Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.

In article
nospam wrote:

In article , Melzzzzz
wrote:

Two words: Windows Update. They need to fix that. Computer
constantly writing to disk gigabytes of data is *not acceptable*.
And Win 10 takes 1-1.5GB of RAM sitting doing nothing... You need at
least 2GB to fire up program without having to swap out....
That is 64 bit version. I guess that for 32 bit version you need
half of that...

who cares. memory is cheap, as is disk space.

Problem is that Windows Update hogs CPU/disk. Not pleasant experience
if you do something with computer other than sending mails/chatting and
surfing...

no it doesn't and it doesn't take very long to update even if it did.

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On 2016-10-05 6:45 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 18:26:23 -0400 Silver Slimer wrote:


Start menu, task bar and tray icons. What else one needs? I
use Gnome currently which begs for Mac like dock on the bottom
so I combine cairo-dock with it

I don't see a reason to use a dock with Gnome when it already
comes with its own.


Well if you want to quickly navigate windows by mouse dock comes
handy.

I find that Gnome 3's hot corner is actually a lot faster. I'm a
gigantic fan of what they did with their hot corners to be honest and
am disappointed that Unity doesn't do the same thing.


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On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 09:09:08 -0400
Silver Slimer wrote:

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On 2016-10-05 6:45 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 18:26:23 -0400 Silver Slimer wrote:


Start menu, task bar and tray icons. What else one needs? I
use Gnome currently which begs for Mac like dock on the bottom
so I combine cairo-dock with it

I don't see a reason to use a dock with Gnome when it already
comes with its own.


Well if you want to quickly navigate windows by mouse dock comes
handy.

I find that Gnome 3's hot corner is actually a lot faster. I'm a
gigantic fan of what they did with their hot corners to be honest and
am disappointed that Unity doesn't do the same thing.

Unity uses compiz, you can define hot corners but it's not obvious.

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Silver Slimer wrote:
I find that Gnome 3's hot corner is actually a lot faster. I'm a
gigantic fan of what they did with their hot corners to be honest and
am disappointed that Unity doesn't do the same thing.

Yes it does, it just is disabled by default. Simplest way to enable and
configure is install the Unity Tweak Tool

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

launch it and under Windows Manager click Hotcorners, enjoy!

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On 2016-10-05 8:01 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 10/05/2016 02:18 PM, Silver Slimer wrote:
On 2016-10-05 1:05 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 10/05/2016 02:40 AM, Alan Baker wrote:
On 2016-10-04 1:22 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 10/03/2016 10:08 PM, Alan Baker wrote: snip

Change of subject here, but have you downloaded Sierra
yet?

If so, did it speed up any?


No, not yet.

I try and live by the advice I give my clients: don't rush
to adopt the latest thing.

:-)

That's why I'm asking. The 4k iMac is nice, but it is so slow.
Should've paid the extra money with one with a faster hard
drive or a big SSD.

Regardless of what Mac heads tell you, OS X is slow no matter
what kind of processor or amount of memory you throw at it. Apple
is happy to see you spend the money but reward you with nothing
at all. I recall getting my parents to pay for a 4GB upgrade on
their Mac Mini to bring the total to 8GB. There's a 5400 RPM HD
in there but even that kind of old technology would work
relatively well with Linux or Windows on it. On the Mac?
Disgusting. My parents felt _no change_ from 4GB to 8GB despiet
assurances from zealots that the experience would be fantastic.
Maybe things will change once the filesystem is replaced (did it
happen yet?) but I doubt it; optimization is something absolutely
no one at Apple can even spell much less implement.


Well, the older iMac with snow leopard I had, it had a 5400 rpm
drive in it and it performed satisfactory. It had 8Gb of ram, and
only a Core-Duo Intel. Now it seems that Apple has missed
something... could it be the logic board isn't designed right?
Hard to tell. One way to tell is put Linux on it to find out.

Well, I imagine that Apple's motherboards are some of the crappier
ones on the market. I mean, even on the PC, if you buy a motherboard
from a garbage company, you won't be getting the kind of performance
you would get from the same CPU on an ASUS. It's quite possible that
whatever they use is limiting the potential of the chip.

