Episode 79 - Mike’s Return
Posted by Podcast Team on 5 Nov 2007 8:48 pm. Filed under Podcasts.
Your Hosts: Matt, Bill, DJ, and Mike
* Replay TV Story
- Shannon’s Feedback and PST’s over the network
- SMB Version 3
- DST
- Boot Camp with Vista and Parallels
Running time: 42:08
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On November 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Hi guys. Thanks for the mention in the previous episode.
Bill, I feel your pain when it comes to battery life on laptops with GNU/Linux. But the blame should point to Microsoft who had a LOT to do with the implementation of ACPI. Rumor has it that they wanted to make ACPI work properly with Windows but not as well on anything else in order to give Windows the upper hand on portability. This was reported on OSNews.com and they provided a link to the PDF document (I had posted this before but you never approved the comment on the blog):
OSNews: Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux
If the link doesn’t show up correctly, just Google “microsoft acpi linux osnews” (without the quotes) and the blurb should be the first search hit.
As for video support in GNU/Linux (specifically Ubuntu), all of the ATI Radeons are very well supported with the Xorg driver since Xorg 7.2. In fact, the open source driver does support Compiz Fusion out of the box when you install Ubuntu. And not until just recently did AMD actually make a decent proprietary Linux driver that did actually support AIGLX using the fglrx module.
Phoronix: AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!
And though AMD has fallen behind in the CPU race against Intel, I do have to commend them for actually doing something for the open source community, something that ATI on its own never did or cared about. I’m hoping that they actually do take away that tarnished ATI image from the GNU/Linux community because the more solutions we have, the better for GNU/Linux and other open source operating systems.
One more thing on the video issues in Ubuntu. Gutsy now ships with something called “BulletProofX” which gives you a GTK configuration utility for configuring Xorg. It actually reminds me a lot of what we see on Windows, which really isn’t a bad thing. This even makes supporting multiple monitors using Xorg a breeze.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX
That’s all for now. Looking forward to the next podcast.
-Claudio
On November 6th, 2007 at 11:18 am
OK, I missed on more thing.
If you need to tweak your xorg.conf for your open source driver, you can also check out the following site to see which options are necessary to take advantage of 3D acceleration on your video card in Xorg.
http://free3d.org/
On November 7th, 2007 at 10:30 am
If you are running Gutsy on a laptop, you should check out powertop. It’s not installed by default, so you’ll need to use apt-get, Synaptic, or Add/Remove to install it. Once installed, run powertop and follow the on screen prompts to increase power consumption efficiency.
On November 7th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
For a better understanding of the potential problems around networked PST’s read this.. http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/01/21/network-stored-pst-files-don-t-do-it.aspx
I work in a gov’t setting with exchange servers supporting a population 30,000 strong. We have tons of huge PSTs located on home drives. Engineers are split on whether the details of this article have merit.