Dealing with WINE is less of a chore vs dual booting vs running a VM?
A serious question - what is the advantage of running Linux as a host OS (bare metal) vs a guest (virtual machine) OS? Granted you might lose a few CPU cycles and a GB or so of RAM, but with a somewhat current system does that matter? I'd rather run Windows and play the latest/greatest games and run whatever flavor of Linux as a VM for whatever Linux stuff one might do. I would think this would be sufficient in most cases unless there was a specific reason to run Linux bare metal (or someone who didn't care to run Windows games in native mode).
Both OSes on SSDs, the home (Users) partition on a mechanical drive or both OSes on mechanical drives; it makes no difference. Win7 x64 pegs the HD light on for several minutes during which I am helpless. The longest phase of the Linux boot is the POST process.
I'm guessing this is how your particular Win7 x64 is configured as my anecdotal evidence is much different than yours. I run Win7 as my host OS (fairly clean install, only drivers/software geared for gaming) and a VM for work (work junk, office, outlook, cygwin, dropbox, etc). I do this on both my work laptop and home desktop. The only difference between the two is my laptop has an SSD for boot host/guest and mech for data and my desktop is all SSD. I notice no measurable boot time difference among all systems (aside from POST related items); Win 7 is up and running and usable in less than 30 seconds without the pegged HD issues you are seeing. As soon as I log in I can crank up Outlook, Chrome, etc nearly instantly. I cannot understand how this could be minutes in your scenario. Even before SSDs it was never like that, unless (as someone else asked) you had a metric ton of startup software, malware, etc.
I picked one up this morning at list price without having to wait in line or run all over the county. A 5 minute visit to my local GameStop a few weeks ago to put my name on the waiting list was all I had to do.
I won't argue those points as they have a completely different cultural attitude than almost every other country when it comes to technology/gadgets/etc. What are the reasons they are standard issue for first graders? I'm guessing they have reasons that might not apply to other countries. North Korea as a neighbor might be one of them.
Apparently my attempt at humor has failed. I was referring to the state of Georgia and not the country of Georgia. I have not made it to that part of Europe (Asia?) in my travels. And this was the Bible Belt I was referencing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_belt. I suppose I should be more aware of the international audience in future posts.:-)
This has been the biggest challenge to overcome. It's been pounded into my brain in the last 15 years that you cannot move while casting, doing a special move, etc. This is not a bad thing, combat is fun. I also like the fact you are mostly responsible for keeping yourself alive. Very refreshing not to have to have a healer or specific support/dps/etc class to run around and kill shit. No monthly fee is the icing on the cake too; I could care less about what my toon looks like and will never pay for those items. I'm grateful that many others will however.
BTW OT but anybody know when the big summer sale starts? My youngest has been saving up for it and I swear every other question is "Has it started yet?" so knowing the date and time would be nice, thanks.
Not usually an MMO kind of guy, but the more I read about GW2, the more I think I actually have cause to finally upgrade/replace my 4 year old gaming rig... funding, however, is a different matter.
What hardware do you have? My 4 year old gaming rig (purchased 08/2008) has no issue with anything even today. I've upgraded the video card once (Nvidia 260 -> Nvidia 460) and now have some SSDs. Intel 9550 with 8GB RAM. GW2 runs great, same with Skyrim (with most graphical features on high) for another example. Even 4 years ago I don't think that rig was bleeding edge.
Fair enough, but more than say 20GBs? Not saying that a 64GB SSD is enough for everyone, but it seems like it should be more than enough if you only put your OS on it, with plenty room for updates, software that refuses to go to a data drive, etc. Other folks in the thread had mentioned getting rid of the hibernation and pagefile too.
hell I'm using over 100Gb on my OS drive and I keep all my games and movies on a separate drive,
... while I back up my OS regularly I don't want to even know how much bullshit I'd have to go through to get a 3 year old Win 7 install pared down to 64Gb and squeezed onto an SSD. Does anybody have experience with mostly full SSDs? I know they need to use wear leveling and I'm curious how well that would work if the drive is damned near full. Lets say I have 108Gb on my OS drive and I buy a 128Gb SSD, is that gonna kill the performance? Increase the failure rate? Would it be better to simply get a hybrid or wait until the 256Gb drives come down?
