Re: [PLUG] Natty is here

2011-05-01 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:10:28 -0700 Mike Connors dijo: >> I wonder how much different the reactions would be if you took a >> similar group and gave them a Gnome desktop, or KDE, or whatever. >> >> I suspect the results would be about the same, but it would be >> interesting to see an experiment.

Re: [PLUG] Natty issues

2011-05-01 Thread Darren Couch
That is sad to hear. I have never had issue with Mint, and have preferred it to Ubuntu since 8.04 or so. although these days Im a solid arch user. On May 1, 2011, at 17:55, Word Wizard wrote: > An absolutely HIDEOUS release! And I say that as long time Ubuntu fan, > converted from Windows X

Re: [PLUG] question on NAND solid state drives lifetime

2011-05-01 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 07:04, Russell Johnson wrote: > writing to a new 64GB ssd at max speed continuously would still require your > app to run for 51 years before it would hit the ssd limit designed into the > drive... and fall over. I didn't do the math recently, but around a year ago when

Re: [PLUG] Natty issues

2011-05-01 Thread Word Wizard
An absolutely HIDEOUS release! And I say that as long time Ubuntu fan, converted from Windows XP/Vista by Gutsy Gibbon The Kubuntu (KDE 4.6) version is totally unusable for NVidia cards. Kubuntu installs in 640x480 video mode and refuses to allow the upgraded driver NVidia administrative modul

Re: [PLUG] question on NAND solid state drives lifetime

2011-05-01 Thread wes
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, website reader wrote: > While I understand that solid state drives considerably speed things > up on the motherboard, others have discouraged me from purchasing > such, stating that the NAND technology only permits a limited number > of writes. > > My applications

Re: [PLUG] question on NAND solid state drives lifetime

2011-05-01 Thread Russell Johnson
On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:01 PM, website reader wrote: > While I understand that solid state drives considerably speed things > up on the motherboard, others have discouraged me from purchasing > such, stating that the NAND technology only permits a limited number > of writes. According to this guy