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On 2016-10-05 8:05 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 10/05/2016 03:08 PM, nospam wrote:
In article ,
Melzzzzz wrote:

Two words: Windows Update. They need to fix that. Computer
constantly writing to disk gigabytes of data is *not
acceptable*. And Win 10 takes 1-1.5GB of RAM sitting doing
nothing... You need at least 2GB to fire up program without
having to swap out.... That is 64 bit version. I guess that
for 32 bit version you need half of that...

who cares. memory is cheap, as is disk space.


But not on a new iMac. You can't even get inside on the 4k model.
You either select all that should be in the mac or live with its
slowness. And memory from Apple has never been cheap, and neither
are their hard drives or SSDs.

Apple and its users have always been proud to tell us that you need to
buy a specific brand of RAM for the Mac if you want to maintain
stability. It seemed pretty lame at the time that I owned Macs
(2003-2005) but I think that it's still the same story today.
Meanwhile, the PC actually offers you the opportunity to put whatever
RAM you want in there.

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Islam is a disease
Gab.AI: @silverslimer
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In article , Silver Slimer wrote:


Apple and its users have always been proud to tell us that you need to
buy a specific brand of RAM for the Mac if you want to maintain
stability. It seemed pretty lame at the time that I owned Macs
(2003-2005) but I think that it's still the same story today.

complete nonsense. all that matters is that it meets the required specs
for the system.

Meanwhile, the PC actually offers you the opportunity to put whatever
RAM you want in there.

same with macs.

In article
Alan Baker wrote:

On 2016-10-05 5:10 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 10/05/2016 02:51 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Silver Slimer wrote:


Regardless of what Mac heads tell you, OS X is slow no matter what
kind of processor or amount of memory you throw at it.

benchmarks show that to be complete rubbish.

Apple is happy
to see you spend the money but reward you with nothing at all. I
recall getting my parents to pay for a 4GB upgrade on their Mac Mini
to bring the total to 8GB. There's a 5400 RPM HD in there but even
that kind of old technology would work relatively well with Linux or
Windows on it. On the Mac? Disgusting. My parents felt _no change_
from 4GB to 8GB despiet assurances from zealots that the experience
would be fantastic.

that only means that you weren't memory bound.

Maybe things will change once the filesystem is
replaced (did it happen yet?) but I doubt it; optimization is
something absolutely no one at Apple can even spell much less implement.

nonsense.

Why does the Apple Terminal program take 7 seconds to finally show a
prompt then?


I don't know, because I can open it and get a prompt instantly.

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On 2016-10-05 10:48 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Silver Slimer
wrote:

Windows 10 runs OK on 1GB of RAM on a 10 year-old computer.

no it doesn't.

i have it on a 7 year old computer and it redefines the meaning
of slow.

The student in question had the graphical enhancements
automatically turned off

in other words, it was so unusable that you had to gimp it so that
it was tolerable.

The sweet girl had no idea what she was doing so yes, I helped her out.

and the experience was more than acceptable once I used CCleaner
for her decade-old clogged registry and defragmented her hard
disk. I expected it to be a joke but it was quite usable and even
she was shocked.

sure she was. more bull****.

Imbecile.

I know this because I did it for a student. 2GB gives you a
better experience so your 2007-2008 machine is still
well-served. 4GB and it's quite good whereas OS X chugs along
like molasses. 8GB and you have an excellent experience
whereas OS X still just chugs along like molasses. I can't
imagine why Apple users would be ready and willing to accept
such abhorrent performance from a modern, expensive machine.

nonsense.

It's only nonsense to a Mac user who has never been exposed to
better performance. If OS X is all that you see, you'll consider
it to be very fast. However, once you use Windows on the same
machine, OS X is exposed as the slow piece of crap that it is. It
uses an outdated filesystem from the 90s which even the company
itself recognizes as being an issue so no amount of lying from
Mac zealots will change reality.

nonsense.

Yes, your post _is_ complete nonsense. Thank you for pointing it out.

