Orange (EE) Updating Samsung Galaxy Note 1 to 4.1.2 :-)
At last!
About time Orange!
Just saw that AT&T in the states was rolling out an update a few days ago, I wonder what the connection is…
Maybe EE were just embarrassed about being so late?
Anyway Samsung were so lucky… as I had just made a promise to myself that I would be going Nexus 5, as the carriers were so slow with updates.
So to recap I have had 2 updates one to 4.04 and another to 4.1.2 in the 13 months I have had the phone.
They were pushing things this time but… OK.
The plan I have been following is:
Go with a flagship phone from a successful company, who updates.
Go with a phone company that updates.
Next time?
Well if the Nexus 5 is a good phone, in 11 months, Google may have another customer.
Want:
- Big hi-resolution screen with LTE.
- Removable battery
- Upgradeable storage
1 is a dealbreaker, but 2 and 3, I think I can (possibly) live without.
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Note: Speed up Chrome mount .cache/google-chrome in RAM
Create the script: chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Add the following to the script:
#!/bin/bash
if test -d /tmp/chrome; then
exit 0
else
rm -r ~/.cache/google-chrome
mkdir /tmp/chrome
ln -s /tmp/chrome ~/.cache/google-chrome
fi
Change the script permissions:
$ chmod +x ./chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Add the script to the Session and Startup > Applications Autostart:
Name: Chrome Cache
Command: /home/<user>/chrome_tmp_cache.sh
Comment: Move Chrome cache to /tmp
From here.
Check:
/home/<user>/.cache/google-chrome/Default/
/tmp/chrome/
Note: Speed up Xubuntu mount tmp in RAM
Copy /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab-old
edit fstab and add:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
Note: Check if realtime is the default with cat /proc/mounts
How to know if noatime or relatime is default mount option in kernel?
This should list all the options a filesystem was mounted with:
cat /proc/mounts
from here.
Ubuntu looks to default to relatime :-)
Note: xfce appfinder slow to start – try “xfce4-appfinder -c –disable-server”
xfce4-appfinder -c –disable-server
via tmartiro
Interesting: The Dell Buyout: Storm Warning for the Tech Industry
The Dell Buyout: Storm Warning for the Tech Industry
What it means to the rest of us
I think the Dell deal is just the beginning of the Windows 8 fallout. There are several other, bigger, shoes waiting to drop.
What will the other major PC licensees do? If you’re working at a company like HP or Acer, everything about this situation feels ugly. Your faith in Windows has been broken, you’re losing share to Lenovo, and now Microsoft is subsidizing one of your biggest competitors. I’d be tempted to fly out to Redmond and demand my own handout. And I’d also be willing to look at more radical options. There are several possibilities:
Okay Upgrade to Xubuntu 13.04 works ;-)
Yeah I succumbed to temptation and hit the big shiny upgrade button.
All working OK.
My actual distro is Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop added, but after the upgrade it still remembered that I log on to Xfce \o/