What are you storing on your OS drive to use over 100GB? I have a 64GB SSD in my laptop (Win7 64-bit, 59.6GB formatted) that also includes an additional 20GB virtual disk (Win7 64-bit c: drive) and I still have 10-15GB free depending on what junk I currently have on my desktop. All of my data files are on the ~400GB spinning disk. The only other "tweak" is I have completely removed the windows page file (12GB of RAM) as I don't need one.
I've also gotten my c:\ down to 2-3 GBs free and not noticed any performance difference.
This is why so many girls go into modelling and find themselves dispirited: it's made to look like a glamorous, well-paid job, but it turns out to be exceptionally sleazy and cheap.
For the most part, girls do not know what they're getting into.
That's why these ladies only do the job for one event and never look back,right? Because after the first time they know what they are getting into and shouldn't make the same mistake again, right? I somehow doubt that is the case though....
Cashiers used to be expected to be capable of some basic arithmetic, but not so anymore.
When I worked at a fast food joint in 1991 the management realized I could do basic arithmetic in my head and put me at drive through duty the majority of my shifts. Our antiquated (old even for 1991) cash registers could only handle one order or transaction at a time. Given the nature of drive through I typically had 3-5 orders to deal with at a given time. Any change I gave back had to be calculated in my head vs relying on a fancy cash register. Anyone else who worked the drive through had a calculator handy to calculate change. So based on my experience, even 20 years ago most cashiers failed at basic math. Maybe we have to go back another 20 years for these competent cashiers?
Nearly half of the students in my freshman Calculus class failed although most of them had taken AP calculus in high school. Not all calculus classes are created equal.
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A serious question - what is the advantage of running Linux as a host OS (bare metal) vs a guest (virtual machine) OS? Granted you might lose a few CPU cycles and a GB or so of RAM, but with a somewhat current system does that matter? I'd rather run Windows and play the latest/greatest games and run whatever flavor of Linux as a VM for whatever Linux stuff one might do. I would think this would be sufficient in most cases unless there was a specific reason to run Linux bare metal (or someone who didn't care to run Windows games in native mode).
So why are you depriving yourself of these good games?
Both OSes on SSDs, the home (Users) partition on a mechanical drive or both OSes on mechanical drives; it makes no difference. Win7 x64 pegs the HD light on for several minutes during which I am helpless. The longest phase of the Linux boot is the POST process.
I'm guessing this is how your particular Win7 x64 is configured as my anecdotal evidence is much different than yours. I run Win7 as my host OS (fairly clean install, only drivers/software geared for gaming) and a VM for work (work junk, office, outlook, cygwin, dropbox, etc). I do this on both my work laptop and home desktop. The only difference between the two is my laptop has an SSD for boot host/guest and mech for data and my desktop is all SSD. I notice no measurable boot time difference among all systems (aside from POST related items); Win 7 is up and running and usable in less than 30 seconds without the pegged HD issues you are seeing. As soon as I log in I can crank up Outlook, Chrome, etc nearly instantly. I cannot understand how this could be minutes in your scenario. Even before SSDs it was never like that, unless (as someone else asked) you had a metric ton of startup software, malware, etc.
Just another opinion....
It's called Thanksgiving, and it happens on the first Thursday after November 21. It represents being thankful that the election is over.
That's interesting. I've never heard Thanksgiving Day referenced in that manner. I've always known it the be the 4th Thursday in November.
I picked one up this morning at list price without having to wait in line or run all over the county. A 5 minute visit to my local GameStop a few weeks ago to put my name on the waiting list was all I had to do.
Since nerds are commonly liberals, this is targeted towards a core democrat constituency.
Really? I guess I'm hanging out with the wrong nerds...
I won't argue those points as they have a completely different cultural attitude than almost every other country when it comes to technology/gadgets/etc. What are the reasons they are standard issue for first graders? I'm guessing they have reasons that might not apply to other countries. North Korea as a neighbor might be one of them.
http://www.amazon.com/Firefly-kids-phone-card-charger/dp/B0040T9E68
http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/fireflymobile/firefly.html
ATT/Cingular has had one since 2005.
You must work in a small shop. The appliance has many limitations and is not ready for enterprise use.
http://www.thefirstrow.eu/ will take care of your sports needs.
