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« Last post by 40hz on November 24, 2010, 03:01 PM »Did you try replacing the mobo's battery?
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)IMHO, the much more expensive ones were a much better deal. The printers they make now days are disposable...toss it when it runs out of ink and buy yourself a new printer instead of replacement ink cartridges. They cost about the same any way.-app103 (November 24, 2010, 12:50 AM)
I vaguely remember hearing about that. (And it went in one ear and out the other like so much else does with me these days...)People used to ask Van Gogh why he knew so much.-40hz (November 23, 2010, 08:55 AM)-cranioscopical (November 23, 2010, 01:10 PM)
(Where the hell is Chris Hansen and his cameras?!)-Renegade (November 23, 2010, 05:35 PM)
Pinguy looks sweet~!
I've come to the conclusion that I really prefer the Linux desktop to anything else. It's simply much nicer than Windows or OS X.-Renegade (November 23, 2010, 04:50 PM)
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Now imagine it even nicer... 
When I see cheap stuff, it just scares me.-Renegade (November 23, 2010, 01:34 PM)
) to farm the "tech part" out, only do the administration - and save your personal hardware and "little gray cells" for something far more interesting than email. This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix.
The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately). Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database (most documents I found were dealing with plain text passwords which is a security risk). In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.
The thing that motivated me to post this in the first place was an article by Michale Lankton on the Connected Internet site.
I'm one of those people that doesn't really like the idea of doing all my important things up on the web. I could write an essay on why, but most people here are savvy enough to see the obvious risks (security, accessibility, service downtime, etc.) that there's little point in writing about what's already well understood.
One line in Lankton's article, however, triggered what amounted to an epiphany (of sorts) for me. In answer to why he finally embraced Google Apps he said:
Because my need for synchronization finally outweighed my need to be a software connoisseur.
And the truth found in that simple statement forced me to reevaluate my entire way of thinking about web-based technologies. Lankton chose to use the word "synchronization." But what I think he was really getting at was the need for something I prefer to call ubiquitous access.
Ubiquitous access is the unrestricted ability to get at "your stuff" without regard to access platform or the technology employed to store your data. Think of it as "Anything-Anytime-Anywhere" and you've got it down.
We used to be told that it wasn't necessary to know everything so long as you knew where to go to find the information you needed. Ubiquitous access has a lot in common with that philiosophy.
No applause necessary. For once in my life I got something I truly wanted.Some people are amazed how long we've both been together.
I'm not.-40hz (November 22, 2010, 10:56 AM)
...and for that I applaud you!
(The wife and I will have been married 19 years in December)-Stoic Joker (November 22, 2010, 11:30 AM)
I've suspended the account mulitple times because I never use it but wife, friends and family all pester me about it. Easier to just leave it up and do nothing with it.-Darwin (November 22, 2010, 09:21 AM)
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for Dragon Preferred. The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders
Published on November 16, 2010
Written by Michael Larabe
In recent weeks and months there has been quite a bit of work towards improving the responsiveness of the Linux desktop with some very significant milestones building up recently and new patches continuing to come. This work is greatly improving the experience of the Linux desktop when the computer is withstanding a great deal of CPU load and memory strain. Fortunately, the exciting improvements are far from over. There is a new patch that has not yet been merged but has undergone a few revisions over the past several weeks and it is quite small -- just over 200 lines of code -- but it does wonders for the Linux desktop.
The patch being talked about is designed to automatically create task groups per TTY in an effort to improve the desktop interactivity under system strain. Mike Galbraith wrote the patch, which is currently in its third version in recent weeks, after Linus Torvalds inspired this idea. In its third form (patch), this patch only adds 224 lines of code to the kernel's scheduler while stripping away nine lines of code, thus only 233 lines of code are in play.
Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times. Linus Torvalds has already heavily praised (in an email) this miracle patch
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http://www.phoronix....2637_video&num=1
Alternative To The "200 Lines Kernel Patch That Does Wonders" Which You Can Use Right Away
Phoronix recently published an article regarding a ~200 lines Linux Kernel patch that improves responsiveness under system strain. Well, Lennart Poettering, a RedHat developer replied to Linus Torvalds on a maling list with an alternative to this patch that does the same thing yet all you have to do is run 2 commands and paste 4 lines in your ~/.bashrc file. I know it sounds unbelievable, but apparently someone even ran some tests which prove that Lennart's solution works. Read on!
Basically, Lennart explains you have to add this to your ~/.bashrc file (important: this won't work on Ubuntu. See instructions for Ubuntu further down the post!)
In the FWIW Department...
I spent all day trying to find some information on Google and never found it. Then I tried a search engine called...
[Click on the graphic.]
And found what I needed the first try! Guess what was the search that was so difficult...
"Outlook 2010 next unread message"
No kidding, that's all it was and every other iteration I could think of to try. FYI - I have no affiliation with Yippy.-CodeTRUCKER (November 19, 2010, 11:34 PM)