[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=3313632]ChungHung.Chen[/MENTION] thank you Mr. Chen. "Busy" is OK. I get busy too sometimes and don't have the time to come sit at the Help Desk or yak much at times. My current project is to replace my aging Pentium 4 3GHz 3Gb RAM CentOS 6 Linux server with a better one. Years ago, one could not really buy a "really good" w/out spending thousands of dollars. You spent $300-400 and got a piece of junk Celeron with built in everything and "to try and make it nice"m they threw in a couple of tiny plastic "rattle boxes" (speakers), a junk monitor, junk keyboard & mouse, and "Software" that was all free anyway, trial versions, trimmed down OEM versions and that was it. If you wanted something "good", you built it yourself.

I am on my 3rd KickAss PC now, $2,000 in parts from Newegg with 500Gb SSD, 16GB DDR3 RAM, GeForce GTX 670 video card, and a lot more. But I took Christa's old Pentium 4 because it is better than what I have and I can upgrade it for less than $25. I need a home Linux Server because I do websites and Linux is where I store the sites offline, the Linux box has apache webserver, and I can preview the site and pages offline as they would appear online and even give the client a URL to my www.domain!/~paul/<domainname website> so that he can preview it as well before publishing to the web. I love this method and have done it all my life.

I love CentOS because it is really Enterprise Linux without the tech help that normally costs thousands of dollars. I am at version 6.6 and cannot update to v 7 because that requires a 64 bit machine. I found a nice Pentium 4 CPU, 3.6GHHzm x64 CPU at eBay for $24 and ordered it, free shipping from China. Got here in maybe 10 days or less. So that is what is keeping me busy. Plus, I am having a blast doing this all over again. Man, Linux changed quite a bit in this new release. No more chkconfig or other system commands, everything is now done with systemctl. Plus I did not turn off Selinux this time and decided to learn it. I set mine to Permissive and it is nice, the screen will tell you that when you start up a new server like httpd (web server), how to permit it in Selinux and what commands to issue. Of course the machine is on my LAN and has internet as well as file sharing so I can easily put and take things from my real Windows 7 PC. I also have Webmin installed as well as SSHD so I can ssh into the PC and run a command line. Yes, I am having fun and yes, I am "Busy". :D

Anyway, since the 04/26 build gave me such a wicked blackscreen that I lost phone calls, I used OTA to downgrade back to 04/12. Using an in place file to run OTA is the same as the "Dwillian Dump" so this is good for me. If I restored a backup, I would lose everything that upgraded, updated, call log, and MMS messages since then. I do not "dislike" the 05/26 build, but without any changelogs, we have no idea of what was done to this build to upgrade or fix anything since the last one. Since I did not have any issues that needed improving and the new build did not seem any "better" (or worse), I left it be. But losing calls due to black screen issues is just too much to ask. I will sit on 04/12 for now until something for sure better comes along.

Please, by all means, be busy, have fun, and when you have time, let us know how things are going on your XT910 phone and the build date. You are a precious resource here, Mr. Chen. We cannot afford to lose you or be "too demanding".

Thanks for writing back! :)

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EDIT:

Just to show the difference in 3D desktops, this is Compiz running on Linux. Yes, it is the most fabulous eye candy you will ever see on a desktop, but it is very useful. Takes screenshots, not one but as many desktops as you like, I have 4. You can do anything you want on any desktop and easily switch between window 1 with email and music, window 2 with browser and tabs, window 3 with file copying through network, etc.. You can even "Rotate the entire desktop" as a cube! See screenshot. Yeah, I am pretty excited with this, even though been there, done that many times. :)