Comments for Laurence's Blog

Comment on Why Arch Linux Sucks (and not in a good way) by James

James — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:37:13 +0000

I’ve tried about 7 distros in total, Arch Linux is absolutely my favorite.

Comment on Why Arch Linux Sucks (and not in a good way) by Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:46:10 +0000

I hate arch linux why i can’t change laguare (I’m on Brazil, i can speak english very well, but sometimes make me fell irritated), i tried everthing, i changed /etc/profile, /etc/locale, when i try run locale-gen, it sys “command not found”, i checked all files, is all ok, but still don’t work. I’

Comment on Why Arch Linux Sucks (and not in a good way) by anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:40:16 +0000

I’m sorry.. I had to stop reading at the first paragraph.

>I managed to break [Debian] during an upgrade
>[Debian] is an extremely solid distribution

right.

Comment on Spot the deliberate mistake… by lamby

lamby — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:20:17 +0000

Not sure if it will render properly here, but I have:

if [ "$(stat . -c %i 2>/dev/null)" != "$(stat "$(pwd)" -c %i) 2>/dev/null" ] \
&& ! cd “$(pwd)” >/dev/null 2>&1
then
echo “W: pwd does not exist anymore”
return 1
fi

in my {bash,zsh}rc to fix this for me.

Comment on The UK Government strikes again by Richard Warburton

Richard Warburton — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:29:57 +0000

Its a good thing you chose to write to your local MP to explain the technical issues to someone who has a vote on the matter, rather than simply writing a rant on your blog.

Comment on Why it is technologically impossible to block modern filesharing. by Laurence’s Blog :: The UK Government strikes again

Laurence’s Blog :: The UK Government strikes again — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:02:48 +0000

[...] my previous rant on the UK Government’s inability to understand how technology works, it would appear the Government has still not advanced its [...]

Comment on Name that Computer! by lamby

lamby — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:03:15 +0000

Heh, my first machine was the one pictured in question #6.

Comment on Vista has got to go. by Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:00:23 +0000

But Superfetch in Vista is designed to actively load some of your most commonly used apps into memory in order that they can be loaded faster when you choose to open them. They get unloaded if you open other software which demands this RAM, but ultimately unused RAM is just wasted RAM.

Comment on Vista has got to go. by Laurence

Laurence — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:44:34 +0000

Well, the system has 4GB of ram, and assuming Windows is counting cache as used memory then 900MB is okay. However if Vista is not including cache in the used memory count then 900MB used is far too much when only Windows and the start up programs (which consists solely of AVG Anti-Virus) are running immediately after a reboot. Of course Vista may not be at fault, something like the nvidia drivers may be consuming a large amount of the memory but task manager does not show what is using it (in fact, the memory usage in task manager’s process list totals less than half of the physical memory usage – and yes ’show process for all users’ is selected).

Comment on Vista has got to go. by Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:32 +0000

Err, the 900MB RAM usage is intentional, isn’t it? Depending on how much RAM you have in your system, it should probably be a lot more than that…
Shame about the Minesweeper. I’m now up to about 4500 games without a single crash. Bad luck, I suppose