There's an option to force PAE support, if that still doesn't work that must be because your CPU is buggy and it's Intel's fault. Mint 13 Xfce is nice if you wish to run that.
I suppose the kernel upgrade will not be part of the actual upgrade, you do it if you feel like it (kernels section of the Update Manager makes it rather easy). I ended up rolling back to 3.13, it makes the older lines of nvidia drivers happy.
It's still on Ubuntu 14.04, so there's an answer (and a support term : 2019)
When it'll be on 16.04, well by then maybe systemd will be old enough so that it somewhat works. After that all that remains to you is to sell your house, spend $50k on a computer that runs AIX. Use it CLI-only and quit coming here to troll the news.
I used to use Deluge's own client/server model, although it was for a different reason (having it run when the desktop is shut down) It's exactly what TeknoHog is talking about, a separate GUI and daemon, although there's a twist : the client program (it was deluge-gtk) seems to fully function on its own, so the separate daemon program is not really needed. The daemon program is available in a separate package and is to be used for headless servers and such. But the GUI program can connect to the daemon over the network, it then becomes a "dumb" front-end to the daemon (while still appearing to work the same way as in standalone mode)
Neat although it didn't work with version 1.3.x on desktop and 1.2.x on server.
Yuck. So you have to worry about the waste, cleaning up or smearing your keyboard. And with sticky chocolaty crap don't forget to brush your teeth. Why not eat bread and peanut butter?, for example.
If you're over 25 and still eating candy bars, you have failed as a human being. Also there is U+1F36B already.
Code pages mismatched between the Windows GUI and the Windows command line so that's not a very good record here. Yes, the Windows console under XP not just DOS programs. I've tried a dir/o > file.txt on Windows 7 : you get garbage for such characters as à é à ö ç like in the old days. Explorer.exe does display the file names correctly, oddly. (I created them with "copy nul" which creates empty files)
It's called "A8-6410" but it's the low power chip (Atom competitor, with the Playstation 4's tech).
Perhaps it would run good with Wayland or MIR and an improved proprietary graphics driver. Just run a 2D desktop instead of a 3D accelerated one and call it done.
I found old Pentium II/III hardware with Intel 440BX chipset to be reliable, typically comes with an ATI Rage Pro 8MB - works 2D-only these days, but it's nice to see a board without a heatsink on the graphics chip. It will never fail. Of course you get the occasional power supply or hard drive failure but that's true for all hardware.
The funny part is, forget about Damn Small Linux and other survival-mode distros, do a command-line install of a recent ubuntu or debian and apt-get lxde, xorg, alsa, firefox etc. Now you can browse slashdot just the same as on a new $1000 PC. Torrent recent xvid movies and play them full screen (1024x768 to 1280x1024 monitor), or listen to music in the background (audacious with winamp2 skin)
The only reason I have a much more capable PC is because I always leave firefox running with many tabs and I keep them among sessions. And a few other reasons.
Running on low end flash and everything else on a single USB is a pain yes. Although if you just want to run bash or twm with xclock and xeyes it shouln't matter.
The current crop of HDD is stupidly fast, like well over 150MB/s. Slow latency of course. But e.g. a 2TB Seagate is perfectly fine to install an OS, especially if you don't go with a gnome 3 derived desktop (I don't know about KDE, it's too ugly and is being rewritten again). It's like the fastest HDD you've ever seen, should beats old consumer 10000 rpm drives hands down.
I mean, boot takes likes 10 seconds to an auto-logged Mate desktop (okay, maybe 15 seconds on HDD and 1 seconds on SSD). Then Firefox takes a few seconds to load, as well as VLC etc. But go with 8GB as a minimum and for common task you have gigabytes of disk read cache, so new instances of software you've run before open instantly, etc.
So just get a HDD, esp. if you intend to store things or use some of it as back up storage.
It's a sought after CPU for upgrades yet an old discarded workstation is cheaper or the same price. That's normal, it's often how it goes. Also over $600 is nuts : that must be a leftover unsold part that hangs around in inventory. If you're going to buy new hardware a 4790K is better and way cheaper, you will get CPU + motherboard + RAM for the price (or less) of the old CPU alone.
