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[dolari]

The sound problems on the Carol Burnet Show have MOSTLY been fixed. I can at least get them to synch up for most of the show...and only desynch for a few seconds at a time. Three episodes are editied up and on the roomie's machines.

What did I get out of the Carol Burnet marathon? All the juice TV LAnd RetroMercials! (Honeycomb's Big! YAYAYA! TUMS TUM TUM TUMS). Although I miss the really really old Maaco and Little Caesar's commercials. Plus. all kidding aside, the show is pretty funny. All through the marathon I was thinking "Wow, this hasn't gotten old - and it's still darned funny!"

Four panels of CS are pencilled up, including some new semi-recurring characters. One is a talent-scout/possible musical manager named Murray (after the Kids in the Hall "generic" manager), and Victoria's unnamed friend, based on Dove's early designs for Victoria. I don't quite know who she is yet, but I'm getting the idea that she is Chez Armand's original owner, or co-owner. She hasn't said anything yet.

Sharp eyed viewers may have noticed I moved over to Dov's design for Victoria in this episode. It's only temporary and she'll be back to her straight locks after this episode. I just thought Dov's version looked more "drag."

Okay, techies. For once I need YOUR help. I have two computers, running XP and a generic Linksys HUB. Why is it when I send files from the P4 to the P2 in XP, my hub gets collisions like mad. A 200MB file transferred at 30 minutes. But, if I boot the P4 up in XP, and the P2 in 98, the transfer just goes swimmingly. No collisions or anything. 200MB in EIGHT MINUTES.

Suggestions? The P2 is running an old Linksys "NE 2000 Compatible" ISA Network card, the P4 is an onboard Realtek 10/100 card.

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Comments

NE 2000

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, sounds like a driver problem. The Linksys card probably does not have a XP compatible driver so XP is using a generic driver. Win 98 seems to have a compatible driver so it works just fine. See if you can find a XP diver for the P2's NIC. If you can't you may have to get a new NIC. I've seen a lot of NIC driver problems in XP specially with auto-negotiation issues. You can email me directly at xiomber@yahoo.com if you want. Always glad to help out a fellow techie.

Love,

Natasha

A network engineer Androgyne

[toastyman.livejournal.com]

If you're using a hub instead of a switch, you need to have both ends set to half duplex. Some network card's autodetect don't work well, make sure you force both cards into half duplex mode.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Please please please do not pull previous non-commentable comments into another entry. Yes, I mentioned I messed up ramen. No, that isn't permission to considering publishing previous comments here.

Sorry. It's something that can very easily crash my day.

Anyways, thanks for the info on the hub. I think (for now) the half-duplex mode thing should work. It isn't the base speed I'm concerned about, it's the amount of collisions that are just making the transfer take LONGER and LONGER.

[kengr]

Ok, sorry about that.

Re: NE 2000

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

You and Toastyman are right - There wasn't an XP driver for my network card in that old machine, so I installed a custom made one based off the 2000 NE 2000 drivers.

I'm sure if I set it for half-duplex as well it would worm miles better, but the driver doesn't allow me to set it for Half Duplex.

No biggie, that's why I have another hard drive for. :)

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that's it. If I could set the older network card to half duplex it would fix it all up...but I also have a hacked driver installed to get it to run that won't let me change the the duplex mode.

XP and it's "Legacy Free" feature...PAH! :)

[toastyman.livejournal.com]

Send your address to toasty@dragondata.com and I will send you some newer ISA and PCI network cards if you'd like. (And an unholy other pile of computer stuff if you want it). Promise to keep your address confidential.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Will do! Many thanks!