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The Linux Setup - Morgan Phillips, Software Engineer/Poet
I found Morgan through Linux Poetry, which is an amazing site (this poem is one of my favorites). Reading her thoughts on Linux, you can hear her poetry skills: "working in Linux is like swimming in water that's crystal clear." Her setup is fairly standard for an engineer — pretty much anything that gives her access to a terminal.
You can find more of The Linux Setup here.
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Who are you, and what do you do?
I'm Morgan, aka mrrrgn. I studied physics at Western Kentucky University, worked for the Army Research Laboratory and a small defense contractor writing network security software, then spent time at Facebook in an ops role where I was sort of a… data janitor, helping to maintain their Hadoop/Hive-based analytics infrastructure. These days I'm a software engineer at a startup in Nashville, Tennessee called Artist Growth where I get to do a bit of everything (which I love). I also write poetry about the Linux kernel at linux-poetry.com and maintain a small galaxy of other side projects. :)
Why do you use Linux?
Well, I'm going to gush a bit. On a philosophical level Linux has always appealed to me because I feel that it represents a sort of freedom: to share knowledge and understand how the tools I depend on work. Working in Linux is like swimming in water that's crystal clear; proprietary operating systems, where I can't see the source, feel murky and make me feel a bit uneasy.
In a practical sense, I feel that Linux's sensible implementation and infinite flexibility make it the best tool for nearly any job. It's easy for me to write scripts that automate tedious tasks and customize my environment to the hilt. I also believe using Linux has made me a better programmer since it makes the layers underneath my own code so transparent.
What distribution do you run on your main desktop/laptop?
I generally run Mint these days, although I've used openSUSE and Ubuntu in the past.
What desktop environment do you use and why do you use it?
Cinnamon. I started using this after I switched to Mint. I spend most of my time in the terminal so I'm not too picky.
What one piece of software do you depend upon with this distribution? Why is it so important?
Honestly, I don't depend on anything that's specific to Mint. That said, I think Mint (like Ubuntu) is awesome for its stability and ease-of-use for arch nerds and computer novices alike. I installed it for my not-at-all-computer-savvy father a few years ago and noticed a significant drop in the number of "support" calls I got from him as compared to when he used Windows.
What kind of hardware do you run this setup on?
A Clevo W230ST. It's a beast of a laptop!
- i7-4700MQ Processor (2.40GHz), 6MB L3 Cache
Will you share a screenshot of your desktop?
I don't keep anything interesting on the desktop; but you might notice that I <3 tmux, vim, and orange text!
Interview conducted April 29, 2014
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The Linux Setup - Phil Baker, Lead Forecaster, National Weather Service
Weathermen are like rock stars. I remember when local New York City forecaster Nick Gregory came to my junior high school. Everyone was genuinely excited, and at that age, we were rarely excited about anything (except Faces of Death — man did we love that movie). It's only gotten more glamorous for the weather industry. Gawker has a weather site. Nate Silver's given weathermen his blessing. So it's great to talk to Phil, who's a Linux-using forecaster with the (U.S.) National Weather Service. He's a GNOME fan who runs a simple setup that lets him try out different distros. And it's yet another example of just how many different fields can successfully work with Linux desktops.
You can find more of The Linux Setup here.
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Who are you, and what do you do?
My name is Phil Baker. I'm a Lead Forecaster with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Memphis, TN. I've been with the NWS for 21 years (time flies!), after graduating from the University of Nebraska. While not officially on the IT side of the house, I help out the IT staff where I can, particularly when it comes to Linux or networking.
Why do you use Linux?
I was introduced to Unix in the late 90s. At that time, each NWS office had an HP-UX RISC workstation that was a precursor to our present day AWIPS infrastructure, which originally ran HP-UX. I bought my first PC in 1998 and Windows felt like a toy compared to Unix. About this time, a sysadmin at the office was testing a new operating system called "Linux" on a spare PC. I was intrigued. It definitely was not a toy and the shell commands I'd learned on HP-UX were transferable to this Linux box. I went home and installed Caldera Linux on my one-year-old PC, then quickly moved to Mandrake — "Red Hat with KDE," as it was known back then. I've been running Linux ever since.
Soon after Red Hat introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the NWS migrated AWIPS from HP-UX to RHEL, which ran on faster Intel hardware. The WSR-88D radar was also upgraded to open hardware running RHEL, which significantly expanded the radar's post processing capabilities.
What distribution do you run on your main desktop/laptop?
I distro hop quite a bit. Currently, I'm running Linux Mint 15 on my desktop and Crunchbang Linux on my server. With Mint's underlying Ubuntu 13.04 soon running out of support, and the harder-than-it-needs-to-be nature of upgrading Mint, my desktop will soon be upgraded to Fedora 20. My laptop is an old MacBook Pro that runs Fedora 20 through VMware Fusion. I've been impressed with Fedora 20 and it's a good platform with which to stay current on the future technologies in RHEL.
What desktop environment do you use and why do you use it?
I personally prefer GNOME 3. I've tried KDE and really like it, but there's just so many knobs to turn to get it like I want it. GNOME 3 is simple and it gets out of my way. There are still a few areas where I think it needs to mature, and I'm sure it will. I see myself as a GNOME user for many years.
What one piece of software do you depend upon with this distribution? Why is it so important?
I develop web pages for our internal situational awareness server at work. We have thin clients (LTSP) with 42-inch monitors that contain supplementary weather information from sources internal and external to the NWS. I also like work on the family intranet at home. Besides the Chrome browser and GNOME Terminal, the app that I spend most of my time in is Geany. It's my go-to app for web development.
What kind of hardware do you run this setup on?
My home desktop is an Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge, with SSD and 16GB RAM. I hope to soon pass on my old MacBook Pro to my wife, so that I can buy a System76 Kudu Professional. It'll be nice to run Linux natively on a powerful laptop, with all the hardware visualization support and a higher resolution screen. I'm just waiting on available funds. :)
Will you share a screenshot of your desktop?
This screenshot is from my Fedora 20 VM.
Interview conducted January 10, 2014
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The Linux Setup - Dheera Venkatraman, Graduate Student, MIT
As I write this, there's a fair amount of back-and-forth about actor Wil Wheaton's off-hand comments on Unity, Ubuntu, and Xfce. The timing is great because Dheera's interview is all about Linux freeing the user to work in whatever way makes sense to him/her. The point of Linux isn't to create the perfect distro or desktop environment, because the perfect distro and desktop environment depends very much upon the needs and behaviors of the individual user. So when Wheaton says he doesn't like Ubuntu and Unity, I don't think it's an indictment of those projects, so much as an indication they're not a great match for him at this time (and just to be clear, I don't think Wheaton was condemning anything — I think he was casually speaking his mind and not expecting innocuous comments to take hold so quickly across an occasionally news-starved Linux-verse).
