> > Ah I can understand. The job market is only just opening up. I did > not have any computer at home till 2002 when SUN started providing > laptops to employees in India. After that I did all development on that > laptop, including CD ISO and kernel builds, it was very painful. The > laptop tended to overheat during builds and switch off, so I had to put > it raised on books and keep a pedestal fan blowing on it at full blast! > Occasionally I'd clean layers of dust using an air blower from a vacuum > cleaner: > http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/ferrari_cooling_station > Honestly, I feel like such a washed up student at the moment since for industry after a few years experience you are meant to know quite a bit, but since I don't have that I feel like I don't know enough! Although comparing me with someone who is at the same experience level, ie 0, I know way more then most and unfortunately enthusiasm alone won't get you the position as companies need to be hiring and have a need for you. It's so difficult to feel good enough even at this point when you see people who are in industry knowing so much and being so far along. > It was only on Feb 2007 that I purchased a decent desktop system and > on March 2008 that I upgraded the RAM from 1GB to 4GB and added a > 500G harddisk. In my current job I do not get a laptop so the desktop is > the only system that I work on at home. > > Anyway, I figured that the script is not handling physical swap properly > and put an updated script on the website. So in your case installing from > 0.7.1 is providing so physical swap, so 512MB gets used up fairly > quickly even before KDE starts. The new script will propagate physical > swap definition from the current environment instead of assuming ZVOL > based swap by default. > > Regards, > Moinak. > Thanks Moinak for the kind words and the script. Does this mean that I have to re-install 0.8 using it??
Also I thought you worked for Sun Microsystems?? - perhaps I was mistaken. Nice pic btw, I had my Ferrari 3200 on my parents coffee table once during one of their vacations some years ago and the machine managed to split the wood of the table nearly splitting the whole table in half..... The Hp that we got recently is brilliant though but 2GB memory is not really enough for me personally, but since it can take up to 8GB memory if I ever get one myself I will definitely fully expand - especially while running in 64-bit mode. I tend to hog memory just by normal usage as I run Rhythmbox which is quite memory heavy along with Mozilla Seamonkey, again memory heavy, and VM's too, of which if I am waiting for it might even run Doom at the same time..... I can only do that with this Hp though :-) Anyway, I'll reboot into 0.7.1 and give the new script a go and see what happens! Regards, Kaya
