An Old but still annoying problem EVERYONE has

(SCDS_reyalP) #41

Wandering rather far offtopic …

You can even do LVM on RAID if you want… My linux box has software RAID 1 (mirroring) w/ some LVs on it. Since the disks aren’t equal sizes, the other bit on the larger drive is another LV, along with another disc that is for space hungry stuff that doesn’t need to be mirrored.

LVM is very handy for managing you disk space.

Note that the cheap ATA ‘hardware’ RAID cards don’t really do much in hardware. Their main advantage is that they give you a BIOS which can understand booting from the RAID volume, and some extra ATA ports. Also, if you really want reliabilty and peformance with ATA RAID, you should only have one ATA device per channel.

(evilsock) #42

noted - I’ll get onto it just as soon as I persuade fluffing apache mqsql 4.x and phpMyAdmin to run properly on my laptop - I’m wrestling with it as we speak - bloody RH that’s all I’m going to say :confused:

Thanks btw for the off-topic info - nice to see ppl who’ve boldy gone before and all that :slight_smile:

(ildon) #43

Sup!
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Even though that video card has 64mb ram, GF2 is still low-end for running ET (VERY low end for pretty much any game released in the past 2+ years). If you can get a steady 30-50 fps you should feel lucky. I remember back in the day running QuakeWorld in Windows 95 to play Team Fortress and getting about 20 fps average at 320x200 and it sure seemed playable to me. :slight_smile: Of course back then most of the people I was playing against had 200-300 ping while I had 50 with my cable service… ah those were the days… I remember getting that new computer with the K6-2 500 and voodoo3 and finally getting good fps in Quake and Half-Life. And by “good” I meant 60 steady average. Quake3 has really ruined people’s perception of “good frame rate”. Everyone wants it in the hundreds… Makes it hard on new games that try to actually make use of hardware when people start crying about “only” getting 60 fps.

Oh well.

(chr0nicles) #44

DOMI <-- No need to get bitching there, i intend to post all my replies with humor, besides your the fool here :wink: If you are upgrading YOU DO SOME RESEARCH!

(Domipheus) #45

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i still have no idea what your on about? im not upgrading.

(Domipheus) #46

ohh, wait, is that another one of your shit jokes? :slight_smile:

(RECON) #47

www.offtopic.com?