Posted on 06/23/2014 4:35:56 PM PDT by Bikkuri
Mint KDE 17 is finally released!
Have Lubuntu running on a Dell mini 1018. Works well as my backup.
btw,.. when I went to ARMY.. of course they made fun of my AF tatt.... anyway, I was stuck with driving the apc.. and was stuck with the worst Capt.... remember a run (in white sands).. asked him if I should go around the “puddle”... I told him that I should avoid... (BTW, just realized, this is way off topic(OT).. I learned our APC DOES float.. but not the tot behind us (all of out gear) :/ ... btw the most important thing.. this Cpt... was off by 6 miles :/
I bounced around the gun section a bit.
I got out of AIT and was ammo team chief for awhile, an e1 doing an e5 job.
Mainly because I knew how to set the darn vernier scale fuzes.
Then I ended up as the rto.
And picked up the advance party position.
“We want e5’s doing e5 stuff” was the reason for that.
“How do I set this darn thing again?” Was a question I got to hear fairly often about the vernier fuzes we got, until they mercifully quit issuing them.
M557 “Don’t fire in the rain.”
Flashback time:
Http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/docs/AMMO973/
I’ll give it a shot.
Lol!
“Up periscope!”
Lol!
yes great artist and great song!
Are there any concerns running MINT on a SSD drive?
Nothing except that it’ll be really fast.
Interesting... I just told the guns WHAT to shoot.. never saw the equipment myself >.< (saw the guns, of course).. ;^)
SSD is perfect to run Linux... SUPER fast :D
I got to touch most of that stuff.
Especially that M557 fuze that we were repeatedly told NOT to fire in the rain as it might premature.
Never got to find out if that was true or not.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for HTML editing? I've been using Quanta+ for years. I like the fact that it is completely customizable as far as keybinding and stuff is concerned. Believe it or not, I'm actually using a key setup that is similar to that employed by "Homesite" more than a decade ago. My personal configuration would be absolutely and completely non-intuitive for someone else who sat down at my desk, but I know exactly what does what. If I could find another program that didn't stick ugly code in there, and would let me configure it so that when I highlight something and press ctrl-shift-p, it will wrap the text in 'p' tags. i'm not picky (grin)
I wonder if that type of performance improvement would carry over to my VM running Mint 15? It does take a longish time to start up the VM and even logon. Might be worth a try.
If you're going to make a bootable DVD, don't just burn the .ISO file to the DVD. Your burning software should have a "Burn Image" option. That's the one to use to make the DVD bootable.
(I had a friend who just burned the .ISO (not using "Burn Image") to the DVD and couldn't figure out why it would not boot.)
If your computer can boot from a USB, then it's very simple to create a bootable pen drive (should be a least 4GB in size) using the Universal USB Installer program:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
The beauty of bootable USB is that you can reuse the pen drive for other things -- like testing another Linux distro ;)
Win 7 boots up a lot faster on VB than the real thing.. worth a try
Thanks for your replies/help.I will read the article. I am not (yet) the customizable kind of guy, so maybe I’ll just forgo Mint and go to the latest ubuntu in 64 bit, since I have a 64 bit machine.
1 thing that Mint DOESN’T do, is activate the FireWall... people need to be aware of that so they can activate it themselves ;^)
I personally use uNetBootin.. works like a charm for me.. some people seem to have problems with it though :p
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