Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.

'Serenity'


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DCJensen - Oct 21, 2009 5:36:06 am PDT #11419 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

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.


Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 6:10:59 am PDT #11420 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

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.


amych - Oct 21, 2009 7:08:12 am PDT #11421 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

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.)


Gudanov - Oct 21, 2009 7:53:47 am PDT #11422 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

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.


amych - Oct 21, 2009 8:16:00 am PDT #11423 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

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.


tommyrot - Oct 21, 2009 5:34:22 pm PDT #11424 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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.


omnis_audis - Oct 22, 2009 1:00:34 pm PDT #11425 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

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?


NoiseDesign - Oct 22, 2009 2:51:43 pm PDT #11426 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

No.


Gris - Oct 22, 2009 4:17:27 pm PDT #11427 of 25501
Hey. New board.

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?


NoiseDesign - Oct 22, 2009 4:25:49 pm PDT #11428 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

New MacBook doesn't have Firewire, so if that's important to you then it can be a deal breaker. I own 3 of the older MacBooks but I won't be buying any of the new ones because of this omission. They also dropped the individual audio in and out ports in favor of a single port that con operate as an input or an output.