There's no mention about the maximum number of read/writes to Nand flash. According to Sandisk themselves at best you will get 2,000,000 erase cycles per sector. That's why you don't put a journalled OS on a CF card. Unless this new flash does a lot of smart data placement (which would probably cause a lot of data fragmentation) or OS in these new laptops is designed for flash memory use, I wouldn't buy one anytime soon.
I upgraded to Edgy on my MBP Parallels partition no problem. I do, however, have a pretty vanilla installation of ubuntu. The only problem that I did find is that time-admin crashes, but that's not a big deal.
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But what exactly is folding? And yes, I know I can find out in 30 secs on google, but 1) i'm lazy, that's why I read slashdot and 2) the headline should've given a one sentence description.
I thought it was funny when Wikipedia started providing BibTex citations for articles. Who in their right mind would cite a Wikipedia article in their own Latex document?
I love Linux. I've moved my office to it and I would use it on my home computer except for 1 reason: seamless multimedia integration. How easy is it to view wmv, mov, mpg, etc. files in a web browser in Linux? It's not that easy. I've given up trying. Sure you'll flame me for not setting up mplayer correctly with the web browser. But that's my point, why should I have to? You think a grandma who wants to see a movie of her newborn grandson will do that? Now you'll say, just download it and my answer is that just takes too long with all the clicking, saving, opening, and closing. Yeah I'm impatient and I hate clicking on other apps because that distracts me.
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Instead of whining about it, has anyone been able to find the congressional voting records on the extension of CALEA?
Neither is the sequoyah nuclear plant outside of Chattanooga, TN. You can even see the inside of the 2 smokestacks.
There's no mention about the maximum number of read/writes to Nand flash. According to Sandisk themselves at best you will get 2,000,000 erase cycles per sector. That's why you don't put a journalled OS on a CF card. Unless this new flash does a lot of smart data placement (which would probably cause a lot of data fragmentation) or OS in these new laptops is designed for flash memory use, I wouldn't buy one anytime soon.
I upgraded to Edgy on my MBP Parallels partition no problem. I do, however, have a pretty vanilla installation of ubuntu. The only problem that I did find is that time-admin crashes, but that's not a big deal. Danny
But what exactly is folding? And yes, I know I can find out in 30 secs on google, but 1) i'm lazy, that's why I read slashdot and 2) the headline should've given a one sentence description.
It still doesn't work with opera. I'll stick to the old, 90's looking yahoo mail for now.
Why is it that every time a patch is announced nowadays, it's announced as "X quietly releases a patch"? What? do they need fanfare or something?
I thought it was funny when Wikipedia started providing BibTex citations for articles. Who in their right mind would cite a Wikipedia article in their own Latex document?
Soccer is violent in the stands. I can't wait to see riots in the world cup :).
I love Linux. I've moved my office to it and I would use it on my home computer except for 1 reason: seamless multimedia integration. How easy is it to view wmv, mov, mpg, etc. files in a web browser in Linux? It's not that easy. I've given up trying. Sure you'll flame me for not setting up mplayer correctly with the web browser. But that's my point, why should I have to? You think a grandma who wants to see a movie of her newborn grandson will do that? Now you'll say, just download it and my answer is that just takes too long with all the clicking, saving, opening, and closing. Yeah I'm impatient and I hate clicking on other apps because that distracts me.