Re: [tlug] Japanese and Android tablets like the Nexus 7

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com>]

Welcome Andrew,

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Andrew M <gababagonist@example.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody. I just signed up... and it's nice to join a group of like
> minded people. I'm looking forward to going to the next meet up whenever
> that might be and I'm looking forward to meeting lots of like minded
> individuals, just wanted to say hello.
>
Not sure exactly how TLUG will be classified as "like minded
individuals", but if you define "out of ordinary" as one group, I
think most of us will be included :-)

> A little bit about myself- I'm 25 years old and living in Japan for a total
> of 4 years now, still working on my Japanese. I've been using Linux since
> the age of 13 and I'm always tinkering around with something.
>
That is quite some mileage, you must be likeing it or just feeling
masochistic :-)
Both are welcome.

> My current project is finding out how to hell I'm going to use 16 gigabytes
> of RAM .
>
Not sure why you need to worry about using 16GB of RAM, the kernel is
usually taking care of that and using most of it for disk caching at
least. I run on 32 and 64GB on my workstations (for digital forensics)
and it helps a lot.

> Originally I was planning on running FreeBSD in a virtual
> environment with its own dedicated network card as a server however I
> decided that the ports system was too slow and not gratifying.. I much
> prefer downloading binary packages.
>
Cough, cough... If you run Gentoo and setup a distcc farm then build
your packages with MAKEOPTS=-j16 to build a few packages at the same
time it will use it. Not sure what is slow about ports (never used
FreeBSD), but with a decent machine (or a few) building packages from
source is not much of a pain. And if you have to pull a few
dependencies (the dreaded dev-* packages on some distros), it may be
even faster.

Cheers,
Kalin.