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cp slows machine I've noticed a slowdown in things when setting cp to copy chunks of data. This mostly affects resource hungry stuff like Seamonkey, making things feel as if I've lost a CPU. I'm thinking about sticking a 'nice' parameter in my .bashrc for cp Now is the time to say "Argh! Don't do that!" and\or "Try this.... 17 Dec 2009 18:09
Bluetooth and Slack 13 On 22 oct, 17:48, Mussemouse <Mussemo...(a)somewhere.els> wrote: Liberato Esposito wrote: have you moved the old rc.bluetoot to rc.bluetooth.new ??? you have to do this: mv /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth.old chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth.old mv /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth.new... 13 Dec 2009 18:41
news server What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from leafnode? Years ago around 2001 or so I ran hamster on Windows, something similar would be sweet. Thanks - Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is wh... 17 Dec 2009 18:09
Dead Pool Vulture Watch On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:45:01 -0500, Billy Cox <JimiHendrix(a)bass.gov> wrote: M I Wakefield wrote: French rock icon Johnny Hallyday, 66, is in an induced coma in an LA hospital after surgery to undo a botched operation. Recovery is expected. Why? Nobody really ever heard of him. Name ... 12 Dec 2009 20:00
KK Preggers (was: ext3 barrier=1 ???) On 2009-12-11, Robby Workman <newsgroups(a)rlworkman.net> wrote: Yes. We're also trying to teach a cat how to meow, a dog how to bark, and get Kourtney Kardashian pregnant. ;-) That was you???? -- Chick Tower For e-mail: aols2 DOT sent DOT towerboy AT xoxy DOT net ... 14 Dec 2009 05:30
Trouble with Slackware 13.0 Video (mostly resolved) YMMV The latest Slackware version (13.0) has some nice features, including an updated Firefox, Gimp, qt library, etc. One nice thing is that a Firefox 3.5.x rendering bug that showed up when rendering certain web pages (and was present on certain ATI and nVidia hardware), is now fixed under the latest X. However, ge... 18 Dec 2009 14:58
Re (2): HOW2 implement a daemon? In article <pan.2009.12.12.07.55.24.522793(a)deadspam.com>, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote: no.top.post(a)gmail.com wrote: PSS. I just did: 'top > /root/top' But '/root/top' is accumulating instead of renewing ?! Yes, it is supposed to do that. command > file m... 23 Dec 2009 10:48
HOW2 implement a daemon? I've got a nice system that run 'on top of' linux and which can read/write linux files too. In order to still be able to see the other system's display, instead of switching to linux when I 'run' some simple linux commands I could perhaps eg. 1. write to a 'known special' file: "ls /usr/*" 2. which would, via so... 22 Dec 2009 05:57
Top 5 Worst Inventions Ever On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:58:19 -0500, "Smart Ape wants new Keyboard Cat videos" <Zaius(a)POTA.com> wrote: "Scott H" <bulldog269(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hfsg51$knk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... 1. Pay Toilets 2. Autodialer 3. Reality Television 4. Windows Vista 5. Shamwow Vitsa ... 26 Dec 2009 06:46
My Windows adventure On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:31:24 -0800 (PST), RastaBillyBob <rastabillybob(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Dec 9, 8:50�pm, Rev. 11D Meow! <Ji...(a)Crack.corn> wrote: Sounds like somebody disabled the low disk space warning that defaults to enabled and trigger at 10% free space left to go. I agree with this - 10%... 11 Dec 2009 04:46 |