Re: A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "A funny thing happend to me tonight.": > run fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system. > > It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank > screen. Totally black with a white cursor. >... > I'm trying pl

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-29 Thread shimi
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hi, > > 2 Questions about SSD drives: > > First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will > run > hdparm -t /dev/sda > and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about > HW for linux). > > I have > /dev/sda: >

Re: SSD drives

2012-12-29 Thread Lior Okman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hi, > > 2 Questions about SSD drives: > > First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will > run > hdparm -t /dev/sda > and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about > HW for linux). > > I have > /dev/sda: >

SSD drives

2012-12-29 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, 2 Questions about SSD drives: First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will run hdparm -t /dev/sda and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about HW for linux). I have /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 586 MB in 3.01 seconds = 194.68 MB/sec And it int

Fw: [Israel.pm] Officially announcing the Israeli Perl Workshop (ILPW) 2013!

2012-12-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, forwarding from p...@perl.org.il . Also see: http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/ Regards, Shlomi Fish Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:54:23 +0200 From: sawyer x To: Perl in Israel Subject: [Israel.pm] Officially announcing the Israeli Perl Workshop (ILPW) 201

A funny thing happend to me tonight.

2012-12-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Last week I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 on a laptop. Both run fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system. It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank screen. Totally black with a white cursor. An Xterm started from the console starts, but nothi