Recent content by Boomslang

Hi, I'm trying to find an online vendor that sells bare trackpoint/pointingstick/etc eraser-style mice. The idea is that I want to integrate it into a custom keyboard. I've spent an entire day looking over the usual electronics supply sites and nothing has turned up. Does anybody have any...

Hi, does anyone have any concrete performance benchmark numbers for disks attached to SATA port multipliers? I'm wondering if there is any overhead incurred by the switching/multiplexing of the SATA protocols. If I have a SATA 6 Gbit/s controller with a port multiplier and I attach 5 disks which...

Thanks guys.

Hello, Has anyone found a way to get discounts on bulk hard drive purchases? "Bulk," in this case, would be around 30 drives. Thanks for any help.

I believe you're talking about the Loongson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) which has another interesting feature in that it is considered "open hardware." Linux and the BSDs can run on it, development is ongoing.

They have ISOs for various distros that run the gamut from floppy disk size to Bluray disc size. They have varying levels of functionality. What you need instead is a method for downloading that allows you to resume partial downloads. Bittorrent does this, wget does this, some Firefox...

Keep fighting the good fight.

Does the filename have a space at the end of it? Try creating a new file with a space at the end by enclosing the name and space in quotes: touch "test " The behavior should be as you describe. Now try without a space: touch test2 What happens when you tab-complete this one?

I'm a Dvorak typist mainly because I mostly am at my own workstation, and I've been using it more or less exclusively for 3-4 years. If you're interested in Dvorak, check out http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/ and up the ante a little bit.

You can pipe the output to the 'mail' command. Install 'mailx' and you'll have it if you don't already.

Thanks all, some very good suggestions.

I did the impossible - I managed to bork my IBM Model M. I spilled a glass of water into the keys while it was plugged in, let it dry for two weeks, and tried it - the bottom row of letters has some anomalous behavior where keypresses send two characters, typically the key I press plus an...

With binary blob nvidia drivers, I get hardware-accelerated h264 decoding. I don't think that I do with ATI gear. This made the difference for me.

That parameter appears in the smtpd(8) manpage, but not in the main.cf manpage. You should be fine. Read more in the smtpd manpage if you're unsure. As far as vim syntax highlighting goes, my stock syntax .vim files are stored in /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax on my gentoo machine. Look around for...

I just use Gentoo on my NAS. It's an NFS sever and headless rtorrent box with Linux software RAID5.