If you strap a camera to your head that's what you would see walking as well.
The brain is an amazing thing because it sure does NOT look like that to us as we are walking...
Yup. This is like The Blair Witch Project, but 100x worse. No thanks...
Apparently my attempt at humor has failed. I was referring to the state of Georgia and not the country of Georgia. I have not made it to that part of Europe (Asia?) in my travels. And this was the Bible Belt I was referencing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_belt. I suppose I should be more aware of the international audience in future posts. :-)
I didn't realize Tbilisi was considered part of the Bible Belt. How times (and perceptions) have changed...
Hey, things are getting much better here in Georgia. We can actually buy beer/wine in select locations on a Sunday now. That's progress!
A) Don't know they can move while casting
This has been the biggest challenge to overcome. It's been pounded into my brain in the last 15 years that you cannot move while casting, doing a special move, etc. This is not a bad thing, combat is fun. I also like the fact you are mostly responsible for keeping yourself alive. Very refreshing not to have to have a healer or specific support/dps/etc class to run around and kill shit. No monthly fee is the icing on the cake too; I could care less about what my toon looks like and will never pay for those items. I'm grateful that many others will however.
BTW OT but anybody know when the big summer sale starts? My youngest has been saving up for it and I swear every other question is "Has it started yet?" so knowing the date and time would be nice, thanks.
Not sure when it starts, but the game list was leaked all over yesterday if that helps at all - http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/09/possible-steam-summer-sale-details-arise/
Not usually an MMO kind of guy, but the more I read about GW2, the more I think I actually have cause to finally upgrade/replace my 4 year old gaming rig... funding, however, is a different matter.
What hardware do you have? My 4 year old gaming rig (purchased 08/2008) has no issue with anything even today. I've upgraded the video card once (Nvidia 260 -> Nvidia 460) and now have some SSDs. Intel 9550 with 8GB RAM. GW2 runs great, same with Skyrim (with most graphical features on high) for another example. Even 4 years ago I don't think that rig was bleeding edge.
Fair enough, but more than say 20GBs? Not saying that a 64GB SSD is enough for everyone, but it seems like it should be more than enough if you only put your OS on it, with plenty room for updates, software that refuses to go to a data drive, etc. Other folks in the thread had mentioned getting rid of the hibernation and pagefile too.
hell I'm using over 100Gb on my OS drive and I keep all my games and movies on a separate drive,
What are you storing on your OS drive to use over 100GB? I have a 64GB SSD in my laptop (Win7 64-bit, 59.6GB formatted) that also includes an additional 20GB virtual disk (Win7 64-bit c: drive) and I still have 10-15GB free depending on what junk I currently have on my desktop. All of my data files are on the ~400GB spinning disk. The only other "tweak" is I have completely removed the windows page file (12GB of RAM) as I don't need one.
I've also gotten my c:\ down to 2-3 GBs free and not noticed any performance difference.
So how many units in a baker's dozen again? ;-)
This is why so many girls go into modelling and find themselves dispirited: it's made to look like a glamorous, well-paid job, but it turns out to be exceptionally sleazy and cheap.
For the most part, girls do not know what they're getting into.
That's why these ladies only do the job for one event and never look back,right? Because after the first time they know what they are getting into and shouldn't make the same mistake again, right? I somehow doubt that is the case though....
Network bandwidth typically isn't a problem with VMware environments...
Or simply get a tablet that is waterproof (and presumably spaghetti sauce proof too) - Pantech Element
Cashiers used to be expected to be capable of some basic arithmetic, but not so anymore.
When I worked at a fast food joint in 1991 the management realized I could do basic arithmetic in my head and put me at drive through duty the majority of my shifts. Our antiquated (old even for 1991) cash registers could only handle one order or transaction at a time. Given the nature of drive through I typically had 3-5 orders to deal with at a given time. Any change I gave back had to be calculated in my head vs relying on a fancy cash register. Anyone else who worked the drive through had a calculator handy to calculate change. So based on my experience, even 20 years ago most cashiers failed at basic math. Maybe we have to go back another 20 years for these competent cashiers?
Nearly half of the students in my freshman Calculus class failed although most of them had taken AP calculus in high school. Not all calculus classes are created equal.