Hi Kwan, re: > I have bought the laptop. What software do you use to test its > functionality such as speed and memory access? Hmm... I don't use any sort of benchmarking programs, so I have no recommendations there. What I typically do on a new machine to test the overall throughput of the CPU and graphics subsystem is load the IDV, and put up some sort of a globe display (there are several on the RAMADDA server we operate on motherlode.ucar.edu in the IDV Community Resources -> Bundles -> Globe Displays area) and then spin the globe. How smoothly the globe spins while animating is a good indicator of how fast the graphics subsystem really is. My observation is that dedicated video cards like Nvidia provide the best experience. The first thing I would do on your new machine is get anti-virus software installed and brought up to date. As soon as your machine is functioning well (subjective), I would download and install VMware Player (www.vmware.com). After that, I would copy a VMware compatible virtual machine to your hard disk (in a directory created so that you could install more than one virtual machine). Then I would fire up VMware Player and choose the option of opening a virtual machine. Player should ask you if you copied or moved the virtual machine. I don't think that there is a big difference in answering either way, but I would say that I copied it. Now comes the fun part... if you are using the CentOS 6.x x86_64 virtual machine that I provided (I can't remember if I made this available to you already; if I didn't, I will stick it out somewhere so you can grab it), you will need to boot the virtual machine (I will refer to this as the VM from now on) in single user mode so that you can set/change the root password. Question: - do you know how to boot *nix (Unix/Linux) into single user mode? If not, I can guide you. It would be easiest to be able to talk you through the setup via a Skype or Google Hangouts link. I will be out working on my yard all day today, so I will be unavailable. I could do this tomorrow morning (Sunday) or any morning this coming week. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JAV-781741 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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