[GTALUG] Fedora 22 Live Workstation Install - no fglrx - no pdftk

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Fri Jul 31 18:18:55 UTC 2015


On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Russell Reiter wrote:

| From: Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com>

| On 7/31/15, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

| > | From: Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com>

| I got a copy of the manual when I picked up the bios.

I think that there are several manual-like-objects of varying
subject, detail, and specificity that you could have downloaded.  Each
might have some useful nuggets.

| > Your computer has one processor chip, a die, but two cores (I'd call them
| > two processors, but I'm old fashioned).  The "die" is one of the pieces
| > after the silicon wafer is "diced" (cut into bits).  The plural of "die"
| > is "dice" but most hardware folks seem to use "dies".
| 
| I suppose this is so as not to confuse it with casino dice. Another
| place where it's better to take your winnings and run.

Same word, same meaning: something that is cut up.

| > Yeah, there is animation in some desktops.  That's surely not done with
| > conventional sprites.  Of course somebody might recycle the term to mean
| > something different.
| 
| I first heard the term as "Windows Desktop Sprite." I first heard
| about sprites in old fairytales.
| 
| Here's a googled definition.

| 2. a computer graphic that may be moved on-screen and otherwise
| manipulated as a single entity.

Not a particularly good definition.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_%28computer_graphics%29>
isn't great, but it is better.

| I'm still looking for a table of sic sigma recommendations, often the
| service manuals are available somewhere deep in the bowels of the
| internet.

I think you mean "six sigma".

Uneducated prejudice:

Six sigma started out as a somewhat arbitrary quality metric.  Sigma
is the standard deviation of a distribution.  Six sigma is meant to be
six standard deviations away from the mean.  I think that the
distribution is assumed to be Gaussian (Bell Curve), which is usually
safe, but probably not so far from the centre.

Now six sigma is a religious movement for improving manufacturing and
various other business processes.

I don't actually understand your usage.


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