Ubuntu doesn't by default sleep the iBook when you close the lid. I was actually kind of hoping that it would damage the laptop so I could sue their asses for creating software that damaged my computer. From http://www.ubuntu.com/legal?highlight=(disclaimer)
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3. XP consistently faster. Well not for me buster. I consistently watch 2-3 complete movies under Red Hat (using Xine) in a row every evening and don't reboot for weeks. XP lasts about 5 You-Tube 3 minute shorts before it starts flat-lining and just gets worse and worse with every play until I reboot. Identical boxes remember? Right, I am certainly no Windows zealot, but Windows has been my primary desktop OS since, well, the beginning. I still cannot understand how people claim to have these kinds of problems with Windows, especially XP which runs as smooth as clockwork for me. I am by no means a power user on XP, I just like to "use" my desktop machines, but I have never had these kinds of stability problems. My last computer would go months on end before needing a reboot and that was with horrible things like regularly hibernating to give it the best chance possible of breaking.
Don't get me wrong, I do not disbelieve you, but I do wonder what it is that is causing these problems that I hear of so often from other people. My gut feeling is hardware, but then you say the same hardware is ok with Linux. Maybe linux is just better at handling duff hardware than windows (certainly a good thing). *shrug*
I am now 3 months into Linux (Ubuntu) being my primary desktop OS and despite some annoyances(non 100% success rates recovering from hibernate/standby, non-ability to boot an Edgy liveCD etc - minor stuff, no WinAmp+MilkDrop) that are not there in windows, I am sticking it out and liking it. There are (for me) more annoyances in windows that are not in Ubuntu so I am happy:)
For me, Dapper does not need any fancy permissions or sudo to burn DVDs CDs.
My only gripe so far is that I cannot boot into the gui with any of the liveCDs on my Dell 640m Laptop. Makes it a bit annoying that I can't "try out" new distros. Hopefully that will change with coming releases.
Tell me, in your experience, how god is the LED one? I found an LED upgrade bulb sold seperately for 40 Euros here in Germany and wondering if its worth the upgrade.
No LED upgrades for the mini-maglite though, the body for the LED mini-maglite looks different too so I guess thats not gonna happen...
I agree with this.. At my first interview in the big world of IT (with a company everyone here loves to hate*), They sat me in one room with a bucket of lego. Someone built up something, gave it to me and I had to describe down the phone to "the customer" in another room, how to reproduce the thing I had in my hand (they also had a bucket of lego).
Was very good for judging someons communications skills, especially when "the customer" is bing as unhelpful as possible.
A few years later I did the "the customer" part for some other interviewees. Was fun, but scary how many people just cant cope with even that.
In my old company, (the same one where I said the docus are spot on for certain projects) I would hate the change management process also.
Its probably one of those things thats great for managers who want to ensure everything is ducumented but awful for techies who just want to get work done.
If, however, there was a change that needed to be done straight away for whatever reason (eg, critical bugfixing) we were able to do it pretty much straight away and follow up with the documentation.
Maybe there is a place for a "half-way" type cm process where insignificant or bugfix changes changes can be made quickly with the cm/ducumentation process following thereafter. I dunno, i'm just waffling really:)
How about develop some system that documents the system for you.. You make a change to a port number and the docus pick it up automagically:)
What if you were in an environment where any and every change, no matter how small, is documented in a mandatory way?
Now I realise that this ups the staffing overhead considerably as you have twice as much work to do. But that aside, do you think this would work?
What do all the ISO9001 type companies do in this respect? I have worked on projects where, although not ISO9001, were very strict with their change management process and it has to be said, the documentation was always spot on.
A lot of overhead, but if it works and can save huge problems down the line then maybe worth it?
Given that scenario, it is entirely possible that "God" is some dude in a computer lab in his own (very advanced) world where they have some impending doom. To work out what they should do about it, they built a computer(or physical micro-scale) simulation (not Matrix style, no) with the state and history of their universe programmed in. They are merely watching our universe to see what the outcome is and work out what they can do about it.
"God" is the project leader guy. Other "gods" are just the lab techs reading slashdot, discussing the existence of a god in their reality.
And we thought DeepThought - err, no, Planet Earth was the biggest computer ever! Pah!
When I worked there (Winnersh & TVP) I was in a tech support role so had to work from the office to answer the calls. But the cubicle atmosphere was great - for me.
I have worked in IT environments in both Open plan with cubicles, Small offices of about 4 and open plan with desks.
I preferred both of the open plan options (i.e. with or without cubicles) than the small office. It may get noisy at times but it can be more sociable too.
