Have a D620 and does the same thing. Suckiest laptop I've ever had. Think I'm on the fourth motherboard and second CPU. Probably have a couple of months until it starts doing it again.
I have this exact same issue on a Dell D620 Latitude. It typically happens when compiling code. The exact same symptoms - machine is working hard, begins to heat up, machine gets really slow and cools off but remains glacial slow. I've ran one of the speed / temp sensor plotting tools and can see the result CPU running at half speed but working at 100%. System is so slow that moving the mouse and the like around is practically impossible, only a hard reboot clears the machine, if I soft reboot the problem is even in the bios (pushing down arrow is about 1 second to move to next selection). The machine normally does ~6000 bogomips, when running slow is about 200 bogomips.
I have had the motherboard and cpu replaced multiple times (4? 5? something like that). It always reoccurs a couple of months after the repair. This issue isn't confined to my D620, but all my co-workers which receive the same model Dell laptop have also had significant issues. It is so bad that we will be replacing our machines a year before they would normally be replaced. I'm lobbying hard to get something other than a Dell, but this is a challenge as they are my companies primary supplier.
The most annoying thing, is when the problem happens and you call Dell up they are always - please reinstall the operating system. I know it isn't the operating system, I can reproduce it in the bios. But they still persist in believing it is the OS (and yes, they are trying to blame Microsoft, this case, purely Dell's problem).
I'm not really sure. Visual Studio fails the most basic requirements for editing code. It isn't actually very good at editing text. The vaunted intellisense frequently fails to suggest anything, I have to actually think about indenting when using it, I can't define custom syntax highlighting, management of buffers is lacking (how can I put the same file into two windows displayed side by side?), and the compiler is really slow.
Perhaps this is a reaction to people "voting with their dollars" - i.e. dvd sales are down because rentals (Netflix, Redbox,...), video on demand (Comcast was offering video on demand the same day as the dvd goes on sale, not sure if they are anymore), and piracy. Basically it is preferred to spend a couple of bucks, watch the movie and then not buy the dvd (why own it, will only watch a couple of times ever).
I switched to Netflix perhaps six months ago, and before that was using On Demand from Comcast. I struggle to remember the last dvd purchased, it was at least a couple of years back. I don't think my experience is unusual, On Demand and Netflix are fully taking care of all my video needs (including child that wishes to watch the same video 80 times). I have voted with my wallet - dvds have too high a cost for too little benefit, in fact, the cost of dvds actively interferes with other entertainment.
I use Emacs instead of Visual Studio for editing C++, C#, SQL, and XML. I even gave Visual Studio a chance when I switched to working with Visual C++, it just doesn't edit text as well (only thing it does better is Intellisense).
Emacs has better window management (multiple frames and windows, great for dual screens), better indenting (it does it for me in multiple languages), much better syntax highlighting, better searching (no silly window to search from), and even better environment for tracking through compilation errors (using Visual Studio as the compiler). The only thing I haven't got working is debugging Visual Studio executables in Emacs.
Having actually compared and used them both, I'm not sure why people use Visual Studio, it just isn't as good for developing software.
And this shows why it is so crazy. It is perfectly reasonable to separate email identities by using a naming scheme - ickpoo.srjc@eatmorefish.com is the email address I hand out for school related communications (skipping the school provided email because it is crap). Doing this allows me all sorts of nice things; simple sorting of correspondence, separation identities, and, at a glance I know what the use of the email address is. I'm not even trying to do fraud here.
It works just fine with Emacs (and probably VI). There are command line applications for project generation, compilation (ant), moving stuff to the phone, or the emulator, for watching logs on the phone / emulator. The only thing I haven't done is use the debugger, which I understand that Eclipse has nicely integrated.
Clearly I won't be using Ext4 for a long while. The attitude of T'so indicates that he doesn't really know the purpose of a file system. It doesn't matter how capable this guy is, he is an idiot.
Suggesting that this is the domain of the application is crazy. Writing a bunch of small files is par for the course for many applications, suddenly all these apps need to be reworked? The app wrote the file, probably received no error messages indicating that something might be wrong, and closed the file, and yet the file system is loosing data. The file system is suspect.
