[Nottingham] [Talk] *TODAY* Thurs 03/12/2009 Moblin, Netbooks, Files & RAID

[Jim Moore]

put me name down! :)

On 12/4/09, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Moblin, Netbooks, Files & RAID
>
> 'twas a good and select evening and the Nav seems to be recovering also :-)
>
> Thanks to Pete for the Christmas crisps and pies. Good to see Jim from
> The Caves, and also a good welcome to James.
>
> Various bits 'n' pieces were discussed and there was a brief Acer Aspire
> One head-head to contest the the very poor speed of the 8GByte SSDs in
> them. Judicious use of tmpfs on an upgraded memory of 1.5GByte, and
> possibly help also from the partition alignment to the 1MByte erase
> blocks, did seem to show a speedup over a default install.
>
> We played a little with Moblin and then KDE4...
>
> So what has improved for the Human - Computer Interface over the last
> two decades? Our conclusion was that apart for the eye-candy
> improvements afforded by the phenomenally faster hardware of recent
> years, there has been *NO IMPROVEMENT* ... Nothing. Zilch. We may as
> well still be languishing with a Windows95 desktop!
>
>
> And when might HURD arise? And might that be helped by the recent
> announcements of CPU chips boasting many tens of CPU cores for massively
> parallel (and "cloud") computing in 2010 and thereafter?
>
>
> Next meet up proposed (and the last for this year) is for Tuesday
> 15/12/09 for a Big Wok session.
>
> Any takers?
>
>
> Cheers All,
>
> And Merry Christmas!
>
> Martin
>
>
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