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15 August 2003 / #blog 
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  • Original Debian Install Manual
  • Install Debian Woody the “pure” Debian way on a Dell Inspiron 8200 Anyone notice a pattern?
    Jens-Christian Fischer

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    15 August 2003 / #blog 

    Consultant Speak

    Yesterday one of my clients called me several times in a very short time to ask a couple of questions. The last time he called, he said: “Sorry for bothering you again, I guess you will kill me”. My reply: “Don’t worry - instead I will bill you!”

    Jens-Christian Fischer
    14 August 2003 / #blog 

    PIO or DMA?

    I’ve had my share of slow down’s on this Dell Inspiron 8200 (read about the adventures with the taskmanager in Windows XP). Yesterday I installed Red Hat 9 on the same machine and it seemed incredibly slow - especiall loading stuff. Talking to my colleagues, hdparm was mentioned… Maybe the harddisk was in PIO mode? Well - it turns out - it isn’t - nevertheless I tweaked the parameters a bit. Here’s my current setting: ...

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