Comments on: The return of the prodical nincompoop http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/ vaccuum packed mindless ramblings Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: schwim http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8535 schwim Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:34:54 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8535 The last.fm applet on the right taskbar might be the culprit. Quite a bit of transfer and they changed the applet to constantly probe for currently playing music. The last.fm applet on the right taskbar might be the culprit. Quite a bit of transfer and they changed the applet to constantly probe for currently playing music.

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8531 Rick Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:27:31 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8531 BTW: (no immediate attention needed -- just curious) Don't understand why Gnash is triggered by your site. Are there animations that I'm not seeing. Something in the whitespace below "view profile" maybe? Something in SWF10 maybe? The SWF9 animation ad in Distrowatch only cranks Gnash to about 5%. BTW: (no immediate attention needed — just curious)
Don’t understand why Gnash is triggered by your site. Are there animations that I’m not seeing. Something in the whitespace below “view profile” maybe? Something in SWF10 maybe?
The SWF9 animation ad in Distrowatch only cranks Gnash to about 5%.

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8529 Rick Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:02:05 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8529 Thanks for the reply. It was getting pretty lonesome around here. Got a lot of stuff to deal with -- real bad time for the box to bork. Difficult to dedicate my head to it 100%. I'm up and running and stable. F11 with updates installed seems okay for the moment. Nothing dirty installed yet. Haven't run RPM stuff in so long I can't remember how to do things at all. Added Gnash but it doesn't seem to be doing much useful -- its there consuming 25% CPU just sitting here on your site. Pulseaudio is working fine but at a cost of 10-15% CPU. Maybe later I can get networking and move keeper stuff from my suspect drive to other boxes in the house and reinitialize it. F11 tells me that it's not a happy drive. Thanks for the reply. It was getting pretty lonesome around here. Got a lot of stuff to deal with — real bad time for the box to bork. Difficult to dedicate my head to it 100%.
I’m up and running and stable. F11 with updates installed seems okay for the moment. Nothing dirty installed yet. Haven’t run RPM stuff in so long I can’t remember how to do things at all.
Added Gnash but it doesn’t seem to be doing much useful — its there consuming 25% CPU just sitting here on your site. Pulseaudio is working fine but at a cost of 10-15% CPU.

Maybe later I can get networking and move keeper stuff from my suspect drive to other boxes in the house and reinitialize it. F11 tells me that it’s not a happy drive.

]]> By: schwim http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8523 schwim Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:18:17 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8523 I don't think it's your case(since you're in F11), but I pulled my hair out over my inability to boot for over a month. In my case it was the mainboard utilizing the jmicron sata controller. I finally gave up and use my older computer for my work machine. It's pretty bad when you have to retire an otherwise decent computer because of an incompatibility, but if I wanted to use linux, it seemed to be the only option. I don’t think it’s your case(since you’re in F11), but I pulled my hair out over my inability to boot for over a month. In my case it was the mainboard utilizing the jmicron sata controller. I finally gave up and use my older computer for my work machine. It’s pretty bad when you have to retire an otherwise decent computer because of an incompatibility, but if I wanted to use linux, it seemed to be the only option.

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8521 Rick Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:26:03 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8521 Good Morning. Terrible evening with the box. Couldn't get anything to recognize the the hard drive. Did a fix all with PMagic/Gparted. No help. Could not install DL or F11. Oddly, I COULD install Debian. Thought that might clean up a (suspected) MBR issue so tried DL install again. Nope. Exasperated. Gave up for the evening. Contemplated clearing the drive of valuable data on non-boot partition so I could wipe and reinitialize. No easy way to do that so dropped in a 20GB drive as new hda. Installed DL no problem except would not boot. So maybe it isn't the drive. On second attempt F11 installed and (amazingly) booted. So I sit here scratching my head thinking "WHAT???" Guess I'll give F11 (Gnome) a go for awhile. It could be worse. I KNOW I had a good MD5 on the DL download. I KNOW I had a good burn and the CD is pristine clean. Oh well. Shit happens. Good Morning.
Terrible evening with the box. Couldn’t get anything to recognize the the hard drive. Did a fix all with PMagic/Gparted. No help. Could not install DL or F11. Oddly, I COULD install Debian. Thought that might clean up a (suspected) MBR issue so tried DL install again. Nope. Exasperated. Gave up for the evening.

Contemplated clearing the drive of valuable data on non-boot partition so I could wipe and reinitialize. No easy way to do that so dropped in a 20GB drive as new hda. Installed DL no problem except would not boot. So maybe it isn’t the drive.

On second attempt F11 installed and (amazingly) booted. So I sit here scratching my head thinking “WHAT???”

Guess I’ll give F11 (Gnome) a go for awhile. It could be worse.

I KNOW I had a good MD5 on the DL download. I KNOW I had a good burn and the CD is pristine clean. Oh well. Shit happens.

