From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> For "redundant" storage on a laptop, I'm more inclined to use a SDHC   
   >> card or an external USB drive.  The SDHCs are dirt cheap, and the   
   >> biggest disadvantage is that they tend to get lost easily.   
      
   >Perhaps I am misunderstanding the role of the SSD.  I thought the   
   >OS and files in use would automagically go on the SSD, which   
   >would be faster than retrieving them from HD or swap.   
      
   fstab         (5)  - static information about the filesystems   
   mount         (8)  - mount a file system   
      
   Nothing special about how they get used.  An advantage is that they   
   are more rugged, but I'm not sure I'd like to test that.   
      
   >NARA offers imagery of Revolutionary War records that I would like   
   >to have, but they are on microfilm (rolls, not fiche).  I keep   
   >thinking about buying a good microfilm reader but somehow have   
   >never mustered enough enthusiasm to pay $600 to maybe four times   
   >that to have a convenient reader for microfilms that themselves   
   >will cost $1,000-$2,000.   
      
   You have GOT to be kidding.  I don't even remember the last time I saw   
   a microfilm reader, but that was in the aircraft maintenance managers   
   office at Ames, so that's got to be 20+ years ago.  I'm surprised that   
   hasn't been digitized yet, as photographic film is getting less and   
   less common, never mind the projection lamps.   
      
   >The things are available via Ancestry.Com, but you select what you   
   >want by label and then have to go through 700 pages to find what you   
   >think may be in what you selected.  Even with a fast 'Net connection,   
   >that takes a lot of time, and if you get sloppy in scanning you can   
   >go right past the line or two you what that is buried in a 50- or   
   >75-page section somewhere.   
      
   And of course, it's hand-written in an 18th century style script and   
   most optical character scanners just see that as random noise.  Heck,   
   even humans have a hard time reading it.  (Cue Ben Franklin discussing   
   a "first draft" with Thomas Jefferson in Stan Freberg's "The United   
   States of America Vol 1"  `` life, liberty, and the purfuit of happi-   
   neff???  Your "s"s look like "f"s ''  `` Oh, it's a very IN thing '')   
      
   >> I suspect the delay is at Red Hat rather than CentOS, but is your   
   >> hardware that new, or are you just finding shiny features in the   
   >> newer kernels?   
      
   >Actually, it is interaction between the hardware, kernel, java   
   >(IcedTea has sometimes worked, but not often), and genealogy   
   >indexing software.   
      
   No experience, but that sounds more like a library problem than a   
   kernel. A quick look through the ChangeLogs for 3.* kernels only turns   
   up two hits (in 3.0.24 and 3.2.10 relating to SMP Alpha systems, and   
   in 3.0.52, 3.2.29, 3.4.19 and 3.5.5 relating to NFS problems) for   
   anything related to java.  The stuff related to java in the kernel   
   seems to be rather old (some items dated as far back as 1996).   
      
   >> Now the boxes that are being sold _may_ be enabled by default, but   
   >> on non-ARM hardware, MS is not requiring that.  There has been some   
   >> talk that BIOS manufacturers may eventually drop the non-secure   
   >> option (as a cost saving measure), but I haven't seen that yet.   
      
   >If the machine will run Windows 8 (dual-boot style) without   
   >secure boot enabled, all should be well.   
      
   So far, that seems to be the case. I've seen a lot of FUD both ways,   
   but haven't actually seen a box that won't run without.   
      
   >> My understanding is that win7 isn't signed, so secure boot wouldn't   
   >> work. But I'm not seeing advertisements offering a win7 downgrade   
   >> any more - all of the current crop seems to be win8.   
      
   >I saw an ad for machines that specified downgraded to Win 7 (yes,   
   >that would mean secure boot disabled), but passed over them   
   >quickly.  IIRC it was due to i5 CPU, or maybe the 17.3-inch   
   >screen was not available.   
      
   A number of the ads I recall, the downgrade was an extra price option   
   (possibly relating to the extra work to wipe/install).  Or it could   
   just be the retailer taking advantage of things.  ;-)   
      
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