Heh! My nick came out in a similar fashion, my real name is Michael and appending *nix gives miknix. I'm using the distro that you helped to emerge. Since most of my friends are windowz folks, they always makes jokes of my nick telling how geeky the name is. It can also be mistaken with minix linux.
There are so many HW health problems that a badly configured system can trigger and are Ubuntu folks worried because their HDD disk spin down too quickly? Specially when this behavior is easy to modify??
One day we have another Ubuntu related post: "There's a debate going on over at bugs.launchpad.net on whether it's the Ubuntu, BIOS, screen manufacturer, or pick-any-player's fault, but Ubuntu (and perhaps any OS) may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's backlight due to lack of power-saving feature / acpi bug / OS configuration / USER STUPIDITY. Regardless of where the fault lies or how it's fixed, you might want to take some actions now to try to prevent the damage."
Cmon! I've found better posts on third category forums.
Same as me. In the same day I received the new Vista based laptop, I checked out it's new features. After poking around Vista's Media Center (Maybe the only good thing I saw), I installed gentoo on it and migrated my ~home dir and system configs from my old laptop.. After two days (yes.. gentoo takes time) I had my new laptop working exactly as my old laptop used to work.
Besides all obvious things which makes Linux better than windows the thing which keeps impressing me is the used memory by system: - On windows right after booting I have about 910Mb/2Gb of RAM used by system (not including cache). - On Gentoo with XFCE WM I have right after booting about 260Mb/2Gb of RAM being used by system (not including cache) with email client, messenger, firefox (note firefox and not browser:p) and consoles opened.
I kept Vista for a month for playing games. But since I'm back to University I don't have time to game, also there is a excellent game called tremulous http://tremulous.net/ that runs natively on Linux.
What happened to Vista? Vista isn't anymore bootable on this machine, I needed space for my/home partition.
Just wanted to share the life cycle of Vista on a Linux user computer.:D
PS:For those looking for a perfect laptop for running Linux: Let me recommend the HP Pavilion dv6535ep Laptop.
First thought was if they were protecting their copyrighted HTML code with some *high* security javascript to prevent "View Source" popup menus. But shame on them, their HTML code isn't protected!
Mobile browsing has been the red headed step child of the internet. It sucks.
I never use the web on my Winmobile phone because it sucks That's not 100% true. I own a Qtek 9100 PocketPC with Windows Mobile 5 and the integrated IE that came with it, yes, it sucks. And that's because IE is unable to fully display web pages as in desktops. But most of news sites (yes/. has it's mobile version) have their mobile version and IE displays them correctly in a pleasant way.
But, happily, there is a port of Opera http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products for PocketPCs (and other ARCHs as well). This mobile browser is fully capable of displaying web pages as in desktops. As example: I'm playing my MMOG favorite game Travian in my PocketPC using opera (yes, lots of javascript).
Overall, the only inconvenient I found is viewing web pages in the tinny display area, that's not a browser fault and you'll get used to it.:)
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Supposing that I'm using windows, I don't really think that I would be running HP software crap.. [dot] [newline]
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Heh! My nick came out in a similar fashion, my real name is Michael and appending *nix gives miknix. I'm using the distro that you helped to emerge.
Since most of my friends are windowz folks, they always makes jokes of my nick telling how geeky the name is.
It can also be mistaken with minix linux.
Damn! It's hard to choose a nick..
There are so many HW health problems that a badly configured system can trigger and are Ubuntu folks worried because their HDD disk spin down too quickly? Specially when this behavior is easy to modify??
One day we have another Ubuntu related post:
"There's a debate going on over at bugs.launchpad.net on whether it's the Ubuntu, BIOS, screen manufacturer, or pick-any-player's fault, but Ubuntu (and perhaps any OS) may be dramatically shortening the life of your laptop's backlight due to lack of power-saving feature / acpi bug / OS configuration / USER STUPIDITY. Regardless of where the fault lies or how it's fixed, you might want to take some actions now to try to prevent the damage."
Cmon! I've found better posts on third category forums.
Looking ate OLPC specifications http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification
I'd say that Microsoft will have the very hard task of running windows XP on these computers.
If XP is slow as hell on a 512Mb RAM Pentium III 600Mhz computer, what would it be on a AMD Geode 433 Mhz 256Mb RAM.
Maybe M$ wanted to say Windows Mobile 5 instead ?
Same as me. In the same day I received the new Vista based laptop, I checked out it's new features. After poking around Vista's Media Center (Maybe the only good thing I saw), I installed gentoo on it and migrated my ~home dir and system configs from my old laptop..
:p) and consoles opened.
/home partition.
:D
After two days (yes.. gentoo takes time) I had my new laptop working exactly as my old laptop used to work.
Besides all obvious things which makes Linux better than windows the thing which keeps impressing me is the used memory by system:
- On windows right after booting I have about 910Mb/2Gb of RAM used by system (not including cache).
- On Gentoo with XFCE WM I have right after booting about 260Mb/2Gb of RAM being used by system (not including cache) with email client, messenger, firefox (note firefox and not browser
I kept Vista for a month for playing games. But since I'm back to University I don't have time to game, also there is a excellent game called tremulous http://tremulous.net/ that runs natively on Linux.
What happened to Vista? Vista isn't anymore bootable on this machine, I needed space for my
Just wanted to share the life cycle of Vista on a Linux user computer.
PS:For those looking for a perfect laptop for running Linux:
Let me recommend the HP Pavilion dv6535ep Laptop.
Like this one that's capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) for SHA-1 in about a day! Impressive!
http://nsa.unaligned.org/
First thought was if they were protecting their copyrighted HTML code with some *high* security javascript to prevent "View Source" popup menus. But shame on them, their HTML code isn't protected!
I wonder where some of Tor network traffic is going by now..
This smells like .. a cheap way to attract visitors to their website .. to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
Isn't this one away from his tree?
There is also Sylpheed. I'm using it for years..
Damn! I hate flash..
s/asshole/asstunnel/
Nooooooo! We don't need security holes in our linux browsers..
Thanks.. but NO!
But, happily, there is a port of Opera http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products for PocketPCs (and other ARCHs as well). This mobile browser is fully capable of displaying web pages as in desktops.
As example: I'm playing my MMOG favorite game Travian in my PocketPC using opera (yes, lots of javascript).
Overall, the only inconvenient I found is viewing web pages in the tinny display area, that's not a browser fault and you'll get used to it.
The #77 Indy car raced with bad tires because M$ patented a #77 Indy car with good ones.
/ignore micro$oft
Wouldn't be fun to have a file which md5 hash is a prohibited number?
Lets find out collisions!