On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:00 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz
wrote:
A few weeks ago, I reported that the 8G SSD on my Acer Aspire One netbook
had failed, and asking for recommendations about where to buy a replacement.
I
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:00 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz
wrote:
A few weeks ago, I reported that the 8G SSD on my Acer Aspire One netbook
had failed, and asking for recommendations about where to buy a replacement.
I
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:00:15 Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz
wrote:
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However, I did find a very small micro SD card reader, where the micro SD
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Can you point to where you got the reader?
Something like this, perhaps?
Andrew Errington wrote:
Something like this, perhaps?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9391
I got one of these. They're less than a buck and *tiny*.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7134
Vik :v)
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz wrote:
A few weeks ago, I reported that the 8G SSD on my Acer Aspire One netbook
had failed, and asking for recommendations about where to buy a replacement.
I could not find anything within my budget ($0), or less than my
John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 17:19:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k
onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec)
However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec)
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=8k count=64k
sda
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:19:22 +1300 (NZDT)
John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
Well this is bizarre
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k
produces a 256 MB file.
onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec)
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Noo... you should always sync twice: disk then network (:
( and anyone who says 3 times is even older than me! )
So it's my age eh? So is why I always unmount my usb pens like...
sync;sync;sync;umount /dev/sdc
I just said sync instead of sync;sync
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 17:19:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k
onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec)
However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec)
time dd
John Carter wrote, On 03/03/09 11:02:
Sigh! Since I can think of several places where a gut feel for these
numbers will help me in the work context, eg. I'm in the process of
spec'ing a server for a build system... it will help me to get a grip
on the current realitys of shifting data around.
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:02:08 +1300 (NZDT)
John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
[loads of interesting real data]
Can you confirm that mb, Mb, and MB are all interchangeable, and are MegaBytes?
My brain hurts!
Steve
--
Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz
http://www.greengecko.co.nz
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Can you confirm that mb, Mb, and MB are all interchangeable, and are
MegaBytes? My brain hurts!
Your brain hurts? What? Did you have a Nice Visit from the Migraine
Fairy...
http://www.aperfectworld.org/0106.html
Now I think about it, I should have
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:41:52 +1300 (NZDT)
John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote:
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Can you confirm that mb, Mb, and MB are all interchangeable, and are
MegaBytes? My brain hurts!
Your brain hurts? What? Did you have a Nice Visit from the
worked.
The drive was purchased to go with my Acer Aspire One netbook, and I
mentioned that I was waiting for Mepis 8.0 to be released as it had enough
smarts to recognise all the new stuff in the Aspire One, and didn't have
the bleeding edge KDE (which was a little *too* cool for some). Last week
Andrew Errington wrote:
Hi all,
In a previous email I mused at the wondrousness of being able to connect
my new slimline DVD writer to my (very) old ThinkPad 600X running 4 year
old Mepis. The drive was recognised and K3b worked properly. I burned
all my photos to DVD as a backup and I was
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:29:55 +1300
Chris Bayley l...@sourcepower.co.nz wrote:
Andrew Errington wrote:
Hi all,
In a previous email I mused at the wondrousness of being able to connect
my new slimline DVD writer to my (very) old ThinkPad 600X running 4 year
old Mepis. The drive was
snip
Just a word of warning, and I am sure most of know this already:
writeable DVDs and CDs make a very poor backup medium for periods
exceeding 5Yrs. There are numerous sources of reference for this
statement on the net but my personal experience comes from creating 13
CDs of mp3 about
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
I'm a little unsure about wiping the whole disk. The Aspire One has XP on
it, with a 4Gb hidden partition which contains the factory image. I could
resize the main XP partition and create two more for Linux and /home, but
I don't know if XP or GRUB
On Mon, March 2, 2009 11:14, John Carter wrote:
I don't know if Acer have followed same strategy as the Asus 901
EEE...
On the 901 it has 20Gb SSD, but as far as I can determine that is
split into two logically, if not physically, distinct drives.
A faster 4Gb partition for the root /
John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 11:15:
On the 901 it has 20Gb SSD, but as far as I can determine that is
split into two logically, if not physically, distinct drives.
A faster 4Gb partition for the root / partition (ASUS-PHISON SSD
SOQ2882269) and and a 20gb (ASUS-PHISON SSD
SOQ2882288) slower
1) Is that on a EEE 901 or an Acer Aspire?
2) Flash write speeds are (I believe) lot slower than reads... but for
flash wear reasons it's probably not a Good Idea to do extensive
testing. :-) ie. The write speed may dominate. Flash devices are
weird, they tend to have odd size pages and
John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 13:29:
1) Is that on a EEE 901 or an Acer Aspire?
An eee 901, originally an XP model so it has 12 GB total not 20 GB.
2) Flash write speeds are (I believe) lot slower than reads... but for
flash wear reasons it's probably not a Good Idea to do extensive
On Monday 02 March 2009 10:17:56 Andrew Errington wrote:
I'm a little unsure about wiping the whole disk. The Aspire One has XP on
it, with a 4Gb hidden partition which contains the factory image. I could
resize the main XP partition and create two more for Linux and /home, but
I don't know
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
Well this is bizarre
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k
produces a 256 MB file.
onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec)
However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec)
So you might be onto something here.
time dd
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