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Hi to all who have posted here on “sammynetbooks”, and Thank You! Your many post and friendly quick assistance offered abroad has lead me to register and drop this little initial, hello.
Background: Information Assurance for lively-hood, and the desktop environment (XP/Linux) for entertainment. I’ve loaded and reloaded more installations due to “Oh crap”, than I care to mention…perhaps I’m a slow learner. I’ve danced with all flavors of MS over the years, and tried many versions of Linux. Though the past offered personal disgruntlement with Linux, the last year has been truly a joy. Over the years I’d enjoyed Mandrake and Suse, but always ended up rebuilding my MSOS and hearing myself say “never again”. Last year a friend leaned close to me and said “Ubuntu”. Little did I know I’d be spending hours with a desktop that did, what I wanted it to do…just work!
Alfihar, Thank You! For your thoughts on “Conky and Grub”, you’ve saved me time and effort from the normal “change and hope for the best”. Many others have had their words read by the thousands visiting and myself as well. Let me say Thank You. I’ve had a pleasure viewing your thoughts, tweaks, OS observations and I’ve yet to finish reading all…Face it, there is a lot of worth reading in here.
I’ll sum this up; I wanted a netbook that would allow me portability, space to grow and speed to get the job done. Though many great offers can be found, somehow I stumbled across “sammynetbooks” and just knew I wanted to be a part of this crowd. Though I’ve hardly the time to put a lot of effort toward the movement, I’ll chime in when I can.
Issues I’m currently having:
NC10 – none
NC10 XP – none
NC10 Linux – Darn HD sounds like it wants to divorce from the little sammy, but nothing else thus far.My Toy list: Yahooymsgr, utorrent, TweakUiPowertoy, TrueCrypt 6.1, RocketDock, HiJackThisInstall, Firefox 3.0.6 w/ “noscript-1.9.0.4.xpi and gradient_icool-1.0.5-fx.jarâ€, Codecs6030_allin1, 7z462, Ad-Aware Professional, Ccleaner, Foxit Reader 2.2, MagicISO, Office 2007 w/SP1, ACDSee v3.1, Kels_CPLBonus_v9.2.5, Acronis True Image Home v11, InfraRecorder, Comodo Anti-Virus and Firewall. Prefer NOD32 but have yet to order another license for the litle guy.
After downloaded/installing any MS updates. Run virus scan, Ccleaner, Lavasoft and created an image. Sorry Samsung, already married to Acronis. After image, ran theme patcher and installed such.
Then installed Ubuntu 8.10, Conky and compiz and heard myself laughing outloud 🙂
You all rock, Keep it in the wind.
-LuknWelcome,
glad some of my posts have been of help to you.
[quote1235855912=IcuLukn]NC10 Linux – Darn HD sounds like it wants to divorce from the little sammy, but nothing else thus far.[/quote1235855912]
What kind of sounds is it making?
Is the hard drive spinning up and down, or maybe the head parking repeatedly?These should be fixable by using hdparm.
Yep big thumbs up to all the great contributors, this site would be nothing without all your help.
Welcome to the site IcuLukn 🙂
Good to be here and thank you for the many welcomes.
I’ve watched another three NC10’s pass by my desk in the last 3 weeks…guess they all really did like mine. 🙂
Alfihar, there you go again with all the help. Okay, it sounds awful and is intermittent. I assume NC10 run’s an IDE where as I know my m1710 is SATA 7200. The builds are both Ubuntu with all updates. Little guy sounds like head issue as spinning would rarely make significant noise while in the case, right. I base that off of the 4 other hard drives I have which make little to no noise. Assume parting, clanking or just pure anger management issues. But, doesn’t do this in XP?
Seriously, Thank you for all the patience you give us here.
-Lukn[quote1236076129=IcuLukn]
I’ve watched another three NC10’s pass by my desk in the last 3 weeks…guess they all really did like mine. 🙂
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[quote1236258835=IcuLukn]Okay, it sounds awful and is intermittent. I assume NC10 run’s an IDE where as I know my m1710 is SATA 7200. The builds are both Ubuntu with all updates. Little guy sounds like head issue as spinning would rarely make significant noise while in the case, right. I base that off of the 4 other hard drives I have which make little to no noise. Assume parting, clanking or just pure anger management issues. But, doesn’t do this in XP?[/quote1236258835]
Taken me a while to get back as I’ve been a bit busy with a few things recently.The hard drive in the NC10 is a SATA drive, however this shouldn’t make any difference, especially as far as noise is concerned.
The noises you are hearing are possibly caused by a combination of two factors:
1) Some of the hard drives Samsung sell the NC10 with are noisy, especially when parking the drive heads. In particular the Fujitsu drives are known to be noisy.
2) Windows ignores the power management settings which are specified by the drive and instead uses it’s own defaults. Whereas most Linux distributions will use the power management settings which are specified by the drive. Usually the drives power management settings are a lot more aggressive than those of Windows so things like parking the drive heads and spinning down the drive occur more frequently in Linux.
To quieten the drive in Linux you could go two ways. The first is to set the power management of the hard drive to be less aggressive. The second and far harder method is to set the power management to be more aggressive and to stop Linux from accessing the drive as often so as to leave the drive powered down for long intervals, this can be quite difficult to achieve.
The easiest thing to do would be to try changing the power management settings of the hard drive to be less aggressive using “hdparm”, I can’t remember the exact commands for it though.
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