Monthly Archives: September 2004

370DLE Stable

9/28/2004 – 11:27 pm

My SuperMicro 370DLE seems stable with the 2.6.4 kernel. I am pleased.

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Yay, the new KMail 1.7 has systray notification

9/28/2004 – 8:22 pm

Finally, a feature I have been waiting for for years. KMail 1.7 has systray notification for new mail! Yay! Hooray!

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USB to 2 x PS2 and 256MB CF

9/19/2004 – 1:27 am

I thought I’d add my laptop to my KVM rotation, but it only has a couple of USB ports. I picked up a USB to 2 x PS2 adapter for it on Ebay. My 16MB CF card isn’t quite big enough for my Canon PowerShot A60, so I picked up a 256MB CF card from [...]

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It appears my router discovered ip_conntrack_max this weekend

9/13/2004 – 5:36 pm

I started to experience strange and unpredictable delays in HTTP traffic. At first, I thought it might be DNS or my specific box. After messing around on another box, it appeared to be a network wide issue that needed to be resolved. ping kept complaining about sendto: errors. PING edseek.com (207.36.208.156): 56 data bytes ping: [...]

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Supermicro Oops’d again

9/12/2004 – 11:00 am

It died again. Looks like I lost the board. Sigh.

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Dual Monitor Goodness

9/12/2004 – 12:54 am

I finally joined the modern world with a dual monitor setup. Amusingly enough, I have an ATI AGP card and for the second monitor I’m using an Nvidia card. I thought about buying a dual head card, but it’s not really necessary. I find this setup works quite well, and I have plenty of video [...]

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Possible Oops Resolution

9/11/2004 – 6:10 pm

I recompiled 2.6.8.1 with the option Enable kernel irq balancing disabled and so far the kernel has not Oops’d. I still get quite a few of these, though. mlnet: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0 Perhaps I am back in business. And yet, even with that option disabled, I still get plenty of allocation failures. I [...]

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Sigh, Supermicro board is Oops’ing kernel

9/10/2004 – 11:33 am

It seems Mldonkey has always been the unfortunate process to trigger this, so far. It happens with 2.6.7 and 2.6.8.1 so far. It seems likely to be a hardware issue. A partial memtest86 run has revealed nothing so far. Next I am going to try reseating the CPUs and RAM, since it appears to have [...]

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It’s time for hurricane Ivan!

9/9/2004 – 1:31 pm

Gosh, I grow bored with this. Ivan is on the way it seems.

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More Stuff I Need to Sell

9/9/2004 – 1:45 am

It seems to be that time again. I need to unload a 400W PSU, Athlon 1700 XP+, L7S7A2 mainboard, 4 port PCI USB card, PCI AC97 sound card, NVidia Geforce4 440MX SE AGP card, Toshiba Cable modem, and a Linksys Gigabit Ethernet PCI card. I might sell my 3Ware 7410 and replace it with a [...]

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