Comments on: What is the oldest living organism?

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:20:35 +0000

Greg –

I was just listening to my first mp3s for Russian this afternoon. They didn’t come through the speakers when I accidentally pulled my headphones out of the jack. When I first noticed the problem, I tried several different players and nothing made sound.

I have a HP G62, with the AMD processor and 4gb of memory. The onboard speakers are Altec Lansing.

I have desktop Ubuntu with several educational apps added on, including all of the Edubuntu packs (I want to run Edubuntu on the netbook for the boys, when I can figure out the bios and get it to boot). I haven’t gotten rid of anything that came with Ubuntu yet, though I intend to rid myself of some of the social networking crap.

For the record, Win7 boots in under minute – completely ready to go. Ubuntu takes a bit more than a minute. But I also bought my laptop new in July.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:02:02 +0000

Not in my opinion. A biofilm is a matrix of extracellular polymeric substance containing a herd of microbes, often of multiple species. So, a biofilm is analogous to a grazed grassland and the herd that grazed it. The antelopes are organisms, not the herd. The biofilm is not an organism.

By: casey rentz

casey rentz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:58:58 +0000

So, what about something like a biofilm….would this count as a single living organism?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:22:18 +0000

Not to be too much the asshole, but windows 7 actually boots quite a bit faster than Ubuntu on my laptop.

My wife has a laptop rated much faster than mine, with a fresh installation of Windows 7 on it. Typically, she turns hers on and i turn min on (Ubuntu). Mine boots up, she uses mine to check her email, does a couple of chores around the house, comes back and hers is just getting going. So, I guess it varies.

Ubuntu doesn’t recognize your speaker jack? When was the last time you checked? That’s not likely to be an actual problem, just a perceived problem. What king of laptop?

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:18:29 +0000

@7 –

Never had a problem with windows, nor with Ubuntu.

@8 –

Not to be too much the asshole, but windows 7 actually boots quite a bit faster than Ubuntu on my laptop. If it makes it any better for you, my XP desktop boots Ubuntu a little faster. And Ubuntu is much easier to deal with than windows. The only reason I have kept 7 on my laptop is that Ubuntu doesn’t recognize my laptop speakers (it does recognize the speaker jack).

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:06:27 +0000

They are still waiting for their computer to boot.

By: SimonG

SimonG — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:02:49 +0000

I’ve had a similar sort of glitch, I think, with Ubuntu 10.04 & Firefox 3.6.8. Seems rather hit or miss. I’ll have to check if the number of tabs makes a difference. But it’s not an Sb problem, nor a specifically Fedora problem. It’d be interesting to know if users of Firefox under Windows have a similar problem.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:42:02 +0000

Wow, that was fast. Looks like it may not be a Sb specific issue.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:36:32 +0000

Virgil, thanks, I’ve handed the info over to the proper authorities.

By: Timothy Appnel

Timothy Appnel — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:34:06 +0000

@Virgil Samms: I looked at the markup Greg used to embed this video from the TED conference site. He used the markup the content provides. I ddi some checking and there have been similar issues reported for your browser/OS combination with Flash content. Does this sound familiar?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=246741

If you need to follow up on this issue you can reach us through the webmaster address for this domain and we’ll look in to it further.