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    T420s specs out

    So they are http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/p...20s/index.html
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    SPDIF or not on T60

    Thank you all for helping, especially the two posters to confirm! I'll check for the docking station then. Thanks.
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    SPDIF or not on T60

    According to this Wikipedia page: and On TOSLINK page: In summary, some laptops have a 3.5 mm jack that support both electric stereo and optical/digital 5.1 sound output. I want to know if my T60 belongs to that group before shop for the adaptor online (since it's difficult to find...
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    SPDIF or not on T60

    The checkbox of "Disable Digital Output" in Volumn -> Advanced control is unchecked, I assume that means digital output is enabled.
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    SPDIF or not on T60

    That's what I see in some forums. I sure don't see any red light in mine. I am just a bit surprised and disappointed that a notebook as recent as T60 doesn't provide SPDIF.
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    SPDIF or not on T60

    The download of that manual hasn't been so friendly so far: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/...les_pdf/42t7844_03.pdf Can't login to that ftp server for the last two days.
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    SPDIF or not on T60

    I want to know if the headphone-out jack on my T60 carries SPDIF or not. It probably doesn't, since the product page doesn't say anything about SPDIF: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/supp....do?lndocid=MIGR-62722 but I'd like to know for sure, is there a way to tell from the physical look...
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    Solaris

    I thought the OP meant "It (or the combination) is not used by many people, therefore it will be more secure.", which we know is not true, or, "It's not used by average Joes, therefore it would be cool to use it.", which is Ok. Solaris isn't the most secure OS out of box ("secure by default"...
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    Solaris

    What do you mean "perimeter ready"? Solaris is not "exotic" for you? To OP, go for Squid. I don't have much experience either, but was able to download Squid source, compile, config and run it on Solaris in no time recently. Just follow the documentation.
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    2006 Linux Symposium pdfs aviable for download.

    NFS has been used mostly by large businesses. Those're slow to migrate. Full NFSv4 implementations (Sun, NetApp, IBM, Hummingbird etc.) came out less than two years ago, IIRC, which is not terribly long for a complex system like NFS. Serious businesses don't take new technology lightly, which...
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    2006 Linux Symposium pdfs aviable for download.

    So I read the paper, despite its eye-catching but unprofessional title :) It's a nice summary of various issues NFS had through its progress. To quote the author, So does the author think NFS still sucks today? Probably not.
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    Does anyone actually like the Korn shell?

    ksh on (Open)Solaris is a story of its own :) David Korn and others have been working on ksh93 integration: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/ If your muscle is trained in vi, they are absolutely natural. That's why even bash offers vi mode as an option, I...
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    The best file system...

    However is that really _the_ "NTFS" kamper prefers to use ;)
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    The best file system...

    Have you been living under a rock? Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives. :)
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    LINUX dist for laptop & workstation

    MATLAB does not have a Solaris x86/64 version. Your school most likely runs on Solaris SPARC. Always check system requirements for your applications first.
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    paging vs segmentation

    So am I :D For SPARC, see page 455 of UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 Specification (Privileged Edition) For POWER, see page 43 of Book III: PowerPC Operating Environment Architecture Anyone has a link to x86/64 equivalent ? Edit: found AMD Docs...
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    paging vs segmentation

    No. Frame or page are just names, their size can be different on different arch. They usually refer to the smallest unit that can be allocated or deallocated by the OS/MMU. In the case of "large pages", if supported by OS/HW, each "page" can contain many "frames", for example, 64K page, 16MB...
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    Linux/BSD programming, how do I start?

    It's not clear what your background is. "Application" and "Kernel" development can be very different. No matter what, you shall start from here (if you haven't done so): http://www.kohala.com/start/ especially, http://www.kohala.com/start/apue.html Then you can read some Unix...
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    paging vs segmentation

    Nothing like a "rookie" question for sure :-) ( no offense to rookie1010 )
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    paging vs segmentation

    Add to what bersl2 said, Segmentation introduces one more hierarchy into the translation between a virtual page and a physical memory frame. In segmented environment, each process' address space is divided into continuous "effective segments" (0, 1, 2, ...) . A segment contains multiple...
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    Which Linux distro for my HP Pavillion dv5200tx notebook?

    Replace "POSIX" with "Open Standard" ( which it is ) and "Linux/BSD" with "Windows". See what I mean?
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    Which Linux distro for my HP Pavillion dv5200tx notebook?

