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I don't use any of these direct download sites (except for when I click a link to download something from one) so I admit to being a tiny bit confused -- I thought rapidshare was a site, not an app. But, depending on whether you are scared of the command line, it looks like it doesn't take too much to set up a script that gives you right-click -> upload capability from within nautilus if you ...

I'm guessing lsof isn't showing anything holding onto the file?

Looks pretty cool.

What you need to look for in an SSD is: a) TRIM support - otherwise performance degrades over time b) a chip with good caching to alleviate poor random write performance of MLC SSD (no SLC SSD are affordable) - Intel second generation is a golden standard and quite affordable, but Agility also has the 'good' Indylinx chip with 64MB of cache, so you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about the ...

Probably NSFW. Maybe. Ubuntu Feisty, have dropped to 2 screens instead of 3.

I'm all for people improving things, but make sure that there isn't already something that can do what you want. See: http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/download.htm Maybe that will solve your problems and contibuting to that will help other people using Python for other graphical/photo management stuff. Of course there is the possibility that it's shit and rewriting everything in C will get you...

The default kernel from Debian is probably not that useful for a comparison. It ships with all preemption disabled so that it's optimized for stability and server loads. This makes Debian perform poorly for interactive things, by default. This CK patch has about zero chance of making it into the kernel. At least the way it is. And the requirement to disable dynamic ticks will hurt battery life ...

Now this.... I see a bright re-install on my near future

quote: Originally posted by hictio: Is there anyone here running any Linux distro on a PPC box? I'm sort of tented to put a lousy HDD I have around and give it a shot on my main box, a Quicksilver DP 800 MHz with 1.5 GB RAM. I ran Debian on my ancient titanium for while was too slow for desktop use on the 550Mhz with 1G ram.