I have been running it on an Acer Aspire 5050 laptop since alpha 4 and it's been great. They fixed all the problems that I had with previous versions on that laptop. Last time I had a machine that ran that smooth was my eMac G4 way back when.
Well, the other thing is nuclear power is something right out of science fiction to most people. They only have the vaguest idea how it works, and it's like magic. I think that adds to the passion also. To some people advancing nuclear power is propelling the human race into the fabulous future.
To me it's the sheer volume of power you get from each reactor. Seabrook in NH is 1244 MW. Our subs measure the amount on uranium fuel used for a core's lifetime in grams. That's all the power used for propulsion, etc. for a period of years. Of course there's a lot more to it than that, but that's what gets me. Compared to 2 hydro dams near here that are 1.2MW or thereabouts a piece.
I loved it when I was in the Navy and all the protesters against Seabrook, and no one stopped to think that there were at least 4 mobile reactors at the shipyard across the river at any given time back then.
It's been awhile, and I do remember fighting it to get it to stick now that I think about it. It could be I cleared out my cookies from SlashDot and emptied the cache before I returned too. I just confirmed that mine works in classic all the time even from my user page.
I used to do that on purpose when I was in 1st grade because I was one of the first ones off the bus and I knew the whole ride was very nice out in the woods of Michigan. 'course then I was punished for it and I quit it.
Actually, I had a HP Scanner that wouldn't (ScanJet 3670) work, traded it for an Epson that did. I have setup about 20 customers with Ubuntu though and all of their scanners worked right out of the box.
Amarok and Rythmbox both recognize the iPod. Altho there are some issues with iTunes afterword. There are a bunch of forum entries for iPods in the Ubuntu Forums.
I went to prototype there too, on the S8G reactor. What I thought was neat is you can see the containment building (the big ball) for D1G in Google Earth. 43 2'25.76"N 7357'15.52"W.
I had forgotten that the road there was "Atomic Project Road". When I was there in 1984 the rumors around town (Saratoga) was that it was a submarine refueling station. I guess they thought there was a tunnel all the way to the ocean! According to Wikipedia they are still running S8G and MARF but not the others.
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It froze Firefox at 74% on the latency test, twice. Firefox 3, Ubuntu 8.04.
Has anyone else noticed that this was posted in the future?
While I enjoy your delicious barbecue and hot sauce style pizza analogies, might I request a standard yummy tomato sauce based one next time?
Thanks!
I have one!! I don't have a phone either. And I am in IT. And yes, the young-ins make fun of me.
No, it's an AMD X2. A regular laptop from, I want to say, 4 years ago. It really runs way better that any other Ubunto back to 8.04.
I have been running it on an Acer Aspire 5050 laptop since alpha 4 and it's been great. They fixed all the problems that I had with previous versions on that laptop. Last time I had a machine that ran that smooth was my eMac G4 way back when.
Actually I kinda look forward to your comments on various subjects. A little reason and thought is a nice change.
Well, the other thing is nuclear power is something right out of science fiction to most people. They only have the vaguest idea how it works, and it's like magic. I think that adds to the passion also. To some people advancing nuclear power is propelling the human race into the fabulous future.
To me it's the sheer volume of power you get from each reactor. Seabrook in NH is 1244 MW. Our subs measure the amount on uranium fuel used for a core's lifetime in grams. That's all the power used for propulsion, etc. for a period of years. Of course there's a lot more to it than that, but that's what gets me. Compared to 2 hydro dams near here that are 1.2MW or thereabouts a piece.
I loved it when I was in the Navy and all the protesters against Seabrook, and no one stopped to think that there were at least 4 mobile reactors at the shipyard across the river at any given time back then.
Here's a picture http://www.tteddo.com/tmp/corememory.jpg I took of one someone gave me. Pretty amazing!
I must say:
Thank you jesus, thank you lord!
And I ran 20 red lights in his honor!
It's been awhile, and I do remember fighting it to get it to stick now that I think about it. It could be I cleared out my cookies from SlashDot and emptied the cache before I returned too. I just confirmed that mine works in classic all the time even from my user page.
I had to log out, restart Firefox, then log back in. Been in the classic mode ever since.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!
I used to do that on purpose when I was in 1st grade because I was one of the first ones off the bus and I knew the whole ride was very nice out in the woods of Michigan. 'course then I was punished for it and I quit it.
Actually, I had a HP Scanner that wouldn't (ScanJet 3670) work, traded it for an Epson that did. I have setup about 20 customers with Ubuntu though and all of their scanners worked right out of the box.
I like the mass hallucination that causes everyone to pronounce Linksys as Linkskees.
All I really want to know is what Harlan Ellison thinks.
He's a beacon of light in our troubled forest of copyright.
Now that was funny!
Life imitates art.
http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/life-imitates-xkcd-part-ii-richard-stallman/
That's the mockup that used to be at the Nuclear Power School in Orlando. I saw it there in '84.
Wow! I thought that was just me!!
Amarok and Rythmbox both recognize the iPod. Altho there are some issues with iTunes afterword. There are a bunch of forum entries for iPods in the Ubuntu Forums.
Well played!
I went to prototype there too, on the S8G reactor. What I thought was neat is you can see the containment building (the big ball) for D1G in Google Earth. 43 2'25.76"N 7357'15.52"W. I had forgotten that the road there was "Atomic Project Road".
When I was there in 1984 the rumors around town (Saratoga) was that it was a submarine refueling station. I guess they thought there was a tunnel all the way to the ocean! According to Wikipedia they are still running S8G and MARF but not the others.