anyone out there still using NIS?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really
uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there
still using it? is it worth it?
rday
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14 years, 6 months
A couple of DRAM memory stick questions ??
by Bill Case
Hi;
For anyone, but particularly Les H.
I have been re-reading some notes I have made on how DRAM works. As a
result I have a couple of unanswered questions?
1) This question is for personal visualization purposes. I fully realize
it makes no real difference on how DRAM works.
What is the most common arrangement of memory cells (??) within a memory
stick. It seems to be proprietary information? I have seen schematics
of two possibilities; a) with each stored bit side-by-side for the
length of a 'word' or in my case a 'double word' (i.e. 64 bits), or, b)
in a 4 X 4 arrangement. Is there some place in the DRAM manufacturer's
specification I could be looking to determine this?
As I said, this question is for no technical reason. When I am thinking
about DRAM memory, I use a visualizations in my mind about what is
happening in memory. I would like my mental vision of the process to be
as close to physical reality as possible.
2) When referring to DRAM memory, what is a 'cell'; is it physically one
bit (capacitor, transistor, lines and all) or is a cell a group of them?
If it is a group, from what I have read it is a bit ambiguous whether
'cell' refers to one 4 X 4 ( or one 16 bit linear) arrangement, one
'word' or one 'double word'?
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Regards Bill
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Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1
14 years, 6 months
Seamonkey composer
by Anne Wilson
For a quick and dirty web page edit, such as adding a single date to a club
calendar, I like seamonkey composer. At the moment I have to open the web
browser then change to composer, which seems silly. I've added the relevant
command to the manu. Can anyone tell me how to add composer to the krunner,
or will it appear when I've called it a few times? Thanks
Anne
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14 years, 6 months
F11: Nautilus Preferences crashes!
by Dan Thurman
Yup. it crashes - every time for me.
I have all the latest updates installed.
Open the Nautilus main browser, select Edit->Preferences
and bugtool pops up and crashes all open Nautilius browsers.
Not very nice.
14 years, 6 months
booted from X if I unplug USB external drive
by Maurizio Ungaro
Hi all,
My USB external disk doesn't go to sleep, even if it's not mounted. It
was sleeping properly (even mounted!) with Fedora 9.
Furthermore, if I unplug it (to make it sleep), I get booted from X.
var/log only shows this:
Sep 28 12:44:50 mauri kernel: usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3
Sep 28 12:45:04 mauri kdm[1950]: X server for display :0 terminated
unexpectedly
I'm using Fedora11 x86_64 - I'm actually not sure if this Fedora-related
at all... if not, I apologize.
best regards,
mauri
14 years, 6 months
location of popup helpers question
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I have one rather exasperating function I wish I could either turn off, or
relocate.
It's in kmail, the little "helpful" (not) gizmo that pops up if you leave the
mouse sitting on an icon. It is useful for some things, but I have kmail
setup with the message list pane left of the message pane, which puts the
messages panes subject line not too far below the icons along the top of the
main window.
And when it pops up, it takes about a minute for it to go way, during which
time the messages subject line is hidden. Having to move the mouse to a
clear place when I want to switch to the + key, and back again tends to
aggravate my arthritis.
Can this be relocated to a point above the icon, or can the display timeout
be set down to maybe 2 seconds? If so, what file do I edit to accomplish
this?
Thanks.
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14 years, 6 months
Router in Fedora. Alternative to Mikrotik
by Fabio Jara
Hello my good friends, recently i have been introduced to a system new to
me, Mikrotik Router http://www.mikrotik.com/
I was wandering, is there some alternative to make Fedora work like that? i
mean, have to configurate all in graphic mode?
The real problem that i am facing is that the my network needs some
bandwidth control by IP and those ip have to me given by the dhcp as static
by MACADDRESS. and have to be routing between the internet and my internal
servers of apache, samba, and mysql.
Is there something like webmin based but for routing and bandwidth control?
Thanks in advance and my best regards to all.
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Fabio Jara.
Universidad Privada del Este - Paraguay.
IT Manager.
Fedora Ambassador for Paraguay.
14 years, 6 months
reading /var/mail
by Robert Moskowitz
I want a SIMPLE GUI tool for reading mail in /var/mail. Like for
/var/mail/root
I don't want a heavy hitter like Evolution or Thunderbird, and mail is
not a GUI. I have used Webmin's reader, but I have systems that I do
not want to install Webmin on.
Are there other alternatives?
14 years, 6 months