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Hi all, Can somebody please help me understand the code below. I am running it in a RHEL 4.0 (kernel 2.6). #include "libsysfs.h" .... int slsysfsscanfornewdevices(int ctrlId) { struct sysfsclbutt...
In a message on 18 Dec 2005 07:22:09 -0800, wrote :
If it wasn't for a failing power system (power brick or battery or power connector, I don't know which), I'd *still* be using a 50mhz '486 based laptop with 32meg of RAM, running RH 6.2 on a 6gig disk. I was able to get a replacement used laptop (a P133 laptop system with 64meg of RAM) for about what it would have cost to replace the power brick and-or battery. It is running RH 6.2, on the *same* 6gig disk, after I did a disk transplant, tweaked the X11 setup and configured the sound card -- I use this laptop as a "fat" iPod replacement much of the time. I plan on getting more memory (still available!) and upgrade to a 20gig disk and install WBL 3.0 (GPL clone of RHEL 3.0). Note: it does not matter if the laptop's BIOS is wonky about larger disks -- just make a smallboot or root parbreastion early in the disk (well below the '1024th' cylinder), and lilo or grub will happily load your kernel, which will have no trouble with the disk no matter how large it is.
I use a 'lightweight' X11 environment: fvwm2, 1x1 desktop, no file manager and have not even bothered to install a web browser. Since I use LaTeX as my exclusive document preparation system and use CLI-based software development tools, which includes Makefiles (not an IDE) and a lightweight Emacs editor (MicroEmacs 3.10), this machine is more than adequate for what I do, when I am traveling and need-want to work on something. Oh, xmms and snackamp are too 'heavy' to play mp3s. Mpg123, however works just fine, as does the very lightweight Tcl-Tk-Tix based mp3 playing GUI I wrote (just forks mpg123 and has a very plain and dull GUI).
Dear Group, I am thinking how I can encrypt a given pbuttword for samba share into the...
I use a 486-66 machine as a print server -- this is a headless box that mostly does nothing more than shove bytes out its two parallel ports. A 486-66 has more than enough 'horsepower' to do that. So, yes older hardware that still works is still useful for *something*. No, you probably don't want to play Movies or DVDs on it or use a big application like OpenOffice or the like.
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