Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-16 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
>should be dismembered. Well, before you dismember them, have you actually ever written to them and told them? http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Contact%20us I have written to Sourceforge twice, once to ask about site statistics (i.e. number of projects, number of developers) tha

Re: Web browsers, plugins, stability, processes (was: Recommendations...)

2010-06-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Benjamin Scott writes: > Firefox 3.6.4, currently in the late stages of beta, implements > out-of-process plugins (OOPP). So when Flash explodes, locks up, goes > into an endless loop, etc., you can just kill off that one process, > and the browser is left intact. I've been running it since i

Re: Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe? [now OT]

2010-06-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote: >> We don't have to wear spandex, do we?? >> I, for one, definitely do not look good in spandex. >> But a cape might be cool. > >  No capes!  Thunderhead, Stratogale, the list goes on...

Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jeffry Smith writes: > > One option would be to try FF with user-agent-switcher. I've logged > into many sites with FF that claim to require IE, but when I use UAS > to set FF to claim to be IE, they work fine. My favourite suggestion, which I saw somewhere a few weeks ago, is to try setting you

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Gerry Hull wrote: > This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback. > I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox. > BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from Craigslist.  Pretty > good deal for a decent dual-core

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/16/2010 09:11 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Gerry Hull wrote: > >> This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback. >> I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox. >> BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from Cr

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Processes can potentially indirectly access more than 4 GiB of RAM > by using memory windowing/bank swapping/etc. This would be similar > to "Expanded Memory" from the days of the 8086. Reserve some > range of process-addressable memory. A special library/system > call exchanges that block o

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Susan Cragin
I haven't gotten wireless to work yet but I haven't spent time on it beyond trying the default Ubuntu stuff. >If you have a Broadcom chip, just install /b43/-/fwcutter/ from the >Ubuntu repos. During installation it pops up a dialog whether you want >to download the firmware or not. Just click ye

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: >> Processes can potentially indirectly access more than 4 GiB of RAM >> by using memory windowing/bank swapping/etc.  This would be similar >> to "Expanded Memory" from the days of the 8086.  Reserve some >> range of process-addressable mem

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/16/2010 09:20 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > Well, when you've got an installed base of venerable yet cantankerous > 32bit apps that are tuned for that 4Gb virtual space and need to > interoperate with a bunch of 3rd party apps and libs and drivers that are > also 32bit and it would be a bitch

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Joseph Smith
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:28:01 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 06/16/2010 09:20 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: >> Well, when you've got an installed base of venerable yet cantankerous >> 32bit apps that are tuned for that 4Gb virtual space and need to >> interoperate with a bunch of 3rd party apps

PAE, i686 vs. x86_64 (was: Recommendations)

2010-06-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> 32-bit apps run fine in a 64-bit Linux OS, and in many cases better > since the OS can manage memory a bit more efficiently. The downside > is that you need to install the required 32-bit libraries too. > So far, I have not seen a 32-bit application that could not run on > a 64-bit Linux OS.