Also, not to bury the lede, but Dheera has a great setup, mixing Xfce and Compiz. My previous experiences with Compiz were as something I need to turn off, but this interview made me consider trying it out again.
You can find more of The Linux Setup here.
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Who are you, and what do you do?
I'm a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology currently researching single-photon imaging in the Optical and Quantum Communications Group. My side interests include hacking whatever gadgets I can get my hands on, photography, cycling, hiking, piano, and sustainability. As a student I've also been involved extensively with the MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum and the MIT Sustainability Summit.
Why do you use Linux?
For me it comes down to customizability, flexibility, security, and being able to take control of everything. In general, Linux never tries to tell me how I'm supposed to use my computer, Linux never tells me that I'm not allowed to do something despite my hardware being capable of it, and Linux never tries to force a user interface upon me. Instead, it gives me the freedom to implement my own visions of how I want my computer to behave, which is exactly what I want technology to do. Also, Linux never tries to "dumb down" technology or hide gory details; when something goes wrong, it tells me precisely what's wrong, which helps me debug things.
I'm also a heavy command line user for getting all sorts of batch work done quickly, whether it's watermarking a thousand photos with custom-generated watermarks, systematically renaming a bunch of files, makeshift e-mail alert systems, or automating desktop publishing tasks; these are all a piece of cake when you have decent command line interfaces to everything and good scripting languages, whereas with most non-free platforms and applications you're often at the mercy of their GUI interface.
What distribution do you run on your main desktop/laptop?
Mostly Mint and Xubuntu. Android on my phone if that counts :-)
What desktop environment do you use and why do you use it?
Xfce + Compiz. This might seem an unusual combination, but Compiz isn't really all about effects — it really has some useful productivity features like being able to sketch on your screen (great for presentations!), better customizability of virtual desktops and shortcuts, being able to invert screen colors with a keyboard shortcut, zooming the entire screen, and so on. It's sad that Compiz seems to have stagnated in development of late. As for Xfce, I used to use GNOME 2 a long time ago, but with the changes in GNOME 3 and especially Unity, I find it extremely inefficient to get any real work done. I dislike desktop icons (I have nothing on my desktop), and I also dislike "smart" menus that dynamically change ordering since it interferes with my muscle memory. I wanted something customizable but simple. Xfce was the answer.
What one piece of software do you depend upon with this distribution? Why is it so important?
Anything and everything that can be interfaced with a command line. I can fill in variables inside an SVG document from a database before generating a PDF with Inkscape, embed the result inside a LaTeX document, compile it, and upload to a server all in one go, for example. You get the idea.
My preferred music player is the command-line mplayer. I don't bother with playlists, rather I have my own looping player "shell" that lets me input regular expressions like
beethoven.*(symphony [5679]|piano concerto [^1])
which searches my music files and calls mplayer on the files that match those regular expressions (in this case, Symphonies 5, 6, 7, and 9, and all Piano Concertos except the first).
What kind of hardware do you run this setup on?
My main desktop is running an Intel Core i7-920 with 8GB RAM, a 64GB SSD for the OS, 1TB conventional disk for scratch space, and a 2TB RAID array in a Linux-based NAS box as a file server.
Various websites I maintain, including my personal website at http://dheera.net/, are all running on Linux servers as well. I have a couple of laptops that run Linux and I've also played with running desktop distributions of Linux on a Nexus 10 tablet (with the LinuxOnAndroid project).
Will you share a screenshot of your desktop?
Interview conducted December 30, 2013
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My Return to Xubuntu: A Review
A few months ago, I had a Linux first — I reached the end-of-support of a distro. I never thought of myself as a distro hopper, especially with my main laptop, but I guess I hop around enough to have never made it to the end-of-support.
I was using OpenSUSE 12.1 GNOME, and I loved it, but I saw end-of-support as a chance to really explore my options. I've messed around with a few distros on my testing machine, but nothing really grabbed my attention, other than the dearly-depart Fuduntu.
The Search
OpenSUSE actually lets you upgrade via disk (and rather scarily, live), but I didn't want to upgrade two versions (12.1-12.2 and then 12.2-12.3), having to back up all of my work and settings, only to be back in a similar situation in less than 18 months (assuming nothing horribly broke). So even though I love OpenSUSE, it didn't seem like the right option for me at this point in time.
OpenSUSE has a rolling release concept, Tumbleweed, that interested me, but I was never able to get it to work on my testing machine, a ThinkPad T43. I suspect the problem might have had to do with bouncing between GNOME versions, but I was never really able to pin the issue down.
I played with Manjaro's GNOME edition on my testing machine for a few weeks, and that seemed pretty nice, but eventually an update broke my setup and I wasn't able to even triangulate on what the issue might be. I don't blame Manjaro, though. Part of running an Arch-based distribution means accepting a willingness to go through log files. I thought I was willing to do that right up until I couldn't figure out the issue in less than a few hours. I enjoy trouble-shooting a lot of different Linux issues, but reviewing log files is completely unrewarding to me. It's not a knock on Arch or Manjaro — it's more a self-realization.
I also played with Linux Mint Debian Edition, another rolling release, but aesthetically it was a bit raw, and there seemed to be some concerns about the rate at which Mint pushes out security updates. In general, it's a nice enough distro, but it felt and looked old to me.
The Bake-Off
With rolling releases ruled out, I decided to focus on long-term stability. That meant either an Ubuntu Long Term Support release (LTS; 12.04.2) or a Linux Mint one (Maya 13).
Now down to two distros, I had to think about the desktop environment issue. I love GNOME, but I haven't had the most luck getting GNOME shell working in Ubuntu. In the past it's been glitchy in a way I haven't seen in other distros. Ubuntu now has a GNOME edition, but because it's brand new, there's no LTS version.
Poking around Ubuntu, I remembered how much I enjoyed Xubuntu back when I ran it a few years ago. While Xubuntu won't push out Xfce-related updates as long as it will push the general Ubuntu ones, it felt long-term enough for my purposes.
Looking at Mint, I'm not a huge fan of Cinnamon or Mate, so I decided to try Mint's Xfce version, too.
I installed Mint and Xubuntu side-by-side on my testing machine. As you might expect, they're both very, very similar, what with Mint based upon Ubuntu. In the end, I decided to go with Xubuntu for purely aesthetic reasons. The default Xfce configuration was nicer, with a single panel across the top of the screen, much like my beloved GNOME. There was more contrast due to a darker theme. It shipped with the beautiful elementary icons already installed. The fonts and rendering were all sharper within Xubuntu (say what you will about Ubuntu, but no distro renders fonts better). Obviously, I could have configured Mint to look just like Xubuntu (it even has the elementary icons in its repositories), but it seemed like an unnecessary step. Why bother going to the trouble of getting Mint to look like Xubuntu when I can just use Xubuntu?
