Thursday, April 29, 2010

Bone Spurs Extraction Teeth

Bookbinding without heavy equipment

long sought, often missed or wg. Exorbitant prices disdained, but now've found: I have a used older but well-functioning Beschneidhobel of hard wood, not cheap, but reasonably priced out bought at the Vienna Buchbinder Stephan Ortbauer American Bookbinders believe has to do more books after his (revived) concept of pre-revolutionary book binding, followed by the rest of his sake in (my) English: Jeff, do not ask me today when I first heard Emerson, Lake & Palmer's song "Ooooh, what a lucky man he was”. Believe me I was a lucky man last sunday afternoon visiting Bookbinde'rs fair in St. Niklaas near Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. In the darkest corner near british, french, german, belgian and dutch bookbinding stuff suppliers I found my long time desire „press & plough”: used, some years old, in quite good condition, made of hard wood. After carefully treating with some PTFE-spray this little „maschinery” is on the way to become my favourite tool. The first tests with an old telephon book are promisingly. 18th century bookbinding may come now faster.



Wednesday, April 14, 2010

How Long To Live Anorexic

This blog has moved!

I have now successfully taken flat press on my own web space in operation, configured and copied all the old blog entries there.

Therefore this blog here is now closed!

you find my blog from now on under http://blog.karl-reichert.com

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

How Do You Get An Account On Techdecklive

move my blog is imminent

I watch currently at just blog systems that are based only on PHP and no SQL database background need. If I found something suitable, I would like to move this blog on my personal webspace. My current favorite is FlatPress . It stores the data in simple plain text files and therefore needs no database. The next step is now setting up and testing of the system should, if all goes well, I'll migrate the blog then.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

How Much Of My Tax Goes To Nhs?

First results: Dell XPS Desktop 8100 under Kubuntu 10:04

As promised, I have the weekend of Kubuntu Beta2 10.04 on the new Dell XPS 8100 Desktop installed and tested. This proved to be unexpectedly difficult, because the installer the live CD crashes reproducibly when trying to install Kubuntu on anything other than the primary hard disk (and yes this is with me even Windows 7). I have therefore ultimately have to download the Alternate CD. From this, the installation works fine on the second hard disk.

After updating all packages, I have the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers installed and enabled 3D desktop effects. After a restart and you run 'sudo nvidia-xconfig' (then restart X), one can start the Nvidia configuration tool:

GTS 240 in computer supported without complaint, even the 3D desktop effects are very pretty and shown liquid.

From the volume of the graphics card fan is as quiet as on Windows, because the Nvidia driver provides the fan control. In my case the fan is running without load are around 35%.

works The dynamic adjustment of clock speeds.
Even with the other components I could find no problems. The CPU clock speed and the switching off of individual cores of the Core i7 works fine. Also audio, USB and network work fine.

In VirtualBox also the VT extensions to the CPU easily detected and useable.

I still sleep states suspend to RAM and Suspend to Disk've tested. When you first wake up from suspend to RAM but I get an error message from KDE that an important component had crashed, but I could then find no error in the system. I've restarted the computer and then then came not on the error. The two modes work now anyway without error, and Suspend to disk is no faster than a normal shutdown and startup of the computer, just to go real fix. I will therefore use only suspend to RAM.

Conclusion: As far as I can judge so far, the Linux compatibility of the computer in the new Kubuntu version is given 100% pure. Since it is only just around the Beta2, I think that's really impressive. Whoever plays with the idea, to buy the device should be satisfied with Linux! Currently Dell has once again extended the so-called "special action", ie you get the computer still the same price at which I bought it. And for about 900 EUR, I must say I am very satisfied.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Prom Dresses Free Catalogs

calculator is there

The computer was delivered to me yesterday. A first test run on Windows showed that he is then at least relatively quiet, though the graphics card does not load. Under load the fan is quite noisy, however. Since that will be with me just playing the case, it bothers me no further. Since the fan is controlled by the driver, but it remains to be seen how this looks in Linux.

Other than that I like about the computer. Very fast, very pleasing housing, he achieved all turbo boost levels (which, according c't 08/2010, unfortunately, often not the case ) does virtualization extensions and after I (press Ctrl + I at the start) in the Raid Controller and have in the BIOS (F2) was dissolved and disabled, I have 2x1 TB drives.
Windows you can quickly clean install from the CD without advertising and tools (very laudable!) New driver takes you comfortably down at Dell, and thus the system is set up quickly again. There were a few problems, the driver for an unknown PCI device found after a search with the Device Manager listed device and vendor ID I sent him but found at Intel: it is an Intel Management drivers the most necessary for the control of the CPU fan is.

A quick test with the Beta1 of 10:04 Kubuntu Live CD (64 bit) first showed no problems, the system booted clean through!

I just invite the Beta2 down at the weekend and I will install on your computer. Then I will also import the proprietary Nvidia driver to stand out if 3D desktop, fan control and operate standby / sleep the computer properly.

Once I have more accurate results, I'll post it again here!