These idiots are in the emergency room because they can get care there, whereas the doctor expects insurance. For many people the emergency rooms seems the only place they can go.
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Think of LinkedIn as a glorified address book and it is still useful. Just ensure that all your friends are really people you know.
My experience is this: I have Office 2003, I get docx files regularly, I open them, Word says something about potential formatting errors, and I ignore Word's warning. I do think that the first time I encountered one of these files there was a rather lengthy download.
I recently switched to Gnome because KDE 4.1 whatever shipped with Fedora 10 was a cluster (wouldn't remember the position of stuff in the panel). Configuring Gnome was painful and significantly less intuitive that the previous versions of KDE.
The specific setting I wanted was focus follows mouse, don't raise. Setting this involved the configuration tool (don't know the name) and using gconf and using google to figure out what and where the configuration setting I'm looking for is. Even KDE 4.* made setting focus follows mouse easy, I'm not sure why Gnome choose to bury half the options.
Gnome is configurable, but the tool used to configure it (gconf) makes it significantly more complicated than it needs to be.
Find in files is a joke. It never finds anything, and is really slow in the process. Lets say for example that you have a large collection of.php files. You know that in one of the files in MoneyTalks, find files won't find the file, you could open the file in Emacs and be looking at the class MoneyTalks and Windows cannot find it.
With source code, Find in Files is useless, it is slow, and only finds some of what it should find (likely caused by file extension, but, that is beside the point). My experience is with source code, I haven't searched mass Word documents, but even with those it still won't be fast.
There is a flaw in the argument. It might just be the home directory that get wiped out, but, at least for me, the information that I use the machine for is in my home directory and other directories that I can write to.
So, while a virus wouldn't prevent my machine from running, it would certainly remove most of the usefulness of it.
I agree with you 100%. One of these bans would be rendering a $60 game essentially useless, or, at least significantly less useful. They will get sued, almost as soon as they start banning, and they will lose. Regardless of what the click through license says, no judge will find this acceptable.
I'm pretty sure that Blizzard goes after the users using bots too. Basically as soon as Blizzard can be sure that a player is using a bot the ban hammer comes down, perhaps even before that.
I thought the same thing. I'll go with ATI this time, been hearing good news about their cards and their drivers.
I get a 3840HD (or something of that nature), drop it into my machine, install the drivers in the repository. Everything is great, 3d is fast, card is cool, it is working good, glxgears is 9 times faster than before. I fire up wine and attempt to run Wow (addict). Nice black screen; it worked fine with the NVidia card, just not with the ATI card. Trusty Google tells me that this is a known issue with the the ATI drivers that has been known for something like 6 months. ATI is blaming the Wine developers, the Wine developers are trying to work around the problems with ATI's drivers but are having difficulty. I fiddled with multiple different versions of the drivers and had no luck at all. So, I returned the card.
Picked up an NVidia 9600GT. Everything worked as soon as it was installed.
If NVidia fails it is going to suck for awhile. ATI's drivers are still crappy (granted NVidia's are too when using the xrender path).
This particular photographer was an ass too. He was asked to stop taking pictures of an employee and continued to take the pictures. This isn't a case of reasonable use cameras, it was a case of him being a nuisance. The camera is just this guys excuse to cause people grief. Would be exactly the same if he was continuously blowing raspberries or farting.
The guy is a jerk and an ass. He should have been arrested for being a public nuisance (he claims that the space is public, then get him on it).
The Focus is not a decent car. It works fairly well but is built of substandard junk.
Mine had: window crank replaced (I broke it off with my huge strength), all bushings in front suspension replaced, front brake disks replaced, ignition lock replaced (how does the ignition lock fail after 40,000 miles). And mine is from after the first couple years of nothing but recalls.
If they had put quality parts in it in the first place, it would be a nice car, as it is...
The only American auto I am looking forward to is the Volt. Perhaps it will be something that isn't junk.
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Particularly as you would be typing tab in there to auto complete most of the path.
Have a D620 and does the same thing. Suckiest laptop I've ever had. Think I'm on the fourth motherboard and second CPU. Probably have a couple of months until it starts doing it again.
