... Your reply is neither helpful nor well-thought out. Just because someone has a large drive in their laptop does not mean that they don't have it backed up...
... I agree. At home every morning I do a backup (dump) from the laptop to a desktop and via the internet to New York University, where I teach. Those days...
... Have you considered Unison? I've been using that for a while, with good success. On the days when I go in to my university (Acadia), I often work from my...
... I don't see much different. I plug my monitor and keyboard/mouse into the laptop; every hour my files are rsync'ed to the desktop and I have the single...
I remember reading some battery performanace tests, from Phronix I think, that said 5200 rpm provided better life and the read write performace was not much ...
... The specs I read from the manufacturers indicated the newer generation 7200's were no more power hungry than the older 5400's. I didn't look and see if...
Almost totally agree with Ardell, but it depends on the computing needs of a person. I'm in the low profile side, since I don't have multi core cpus to do all...
... Sure, but for modest blocksizes the transfer time you mention is less than either the seek time or rotational latency. Rotational latency for 7200 would be...
Hi I know they aren't cheep but what about a slid state drive (SSD) they are getting lower and lower in price buy the month and their are even a few of them...
Hello, i've somes problem to install qnx on my laptop indeed at the begin of the install the qxn doesn't find the hd drive so... i've done with success the...
... But we can take the source and keep it alive, so Oracle can't kill MySQL. And as others have pointed out, MySQL targets a different market then Oracle. Who...
Dear Linuxers, I hope there is still someone here and not only the spammers. I've just bought a new dell m6500 prevision with i7 quad core and nvidia Fx3800M...
... Hash: SHA1 A friend of mine has a m6500 i7 quad core extreme, ATI graphic card. He has installed ubuntu 10.04 64 bits. He told me it works well, except : -...
Hi Alexandre, thanks for the prompt reply ... well, suspend and resume has always been an issue under linux. Also with 32bit versions. ... yes I got this on a...
... I've found with older core 2 duo M6500 that sometimes the display doesn't come back right after suspend/resume. The work around is to ctrl-alt-f2 to go to...
... With less than 4G per process and in buffer cache. The better choice is to install a 64 bit kernel, bi-arch user land with both 32 and 64 bit shared...
I need a replacement for my last Linux laptop; and the Studio 1558 is attractive with the quad core i7 and 1920x1080 display. What touch pad is included? I've...
... Is it possible to limit the RAM of each process? if so how? ... I'll give a look to the fedore architecture, if, as you suggest, it has the double set of...
I have a Vostro 3500 with a fingerprint reader. How can I enable the Digital Persona swipe fingerprint reader in Ubuntu 10.04? I tried thinkfinger and fprint...
Hi All, I have a D830 or D820 WUXGA (1920 x 1200) display ready to bolt on to one of those laptops that is in great condition that is extra to my needs. I...
Hi All, My Dell Latitudes have a nifty DualPoint Stick that I don't use as a mouse because I prefer the trackpad. I would like to use it as a scroll wheel,...
Hi, I found the xinput command is: xinput --set-prop 10 "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 0 I also filed a bug with ubuntu suggesting that button 0 should be...
I have a Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop running Ubuntu 10.10. It recognized and set up the modem with no problem and witout downloading ant drivers or software. it...
Hi all I cant get any audio out of the headphone jack in linux, FED FC14. It is functional in win7 #:((( The sound card is Intel HDA Are there any fixes for...
I have just acquired a Dell Studio PP33L that I want to use as my first Linix machine but it don't work. I'm unable to get it turned on. Have the normal power...
I have a dell laptop 8600 Inspiron the passwords comes up its old i got it from a estate sale. they had no idea of what was going on with the laptop and sold...
Hello Everyone, My name is James and I live in the UK. I have recently got hold of a Dell Latitude C600 laptop and was wondering what distribution of Linux is...
Ubuntu is very easy to install and has a good forum at http://ubuntuforums.org that will have the answers all ready to any problems or questions you would...
