[FRIAM] a week on just linux...
Not a bash on Windows! History: I've used linux in the past, and decided to experiment because my desktop a Dell has some kind of Gremlin on the windows side that causes it to reboot on it's own. Being concerned it's a hardware problem first hit control-delete to see if anything stood out, cache files, or to many apps running in the background etc. Only thing that stood out that I could tell was with nothing running and it just idle it'd creap up from about 30% ram used to about 40% Mixed in firefox because I like the session save and restore addon it'd hover around 40% and my games would easly push it to about 55-60% used. By used in the pased I meen KDE 2.0 I think it was when I'd start my fun box I'd get a mysterius line that said username@bash(or somesuch) and to get to xorg typed in start x, and flash didn't play with I think it was Mandrake (no idea what number) Why: Why not? Plus it be useful to see if it has a buried gremlin. Results: I had Ubuntu 1405 Trusty I think it is. Sufficed to say Ubuntu is growing on me, and after about 4-5 days of doing my routine things mostly works. *yeah* Just to see if it's a hardware issue decided to spin up chromium, then Chrome with random google searches ,and tossed in a bunch of tabs in firefox, and my old ooold del from 07 or so. No crash, no bluescreen. *yeeeah* Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yeeeah* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
I believe the pair of extensions that are AdBlock / AdBlockPlus are designed to be cross-browser, and are in the Chrome Web Store. I seem to get by with just FlashControl (which is immaterial because I do not have the Flash .so anyway since it is nonfree), but I have also heard good things about NoScript. Good luck and have fun on your GNU/Linux box! -Arlo James Barnes *PostScript*: Laughed when I saw not a bash on Windows - true unless you got Cygwin working!. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
Windows 10 is not available for another month! But having said that, I have been playing around with Windows 10 (pre-release version given to beta-testers) in a virtual machine, and my initial impressions is that it is Windows 8 done right. It shouldn't be too much of a stretch from Windows 7. Mind you, I'm not doing too much in Windows these days - I'm primarily a Linux user (OpenSUSE, with fvwm2 as a desktop), and that doesn't look like changing any time soon. Next year will be the 20th year of using the same window manager (desktop UI), and I've yet to see anything superior for my purposes (out of KDE/Gnome/Windows XP,7,8,10/MacOSX Aqua...). Cheers Cheers On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:22:40PM -0600, Frank Wimberly wrote: Speaking of Windows, a button has recently appeared on my Windows 7 machine which appears to download and install Windows 10. Any recommendations? Frank Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jul 17, 2015 1:52 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Not a bash on Windows! History: I've used linux in the past, and decided to experiment because my desktop a Dell has some kind of Gremlin on the windows side that causes it to reboot on it's own. Being concerned it's a hardware problem first hit control-delete to see if anything stood out, cache files, or to many apps running in the background etc. Only thing that stood out that I could tell was with nothing running and it just idle it'd creap up from about 30% ram used to about 40% Mixed in firefox because I like the session save and restore addon it'd hover around 40% and my games would easly push it to about 55-60% used. By used in the pased I meen KDE 2.0 I think it was when I'd start my fun box I'd get a mysterius line that said username@bash(or somesuch) and to get to xorg typed in start x, and flash didn't play with I think it was Mandrake (no idea what number) Why: Why not? Plus it be useful to see if it has a buried gremlin. Results: I had Ubuntu 1405 Trusty I think it is. Sufficed to say Ubuntu is growing on me, and after about 4-5 days of doing my routine things mostly works. *yeah* Just to see if it's a hardware issue decided to spin up chromium, then Chrome with random google searches ,and tossed in a bunch of tabs in firefox, and my old ooold del from 07 or so. No crash, no bluescreen. *yeeeah* Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yeeeah* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
@Tom huh I'll 2x check that--apreciate the sugestion to check. Hopefully it's that simple. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Could that Windows problem be because of your settings related to automatically install Windows updates and then automatically reboot? Tom Sent with MailTrack https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signaturelang=enreferral=jtjohnson...@gmail.comidSignature=22 Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional Journalists http://www.spj.org - Region 9 http://www.spj.org/region9.asp Director *Check out It's The People's Data https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671* http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, gepr geprope...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend Ghostery. On Jul 17, 2015 12:52 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yee FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
I recommend Ghostery. On Jul 17, 2015 12:52 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yee FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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Server procedures written in R would be pretty neat trick for data miners.. http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/05/r-in-sql-server.html From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Arlo Barnes Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 4:26 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux... On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Frank Wimberly wimber...@gmail.commailto:wimber...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of Windows, a button has recently appeared on my Windows 7 machine which appears to download and install Windows 10. Any recommendations? Recommendations for what? Whether you should push the button? How to get it to go away? I recommend not having to deal with Microsoft anymore (or at least as little as possible), but each person makes their own way through this stuff, more or less. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
