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Peri · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:32 am Post subject: Buttons on the wrong side...

I was really put off by the window control buttons being moved. That is the sort of thing I have come to expect from Microsoft and Apple. Mentally composing a message to express my disgust. But after a few minutes of research, found this thread and several other sources explaining the easy ways to change it back. (I just reselected to one of my previously configured themes, and they were back on the right)

After I thought about it, I realized this is what is great about open source. They changed something, which pleases some, irritates others, but (unlike MS and Apple) they left a very easy way for us to have our own preference.
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LeeNukes · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:44 am Post subject:

nelz · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:27 am Post subject:

Hardware RAID requires no RAID drivers, they are in the controller's BIOS. The card presents the RAID array as a single disk. There is no way to access the individual disks except through the controller's management software. The only driver required for the OS is a SCSI-like driver to access the card.

Note I mentioned card, hardware RAID is rarely found on motherboards and never on consumer grade ones.
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LeeNukes · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject:

I'm talking about the extra RAID cards with the batteries on them too.

aacraid?
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:51 pm Post subject:

All of our RAID cards present the array as a single volume.

Their BIOS boots first, and they have their own dedicated controller hardware.
aacraid is the driver for the disk controller, in a similar way to an IDE controller needing a driver.

Software RAID sits on top of a standard IDE or SATA controller, and so does FakeRAID, except some of it is in firmware on the motherboard.

So, yes they need a driver, but their disk management is handled by their own BIOS and processor.
Whereas the software and fakeraid need software processing and CPU time to make standard BIOS chipset controllers behave like dedicated ones.
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LeeNukes · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:55 pm Post subject:

donoreo · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject:

wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:03 pm Post subject:

see edited post
Quick of the mark or what Razz

Should have been clearer.
No RAID drivers, only device drivers for hardware RAID.

or if you prefer no RAID management software.
The main difference is that the OS does not see the disks.
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nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

Just broke my golden rule. Instead of waiting 3 months after release, waited 2 weeks. Decided to ugrade xubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

Ooops.

Initially fine, everything went well. None of the grub issues that plagued early adopters.

But, cannot use thunar in detailed view, rendering it almost useless. Making it VERY irritating to use the desktop.

I thought, how is it possible to release with something so bad, I mean, how could it be missed.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exo/+bug/520118

It wasn't missed. In fact, its been around since beta1, 3 months!

The current simplest workarounds are to use ctrl+1,2,3 after each click to avoid the lockup. But this doesn't fix that the keyboard shortcuts of ctl+c +ctrl+v fail to work.
So really, its either used some hacked version of pcmanfm, or, as I've done, switch to single click activation. This takes some getting used to.

Not brilliant for an LTS release.

I don't think most Ubuntu users will be affected, just users of XFCE and related apps.
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ollie · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 1:00 pm Post subject:

Have you tried the workaround for Thunar over on the Debian User Forums?

edit > prefererences > behavior
set navigation to single click

Rhakios · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 7:00 pm Post subject:

drdrambuie · Joined: Sat May 22, 2010 11:22 pm Posts: 1

The subject says it all for me. I was gobsmacked. It even recognized my Novatel Wireless Mobile Broadband USB device with no issue or. To be fair I have not tried my wireless NIC but everything else worked fine. Even special key combinations for brightness

Rhakios · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:26 pm Post subject:

Anyone who fancies a change from the crusty old beardies who usually advocate Linux (or in this case Ubuntu Linux) could do worse than have a look at this YouTube review.

Ahem, she does a few other Linuxy things too.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:33 pm Post subject:

Yes, I think Nixie is great.
Smile

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nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

Yep, Nixie is cool. Most of her posts are funny, creative and laden with enough geekyness to make me not feel too pervy for adding her to the sub list.

To be honest, surprised not to see her snapped up by something like tech tv / revision3 etc
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