Well that is rather hardware specific. On a laptop with an SSD harddrive and core i7 quad PLUS 8gig RAM (A very expensive sony 13" one we bought for the boss) we came close.
On my house PC with a 7200RPM disk I get 15seconds for 10.04 up to the login screen, on my laptop with a 5400RPM hdd I get about 25secs for 10.10
What I do notice with every Ubuntu install where Win7 is Dual booted is that there is often not much to choose between the two in the beginning, but that during their lifetimes Win7 tends to take longer and Ubuntu tends to stay close to fresh install speeds.
While I largely agree, I am of the opinion that large mails are a bad idea.
I have often used e-mail to send photographs to people. No, I don't want to set up an "online photo-album" or other such thing, I just want a mail-equivalent for the Internet. Given this requirement, e-mail is the best system available.
That said, email is no longer a communication protocol, but an idea/data sharing platform.
Care to explain the difference?
Re the difference:
Email has previously been a means of communication only. Similar to writing letters and the like. Gradually email has been used to send content along with the letters.
Lately I see more and more people using email almost as a collaboration tool, architects or engineers (many among my clients are) use it to send plans or technical drawings to each other.
These technical drawings can cause mails to be ridiculously huge.
Then graphics designers also tend to send huge images and design studies to and fro and to their clients.
A lady in our office tried to send a mail to a client with four 700+ mb attachments.
While I largely agree, I am of the opinion that large mails are a bad idea. That said, email is no longer a communication protocol, but an idea/data sharing platform.
Client side mail programs and the antivirus that go along with them tend to fail when dealing with large mails, so the technology has not caught up with the new usage patterns that are emerging.
This is especially true for areas where people do not have "true" broadband and the timeout issue crops up. What I have seen happening is that the mail client (outlook especially) connects to the server the timout countdown begins. While the mail is being downloaded the Antivirus intercepts the mail and starts scanning it. Outlook is not aware that this is going out and if the mail is large enough+the line just that little too slow the timeout limit is reached and the mail download fails.
So while I understand why people want to send large mails (I'd much prefer other file sharing applications and services) the way email and the client side programs work breaks the model.
In Britain it would not get off the ground due to bureaucracy, in Germany it would cause endless voting and opting out a-la google streetview and given France's military history they would probably end up infecting their own systems and losing control. Then, they would surrender to themselves.
I have a Samsung star 5233 and I put it face down on my bedside table. The two call buttons on the front protrude just enough that I can snooze it by pressing on the back of the phone, no accuracy needed. Just a good klap on the back and it is back to dreamland...
I regularly use both when doing reviews for my blog and the newest KDE4 (4.5) is really good.
While not bug free yet, it has come a long way.
Gnome 2 has some basic niggles that are really getting to me, case in point the applets in the panels moving around between reboots. Or applets crashing.
And don't get me started on Evolution.
Back to the point though - up till the previous KDE4 release Gnome 2 has definitely been more stable - plasma crashes in KDE4 accounted for a lot of my KDE4 issues - but had about the same number of basic little niggles.
4.5 levels the playing field.
At least one can see the work going into KDE4 release on release, less so with Gnome. Guess they are focussing on Gnome3 now.
++ the above, or Evolution - it also imports PST's and from there you can move it to Thunderbird for Windows. If you want uber searchability you could then upload the whole shebang to a gmail account that you sync offline via gears.
I personally would balk at having all that stuff online with google but hey that would be the best searchable option I know. You can also sync with your Gmail account via imap protocol if gears and the web interface is not for you. Problem with that is that you will lose the great search capability with Gmail.
Then again Thunderbird has some really cool search addons that might just take care of your needs altogether, plus it is platform agnostic - you can have it on BSD, Linux, Windows or Mac.
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Oh Bravo.
*applause*
The funniest thing I read today.
Well that is rather hardware specific. On a laptop with an SSD harddrive and core i7 quad PLUS 8gig RAM (A very expensive sony 13" one we bought for the boss) we came close.
On my house PC with a 7200RPM disk I get 15seconds for 10.04 up to the login screen, on my laptop with a 5400RPM hdd I get about 25secs for 10.10
What I do notice with every Ubuntu install where Win7 is Dual booted is that there is often not much to choose between the two in the beginning, but that during their lifetimes Win7 tends to take longer and Ubuntu tends to stay close to fresh install speeds.
I have both.
Shameless blog punt here but look at the links below:
http://g33q.co.za/2010/10/26/using-unity-another-7-day-challenge/ (An introduction to me using unity for seven days as my only work environment.)
I also show you how to create a custom skin for Unity.
And here is an older article where I take a preview look at Unity back in May already: http://g33q.co.za/2010/05/12/preview-ubuntu-unity/
Have fun!
I have often used e-mail to send photographs to people. No, I don't want to set up an "online photo-album" or other such thing, I just want a mail-equivalent for the Internet. Given this requirement, e-mail is the best system available.
