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)

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

2010-06-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com 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

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 dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com 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,

Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu 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

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com 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

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 ge...@telosity.com 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

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 of

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 yes,

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net 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

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 to

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-16 Thread Joseph Smith
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:28:01 -0400, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org 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

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. They