As far as I'm concerned things like the units used in Gas/Petrol, glasses of beer, road signs, and the side of the road we drive on all are a part of a country's culture and there's no huge need to change them. Sure it would make things simpler for people visiting, but it's not a necessity.
Measurements used in scientific experiments on the other hand I feel should be standardized. The scientific community isn't just based in one country, and using a bunch of different measurements isn't only an inconvenience, it's dangerous. People will make conversion errors, things will go wrong. NASA should know this by now.
That may well be disk I/O related. I've been hitting similar performance problem s on Windows 2003 lately and am pretty sure it's down to disk I/O giving poorer performance than expected.
Nothing in a desktop/workstation needs to be listening on a real network interface for RPC requests. Having it do that, especially on a network interface connected to the Internet, is a really bad idea.
I second that. Broadcom cards work perfectly with Ubuntu.
I'm curious as to why you had to use the command line for other reasons. Other than software development and SSHing to other machines, I've not had to use the command line in a long time.
I think I'm missing something. I see 3.1b3 in my about box. Not 3.1.150. When 3.5 comes out, that's a higher number than any of the 3.1x versions. No confusion.
In that case then my Dell Mini 9 is also a fully featured laptop. It's got ethernet, wifi, bluetooth and USB just like the Macbook Air, it's got an SSD like the Macbook air, and it boots up OS X faster than the Macbook Air.
I also disagree with them not serving as well as a full time desktop replacement:
I run 2 virtual machines, Komodo IDE, other development tools, manage my photo collection and play music/video on my netbook. It's really handy as I travel a lot. It handles all of those things flawlessly. And with an external monitor/keyboard plugged in, I don't use much else at home or in the office. It does the job, and isn't slow.
My next netbook might either be a dual core Atom one, or an ARM one (both running Linux). I don't think I really need the dual core ability, I like ARM's longer battery life, but I occasionally have to run Windows XP apps in a VM. I wonder what Microsoft's answer to ARM-based netbooks will be.
I imagine if Apple ever brings out a netbook it will be ARM-based.
Underpowered adjective: driven by an engine of insufficient power.
The power of my 1.6GHz Atom netbook with 2GB RAM and a 16GB SSD is more than sufficient for doing normal office tasks, web surfing, video watching, and using development tools such as Eclipse and Komodo. Definitely not underpowered.
The small screen is a bonus... my 12" laptop is too big to fit comfortably on the tables in many planes, whereas I can fit a snack and a drink next to my netbook while having the screen fully opened without touching the back of the chair in front of me. In the office or at home, I use it with an external keyboard and monitor.
I run 2 virtual machines, Komodo IDE, other development tools, manage my photo collection and play music/video on my netbook. It's really handy as I travel a lot. It handles all of those things flawlessly. And with an external monitor/keyboard plugged in, I don't use much else at home or in the office. It does the job, and isn't slow. Granted, it's not suited for big number-crunching applications, but is ideal for most things.
Netbooks being for just web surfing and email checking is a myth, and will be more-so once we start seeing dual-core netbooks.
Actually in Ubuntu, I can go to Add/Remove programs and type AAC into the search box. 3rd hit is AAC Codecs for GStreamer. Although a complete newbie might not know what a codec is, or what gstreamer is, they can still click on that search result and see a description.
This is much more straightforward that trying to find something to play AAC files in Windows.
I don't see it as much of a problem. Living in America, if I go to a local bar I will see beers from at least four or five good microbrewries, in addition to the usual watery beers and some imported stuff. I guess some of the microbreweries aren't so micro any more.
I've had nothing but good experiences with Ubuntu and the Dell Mini 9 when it comes to standby. Works perfectly. I would guess it's the hardware vendors that aren't very friendly when it comes to standby + hibernate.
What distro is the netbook running? Might make a difference to boot-up time. My Dell Mini 9 takes roughly 40 seconds to boot up, and only 1 second to come out of standby. I only reboot it for kernel upgrades or if I forget to plug in the charger. 40 seconds once every one or two weeks isn't bad.
I have 3 running right now because I have two VPN connections to different networks using the Cisco VPN client, and another VM for testing client software on. Even then, I'm using just over half of the 4GB RAM the computer has.
What do IDEs have to do with filesystems? Being able to have the compiler set the execute permission for the file it has created would be sensible though.
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As far as I'm concerned things like the units used in Gas/Petrol, glasses of beer, road signs, and the side of the road we drive on all are a part of a country's culture and there's no huge need to change them. Sure it would make things simpler for people visiting, but it's not a necessity.