Incase anyone is still reading this thread... Moofie is right here. KFG, you are wrong, sorry.
Given that the turbo is driven from exhaust gas pressure rather than the heat in the system, explain to me how it is magically free?. Granted, your example of "using the heat from an exhaust is free" is valid - to a degree - but the pressure/gas flow driven nature of a turbo means that extra work has to be done to drive it.
I challenge a proof on this..
1. Get a normally aspirated engine on a dyno, do some runs to get fuel usage for power output etc. 2. Now bolt a turbo on to said engine but do not feed it back into the induction, feed it into a suitable* restrictor. 3. Now run the engine up again. Do you honestly believe that it would still have the same efficiency? not a chance, it would use more fuel as more work is needed to drive the turbo due to increased backpressure and pumping losses in the engine. 4... 5. Profit!
*Restrictor should be the correct size to imitate the pressures you would see in the intake manifold if the turbo was indeed feeding a real engine. This if course would be hard to achieve as this will always change depending on engine rpm, so it would have to be a rpm controlled variably sized venturi - maybe a bit ott for such a demonstration:)
Linux & Windows. The pics are on a headless linux server and I access them from a linux laptop and a windows desktop.
Will take a look at f-spot, hopefully its available in Windows too. That might even be better than googles bodge of picasa on wine (why didn't they write it native? I thought they were meant to be a linux house)
I love the UI on Picassa, but I am finding that it has some shortcomings.
For example, I have all my pictures on one network share. On desktop PC "A" I arrange my pictures into albums using labels. on Desktop PC "B", you have to repeat this work. A central (or even just exportable) database of this would be hands.
I'm not understanding the logic in using old low capacity drives for things.
Lets say for example (merely as an example!) that you have 10 old 10Gig drives spun up "because, well, they still work fine so why throw them away". Lets say they are nice low power drives, say 15W average? So that is 150W of hard drive.
I wont work this out in energy costs, cos everyone round the world pays a different amount, but work it out using your energy costs. How long until you spend more than a 100GB drive would cost you?
This is the main reason I upgrade drives now. Rather than adding more drives to my array, I consolidate down and try to sell off the old ones. This saves electricity, space and if its a problem for you, reduces heat given off.
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Don't get me wrong, I do not disbelieve you, but I do wonder what it is that is causing these problems that I hear of so often from other people. My gut feeling is hardware, but then you say the same hardware is ok with Linux. Maybe linux is just better at handling duff hardware than windows (certainly a good thing). *shrug*
I am now 3 months into Linux (Ubuntu) being my primary desktop OS and despite some annoyances(non 100% success rates recovering from hibernate/standby, non-ability to boot an Edgy liveCD etc - minor stuff, no WinAmp+MilkDrop) that are not there in windows, I am sticking it out and liking it. There are (for me) more annoyances in windows that are not in Ubuntu so I am happy
I did..
:-(
It doesn't
I'd be happy even if they found a generic resolution, but nope.. nada. I need to install that 915resolution(?) package to get the graphics working.
other than that, everything on my laptop works "out of the box". At least for Ubuntu Dapper.
For me, Dapper does not need any fancy permissions or sudo to burn DVDs CDs.
My only gripe so far is that I cannot boot into the gui with any of the liveCDs on my Dell 640m Laptop. Makes it a bit annoying that I can't "try out" new distros. Hopefully that will change with coming releases.
Thanks for the info. I think I will be getting me one soon :)
:)
I actually lost my old 4 D Cell mag, but will get another and the conversion soon. Nice for living in the car
Tell me, in your experience, how god is the LED one? I found an LED upgrade bulb sold seperately for 40 Euros here in Germany and wondering if its worth the upgrade.
No LED upgrades for the mini-maglite though, the body for the LED mini-maglite looks different too so I guess thats not gonna happen...
How will I store my 32 exabyte "movie" files?
I agree with this.. At my first interview in the big world of IT (with a company everyone here loves to hate*), They sat me in one room with a bucket of lego. Someone built up something, gave it to me and I had to describe down the phone to "the customer" in another room, how to reproduce the thing I had in my hand (they also had a bucket of lego).
:)
Was very good for judging someons communications skills, especially when "the customer" is bing as unhelpful as possible.
A few years later I did the "the customer" part for some other interviewees. Was fun, but scary how many people just cant cope with even that.
*Dont worry, I left over 6 years ago
In my old company, (the same one where I said the docus are spot on for certain projects) I would hate the change management process also.
