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Sorry about the formatting of that last post. I was sending from the Kubuntu box and it was excruciatinly frustrating as the cursor was jumping all over the place. Is that a virus or gremlin in Kubuntu. This now from W7.
It seemed like I did have about 1GiB of swap memory on the HD? Would this be the optimal amount. I think I read somewhere of setting it to 2x RAM? Also does too much swapping take a toll on the HD. For the moment I'l just stick with my current linux machine to get to grips with python using small files.
Thanks Teunis. When I get hold of a spare usb without data Iĺl try it. Iǘe noticed that some usb thumb drives run quite warm normally. What about when used as a swap drive with lots of I/O?
I came across mention of zram but someone said itś now part of the linux kernel?
Iĺl try these options but Im still having trouble with the keyboard as you can see. It takes 2 strokes to get the apostophe eg I´ll, instead of the accented first l in Iĺl. Same for double quotes also tick and tilda - top left on keyboard. Iǘe (I´ve) been into system settings>locale and Input Devices but problem still there. Do you have a suggestion? If not Iĺl start a separate thread. Google indicates this sort of problem has occurred in the past but now?
...It takes 2 strokes to get the apostophe eg I´ll
That's not an apostrophe (or at least not an ASCII ', U+0027, nor a "punctuation" or "typographical" apostrophe, U+2019, the Unicode recommended one), rather an "ACUTE ACCENT", U+00B4. (Not a COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT, U+0301).
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