Comments for Nico de Wet http://nicodewet.com Nico's thoughts on business, software and more Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by nicodewet http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-150 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:35:24 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-150 Hope all driver issues get resolved. Let us know how things work out for you.

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by Mittu http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-149 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:51:59 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-149 By the way i too bought one y series with 2 gb preinstalled, going to buy another 4gb for it
Also planning to install ubuntu on it

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by Mittu http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-148 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:49:38 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-148 hi Alewyn,

Looks like you are facing the 2GB ram limitation in win7 Starter.
Win 7 starter supports max of 2GB:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions

Installing win 7 premium should solve your issue

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by Alewyn http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-147 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:49:46 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-147 Hi Nico,

thanks for your reply – i got access to the BIOS – there is reads my 4GB RAM just fine, but when i go back into windows, right click on computer to access the system information it still reads “installed RAM: 4GB (2GB usable). …… so i am still only running on half the RAM installed – breaking my brain on this

thanks for the help though, think i am just going to install a 64 bit windows 7

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by nicodewet http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-146 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:23:13 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-146 Hi Alewyn,

I managed to access the InsydeH20 BIOS, clicking F2 upon startup should do the trick (I struggled to get this working consistently). Also if memory serves, this BIOS is a new generation BIOS, written in C, but its best to consult Insyde’s website.

About the RAM, 4GB on 64 bit OS should work just well. I’m more concerned about a battery upgrade at this point in time. 2GB is working fine for Eclipse based development.

Cheers,
Nico

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by alewyn http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-145 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:56:58 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-145 Hi Nico,

also got the vaio notebook vpcyb35ag with 4 GB ram installed, but in my system properties it read “installed RAM: 4.00 GB (2.00 GB usable)” – i am running the original W7 starter OS 32-bit (realising the limitation on 32-bit OS of 4 GB RAM).

I have read a bunch of forums etc regarding this problem, most refer to running msconfig, boot tab, – un-tick the system RAM – but mine was un-ticked by default, others refer to going into the initial BIOS setup and seeing if the BIOS picks up the 4 GB ram, but i can’t access the BIOS, read on another review that the vaio y series comes like that for “security” reasons……….not allowing users to enter the BIOS setup…… why i dunno, also don’t know how to un-do that.

i realise that this isn’t what you originally posted about, but perhaps you can send me in the right direction?

as i have it i should just install a 64-bit W7 HOME edition…. but don’t know how well this machine will run doing that, i have another 2 GB of RAM that i can install once i have installed the 64-bit OS.

what would you recommend? oh and merry christmas and happy new year…

awe

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by Andres Zubelzu http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-143 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:12:30 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-143 Hello Im study electronic engineering.

I want a netbook/notebook,Which do you recommend Vaio yb25al or samsung RV511, for installing Fedora 16?

I from Argentina my english is very bad LOL

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by nicodewet http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-136 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:35:09 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-136 32 bit, so that means max 4GB RAM, but it also comes in 64 bit guise which is what you should get if you want to address 8GB RAM

]]> Comment on Fedora 16 on Pimped Up Sony Vaio Y Series by dnx http://nicodewet.com/2011/11/27/fedora-16-on-pimped-up-sony-vaio-y-series/#comment-135 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:47:05 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=515#comment-135 is it 32 bit architecture or will it support 64 bit software ?
i am planning a ram upgrade and there are 2 kits that i am looking at.. a 4gig (2x 2gig cl7)
and a 8gigkit(2x4gig cl9)….currently it will only access 3gigs of the 4 but if it is compatible with the 8gig then why not??? any thoughts?

]]> Comment on Clean code – store native SQL statements in external file by Jan van der Vyver http://nicodewet.com/2009/12/29/clean-code-store-native-sql-statements-in-external-file/#comment-134 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:16:55 +0000 http://nicodewet.com/?p=106#comment-134 mmmm SQL belongs in ORM, not in code…. but that is just my 2c

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