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Topic: Posting this from a newly Frugalled laptop, ... now I've got some questions

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mikshaw

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Posted: July 15 2005,14:42

With a persistent home/opt a backup could be useful. As with a backup in any system, if something goes wrong during a day's work, you have that backup with which to help fix things.
I understand what you're saying, though. I use persistent home and opt, and haven't bothered with the backup/restore system in several months. It's just much simpler to have everything already in place.

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Posted: July 15 2005,15:07

OK, I've created a persistent home and opt now on hda3. They DO still appear in the ramdisk, but any changes made there immediately affect the equivalent file on hda3. I guess they're not REALLY loaded in ram, then?

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Posted: July 15 2005,21:06

Quote (adssse @ July 15 2005,09:34)

Quote (SomeGuyWithDSL @ July 14 2005,19:28)

5. When I click on a category, such as "Games," in MyDSL, it takes a verrrrry long time for the next window to appear. 3-5 minutes, usually. Nothing else on the system is running even remotely slowly, what could be causing a delay right there?

I also find that this happens to me sometimes. For me it seems to be the first time that I go to use it. I guess I have never had the patience to wait and see how long it would take to finish I usually just kill it and do it again. The second time it seems to work in a timely manner. I dont have any clue as to why it may do this. Just thought I would let you know it happens to me too sometimes.

By the way I have learned about some details that I was still fuzzy on, thanks all.

adssse, are you using a wireless card? I swapped out my Atheros card in favor of a wired D-Link 10/100 card today and the problem doesn't happen any longer. I still don't know exactly why it happened, but it went away when I went "wired."

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Posted: July 16 2005,02:45

I think you are right, SomeGuyWithDSL. I have the same problem when using my laptop with wireless but I don't when wired. However I put up with it because I can set in my recliner (where there is no convenient way to go wired) and use my laptop. '

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Posted: July 16 2005,04:25

Hmm I have this symptom on both my laptop (wireless) and my old desktop (wired). When I pick a category, such as net, wmnet shows just a little bit of net activity for a second and than... nothing. Like I said at this point I usually just kill it and relaunch without problems.

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