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Former Member
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There is nothing in other country, only desert,snakes & killer Koalas, stick with NZ you`ll be sweet... I absolutely love reptiles. In Minnesota I pick up every snake I run across. I know I can't do that in that "other" country (or even the south US), but I would love to see them! I'm also a rabid Bird Watcher, and would die to see the birds in your part of the world! Killer Koalas, that's good humour!  |
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sunfolk
Master Cruncher Super Kiwi Socialistic Empire Of Jacinda Joined: Oct 8, 2006 Post Count: 1769 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hahahaha Rolling on the floor laughing my ... off! OMG! your banter with the Aussie's are like Minnesota vs. Wisconsin or Iowa. Good humour indeed! |
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Former Member
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Well the killer koalas seem to be another species going into strike back mode... now train them to go after the bull frogs ;>)
----------------------------------------"Killer" also to many a commenter seems to be the zram function of Linux extended to virtual memory for those on low physical. It had no effect on my 3Gb usable, but for 2 and 1GB devices things are said to start screaming. Increased Performance In Linux With zRamSwap (Virtual Swap Compressed in RAM) It's save so far after having it run on me quad for a week, certainly has not had a negative impact on performance and 100% valid continues. Put some comments in meself on the VM getting transparently size up i.e. System Monitor sees the HD drive part and Memory VM as 1. --//-- edit: A clear NB: Linux kernel 2.6.37.1+ is required! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 8, 2011 8:45:39 AM] |
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Former Member
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Next Ubuntu up after Ocelot will have a name with a *P*, and it's another one many will have to look up to find out what on earth a Pangolin is: http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/ubun...t-be-a-perky-penguin.html but if you do you probably say: Yeah, of course ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin --//-- P.S. Our hill houses black adders, [very dark] squirrels as most recent arrivals, many species of birds, some definitely not indigenous, even lizards, but nothing with scales, or resembling long clawed dropping K bears loving meat of homo sapiens sapiens.  |
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sunfolk
Master Cruncher Super Kiwi Socialistic Empire Of Jacinda Joined: Oct 8, 2006 Post Count: 1769 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My motherboard died.
----------------------------------------I recalled this crazy idea that because linux treats everything as a file;cdrom/dvd/cpu/gpu/home directory etcetera. that if you want to change something physically its not a problem.( no registery to worry about) So inserted new motherboard/ram/cpu/gpu with old harddrive.rebooted. Presented with tty1/recovery console/CLI. typed sudo Xorg -configure copied that file from home into /etc/X11 typed startx Done, took 20 minutes,back crunching with a gnome desktop. I love linux, I`m not a fanboy but come on , you cant do that with windoze....  (Edit:Squirrels are cool;Bonus they don`t eat people!) [Edit 1 times, last edit by sunfolk at Oct 10, 2011 11:48:53 AM] |
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Former Member
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Good story, and would you have that procedure down to an art, it would probably be possible to do in half the time. Meantime the BOINC developers are struggling how on earth the installer needs to work for Windows 8
Whilst, I thought of getting Ocelot 11.10 via the Update Manager upgrade path and spend quite a bit of time getting things fixed up, and not like the last time using the Natty Live CD to install over Maverick. Almost there, it saying it's ready to fetch 2258 packages for 1.518 GB (yes, it's hard to fit that on 1 CD), does this little final spanner pop up:  Low and behold, these are the [fill in the blanks] 32 bit libraries needed to run BOINC, which of all are not needed to be installed anymore by hand to get BOINC run in 64 bits and still be able to process the 32 bit science apps. Think I just refreshed my [pardon me French] vocabulary... what to do next? Run the 1.5 day cache empty, uninstall the libs, upgrade to 11.10 and hope things work when starting BOINC up again?... I'll ponder while chasing in vain after CEP Zero Redundancy Betas (tell ya, the guys at WCG done this test schedule on purpose today :0) --//-- |
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Oneiric [Ubuntu 11.10] is on and all seems to be working, and better at that... starting to like Unity-2D more and but for where Gnome-Shell 3 is going (3.2 is included in the install), there are presently little differences between the interfaces... Gnome 3 way of making workspaces is nicer, I think. The Unity Launcher "Reboot into" is now also listing kernel 2.6.38.12, the Natty kernel, the 3.0.0.12. kernel for Ocelot and W7. No more waiting for GRUB to appear before choosing which OS/Kernel to go, jus choose and walk away.
A frequent warning was also fixed and after longer dig found this little 3 step gem on the missing pixbuf issue: http://schelstraete.dyndns.org/index.php/linu...no-such-file-or-directory BOINC is still running and no work was lost and BOINCTasks in Wine still run fine, monitoring the clients on the WLAN. So, here we are in OO and all is running swell will lots of improvements AND, Synaptic is still there. :D Oh, and now for most applications the menu is always way up top of the screen in the left corner, to include for BOINC. Don't think, just move mouse there and it shows up. 24 pixels gained on screen real estate... just a 17" screen maxed out. --//-- P.S got Kubuntu and XFCE updated at same time, they're fine too. |
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Oneiric [Ubuntu 11.10] is on and all seems to be working, and better at that... starting to like Unity-2D more and but for where Gnome-Shell 3 is going (3.2 is included in the install), there are presently little differences between the interfaces... Gnome 3 way of making workspaces is nicer, I think. I was surprised to find out that Unity is the only option available by default. It feels a bit weird but I decided to give it few days, instead of going straight back to Gnome. Unity isn't that bad afterall and it gives refreshing feeling of space to full window view by hiding toolbars (or whatever you call them) from sides and bottom when not needed. 11.04 had many annoying bugs with graphics and screensaver, so let's hope we won't see them in this release. Probably the worst thing I've encountered so far are those default wallpapers. They all look horrible..  But the choice of Mozilla Thunderbird to default email client is great as you can make use of that envelope icon at last!I like it so far. Maybe the best Ubuntu release so far, like it should be  edit. Buck Off! was my choice btw.
to infinity and beyond
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Am still on 10.10. Is oneiric more efficient or just a pretty face put on it. 10.10 is working fine but if this update is better, might give it a shot. Better to dry out boinc before updating?
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