From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 06/01/2013 10:38 PM, Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 06/01/2013 07:29 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 31 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   >> article   
   >> <1sKdnZjHbvclWDXMnZ2dnUVZ_qqdnZ2d@posted.lerostechnologies>, Jim Beard   
   >> wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I do have at least one strong bias on names and labeling, in that   
   >>> certain types of labels trigger an immediate rejection.  E.g. in   
   >>> foods and beverages, Low Fat, Reduced Calorie, and the like in   
   >>> themselves constitute reason for me to reject the stuff.   
   >>   
   >> What have you got against "Reduced Taste" and "No Flavor"?   
   >   
   > If that were all there were to it, I might tolerate such things.  But   
   > they are usually accompanied by chemical-feast ingredients to compensate   
   > for the stuff taken out, and that can   
   > turn foods into low-grade toxins, or possibly worse.   
   >   
   Since my brother and I grow much of our own food and make things like   
   tomato sauces ourselves, we get "Reduced Calorie" by not putting in so   
   much of the extra stuff in the first place. Homemade baked goods, using   
   Mom's recipes for things like cookies and pumpkin pie, are notable   
   exceptions.   
      
   >>> I took a look at the HDMI port, but the connector required for   
   >>> that does not match the HDMI connector on my Samsung 23" monitor.   
   >>   
   >> Hmmm - not the standard HDMI?   My wife's ASUS and my HP have the   
   >> standard connector, though I think we've only tried to use it once   
   >> to check it out for a presentation my wife had to make.   
   >   
   > What is a "standard" HDMI?  The connector at the end of my Samsung   
   > monitor's HDMI cable has two sets of 9 pins plus a single small flat   
   > ribbon thing, that goes into a fitting about 1 inch wide and a little   
   > over 1/4-inch high.  On the laptop, the HDMI port fitting is about the   
   > same size and general shape as a USB port fitting, with corners angled   
   > and different internals of course.  The laptop HDMI notably does not   
   > accommodate pins, but has a flat plate that apparently has the contacts.   
   >   
   That brings up something. I was at a Salvation Army store a couple of   
   weeks ago (I shop for work clothes there. Why pay new clothes prices for   
   stuff you're going to wear out or stain badly in a few months?) and   
   while I was there a guy brought a 2009 18.5-inch Memorex TV with VGA and   
   HDMI jacks on the back, with a price of $20. I was in the market for a   
   spare monitor anyway, so I bought it. Works fine as a TV, once I got the   
   brightness/contrast/etc. adjusted. Also works OK as a second monitor in   
   "PC mode" with the VGA cable, though I didn't take the time to change   
   things from the prior settings. Main problem is that my video card has   
   both a digital and a VGA port, but considers the VGA port to be the   
   primary. I'm wondering now how it would work with a DVI-to-HDMI cable,   
   but I'll have to buy one of those to find out.   
      
      
   > Correct.  I forget whether I simply deleted the wireless connection in   
   > MCC (possible) but I think I deleted some of the wireless rpms, just to   
   > make sure an update did not restore functionality.   
   >   
   >> We don't use wireless in the home.  When we   
   >> moved here, I spent several days installing 1 inch plastic conduit in   
   >> the walls of each room, and thus have (currently) CAT5 pulled in to   
   >> each. The conduit will allow me to replace that with (or add) fiber.   
   >> This being a "modern" sub-devel, the houses are relatively packed in   
   >> close, and the laptops see anywhere from two to a dozen wireless nets   
   >> in the area.   
   >   
   When I moved here, I was probably wrapped in swaddling clothes and   
   carried in by my mother, as my father would be afraid I might break.   
   Consequently, wiring the house for Ethernet was out of the question.   
   When the time came to have more than one computer, with one on another   
   floor, wireless was the least expensive and easiest way to go. My main   
   computer, however, still uses the wired connection to the router.   
      
   > I have one room that contains my office, library, most of my 200 pipes   
   > (excluding those currently in use, which are in the "ready rack" near   
   > the door to the deck or in the car), file cabinet with one drawer full   
   > of small tools, and computers.   
   >   
   > The router is located there.  To the street side, it is below ground   
   > level, and on the side away from the street it transmits into the yard   
   > (walk-out basement) and a ridge that rises behind that.  Transmissions   
   > through the walls at the ends of the house do go straight toward   
   > neighbors up and down the street. And of course, all transmissions are   
   > subject to radio waves bouncing around, so there is undoubtably plenty   
   > of rf available for anyone truly interested in using a good antenna and   
   > receiver to copy the wireless transmissions.  "Wired" transmissions go   
   > over Cat 5 (or in one case a Cat 6 cable a few feet long) ethernet cable   
   > which connects to the FIOS fiber optic box on the end of the house.   
   >   
   > My wife shifted from the room she used to use for her computer (ethernet   
   > installed, which involved running the cable from basement to attic, to   
   > the other end of the house, and down to where the computer is located).   
   > The computer is now on the basement level, and on the other side of the   
   > house from where it was.  Due to the location of the computer, and the   
   > difficulty of getting an ethernet line to the location, she now is using   
   > wireless.   
   >   
   > Add to that, my wife has had a laptop for a few years now, and I now   
   > have a laptop, so we are very much "wireless."   
   >   
   >>> and they show much faster nfs transfer speeds.  >Copying between   
   >>> partitions on the same machine, and to/from a 1T USB external hard   
   >>> drive attached to the machine, likewise are much faster.  I have   
   >>> made no change in what is hooked up how.   
   >>   
   >> Without hardware changes, about the only thing that can be a factor   
   >> is how much other stuff (aps, eye-candy, what-not) is running.   
   >>   
   >>> It may be that Mageia 3 automagically configured everything "as   
   >>> it currently exists" and optimized that,   
   >>   
   >> better install program, and more intelligent configurations.   
   >   
   > Possible.   
   >   
   >>> whereas in earlier times a USB external was added after OS install,   
   >>> and months later I then fumbled and bumbled a bit in setting up nfs.   
   >>   
   >> Setting up a USB external should be relatively straight-forward,   
   >   
   > It was.   
   >   
   >> NFS can be much more difficult (at least the first time).   
   >   
   > Things went much more smoothly this time. "Practice makes perfect."  Not   
   > exactly a new concept.   
   >   
   >>> FWIW, the new laptop does have 1000BaseT and 802.11n.   
   >>   
      
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