Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

2007-11-12 Thread Robert Spanjaard
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:50:30 +, norman wrote: > I had a theory that as RAM became cheaper and cheaper programmers became > lazier and lazier and did not need to strive to be economical with their > code. Which is true. The most obvious example for me was when I switched from Word 6.0 to Word

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

2007-10-05 Thread Robert Spanjaard
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:38:04 +, andylockran wrote: > Unfortuantely it only counts packages installed with apt - (and maybe from > the official repos, but I haven't looked under the hood). > > It's not amazingly accurate, but I think goes a long way to show how close > we are to complete freed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] CPU temps

2007-09-05 Thread Robert Spanjaard
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:28:53 +, STONE COLD wrote: > and thats what i mean...should i trust my ubuntu telling me its a nice > 28c. It's possible. On my notebook, Ubuntu sometimes 'forgets' that the fan is running at full speed, so the CPU gets pretty cool when idle. I usually run glxgears or a