[SWLUG] Re: Discuss digest, Vol 1 #245 - 4 msgs

[Robert McQueen]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 05:25:27PM +0100, Rhys Sage wrote:
> Thanks for the info. I've already created my mass-conversion program. It took me about an hour in Delphi 7. 

In free software communities this attitude is called NIH - "not invented
here", and refers to people's bizzare tendency to reimplement software to
do things that there are already countless implementations of. It's an
annoying waste of people's time and duplication of effort. The people
who make Paint Shop Pro in Windows (JASC) do a batch image converter
which I found very useful before I switched to Linux and found countless
shell scripts and command line tools I could use.

> I've just run across some interesting problems with RJ45 connections. Has anybody else found RJ45 can be mighty peculiar? 

No it's probably just dodgy equipment, or your network settings are still
hosed.

> My Plastic Palm ethernet hub seems to be working as a right old bottleneck. I put it in and data transfer gets ridiculously slow. I take it out and I get fast transfer. I'm talking about speeds so slow that mpeg files on Zeus get really jerky when viewed on Aphrodite or Persius. 

Buy a switch for about 30 pounds. Netgear FS104 or FS108 will do the
trick.

> My solution is to add Gareth's Ethernet card to Zeus (remind me to buy you a beer at the next Swansea meet) and a second ethernet card to Persius. The plan is to have Zeus and Persius permanantly connected by RJ45 and the spare card will allow me to connect Aphrodite to whichever pleases me and should still allow me to access the other. IE - connect Aphrodite to Persius to access Zeus etc.

Considering something in your network is obviously not working
correctly, adding complexity like this will undoubtedly cause it to
fail. You can't just choose addresses and have computers on seperate
network segments talk to each other like that, you'd need to set up
either bridging or seperate subnets and IP routing.

> In the fullness of time, when I upgrade Persius to W2K and maybe give it a nice new box, cpu, ram and a display card (it's currently running the sis chipset), I'll give it a new name - Mercury perhaps or maybe Promethius. While it's still a Win98 machine, I'll leave it named after the Roman satirist.

It's definitely spelt Prometheus.

> Rhys

Regards,
Rob

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