And so, with that, I was settled on Xubuntu as my new distro. Now, I had to get it on my main work machine, a ThinkPad T420.
The Switch
I moved my files over to the testing machine, just to make sure there were no issues with file versions. It was time well spent. OpenSUSE was using KeePassX 2 while Xubuntu is still on 0.4.3. Despite what the numbers imply, they are two completely different programs. The Linux version of KeePassX 2 won't let you roll back a file to version 0.4.3, so I had to do it in a Windows version of KeePassX via a virtual machine. It represented work, but far less work than losing all of my passwords.
I had some PDFs zipped up with a password. For some reason, the PDFs wouldn't open on Xubuntu. I had occasionally had the same thing happen on OpenSUSE, so I'm not quite sure that issue was, but the files weren't anything irreplaceable, so I didn't even bother trying to resolve the issue.
I had a virtual Windows XP machine in OpenSUSE. I archived it and reinstalled it in Xubuntu without any drama, other than that my flash drive was formatted as FAT32 and couldn't handle the archive size until I reformatted it as NTFS. I didn't pick up on the FAT32 size limitation until the Xubuntu virtual machine told me the archived image was defective. Once I reformatted the flash drive, moving the virtual machine over was effortless (and much faster than reinstalling a Windows image from scratch).
Once everything was working on my testing machine, I quickly installed Xubuntu on my main laptop. It was quick and easy, like most Ubuntu installs are. I appreciated that Xubuntu didn't require me to manually configure my TrackPoint scroll, like so many other distros do. Although I had my files backed up on my testing machine, I was able to move them over using SpiderOak, and that was shockingly quick.
I've been tweaking Xubuntu and the level of customization is very impressive. As I've mentioned, I really loved GNOME, but there isn't much you can do to change its look. Xfce is quite the opposite. Of course, I've been using that customizability to make Xubuntu look more like GNOME. I turned off the button labels so it just shows program icons in the top panel. I've mostly been ignoring the bottom dock, since it autohides. I might remove it at some point, but so far, I rarely see it. I installed the Microsoft fonts from the repositories and manually added Courier Prime, my favorite font. I set PCManFM as the default file manager and configured the application finder/launcher to come up with the Super/Windows button (one of my first Xubuntu tricks). I miss not being able to open specific files from the launcher, like I could in GNOME, but it's really not much of an adjustment — especially with the gedit dashboard plugin enabled.
Xfce is great at making tweaks very easy to implement. Keyboard shortcuts take a few seconds, where in GNOME they could be hidden in gconf and dconf configurations. Once you know what you want to do with Xfce, making changes is remarkably quick.
The biggest compliment I can pay my current setup is that it doesn't feel different from my old one. I'm still able to launch things by clicking the Super button. If I have that ability in any operating system, I'm pretty happy. I appreciate the range of software available within the Ubuntu repositories. Everything is in there, where with OpenSUSE I often had to enable certain separate repositories to get software I wanted.
Lessons Learned
Changing distros is stressful. The main lesson, which I'm sure everyone knows, is to make sure all of your files are backed up. I back up everything to SpiderOak, but I also backed up my files to a flash drive, just in case something went sideways with SpiderOak (which it didn't).
I'm lucky enough to have an old laptop I can use as a test machine. That was huge. It let me flag problems and resolve them before they were live on my main laptop. If you have a second machine you can test on, I strongly encourage you to do so. Especially if you're going between different distributions.
Also, in general, when choosing a distro, think about what you really want. I started looking at rolling releases because I didn't want to deal with reinstallations down the line. But with rolling releases, the cost for having to do a reinstallation every few years is having to be vigilant and observant on a regular basis. In the end, I realized I'd rather spend a day or two on a reinstall every few years than constantly watching and maintaining my system. I just don't have the skillset to understand the implications of each update. I need a distribution that parses that information for me.
On a related note, try and spend a few weeks with a rolling release. Just about all of them are easy to manage at the beginning. But as you make changes and as updates come in, things can become more complex. Testing over time will give you more of a sense of if you have the tools to keep a rolling system running.
Finally, I really urge people to take Xubuntu for a spin. It's a beautiful distribution that has a lot of nice default settings. I really thought more people would flock to Xfce when GNOME 3 came up. Some of the default implementations, or lack of implementation, can make Xfce seem old-fashioned and kind of ugly. Xubuntu does a great job of showing how contemporary Xfce can look and feel. It's got that familiar, menu-driven interface that so many people seem to like, but it also works well via its own application launcher/finder. It's fast and simple. I loved GNOME 3, but Xfce is just as impressive. Plus, it's really nice to have my weather applet back.
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The Linux Setup - Vince Bardsley, Author
Vince Bardsley says he's a hobbyist, but his hardware is no joke. I definitely recommend checking out his clean machine, which is a physical setup more of us should probably try and emulate.
You can find more of The Linux Setup here.
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Who are you, and what do you do?
My name is Vince Bardsley. I am, in order of decreasing importance, a Christian, a husband, grandfather and father. I am also, in no particular order, a retired science teacher, novelist, cyclist, RV'er, computer hobbyist, Linux advocate, amateur radio operator (KB3OM), bridge player and Corvette owner.
What distribution do you run on your main desktop/laptop?
Presently I have Mint Maya (Cinnamon) on my production computer. Maya requires only a few tweaks to get it just the way I want it and between the Update Manager and the Software Center it stays that way. I admit to being a 'distro hopper;' to allow me to do that easily I have a number of hard drive racks and drawers, so trying something new is as easy as pulling out one drive and sliding in a different drawer with a different drive.
What software do you depend upon with this distribution?
I use LibreOffice for writing and spreadsheets and either Rhythmbox or XBMC to listen to music. I'm afraid I don't do anything exotic.
What kind of hardware do you run it on?
The production machine is based on an ASUS M4N68T-V2 mobo and AMD Phenom II X4 955. It has 8GB of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 9300 GS for video. The OS and related directories are on a 64GB Patriot Torqx 2. Home directories and swap space are on a WDC WD3200. This is clearly overkill for what I do. Backup, etc. is on a Zyxel NSA 221. The display is a Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM. Audio is output through an ancient Altec Lansing speaker system. There are also various other boxes around the house including my wife's HP laptop (running Maya) and a Raspberry Pi.
What is your ideal Linux setup?
My ideal Linux setup is a clean machine. I get to repair a fair number of computers for friends and acquaintances (if you're reading this you know exactly how this goes). The vast majority of these boxes take the term dust bunny to a whole new level. I like my computer to be clean and cool. My solution is made from poster board and a furnace filter. All the holes and cracks except for the exhaust fan have been sealed:
Will you share a screenshot of your desktop?
The objet d'art is entitled, Self Portrait, in pipe cleaner, by Zoe, my five-year-old granddaughter. The open box in the lower left corner is a page from Crossthread my latest novel, now available on Kindle.
Interview conducted Sept. 28, 2012
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Blog on Linux and technology (Specially XFCE): The Beauty Of Mint and the Beast of Ubuntu
A nice post on Mint Debian. I'm watching my virtual Xfce Mint Debian box very carefully for breakage, but so far, it's been a real tiger.
Linux Mint Xfce Versus Xfce Debian Testing
I don't quite know why, but I really like the idea of a rolling distribution.
Rolling distributions are constantly being updated, so you never have to go from a version X to version X.1. Instead, everything is being updated constantly.
A while back, I used Arch Linux, which is a bleeding-edge rolling distribution, and I really loved it, but eventually an update broke my system and I didn't have the time or the skills to repair it.
But despite that experience, I like knowing I can hold onto an OS for as long as I want. Because right now I'm running Xubuntu 10.04, which is a long term support release. But that just means I get three years of updates instead of 18 months. We're about a year into that LTS release. If I get a new computer in the next year, I'll have to upgrade to a new LTS about a year or so later. It's not a huge deal, but it's a little bit of a hassle I think about from time to time.
To start thinking ahead, I looked into Debian Testing. Testing is the pre-release form of whatever the next Debian stable release will be and as such, it's a rolling release that's constantly being updated. I spoke to some people who use it and even though it's technically not considered stable, just about everyone said they see very little breakage (with the caveat that Testing is much more stable toward the end of a development cycle than at the beginning of one).
I've been playing with Debian Testing (of course, with Xfce) in a virtual box for a few weeks and so far it's pretty good (details are here). There have been no real issues. The look and feel isn't as polished as Xubuntu, but some of that could be because it's running in a virtual environment. Finding software in testing is sometimes a challenge. I had to wait a few days for Chromium because of a package holdup. But that was resolved.
One thing that surprised me about Xfce Debian Testing is how little software bloat there is. There's no graphical package manager. There's no update manager. It's pretty bare-bones. Obviously, one can easily install these things if one wants them, but I opted to just run update and upgrade from the command line, whenever I happened to remember. Testing doesn't get a lot of updates, or at least it hasn't up until now.
Right around the time I was playing with testing, Mint announced the release of Linux Mint Xfce, which is the Mint take on Debian Testing with an Xfce desktop.
I decided to try that in a virtual machine, too. In terms of software, it seems like Mint just moved over a lot of GNOME-y stuff. There's pure GNOME stuff, like the GNOME system monitor instead of the Xfce task manager. Mint opts for LibreOffice instead of lighter office programs, like AbiWord. Mint also chose Rhythmbox over Exaile. I wish the software selection was a little more Xfce curated, like Xubuntu's software selection increasingly is, but I think Mint is positioning its Xfce Testing as an alternative for people who don't want to move to GNOME 3, so they want to include as much GNOME software as possible.
I was shocked at how ugly the default Mint icons are. I usually can't be bothered to change icons in a virtual machine, but it was one of the first things I did. Mint ships with an impressive array of icon options, though.
But in terms of performing very simple tasks, I didn't feel much difference between Mint and Debian Testing. Neither rendered fonts very well. Both seem to lose application focus on open (but that could just be a Chromium bug), and neither could run Grooveshark in Chromium.
Flash worked right out of the box for Mint but needed to be massaged with Debian, which one would probably expect, given Debian's stance on free software.
Other than that, it's hard to say which was better. Because I was in a virtual machine, I can't speak to how they handle wifi and printing, which are kind of huge things in an OS.
Debian Testing is lean and mean, but it requires more work to get everything configured. It starts you with a very basic system and it's up to the user to enhance it. I'm a bit concerned about software availability, since Debian is sometimes a bit sluggish with updates. But from what I've read, you can often access more cutting edge software in some of the other Debian repositories (although with Volatile gone, I'm not sure what those might be).
Mint makes more assumptions and choices for its users. The GNOME focus isn't ideal, but it doesn't take much to remove the GNOME stuff you don't like and add in the Xfce stuff you do. Plus, I imagine there are less media issues with Mint, since they're less concerned about free and open software.
If I had to reinstall an OS today, I'm still not sure if I would go Mint, Debian, or Xubuntu. Xubuntu is probably the nicest product, but the update cycle can be a pain. I want to keep an eye on Mint and Debian and see if either breaks or if one emerges with better software selection.
But for now, it's nice to see some interesting rolling release options for Xfce lovers.
The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Linux Mint Xfce (201104) released!
I'm very psyched to take this for a spin. It's Debian Testing Xfce with bling. And Debian Xfce really needs bling.

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The U.S. lawmaker who wrote a Dodd-Frank Act provision that imposes bank-like capital standards on the insurance industry introduced legislation to ease the requirements. Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said at a Senate Banking subcommittee hearing today that her 2010 provision was not intended to subject insurance companies to the same capital and liquidity standards as banks.
Accelerating Wordpress for Pagerank and Profit Practical tips and tricks to increase the speed of your site, improve conversions and climb the search rankings By: Allan Jude November 2011 Vice President ScaleEngine.com Scalable Infrastructure, Hosting and CDN ScaleEngine.com Accelerating Wordpress for Pagerank and Profit Slide No. 2 Speed Is Everything ● Amazon research found that every 100ms delay costs > 1% of sales [Make Data Useful - Amazon 2006] ● Google found that even delays of less than half a second had a detrimental effect on the number of searches performed per day [The Impact of Server Delays - Google & Amazon 2009] ● Google has since incorporated speed as one of the vectors in the pagerank algorithm, giving sites that load faster the advantage over sites of similar relevance [Using site speed in pagerank - Google 2010] ScaleEngine.com ...
Microsoft Excel 2010 Tutorial Excel is a spreadsheet program in the Microsoft Office system. You can use Excel to create and format workbooks (a collection of spreadsheets) in order to analyze data and make more informed business decisions. Specifically, you can use Excel to track data, build models for analyzing data, write formulas to perform calculations on that data, pivot the data in numerous ways, and present data in a variety of professional looking charts. The Ribbon Understanding the Ribbon is a great way to help understand the changes between Microsoft 2003 to Microsoft 2010. The ribbon holds all of the information in previous versions of Microsoft Office in a more visual stream line manner through a series of tabs that include an immense variety of program features. Home Tab This is the most used tab; it incorporates all text and cell formatting features such as font and paragraph changes. The Home Tab also includes basic spreadsheet formatting elements such as text wrap, merging cells and cell style.
