Comments for Mike's Planet

Comment on Book Sale by Matthew Helmke

Matthew Helmke — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:48:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

Comment on 10.04 Workarounds by Alex

Alex — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:40:07 +0000

I’ve got some too. There should be a place to dump ‘em all ;
http://shelterit.blogspot.com/2010/05/linux-ubuntu-1004-upgrade-ati.html

Comment on 10.04 Workarounds by CMD

CMD — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:31:43 +0000

I’ve done a couple of workarounds myself with 10.0.4 http://all-tech-thoughts.blogspot.com/2010/05/ubuntu-1004-lts-first-impressions.html

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by TGM

TGM — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:14:36 +0000

Why do you need so much RAM? Running Kubuntu on my machine leaves well over 3GB of my 4GB as cache!

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by Chris Cheney

Chris Cheney — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:24:39 +0000

The only problem I have run into with using 64bit Linux over the past 7 years is 32bit Flash seems to be less stable. The 64bit version of Flash that for some reason is still not in the official Ubuntu archive is much more stable. Kees Cook’s PPA has the 64bit Flash debs. Of course not using Flash at all is the better option, hopefully Apple will help kill it off sooner than later.

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by 1916home

1916home — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:45:14 +0000

My dad bought a Dell laptop almost two years ago now with only Ubuntu installed. He loves it and never has had a problem with it.

PAE does not work on all computers. Before I upgraded this work computer Im using now to 64 bit Lucid (it FLIES now!), I was using 32 bit with PAE and using my 4GB of memory. At home I have a very similar P4 computer with 4GB memory, and installed PAE but did not see an increase in my memory availability. This system is probably 3 years old, my home desktop is probably 4 years old. So PAE is great if it works.

Ive noticed only one prob on my 64 Lucid and thats Pogo.com… java games dont seem to load up (even with Sun Java, bc OpenJava or whatever its called was worse). Id like to upgrade my dads laptop system to Lucid 64 bit, but without pogo for him he wouldnt be too happy

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:52:00 +0000

@david
I know, but I wanted to give amd64 a try and some bug reporting love.

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by David Ron

David Ron — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:40:04 +0000

You don’t need a 64bit kernel for >4GB of RAM. The Intel and AMD architectures have supported PAE mode since the Pentium Pro. In synaptic, you can address nearly 64GB of RAM in a 32 bit kernel like so:
* remove linux-image
* remove linux-headers
* add linux-image-generic-pae
* add linux-headers-generic-pae

I wrote a blog post about this some time ago:
http://blog.davidron.com/2010/01/make-ubuntu-faster-address-maximum.html

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:19:56 +0000

The computer is a dual boot system. While I strongly believe in Open Source software, I don’t not force my beliefs on my family who also use the computer. I, in fact, do donate both time and money to Open Source projects all the time.

Comment on Near Perfect Ubuntu Desktop by ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:01:56 +0000

Did you get Windows refunded or did Microsoft bully another person into giving them hundreds of dollars for absolutely nothing of value? You might consider at least matching the cost of Windows in a donation to Free Software developers. If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.