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Originally posted by paulguy
That's what I thought first, does that make me a nerd?
You're only a nerd when you start saying things like "...but will it run Linux?" or "Imagine a beowulf cluster of watermarked music!" or "Netcraft confirms! The Internet is dying!" or "FUCK MONKEY BALLS" |
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| I wonder how they'd track you if you pay in cold hard cash. |
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Originally posted by Imajin
The one thing I will say is that the multi-touch pad is pretty cool, though it'll probably show up on the standard MacBooks soon enough.
Almost every touchpad on Macs and non-Macs alike for like the last 7 years are able to detect multiple pressure points... the only thing actually impressive is that they bothered to make software to take advantage of the fact. |
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| How about a "Fix Windows' flaws" petition? Yes, that includes Vista's flaws. |
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1. USB supports daisy chaining. Theoretically up to 128 devices per bus, though realistically most controllers are limited to 30~50 (doubtful you'd even have that much plugged in). Buy a bus 
2. USB ethernet dongles exist, if you need it.
3. DVD drives exist that operate over USB.
It's still perfectly functional if you know the caveats and what USB-based hardware to buy. |
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No, not exactly. The point is being ultra portable, not doing everything a desktop does (if you really want that, get a MacBook Pro). The point is that it can be carried around easier (lighter) than usual notebooks, and still get your work done on the go; you usually won't need to load DVDs or plug in ethernet cables if you're on a plane or train. I forgot to note, that USB flash drives also exist for transferring data.
This isn't a stupid move at all, there's a market for this notebook, and not everyone fits into it. Also, it's nowhere close to the truly moronic move Apple did in the 90s with the iMac: remove the floppy drive, and it didn't even have a CD-R burner (this was before Firewire or USB got popular, or even known to the general public) |
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So kind of like the IOCCC but no language restriction?
'kay |
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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
Therefore until they have serious competition (Read: Copyright-violating Linux OS which can run Windows programs) I don't see them shaping up any time soon. Except they do seem to care more about Business customers. :p
uhh.... why does it have to be copyright-violating? There's already a perfectly legal project to run Windows software on Linux. |
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Originally posted by Guy54123
Uh...last I checked, Windows XP was still very much available to purchase. In fact, it recently went up in price (probably to make Vista a more appealing purchase).
Not surprising, they pulled the same stunt on Windows 95 when Win98 had a very poor adoption rate as well. |
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| I just realized that an old message board I made out of boredom was less than 8K total, not counting the README and database initialization script. here (Warning: the source doesn't look very good...) |
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| Normal videos or crap like Flash videos? The latter is slower by design... |
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Originally posted by Skreeny
If your processor is only running at 1.25 GHz, then reasonably speaking, a processor running at 1.73 GHz would work better. Doesn't matter how good your chip is if it's so dreadfully underclocked.
And thus enters the megahertz myth. Bigger numbers for hertz/MIPS means absolutely nothing, unless you're strictly comparing exactly the same CPU architecture. |
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How old was that Knoppix disc? That's a very old problem...
Also, indeed, your hatred was completely directed to the wrong direction:
1. You should rather hate the crappy hardware
2. All of Samba is obviously a reverse-engineering of Microsoft's SMB protocol; smbmount used to use the old smbfs to attach to SMB shares, which had problems with large files (this is actually a problem on the server's end, assuming certain limitations for the client, but it's worked around with the newer cifs). Complaining about Samba is about exactly as useful as complaining about Wine; they're doing the best they can, and it's not their fault the protocol they're trying to implement is completely undocumented. |
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| Usually about 350MB when I'm not doing anything. Other than that, it's pretty impossible to put a number on it; I have 1GB of RAM, yet I've used like 700MB of swap before when doing a heavy task. |
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1. tried rebooting? (figure you have)
2. Last attempt, boot a recent Linux LiveCD (like Knoppix or GParted or something), mount the partition read/write, and delete? (you can actually delete the RECYCLER directory entirely, Windows Explorer will just recreate it when it needs it) |
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Originally posted by Xkeeper
RAM/pagefile usage.
Varies depending on what I'm doing.
lol, that's one of the most overly-complex memory monitors I've seen. Why does it always seem to have quite a bit of swap/pagefile in use? That's odd |
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Originally posted by NightKev
I'd say go with chungy's idea, use a partition manager and delete F:\ entirely, then reboot and see if that worked.
Er... I actually meant to just delete RECYCLER and/or its contents. |
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just wondering... do any of you guys do support on MS Windows computers often?
No offense, but HH's problem isn't exactly unusual.... |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
So I used SysInternals PendMoves to schedule F:\RECYCLER for deletion at next boot, and rebooted. That didn't do it. Then I went there in a console, did del *.* /s /q, and it went down to 22MB. Where that extra 22MB is coming from, I don't know, since there only seems to be a lot of empty directories now, but it's tolerable.
(I can't seem to delete those empty directories though.  )
Heh, 22MB isn't usually a big deal, though if you are still worried about it you could try my other suggestion and use a Linux boot disc (make it from the last half of 2007 at least, that's about when NTFS-3g comes standard with almost everything), mount the partition, and delete it there. |
