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What is progress

Posted 03-08-2016 at 04:16 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 01-29-2022 at 06:33 AM by Michael Uplawski (origin exchanged against reason)

Tags human condition, opinion, progress

This can be about the Internet or just about Information technology in general. I will get back to that, later.

Agriculture suffers in the french region of Brittany.
While there is a lack of terrain, the hog houses burst with too many animals, the water is polluted with a diversity of herbicides, pesticides and the remains of chemical fertilizers.., -all the same-, farmers are forced to intensify their already intensive production and the reason for their suffering is given...

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Michael Uplawski

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Posted in Incomprehension and Antagonism

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RaspEX – Build 160308 – with OpenCPN pre-installed, now especially for Raspberry Pi 3

Posted 03-08-2016 at 10:39 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Tags exton, navigation software, raspberry pi 3, raspex and opencpn, ubuntu 15.10

RaspEX – Build 160308 based on Ubuntu 15.10 – with OpenCPN – especially made for Raspberry Pi 3

OpenCPN is a free software (GPLv2) project to create a concise chart plotter and navigation software, for use underway or as a planning tool. OpenCPN is developed by a team of active sailors using real world conditions for program testing and refinement.

REPLACEMENT
This build (160803) replaces build 151029 which can run only on Raspberry Pi 2 computers. Build 160803...

exton

ExTiX Admin

Posted in Exton's Linux Live Systems, Linux

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It runs from command line but not from cron or init script

Posted 03-08-2016 at 09:43 AM by MensaWater
Updated 03-08-2016 at 12:01 PM by MensaWater

This question has been posted many times over the years both here at LQ and other sites. Accordingly I'm making this a blog post in the hopes people will find it useful.

When one run things at command line they inherit the environment of the user running them as set by things such as /etc/profile, $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.profile and/or $HOME/.bash_profile.

There are many environment variables that can impact a script. You can see all the environment variables you...

MensaWater

LQ Guru

Posted in Uncategorized

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Google Chrome flags for Performance (ver 49)

Posted 03-07-2016 at 04:07 AM by ugjka
Updated 03-17-2016 at 01:41 PM by ugjka

Tags chrome, google, performance, tunings

These are the settings I use with Google Chrome to get most of my machine (Dell Vostro 1015/ 3Gig ram)

Type about:flags in the adress bar or copy paste the chrome urls

GPU rasterization
chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization
Set to Enabled

Number of raster threads
chrome://flags/#num-raster-threads
Set to "Number of threads/cores your cpu have"

These two will increase Javascript...

ugjka

Member

Posted in Performance Tunings

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RaspEX – Build 160307 – especially built for the new Raspberry Pi 3

Posted 03-07-2016 at 03:45 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Tags exton, new kernel, raspberry pi 3, raspex, ubuntu 15.10

The Raspberry Pi 3 is the third generation Raspberry Pi. It replaced the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B in February 2016.

Compared to the Raspberry Pi 2 it has:
A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU
802.11n Wireless LAN
Bluetooth 4.1
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Raspberry Pi 3: HOW MUCH BETTER is it than the Raspberry Pi 2? Raspberry Pi 3 is performing 10 times faster than that of the Pi 1 and around 50 percent better than that of the Pi 2 according...

exton

ExTiX Admin

Posted in Exton's Linux Live Systems, Linux

Views 758 Comments 1 exton is offline

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