Measurements used in scientific experiments on the other hand I feel should be standardized. The scientific community isn't just based in one country, and using a bunch of different measurements isn't only an inconvenience, it's dangerous. People will make conversion errors, things will go wrong. NASA should know this by now.
Additionally, I find it easier to imagine 45 tonnes (equivalent to 45 Ford Fiestas) than 50,000 pounds.
If you don't like the service, don't use it. It's that simple. Nobody's forcing you to choose Apple/AT&T.
Why would a USB stick maker license FAT? They don't distribute software or firmware that knows anything about the FAT file name algorithm.
That may well be disk I/O related. I've been hitting similar performance problem s on Windows 2003 lately and am pretty sure it's down to disk I/O giving poorer performance than expected.
It handles RPC requests. That makes it a server.
Nothing in a desktop/workstation needs to be listening on a real network interface for RPC requests. Having it do that, especially on a network interface connected to the Internet, is a really bad idea.
I second that. Broadcom cards work perfectly with Ubuntu.
I'm curious as to why you had to use the command line for other reasons. Other than software development and SSHing to other machines, I've not had to use the command line in a long time.
I think I'm missing something. I see 3.1b3 in my about box. Not 3.1.150. When 3.5 comes out, that's a higher number than any of the 3.1x versions. No confusion.
They have?
Looks the same to me
You do realize that not everyone lives in America?
In that case then my Dell Mini 9 is also a fully featured laptop. It's got ethernet, wifi, bluetooth and USB just like the Macbook Air, it's got an SSD like the Macbook air, and it boots up OS X faster than the Macbook Air.
I also disagree with them not serving as well as a full time desktop replacement:
My next netbook might either be a dual core Atom one, or an ARM one (both running Linux). I don't think I really need the dual core ability, I like ARM's longer battery life, but I occasionally have to run Windows XP apps in a VM. I wonder what Microsoft's answer to ARM-based netbooks will be.
I imagine if Apple ever brings out a netbook it will be ARM-based.
Underpowered adjective: driven by an engine of insufficient power.
The power of my 1.6GHz Atom netbook with 2GB RAM and a 16GB SSD is more than sufficient for doing normal office tasks, web surfing, video watching, and using development tools such as Eclipse and Komodo. Definitely not underpowered.
The small screen is a bonus... my 12" laptop is too big to fit comfortably on the tables in many planes, whereas I can fit a snack and a drink next to my netbook while having the screen fully opened without touching the back of the chair in front of me. In the office or at home, I use it with an external keyboard and monitor.
I run 2 virtual machines, Komodo IDE, other development tools, manage my photo collection and play music/video on my netbook. It's really handy as I travel a lot. It handles all of those things flawlessly. And with an external monitor/keyboard plugged in, I don't use much else at home or in the office. It does the job, and isn't slow. Granted, it's not suited for big number-crunching applications, but is ideal for most things.
Netbooks being for just web surfing and email checking is a myth, and will be more-so once we start seeing dual-core netbooks.
Actually in Ubuntu, I can go to Add/Remove programs and type AAC into the search box. 3rd hit is AAC Codecs for GStreamer. Although a complete newbie might not know what a codec is, or what gstreamer is, they can still click on that search result and see a description.
This is much more straightforward that trying to find something to play AAC files in Windows.
Perhaps it's made from cat dung.
They definitely did better than my attempt. I guess I wasn't thinking outside the circle enough.
I don't see it as much of a problem. Living in America, if I go to a local bar I will see beers from at least four or five good microbrewries, in addition to the usual watery beers and some imported stuff. I guess some of the microbreweries aren't so micro any more.
Some of my current favorites would be:
Firestone, Stone,
Fat Tire and Flying Dog.
What's dismaying about it? /me is confused
The same could be said for Windows/Linux/Apple fanboys.
Pass the calendar to camperdave when you're done looking at it... it's not 2008 any more :-)
I've had nothing but good experiences with Ubuntu and the Dell Mini 9 when it comes to standby. Works perfectly. I would guess it's the hardware vendors that aren't very friendly when it comes to standby + hibernate.
What distro is the netbook running? Might make a difference to boot-up time. My Dell Mini 9 takes roughly 40 seconds to boot up, and only 1 second to come out of standby. I only reboot it for kernel upgrades or if I forget to plug in the charger. 40 seconds once every one or two weeks isn't bad.
Virtual machines.
I have 3 running right now because I have two VPN connections to different networks using the Cisco VPN client, and another VM for testing client software on. Even then, I'm using just over half of the 4GB RAM the computer has.
What do IDEs have to do with filesystems? Being able to have the compiler set the execute permission for the file it has created would be sensible though.
What? there is 5GB of unneeded apps that get installed along with Windows? And I thought Ubuntu was getting bloated.