Stupid vanity question.

2014-12-12 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
So. I recently underwent a technology refresh at work, and opted -- gad-zooks -- for a Mac, because it had substantially better specs (e.g., 16 GB RAM vs. 8 GB). Needless to say, I immediately installed Linux on it. I'm heading to Philly next week for a meeting, though, and would truly like

Re: Stupid vanity question.

2014-12-12 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
If you're near me (in Salisbury, Mass) or Cambridge, you can get an FSF sticker. On Dec 12, 2014 1:39 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: So. I recently underwent a technology refresh at work, and opted -- gad-zooks -- for a Mac, because it had substantially better specs (e.g., 16 GB RAM

lowering hits to processor

2014-12-12 Thread Susan Cragin
Hello, I don't have a problem, really, but am looking for suggestions or comments. I have two programs running: EMACS, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking (under wine). And that's all. NatSpeak has a high resource consumption, and then of course there's wine sigh... which sometimes seems to

Re: lowering hits to processor

2014-12-12 Thread Bruce Dawson
You can run strace/ltrace to see which system/library calls wine/Dragon is making. That should give you an idea as to which resources its pulling on. (I suspect it is memory extents or semaphores, but I could be way off.) Once you have it running, you may want to do a ps auxw and send it to the