Last drop convinces me that ASUS makes nothing but crap

My history with ASUS began with A7V880 motherboard, which would not detect the last ~300MB of RAM out of 2GB installed.

That got me confused into thinking the memory was defective, which it was not. Those 2 sticks of RAM (on the ASUS recommended list) worked fine in a number of different motherboards. The 2 sticks I got as a replacement (not on the ASUS recommended list) behaved exactly same. In the end A7V880 died soon after the warranty period expired - it just stopped POSTing.

I swore to never buy ASUS again, but found myself in a situation where I had to rush purchase a board and ASUS was the only one in stock which satisfied the requirements. That was M4A89GTD-PRO. more...

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Conflict of distribution maintainers vs. application developers

How various parties in Linux world pull the blanket in all directions leaving the user in the cold

Just a quick post on something which I see more and more as a trend: there is a conflict between the distribution maintainers and software developers.

The former want you to use the software version from the repositories, motivating that with belief that repositories contain the packages, tailored for a particular distribution and expected to run smoothly.

The later believe that repositories introduce problems and want you to compile software from the source code, distributed by their teams. They are not worried that 'make install' would not necessarily copy the files into the proper directories or properly configure the package to the standards of Linux distribution.

The user is caught between the rock and a hard object, as they can't aggravate either party, otherwise they would loose those bits and shreds of support they are hoping for. This is nothing but a blame game and the Linux users are the victims.

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Printing from Acrobat Reader is N times slower than from Windows

Another lie: Linux is just as fast as Windows

Something I've never noticed as I am doing the bulk of PDF printing under Linux. Probably not for long now that I noticed how Acrobat Reader under Linux only uses 1 out of 4 CPU cores to submit a print job and once submitted, it take about 3-4 times longer for each page to be printed.

Using same version 9 Acrobat Reader under both Win7 and Fedora, both 64bit. more...

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