Comments on: Set up Ubuntu for speed

By: It might be giant « Motho ke motho ka botho

It might be giant « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:29:35 +0000

[...] some issues with the omnipresent Ubuntu setup guide, since I shifted it to a page on this blog a couple of months ago. I had it set up as a series of nested pages, and while that appealed to my manic-organizer [...]

By: johnraff

johnraff — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:48:20 +0000

Well, links are pure html of course, so you should be able to put them straight in your pages OK.
(Hey how do you escape html code in a comment? I’ll use square brackets instead of angle brackets for now.)
eg put [a href="/set-up-ubuntu-for-speed/index"]Index[/a] at the bottom of the page, and make a /set-up-ubuntu-for-speed/index page for it to link to. “previous” and “next” would mean going over the guide and deciding what order it should be read in, but would be handy for people who want to read through the whole thing.
You can use full http type links like WordPress, links starting with “/” to relate to your home directory (http://kmandla.wordpress.com) or relative links starting with ../ to go up a folder etc.

That index you now have on the left of the page is OK but on my screen at least it occupies half of the column that might be better used for text. Perhaps you could move it to the bottom of the page?

I wonder if it might be quicker to copy/paste the content of the pages from your “set up Hardy for speed” guide into WordPress, complete with links? The links might need editing a little bit to get the root right, though.

btw you can sneak a bit of css into your pages if you write it directly into the html.
eg [p style="border:2px black solid"]stuff[/p]

By: Onyros

Onyros — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:21:55 +0000

I really think that the speed guides actually make even more sense now. True that dual and quad core CPU’s changed the “game”, but there are also a lot more people finally realizing that they don’t need top of the line hardware to do what they do with a computer.

Netbooks are an utter success exactly because of that, and I think they were the final step of the democratization, the complete massification of computers. And we all know that those machines aren’t exactly using the fastest processors out there.

People are starting to care more about energy saving than some kind of performance they’ll never need or use, for that matter. Your guides will thrive with that, you’ll see

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:07:35 +0000

johnraff: Thanks for the suggestions. I’m going to slant things toward the most recent release, but I’ll definitely make a note if something doesn’t apply to a particular edition.

And as far as navigation goes, I put a rudimentary index alongside each page, but WordPress.com is terribly prudish about what code I can use. It’s more or less pure HTML, no css or anything — I can’t even change the border color on a table!

Let me know if you can think of any other ideas.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:39:09 +0000

Hi. Last time I checked the contents of those files were remarkably similar. Chances are you could duplicate those files and edit the numbers slightly to take the place of any you deleted. No promises, but I don’t see why not.

Alternatively, just move those files (or rename them to something unusable) and restore them if you change your mind.

By: Timmy Macdonald

Timmy Macdonald — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:19:18 +0000

That is exactly what I needed, thank you!
…if I remove ttys, is there an easy way to get them back later, should I change my mind?

By: johnraff

johnraff — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:54:21 +0000

This seems like a pretty good idea – saves us 6-monthly downloads and lets you add new stuff as it comes up.

Two usability points:
1)You may have this covered anyway, but a mention if a particular tweak only applies to Gutsy or Hardy or Intrepid will be useful.
2)I expect this is on its way, but some more navigaton links, as in the downloadable versions, will make it much easier to hop around. (“next”, “previous”, “up”, “index” and the like)

And, thank you!