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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:18:31 +1030

mbs M/bs xyz/s

Can someone tell me what these damned appelations mean?

i.e.
mb/s
mB/S
(are they the same thing)

kb/s
bps
baud

wotever...

I'm totally cofused (again)....

dlRichard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> At 11:19 AM 11/30/00 +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >I've finally managed to reactivate my second computer which is a:
> >
> >* 450MHZ k6-III [1]
> >* 64 Mb RAM
> >* relatively slow hard drive
> >
> >As in relatively slow, it's the current bottleneck on the computer. I
> >use Coax which is, I think, only 10mb/s so the network isn't
>                                   ^^^^^^
> 
> That should be 10Mb/s, unless your setup is such that you actually get 10
> milli-bits per second.
> 
> >extraordinarily fast [2]. Now, if I've got it correct given that I'm the
> >only one using this machine on the network (there are only two machines
> >on the network) and it isn't a file server [3], the speed of my coax and
> >the hard drive won't particularly matter.
> 
> 10Mb/s is ~ 1MB/s, which is not slow, especially compared to your ISP
> access rate.
> 
> However, if you are concerned, a pair of 10/100 cards (RTL8139-based) and a
> cross-over cable is cheap enough ... Ought be less than $100, and possibly
> closer to $50.
> 
> >Especially since I use a very inexpensive, but slow ISP [4].
> >
> >Now, I also intend to use:
> >
> >* a full blown name server (BIND 8.2.latest-stable)
> >* SendMail
> >* DHCP
> >* SSHD
> >
> >The SendMail will act as a relay for my main machine which will still
> >deal with all of my e-mail.
> >
> >From my understanding, none of these utilities/programs or such are
> >terribly disk intensive so my slow hard drive wouldn't kill them.
> >Furthermore, my slow Coax network wouldn't essentially be a bottle neck
> >either, or would it....
> >
> >What's peoples' opinion on this?
> >
> >DL
> >
> >[1]
> >I think a 500MHZ K6-II would have been faster :-(
> >
> >[2]
> >Yes, I know. Coax...irck...but it's what I've got and I don't have a
> >twisted pair cable and unless there's a reason I'm not wasting $25 to
> >get one
> >
> >[3]
> >The hard drive is only about 1 Gig or something
> >
> >[4]
> >Don't get me wrong - for ~30-35 AUD I get about 360 hours per month with
> >unlimited downloads and I've downloaded heaps in terms of mail, ftp and
> >http
> >
> >PS:
> >Interestingly, I have managed to make StarOffice 5.2 by Sun (not an
> >OpenOffice version) go fast! How? Stack 383MB of memory into an Athlon
> >650MHZ with a reasonably fast hard drive...rebuild the kernel using
> >Athlon GCC (based on pgcc) [i] and in fact it loads in, like, 2 seconds
> >and I now think my latest bottleneck is the hard drive system...sigh...I
> >want to eventually implement a RAID2 (or is it 1...where you basically
> >write/read alternatively to two drives, striping I think is the
> >technical term) with two 7200RPM drives....
> >
> >[i]
> >Not for the faint hearted. I feel over the "-O3 and above have serious
> >bug" problem...and I would get things like "Register EAX....cannot
> >derefence NULL pointer errors" at start up and other odd times...and it
> >nearly crashed my damn file system - lucky I realised what was happening
> >and powered down before it did whatever it was doing too badly [ii].
> >
> >[ii]
> >The advantages of having multiple, smaller partitions as opposed to one
> >huge partition, is that file system crashes will hopefully choose to
> >trash something like /usr or /usr/local or /tmp or /etc or /home rather
> >than /boot or / :-)
> >
> >--
> >Are you:
> > - waiting for rigor mortis to set on?
> > - or waiting for Santa Claus to arrive?
> > (see Eric Berne, Beyond Games and Scripts)
> >
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> >
> 
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
> Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
> 
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 - waiting for rigor mortis to set on?
 - or waiting for Santa Claus to arrive?
 (see Eric Berne, Beyond Games and Scripts)

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