• (cs) in reply to David Nuttall
    David Nuttall:
    4548 hours? Of course, the actual question is "Which is more likely? That you have a battery installed in your laptop that can run continually for over half a year without recharging, or that Windows messed up yet another calculation?" I am leaning more to the second option.

    I think we have at last discovered the daytime identity of Captain Obvious...

  • urza9814 (unregistered) in reply to tin
    tin:
    dookdook:
    When the fan on MY laptop cranks up and starts putting out heat like a furnace, I know I accidentally booted into Ubuntu instead of Windows.

    Let me guess... You think you're making fun of Linux (or perhaps just Ubuntu) but you're accidentally pointing out that you bought a crappy laptop, right?

    If this is true, and not just some BS troll, I'd say it's 95% certain he has a hybrid graphics card. Power management for those is still rather atrocious on Linux, which is a legitimate issue -- though it's really an issue with the manufacturers not producing drivers, not a problem with Linux itself.

  • urza9814 (unregistered) in reply to cellocgw
    cellocgw:
    dookdook:
    tin:
    Let me guess... You think you're making fun of Linux (or perhaps just Ubuntu) but you're accidentally pointing out that you bought a crappy laptop, right?

    Typical Linux apologist, blame the user for any and all problems.

    I deliberately bought a cheap-ass netbook to use basically as a fancy graphing calculator, but it can barely even manage that under Ubuntu.

    And god help me if I try to ask it to play videos or games (the same ones Windows XP handles just fine on the same machine). 480p videos and FCEUX are the best I can hope for.

    UR Doin it Rong. Or maybe you don't understand boot vs. starting a VM. I've got Ubuntu booting native on a 14-yr-old Mac laptop--that's pre-Intel-- and it does just fine (not streaming video, but local video).

    Your 14-year-old Mac doesn't have hybrid graphics. It's not the CPU generating the heat; it's the fact that there are two graphics cards in there both running full power.

  • lubuntu (unregistered) in reply to dookdook

    I deliberately bought a cheap-ass netbook to use basically as a fancy graphing calculator, but it can barely even manage that under Ubuntu. You should try Lubuntu. It's a lot friendlier to underpowered systems.

  • daver (unregistered) in reply to barbaz

    I was going to say the same thing...

  • daver (unregistered) in reply to barbaz
    daver:
    I was going to say the same thing...
    of course, it would have been better to actually QUOTE the message I was replying to...
    barbaz:
    VS2010 presented me with this
    Looks to me like the lyrics of the latest Daft Punk song

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