Hi Ky!
KM> which caused a sluggishness in the BBS editor, sometimes severe
KM> at time,
> almost to the point I thought things had locked up. One click to
> allocate 768 MB seems to have solved 99% of the problem: occasionally
> see a slight hesitation.
KM> This is where I express my astonishment that it runs on a mere
KM> 768mb!
I know! With normal Windows it would be barely crawling along -- and I
don't see any additional HDD activity.
> Now for what VM you need for your side.....
KM> A big one. <g>
<Taking out tape measure....>
> KM> You wouldn't believe how many error messages go by up to the
> KM> point where the Mac installer finally spits up a GUI. Literally
> KM> hundreds, mostly referencing internal hacks. Never let it be said
> KM> Apple fixed a bug if they could paste over it instead!
> I'm surprised they haven't renamed to "insect": sounds nicer than 'bug'!
KM> They probably have; that way they can claim it has no bugs!
Rear Admiral Hopper would be so proud!
> I'll probably stick with Ubuntu: went that fork as the TV recording equipment
> is Mythbuntu: MythTV on a pared-down Ubuntu OS. (The OS can
> be upgraded to the full-blown version; a few of the Mythbuntu Frontends
> can be used both ways.)
KM> One I never had to look at doing a specific job, then I might
KM> stand to keep one of Ubuntu's relations, but as an everyday
KM> desktop, I'd have to hurt someone!
<Looking at misbehaving computers hanging on the fence; thinking
probably not an idle threat> Maybe because I don't know any better, but
seems to work to my satisfaction. (And not an arguement, just a
comment.) And would how are you on Raspbian? Playing with that a
little.
> KM> ReactOS is geared toward being compatible with Windows (right now
> KM> the goal is to be byte-compatible with Win2003), and runs on
> KM> FAT32, so was treated as a DOS partition. Tho XP's boot loader
> KM> calls it "Unidentified Operating System on Partition C" :)
> Good thing wasn't limited to the 8.3 convention!! You'd have a
> "UOSonPtC"!
KM> "GuessOS" :)
:) Or in France that would be the 'Système opérationnel', so is the
"GuessSo"!
> <whimper!> ...Looking/scanning some onf the Google hits on PCLinuxOS --
> may be a worthwhile consideratin for my old laptop. Knew one of the
> potential problems was going to be it's memory limitations: IIRC max of
> 4 GB, has 3 installed. PCLinuxOS has a minumum recommended 1 GB, so maybe...
KM> You have an interesting definition of "old" :) It does fine on a
KM> box that's got 2GB RAM and probably half or a third as much CPU.
KM> 4GB on a laptop, I should have such complaints! <g>
Actually I have two laptops: the one I was talking about is the older of
the two so is the old laptop. ...The older of the two is a Lenovo T61
and the newer is an HP something-or-other -- which has never left the
house. At least the T61 gets to wander with me once in a while.
> KM> that much difference... even my TinyXP install uses more RAM!
> I think you have a decimal point playing tricks on you! <gg> (Semi-
> referencing an old joke about an accountant miscalculating because he thought
> a particle from an eraser was a decimal point,)
KM> New definition of particle physics :D
<groan!>
> KM> XP64, on somewhat faster hardware, takes about 90 seconds to boot
> KM> and uses around <looking> 400mb RAM (tho it has all its drivers
> KM> and networking, and has presently been up for about six weeks).
> OK - I don't feel so bad waiting. :) ...BTW, speaking of boot speeds,
> I recently installed a 'new' printer server. (For anyone else reading
> this it is device which 'translates' a network address for use by the
> USB printer, so instead of relying on a specific computer the USB
> printer is independant.)
KM> An actual physical device or in software?
Physical device. D-Link DP-301U -- got it on a super-good deal from
eBay for $12.50!!
> Old printer server which I got years ago, was frequently horrendously
> slow: sometimes several minutes before the printer turned on. (The
> problem was under XP and then Ubuntu.) Also would constantly drop out,
> requiring a power boot (of the server). The new server has not
> experienced a drop out, plus the printer wakes up within a few seconds
> (longest I've counted was 14).
KM> Progress!
Definitely! Not sure where the problem was with the old printer server
(also a physical device. 'Starting point' might be my HP 940c isn't
listed but the 920c is, and they're supposed to be equivalent (the 940c
being faster), but maybe there's a difference in the chips. Figuring
the problem was in the server as had the same issues under XP as did
with Ubuntu.
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