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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.

I have two mdadm RAID5 arrays running with 8 disks apiece in the same machine, no problems at all. Never tried RAID1 though.

Fire up a LiveCD and test it out. No commitment required.

openbox + xcompmgr is (IMO) pretty simple eye candy, if you want to check that out.

I bought an OpenBSD tshirt - I think some of that goes back to the devs. Probably not much though, or at least not as much as buying their CDs.

I'm pretty sure that would be :w or :x but not :q unless you use :wq.

Knowing vi doesn't make you old. Also, you don't pass a filename when you :q out of vi.

So if I wanted a hardware RAID array connected with eSATA or SFF-8088 I would need the RAID-enabled HBA to be installed on my host PC - that makes sense to me. That would mean that if I wanted to disconnect it and hook it up to another PC, I would need to move the HBA along with it to keep the...

There is no ZFS for Linux. There are alternatives but they are still immature. ZFS can be used with FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.

http://will.incorrige.us/price-checker.cgi?mincapacity=&maxcapacity=&minprice=&maxprice=&multicap=&shouldhide=&sortby=costperGB As always, the HDD price checker to the rescue.

Hello, I'm shopping around to replace an aging NAS system. I like what I've been reading about eSATA (6.0Gb/s) and DAS-type setups. However, I'm unclear about some things. I would basically like to build a small 8-disk box with hardware or software RAID, and then hook it up to a desktop PC...

I'm not certain, but since you say it's C++ and "Q" and graphics-oriented... I'm guessing it's got something to do with the qt framework?

Like you said, you can tailor it to how you like it. I prefer not to have eye candy, so I don't. Easy as that.

No, you still have logic gate delay. See FPGAs and ASICs.

Can the machine perform network boot with PXE?

Just trying it out for now, have been using it for about a week. Seems alright. I'll give it a month or two before I make a decision. They're cheap anyway.

Meh

I tend to use suspend to disk a lot, but I do appreciate a quick boot-up sequence.

All in the release notes: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910

Sometimes a simple re-add of the device will be sufficient to get the array back up. If this works, though, you may want to think about buying a new disk pronto. Check man mdadm for more info.

We're under capacity (100Mbit line) because we're not yet an official mirror, so maybe try our mirror. We're on the Abilene network (Internet2) so if you're on that, you'll probably see some good speeds. http://lug.bu.edu/mirror/ubuntu-iso/karmic/

Call up California PC and get their 5-in-3 drive bay coolers for $25 each, includes fan and I had my choice of color when I ordered. http://www.calpc.com/ I've bought six of them this way, no complaints.

You can edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file after booting the working kernel to always choose the -128 revision as the default.

yum install httpd You should really check google first for questions like this...

Maybe try using mdadm to gain access to it. Haven't tried myself so I don't have any detailed instructions.