51 Reply by alef

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Zen:Core wrote:

I'm wondering if a NetBook is really the right choice for me? I like the idea of the portability, but I have a couple of concerns.

1. How does the little processor really perform? Compared to some older Pentiums.
2. Does anyone get a headache looking at that small of a screen?

My opinion is that a non-premium netbook should be chosen only by people traveling a lot, otherwise people willing to buy a cheap machine and not using their computer often.

Zen:Core wrote:

My Wife's needs are pretty simple when it comes to computers. All she does is play games on Facebook and watch YouTube or Hulu videos. She surfs normally every once and a while, but most of her computer usage is Flash related.

Regarding performance it should be acceptable with something like mine (eeepc 1000h) to watch flash videos, but also think about screen size. may not be very convenient to be more than one person watching a fullscreen video on a 10' screen. Since it is your secondary system it may not be a problem for you.

Zen:Core wrote:

It would also be used for my limited office needs, some GIMP style editing and maybe some on the go web management.

It is not very comfortable to do image editing on a 10' netbook...

jotapesse wrote:

Regarding CPU power, the 1.6/1.66GHz N270/N280/N450 single-core Atoms processing power compare to an old Pentium 4 2.4GHz or an Intel Pentium M 1.4GHz. See it here.

The dual-core N330 and D510 1.6/1.66GHz Atoms compare to a Pentium 4 3.8GHz. Here.

hey thanks for these links CPU performances benchmark like this is very useful, since there are so many models, and some of them with very close name and very different performances...

Personally I am considering the option of replacing my eeepc 1000h with something a bit more powerful, and maybe lighter in weight too.
I have had a look at other netbooks, 'premium' ones like the eeepc 1201N, this one specially looks not too bad. I am also looking at ultraportables, and it seems that it is possible to find much more powerful machines same weight, screen between 11' and 13', for not so expensive if bought from ebay (Vaio X11, Portege R600, Thinkpad X200s ...). I am wondering whether this would be a better deal.

Now I am really hesitating: should I get one of these thinkpad x200s from ebay right now (one third or half price than new ones from regular shops), and get some money back by selling the 1000H, or should I wait few months for new netbooks to be released ? I am afraid that in a near future it will not be possible to sell the 1000H since it will be considered as too old...

Thanks for telling me your opinion on this if you have one.

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52 Reply by alef

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Hi, here are my preferences :

Diplay/Login Managers: startx/xinitrc

Games: 0 game

Image Editors: GIMP

Image Editors (vector): Inkscape

Instant Messengers Skype

Mail Client: none

Microblogging client: none

Music Players: decibel-audio-player

Office Apps: Abiword + Gnumeric

System Monitors: Conky

Text Editors: nano (cli) + Leafpad

Torrent Clients: Transmission

Video Players: VLC

Web Browsers: Swiftweasel

Others:
Gparted
dmenu
baobab

-1 vote (if possible smile):
Archive Managers:  i know only file-roller but I don't like it (as far as I know, no way to make it auto-close when an extraction is finished, It annoys me much to have to click once to close the successful extraction popup then a second time to close the program). i have no idea about how alternatives are.

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53 Reply by alef

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welcome smile

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54 Reply by alef

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benj1 wrote:

please bear in mind im extremely rusty in this kind of stuff, and so could be talking complete rubbish

Same here.

MrRedNapoleon wrote:

calculate to probability that any HD dies during its 3rd year of operation.

2 years = 17,520 hours, 3 years = 26,280 hours

I think the question above means you should calculate P(17,520<=t<=26,280) instead of P(t<=17,520)

What result do you find then ? I have found 26.34% but not sure at all

I have had a look at wikipedia (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_normale#La_loi_normale_g.C3.A9n.C3.A9rale )and calculated this for Q1, but you should check.

For Q2 I am not sure of the meaning of the question. Do we need to calculate the cost for a manufacturer ? Are there missing information then ?