I have this exact same issue on a Dell D620 Latitude. It typically happens when compiling code. The exact same symptoms - machine is working hard, begins to heat up, machine gets really slow and cools off but remains glacial slow. I've ran one of the speed / temp sensor plotting tools and can see the result CPU running at half speed but working at 100%. System is so slow that moving the mouse and the like around is practically impossible, only a hard reboot clears the machine, if I soft reboot the problem is even in the bios (pushing down arrow is about 1 second to move to next selection). The machine normally does ~6000 bogomips, when running slow is about 200 bogomips.
I have had the motherboard and cpu replaced multiple times (4? 5? something like that). It always reoccurs a couple of months after the repair. This issue isn't confined to my D620, but all my co-workers which receive the same model Dell laptop have also had significant issues. It is so bad that we will be replacing our machines a year before they would normally be replaced. I'm lobbying hard to get something other than a Dell, but this is a challenge as they are my companies primary supplier.
The most annoying thing, is when the problem happens and you call Dell up they are always - please reinstall the operating system. I know it isn't the operating system, I can reproduce it in the bios. But they still persist in believing it is the OS (and yes, they are trying to blame Microsoft, this case, purely Dell's problem).
I'm not really sure. Visual Studio fails the most basic requirements for editing code. It isn't actually very good at editing text. The vaunted intellisense frequently fails to suggest anything, I have to actually think about indenting when using it, I can't define custom syntax highlighting, management of buffers is lacking (how can I put the same file into two windows displayed side by side?), and the compiler is really slow.
Perhaps this is a reaction to people "voting with their dollars" - i.e. dvd sales are down because rentals (Netflix, Redbox, ...), video on demand (Comcast was offering video on demand the same day as the dvd goes on sale, not sure if they are anymore), and piracy. Basically it is preferred to spend a couple of bucks, watch the movie and then not buy the dvd (why own it, will only watch a couple of times ever).
I switched to Netflix perhaps six months ago, and before that was using On Demand from Comcast. I struggle to remember the last dvd purchased, it was at least a couple of years back. I don't think my experience is unusual, On Demand and Netflix are fully taking care of all my video needs (including child that wishes to watch the same video 80 times). I have voted with my wallet - dvds have too high a cost for too little benefit, in fact, the cost of dvds actively interferes with other entertainment.
I use Emacs instead of Visual Studio for editing C++, C#, SQL, and XML. I even gave Visual Studio a chance when I switched to working with Visual C++, it just doesn't edit text as well (only thing it does better is Intellisense).
Emacs has better window management (multiple frames and windows, great for dual screens), better indenting (it does it for me in multiple languages), much better syntax highlighting, better searching (no silly window to search from), and even better environment for tracking through compilation errors (using Visual Studio as the compiler). The only thing I haven't got working is debugging Visual Studio executables in Emacs.
Having actually compared and used them both, I'm not sure why people use Visual Studio, it just isn't as good for developing software.
And yet it is still outselling the PS3 and 360 by huge margins.
What does that say about those consoles?
And this shows why it is so crazy. It is perfectly reasonable to separate email identities by using a naming scheme - ickpoo.srjc@eatmorefish.com is the email address I hand out for school related communications (skipping the school provided email because it is crap). Doing this allows me all sorts of nice things; simple sorting of correspondence, separation identities, and, at a glance I know what the use of the email address is. I'm not even trying to do fraud here.
It works just fine with Emacs (and probably VI). There are command line applications for project generation, compilation (ant), moving stuff to the phone, or the emulator, for watching logs on the phone / emulator. The only thing I haven't done is use the debugger, which I understand that Eclipse has nicely integrated.
Additionally there is the libraries that accupany the langauge to master. Just knowing the language well isn't enought.
Clearly I won't be using Ext4 for a long while. The attitude of T'so indicates that he doesn't really know the purpose of a file system. It doesn't matter how capable this guy is, he is an idiot.
Suggesting that this is the domain of the application is crazy. Writing a bunch of small files is par for the course for many applications, suddenly all these apps need to be reworked? The app wrote the file, probably received no error messages indicating that something might be wrong, and closed the file, and yet the file system is loosing data. The file system is suspect.
My daughter is so used to on demand / dvds that she will ask to pause normal cable channels.
