Re: How to unpack a "torrent" download?
The .torrent file is a file that contains links to get that particular file. To use it u must use a bit torrent client. The one I use is called transmission and another is literally bittorrent, or just google bittorrent clients and just follow the instructions --Original Message-- From: Josef Lowder Sender: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: Plug ReplyTo: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: How to unpack a "torrent" download? Sent: Aug 15, 2009 12:27 I just downloaded something with a long filename that ends in this: Feb.2008.pdf.4460470.TPB.torrent So how does one unpack a "torrent" file to get to the ".pdf" it holds? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT - Web browsing issue
Try looking at the dns server settings in winblows. It should be the same as the dns in ur router Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Eric Cope Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:13:17 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT - Web browsing issue --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT - Web browsing issue
What is the brand os etc of the computer Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Eric Cope Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:27:09 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: OT - Web browsing issue --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?
When you say nvidia proprietary drivers do you mean the one ubuntu gives or the one on the website. If you used the ubuntu given one uninstall that and install the one straight from the website. If you don't mind me asking what video cards do you have? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Stephen Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:51:32 To: ; Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu? i know all nvidia cards have a "turbo Cache" option to swipe some system memory for graphics rendering it may be that the driver is grabbing this and not releaseing it back.. this may be the killer. how to resolve. i am not sure. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > True enough it is tied to caching, but the fact it's marked as inactive > when I can definitely attribute application termination from lack of > memory is what I note as a problem. The system does not give this back > in the way of virtual or physical memory. The system does however > behave well enough as long as physical memory is present to give, but > watching a graph of the physical memory is *like* watching a memory > leak, whether it properly is or isn't, and end of the road is definitely > noticeable with performance on said system. > > Here's what a normal vmstat looks like currently, notice the caching: > > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- > cpu > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy > id wa > 0 0 4096 224988 69472 5676224 0 0 2 31 12 41 7 6 > 86 1 > > Here's what vmstat -a looks like currently with "inact" having most: > > m...@thrawn:~$ vmstat -a > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- > cpu > r b swpd free inact active si so bi bo in cs us sy > id wa > 2 0 4096 223196 5737708 1900724 0 0 2 31 12 41 7 > 6 86 1 > > Physical memory has nothing with free -m: > > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 7888 7673 214 0 68 > 5543 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2062 5826 > Swap: 1023 4 1019 > > When it loses all physical memory, the system slows waay down, java apps > get weird (jbidwatcher is the java cancer for me), anything rendering > video won't scale, my gl screensaver bogs waaay down. Totem, vlc, or > other will simply just crash if run long enough in this state, but I > haven't caught the segfault or anything. > > I've used just about any build within the past 4 years or so of the NV > proprietary drivers, and nothing resolves it, though many have said > there are issues with 64bit. I can't attribute anything to actually > using the memory, and typically where I've seen leaks like this I can > always find something even in excess processes running away or ipc > threading even. > > I've lived with it so long it's just just *there*, but I'd kill to fix > whatever the heck it is. No amount of research has ever resulted in a > fix for me. > > Thanks for the input! > > -mb > > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:19 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: >> I have had major problems with the NVidia proprietary drivers, particularly >> with Ubuntu 9.04. It seems like NVidia introduced a ton of REALLY bad bugs >> when they had to almost rewrite the drivers for the changes in the new XOrg >> server. >> I haven't seen the memory behavior you describe, but have you checked to be >> certain this isn't buffers and/or cache memory? I know all of my machines >> running any desktop distro tend to slowly accumulate cache until me >> mory is "full", but none of them have performance issues, since the kernel >> just reclaims cache LRU when it needs the RAM back. I also see fairly large >> amounts of "inactive" memory, but I never seem to have problems with the >> system reclaiming that as needed. >> >> >> Michael Butash wrote: >> > Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu >> > 32bit or 64? I've literally had issues with it that may or may not be >> > particularly ubuntu issues back to 7.04 that I first noticed. The only >> > thing really in common system-wise is the hardware, and I somewhat >> > suspect it's Nvidia driver related, but nothing really indicates any >> > particular app. My primary desktop I use heavily just about anything, >> > but I have another system that's sole purpose is to play movies and >> > music on my TV I do almost nothing with that experiences the same >> > issues, NVidia card as well. With compiz or without this happens. Only >> > thing I haven't tried is running the NV drivers, but I rely on the >> > acceleration far too much on both systems. >> > >> > What I have noticed is there are no direct applications hogging memory >> > via top, rather it seems virtual memory ends up simply taking over all >> > physical memory and keeping it as "inactive" via "vmstat -a"
Re: Best first programming language
Hey As a current comp sci student they should get really used to uml design and pseudo code more simply because there is more to a language than coding. Java and c++ are similar but what took me the longest going to java from c++ was designing classes and seeing their relationship. But as other people say those languages are great. Now if they are going to computer science than the best choice will java because the first two semesters will be java. Cse 240 is the class where they will learn c++ scheme, prolog, etc and the professor is always there for help especially nakamura at asu. --Original Message-- From: Chris Gehlker Sender: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: Main PLUG discussion list ReplyTo: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Best first programming language Sent: May 19, 2009 9:50 AM On May 19, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: > I really like ruby as well but my experience has been if he's planning > on pursuing some type of CS degree he'll definitely need to know java > and C++ for 90% of the programming related classes, so that might be a > better place to start. Here was my reasoning. In his freshman year he is going to have to take a survey course that will touch on C, C++, Java and Scheme. At some schools it may be C, C++, prolog and scheme. In his sophomore year he is going to have to take algorithms. In both these courses he will be expected to turn in pseudocode first followed by a working program. Now when I started my formal comp-sci education I already had experience in several languages but I found that it was very easy to write pseudocode that was very close to ruby or actually was ruby. Then it was very easy to translate the ruby into the target language because I had a working ruby implementation sitting in front of me. I don't know if there is any other language that lends itself to a C++, approach to a problem or to a scheme approach to a problem the ay ruby does. In the algorithms classes I literally turned in the same file for the pseudocode part of the assignment and for the executable part. The TAs who did the grading knew perfectly well what I was doing but they gave me good grades. TAs tend to like ruby. The ruby community was also very helpful and it was full of people who knew any given language. -- Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. -Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Resolved: Home directory as Desktop
The funny thing is that it did happen to me once. I don't know the specific file that determines the folder to use as the desktop but I fixed it by viewing hidden files/folders and deleting the ones that start out with a period and it worked after that Nadim Hoque Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Dazed_75 Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:22:36 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Resolved: Home directory as Desktop --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions
On my mac I use openoffice (soon switching to latex) and it is much better in some ways than office (there are things office can do (as far as I know) such as mail merge and excel uses multiple cores/threads). Doing physics reports were done so much faster using oo equation editor. So for basic use oo is so much better. Nadim Hoque Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Eric Cope Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:14:23 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