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8450 Rick Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8450 Grrr.... just to let you know..... grrr...... I'm in crisis...... grrr...... but in keeping with the self-deprecating mood around here ...... grrrr....... I'm sure it's my fault. Currently up on Puppy since my Debian install is history, overwritten by DL which won't boot. After grub splash I'm getting the happy penguin followed by a couple of output lines then it flatlines. Seems it can't find /etc/modprobe.d. Install went seemlessly with ext4. Then flatline on the reboot. So I reinstalled with ext3. Grub to MBR both cases. Same result. So back in the LiveCD I checked the boot partition (sda1) for data in file manager. Nothing. Likewise for the data partition (sda2) on the same drive. Odd. So I booted up Puppy LiveCD. It sees the drive fine -- both partitions. And there, of course, on sda1 is /etc/modprobe.d. Here beginnith the "Book of Rick". Grrr…. just to let you know….. grrr…… I’m in crisis…… grrr…… but in keeping with the self-deprecating mood around here …… grrrr……. I’m sure it’s my fault.

Currently up on Puppy since my Debian install is history, overwritten by DL which won’t boot. After grub splash I’m getting the happy penguin followed by a couple of output lines then it flatlines. Seems it can’t find /etc/modprobe.d.

Install went seemlessly with ext4. Then flatline on the reboot. So I reinstalled with ext3. Grub to MBR both cases. Same result. So back in the LiveCD I checked the boot partition (sda1) for data in file manager. Nothing. Likewise for the data partition (sda2) on the same drive. Odd.

So I booted up Puppy LiveCD. It sees the drive fine — both partitions. And there, of course, on sda1 is /etc/modprobe.d.

Here beginnith the “Book of Rick”.

]]> By: schwim http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8411 schwim Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:04:57 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8411 You know me. When I install it to my computer, we all install it to my computer :) I ran the updates via the terminal killall gdm/apt-get update/apt-get upgrade) and ran into not a single issue. I'm not sure if the load difference has to do with the livecd, but it would seem logical with the cd drive not being known for it's throughput. I've the the forum on speed-dial if you need it. You know me. When I install it to my computer, we all install it to my computer :)

I ran the updates via the terminal killall gdm/apt-get update/apt-get upgrade) and ran into not a single issue.

I’m not sure if the load difference has to do with the livecd, but it would seem logical with the cd drive not being known for it’s throughput.

I’ve the the forum on speed-dial if you need it.

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8410 Rick Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:59:30 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8410 LOL. Just checked the DL forum. I see you made "Poster of the Week" by a wide margin. :) LOL. Just checked the DL forum. I see you made “Poster of the Week” by a wide margin. :)

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8408 Rick Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:40:56 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8408 Damn -- I hate it when you're right. :) Good distro. I'll be willing to abandon my US-based criteria if I can sort out a few issues in my head. > Gotta resolve my Boinc issues (SETI & MilkyWay) to make sure I don't lose anything in the transition. Since it's Debian based that shouldn't be a problem -- looks like their Boinc package comes directly from the Deb repo untouched -- just got to run out my ongoing Boinc tasks. > Flash seems to using considerably more resources in DL. With my "benchmark" video in YouTube (Poco: "Rose of Cimarron") I'm seeing some 15% more cpu usage than in Debian. DL is running Firefox 3.0.6 and Debian runs IceWeasel 3.0.6. Both using Flash 10. Perhaps it has to do with Live CD versus hard install. Not a show-stopper -- just a head-scratcher for the moment. I see there are some 200mb downloaded/40mb installed updates to do. Any problems with those? Damn — I hate it when you’re right. :)

Good distro. I’ll be willing to abandon my US-based criteria if I can sort out a few issues in my head.
> Gotta resolve my Boinc issues (SETI & MilkyWay) to make sure I don’t lose anything in the transition. Since it’s Debian based that shouldn’t be a problem — looks like their Boinc package comes directly from the Deb repo untouched — just got to run out my ongoing Boinc tasks.
> Flash seems to using considerably more resources in DL. With my “benchmark” video in YouTube (Poco: “Rose of Cimarron”) I’m seeing some 15% more cpu usage than in Debian. DL is running Firefox 3.0.6 and Debian runs IceWeasel 3.0.6. Both using Flash 10. Perhaps it has to do with Live CD versus hard install. Not a show-stopper — just a head-scratcher for the moment.

I see there are some 200mb downloaded/40mb installed updates to do. Any problems with those?

]]> By: Rick http://www.infosprite.com/2009/06/10/the-return-of-the-prodical-nincompoop/comment-page-1/#comment-8399 Rick Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:09:19 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=431#comment-8399 Damn.... in DL now ..... you may just have something here. Love the control panel. The mac-bar is not as intrusive as some I've seen (no "wah-wah" effect). Love the compass thingie in FireFox. So far so good. Interesting that the screen rez that I ALWAYS use to get other distros working (1280x1024x87hz) does not work but 75hz is perfect. Strange.... Damn…. in DL now ….. you may just have something here. Love the control panel. The mac-bar is not as intrusive as some I’ve seen (no “wah-wah” effect). Love the compass thingie in FireFox. So far so good.
Interesting that the screen rez that I ALWAYS use to get other distros working (1280x1024x87hz) does not work but 75hz is perfect. Strange….

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