News for nerds, stuff that matters
Sections
About
Slashdot Log In
theheadlessrabbit (1022587)
theheadlessrabbit
(email not shown publicly)
Yahoo! ID: theheadlessrabbit@yahoo.com (Add User, Send Message)
Toronto based painter and media artist. Interested in technology and it impact on what we see as "high culture." currently working on a painting machine, and an aesthetics/psychology experiment with Psych major Andy...
(email not shown publicly)
Yahoo! ID: theheadlessrabbit@yahoo.com (Add User, Send Message)
Toronto based painter and media artist. Interested in technology and it impact on what we see as "high culture." currently working on a painting machine, and an aesthetics/psychology experiment with Psych major Andy...
Journal of theheadlessrabbit (1022587)
Slashdot gave me a VD gift: Excellent Karma!
Thursday February 14, @10:38AM
On Feb 14th, 2008, i made my first post that received a Karma bonus multiplier. yay!
i posted in response to universities giving the RIAA student information. the second post got the modifier. I feel special! after 6 years of reading /., i got me some good karma!
i posted in response to universities giving the RIAA student information. the second post got the modifier. I feel special! after 6 years of reading
i'm spamming :) - a youtube video explaining sudo nautilus
Sunday December 23, @11:03AM
a short video explaining how to modify files in your root directory in ubuntu.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iSA5-gRvknQ
I've hidden some slashdot memes in here for good measure. can you find them all?
if only i knew how to fix the damn screen going black after 10 minutes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iSA5-gRvknQ
I've hidden some slashdot memes in here for good measure. can you find them all?
if only i knew how to fix the damn screen going black after 10 minutes.
Am I the only person having troubble with Ubuntu 7.10
Sunday October 21 2007, @09:33PM
I reciently upgraded my laptop from feisty fawn to Ubuntu 7.10. 'Gutsy Gibbon' I believe.
The positive reviews had me really psyched about about the upgrade.
But I have been having several problems. the main one is the massave slowdown. my boot time is 6 minutes. shutting down takes 4 minutes. opening/closing windows takes several seconds, and some things (like changing my pasword) just go on forever.
When I boot up the WinXP partition, my boot time is less than 30 seconds, why is Ubuntu performing so much more slowly?
my laptop is a fugitsu.
the sticer on my laptop, and windows XP tells me i have a AMD Semphron processor, Ubuntu tell sme I have an Athelon 64-bit processor.
1 gb ram, 100 Gb HD divided into 4 partitons (10 gig each for ubuntu and xp, 2 gig swap partition, and the rest is shared)
and a 64 meg ATI radion xpress 1150 videocard (acording to windows)
the main reason i made the switch is because i heard of the dramaticaly improved boot time, and becase of work, I am switching between the OS's quite often.
Should I stick it out with 7.10 and see if i can do any tinkering, or jut go back to feisty?
I am a linux noob, by the way. my reason for switching was because my new laptop came with the vista virus
The positive reviews had me really psyched about about the upgrade.
But I have been having several problems. the main one is the massave slowdown. my boot time is 6 minutes. shutting down takes 4 minutes. opening/closing windows takes several seconds, and some things (like changing my pasword) just go on forever.
When I boot up the WinXP partition, my boot time is less than 30 seconds, why is Ubuntu performing so much more slowly?
my laptop is a fugitsu.
the sticer on my laptop, and windows XP tells me i have a AMD Semphron processor, Ubuntu tell sme I have an Athelon 64-bit processor.
1 gb ram, 100 Gb HD divided into 4 partitons (10 gig each for ubuntu and xp, 2 gig swap partition, and the rest is shared)
and a 64 meg ATI radion xpress 1150 videocard (acording to windows)
the main reason i made the switch is because i heard of the dramaticaly improved boot time, and becase of work, I am switching between the OS's quite often.
Should I stick it out with 7.10 and see if i can do any tinkering, or jut go back to feisty?
I am a linux noob, by the way. my reason for switching was because my new laptop came with the vista virus