    There're a few options: 1. Dual-boot Linux and Solaris 2. Linux as the host OS, Solaris as a VMware client. ( VMware server for Solaris will come soon, I suspect. ) and if you're adventurous: 3. Solaris as the host OS, Linux as BrandZ client. 4. Xen (I haven't seen it in action on...
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    ubuntu, sun java and amd opteron 165

    Let me put it more bluntly, borrowing your lines: Why have 2 versions of the same browser installed, when the 32bit version does everything 64bit does, plus more (Java, Flush) and bettter (using less memory) ? and what the heck were they thinking to even make 64bit version the default ? :)
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    ubuntu, sun java and amd opteron 165

    > I have no idea why sun refuses to release a 64bit version of the java web plugin. I am curious too, there must be some technical reason. There's no 64bit Flash plugin either, last time I looked. However, what's the benefit of running a 64bit web browser? (besides wasting more memory?)...
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    ubuntu, sun java and amd opteron 165

    I am not familiar with Ubuntu environment, however, if you use the package from java.sun.com: those *.bin files are a "self-extracting" executable files. You need to extracte it first: chmod +x jre-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64-rpm.bin ./jre-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64-rpm.bin I guess it will...
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    Solaris 10 06/06 Released!

    I don't think there's much "hype" about zfs' performance on the Internet. People talk mostly about its functionality and reliability, because those are very obvious. There was an interesting article on ZFS just the other day, you probably already read it: ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your...
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    Solaris 10 06/06 Released!

    Here you go! Hope you have a big screen :-)
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    Solaris 10 06/06 Released!

    I do mind, screenshots tell nothing about the quality of an OS, and you already know what GNOME 2.14 looks like, right? ;-) Ok, I know it's a fashion, I'll see if I can get anything tonight, no promise.
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    Solaris 10 06/06 Released!

    RyDogg1, It's nice you mention this release here. However, for the folks here, I would recommend try the latest Nevada (Solaris 11) build which is based on OpenSolaris code, see "Step 3b" in the following link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ Nevada has every feature the...
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    Chinese typing

    Settings -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages Check both options under "Supplemental language support". Click "Details" button -> Add Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin) Then use "Alt-Shfit" to switch between Chinese and English input methods.
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    Is Linux worth running

    You keep saying this everytime someone mentioned Windows has more and better softwares. You do not see (probably due to lack of experience or need), or just refuse to acknowledge that, when it comes to desktop applications, Windows not only has _more_ choices, but also has _better_ choices...
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    What's a more Marketable Skill: Linux or BSD?

    Agree with everything you said. Even at software side things can be very different when you go deeper. [Into bragging mode] AIX uses ODM, I don't see Solaris/Linux uses anything similar. AIX has smit(ty), Solaris doesn't have anything similar. AIX uses LVM, Solaris uses SVM, Veritas...
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    Sun Solaris 10

    Solairs 10 has native Nvidia driver. Go for it. Although only Quadro FX/NVS series are "offically supported", the driver works with most (if not all) Nvida 2D/3D cards. As for DVD-RW burner, given that the author of CDrecord even has his own OpenSolaris distribution, one can expect DVD...
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    Windows / Mac / Linux

    My impression is Linux is more popular in Europe, Windows is more popular (99+%, historically due to piracy) in China.
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    linux initrd for boot

    First hit of Google. and wikipedia.
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    My first LCD purchase

    I second it. Happy owner of two Dell Ultrasharp LCDs. Looking for more good sale since Dell had a tough quarter and their strategy is to lower the price further :).
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    Any versions of Linux out there that resemble OS X?

    Sun developers are doing all the code management. The plan is by the end of this year, a distributed SCM (a committee has chosen Mercurial) will be deployed in the open to replace Sun's internel SCM. Or are you asking about independent governing board? I suppose changing the license for...
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    Any versions of Linux out there that resemble OS X?

    1. I like Solaris better than Linux. 2. It delivers excellent value as a development OS and production OS. 3. The CDDL lience is a very fair license. 4. I see Sun as the biggest contributer of OpenSolaris rather than a controller from your point of view. That's fine, there're plenty of...
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    Any versions of Linux out there that resemble OS X?

    Sure, I am playing optimism here for Solaris, but only because your earlier statement. No need to repeat here, I see this same comment at least 10 times a day on all these computer related forums. It's only true to some extent. But let me just say we have different standard or tolerance on...
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    Any versions of Linux out there that resemble OS X?

    What? How many years have people been recommending Linux as desktop with a straight face? 10? Every year of the last 5 years was "the year of desktop Linux", remember? ;-) Seriously, I don't think Solaris is ready for average joe's desktop, but neither is Linux, which is only a little...