actually, the PSN network is again one of the items that IS marketed with the device. Unlike xbox, PS3 allows free online play as a reason to pay sony for the hardware in the first place.
Removing it after the fact (other than for breach of contract terms) should be considered bait and switch as well.
Not sure about Ubuntu, but this is the way to do it in Debian :
Disable gdm
# update-rc.d -f gdm remove
modify
Along these lines, could you not simply have a "testing" user, and set their shell in
bluetooth single ear headphone thingy. just lay on you side, then if you doze off, etc you can hear the phone ring but nobody else will. in theory.
and if all else fails...e.g. headset falls off..., ducttape the headset to the side of your noggin!
Most of the time when I notice any stuttering is also the same time my hard drive lights up
As the drive(s) get busy, pending operations get queued up (disk queue depth) and as such, the machine starts "hanging" waiting for the IOs to finish.
unless of course we're hanging because we're waiting on something to be paged so the app we're running appears frozen), and are expected too, for obvious reasons.
It is obvious. The point here is that the paging operation of the machine makes the problem worse. Especially if you have slow disk(s), or the pagefile/swap space dynamically changes.
primarily, linux does a much better job about not paging unless it starts running out of memory. whereas windows seems to start using it as soon as it boots.
1) Pagefile/swapping. - the os thinks it is from the 90s and trying to do memory swapping (no matter how much ram you have).
2) disk controller drivers run in kernel mode. any rise in disk queue length (pending requests) hangs the system. arggh.
Nobody's gonna believe that computers are intelligent until they start coming in late and lying about it.