PC (x86) on a stick are way crippled : insufficient cooling (there is a really tiny fan! and what do you do when it's failing), slow and limited storage, and also weird UEFI / hard to install something because it's x86 tablet hardware. So it's a waste unles that's really what you want. Or use some computer sticks as dumb terminals.
What happened is interest and support for joysticks died off, except on strict flight simulators. There were some fun games to play with a joystick in the 90s such as Descent, Xwing and any random tank or chopper game you came over. USB gamepad I'ven seen them but a USB joystick, I don't think I've ever seen one. So I kind of miss it. BTW you often didn't need a driver with ISA sound cards, both for the sound function under DOS and to run the joystick. It worked and that's all.
Are you both suggesting that putting the gaming PC in there is a waste, thus there should be two PC in the place, one gaming and one unable to game? (typical linux PC) That's twice the hardware, twice the furniture footprint, competition for which PC gets attention and a video playing on speakers.
Meanwhile the big PC can dual boot Windows and Linux, and if it runs Windows it can run a Linux VM with 2 or 4 vCPU and 5GB allocated RAM. If the physical seat isn't available, you can use the Linux OS through X11, VNC and RDP (or other still). The disk I/O is impossibly fast.
Try to have the Vt-d feature available? (if you ever try to run a hypervisor with both Windows and Linux running as a VM, and at least Windows using the real graphics card hardware)
I somewhat disagree. A budget build (by that I mean somewhere between $200 and $500) will use rather low power components, so that an old case with bad cooling is enough. Graphics cards in the 60-65 watt or 100-110 watt power ranges may need to be looked for.
Inexpensive motherboards tend to be the most reliable (with modern hardware, without a FSB or third party chipset) because they're made in high numbers, and the most expensive motherboards tend to be the most unreliable. So around the low middle is nice..
Power supply is the most critical, if you're doing a really low end PC you'll have to spend a bit more on the power supply than on the CPU.
OEM PC are more unfixable. For example a buddy's PC had to be downgraded from two sticks of RAM to just one, because you can't do shit all in the BIOS. With a real motherboard and BIOS, slowing the RAM down would have made it stable again. But you can't do anything, just set up time/date and boot order. And the motherboards are the worst crap available anyway (Packard Bell, HP, etc. etc.)
Laptop design involves fucking over your customers. For that you need extensive design so that you can save $0.1 while keeping the cooling barely adequate. The all-integrated CPU will throttle down anyway.
You can also put a 3.3 volt 486 in a 5 volt motherboard. Or run an old Athlon/Duron without any heatsink. Just don't do it. CPU used to catch fire for real! Nowadays not much happens though.
Bingo. Bluetooth USB dongles are even overpriced so that a C.H.I.P. would be cheaper, unless I order the dongle from China I guess.
What I hate about Bluetooth is that no desktop has it. Which is a first approximation, but good enough. I want bluetooth PCI cards for 10 euros, and 5 years ago. I can't believe that opportunity was missed. With a dongle on the desktop and a C.H.I.P computer, I would be able to send files in both directions without setting up a network like it's the late 90s and I've linked a Win9x and a DOS PC with a serial cable.
Wow, that worked. Either URL bar, icon on the left of URL bar or from a bookmark. It creates a.desktop file, which on inspection is very simple, so that's probably an old, long available feature that few people know about.
The error I got was likely from a slight mess up : weird outcomes are not rare with drag'n'drop, that's why you end up with computer users whose task bar accidentally takes up half of the screen, or music folders that got "nested" by accident.
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Lien vers Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? - Slashdot Type=Link URL=http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8400015&cid=51016103 Icon=mate-fs-bookmark
You can put comments in the file, even possibly unofficial entries.
I tried a drag'n'drop in linux. Seemed to do nothing then a file manager copy window popped up, trying to copy "/" into the target directory. It failed with a nonsensical error message thankfully (can't copy "/" : "/" is a directory).
It's built by the nuclear power company, and the article says the data center may act as a power sink when there's excess electricity on the grid. So that's a bit interesting.
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It is sort of what PC-BSD is to FreeBSD.
There's an option to force PAE support, if that still doesn't work that must be because your CPU is buggy and it's Intel's fault.