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On 2016-10-05 10:48 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Silver Slimer
wrote:


Like I said before, it has already been resolved with forced
updates. The remaining problem is that after updating, Windows
keeps the update files on the hard disk for God knows what
reason.

that's to be able to undo the update in case there are any
problems, which is a very good idea and since disk space is cheap,
who cares, and it eventually auto-deletes anyway (i think it's 10
days).

The more they accumulate, the slower the computer gets.

nonsense. it only takes up disk space. it doesn't affect speed.

Theoretically, that's true. That's why I refused to believe it when
people told me that back in the early 2000s. However, in my own
experience, deleting those files indeed declogs the system and
increases performance. If you have a Windows machine, I would suggest
that you _not_ delete those files for a year and then delete them once
365 days have passed. Do nothing else; don't clean the registry or
defragment. If the performance improves, you'll know I'm correct.

Like I said, I didn't believe it either but that's actually what
happens and was the case even on Win 9x machines.

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In article , Silver Slimer wrote:

Like I said before, it has already been resolved with forced
updates. The remaining problem is that after updating, Windows
keeps the update files on the hard disk for God knows what
reason.

that's to be able to undo the update in case there are any
problems, which is a very good idea and since disk space is cheap,
who cares, and it eventually auto-deletes anyway (i think it's 10
days).

The more they accumulate, the slower the computer gets.

nonsense. it only takes up disk space. it doesn't affect speed.

Theoretically, that's true.

not just theoretically, but in reality.

In article
"Jonathan N. Little" wrote:

Silver Slimer wrote:
I find that Gnome 3's hot corner is actually a lot faster. I'm a
gigantic fan of what they did with their hot corners to be honest and
am disappointed that Unity doesn't do the same thing.

Yes it does, it just is disabled by default. Simplest way to enable and
configure is install the Unity Tweak Tool

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

launch it and under Windows Manager click Hotcorners, enjoy!

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Jonathan
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On 2016-10-06 9:34 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Silver Slimer wrote:
I find that Gnome 3's hot corner is actually a lot faster. I'm a
gigantic fan of what they did with their hot corners to be honest
and am disappointed that Unity doesn't do the same thing.

Yes it does, it just is disabled by default. Simplest way to enable
and configure is install the Unity Tweak Tool

I meant by default. Clearly, every Linux DE allows you to customize it
if you are looking for a specific feature.

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On 2016-10-06 9:47 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , Silver Slimer
wrote:


Apple and its users have always been proud to tell us that you
need to buy a specific brand of RAM for the Mac if you want to
maintain stability. It seemed pretty lame at the time that I
owned Macs (2003-2005) but I think that it's still the same story
today.

complete nonsense. all that matters is that it meets the required
specs for the system.

That's true, but I was and am referring to what _Apple_ and its
_users_ said/say. The truth and what they say aren't usually in sync.

Meanwhile, the PC actually offers you the opportunity to put
whatever RAM you want in there.

same with macs.

Tell that to the other zealots.

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Islam is a disease
Gab.AI: @silverslimer
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On 2016-10-06 9:57 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , Silver Slimer
wrote:

Like I said before, it has already been resolved with forced
updates. The remaining problem is that after updating,
Windows keeps the update files on the hard disk for God knows
what reason.

that's to be able to undo the update in case there are any
problems, which is a very good idea and since disk space is
cheap, who cares, and it eventually auto-deletes anyway (i
think it's 10 days).

The more they accumulate, the slower the computer gets.

nonsense. it only takes up disk space. it doesn't affect
speed.

Theoretically, that's true.

not just theoretically, but in reality.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_cleanup_utility.htm

"To keep a PC running smoothly, regular maintenance is critical. Many
users shy away from maintenance tasks, thinking it is a long, drawn
out manual affair, but the Disk Cleanup Utility can easily determine
which files on a hard drive may no longer be needed and delete those
files. In addition to freeing up potentially significant amounts of
hard drive space, using Disk Cleanup on a regular basis can
significantly improve system performance."

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/sho...sk-cleanup-and
- -performance-improvements

"Clearly there has been an increase in performance observed, but why?
What is is about the removal of log files, setup files, temporary
internet files, etc that makes the system run faster?"

The only nonsense here is whatever _you_ post.

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