On Sat Feb 11 13:54:32 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > all i'm saying is that it is not true that using a computer is now > > slower than it used to be. > > > Yes it is. Just hunting down a floppy that has no bad sectors > consumes significant fractions of my working day.
i'm not going to ask why you're looking for a floppy. > In fact, Ubuntu Linux takes exception of my 2.4GHz Celeron board that > has only 128MB of RAM and runs about as fast as it does on the above, > which is perfectly unusable. there are lots of solutions here, if you choose to take them. i've got gentoo running on a 128M ibm thinkpad 570. i'm sure you could get gentoo running on your celery machine or, now here's a thought, plan 9. > PS: I warrant that conditions here are hardly the norm, but I am a > sophisticated computer user and only rarely do I get the benefits of > Moore's law, > whereas I am constantly reminded of the corollary you > reject. suit yourself. i'm pretty sure things have gotten better since dos TSR programs and sneaker nets. - erik
