Posts Tagged 64-Bit
Cut In Half…Sort Of
I know, confusing title…though maybe some people get it already?
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve upgraded both my graphics card, and my monitor recently – both of which, I love, especially the monitor…1920×1200 is a lovely resolution 
That said, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu last night, because I’d been running the same install since Alpha4 of Karmic, and I’d been experiencing a few oddities. I didn’t know whether this was the 64 bit version I was running, or some odd config files left over from somewhere.
Because I was lazy, I used the Karmic CD I got from ShipIt, completely forgetting that these are 32 bit versions of Ubuntu, not 64 bit. I only realised once I’d booted into the system. The upside of this is that I noticed a couple of issues had gone, and that there really is little difference between the 32 bit or 64 bit. So much so, I’ll be going back to 64 bit for Lucid 
Kudos to the developers though, the installer picked up my resolution perfectly on the LiveCD, and also noticed that I have 4GB RAM, so installed the PAE kernel without even asking! Colour me impressed!
All in all, reinstalling showed me a couple of new things that I seem to have missed out (mainly things like that on the installer), and it has indeed fixed a few issues. I estimate this install will last around 6 weeks, and then I’ll install Lucid…but we’ll have to wait and see….
Dropbox
From what I recall, quite a few people have heard of, or even use Dropbox.
Dropbox is similar to Apple’s iDisk, in the respect that it is an online backup/data storage facility. The only difference is, dropbox will give you 2GB of free storage, just for signing up. There’s also an option to pay either $9.99 per month, or $99 per year, which will upgrade your storage capacity to 50GB. For me personally, I don’t (yet) need any more than the 2GB, though I may consider looking into the 50GB option in future.
What I like most about Dropbox is that it’s cross platform. For me this is fantastic, because I run Ubuntu (9.04 64 bit if you’re interested) on my desktop, and my laptop is an aluminum Macbook. Now I had the problem of somehow remembering to put things in the Dropbox directory so that they would get synced to the server and thus between my 2 machines.
Solving that problem was a lot easier than I could’ve expected. No thanks to my friend Gabby, who told me what he had done on IRC. Using
you can create soft links to the directories to/from the Dropbox directory, and any changes you make to that directory outside of the Dropbox directory, get automatically synced. Put simply, if I make any changes to something in ~/Documents, it automatically gets backed up/synced to Dropbox. Awesome!!
If you’re unsure of the syntax of
, as it is a little confusing, it’s the following:
And finally, if you want to join Dropbox because you haven’t already, following this link will (according to Dropbox) get you a little bit more space
Edit: I’ve just been informed (thanks Matteo!) that the referral links don’t seem to be giving extra space any more. This is likely because Dropbox limits the amount they give out. Please feel free to use the link at the end of the post if you want, but don’t feel obliged to if you do want to sign up. Join Dropbox
64 / 2 = ?
32 of course.
Yes I posted a while back about how I moved my Ubuntu installation over to 64 bit, and I really enjoyed it, only had a very minor issue with Flash, but nothing that couldn’t be solved with a quick fix.
Yet I’m back to 32 bit…why? Because it’s less hassle with flash, and also the fact that I don’t really NEED 64 bit processing at the moment, I mean, I don’t do any Video Encoding/Re-encoding, or anything like that, or Image Editing. So when I managed to break the install, I just thought I’d go back to 32 bit.
I still would recommend 64 bit if you have a capable PC, to make the most out of your hardware.
Ubuntu 7.10 64-Bit
Posted by Joe in Uncategorized on December 31st, 2007
I’m just about to install the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), and I put the disc in while I was still in Ubuntu, and I noticed something strange on the root of the disc. There’s a file called wubi-cdboot.exe and I can’t figure out why it’s there, because as far as I know, Ubuntu doesn’t officially support Wubi.
If anybody could shed some light on this it’d be nice Also bear in mind it’s one of the official pressed CD’s
