Comments for Misc. Ramblings http://dkseto.wordpress.com Dan Seto, Hawaiian Curmudgeon and Proud of It Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:29:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Part 4 of Upgrading a Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop by Michael Woolcock http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/part-4-of-upgrading-a-dell-inspiron-1150-laptop/#comment-2015 Michael Woolcock Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:29:03 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/part-4-of-upgrading-a-dell-inspiron-1150-laptop/#comment-2015 Could you tell me what size the hard drive you upgraded to was? Was it 60, 80 or 100 Gig? Thanks. Could you tell me what size the hard drive you upgraded to was? Was it 60, 80 or 100 Gig?
Thanks.

]]> Comment on Adding RAM to a Dell Inspiron 1150 and Other Changes by larry http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/adding-ram-to-a-dell-inspiron-1150-and-other-changes/#comment-2011 larry Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:45:49 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/adding-ram-to-a-dell-inspiron-1150-and-other-changes/#comment-2011 so bottom line ? What is the easiest way to speed up my inspiron 1150??? so bottom line ? What is the easiest way to speed up my inspiron 1150???

]]> Comment on Adding RAM to a Dell Inspiron 1150 and Other Changes by Dan Seto http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/adding-ram-to-a-dell-inspiron-1150-and-other-changes/#comment-2010 Dan Seto Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:40:17 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/adding-ram-to-a-dell-inspiron-1150-and-other-changes/#comment-2010 Fred: Sorry, I'm not aware of any easy way of swapping out the CPU. Perhaps someone else can help. Aloha - Dan Fred:

Sorry, I’m not aware of any easy way of swapping out the CPU. Perhaps someone else can help.

Aloha – Dan

]]> Comment on Adding RAM to a Dell Inspiron 1150 and Other Changes by Fred http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/adding-ram-to-a-dell-inspiron-1150-and-other-changes/#comment-2009 Fred Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:17:09 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/adding-ram-to-a-dell-inspiron-1150-and-other-changes/#comment-2009 Has anyone tried upgrading the processor on the Inspiron 1150? Mine has a Pentium IV Celeron processor and I would like to know some of your inputs in case I stumble with a mobile pentium iv processor. Has anyone tried upgrading the processor on the Inspiron 1150? Mine has a Pentium IV Celeron processor and I would like to know some of your inputs in case I stumble with a mobile pentium iv processor.

]]> Comment on Dell Customer Support Update by Stephane http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/dell-customer-support-update/#comment-2006 Stephane Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:07:57 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-2006 Consider yourself lucky Dan! I have the same warped case problem with my XPS m1330 and Dell tells me that it's not under the warranty because the laptop works fine and this is just a cosmetic problem.... Typing on my computer is like eating on an unstable table. It's really annoying. Any trick you can give me to have them change their mind? Enjoy your new laptop! Consider yourself lucky Dan!

I have the same warped case problem with my XPS m1330 and Dell tells me that it’s not under the warranty because the laptop works fine and this is just a cosmetic problem….

Typing on my computer is like eating on an unstable table. It’s really annoying.

Any trick you can give me to have them change their mind?

Enjoy your new laptop!