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Edit: added stuff

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55 Reply by alef

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corenominal wrote:

At the same time, I think their popularity is half the problem, it certainly does not help their signal to noise ratio. neutral

+1,

in too big communities people don't know each other anymore, and behave in a more selfish/unfriendly way.

i think #! community has a sufficient size now, so let's stop advertising for it. all of there recurring threads like 'thanks for this great distro' should be forbidden, and we should pretend to be unsatisfied by crunchbang so that i stays nice here tongue

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56 Reply by alef

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Hi,
I have just tried it on the eeepc 100h. It can't start neither in normal mode nor in 'intel' mode, desktop did not display, unreadable screen. I think following modules are missing in rc.conf: intel_agp and i915 (found here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69083 ).

Still I could boot in failsafe mode, very fast (30 sec from grub to usable desktop). It seemed to me that some shortcuts were not working (Super+W, Super+X).

Congratulations for this good work

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57 Reply by alef

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I use my 10 fingers, but not properly. I almost could watch the screen and not the keyboard when typing but strangely i never got very comfortable with it.

A colleague of mine, also programmer, is typing all day with only the left hand, since he is a gamer too. His right hand holds his head when he's working and not playing. I will never understand why he does not start typing with both hands, as it would save him so much time...

by the way, i'm quite surprised of reading so many of you people mentioning thumbs and the other fingers separately. is this how things are in the anglo-saxon world ? i think french people would always answer x fingers (x between 0 and 10), and never x fingers + y thumbs (with x,y between 0,0 and 8,2). is it correct then if i talk in english and count thumbs as part of the fingers ?

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Edit: few typos correction wink

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58 Reply by alef

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you may find the actual location of the flv video by opening the swf with a text editor.

i think also DownThemAll! Tools firefox extension may be able to help you download videos that videoDownloadHelper does not manage to get.

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59 Reply by alef

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nice smile

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60 Topic by alef

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Hi,

I would like to have your opinion about one thing.

netbooks are very often associated with the concept of cloud-computing, and access to the Internet from anywhere. More and more OS / software / services are being designed for this use (Chrome OS, jolicloud, some online storage solutions...).

My point of view is that very few of us (at least around me in europe) have actually access to the Internet when being away from home. wifi hotspots are never free and expensive, so mobile use of the netbook is always offline.

We have been hearing for ages about internet connections accessible from anywhere but actually nothing is available now: 3G too slow, 3G+ too expensive, only for professionals, 4G and wimax are not here yet.

This is why I think that cloud computing should rather be designed for computers at home, not for netbooks. what is necessary for netbooks is an offline mode with synchronization when you get back online.

How is the situation in the part of the world you are in ?
What do you think of all these projects designed to be usable only when you are online ?

thanks for telling what you think.

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61 Reply by alef

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mrpeachy wrote:

@pvsage

i took part of one of the schematics you posted and made it into a conky big_smile
based on this one http://omploader.org/vM2Y4eg/pushycroaker_1.6.pdf
i took one small liberty and changed a triangle to a circle

http://omploader.org/tM2hzdg

put the code etc in the conky config thread

nice smile

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62 Reply by alef

(26 replies, posted in Introductions)

Hi Centaclaus, and welcome here.

As some already said, customizing ubuntu to make it more crunchbang-like will cost you lots of efforts and research.

Crunchbang is not only replacing gnome by openbox, some other stuff is customized (pulseaudio removed or something like that).

Finally after some months spent playing around with distros installs and customizations, I join the idea of omns:

omns wrote:

It's nice setting up a box just to your liking. These days I'm just happy to let Philip do it all for me lol

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63 Topic by alef

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Hi everyone,

I have just found out today that there is a big open-source event happening this week-end in Brussels, belgium.

It is called the free and open source developers' european meeting

As other crunchbangers are from there too, I write this post for info. There are many many talks about many many open-source topics.