These idiots are in the emergency room because they can get care there, whereas the doctor expects insurance. For many people the emergency rooms seems the only place they can go.
Think of LinkedIn as a glorified address book and it is still useful. Just ensure that all your friends are really people you know.
I don't know about that.
My experience is this: I have Office 2003, I get docx files regularly, I open them, Word says something about potential formatting errors, and I ignore Word's warning. I do think that the first time I encountered one of these files there was a rather lengthy download.
I recently switched to Gnome because KDE 4.1 whatever shipped with Fedora 10 was a cluster (wouldn't remember the position of stuff in the panel). Configuring Gnome was painful and significantly less intuitive that the previous versions of KDE.
The specific setting I wanted was focus follows mouse, don't raise. Setting this involved the configuration tool (don't know the name) and using gconf and using google to figure out what and where the configuration setting I'm looking for is. Even KDE 4.* made setting focus follows mouse easy, I'm not sure why Gnome choose to bury half the options.
Gnome is configurable, but the tool used to configure it (gconf) makes it significantly more complicated than it needs to be.
Are you serious?
Find in files is a joke. It never finds anything, and is really slow in the process. Lets say for example that you have a large collection of .php files. You know that in one of the files in MoneyTalks, find files won't find the file, you could open the file in Emacs and be looking at the class MoneyTalks and Windows cannot find it.
With source code, Find in Files is useless, it is slow, and only finds some of what it should find (likely caused by file extension, but, that is beside the point). My experience is with source code, I haven't searched mass Word documents, but even with those it still won't be fast.
There is a flaw in the argument. It might just be the home directory that get wiped out, but, at least for me, the information that I use the machine for is in my home directory and other directories that I can write to.
So, while a virus wouldn't prevent my machine from running, it would certainly remove most of the usefulness of it.
I agree with you 100%. One of these bans would be rendering a $60 game essentially useless, or, at least significantly less useful. They will get sued, almost as soon as they start banning, and they will lose. Regardless of what the click through license says, no judge will find this acceptable.
It is handy when installing a new version of the OS. Just format the / partition and leave home alone.
I'm pretty sure that Blizzard goes after the users using bots too. Basically as soon as Blizzard can be sure that a player is using a bot the ban hammer comes down, perhaps even before that.
I thought the same thing. I'll go with ATI this time, been hearing good news about their cards and their drivers.
I get a 3840HD (or something of that nature), drop it into my machine, install the drivers in the repository. Everything is great, 3d is fast, card is cool, it is working good, glxgears is 9 times faster than before. I fire up wine and attempt to run Wow (addict). Nice black screen; it worked fine with the NVidia card, just not with the ATI card. Trusty Google tells me that this is a known issue with the the ATI drivers that has been known for something like 6 months. ATI is blaming the Wine developers, the Wine developers are trying to work around the problems with ATI's drivers but are having difficulty. I fiddled with multiple different versions of the drivers and had no luck at all. So, I returned the card.
Picked up an NVidia 9600GT. Everything worked as soon as it was installed.
If NVidia fails it is going to suck for awhile. ATI's drivers are still crappy (granted NVidia's are too when using the xrender path).
This particular photographer was an ass too. He was asked to stop taking pictures of an employee and continued to take the pictures. This isn't a case of reasonable use cameras, it was a case of him being a nuisance. The camera is just this guys excuse to cause people grief. Would be exactly the same if he was continuously blowing raspberries or farting.
The guy is a jerk and an ass. He should have been arrested for being a public nuisance (he claims that the space is public, then get him on it).
The Focus is not a decent car. It works fairly well but is built of substandard junk.
Mine had: window crank replaced (I broke it off with my huge strength), all bushings in front suspension replaced, front brake disks replaced, ignition lock replaced (how does the ignition lock fail after 40,000 miles). And mine is from after the first couple years of nothing but recalls.
If they had put quality parts in it in the first place, it would be a nice car, as it is...
The only American auto I am looking forward to is the Volt. Perhaps it will be something that isn't junk.
No no no.
The force is greater because of the greater masses, but the acceleration is the same. F = MA or F/M = A.
Basically you are saying that if we take the heavier moon and cut it in half the halves will accelerate more slowly than the whole.