OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ?
by linux guy
I run F14 KDE for a variety of tasks including writing documents,
managing email, browsing, purchasing, research, some software
development, simple administration, etc. I'm not a gamer.
I presently have 2 20" monitors on my desktop, each at 1680x1050, for a
total area of 3360x1050. My computer has a GeForce 8800M GTS video
processor.
For the most part it works fairly well, especially in KDE, with the way
it allows each monitor to be its own work space.
It has come to my attention that we have a surplus in our technology
fund.
If you were in my position, which monitor configuration would you
select ?
a) Stay with the 2 monitors I have. (2x 20 inch, 3360x1050 total area,
cost, $0)
b) Upgrade to 2 24 inch 1920x1200 monitors, like the Dell U2410 or
similar. (3840x1200, cost about $850)
c) Upgrade to 1 27 inch monitor, like the Dell U2711. (2560x1440, cost
about $850)
d) Upgrade to 2 27 inch monitors, like the Dell U2711. (5120x1140, cost
about $1700)
e) Upgrade to 1 30 inch monitor, like the Dell U3011. 1560x1600, cost
$1300)
How does one find out the pixel limit of a video card ?
Thanks
13 years
Claws versus Evolution for email.
by linux guy
I'm interested to hear the pros and cons of Claws versus Evolution for
handling email.
I'm subscribed to about 10 email groups. I do a ton of filtering, into
about 20 different folders.
I don't have anything against Evolution. I've been using it for almost
10 years. However, it seems a bit stale and jaded.
How is Claws compared to Evolution ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail
http://www.claws-mail.org/
What is the Perl filtering and Python scripting about ?
Thanks !
13 years
Font in firefox; now uses tahoma?
by Reid Rivenburgh
It looks like a recent update to wine installed a wine-tahoma-fonts
package. Now a lot of web sites are using tahoma by default instead
of my preferred font, liberation sans. I could remove the tahoma
package, but yum also wants to remove wine-fonts, which might be bad.
Does anyone have a solution for firefox? Maybe an entry in
userContent.css? Or should I just go ahead and remove the wine font
packages? TIA.
Reid
13 years
ATI FirePro V3800 question.
by Erik P. Olsen
I've bought this graphics card and it hangs my Fedora 14 system right at the
point where it switches to graphics mode. I wonder what I am missing because my
alternative system Fedora 12 on the same hardware works beautifully.
I've found that ATI has issued a driver, Catalyst, for the card. Am I supposed
to download and install this driver?
--
Erik
13 years
Re: OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ? SOLVED
by David Hough
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:08 +0000, Tim wrote:
> Joe Zeff
> >>> Normally, I don't see the point of having multiple monitors in Linux
> >>> because so much of what you need them for can be done with multiple
> >>> desktops on one screen.
>
> Linuxguy123:
> > Have you tried using a dual monitor setup. I find it indispensable.
> > Right now I am typing an email in my left display while watching a
> > download in the right one. Its not the same as having both windows in
> > one display, its better. For one thing, you never have to worry about a
> > window in one display covering up a window in the other display, even if
> > the other app does funny things with the focus.
>
> I have, but I do find it a bit of an organisational pain. And some
> things are far less than intuitive to use when their controls are on the
> next screen. I've also had to deal with using two computers side by
> side, and that was slightly less painful for some things. e.g. Web site
> work, with editing on one, and checking on the other.
>
> By the time you get around to playing with dual monitors, you might want
> to consider if what you really want is one *HUGE* monitor with very high
> resolution.
>
Two monitors does occasionally confuse a program, but generally I find
it helpful because I can set something to full screen and it occupies a
single monitor, leaving the other for other things. The other local
problem I have here is the cats that like sitting between keyboard and
monitor. They can't quite manage to block both at the same time so I can
keep on working by moving windows around.
There's also the contingency factor - if one of my monitors dies then I
can still use the other one until a replacement arrives. With one large
monitor failing I'm stuck in the dark.
Dave
13 years
/dev/ull
by SternData
Both of my F14 systems had a file, /dev/ull, created during updates run
today. Does anyone else have /dev/ull? (note, not "null" but "ull".)
OSSEC got very excited about it.
Received From: mooch->rootcheck
Rule: 510 fired (level 7) -> "Host-based anomaly detection event (rootcheck)."
Portion of the log(s):
File '/dev/ull' present on /dev. Possible hidden file.
--
-- Steve
13 years
sinf compiler error I don't understand
by Howard Howell
First let me say, that while I have used C++ I don't normally use it for
my work and so am not throughly familiar with what it does, so if this
is due to a C++ error, please be gentle.
I am working on some DSP code I developed a long time ago, and now want
to port it to 64 bit. I have read several articles on the differences
in C and C++ between 32 and 64 bit, but this has me stymied.
Here is the smallest sample I have been working with to show the current
error:
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
main()
{
long double temp;
printf ("M_PI=%e\n",M_PI);
printf ("sin 90 = %e\n",sinf(M_PI/2));
temp=M_PI/2.0;
// the following line won't compile for temp
// regardless of how temp is declared (float, double, long double)
// printf ("sin 90 = %e\n",sinf(temp));
}
Clearly sinf is recognized, and compiles and runs. It returns 1.000 as
expected for M_PI/2. But the line that is commented out will not
compile.
If you can see the issue here, please let me know.
MY system is:
Release Kernel Linux 2.6.35.``-83.fc14.x86_64
GNOME 2.32.0
Hardware
Memory 7.8GiB
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T
Lots of disk space
yum info GCC shows:
Name : gcc
Arch : x86_64
Version : 4.5.1
Release : 4.fc14
Thanks,
Les H
13 years
Why only unstable Chromium?
by Valent Turkovic
Hi Tom,
I have been using Chromium from your repo for some time now and it was
great so far, but lately (since F14) I notices more and more crashes.
Now I see that Chromium is based on unstable beta Chrome 11 core while
there is no Chromium package based on stable Chrome 10 version.
I tried running Chrome 10 for last few days and had zero page crashed
while using same pages with Chromium 11 I get constant page crashes.
I would like to ask if it is possible to rebase Chromium package on
stable version of Chrome 10.
Thank you,
Valent.
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13 years
kmod-catalyst breaks install with ATI HD4570
by Guilherme Patriota
Anyone else have broken a fedora install installing kmod-catalyst? The
graphic card is HD4570, I've installed it 3 times and all 3 times I've
installed it broke the system. The second time I managed to uninstall it,
but not in the first or third time I've installed it.
13 years
