One man asked me: I have heard of Ubuntu Linux, but have never seriously considered using it. What makes it “good”? Here is my reply (not aspiring for completeness, Linux has other advantages also): I could say that the “main” advantage over Windows is that the system goes together with applications. You can update ALL installed applications with single command. You can easily update all … Continue reading Why Linux is better than Windows
I recently bought an UPS by the Innova company. On the box it was written “Linux”. I opened the box and got a CD disk. On the CD was the folder “linux”. In the folder was some old broken version of the program Upsilon and no driver. (The built-in driver coming with Debian Linux also didn’t work.) I returned the UPS to the seller. Shame … Continue reading The driver by Innova is broken
I’ve said earlier, that Linux would be inefficient with The Machine computer architecture, because its different memory model. Thus, as I said earlier, The Machine requires development of a radically new operating system, not just an adaptation of Linux. I have said: Linux is dead. Recently I have realized that this is wrong: We indeed can adapt Linux to The Machine, and it will be … Continue reading “The Machine” and operating system
Hewlett Packard company announced a new kind of future computers, called The Machine. One of the features of The Machine is that it will have many special purpose CPU cores instead of a few general purpose cores like modern computers. This provides a challenge for software developers, to make efficient software for such an architecture. And a base for such solution exists! It is Ada … Continue reading “The Machine” and Ada
I’ve bought an HP printer, but laid it into an attic because it persisted to highlight “no paper” indicator even after I inserted paper. So I bought an other (also HP) printer: DeskJet 1050A. Soon I’ve found a similar trouble with it. It was not ceasing highlight “no paper” indicator even after insertion of paper. So I decided my second printer is also broken and … Continue reading Replacement of paper in HP printers
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