The increase from 95 to 100 dpi makes quite a difference (I probably should have bought the 23-inch model; same price). Either:
- Linux fonts still suck
- My eyes are getting old
I vote for a combination theory - Linux fonts are developed by young whippersnappers with perfect vision. We need more geezers designing fonts.
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BSD userland on top of GNU Hurd.
"What the hell do you call an OS like that?"
"I'll call it 'The Aristocrats'"
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The Gnuplot docs are not very well organized for beginners (hey, I know what a sine wave looks like. What if a have a big file of disorganized, real-world data, with missing data points?) Here's a good guide:
http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/index-e.html
I'm still trying to figure out how to load only lines N through M of a data file.....
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The daemon launch process at http://www.deanspot.org/comment/reply/261 says "could use some help here", so here's how I did it:
I never got gmond and gmetad to start under launchctl as background daemons at boot, gmetad would die after a while and gmond would go nuts and respawn over and over until the machine was unusable. Running in the foreground works, this is how to set it up:
OSX 10.6.7, ganglia built in /opt/local from sources, rest of dependencies from Ports, daemons are in /opt/local/sbin, using OSX's Apache and PHP:
- Create two files in /Library/LaunchDaemons:
org.ganglia.gmetad.plist:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd" >
<plist version='1.0'>
<dict>
<key>Label</key><string>org.ganglia.gmetad</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/opt/local/sbin/gmetad</string>
<string>-d</string>
<string>1</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
org.ganglia.gmond.plist
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd" >
<plist version='1.0'>
<dict>
<key>Label</key><string>org.ganglia.gmond</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/opt/local/sbin/gmond</string>
<string>-d</string>
<string>1</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/>
</dict>
</plist>
- Incorporate them into launchctl's config:
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ganglia.gmond.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ganglia.gmetad.plist
- Reboot to test. You should see
54 - org.ganglia.gmond
55 - org.ganglia.gmetad
in the output of "sudo launchctl list", the first column is the PID which you will see in the output of ps. Output goes into the system log.
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I have a new iPhone 4 with Verizon service. It is, like, TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME kind of. Since I had a Sprint HTC Evo in my previous job, I can compare firsthand.
Like the EVO, I first got only about 8 hrs standby time with location services ON and push ON. So:
1) Disable location services for all apps, or at least until the GPS arrow disappears from the top bar. Just like on all phones, GPS is a huge battery suck, and it won't work indoors anyway. Particularly, with Navigation - The Google Nav app that comes free with the Evo is considerably more awesome than anything available for the iPhone, but I could barely drive to the grocery store without using a car charger.
2) Disable Push if you can. Disabling Push globally still allowed my Exchange account to push (Push for Inbox is the default); I had to change that to "fetch" separately in the Push "Advanced" settings.
3) Disable Wifi if you can. Wifi isn't as big a battery suck as on the HTC Evo, though.
3) In spite of what the fanboys say, it's still possible for a badly behaved app to suck battery in the background. Try not to download dodgy apps, and worst case it's probably faster to just reboot your phone than kill off the apps one by one in the recently used view.
Once I found out it was Google Latitude background location updating that was sucking my battery dry in a day, I disabled that and now can get 2, maybe more, days battery life with location services ON, Wifi ON, and Bluetooth ON. I could *not* do that on the HTV Evo.
Would be nice to disable GPS entirely and rely on passive Wifi/Cell triangulation, but application whack-a-mole type tools, like on the Droid, don't seem to be necessary. Steve just wants you to quit fiddling, shut up, and enjoy your wonderful phone. So, compared to the Evo, I *do* like the iPhone 4 more.
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