Where does hwinfo --monitor take the information "Size: 330x210 mm" from?
(It is wrong. I have measured the correct value. The correct value is
331x207mm².)
(Laptop computer MD97600 using a built-in LCD.)
"~$ sudo ddcprobe; ...; screensize: 33 21; ..." outputs the same false
data.

Radeon HD3200 vs Geforce 8200

I will be doing a system build using a mobo with integrated graphics.
I am a Windows user, but also plan to dual boot and play with Linux as
well.

Wondering which of the above 2 IG solutions would be more Linux
friendly, meaning which would be the easiest to get up and running,
and to get the 3D eye candy going? :)

Hi,

I'm investigating moving some Dell 600SC machines from FreeBSD to Debian
Linux (etch) in order to reduce workload in maintaining them - FreeBSD
is a real lot of work.

However my RAID card doesn't detect any logical volumes attached to
it... even if I break the RAID, it doesn't detect any of the disks.

megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)
megaraid: 2.20.4.9 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megaraid: probe new device 0x101e:0x1960:0x1028:0x0511: bus 0:slot 7:func 0
megaraid: fw version:[6.62] bios version:[1.03]
scsi0 : LSI Logic MegaRAID driver
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 0 [Phy 0] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 1 [Phy 1] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 2 [Phy 2] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 3 [Phy 3] for non-raid devices
scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 4 [virtual] for logical drives

But if I boot up FreeBSD or Windows, it works great. Suggestions?

Regards,
Peter

Two women friends had gone for a girl's night out. Both were very
faithful and loving wives, however, they had gotten over-enthusiastic on
the Bacardi Breezers.

Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to pee, so they stopped in
the cemetery.

One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought she would take off
her panties and use them. Her friend, however was wearing a rather
expensive pair of panties and did not want to ruin them.

She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave that had a wreath
with a ribbon on it, so she proceeded to wipe with that. After the girls
did their business they proceeded to go home.

The next day one of the women's husbands was concerned that his normally
sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, so he phoned the
other husband and said, "These girl nights have got to stop! I'm
starting to suspect the worst.. my wife came home with no panties!!"

"That's nothing" said the other husband, "Mine came back with a card
stuck to her ass that said.... 'From all of us at the Fire Station.
We'll never forget you.'

Three layers
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Sound installation
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Video installation
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Installation art
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Interactive art
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Some Examples of Digital Poetry
http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/some-examples-of-digital-poetry...
Internet art
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Sound art
http://freedownloadablebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/sound-art.html
Video art
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Computer art
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Can anybody suggest a PCIe (PCIEX16) graphics card which
has an open source driver (for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron).
Since I use my computer for program development I am
NOT interested in 3D features like 3D acceleration.

The reason why I want to buy a graphics card is:
After an update, which required a reboot, my Ubuntu 8.04
Hardy Heron (the one with the "long time support") offers a
maximum resolution of 640x320. This happens with the
proprietary closed source driver from NVIDIA. The open
source vesa driver is capable to support 800x600.

Maybe the update which caused this was the replacement
of the package nvidia-glx by nvidiy-glx-new. The hardware
driver program (in the system pulldown menue) just offers
a graphics drivers for the newest cards (which probably
means nvidis-glx-new). This means that I am not able to
specify that the old driver should be used.

Am in the process to move my systems to new Hardware..
moving DELL PowerEdge Server 2850 running RHEL4 with Oracle10g/Apache
to a new Server DELL PowerEdge 2950
I made mondo systems DVD's (Back/Recovery tool) for the PE2850 but am
not able to install it on PE2950
since they have different Model/RAM/RAID/DISK........ and so on

How can i accomplish this mission or do i need to reinstall the server
from scratch?
need help in this issue, it would be really appreciated.

PE2850
=======
[root@intra /]# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
267G 49G 205G 20%% /
/dev/sda1 99M 13M 82M 13%% /boot
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0%% /dev/shm

The other day I went into PC World for something that was sold out. So
I came away with an Acer Aspire One, which as far as I knew wasn't due
on sale until the end of this month. But PC World had loads in advance
at £250 each. Fair enough… It seemed right up my street. I won't waste
time describing this device and where it fits in the overall scheme of
things. Others have done that already, far better than I will ever be
able to. Just do a Google search. Suffice it to say that the Acer
Aspire One I got was the entry level model with 8Gb NAND storage,
512Mb RAM and Linpus Linux as the OS. But if you don't like Linux I
can guarantee that this machine will run Windows XP Pro SP2 no bother
at all. I know cos I've tried it. You can get Win XP Pro drivers from
here:

http://tinyurl.com/62rrkx

This is the Acer Thailand site - but English is spoke.

In putting together a cluster it seems common practice to use a KVM to link
all the keyboard-mouse-monitor interactions. Yet, all the units I've seen
do this independantly of the outgoing ethernet traffic.

So in the end I have two cables: ethernet + kvm.

Is there a possibility of just injecting all (keyboar+mouse+monitor)
traffic into the outgoing ethernet channel? That would mean less wire
messes. With 1GB+ ethernet links becoming default on these systems this
must be not be a bandwidth limitation any more, is it? And then anywhere on
the LAN I ought to be able to extract the relevant packets and see the
machines I need. Sounds easy in theory but are there practical problems?

Or are there any solutions of this form that already exist? I've seen KVM-
over-IP solutions but usually they have a box of their own into which one
channels all the mouse+keyb+monitor cables and then they can push it out
over IP

Is it possible to do this at each blade level so that the only two outputs
my blade needs will be (1) ethernet and (2) power.

Printers seem to have settled upon a vector way to communicate things to
them: the postscript language. I can see this has many advantages plus
serves to compress the information transmitted in most cases. Cases that
involve geometric primitaves, not photos etc., of course.

I wonder why "monitors" have not evolved to use a similar language? Most
monitors (as far as I know) still rely on a raster grid being refreshed at
intervals.

Is raster for visual-displays and vector for physical-printouts make sense
for some fundamental technological reason. Or am I again ignorant, and
there are vector implementations of languages to communicate with monitors
too?