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SuSE Linux and Windows 2000?

9-Dec-02 5:21

I haven't tried this, but you might give it a try. Search the Registry for the autosearch.msn.com URL and locate the keys where it appears (if any). After saving a backup copy of your registry, try changing the value of the keys found to www.mysite.com, then rebooting. IE is very consistent about following the Windows model, storing everything in the Registry instead of config files, so I'd expect this to work nicely. If not, you can at least restore everything from your backup.

"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)

Rickard Andersson²⁰7-Dec-02 12:19

Rickard Andersson²⁰

7-Dec-02 12:19

I'm very peckish to try SuSE Linux but I don't want to be away from my lovley Windows 2000. So I asking if it is possible to run SuSE and W2k on the same computer?

Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing
C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN!
UIN: 50302279
E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu
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Nemanja Trifunovic7-Dec-02 17:06

Nemanja Trifunovic

7-Dec-02 17:06

It is possible to run any Linux on the same machine as Win2k. Just use some boot manager.

Beer | [beer]

Rickard Andersson²⁰8-Dec-02 3:35

Rickard Andersson²⁰

8-Dec-02 3:35

Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Just use some boot manager

Okay, my fiends who know this stuff more than me I think need to come over... Smile | :)

Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing
C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN!
UIN: 50302279
E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu
Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa8-Dec-02 18:52

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa

8-Dec-02 18:52

Rickard Andersson wrote:
who know this stuff

SuSE linux itself knows this... Smile | :)

Am not joking..... but its true, it will take care for the boot-manager. Make sure u do the partition with care-that too suse linux helps in a good document.

All the best!

I started with nothing,
And I still have lots of it left with me.

W2K/XP: Thread Dispatching Triggers

Josus3-Feb-03 2:46

Josus

3-Feb-03 2:46

hi
thats no problem. suse is a "easy" ditribution. suse gets notice pf you win partitions and even make mountpoints for it.
at home I have 2 hdd. one for win2k and one for suselinux 8.1

simply start with windows and then install suse..
but: if you want to have a "free data way" between win and suse make a win partition as FAT and not as NTFS... linux can read ntfs but not write..
but fat is no problem... read/write ok...

hope you are still alive (my english..)

Blush | :O

) life is fun!

Johannes

//still a newbie

jbenco6-Dec-02 17:07

jbenco

6-Dec-02 17:07

I know that thread dispatching is triggered when any thread enters the
Ready state. But do timers and I/O operations asynchronusly (i.e., outside
the 15 ms Interval Timer) change thread states (from
Waiting to Ready) and do they force the dispatcher to
immediately perform thread scheduling?

Given a high priority thread that is waiting on a timer to
expire (e.g., Sleep(1)), what mechanism is checking this
timer, does it occur at a higher frequency than the 15ms
Clock Interval Interrupt, and does it force immediate
thread scheduling?

Re: W2K/XP: Thread Dispatching Triggers

Joe Woodbury9-Dec-02 19:54

Joe Woodbury

9-Dec-02 19:54

jbenco wrote:
does it occur at a higher frequency than the 15ms
Clock Interval Interrupt

It may, but I don't believe so.

jbenco wrote:
and does it force immediate thread scheduling?

Definitely not.

W2K/XP are not real time operating systems nor are they deterministic when scheduling threads.

What Do They Have In Common?

Roger Wright6-Dec-02 9:17

6-Dec-02 9:17

Here's a teaser for you:

The town across the river where my ISP's servers reside had a power failure Wednesday - I lost contact for 3 hours. Since then all chat services have become unreliable. Trillian, AIM, MSN, ICQ, and even Sonork all disconnect every few minutes, which destroys the chat session in progress. The connection itself is working perfectly - 11 Mbps with 0% packet loss - and DNS is cranking along nicely, as I've had no trouble navigating the 'net with a browser.

Contacting the ISP would be a waste of time, as the guy that set it up and knew about networking sold his interest to his silent partner and left the state for a place with trees. His partner doesn't know squat about computers, and the tech support remaining is the cable-puller. Needless to say, there's little hope of the cable guy finding the problem - if there's a green light on the front panel, he's happy. Beyond that he's helpless.

So, what, if anything, do all these chat services have in common? My thinking is that, since the power failure happenned at night, there was no one in the office and the UPSs ran down, letting the works go down in a highly informal manner. The machines are still on WinNT 4.0, so any number of complications could result, and I suspect that something has been corrupted in the OS that affects these services, but not the basic http transport. I'd go over there and fix it myself, but I haven't a clue what to look for.

Any suggestions?

"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)

Daniel Turini6-Dec-02 9:30

Daniel Turini

6-Dec-02 9:30

Roger Wright wrote:
Any suggestions?
Is changing ISP an option? (I know you live near the border of the world)

The unreliable connection may come from a unstable web proxy or from a failing unity in a cluster of firewalls. If they don't have tech support, you're in bad waters.
You could try turning off your HTTP proxy, if there is any...

I see dumb people

Roger Wright6-Dec-02 10:28

6-Dec-02 10:28

Changing ISPs is an option, but then I'd have to settle for a mere DSL connection and pay at least twice as much. For 11 Mbps @ $28/month I'm willing to put up with much!

I'm not using any proxy, and I don't believe the ISP is using any firewalls, but I do recall that they have about 6 servers running in the office. If they're clustered, there might be some synchronization issues after the power failure, but I'd expect that sort of problem to have more extensive effects. I was hoping that there might be some service or feature that chat agents all use and I don't know about, but maybe there isn't, and it was just a coincidence that this nonsense started the same day the lights went out. With luck, maybe it will just go away Smile | :)

"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)

Joe Woodbury9-Dec-02 19:57

Joe Woodbury

9-Dec-02 19:57

It also may be a router problem. (My thinking being that chat services use specific ports and if the router reset to a default configuration, those ports may be now blocked and/or improperly configured.)

Roger Wright9-Dec-02 21:02