Could that Windows problem be because of your settings related to automatically install Windows updates and then automatically reboot? Tom Sent with MailTrack https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signaturelang=enreferral=jtjohnson...@gmail.comidSignature=22 Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional Journalists http://www.spj.org - Region 9 http://www.spj.org/region9.asp Director *Check out It's The People's Data https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671* http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, gepr geprope...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend Ghostery. On Jul 17, 2015 12:52 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yee FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
Speaking of Windows, a button has recently appeared on my Windows 7 machine which appears to download and install Windows 10. Any recommendations? Frank Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jul 17, 2015 1:52 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Not a bash on Windows! History: I've used linux in the past, and decided to experiment because my desktop a Dell has some kind of Gremlin on the windows side that causes it to reboot on it's own. Being concerned it's a hardware problem first hit control-delete to see if anything stood out, cache files, or to many apps running in the background etc. Only thing that stood out that I could tell was with nothing running and it just idle it'd creap up from about 30% ram used to about 40% Mixed in firefox because I like the session save and restore addon it'd hover around 40% and my games would easly push it to about 55-60% used. By used in the pased I meen KDE 2.0 I think it was when I'd start my fun box I'd get a mysterius line that said username@bash(or somesuch) and to get to xorg typed in start x, and flash didn't play with I think it was Mandrake (no idea what number) Why: Why not? Plus it be useful to see if it has a buried gremlin. Results: I had Ubuntu 1405 Trusty I think it is. Sufficed to say Ubuntu is growing on me, and after about 4-5 days of doing my routine things mostly works. *yeah* Just to see if it's a hardware issue decided to spin up chromium, then Chrome with random google searches ,and tossed in a bunch of tabs in firefox, and my old ooold del from 07 or so. No crash, no bluescreen. *yeeeah* Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yeeeah* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Frank Wimberly wimber...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of Windows, a button has recently appeared on my Windows 7 machine which appears to download and install Windows 10. Any recommendations? Recommendations for what? Whether you should push the button? How to get it to go away? I recommend not having to deal with Microsoft anymore (or at least as little as possible), but each person makes their own way through this stuff, more or less. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...
I prefer the most minimalistic desktops. Not only because they use less resources but because I do not like those fancy, colored and plenty of boxes and icons of the last versions of Gnome, KDE and Ubuntu. I only use distributions with LXDE desktop. I just quit Crunchbang only because maintenance has been finished but Crunchbang is maybe the best distro I have used in 16 years being a Linux user. I have installed LXLE and Lubuntu in a same machine booting from different hard drives. Both of them with LXDE desktop. They are behaving really good. Lubuntu's repository is better. I just ordered a brand new Dell with Ubuntu pre installed. It is going to be fun running Linux in a modern and good machine. Windows Systems will be upgraded from win 7 or 8 to Windows 10 on 29th of July. Win 8 is really ugly, is even worst than Gnome 3. Theoretically we should backup our important data prior the upgrade. Microsoft announced that Win 10 well be free during the first year. After that, We do not know. I read somewhere that it is possible to disable the upgrade. Chromiun and Firefox run pretty fine in Linux. I prefer Firefox because the amazing amount of Add-ons that can be installed and I normally use some of them. 2015-07-17 17:22 GMT-05:00 Frank Wimberly wimber...@gmail.com: Speaking of Windows, a button has recently appeared on my Windows 7 machine which appears to download and install Windows 10. Any recommendations? Frank Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jul 17, 2015 1:52 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Not a bash on Windows! History: I've used linux in the past, and decided to experiment because my desktop a Dell has some kind of Gremlin on the windows side that causes it to reboot on it's own. Being concerned it's a hardware problem first hit control-delete to see if anything stood out, cache files, or to many apps running in the background etc. Only thing that stood out that I could tell was with nothing running and it just idle it'd creap up from about 30% ram used to about 40% Mixed in firefox because I like the session save and restore addon it'd hover around 40% and my games would easly push it to about 55-60% used. By used in the pased I meen KDE 2.0 I think it was when I'd start my fun box I'd get a mysterius line that said username@bash(or somesuch) and to get to xorg typed in start x, and flash didn't play with I think it was Mandrake (no idea what number) Why: Why not? Plus it be useful to see if it has a buried gremlin. Results: I had Ubuntu 1405 Trusty I think it is. Sufficed to say Ubuntu is growing on me, and after about 4-5 days of doing my routine things mostly works. *yeah* Just to see if it's a hardware issue decided to spin up chromium, then Chrome with random google searches ,and tossed in a bunch of tabs in firefox, and my old ooold del from 07 or so. No crash, no bluescreen. *yeeeah* Questions: I'm not particularly familiar with chromium, and not maried to it as a browser iether. I didn't see where it might have somethlike addblock. I ask because websites I might typically go to (google, bing git, wordpress.com etc) hadd all sorts of inline adds, that I gather addblock on FireFox keeps out*yeeeah* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- Agrónomo, IT, Candidato a MSc en Desarrollo Sostenible y Medio Ambiente +57 3154531383 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
