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I'll be overhauling my computer with the arrival of Windows 7. I've already cleared off most everything on the hard drives that are going to be taken out of the computer. I have an Intel X-25M SSD drive that will be the system drive. What I'm trying to figure out is where the page file should go. On the SSD drive? On the mechanical drive (a 7200rpm Seagate)? Or just turn it off completely and assume 8GB of RAM is sufficient?
I need Linux for some things I do and that's the other decision. Ubuntu 9.10 or OpenSuse 11.2, both coming out soon.
I'd probably just let Windows 7 manage it on the primary drive at first, and see what happens. You can always turn it off/move it.
My concern with the primary drive is adding unnecessary write cycles to the SSD. I could just see if there is a performance impact with moving it. My theory is that with 8GB RAM putting the pagefile on the slower drive won't have any real impact on performance, but I was curious if anyone has had any experience with that kind of setup.
Adorable chameleon logo aside, why OpenSUSE? (Asking just out of curiosity -- I've never used it and don't know much positive or negative about what the differences are.)
OpenSUSE looks like it has a nice implementation of KDE 4 and it might be interesting to try out. I'm more used to Ubuntu though.
Gotcha. I'm happy enough with (x)ubuntu that I haven't been seriously tempted to switch outside that family in many upgrades' worth of years, but I'm always weirdly fascinated by what draws people to one distro over another.
Oh, I found what I'm getting myself for Christmas!
USB Geiger Counter
Description: This is a USB powered Geiger Counter equipped with an ATMega168 that can be programmed in circuit using one of the programmer below. Simply plug the unit into USB (make sure you have FTDI drivers installed), open a terminal program to the correct COM power at 9600bps, and you will see random bits being generated from the random background radiation. Here at SparkFun, on average, we get about 20 counts a minute.
This can be used to create a true random number generator.
the new Mac Mini has FW800. The audio interface we have is FW400. Will there be performance issues in an adapter to connect the two?
My old MacBook died. so I started looking at specs for new MacBooks.
I can see absolutely no reason to get the 13" MacBook Pro over the new white MacBook. It is a teensy bit lighter and smaller (and I mean a TEENSY bit) and has an SD Card reader... in exchange for a smaller hard drive and the metal enclosure that, based on my experience, is actually significantly more fragile than the plastic. Why would I pay $200 more for that?
Am I missing something?
