Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:46 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: I really don't think so. SSDs (IMHO) makes computer much faster due to the VERY low seek time - the time it takes you to get a block. Compare 10-20ms with ~0.1ms. A regular hard drive simply wastes a lost of time seeking the

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Do you see a text screen with a *text* cursor or a *mouse* cursor? If it's the former, I can't see how this could be KDE or Gnome related... No, I see a black screen with a working X windows mouse cursor. Try looking in /var/log for any X server messages, or try to run X yourself (startx)

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson In xsession-errors I found the problem. Sometime in 12.04's maintenance a bug was introduced to Gnome on Intel GMA-950 video cards. It was not in the 12.10 release, but was propagated between Wednesday when I installed it, and Saturday

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Dotan Cohen wrote: Please report that bug, Geoff: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect It's already been reported. That's how I found out that it existed. I don't think I can document it with any useful information except that it worked on Wednesday and was dead on

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Please report that bug, Geoff: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect It's already been reported. That's how I found out that it existed. I don't think I can

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
The GMA950 was very problematic in the beginning and clearly still has it's issues. Generally intel graphics are very well supported however be aware that some of the new (or about to be released) intel CPUs will feature GPUs based on the powerVR architecture which has *lousy* support on linux

Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
E.S. Rosenberg wrote: The GMA950 was very problematic in the beginning and clearly still has it's issues. I bought the laptop around Dec 31, 2008. It has most of the time run a BSD variant, but I have always had Windows XP and UBUNTU on it from the day I got it. Up until last night it has

hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Shiloh
i just found a nice feature in Unity (new to me at least): press and hold the special key for a semi-transparent overview of keyboard shortcuts, great for jogging the memory. such a transparency of the hebrew (and arabic) keyboard would help me learn to type in hebrew, as i have only english

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Lior, - Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ? second - which File System do you have on it ? DS On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lior Okman l...@okman.name wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2 Questions about SSD

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Thanks! Which File System do you have on your SSD, if I may ask ? DS On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:46 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2 Questions about SSD drives: First, I would appreciate of someone who

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Lior Okman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Lior, - Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ? It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i. second - which File System do you have on it ? I have an ext4 filesystem on it.

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread shimi
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! Which File System do you have on your SSD, if I may ask ? Note that this is unrelated to the hdparm benchmark, which was on the device, and not through the filesystem layer :) # mount | grep sda2 /dev/sda2 on

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i. ... I have an ext4 filesystem on it. Semi-OT: A word of friendly warning: I recently bricked a 120GB Intel 520 w/ the latest firmware (not sure if it was 400i) w/ ext4 on Fedora 17/x86_64. (Second bricked SSD in 12 months) A *very*

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to Hebrew/Arabic, if the feature is to help you know where the keys are then it should show in those languages when the keyboard is set to that layout. Though it may also be meant as a touch-screen feature allowing for easy super+[key]

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(Either way, ubuntu unity, gnome3 and most other DEs feature onscreen keyboards that can be set to any layout, so you can use those as your onscreen map) 2012/12/31 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il: Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to Hebrew/Arabic, if the