ronch - Slashdot User

Comment Wrong about the reason foir the interstate system (Score 1) 763

by ronch on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:16PM (#58902434) Attached to: Americans Shouldn't Have To Drive, But the Law Insists on It

The national interstate system was originally done primarily for military reasons. Like moving troops and having places for planes to land if airfields were damaged. It has totally evolved past this today and is really for people to move between states easily but the military reasons for the system are still there.

Ask Slashdot: Tech For Small Library Automation? 188

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 05, 2012 @06:28AM from the a-little-help-here-please dept.

Kozz writes "I've recently been tapped as 'the tech guy' at my church where a group familiar with library automation wants to get digital with the relatively small catalog. Right now all the materials are simply on shelves, and people take an item down, fill out the paper card and drop it into a box, and we hope that people correctly calculate their own due dates and return the materials. We had a card catalog, but it went largely unused. We're looking for a complete solution for both administration and self-checkout; label printing, checkout receipts, and so on. Have any Slashdot readers found yourself in this position, and do you have recommendations based on your experiences?"

Comment What is really happening regarding this problem (Score 5, Informative) 129

by ronch on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @02:03PM (#25119553) Attached to: OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards

I work on the e1000 team (including the e1000e driver) and here is what we know. A panic in another driver (believed to be the gfx driver but uncertain) which scribbles over the NIC/LOM non-volatile memory (NVM). This is only happening with the 2.6.27-rc kernels on ICHx systems. Since the NIC/LOM VNM is part of the whole BIOS image other things in the system could be effected by this driver panic as well. An update of the system BIOS will restore the NIC/LOM to be operational. We have some patches under test right now that we will be releasing later today to protect the NIC/LOM NVM. That should help narrow down who is scribbling over NVM.

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