:)
:)
Its probably one of those things thats great for managers who want to ensure everything is ducumented but awful for techies who just want to get work done.
If, however, there was a change that needed to be done straight away for whatever reason (eg, critical bugfixing) we were able to do it pretty much straight away and follow up with the documentation.
Maybe there is a place for a "half-way" type cm process where insignificant or bugfix changes changes can be made quickly with the cm/ducumentation process following thereafter. I dunno, i'm just waffling really
How about develop some system that documents the system for you.. You make a change to a port number and the docus pick it up automagically
What if you were in an environment where any and every change, no matter how small, is documented in a mandatory way?
Now I realise that this ups the staffing overhead considerably as you have twice as much work to do. But that aside, do you think this would work?
What do all the ISO9001 type companies do in this respect? I have worked on projects where, although not ISO9001, were very strict with their change management process and it has to be said, the documentation was always spot on.
A lot of overhead, but if it works and can save huge problems down the line then maybe worth it?
Is the atmospheric pressure there really high then? I have no idea.
It would need to be to support liquid CO2.
I don't believe you
Given that scenario, it is entirely possible that "God" is some dude in a computer lab in his own (very advanced) world where they have some impending doom. To work out what they should do about it, they built a computer(or physical micro-scale) simulation (not Matrix style, no) with the state and history of their universe programmed in. They are merely watching our universe to see what the outcome is and work out what they can do about it.
"God" is the project leader guy. Other "gods" are just the lab techs reading slashdot, discussing the existence of a god in their reality.
And we thought DeepThought - err, no, Planet Earth was the biggest computer ever! Pah!
A beowulf cluster of dupes?
How does that work again?
And taking it the other way... Hundreds of billions of galaxies.
"Space is big, really big"
Welcome to increased EMI and reduced cooling efficiency!
ed
When I worked there (Winnersh & TVP) I was in a tech support role so had to work from the office to answer the calls. But the cubicle atmosphere was great - for me.
Is it just me?
I have worked in IT environments in both Open plan with cubicles, Small offices of about 4 and open plan with desks.
I preferred both of the open plan options (i.e. with or without cubicles) than the small office. It may get noisy at times but it can be more sociable too.
Maybe I am just a freak...
Incase anyone is still reading this thread...
:)
Moofie is right here. KFG, you are wrong, sorry.
Given that the turbo is driven from exhaust gas pressure rather than the heat in the system, explain to me how it is magically free?. Granted, your example of "using the heat from an exhaust is free" is valid - to a degree - but the pressure/gas flow driven nature of a turbo means that extra work has to be done to drive it.
I challenge a proof on this..
1. Get a normally aspirated engine on a dyno, do some runs to get fuel usage for power output etc.
2. Now bolt a turbo on to said engine but do not feed it back into the induction, feed it into a suitable* restrictor.
3. Now run the engine up again. Do you honestly believe that it would still have the same efficiency? not a chance, it would use more fuel as more work is needed to drive the turbo due to increased backpressure and pumping losses in the engine.
4...
5. Profit!
*Restrictor should be the correct size to imitate the pressures you would see in the intake manifold if the turbo was indeed feeding a real engine. This if course would be hard to achieve as this will always change depending on engine rpm, so it would have to be a rpm controlled variably sized venturi - maybe a bit ott for such a demonstration
Linux & Windows. The pics are on a headless linux server and I access them from a linux laptop and a windows desktop.
Will take a look at f-spot, hopefully its available in Windows too. That might even be better than googles bodge of picasa on wine (why didn't they write it native? I thought they were meant to be a linux house)
I love the UI on Picassa, but I am finding that it has some shortcomings.
For example, I have all my pictures on one network share. On desktop PC "A" I arrange my pictures into albums using labels. on Desktop PC "B", you have to repeat this work. A central (or even just exportable) database of this would be hands.
Along with multiple labels
and possibility of heirarchical albums structure.
How do they do the drilling on the drives of laptops that get stolen?
I'm not understanding the logic in using old low capacity drives for things.
Lets say for example (merely as an example!) that you have 10 old 10Gig drives spun up "because, well, they still work fine so why throw them away". Lets say they are nice low power drives, say 15W average? So that is 150W of hard drive.
I wont work this out in energy costs, cos everyone round the world pays a different amount, but work it out using your energy costs. How long until you spend more than a 100GB drive would cost you?
This is the main reason I upgrade drives now. Rather than adding more drives to my array, I consolidate down and try to sell off the old ones. This saves electricity, space and if its a problem for you, reduces heat given off.