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  1. fisher99

    E-mail failure rate

    Recently I have gotten this feeling that email has become less reliable then the snail mail postal system. For example one day I found out that only 1/2 of the messages were recieved from what I had sent. Some days the failure rate is 1/10 or 2/10. It seems to be my luck that it is the...
  2. fisher99

    how do I mount a fat32 drive...

    in solaris 9 on a sun ultra 10. I have been given a drive which is fat32, pulled from a windows machine. I need to access the data on the drive asap. How would I go about mounting the drive. I've tried smc, it can see the drive but all I get is drive reading errors. what to do thanks
  3. fisher99

    Who still uses a sun ultra/sparc machine...

    as a primary workstation/desktop? Back in the days the ultra line were my main everyday machines. Most of the time all I needed was netscape/staroffice/java/xmms/gimp. I was wondering what has changed since then in terms of desktop use. I know and knew back then that solaris was meant for lot...
  4. fisher99

    unable to install any OS

    I had the following setup last year which worked: solaris compatible scsi card bootable scsi cd-rw 2x scsi drives. I transfered the above setup to my PC, however recently I decided to get back on to my sun ultra 10 system. So I transfered the scsi setup back to the ultra 10. However when try...
  5. fisher99

    OT but need advice about hardware

    Over the last few years I have managed to collate some Sun workstations; 3 ultra 10 and ultra 5. Now, I was wondering what I could do with those machines. I can't sell them because compared to what I paid for them and what I would now get, is worthless. I was wondering how I could utilise them...
  6. fisher99

    dd based cock-up how do I fix pls HELP!!!!!!!

    I have two drives in my machine, hda, and sda. the hda is the windows partition and sda linux. I'v mistakenly types in dd if=boot.fs of=/dev/hda1 as opposed to /dev/fd0. Now linux cannot read that drive. MSDOS fdisk just says unkown partition. HOw to I fix. PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs.
  7. fisher99

    URGENT Hidden pcmcia NIC and/or NFS bug in the kernels

    I have a laptop, with a pcmcia EP401 network card. All linux distro with kernels <2.4.18 work fine. HOwever I noticed, that if you used any of the new kernels including the 2.5.xx series, there are two major problems. One problem is that some of the kernels do not load the device driver, even it...
  8. fisher99

    PCMCIA NIC not detecting

    I'm trying to get my EP401 pcmcia NIC to work with 4.8. I'v compilied the kernel with the ed support. However the card is still not being detected. Am I missing a step? thanks
  9. fisher99

    Program running 16-bit, but its 32 bit

    I made a backup of a CD, however the programs on that backup CD think that they are msdos 16 bit apps. Of course they are 32bit, but when they are run i get the usual NTVDM error dialogue. How do I change the properties of those programs back to 32bit. thanks
  10. fisher99

    SUN PCI processor cards

    Hi Guys Just wondering if any one has had any experience with these addon cards. Whats the performance like? I know that I will not be able to play Doom 3 on it, but what about for applications. Is it possible to play full screen DVDs with one of these cards? What is the multimedia performance...
  11. fisher99

    Why are sun machines slow?

    Just wondering why a $5k machine is slower in terms of performance then a $400 budget PC. Heres an example. I currently own a Sun ultra 10 333, 386mb, 30gb 7200rpm, creator3D. Running simple apps such as openoffice or netscape, the performance drags. My P233 laptop with 64mb ram can do thing...
  12. fisher99

    Parallel processing using RMI HELP

    I'm trying to get a parallel processing program utilizing the JAI and RMI. The JAI has bultin RMI capabilities. However, trying to get the examples working from the JAI documentation is a nightmare. Can anyone pls help, by providing advice on how I would go about creating a parallel processing...
  13. fisher99

    kernel 2.5.53, has anyone else used it yet?

    I'v just compilied the lastest dev kernel, and I must say I am impressed. This thing is fast. This kernel seems to of speeded up everything. For example when loading xfce, with the 2.4.xx kernel it would take a couple of seconds to load up, but with the 2.5 kernel it takes about one second, you...
  14. fisher99

    HELP!! Software RAID slackware

    Hi I wonder If someone could pls tell me or point me in the right direction, on how to implement a software SCSI RAID 0 system using slackware 8.1 XFS. thank you. damn I got better things to do in my xmas holiday :(
  15. fisher99

    Java has stoped working for normal users, why?

    Hi Got bit of a problem. All of a sudden I am unable to use java as a normal user. All I get is the Hotjava VM error message, with no specific error number. However it works fine as root. I'v downloaded a newer version of the jdk, but still it does not work. I;v checked the permission, they are...
  16. fisher99

    advice on type of xml database I should use.

    Hi I'm going to start a project that involves using xml to store certain types of data in a java environment. Basically the xml data will consist of media data such as news clippings of companies. Then there will be a second database that contains the details of the actual companies. Both these...
  17. fisher99

    Can't use CDE, openwin, KDE anymore

    Hi Heres the story, couple of days I installed KDE. That worked fine until today. KDE loads half through the splash screen then just stops. So I thought it might be a bug. Tried to login using CDE. With that I get a message box saying problems with the message server, check /etc/hosts...
  18. fisher99

    Printing from a unix box to a w2k box

    Hi I've setup my sun machine to print to my pc. The reason being that the printer does not support postscript. Anyway, if i boot linux on the pc the printer share works fine. However when printing via w2k box noting happens. I have set the printer as shared. What else do i need to do. thx
  19. fisher99

    /dev/lp0 no such device; but working couple if days ago

    The no such device is kind of odd, seeing i was using the printer couple of days ago in turbolinux. The lp0 file is physically there in the dev directory. I'v tried using parport0 as well. Even dmesg says parport0 has found my printer. Things don't just stop working in linux, do they? Any...
  20. fisher99

    unstable web browsers

    hi Are there any stable web browsers that have support for all the plugins, and have the speed of internet explorer. At the moment on the ultra 10 (solaris 8) I have three web browsers installed, netscape 76, 78 and MS IE5. For some reason both the netscape browsers cannot seem to browse this...

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