Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> It depends a lot on location, as I'm sure it also does in France. 
> Although I don't recall seeing forests during my two visits there, I'm
> sure they still exist.  

Are you being sarcastic and refering to the tempest we had for X-mas
1999 that ruined all forests all over the country ?? :-/
Yes, okay, that caused tiny/lost villages to live without electricity
for a few hours... But it was the tempest of the century, hardly usual
thank God ;o) It's global warming they say... :-/
But the trees are okay now, forests are good looking again, you are
welcome to come and have a look next time you are around :o)

> We have a lot of 100-foot plus evergreens locally

Oh yes, they look nice and very impressive. The other day I heared on
the radio than one them (somewhere in the US, don't ask me where...) was
400++ foot (!) tall and recently died ? :o(

> These are Tripp-Lite Omni VS1000 units I purchased at Costco.  The have
> a USB connection and are recognized by the kernel, 

He, sounds great. Do you mean that the UPS send info to the kernel, so
that you can have a battery/autonomy indicator like on a laptop, an dso
that the Kernel can turn the machine off when the UPS tells him that
there is only 2 minutes of life left inthe battery/UPS ? Interesting :o)

> but I haven't been able to get any Linux apps (including one I downloaded from the
> manufacturer's web site) to talk to them, so I can't use all the
> features.  I figure the run time is adequate to shut things down if I am 
> home at the time an outage occurs.

That would be a great thing for a future Ubuntu realease to sort
out ?! :o)  Could be part of the ACPI/laptop work for example.



Vince