]]> Comment on Is Linux Finally Ready for the Desktop? by Sophocles http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/is-linux-finally-ready-for-the-desktop/#comment-2005 Sophocles Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:11:35 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/is-linux-finally-ready-for-the-desktop/#comment-2005 I was a big fun of Windows since 1990 until Vista arrived, I've been using Linux for the last 10 years, FreeBSD for the past couple of years and recently Mac OS X. I've been also writing firmware for telecom devices for the past 9 years in some real time OSs so I can say that I have some experience on how the hardware works... Depending on what a user wants to do with his/her's hardware, there is an OS that will do it faster, better and/or easier than the others or it won't do it at all. The problem is that users usually want to do many different things that each one of them may be done better on a different OS. Hence there is a conflict. Not everyone can afford or even would want more than one computer and of course not everyone has the time to learn more than one OS. Another thing that the users and amongst them me too dislike, is spending time fixing their computers instead of using them to do their everyday jobs. In the last case I think that Linux and Mac OS X win against Windows. With Linux the feeling that I get is that I own the computer that I'm using in a way that it doesn't feel like a property of the maker of the OS. I have better control over it but it requires more deep knowledge of how a computer works to use it. With Mac OS X everything looks very easy and it simply works as it happens with Linux too of course (I mean the second part, that it simply works, not that everything is easy) because they're both unix flavors and they have the right sets of permissions for the everyday user in their dna. Mac OS X has a better way of hiding them than Linux. With Windows though it's a totally different case. There's probably the largest collection of software in the planet for that OS. Of course most of them isn't free and some of the companies that build it think that you own IBM's BlueGene to run their software. Linux seems to win on that area since most of the programs I've seen would run on an average computer and Mac OS X too runs fast because they control the hardware on which a program will run. Windows developers most of the times don't care if you don't have a supercomputer and they tend to write programs that need such one (mostly games but not necessarily only games). Also, they many of them think that they own your computer (Microsoft amongst them too) and they tend to change the entire universe to make their programs run resulting sometimes in braking other programs or the OS itself and then (not only then) you have to spend time fixing the OS or reinstalling it. In my opinion there will never be a winner amongst the Desktop OSs because there is a reason for each one of them to exist and of course there will always be people deffending those reasons on each side. I was a big fun of Windows since 1990 until Vista arrived, I’ve been using Linux for the last 10 years, FreeBSD for the past couple of years and recently Mac OS X. I’ve been also writing firmware for telecom devices for the past 9 years in some real time OSs so I can say that I have some experience on how the hardware works… Depending on what a user wants to do with his/her’s hardware, there is an OS that will do it faster, better and/or easier than the others or it won’t do it at all. The problem is that users usually want to do many different things that each one of them may be done better on a different OS. Hence there is a conflict. Not everyone can afford or even would want more than one computer and of course not everyone has the time to learn more than one OS. Another thing that the users and amongst them me too dislike, is spending time fixing their computers instead of using them to do their everyday jobs. In the last case I think that Linux and Mac OS X win against Windows. With Linux the feeling that I get is that I own the computer that I’m using in a way that it doesn’t feel like a property of the maker of the OS. I have better control over it but it requires more deep knowledge of how a computer works to use it. With Mac OS X everything looks very easy and it simply works as it happens with Linux too of course (I mean the second part, that it simply works, not that everything is easy) because they’re both unix flavors and they have the right sets of permissions for the everyday user in their dna.
Mac OS X has a better way of hiding them than Linux. With Windows though it’s a totally different case. There’s probably the largest collection of software in the planet for that OS. Of course most of them isn’t free and some of the companies that build it think that you own IBM’s BlueGene to run their software. Linux seems to win on that area since most of the programs I’ve seen would run on an average computer and Mac OS X too runs fast because they control the hardware on which a program will run. Windows developers most of the times don’t care if you don’t have a supercomputer and they tend to write programs that need such one (mostly games but not necessarily only games). Also, they many of them think that they own your computer (Microsoft amongst them too) and they tend to change the entire universe to make their programs run resulting sometimes in braking other programs or the OS itself and then (not only then) you have to spend time fixing the OS or reinstalling it. In my opinion there will never be a winner amongst the Desktop OSs because there is a reason for each one of them to exist and of course there will always be people deffending those reasons on each side.

]]> Comment on We’ll Find Out in the Long Run by ethicalmartini http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/well-find-out-in-the-long-run/#comment-2004 ethicalmartini Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:02:28 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/well-find-out-in-the-long-run/#comment-2004 Does this look like a similar problem? http://ethicalmartini.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/i-still-cant-see-kiwiblog/ EM Does this look like a similar problem?
http://ethicalmartini.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/i-still-cant-see-kiwiblog/

EM

]]> Comment on Ubuntu 8.1 Login Screen Resolution Problem by Shajee http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/ubuntu-81-login-screen-resolution-problem/#comment-2002 Shajee Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:37:01 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/?p=1859#comment-2002 Worked like a charm. You are the Man. Worked like a charm. You are the Man.

]]> Comment on Xerox 4110 Printer Driver Under Ubuntu 8.04 LTS by printaustralia http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/xerox-4110-printer-driver-under-ubuntu-804-lts/#comment-2001 printaustralia Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:46:14 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/?p=1752#comment-2001 OMG. I've been looking for this kind of guide since forever. Just upgraded/downgraded(?) to Ubuntu 2 days ago...couldn't get printer up and running :( Now....I have to figure how to Share the printer.... *fingers crossed* OMG. I’ve been looking for this kind of guide since forever. Just upgraded/downgraded(?) to Ubuntu 2 days ago…couldn’t get printer up and running :(

Now….I have to figure how to Share the printer…. *fingers crossed*

]]> Comment on Ubuntu 8.1 Login Screen Resolution Problem by RomkA http://dkseto.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/ubuntu-81-login-screen-resolution-problem/#comment-2000 RomkA Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:08:36 +0000 http://dkseto.wordpress.com/?p=1859#comment-2000 Try this one sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/16472 Try this one
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/16472

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