Published by Robert Pogson June 24th, 2011
in technology.
It’s not a race but people do keep track of the relative popularity of various distros of GNU/Linux. After years of being at the top of the heap on Distrowatch, Ubuntu has been passed by Mint and Fedora. At the same time openSUSE passed Debian GNU/Linux.
This may be just a glitch and mean nothing but I suspect more newbies are coming to GNU/Linux, checking out Distrowatch sooner or later and choosing middle-of-the-road distros rather than the avant-garde Ubuntu or the old-fashioned Debian GNU/Linux. I suspect many long-term users of Ubuntu are turned off by the Unity thing, and may have visited Distrowatch in order to shop for what they want.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson June 24th, 2011
in technology.
350 milliwatts, playing 1080p60 video. Take that, Intel…
FreeScale has released a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 SoC device running at 1.2gHz. This thing will run all manner of personal computers. It was announced back in January and demonstrated at CES2011.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson June 24th, 2011
in technology.
Naysayers have found every chink in the tablet PC, but Archos has fixed them all:
- Power – dual-core 1.5gHz ARM A9
- Speed – if Android is too slow for you, how about natively-running GNU/Linux as a dual-boot???!!!
- Price – $400
- Storage – 16gB default, but 250gB internal hard drive raises price to $500
Too good to believe? Check out the Archos 101/G9. They also have the Archose 80/G9 for a bit less money but more portability.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson June 24th, 2011
in technology.
Canada is the world’s largest producer of sulphur. Yet, it is hard for me to buy some cheaply in Winnipeg. I can get a 300g shaker for $6 at Home Depot, a 2 kg sack at a veterinarian supply house if I pay $25 or so, cash, (they advertise 22.7 kg for $12.75 but when I showed up said that was the price per kg…) but I cannot find any other suppliers in the city. The world price is below $200 for a ton.
I should be able to buy a 50 lb sack for $12 or so but I cannot find any supplier. One guy had such a package but would not even tell me the price because I was not a business.
You can see some of Alberta’s 8 million ton stockpile in this picture from Fort McMurray:
The large rectangular shapes in the middle are stacks of 1 ton blocks of sulphur. Those rectangles are a hundred times larger than any building in the place. Alberta ships hopper-cars by rail loaded with the stuff all over North America and to ports for export.
I used to be able to go to any garden supply place and buy a sack. I can make lime-sulphur spray or just dust things with the powder to take care of bugs/fungi.
I can buy it from China by the ton and they import it from Canada… Times and gardeners change, I guess. Perhaps it’s just too cheap to advertise.
- Robert Pogson
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