"Will it let me log to work from home?" Nope, doesn't even run the remote client.
Not sure what you use, but Citrix, RDP, and Cisco VPN all work great from my Linux machine... Citrix was a pain to install due to outdated libraries, but it still works.
There are lots of extra bills included with owning a house. Most rentals cover at least some if not all utilities, and even if your rent doesn't cover heating/cooling a house typically costs a lot more per month to keep warm/cool compared to a 2 bedroom in a complex. Add in various forms of insurance, taxes, appliances, and the possibility of random huge upkeep charges (i.e. pipe in the basement bursts). When you rent the landlord has to eat all of those expenses.
Its also a lot easier to have a roommate with an apartment to cut all of your costs in half. You could of course buy the house and rent out your extra rooms to friends, but living with your landlord tends to put a strain on friendships.
The GP mentioned that they were running a number crunching application. If that application were memory intensive freeing up every little bit of ram could help. Of course GDM is fairly light and RAM is cheap. I would guess that it would take a lot of time to see any measurable difference.
Also freeing up memory means that the kernel can cache more disk IO reducing disk accesses, so if no one is logging into the console why not shut it off.
The teachers have to constantly change their textbooks because all of the students get the teachers solutions manuals and pass them around even during class on jump drives. My CSci teachers would get around this by making their own homework instead of just using what the book gave them. They typically wouldn't change editions until the book store could no longer buy the old edition, and even then they would say if you have a old edition it will still work.
Even car insurance companies are basing their rates off of credit scores now. Progressive does a soft pull each time you get an insurance quote. Geico even did a hard pull which can hurt your credit last time I did a quote through them. Although that was years ago so this may have changed.
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"Will it run Microsoft Visio or .vsd compatible program?" Nope.
LibreOffice recently added support for importing vsd files. Not sure about exporting changes, but its at least half way there. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/
"Will it let me log to work from home?" Nope, doesn't even run the remote client.
Not sure what you use, but Citrix, RDP, and Cisco VPN all work great from my Linux machine... Citrix was a pain to install due to outdated libraries, but it still works.
There are lots of extra bills included with owning a house. Most rentals cover at least some if not all utilities, and even if your rent doesn't cover heating/cooling a house typically costs a lot more per month to keep warm/cool compared to a 2 bedroom in a complex. Add in various forms of insurance, taxes, appliances, and the possibility of random huge upkeep charges (i.e. pipe in the basement bursts). When you rent the landlord has to eat all of those expenses.
Its also a lot easier to have a roommate with an apartment to cut all of your costs in half. You could of course buy the house and rent out your extra rooms to friends, but living with your landlord tends to put a strain on friendships.
The GP mentioned that they were running a number crunching application. If that application were memory intensive freeing up every little bit of ram could help. Of course GDM is fairly light and RAM is cheap. I would guess that it would take a lot of time to see any measurable difference.
Also freeing up memory means that the kernel can cache more disk IO reducing disk accesses, so if no one is logging into the console why not shut it off.
The teachers have to constantly change their textbooks because all of the students get the teachers solutions manuals and pass them around even during class on jump drives. My CSci teachers would get around this by making their own homework instead of just using what the book gave them. They typically wouldn't change editions until the book store could no longer buy the old edition, and even then they would say if you have a old edition it will still work.
Even car insurance companies are basing their rates off of credit scores now. Progressive does a soft pull each time you get an insurance quote. Geico even did a hard pull which can hurt your credit last time I did a quote through them. Although that was years ago so this may have changed.