Interesting Things You Find…..
…..When fighting with computers. How about a Firefox-based web browser compiled specifically for your microprocessor? It's called Swiftfox and is available here. It appears to run a bit faster (so far at least), something that is particularly evident on the old/new Linux box that uses an old Pentium II running at 333MHz. The Hot Rod Yugo surfs! (Sorry, folks, it is for Linux users.) Bonus, it has an installer script that is simple, effective and (they say) platform neutral. I've obviously only tried it in Ubuntu, but it ran like a champ and had itself up and running faster than Firefox in a very short time. It also acquired all the Firefox plugins I had installed all by itself.
(I still can't get the secondary hard disk mounted in Ubuntu though. That is frustrating me right now.)
Geek Stuff | Gaius Friday, 2 March , 2007
By guy, Friday, 2 March , 2007 @ 7:56 pm
How are you mounting it? Slave on the primary controller? or master on the secondary? Is the slave on the primary filled?
I ask because I’ve had seriously STRANGE problems on some older hardware when trying to fill the secondary controller before first filling the primary.
By Gaius, Friday, 2 March , 2007 @ 8:03 pm
It is a slave on the secondary and it will NOT mount. Device manager sees it just fine, but no joy. There is a slaved CD-Rom on the primary and a slaved CD-Rom on the secondary as well. I plan on installing a CD-RW slaved on the primary. No point in a DVD drive with only 8 megs of video - this is a very old box by today’s standards.
By guy, Friday, 2 March , 2007 @ 8:08 pm
Just for grins you might want to try putting both hard drives on the primary and both CD’s on the secondary.
oh, and what size is it? don’t forget about the BIOS drive size limits….
By Gaius, Friday, 2 March , 2007 @ 8:28 pm
It’s a whopping 20 GB, there isn’t any problem with the Bios for that one. But I was going to shift a few things around anyway. I’ll try putting the hard drives together, though.