Mint 13 Xfce is nice if you wish to run that.
I suppose the kernel upgrade will not be part of the actual upgrade, you do it if you feel like it (kernels section of the Update Manager makes it rather easy).
I ended up rolling back to 3.13, it makes the older lines of nvidia drivers happy.
It's still on Ubuntu 14.04, so there's an answer (and a support term : 2019)
When it'll be on 16.04, well by then maybe systemd will be old enough so that it somewhat works.
After that all that remains to you is to sell your house, spend $50k on a computer that runs AIX. Use it CLI-only and quit coming here to troll the news.
I used to use Deluge's own client/server model, although it was for a different reason (having it run when the desktop is shut down)
It's exactly what TeknoHog is talking about, a separate GUI and daemon, although there's a twist : the client program (it was deluge-gtk) seems to fully function on its own, so the separate daemon program is not really needed. The daemon program is available in a separate package and is to be used for headless servers and such. But the GUI program can connect to the daemon over the network, it then becomes a "dumb" front-end to the daemon (while still appearing to work the same way as in standalone mode)
Neat although it didn't work with version 1.3.x on desktop and 1.2.x on server.
There's a viewer for Claws Mail that uses dillo (simple graphical web browser), does that work?
Yuck. So you have to worry about the waste, cleaning up or smearing your keyboard. And with sticky chocolaty crap don't forget to brush your teeth.
Why not eat bread and peanut butter?, for example.
If you're over 25 and still eating candy bars, you have failed as a human being. Also there is U+1F36B already.
How naïve of you!
Code pages mismatched between the Windows GUI and the Windows command line so that's not a very good record here. Yes, the Windows console under XP not just DOS programs. /o > file.txt on Windows 7 : you get garbage for such characters as à é à ö ç like in the old days.
I've tried a dir
Explorer.exe does display the file names correctly, oddly. (I created them with "copy nul" which creates empty files)
I don't like flip phones so much, that's why there are non-flip dumb phones. GSM and SMS don't get outdated, smartphones do.
It's called "A8-6410" but it's the low power chip (Atom competitor, with the Playstation 4's tech).
Perhaps it would run good with Wayland or MIR and an improved proprietary graphics driver.
Just run a 2D desktop instead of a 3D accelerated one and call it done.
I found old Pentium II/III hardware with Intel 440BX chipset to be reliable, typically comes with an ATI Rage Pro 8MB - works 2D-only these days, but it's nice to see a board without a heatsink on the graphics chip. It will never fail.
Of course you get the occasional power supply or hard drive failure but that's true for all hardware.
The funny part is, forget about Damn Small Linux and other survival-mode distros, do a command-line install of a recent ubuntu or debian and apt-get lxde, xorg, alsa, firefox etc.
Now you can browse slashdot just the same as on a new $1000 PC. Torrent recent xvid movies and play them full screen (1024x768 to 1280x1024 monitor), or listen to music in the background (audacious with winamp2 skin)
The only reason I have a much more capable PC is because I always leave firefox running with many tabs and I keep them among sessions. And a few other reasons.
Running on low end flash and everything else on a single USB is a pain yes. Although if you just want to run bash or twm with xclock and xeyes it shouln't matter.
The current crop of HDD is stupidly fast, like well over 150MB/s. Slow latency of course. But e.g. a 2TB Seagate is perfectly fine to install an OS, especially if you don't go with a gnome 3 derived desktop (I don't know about KDE, it's too ugly and is being rewritten again). It's like the fastest HDD you've ever seen, should beats old consumer 10000 rpm drives hands down.
I mean, boot takes likes 10 seconds to an auto-logged Mate desktop (okay, maybe 15 seconds on HDD and 1 seconds on SSD). Then Firefox takes a few seconds to load, as well as VLC etc. But go with 8GB as a minimum and for common task you have gigabytes of disk read cache, so new instances of software you've run before open instantly, etc.
So just get a HDD, esp. if you intend to store things or use some of it as back up storage.
It's a sought after CPU for upgrades yet an old discarded workstation is cheaper or the same price. That's normal, it's often how it goes. Also over $600 is nuts : that must be a leftover unsold part that hangs around in inventory. If you're going to buy new hardware a 4790K is better and way cheaper, you will get CPU + motherboard + RAM for the price (or less) of the old CPU alone.