Excel 2010 is a spreadsheet software in the new Microsoft 2010 Office Suite. Excel allows you to store, manipulate and analyze data in organized workbooks for home and business tasks. Three types of basic data In a spreadsheet there are three basic types of data that can be entered. • • • labels - (text with no numerical value) constants - (just a number -- constant value) formulas* - (a mathematical equation used to calculate) data types examples descriptions LABEL Name or Wage or Days anything that is just text CONSTANT 5 or 3.75 or -7.4 any number FORMULA =5+3 or = 8*5+3 math equation *ALL formulas MUST begin with an equal sign (=). Page 4 of 19 Operands Operator Name How to type the sign Alternative + Addition Hold down the shift key and press the Plus sign (+) located next to the backspace Press the Plus sign (+) located on the Num Lock keypad section. – Subtraction Press the dash (hyphen "- Press the Minus sign (-) ") key located next to the located on the Num Lock number zero. keypad section. * Multiplication Hold down the shift key Press the asterisk (*) key and press the number 8 on the Num Lock keypad key – the asterisk (*) / Division Press the forward slash (/) Press the forward slash (/) located under the question key on the Num Lock mark (?) keypad
Essential Fundamentals of EXCEL 2010 What is Excel? Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program which allows one to enter numerical values or data into the rows or columns of a spreadsheet, and to use these numerical entries for such things as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis. Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. . A panel that contains the command buttons and icons, organized into a set of tabs. For example: Home tab, Insert tab, Page Layout tab etc. The entire block that stretches from the upper-left side to the upper-right side of the application is called the Ribbon. The Ribbon is a unique interface component that comprises several task-specific commands grouped under various commands. The Ribbon provides the ability to identify desired functions and to perform both simple and advanced operations without having to navigate extensively.
The Fundamentals • The File tab menu and Backstage view contain commands for working with a program's files, such as Open, Save, Close, New, and Print. • To Create a New Workbook: Click the File tab and select New, and click Create, or press + . • To Open a Workbook: Click the File tab and select Open, or press + . • To Save a Workbook: Click the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press + . • To Preview and Print a Workbook: Click the File tab and select Print, or press + . • To Undo: Click the Undo button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press + . • To Redo or Repeat: Click the Redo button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press + . • To Close a Workbook: Click the Close button, or press + . • To Get Help: Press to open the Help window. Type your question and press . • Cell addresses: Cells are referenced by addresses made from their column letter and row number, such as cell A1, A2, B1, B2, etc. You can find the address of a cell by looking at the Name Box. • To Select a Cell: Click a cell or use the keyboard arrow keys to select it. • To Select a Cell Range: Click and drag to select a range of cells. Or, press and hold down the key while using the to move the mouse pointer to the last cell of the range.
Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. In this lesson, you will learn your way around the Excel 2010 environment, including the new Backstage view, which replaces the Microsoft Button menu from Excel 2007. We will show you how to use and modify the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar, and how to create new workbooks and open existing ones. After this lesson, you will be ready to get started on your first workbook. Getting to Know Excel 2010 The Excel 2010 interface is very similar to Excel 2007. There have been some changes that we will review later in this lesson, but if you are new to Excel, first take some time to learn how to navigate an Excel workbook. Video: Navigating Excel 2010 Watch the video (3:04). Need help? The Excel Interface Click the buttons in the interactive below for an overview of how to navigate through an Excel workbook. ©1998-2013 Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Microsoft® Excel® 2010 delivers rich, new and enhanced features to the world's most popular productivity suite. Excel 2010 makes it possible to analyze, manage, and share information in more ways than ever before, helping you make better, smarter decisions. With new data analysis and visualization tools, along with managed self-service business intelligence technologies, you can create effective business or information insights that track and highlight important data trends and communicate your results through high-quality charts and graphs. You can also easily share your insights with others through Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 or your Windows Live™ account. Work better together by working simultaneously with others online and accomplish your most important tasks faster. Your information is never far away as you can access your files from almost anywhere—from your PC, a Web browser, or smartphone.1 With Excel 2010 you can work when and where you want. Whether you're producing financial reports, managing personal expenses, collaborating with a team on school or work projects—even if your workbooks exceed a million rows—Excel 2010 makes it easier to get what you need done more quickly, with more flexibility, and with better results. Welcome to Excel 2010—our most powerful and intuitive version yet.
Excel provides many ways to repeat information in many cells throughout a worksheet. The most convenient way to repeat information in contiguous cells is by using the Fill command. If the first cell contains a formula, the formula will be repeated in the additional cells. If the first cell contains text, the text will be repeated in the additional cells. You can allow Excel to automatically fill in the information for you, or you may choose to create custom patterns of information. NOTE: If Excel recognizes a pattern in the information you entered, the additional cells will contain the next item in the pattern. For example, if the first cell contains the day Sunday, Excel will fill the following cells with Monday, Tuesday, etc. Other examples include filling months of the year and hours of the day. Filling Cells: Ribbon Option (This option copies (repeats) the information from one cell to another.) 1. Type the information (cell contents or formula) in the first cell of the group 2. Starting with the cell containing the contents to be copied, select the group of cells to be filled 3. From the Ribbon, select the Home command tab 4. In the Editing group, click Fill ...
How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 This short tutorial uses Excel 2010 and sample file to show you a working example of the VLOOKUP function. Article reference: http://www.timeatlas.com/5_minute_tips/general/learning_vlookup_in_excel Excel sample file: http://static.timeatlas.com/tutorials/VLOOKUP_Example.xls Video reference: http://www.timeatlas.com/news/projects/vlookup_demo Last Revised: May 20, 2012 1. Download the Excel VLOOKUP sample file shown in the More VLOOKUP References section Note: For this tutorial, we will be deleting information on this sheet and recreating the VLOOKUP formula. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 1 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 2. Open the sample file you downloaded from above in Excel. The workbook will have 2 sheets at the bottom: Voters and Party Codes. The first sheet is a listing of registered voters and the second contains names of political parties. 3. Delete the cell entries for D2:D7 because we will be rebuilding the formula. Note: You can keep the column header "Politcal Party". How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 2 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 4. Place your cursor in cell D2. Click the Formulas tab and select Insert Function. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 3 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 5. In the Search for a function: text box type "vlookup" and click the Go button. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 4 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 6. Highlight VLOOKUP and click OK. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 5 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials.


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Is It Better To Run Or Walk In Rain To Stay Dry? Scientists Say Run
When you're caught in a downpour with no umbrella, should you run or walk? Running will get you out of the rain faster, but at the risk of encountering more drops along the way — and therein lies the dilemma. Now, science gives the go-ahead: in most cases, run.


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AsSalaamAlaiKum and Welcome!
Today's Friday Wisdom features a very beautiful quote:
Abdullah Ibn 'Umar saw a Yemeni man performing Tawāf (circumambulating the Ka'bah) while carrying his mother on his back. This man said to Abdullah Ibn 'Umar, "I am like a tame camel for her! I have carried her more than she carried me. Do you think I have paid her back, O Ibn 'Umar?" Abdullah Ibn 'Umar replied, "No, not even one contraction!" [Al-Adab al-Mufrad Bukhārī 1/62]
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"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that."
