BIOS problem

Hey Sunshine,

why not be a little more affable. After all, your creativity only extends to a user-name with a concept/actual name pinched from any number of common stories.

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I take 'em off before the boards go to production; fewer questions to answer. ;-)

The ADI logic isolators are great parts. The ones with the isolated supply on the other side are nice, too. For another project coming down the pike, I need an isolated RS-422 driver. Maxim was in a couple of weeks ago wanting some business so I threw that at them. They came back with a solution that was several times as expensive as an ADI isolator (w/isolated supply) + RS-422 driver. Um, no thanks.

Isolator, DAC, and an FPGA?

There is nothing normal about DimBulb.

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My only complaint is they should cut you a better price on win 7. If you get enough of these boxes, you might want to think of getting a MS site license. Since I build all my desktop PCs, the cost of windows is a big chunk of the bill for a little Atom PC. I'm using mine with XBMC for HTPC. I could have gone the native linux route, but I needed windows for some other hardware. Also the manufacturers spend more time on windows drivers because that is the market. For something like HTPC, you are pushing the hardware to its limits.

There is much to be said for your test instrumentation to be one integrated box. The problem with roll your own test gear is the bugs in the software, and the software becomes a real time sink. Then you also have to wonder just how good these USB instruments really are. I assume you can't get a cal sticker for usb instruments, but I don't know that for a fact.

If you are going to do any heavy processing on an atom, the D525 or whatever replaces it in the future is the way to go. The 86/64 instruction set is better at number crunching, if you can even use that term with an Atom.

Be sure to post how happy you are with the box. It will surely piss off the Glimmerass.

I noticed Grub no longer allows me to F8 my windows. I know this is off topic to the list, but it you have a quick fix I'm all ears. Uh, make that eyes.

Ubuntu users are generally newbies. I'm not very fond of Canonical. Canonical goes through the motions of creating open source software, but really they code in a vacuum then just dump their s*it on the world. Ubuntu is far down the list of linux I'd run. If I wasn't running opensuse, I'd be running fedora.

I have a number of PCs. Do I have to boot the linux box to make you happy? Geez.

No, actually, that's incorrect. The choice of article is based on the initial _sound_ of the word, and 'university' isn't pronounced 'oo-niversity,' it's pronounced 'you-niversity.' 'Y' is a consonant in this context. At least in Terran English.

Hope This Helps! Rich

You have no concept of contractual requirements, and no, it was not a mistake.

Ever see a shaker table failure mode? Do you even have an environmental testing lab?

Grow up, John.

The result of running it on you is:

idiot, class 1

F*ck off and die, dumbass.

So, you don't know what that is. You are just a wast of skin.

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Install Burg, you stupid f*ck.

Hey Nymrod, everybody LOVES you! LOL

I can hardly wait until you send those G-Men over to see me!

On a sunny day (Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:41:48 -0700) it happened VWWall wrote in :

Yes, grub is cool, here my menu options for this box:

##### /boot/grub/menu.lst GRUB configuration file.

default 0 timeout 60 #color light-gray/blue yellow/brown

# DVD as master hdc, note grub only counts harddisks, so it stays hd2!

title Linux 2.6.21 hdd USB webcam audio root (hd2,6) kernel (hd2,5)/vmlinuz-2.6.21 root=/dev/hdd7

title Linux 2.6.21.P VIA USB MOD hdd root (hd2,6) kernel (hd2,5)/vmlinuz-2.6.21.P root=/dev/hdd7

title Linux 2.6.30.1 hdd root (hd2,6) kernel (hd2,5)/vmlinuz-2.6.30.1 root=/dev/hdd7

title Linux 2.6.21 hdb root (hd1,2) kernel (hd1,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.21 root=/dev/hdb3

title MS Windows 98SE and XP hda rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1

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It auto boots after 60 seconds in the first configuration. It can do several kernel versions, also win89SE :-) I have removed xp, burned the MS xp disk, there is now reiserfs on that partition :-) But win98SE is what my Canon scanner needs, no Linux driver for that. hdb is a complete byte for byte backup of the first entry. What I do sometimes is run from hdb, tar the whole hdd tree, then reboot from hdd, and untar that tree to hdb. Makes an exact mirror except one config file. The tar goes to an external 1 TB USB disk, so there are always 2 recent backups of everything. The other hdd entries is for testing kernels. This way, if I screw up a file or even a whole directory, I can mount hdb, and just copy it back. hda and hdb are normally automatically put to sleep with hdparm -Y at bootup to lower temperature and power consumption. This thing also is the media center, 2 sound cards, satellite TVcard, terrestial digital TV, analog TV, analog video in, etc etc, security cam H264 recording, webcams, video editing, audio editing, DVD authoring, program development, internet, 3 web browsers, Usenet, WiFi, time server, ftp server, DNS server, http server, working on a upnp media server. Oh, and games, home control (heater control temperature measurement), radiation (radioactivity) measurement, alarm clocks (time changed an hour here last night), lights control, many more things. Linux does it all with some programming :-) Ah!, and it is not even multicore. LOL