PC (x86) on a stick are way crippled : insufficient cooling (there is a really tiny fan! and what do you do when it's failing), slow and limited storage, and also weird UEFI / hard to install something because it's x86 tablet hardware.
So it's a waste unles that's really what you want. Or use some computer sticks as dumb terminals.
What happened is interest and support for joysticks died off, except on strict flight simulators.
There were some fun games to play with a joystick in the 90s such as Descent, Xwing and any random tank or chopper game you came over.
USB gamepad I'ven seen them but a USB joystick, I don't think I've ever seen one. So I kind of miss it. BTW you often didn't need a driver with ISA sound cards, both for the sound function under DOS and to run the joystick. It worked and that's all.
Are you both suggesting that putting the gaming PC in there is a waste, thus there should be two PC in the place, one gaming and one unable to game? (typical linux PC)
That's twice the hardware, twice the furniture footprint, competition for which PC gets attention and a video playing on speakers.
Meanwhile the big PC can dual boot Windows and Linux, and if it runs Windows it can run a Linux VM with 2 or 4 vCPU and 5GB allocated RAM. If the physical seat isn't available, you can use the Linux OS through X11, VNC and RDP (or other still). The disk I/O is impossibly fast.
Try to have the Vt-d feature available? (if you ever try to run a hypervisor with both Windows and Linux running as a VM, and at least Windows using the real graphics card hardware)
I somewhat disagree. A budget build (by that I mean somewhere between $200 and $500) will use rather low power components, so that an old case with bad cooling is enough. Graphics cards in the 60-65 watt or 100-110 watt power ranges may need to be looked for.
Inexpensive motherboards tend to be the most reliable (with modern hardware, without a FSB or third party chipset) because they're made in high numbers, and the most expensive motherboards tend to be the most unreliable. So around the low middle is nice..
Power supply is the most critical, if you're doing a really low end PC you'll have to spend a bit more on the power supply than on the CPU.
OEM PC are more unfixable. For example a buddy's PC had to be downgraded from two sticks of RAM to just one, because you can't do shit all in the BIOS. With a real motherboard and BIOS, slowing the RAM down would have made it stable again. But you can't do anything, just set up time/date and boot order. And the motherboards are the worst crap available anyway (Packard Bell, HP, etc. etc.)
Laptop design involves fucking over your customers. For that you need extensive design so that you can save $0.1 while keeping the cooling barely adequate. The all-integrated CPU will throttle down anyway.
You can also put a 3.3 volt 486 in a 5 volt motherboard. Or run an old Athlon/Duron without any heatsink.
Just don't do it. CPU used to catch fire for real! Nowadays not much happens though.
Bingo. Bluetooth USB dongles are even overpriced so that a C.H.I.P. would be cheaper, unless I order the dongle from China I guess.
What I hate about Bluetooth is that no desktop has it. Which is a first approximation, but good enough.
I want bluetooth PCI cards for 10 euros, and 5 years ago. I can't believe that opportunity was missed. With a dongle on the desktop and a C.H.I.P computer, I would be able to send files in both directions without setting up a network like it's the late 90s and I've linked a Win9x and a DOS PC with a serial cable.
Wow, that worked. Either URL bar, icon on the left of URL bar or from a bookmark. .desktop file, which on inspection is very simple, so that's probably an old, long available feature that few people know about.
It creates a
The error I got was likely from a slight mess up : weird outcomes are not rare with drag'n'drop, that's why you end up with computer users whose task bar accidentally takes up half of the screen, or music folders that got "nested" by accident.
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Lien vers Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? - Slashdot
Type=Link
URL=http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8400015&cid=51016103
Icon=mate-fs-bookmark
You can put comments in the file, even possibly unofficial entries.
I tried a drag'n'drop in linux. Seemed to do nothing then a file manager copy window popped up, trying to copy "/" into the target directory.
It failed with a nonsensical error message thankfully (can't copy "/" : "/" is a directory).
It's built by the nuclear power company, and the article says the data center may act as a power sink when there's excess electricity on the grid. So that's a bit interesting.