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On 8.07.2013 20:31, bad apple wrote:
I've not read anything that implies these laptops are any worse than others. I've only had it shut down on a couple of occasions, soft surfaces and on a very still 31c afternoon. The fan looks like it might be a bit of a faff to get at though, not really checked - just blew hard into the vent and when nothing came out didn't investigate further. The design does seem to obscure the fan vent, its underneath and not really at the side, also sits very snug to the work surface.On 08/07/13 18:05, Simon Robert -Cottage wrote:it's mint KDE that freezes. Cinamon is fine, so is kubuntu. Picasa in linux, well the page you direct to doesn't mention it. A google on Picasa for linux gets me to pages for various distros with instructions for installing it, all of which point to google Picasa for linux pages and all go to 404. I direct you to this http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/google-officially-drop-picasa-for-linux which says, a. it's discontinued, b. the linux version always came with a native wine installer. And a quick "find" for picasa* sees bits of it living in directories sub to ..../wine... And yes probably would swap the audi for a beamer if the beamer had a really nice cup holder and I would have to nail the BMW dashboard onto the audi's dashboard to use it. I dislike having to install nearly all of KDE/gnome to run a single app, I know what a DE is ta, and anyway I like KDE. Yup the R519 gets warm and is not temperature tolerant. It was 32% degrees here the other day and it kept cutting out, despite being on a hard surface. Was OK after I raised it with a couple of books though. Watching movies in bed with the lappy on the duvet, you got about 8 minutes before it quits. SWhoops, you are absolutely right about that - my apologies. I personally don't use anything related to Google, but even so, I'm not quite sure how I didn't notice that they completely pulled Linux support. Over a year ago at that... *facepalm* But yeah, it was never a native build as you say, always just a crappy wrapper around the windows binary and some bundled wine stuff. All in all, considering how much Google suck, Picasa was never that good in the first place and it's now officially completely dropped, it's probably best to just completely nuke it from any linux system that may still be running it and move on. Although it wasn't you that mentioned it in the first place if I remember rightly. Winetricks doesn't even offer Picasa as an "easy install" option anymore either, which I'm sure it used to. No idea if it works on Linux, and personally couldn't care less, but there's always the Picasa Web Albums, which works in a web browser. I find that spaffing a couple of hundred megs of disk space on installing the default GTK/KDE libs for cross-DE support definitely worth it: I think people rather too attached to one system or the other tend to somewhat over-estimate the actual amount of space required. It's really not that much overhead, even on the relatively space-limited 128Gb SSDs I use in most of my systems. But of course each to their own, no problem there. I'm a bit worried about your overheating report on your Samsung - although the screen has also been dinged, the owner hasn't exactly been careful with it so there's no chance it has ever had the vents/fans cleaned out. This one here cut out after about 30 mins as well, and that was sat flat on a solid workbench. Are these Samsung R*** models just generally crap? Sorry about leading you up the path regarding Picasa, I'll try and actually check my "facts" next time I start mouthing off. Regards
So maybe compressed air will do it.... S -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq