So I got a new laptop, completely different company, different CPU, different everything. I pulled the hard drive out of the old one, put it in place of the one that came with the new one…. Boot up and it’s as if I didn’t change computers. No activation phone call, No re-installation, No migration, no restoring from backup. It just runs.
I didn’t even think about it, this is the third time I’ve done it.
I’m searching for stuff and I notice my location is set to a city. So I try to change it to get all results, and:
Maybe Google Earth can find it?
Anyone know how to get Google to let you choose earth or global?
This is the 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD , with an ext4 fs. I have been using it as my root disk on Fedora 15 for a while now. This one’s an RMA replacement , the first one was BSOD city on another machine and wouldn’t even get detected by my machine’s BIOS. This one has had so issues and supposedly OCZ’s fixed their SF-2281 based drives.
It gets 480-500MB/s with iozone. But I think it was using RAM caching (some tests got 8000MB/s).
Bonnie++
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Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
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Windows 6.1 AKA Vista 2 AKA Windows 7 has been out for a while , figured it’s about time for a review.
Imagine your current version of Windows XP, with decorations updated to circa 2001 Apple or 2003 Linux. They added new looks for the BSODs, re-arranged the control panel and start menu to keep you on your toes. Driver issues take me back to win98 and DOS! It’s thrilling having to use regedit all the time, and go on week-long Googles to figure out and find a driver that will work. Their slow move to 64bit makes the effort that much more fun. On installation, I really like how it trashes the MBR on C: when you tell it to install on D: . Its hilarious how many fewer clicks reboots and general effort go into a Ubuntu or OS X install compared to this. Another fun area is how they managed to make Explorer so slow and strange compared to past versions, I wonder how long it took them to figure out how to prevent it from connecting to Samba. It’s been great for coffee breaks, I can’t figure out how to print, use network servers or open files so there’s that much more downtime to go on breaks. Thanks Window 7!
Nevermind the ugly icons they used. They can’t even make stuff line up right. Icons changing location while in use … this new design blows I think I am going back to Thunderbird. Click the image to see the fantastic CSS layout job.
