@William 99% of testing is done by normal people like you and me. Ubuntu is a free open sourced operating system and while there is a commercial company that sponsors it it works nothing like Windows. So you'll likely end up sending it to a normal person on the QA team if you really want to donate it for testing :)
I'd ask in #ubuntu-quality on freenode (IRC). They'll know who will be able to put it to most use.
Not at all! Ubuntu runs on hardware much older than 2009.
Macs have some inherent differences that can make it harder to get installed, and it might not be able to handle Unity, but it will run Ubuntu just fine.
Welp, to sum up , today was ok day. I failed to do my digital 3 and history homework, but at least i maxed out on my points here on Ask Ubuntu and got 55 on U&L
@William no worries, I wouldn't want to pay shipping either, but hey honestly if you decide you don't want it, contact your local school districts, they might want it...
@William 16 and 12 differ in the init systems they have and whole bunch of other things. Also, why would Ubuntu need to copy Windows ? Ubuntu is it's own OS and is vastly different in the goals it's trying to achieve
@NathanOsman thanks, I was thinking the same, but the bug I got in my function has something to do with endianess I believe, so I was thinking if maybe I was wrong
you either end up propping one side of the laptop up or letting the flash drive hang off the edge of a table waiting for someone to walk bye and rip it out of the USB port by accident.
After a short period of 14 months and 725 messages it appears they are fixing this bug: "[Bug 109051] intel_idle.max_cstate=1 required on baytrail to prevent crashes": bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051
@NathanOsman Yep, I frequently make use of my floppy with the PLOP boot manager when working on older computers.... What's really annoying is that I have this one motherboard that can boot a USB floppy drive, but not a regular USB device... What the heck?
@NathanOsman my dell had a OEM key that became persona non-grata after a few years because everyone and their dog was using it on the internet and M$ decided to deactivate it.
Reactivating Windows 10 after a hardware change * If you made a significant hardware change to your device, such as replacing the motherboard, Windows might no longer be activated. * The Activation troubleshooter might be able to help you reactivate Windows 10 after a hardware change. * Select the Start button, select Settings > Update & security > Activation, and then select the Troubleshoot button. You must be signed in as an administrator to use the troubleshooter. * If running the troubleshooter doesn’t help or you don’t see the Troubleshoot button, you’ll need to contact support (http:…
@NathanOsman ^
courtesy of their virtual support agent
VM migration counts as hardware change unfortunately
@Serg I guess I don't need to explain that doing the job without adding a background process is more efficient by definition. What you state is simply wrong.
@Serg I know I use background procs often, but only if I see no other option. Simply better practice. procs can break, interfere with others, and again: nearly zero is always more then absolutely zero, and your claim is therefore plain wrong. I suggest you remove it.
@JacobVlijm Procs can break and so can modifications done to shortcuts. This at least doesn't mess with language switching. I'll stick to my answer - using API is better than using an external process.
@JacobVlijm feel free to do so, your right to downvote, although I suggest you don't - my answer is completely fine; keep in mind it's my right to also take this situation to meta for discussion. And just because you think not using API is somehow better, well - maybe you need to re-evaluate your views.
@Serg Please take it to meta. My point is not using whatever you want. I would only downvote if it is harmfull. Wrong information is a reason to downvote however. My vote is sincere and correct. Rarely downvote.
@JacobVlijm On a technical level, I'm not sure your critique is fair there. A typical event loop isn't honking on the CPU. Hell, your method uses an event loop (you just aren't setting it up manually).
Adding one to see what happens in gsettings is additional. Nearly zero or not. "which means it's one less external program to run and thus is faster and consumes less resources." is therefore plain wrong. @Oli
Argh. Flexbox was supposed to solve all our problems. And the stupid thing doesn't even provide for spacing between elements. Tables are out. Float doesn't allow height synchronization.
Considering that it's past 2am, I'm ready to bring back Flash.
@JacobVlijm No. I've spent some time reviewing this (even looking through the Unity source to see if there's another answer) but I agree with @Serg. Binding a script like yours (that has to do two gsettings lookups, potentially from a cold start, and then decide what to do) takes time and includes a load of context switches. I'm fairly sure Serg is correct that his little persistent snippet is both faster to operate changes and uses fewer resource doing so.
The loop was a red herring, sorry about that.
