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I've been talking to some people about benchmarks for different operating systems and CPUs, and it would seem that a good way to gain some exposure for Ogg Vorbis would be to push oggenc as a benchmarking application when sites such as ExtremeTech, AnandTech, Ars Technica, etc. post system comparisons. I know that MP3 encoding is used as a common "media" benchmark, so it would be nice to get oggenc out there. In order to be a good CPU/memory bandwidth benchmark it would need to reduce the amount of disk access to the start/end of...

Hi! Trying to trace down a problem with printer sharing. I don't see anything glaringly obvious with my smb.conf. I am using LDAP and CUPS. Using a Windoze client, accessing a printer I receive the friendly "Access denied, unable to connect". Checking the Samba logs, I find: [2008/11/07 18:26:08, 0] param/loadparm.c:process_usershare_file(8268) process_usershare_file:

i have the error: couldn't find service ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d} in my samba.log. i've googled extensively and irc'd #samba and #samba-technical (no-response) and can't find the SOLUTION. thank you for your help. -anthony [global] workgroup = example.com netbios name = home server string = example Samba Domain Server hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/24

I posted a thread here... http://forums.opensolaris.com/thread.jspa?threadID=596 I am trying to finish building a system and I kind of need to pick working NIC and onboard SATA chipsets (video is not a big deal - I can get a silent PCIe card for that, I already know one which works great) I need 8 onboard SATA. I would prefer Intel CPU. At least one gigabit port. That''s about it. I