmail invites thread is still alive and kicking, with activity as recent as 4 days ago:

http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post107743.html

Rather than clutter up the forum again, let's keep posting invites in there.

Is it not possible just to replace the old 486 or Pentium hardware? That stuff is SUPER cheap now. Even if the university wouldn't authorize funds for it, you could probably dumpster dive and find the base equipment or systems you need.

The way I look at it, why change what you've got too much? I'd just keep trying to run with the old hardware. If you're really dead-set on changing, have you thought about some kind of embedded solution, or a PC running QNX, an actual RTOS?

Please don't crosspost. You've already posted this question in the C/C++ forum. If you'd like me to move that from the C++ forum over to here, please PM me.

You can program Access databases with VB, I know that for a fact. VBA is just a subset of VB, if I'm not mistaken.

Are you sure you shouldn't be posting this in the VB forum? That sounds like a more appropriate forum for your questions.

Wouldn't you just define the function and then call it from within main()? I think you might want to review your textbook some more on functions. I'm not worth my salt as a programmer, and I could tell you this much.

Also, I'm sure Narue might mention this, but I know you're not supposed to use void main(). I'm not entirely sure why, and I don't want to guess, but I have an idea why. Care to elaborate further on this, Narue?

FreeBSD is just like Linux, in the respect that support is only stable in a read-only environment. You'll want to have some kind of FAT32 partition, or a network share, if you want to move data between the two OSes.

Check this search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22freeBSD%22+livecd&btnG=Google+Search

...then try this one:
http://www.freesbie.org/

Can't you just post a link to the source code, rather than keep pasting it into this thread?

If you're running NTFS on your system, simply change the permissions on that folder so people can't access it. No need to password protect; they just won't be able to access the folder if you set the permissions so they can't read it.