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Using novel intravaginal ring prevents HIV
A new study has found that when a novel intravaginal ring is implanted with anti-retroviral drug tablets or pods, it demonstrates sustained and controlled drug release and safety over 28 days from HIV.
Marc Baum, corresponding author said that the ring, designed to prevent transmission of HIV, was tested in pig-tailed macaque monkeys, and is engineered to be inexpensive, which makes it useable in developing countries.
One of the two drug combinations tested in the ring had been shown in three clinical trials to prevent HIV—some of the time—when taken orally, and is the only product approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for HIV prophylaxis.
The ring's topical drug delivery has critical advantages over oral therapy. People often fail to take their medications as prescribed. That probably accounts for some of the wide variation in risk reduction in the three clinical trials, which ranged from 44 to 75 percent, said Baum, of the Oak Crest Institute of Science, Pasadena, CA. He added that the issues such as adherence to a regular dosing schedule are significantly reduced by continuous release of the drugs into the vaginal mucosa independently of coitus and daily dosing.
The ring maintains steady state drug levels in the vaginal tissues, the key anatomic compartment for preventing sexual HIV transmission, and eliminates the concentration troughs encountered with oral medications. This according to Baum, should boost effectiveness and dramatically reduce, or eliminate side effects entirely.
The two drug combinations tested include Truvada, which consists of emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, and Truvada plus maraviroc, which work by blocking the chemokine receptor, CCR5, which is a target entryway of HIV.
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Newsstands nationwide got a little less cool on Monday when news emerged that magazine XXL will be no more. The New York Post broke the story that Harris Publications, who've carried the hip-hop magazine for the entirety of its 17-year existence, sold all of XXL to Townsquare Media, the Greenwich, C ... More >>
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Today in news you won't know what to do with: a woman is suing Grace Funeral Chapels in East New York, saying that shortly after she hired them to take care of her mother's funeral, they sent her an extremely explicit email describing having sex with her mother's body. Pamela Johnson filed the law ... More >>
A few days ago, we wrote about the U.S. whooping cough outbreak -- which is the worst in 50 years. Pertussis can prove deadly to infants and toddlers, but healthy adults aren't likely to succumb to this illness. (However, it's still a good idea to get a booster shot! Details here.) Whooping coug ... More >>
How do you know when you're at the dawn of a new pop era? It's not like someone sends a memo. Sure, occasionally there's a well-timed cultural event that offers a hintthe disastrous Altamont festival in December 1969, which signaled that the flower-power dream was over, or Comiskey Park's Di ... More >>
Qwikster! Have you heard of it? If you haven't, it's Netflix's new attempt to break its mail-in DVD service away from its online streaming Netflix Instant service, and, along with having a verifiably ridiculous name, it has other problems as well. For one, the @Qwikster Twitter account is cur ... More >>
It's the time of year for that oddest subgenre of sportswriting, the "Football vs. Baseball" column. Pro football, of course, always wins in these debates, largely because they're argued along the only terms that sportswriters know: television ratings. First out of the gate is David Steele on A ... More >>
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Our goal is to provide outstanding garage door installation, service, and repairs with complete customer satisfaction. At Garage Doors of America we get you matched with a local service technician who can work on all brands of garage doors and garage door operators. Get service on garage repairs in Colonia for residential garage doors and openers that need to be fixed right away. Same day service is available in most areas in and around Colonia so call today and ask about current specials for garage door repairs in Colonia.
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Whether it is a garage door on your house or company location, when something breaks, you have to have it repaired by a professional. If you attempt to correct the problem on your own without the appropriate understanding and experience, there is a good chance that you could trigger more damage than good. Worst yet, you could possibly hurt yourself or others because of safety risks that are typically related to making garage door repairs. Review the list of garage repair troubles that should always be repaired by an expert.
- Bent Track; Misaligned or Rusted Track
- Replacement of Sections or Panels
- 25 Point Maintenance Inspection
- Garage Door Hardware Overhauls
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- Torsion Spring Experts
- Broken Garage Door Cables
- Broken or Bent Rollers
A qualified technician in Colonia will certainly reach your house and have your door working correctly immediately.
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If you live in Colonia and your garage door opener needs to be fixed? We can help! Don't risk injury to yourself or others...let a trained garage door opener specialist help solve your problem. From screw driven shaft openers to chain and belt drives...we can get you a price on the garage door opener best for you needs. Prices vary...so if you live in Colonia and want the best rate...give us call right now for a free estimate.
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Nowadays, it is challenging to look for any type of product without having an assortment of styles to pick from. Buying a vehicle could overwhelm you with alternatives like speed ability, 4-wheel drive, colors, make, design, etc. Bath towel purchasing has you considering in between cotton and linen. Furniture? Leather, micro fiber?
That being said, Colonia residents must not be startled that garage door shopping likewise requires a comprehensive decision-making process. There are several different kinds of garage doors to choose from, including aluminum, steel, lumber, fiberglass, vinyl and premium protected doors. Aspects that are typically thought about while picking garage doors are price, climate, certain demands.
While steel doors are stronger of two, light weight aluminum is very excellent at withstanding damages from outside elements like weather and corrosion in the Colonia area. If style is what you are looking for, you need not look any further than timber doors...commonly called carriage doors made of wood.
Framework and panel, carriage home doors and flush panel doors are really common choices for garages. The a lot more pricey stain-grade wood garage doors add a remarkable amount of worth to houses.
Vinyl garage doors have truly experienced an increase of passion among homeowners over the past number of years. Vinyl is durable and suggested to last a lifetime. They are additionally simple to paint so home owners do not need to stress concerning having the doors match their residences. For environmentally friendly customers, premium shielded doors are an excellent choice given their high R-value. doors are commercial in durability, they can be made to match style of any house and also come with glass inserts.
As previously stated, some homeowners may have to select their garage doors based off of particular demands. Homes near the sea typically need fiberglass garage doors.
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We change damaged torsion springs and expansion springs on Colonia residential, business and industrial sectional, rolling steel, and one-piece drape doors amongst lots of others. Springs ought to never be readjusted or mended by people who are not effectively educated to do this job and may not have the proper tools. Remaining to run your door with a busted spring is very dangerous and can create added damage to garage door and electricity opener systems.
A spring replacement is one of the most common repairs called for on a garage door. These springs are available in differing sizes and serve as a balance, raising most of garage door weight. This allows the door to effortlessly open and shut by hand or with the assistance of an opener.
Garage door springs have a limited service life. While there are different lifespan choices, many typical garage door springs come with a 10,000 pattern life expectancy.