Care to explain the difference?
Re the difference:
Email has previously been a means of communication only. Similar to writing letters and the like. Gradually email has been used to send content along with the letters.
Lately I see more and more people using email almost as a collaboration tool, architects or engineers (many among my clients are) use it to send plans or technical drawings to each other.
These technical drawings can cause mails to be ridiculously huge.
Then graphics designers also tend to send huge images and design studies to and fro and to their clients.
A lady in our office tried to send a mail to a client with four 700+ mb attachments.
Email was not meant for this.
While I largely agree, I am of the opinion that large mails are a bad idea. That said, email is no longer a communication protocol, but an idea/data sharing platform.
Client side mail programs and the antivirus that go along with them tend to fail when dealing with large mails, so the technology has not caught up with the new usage patterns that are emerging.
This is especially true for areas where people do not have "true" broadband and the timeout issue crops up. What I have seen happening is that the mail client (outlook especially) connects to the server the timout countdown begins. While the mail is being downloaded the Antivirus intercepts the mail and starts scanning it. Outlook is not aware that this is going out and if the mail is large enough+the line just that little too slow the timeout limit is reached and the mail download fails.
So while I understand why people want to send large mails (I'd much prefer other file sharing applications and services) the way email and the client side programs work breaks the model.
*applause*
_brilliant_
In Britain it would not get off the ground due to bureaucracy, in Germany it would cause endless voting and opting out a-la google streetview and given France's military history they would probably end up infecting their own systems and losing control. Then, they would surrender to themselves.
Also, the "Unknown" value.
I have a Samsung star 5233 and I put it face down on my bedside table. The two call buttons on the front protrude just enough that I can snooze it by pressing on the back of the phone, no accuracy needed. Just a good klap on the back and it is back to dreamland...
My wifes grandma, who is in her late eighties, has a hearing aid. She will sometimes talk to herself to "hear" if she has it adjusted properly.
So there is the reason that the auntie was talking to herself - probably fiddling with her hearing aid to set it properly.
I am with you on that.
Now if anyone could explain how she managed to fade into thin air like that as soon as she noticed the camera...
Also, per capita they get laid more than you do. GTFO
hah. Yeah.
You're perfectly right.
It's farmVILLE ignorant hick... *keeps playing*
(disclaimer - I don't play it.)
Ugh. You just _had_ to drag clippy into this...
I think that your second observation is spot on. Kubuntu is much more vanilla KDE than Ubuntu is vanilla Gnome.
If you want a really good KDE distro to try, go for Linux Mint 9 KDE, the 10KDE is not out yet.
I used Gnome Shell for seven days trying to figure out if it was any good.
Sadly it tends to get in the way...
Here (shameless blog punt, I apologise) is Day 1, read from there.
http://g33q.co.za/2010/06/14/using-gnome-shell-day-1/
I regularly use both when doing reviews for my blog and the newest KDE4 (4.5) is really good.
While not bug free yet, it has come a long way.
Gnome 2 has some basic niggles that are really getting to me, case in point the applets in the panels moving around between reboots. Or applets crashing.
And don't get me started on Evolution.
Back to the point though - up till the previous KDE4 release Gnome 2 has definitely been more stable - plasma crashes in KDE4 accounted for a lot of my KDE4 issues - but had about the same number of basic little niggles.
4.5 levels the playing field.
At least one can see the work going into KDE4 release on release, less so with Gnome. Guess they are focussing on Gnome3 now.
Have you tried ReKonq?
It is pretty good, at least better than Konqueror is (I am assuming you are talking about the browser side of Konqueror)
Technically that is two words and an acronym.
My mailbox regularly reaches more than three gigs and I used Evolution for a while before jumping back to Thunderbird.
I now tend to keep it small.
One thing I really dislike about Evolution is the way it breaks when you move folders in the mail tree.
Try it and see the breakage. As a PST conversion tool it is pretty cool though.
++ the above, or Evolution - it also imports PST's and from there you can move it to Thunderbird for Windows. If you want uber searchability you could then upload the whole shebang to a gmail account that you sync offline via gears.
I personally would balk at having all that stuff online with google but hey that would be the best searchable option I know. You can also sync with your Gmail account via imap protocol if gears and the web interface is not for you. Problem with that is that you will lose the great search capability with Gmail.
Then again Thunderbird has some really cool search addons that might just take care of your needs altogether, plus it is platform agnostic - you can have it on BSD, Linux, Windows or Mac.
HTH!
* whose energy I channeled while having sex with a woman last night.
Yeaaahhh... everyone feels like that the first time...
Personally I feel that an unused window title bar is wasted space.
I'm a sysadmin - al your intarwebs are belong to us!
Thanks for taking the time to answer!
I had exactly the same "only on the internet" thought while I was reading your reply.
Thanks again.
cheers