Pragmatik » linux http://www.pragmatik.org/blog Being of use to the world since 1979. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:54:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windoze indeed. http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2010/02/windoze-indeed/ http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2010/02/windoze-indeed/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:12:10 +0000 Johnny http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/?p=2547 I just want to point out that when I boot my office PC at work (Windoze XP on a very fast machine, way faster than my new mini or my old desktop), it takes fifteen minutes for me to be able to check my email and do ANYTHING.  In that time, I hit the potty to make room for coffee, get the coffee, check my paper planner and then still have enough time to be annoyed by this big slow box.

So, in the name of productivity, I don’t always turn it off at night and thereby waste power.  They want us to turn them off, since we’re in the midst of a 30% energy reduction plan.  I know all the naysayers like to point out that running a desktop computer uses “only” the amount of energy of a lightbulb. I like to ask: do you leave  your stupid damned lamps on all the time?  No.  And if you do, you’re a poopface.

I realize part of this slowness and waste of time is my job’s network crap and probably also them spying on me (I work at a state university, and they warn us, yadda yadda — HI, GUYZ!).  But still, this happens at home, too.

My home desktop with two hard-drives (one Windoze, one Ubuntu) does something similar, on the same freakin machine.  Ubuntu getting ‘er done time (power button to writing an email in Yahoo! webmail): a minute tops.  Windoze (power button to writing an email in Yahoo! webmail): 3-5 minutes on a good day, and I don’t use it enough to update my VP software anymore, either.

Ugh.  I think I need to start bringing my mini to work?  Or maybe boot Ubuntu on a live disk, since my work machine is so loaded with RAM?

Paper, a phone and a typewriter?

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Being stuck inside from last weekend’s blizzard and staring down another one, it’s nice to have netbooks.  Mine has been a source of WORK that has kept me busy.  I took off Dell’s customised Ubuntu and installed the (much better, faster and prettier) Ubuntu Netbook Edition.  Not to mention transferring tons of music via my 4GB mp3 player. And, tonight, just when I thought I had done a good job putting an excellent selection of music on here from our desktop, I remember some bands I forgot but really feel like listening to. Doh.

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