- 2 times daily = about 14 years
- 4 times daily = about 7 years
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IBM's beefy Power6 boxes slaughter Java
Pop quiz. You're in desperate need of making Java fly and have the coin to prove it. Do you shell out on IBM's new 4.7GHz Power6 eye candy or keep on replacing Unix kit with x86 systems? For the moment, it looks like you will want to saunter into the 4GHz realm if you're a midrange server type. IBM has just released SpecJbb …
interesting indeed, if you read what it says.......
loaded the specjbb2005 results since 1 jan 2007
some interesting stuff indeed.
I added bops/core column, because it tells you about scaling. And hence how much IBM needs to worry. or not.
the power6 at 2 cores does 44045 bops ( 27% faster than the speediest X86, by the way )
the power6 at 8 cores does 43343 bops
the power6 at 16 cores does 43248 bops
pretty much linear performance, indeed.
Now for the shivering......
the closest thing to that power6 is 3 Xeon boxes, 4 cores and 8 cores from Fujitsu ( the same guys that beat up Sun for many years now.... on SPARC ....)
4-way = PRIMERGY BX620 S3, Intel Xeon processor 5160, 3.0 GHz
8-way = PRIMERGY BX620 S3, Intel Xeon processor X5355, 2.66 GHz
16-way = PRIMERGY RX800 S3, Intel Xeon processor 7150N, 3.50 GHz
the xeon at 4 cores does 34587 ( = 100%)
the xeon at 8 cores does 27669 ( = 80%)
the xeon at 16 cores does 21041 ( = 61%)
those power6 chip systems delivers near linear performance, ladies and gentlemen....... the Xeon doesnt, and you can imagine what the numbers of a 32-way Xeon will look like.
Yes we need to worry. About IBM having no competition that can get close.
if you care, you can download a piece of my XLS with the bops/core columns in it. or get it from www.spec.org yourself.
cheers, RG
UltraSPARC T1 still the most powerful Java processor
A single-socket 65nm, POWER6 at 4.7 GHz (and 750 million transistors!) scores 88,089 SPECjbb bops. The latest UltraSPARC T1 results for the new T6300 blade with a 90nm, 1.4 GHz, 300 million transistor processor scores 96,523 SPECjbb2005 bops.
Given Java appservers are designed to scale horizontally and a chassis of ten T6300s looks like a killer WebLogic or WebSphere platform.
And Sun has the 65nm Niagara 2 waiting in the wings, which should double performance, and Sun has promised will also be available for the Blade 6000.
What's a processor?
In reply to "Ultrasparc T1 still the most powerful Java processor" the author ignores that the T1 has 8 cores per socket, the POWER6 has two. So, per core the POWER6 does 265% better with only 235% of the clock cycles. That might be where some of the extra transistors go, not to mention that the POWER6 has more than 8Mb cache on board to the T1's 3Mb. Plus built-in virtualisation, error detection and correction... comparing apples and oranges doesn't even come close, does it?
How much power for money?
The amount of cores is rather unimportant, as decision maker I'm more interested about the bang for buck aspect. How much is the Sun T1 in above configuration, and how much is the IBM box? I don't buy cores but performance.
Chip to Chip, UltraSPARC T1 beats Power6 on Java
In regards to the comments that Power6 cores are faster than the UltraSPARC T1's cores, thats like saying my cylinder in my 4-cylinder engine is faster that your cylinder in your 8-cylinder engine (its the engine performance that matters)!
Who cares how fast are the cores or how much cache the chip needs for Java? The bottom line is how fast the CHIP is and for right now, the UltraSPARC T1 blows away the Power6 at its server melting 4.7GHz. How much wattage does the Power6 require compared to the UltraSPARC T1's <80Watts? How much is it going to cost you to run? No one knows-IBM sure doesn't want you to know otherwise it will be in all the press materials.
Number of cores does indeed matter
-- if you are the guy who has to write the check for the software license fees. These tend to be based on the number of cores the software executes on. When you compare the software charges for the same solution running on two IBM cores or on eight Sun cores, you *will* ask your technology people to think again about recommending the Sun solution.
Even with licencing costs the T1 still wins.
For example Oracle:
Power 6 - 0.75 licence per core = 1.5. Round up (Oracle say you must) = 2 licences
UltraSPARC T1 - 0.25 licence per core = 2 licences
T1 wins hands down on performance, cost, power consumption.. and the T2 is just a few months away!
Performance of the CHIP is irrelevant
It's the performance of the SERVER that counts. The same is true of the power draw - IBM might not publish the chip power draw but then a chip is just so much semi-precious metal and sand and is useless without the electronics around it. If your look at the power rating for the whole server (an 8-core T2000 is max 400W for 74,365 BOPS = 185BOPS/Watt, an 8-core p570 is max 1400W for 346,742 BOPS = 247BOPS/Watt) there's a 33% POWER6 advantage. Of course, it's still an apples and oranges comparison at present because you're comparing a 4-socket midrange server with a single-socket entry server.
But it still comes back to that software licensing. If you pay per-core licence on your software the POWER6 will likely be streets ahead on TCO as the hardware and environmental cost pales into insignificance next to software. If you don't it's up to you whether a theoretical 33% more performance per watt is worth it. Obviously it's closer for a blade server than my standalone server example but also harder to gauge the watts and an even poorer comparison in class of machine.
Who mentioned Oracle?
This is an article about JAVA benchmarks. Last I looked, Oracle give their java app server away at no extra cost when you pay for the rest of their apps (usually per seat) and that licensing calc only applies to the database. What makes anyone think the performance argument is the same for Oracle database, which scales in an entirely different way?
Don't be too worried, RG
The 16-core score is from a (still current, but) older generation Intel processor codenamed Tulsa based on the Netburst architecture, whereas the 4- and 8-core results are both based on the newer Core microarchitecture. On that basis, you wouldn't expect to see linear scalability per core.
Tigerton will hit the streets next quarter - the Core microarchitecture replacement of Tulsa - then you can do a more realistic "scalability per core" test.
Intel soon switches to a 45nm fab process - boosting performance and lowering power consumption across the range. Then there's the successor to the Core microarchitecture just around that corner...I think Intel is giving IBM a pretty good run for its money.
Moore's law
Paul, the sad part is that IBM is still the only manufacturer actually in keeping with what is commonly understood to be Moore's law (doubling of processing power every 18 months). I think it's funny that you're telling RG that IBM should watch out for Intel's regurgitated Pentium 3. Intel still has some very serious things to put into consideration:
Itanium has been a loss-leader in the CPU market for years, not to mention the worst selling series of cpus currently on the market.
Intel keeps bumping FSB speeds, with negligible gains due to outdated memory architectures.
Intel is still worst-in-class across the board (since they sold off their ARM business) for performance-per-watt.
