> Me, I use Chromium for using "social media" sites or Google services
> that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I
> don't use it for anything else.
>
> I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged into any of those
> services in Firefox. I use RequestPolicy to block a
> emerge smartmontools
>
> then when that is done, do this:
>
> smartctl -t long /dev/sd
>
> When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test will
> complete. It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. This can run while the
> drive is in use too. Sometime after that time, run
Merry Christmas gentooers!
Lorenzo
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Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
2011/12/8 LinuxIsOne :
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself.
>
>> I could give you examples of how that forum works, I could give you
>> links that show what we are saying, but NOTHING can prepare you for
>> what you really fi
>> I googled how to disable the gnome-shell and get my gnome-panel back,
>> along with the panel applets that I refuse to give up. (The gnome-
>> shell replaces the gnome-panel, so there is nowhere to run the old
>> applets.)
>>
>> If you want to disable gnome-shell you can do it with the System I
> One more question. What is a easy to install but WELL tested and STABLE
> binary distro? I'm thinking something that needs a update 2 or 3 times a
> year or something.
If you want a *really* well tested and *really* stable linux binary
distro, Debian stable is your friend :D
I have a debian i
> Then you must be using a single-user machine. Like your own laptop or
> desktop.
>
> sudo is absolutely necessary on any multi-user machine unless you like
> security holes.
>
> Instead of bashing sudo, it's better to find out what problem it is
> designed to solve, then determine if you have tha
>> I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running
>> Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It wasn't that it
>> was bad or didn't work, but that the management of it seemed so
>> different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't want to deal
>> with learn
> So, what is a easy to install distro that has
> KDE4, Seamonkey, gtkam, GIMP and such? I want something easy
Well, surely Kubuntu would be a nice choice, but can I suggest
OpenSuse? I installed it something like two years ago (I was curious)
and I liked it. It has a well-done KDE implementation
> Thanks, Dale. Actually I've never experienced an hard drive failure,
> but your thread made me want to do one as soon as possible :D
Sorry, I meant "made me want to do a backup as soon as possible"
> OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages looks
> like when a hard drive is going belly up:
(...)
> So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon.
> Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day.
>
Thanks, Dale. Actually
>
> i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent
death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to the
development of computational technologies were not only paramount, but
affect all of us in a very direct way, i think we could somehow compensate
for th
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