You can check their schedule if interested:
http://fosdem.org/2010/

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64 Reply by alef

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guys my connection speed t work is simply indecent:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/703179796.png

ah home much slower though, arount 10 Megabits/s

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65 Reply by alef

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Hi,

svg format is quite good i think.

Another tool than Inkscape would me Amaya, it is also cross-platform if i remember well. I have not used it since years, so I don't know how it is now. nowadays it was quite stable already, and implementation of SVG was quite extended id i remember well.

A simple text-editor can do the thing very well also (define each of your elements once in <defs> then place them in your drawing with <use>...

Also you can have a look at the list of implementations here: http://wiki.svg.org/Viewer_Implementations

Cheers,

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66 Topic by alef

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Hi,

It is now about one year that I have started to discover linux OS (and use #!). One of the thing which impressed me the most in this world is the huge number of open-source project, and quality of some projects not driven by any corporation. Union makes strong, people in the open-source world are free and manage successfully to create great things.

Things are not perfect, sometimes the developed apps are not stable/cleanly developed, sometimes we can find great software but too few information about how to use it, ...

What I am curious about is the way how roles are spread in an open-source team, and how decisions are taken. Usually, is there one or few project managers taking decisions, or do we see more often some voting systems between members ?

What are the strengths/weaknesses you see in open-source communities ?

If you have any story to share, just go on smile thanks

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67 Reply by alef

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zengrapefruit wrote:

All the best, Phil.

We'll give you one day off from improving CB but tomorrow morning, first thing, straight back to it. OK?

tongue

Neill

^^ +1

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68 Reply by alef

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Good think that the backup restoration worked well.

Still, to avoid the repetition of this kind of problem, here is the advice of a very expert French minister : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4LofqPCQew (english subtitled)
smile

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69 Reply by alef

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Hi Spoovy,
The issue is probably related to your /etc/fstab file. I think you should edit it and provide the new uuid values corresponding to your recently formated partition.
search around for fstab for more info.

hope this helps,

alef

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70 Reply by alef

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benj1 wrote:

well i suppose it would depend on the program, most will probably allow you to change the default in the config file, for skype specifically http://forum.skype.com/lofiversion/inde … 98215.html

Thanks for this tip, I will apply it for Skype. I was rather looking for a generic solution applying to any application.

benj1 wrote:

a program could also get a default from /etc/alternatives, that can be updated with

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

, or just change the symbolic link using 'ln -s'

the final option it that the browser is hardcoded into the app, hopefully rare and definitely bad practice, but the only solution would be setting /usr/bin/firefox as a symbolic link to /usr/bin/swiftfox or delving into the source code

Thanks, I'll give it a try too

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71 Reply by alef

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jobester wrote:

If I open a link in ANY program, I want it to open correctly in swiftweasel.

Try:

System > Edit Default Applications

Keep hitting enter until it gives you an option to change browser to swiftweasel.

In my case this choice was not given, I don't remember whether swiftweasel was not listed in browsers list or if default browser choise was not prompted, don't have #! with me right now to check...

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72 Reply by alef

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benj1 wrote:

what programs (did you mean files?)

I am using swiftweasel too and have exactly the same problem that owosso1:

Whenever I click on a hyperlink in skype for example, it will be opened in firefox instead of swiftweasel, this is quite annoying. I do'nt know any solution either to this...

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73 Reply by alef

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Nice introduction, welcome to the forums kendall.

Your work is really appreciated THANK YOU

+1

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74 Reply by alef

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Hi nabilalk,

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately the solutions proposed did not work on my machine and they don't seem to be actually related to my problem. Caps locks key works correctly on my computer, my problem is that only a subset of keys are not considered as locked when I press them with caps lock enabled.

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75 Reply by alef

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FYI, I have modified the wiki page to add the manual mounting of the partition in read-write mode using ntfs-3g.

I have mentionned that PCManFM is natively able to mount ntfs partitions in read-only mode, I hope this is correct.

Cheers,

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