Intel's Core Duo had some significant issues with XOR operations, causing software raid5 to be mostly unusable.
To date, Intel has invested more in Itanium than it could ever hope to recoup via chip sales, despite horrendous pricing per cpu on ia64 systems.
I personally applaud IBM for strategic partnerships with AMD on manufacturing fabs, and showing the world that Steve Jobs is a moron for going Intel on Apple's products.
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As promised, I ran this week in Manchester and London (photos to follow later). I was in Manchester during the week and was surprised to see so many runners were out and about on a Thursday lunchtime.
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Best Gun In Call Of Duty Ghosts! (COD Ghost Best Primary Weapon In Multiplayer Assault Rifle Setup)
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TmarTn: Another new code in 50 minutes! Be there!
TmarTn: Anybody else hate the new comment section?
TmarTn: New code is up! Another one coming in an hour! :D
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Ozone MasterBlaster: One question, is MSBS going to be powerful IF I use the Automatic Fire attachment?
Tamara Estes: nope it's the ak7 by opinion
Juan Pablo Duarte: ahhh i cant help it their is a lot of guns that are good but i don't know which one is like the best of the best some people say that the ak12,honey badger,mtarx,k7,vector,,vepr,and also the Remington
raskin parcar: awesome videro all the time
Mike Cascio: Normally I don't use the MSBS but I'm going to try and use it a lot more. Thanks
G Funk: No the Remington is the best
Keagan Fernandes: he picks the gun that he likes not the best gun
ToMaHaWKPRODUCt1ON: The famas wasn't 3 rounded or whatever it was, was it?
Krmgaming: M16 is better than type 95
Xavier Rosado: Dude you picked on of the worst (cough) Remington (cough) Vector CRB
Sonia Jimenez: What are the codes
Sean Bartley: Got nerfed BIG time
Geoffrey Zoref: I don't see the silencer as decreasing range. Muzzle break INCREASES range, but silencer isn't shown to decrease range.
James Allison: Great tip, definitely saw a marked increase K\D ratio
Juan Manuel Concha: Can't put any sight on my MSBS... what is the problem??
Gerardo Cruz: *Ahem* Maverick Assault Rifle
Nathan Schneider: Disagree. This gun kicks, which makes long distance more difficult; and is not an ideal close range weapon, either.
christos christou: Tmartn your the best
Riskninja YT: Msbs is op as crap
Alicia Dear: U started fom gta to call of duty. HUGE comparison I mean when I looked it up and I mean I wasn't even paying attention to who made it and then. BAM Tmartn. I mean oh my god I just got finished looking at u on gta with the liberator
Demarcus Robinson: the honey badger or the mtar after update..
bursy burriss: It doesn't matter how good a gun is I still do bad.. Don't tell me I suck because I know
SOADfan4ever1: i find it really sad that people actually have to google / youtube " what the best guns are in CoD" all guns handle differently, there's not a single gun ( well maybe the ACR in MW3 haha) that EVERYONE is capable of using efficiently. its all about finding a weapon that suits YOUR play style. But it wouldn't surprise me if alot of you also look up what the best camp spots are. dont blame you though, CoD: Ghosts can be a real bitch sometimes. personally i prefer the ACR semi auto, grip, and tracker sight. but i only pull that kit out when the other team starts using tracker sights or thermal. Ak12 is pretty much the universal gun IMO. the only time it lets me down is when i gotta reload ;)
Zane Hales: Not to mention how good the swat was in Black ops 2
J Haze: have they nerfed this gun yet? i heard they were gonna
kai ademi: Remington r5 is the best
Scott Perlenfein: Its funny cause the M27 is the best gun by far
Mason Cree: Great gun but it's a little weird going from full auto weapons the burst fire weapons
Vaughn Ayochok: Can i use scavenger instead of dead silence
VW Low Lifestyle: Everytime more than 1 are close to you, you always get killed, while with another gun like the honey badger / AK12, you could just keep shooting without losing time between bursts and hit/kill at least 2..?
Robert Gorsuch: I all ready have it as a loudout , I love it
Cain Alba: try reflex and muzzle break its real good thanks for the class
Mushed Tater: use scavenger i always use it exept when sniping
Dallas Owens: Agreed! I discorved how good this is myself but I do prefer a shotgun attachment, haven't used a grip but they never hurt either.
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Cameras installed as part of a Lancaster University research project have captured images of the stricken ferry Riverdance which was run aground just off Blackpool.
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Cameron Clayton, executive VP of digital services at the Weather Channel says that the new service allows them "to partner [their] expertise and forecasting with real-time local input about the weather from [their] consumers in a way that is relevant and personal." We couldn't agree more. We keep emphasizing that this is the way of the future, and it's great to see such a huge TV channel get on board with social TV.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
At this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a few high school marching bands / dancers from Mexico took part. BUT THIS IS AMERICA and we can't have that on OUR HOLIDAY! The irony of this all, with you know, the pilgrims, Christopher Columbus, etc. seems to be over their heads:
There were literally dozens and dozens of tweets like the above pouring into Twitter. So, you catch the drift. However, some were certainly more "special" than others…
"So sick of all this spanish bs #USA":
"WTF. WHEN DID AMERICA BECOME A SHOWCASE OF DIVERSITY?!" My personal favorite:
Here come the slurs…
This self-proclaimed "Christian Conservative" is not only pissed about the Mexicans, but how dare the "NATIVE" Americans get in on THANKSGIVING too:
"omg stoopid maxicanz...outta mi cuntry" afdlksjdfowajefal;ej these people are just...
I'm afraid to leave the house.
I hate people.
Reasons why I'm scared...house most days…..
Aaaaaaand I just got a little more scared to be a person of color in this country. I try not to think who might walk...
*sigh* Just…. wow.
this country needs to be destroyed
So fucking what if Mexicans are in the...parade. Foreign people can celebrate Thanksgiving...
And cheerleaders from my high school are in the parade.
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Firstly I just want to mention that thanks to the amazing support of everyone sho has sponsored, I HAVE REACHED MY ONLINE TARGET! Exceeded it by £10 no less! I just want to say a really big thank you to everyone involved. It's made me so happy to see that thermometer hit the top. To all of you, thank you.
So it's past midnight, so today is sunday the 18th of March. That means that we officially leave TOMORROW!!
After a hugely stressful few days of grabbing spare minutes wherever I can to sort all the stuff out, I finally have everything in order. That means, my bag packed (as light as I could, but still fairly unwieldy), all my gear accounted for… ish, and all the admin in place, so hopefully the bank wont block my card. Also, check this beast out…
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So I think it's safe to say I'm getting fairly excited. I will be honest and say that up until now, I've not really thought about enjoying it; it's been just something I was doing. But now I'm looking at it with all the excitement of a young boy on the cusp of an adventure.
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