Simon Royal wrote:

Hi I am interested in getting Geekbench in Xubuntu. I have downloaded the file from the website, unpacked it and went to Execute it, but it doesn't do anything. I'm dual booting XP and Xubuntu on my ThinkPad 600 and have benched XP and would like to see if there is an diference under Xubuntu.

Simon Royal

Works for me

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=243754

First of all if you are new to linux you should know that as a security measure executable files will only run if placed within a directory that is included in your path

This is to prevent somebody placing a rogue file called say "ls" in your home dir and thus tricking you into running it.

You can circumvent this by adding ./ before the filename when launching it from a terminal or by calling it with a full path to the file (i.e. /home/foo/desktop/filename)

So unpack the archive...then a few folders down you will find geekbench_x86_32, extract this somewhere and then in a terminal navigate to this place and run ./geekbench_x86_32

Alternatively if you want it to run normally you need to save it in one of the directories returned by running the command 'echo $PATH' but hopefully you will need superuser access to write files in there.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:39:00 +0100 mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:

See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/web_gravy_train/

Apparently Norfolk was the No 2 spender on web services. (But at least they appear to be running apache on unix (according to netcraft))

There is a model publication scheme from the Information Commissioner's Office in connection with the Freedom of Information Act which councils of various sizes were required to adopt by 1st January 2009 along with some government departments. Part of the scheme is for the council to decide what information to publish and there is strong encouragement for councils to put as much as they reasonably can on a web site rather than wait for people to submit access requests.

Personally it seems to me that having plenty of information about the services the councils provide with the money we pay them can only be a good thing provided people can still see the wood for the trees.

The usefulness of the information depends on how accurate, up to date and complete it and whether it is easy to find rather than on how flash the website is and I'd be skeptical of claims that an expensive content management system would be the only way to achieve that.

Steve.