The obvious downside of the persistent method is it needs to be running (so needs something to start it) and his code doesn't automatically pick up changes to org.gnome.desktop.input-sources, where yours —by virtue of never storing the result— would... But he's still right in what he said.
@Oli I must be missing something, but how can something that does totally zero as long as there is no language switch, be less efficient that something that runs forever, adds a process?
@JacobVlijm It didn't say "efficient", it says "faster and consumes less resources". But if you want to talk efficiency, what is more efficient? Spending no appreciable CPU on a lightweight process for instant turnaround, or something that takes longer to operate when you want it to operate. We're splitting hairs here but you are saying he's wrong. He isn't.
When running my script in a loop, four times per second, the output of:
pidstat -h -r -u -v -p 6191 5
shows cpu:0,8%, mem:0,94% on my system
Even if I would change language once per twenty seconds average per day (which would be insane), this would equal zero/zero, where running the background script takes zero / 0.35% mem > claim is wrong
@JacobVlijm Hello Jacob and good afternoon to you ! :) Just read your discussion with @Serg ... please do me a favor and revoke the downvote from the answer of @Serg ... as you can see in the comment underneath, he is very "unhappy" with the situation ... in the end it's "splitting hairs" just as @Oli mentioned ... so is it worth it or deserved ? Please make our friend @Serg happy again ... would be very kind of you - thank you very much in advance. :)
@JacobVlijm As a little motivation I have upvoted both answers - your one and the one from @Serg ! :)
Hi @cl-netbox I appreciate your input, but if you present your answer with a claim like this, you should live up to it. It is nothing personal btw. I did like Serg and I still do (and probably always will). That does not mean I need to do what I think is right.
If I seriously believe I am wrong, sure, I will undo. I am pretty sure I am not wrong though.
@JacobVlijm Completely agree with you pointing out your opinion on the content ... really do ... but a downvote for @Serg ? He never writes "bullshit" ... so, is it really necessary ? Please ... :) I know how you feel when you receive downvotes ... and you know that I don't like them too ... :)
@JacobVlijm Your claim that it's untrue is just as flawed. Just as open to interpretation based on a scenario. I've already explained where his is faster, you've explained where yours is more efficient.
His is also easier.
More discrete (a single file sitting in an autostart directory)
And you're punishing it because you can't bring yourself to read between the lines and interpret "the claim" as "while changing language".
@Oli really, if you say something, it is your (Serg's) job to prove it is true. "consumes less resources" is simply wrong. I don't remember having any objections to the rest of the answer, nor why "easier" would be an argument to accept an incorrect claim.
It does consume less resources though. Yours has to read the language settings. Work out what's next. Send the change. Then add the keybindings. His just listens for the language changed event and then fires in the keybindings. It is one fewer external applications because he doesn't need to change any settings, that has already happened before his code wakes up.
@JacobVlijm What about taking it this way : you both offer solutions, but using a different approach ... both deserve either being ignored or appreciated (upvoted) ... downvoting only hurts @Serg ... and that's not what you want - right ? :)
@Oli great, but I am the one who is asked to change my mind. What you practically say is: "agree with me, or I am leaving the discussion." After a day, I am pretty sure mine would have used less resources. It is about nothing though, but still used as an important argument in the answer, hence my objection.
@JacobVlijm Please Jacob, I never asked you to change your mind ... I only asked you to please remove the downvote from the answer of @Serg because the whole thing is not worth upsetting a friend ! :)
Whatever Jacob. We're going in circles. I think that's a pathetic reason to justify a downvote but again, whatever. They're your votes to hand out. Enjoy your karma.
@Oli whatever, why are you making a big fuzz about a single downvote (a rarely do) but no word about a claim that is -to put it mildly- dubious. I would have removed it instantly if he worded it differently.
everything OK here, just trying to answer some questions and make some tag wikis and hand out some votes and write some meta posts on the Vegetarianism beta site
Hey @JacobVlijm ... to bring back a smile into your face : Did you see my latest answers (guess not) ... some are really good and one of them (the latest) even provides some "great command-line magic" ... you might want to check them out ... not asking for a downvote though (joke) ... hahaha :)
@Zanna Nice to hear that everything is okay for you ... I tried to help on some topics, but not with answers, but rather with comments because the questions are off-topic ... later I deleted some comments after the problems were solved to remove clutter from the page ... for my latest answers I unfortunately didn't get many upvotes ... :)
@IanC Now @ByteCommander is the "beast of all beasts" ! :D
