pabloMVM
join:2003-06-23
kudos:1 | reply to jimkyle
Re: Good distro for a 60 year old man? ... that's right ... and for my "mental bubblegum", that's why I was thinking of doing technical OSS work.
For the physical side, I'll continue to run/x-c ski/swim ... perhaps if I can outlive my competitors, I might actually place. 
Cheers,
-pablo
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 JohnInSJPremium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
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Dude! I am pretty sure I read your Btrieve book in the mid 90s.
Of course I was just a kid back then 
to the OP - Ubuntu is nice on a Laptop, although I am less of a fan of the new desktop (being old myself, and partial to older Gome...)
SSD size? bigger. 120GB+
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to me1212
Ended up putting mint 14(cinnamon) on his laptop for him to try out. He loves it so far, he keep saying how much faster it is than windows for him. Gonna get him an ssd sooner or later, and yeah probably 120GB. |
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Modern as in brand spanking new Vertex bought last summer that died after 3 months from the controller failing rendering the drive completely unreadable? The replacement drive lasting only 6 weeks?
Nah, while they make a great boot volume, you'd better backup every 15 mins and have deep pockets to keep replacing them. |
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said by intok:Modern as in brand spanking new Vertex bought last summer that died after 3 months from the controller failing rendering the drive completely unreadable? The replacement drive lasting only 6 weeks?
Nah, while they make a great boot volume, you'd better backup every 15 mins and have deep pockets to keep replacing them.
I'll respectfully disagree. IMO, your experience is not indicative of the experience of millions of SSD users (please do not insult me by pointing me to OCZs 'support' forums). I will agree that coders make mistakes, but they make mistakes on all storage devices, not just SSD.
Bottom line - do what you want but don't bash technology that didn't work for you for 1 reason or another.
The screenshots are on (almost) 3yr old Vertex2 and Momentus XT on 7yr old workstation.
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | Two builds each with Crucial M4 SSD main disk and WD Black rotating-rust for data disk... SSD problems 0, rotating disk problems 2.
Clearly, my anecdotal evidence (which is just as valid as someone else's anecdotal evidence) says that SSDs never fail and rotating disks always fail. |
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 kingdome74Emotionally UnavailablePremium
join:2002-03-27
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I'll 57 in 6 days and I use Mint Mate. I can use any of them but I've been trying to find some form of linux to replace Windows on my wife's laptop. If your Dad can run Windows without any problems he should be able to run Mint without any too.
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Depending upon just how old your Laptop might be in the decision to add an SSD,consider the fact that in the case
of my older Toshiba Satellite A-105 1.7GHz Dual Core, it simply does not know about things such as AHCI or SATA II or SATAIII which makes it problematic to say the least to substitute an SSD for it`s original SATA HDD. |
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 J E F FWhatta Ya Think About Dat?Premium
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said by me1212:60 year old former pro baseball player
Dammit, now you got me wondering. Was this "pro" as MLB or minors? I know, I know, not computer related at all!
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:8 | reply to mattrixx
You probably meant to reply to the OP, not to me. I'm not planning to do anything to a laptop; I was merely refuting the notion that all SSDs are unreliable.
Your point is a good one, though. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to J E F F
He used to play for the cardinals. That was about 44 years ago though. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I've heard some stories, for the most part is sounds nice. Like being the only sober one in the group(due to being under age) and convincing everyone to make a 2AM run to dominoes pizza. |
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 Bill_MIBill In MichiganPremium,MVM
join:2001-01-03
Royal Oak, MI
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Many are supporting Mint 14 but a few are leaning Mint 13 because it's Long Term Support (LTS). MATE version is my fave, too.
I'm only a year behind your Dad's age and I must admit I like LTS these days. It'll go for 5 years (I think Mint finally went with Ubuntu on that?)
Part of the selection has to be: What can YOU help support for him? I mean, Ubuntu's Unity has some following but many of us would NOT want to go there. 
And 60GB is plenty for your description. It would be when he starts collecting videos of the grandkids that could get small in a hurry. |
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said by me1212:I've heard some stories, for the most part is sounds nice. Like being the only sober one in the group(due to being under age) and convincing everyone to make a 2AM run to dominoes pizza.
Ah....man...to be so young again. When you're a teen, time isn't important...going for pizza at 2 am is part of the growing up process.
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said by ImpldConsent:LOL, between the OP getting slammed for the "60" yr old thing and this comment - the post suddenly became hilarious. Todays SSDs will probably outlive your current MHDD. Better do some research before a statement like this. Whats "MHDD"? |
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 jimkyleBtrieve GuyPremium
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said by JohnInSJ:Dude! I am pretty sure I read your Btrieve book in the mid 90s. Amazingly enough, it's still in print and still selling a copy now and then. I just deposited my royalty check from last year: all of $12. However I don't know any other tech-heavy book published in 1995 that's still selling without ever going to a second edition... It's even outlived the original publisher!
Thanks for recognizing it!
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to J E F F
Eh it wasn't all fun and games, he almost got deported once. |
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| said by me1212:Eh it wasn't all fun and games, he almost got deported once.
Yeah, well, back then Canadians weren't welcomed in the USA....
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | He was born here. but there was an illegal alien raid on his uncles railroad, and he answered the cops in a foreign language when they spoke to him in it.
And we be hispanic for the record not canadian |
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