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sunfolk
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<snip> no reason to waste cycles on trying yet another version.<snip>
----------------------------------------Yeah, OK. Linux versions=too many, thats true. Its funny you say "As yet not been able to replicate my CPU/MEM/Fan indicators in Gnome that I have in Unity" Unity has better support than gnome? What do you use in Gnome?     |
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Some of the indicators and extensions only work on the "standard" gnome.3.0. I'm on 3.3 and 3.4 will be in Pangolin and the current System Monitor extension is a horror to see, for whatever reason sits left hand bottom. Occasionally I launch GKrellM to watch things while toying around, else it's earshot. If the fan drops from it's steady 2450 RPM it means that BOINC is not doing much or something non-BOINC that's eating more than 50% of the CPU time.
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sunfolk
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Some of the indicators and extensions only work on the "standard" gnome.3.0. I'm on 3.3 and 3.4 will be in Pangolin and the current System Monitor extension is a horror to see,<snip> Fair enough, thats linux I suppose, you cant please all the desktop,enviroments/window,managers/shells/etcetera all the time... It will never be perfect unless YOU code it...  |
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for some unknown reason to my inapt linux iq linuxmint 12 ran my i5 laptop way to hot (by hand fealing the heat from the fan)
went to ubuntu new version and seems to run alot better. |
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Google on that... think I saw something about high energy consumption under mint. It was a problem for recent Ubuntu's too, but Oceilot [11.10] fixed that FAIR.
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For what it's worth, in a pure and mixed environment of W7/Vista, always had to have IPv6 allowed before the homegroup connections and file-sharing would work. For Linux I always followed the suggestion to have IPv6 in wireless set to "Ignore". Few days ago I set it to "automatic" to test 11.10 on this [before it could cause wireless to fail]and low and behold, opening a Zipped 100 MB file on a Windows 7 device and expanding it directly to the Linux file server now hits the 4.5MB per second where before it would barely hit 2.5-3MB second. It's consistent and has stayed so after several scheduled boots. All I'm using on Linux side is having Samba deployed to set share permissions and automounts. Finally things look ready to start unattended scheduled incremental backups over WLAN to the 3TB drive and not wonder over the ages it could take whilst eating expensive crunch cycles. :D
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At OMG Ubuntu, an article how an Italian Band recorded/edited a CD completely with use of Linux: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/italian-ro...um-recorded-using-ubuntu/
Quite a feat, since I think the audio part of Ubuntu is by far the weakest and again a switch of the default player coming with pangolin 12.04... back to Rhythmbox, which is not exactly the most stable [for me]. Who has not experienced a "poof", MP exit? --//-- |
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Prefetched the final Firefox 9 from the ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa by adding it via the Y-PPA manager and running update, é voilà, installed and launched without a hitch. Compared to Windows, much speedier and no 16 second freeze when signing out of WCG (for me in Windows)
See http://www.webupd8.org/2011/12/firefox-9-released-with-improved.html#more --//-- |
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Hardnews
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I'm enjoying the Linux thread. I have Ubu 11.04 on my i5 crunch box, although I'm an Ubuntu virgin, I managed to get LM sensors, Samba, BOINC and WGC running.
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Today been experimenting with a DNS server to improve responsiveness of the intertubes, and maybe WCG too. First tried djbdns/dnscache-run which led to complete loss of access to my ISP, then went for dnsmasq as described in the below 2 links:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dnsmasq http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/faster-browsing-in-linux-with-local-dns.html Followed instructions of former, restarted the network and dnsmasq after configuring (booting is silly for most things on Linux), and away we were. Ran the dig www.worldcommunitygrid.org command (standard available in terminal) and first time had 64ms, and second time zero ms delay. WCG feels only slightly faster, but the rest of the web, banking etc is truly blowing through. Then came the disappointment after redirecting my windows machine to the DNS server on the Linux box. Sure enough that too worked great, but the moment I exited the GUI and did the lightdm stop in tty1, the daemon quit. Launched the GUI, things working again. So this is not the package to keep if I cant find out why is ceases to run without and active GUI. Already I'm eyeballing an alternate solution picked up from an Fedora 16 article on DNS Caching and sure enough it's also in the Ubuntu Software Center, which gives the following description. pdnsd, is an IPv6 capable proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers (for example in dial-in networking). pdnsd can be used with applications that do dns lookups, eg on startup, and can't be configured to change that behaviour, to prevent the often minute-long hangs (or even crashes) that result from stalled dns queries. Like the part where it saves the cache to harddisk, so next time, immediate 0ms responsiveness. Will set up some flush commands in CLI companion and do a little play with the ttl, so that at one point stale records get refreshed when accessed again. --//-- Errata: The dig response from WCG, 1st and 2nd time (shows it comes from localhost, no asking an ISP, Google or OPENDNS)): dig www.worldcommunitygrid.org ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> www.worldcommunitygrid.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21165 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.worldcommunitygrid.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.worldcommunitygrid.org. 4477 IN A 198.20.8.246 ;; Query time: 46 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 21 16:41:13 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 60 ~$ dig www.worldcommunitygrid.org ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> www.worldcommunitygrid.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61762 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.worldcommunitygrid.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.worldcommunitygrid.org. 4475 IN A 198.20.8.246 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 21 16:41:15 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 60 P.S. Did I mention cross-wlan speed improvement from about 3.5 to 4.5 MB per second. Well, got it up to 5.0MBs now. Seems the system is learning what I want. |
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