mgedmin

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by mgedmin 16y ago
> SLC SSD's have no such limits. [citation needed]
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by mgedmin 16y ago
And another one: you can upgrade 6.06 (a Long Term Support release) directly to 8.04 (the next Long Term Support release), but to get to 7.04 you had to do incremental upgrades to every intermediate release (6.06 -> 6.10 -> 7.04).
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by mgedmin 16y ago
"sudo do-release-upgrade" is the supported command-line upgrade method.
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by mgedmin 16y ago
It has the cost of being highly configurable. I could make the same font (Verdana) look much better on Linux than on Windows, by fiddling with dpi/hinting/subpixel rendering settings. And I could make it look worse. It was much easier
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by mgedmin 16y ago
I think an LTS version of Ubuntu would be better than Debian, if you want longer upgrade cycles. ZaReason and System76 are two vendors that sell laptops with Ubuntu. I don't know if they actively support Ubuntu upgrades for their hardware
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by mgedmin 16y ago
For what it's worth, I've had numerous Thinkpads (T23, T42, currently typing this on a T61) and suspend/resume always worked for me. Not always right out of the box -- I had to research workarounds for video-related problems a few years ago
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by mgedmin 16y ago
The amount of knowledge you have to keep in your head in order to use the language (this includes syntax, conventions, idioms, gotchas you've got to watch for). How well the language fits brain (which mostly reduces to how similar it is to
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by mgedmin 16y ago
Why not link directly to http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html ?
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by mgedmin 16y ago
To avoid drafts, dirt and pests. To raise the height of the mattress, making it easier to get in and out of bed. (So says Wikipedia.)
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by mgedmin 16y ago
And the trick to getting used to things is finding the right mnemonic. I used to get tripped up by 'ln -s' all the time, until I realized that if I thought about 'cp src dst' but with 'cp' replaced 'cp' with 'ln -s' it suddenly made sense.
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by mgedmin 16y ago
No permalink?
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by mgedmin 16y ago
I've used pdftohtml -xml from poppler-utils for similar purposes (text with position info; I wasn't interested in images although I believe pdftohtml handles them too). Poppler is the library that pdftohtml uses for this.
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by mgedmin 17y ago
Attempting the slide 3 example on a dual-core Core 2 Duo CPU running 32-bit Linux with Python 2.6 I get * single-threaded: 8.9s * two threads: 10.4s Overhead is ~17% (compare to 2X slowdown reported on quad-core Mac OS X). Interes
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by mgedmin 18y ago
I have to say that watching the video of the original presentation gives a stronger impression than reading the transcript. Here's the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415
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by mgedmin 18y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic" by David Goldberg: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html