On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:25:53PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >> Sure he can, he just has to under-clock his computer down to 2.1ghz as > >> win98 > >> has a cpu freq limit. > > Sage advice from Dirty Harry: > > A man has got to know his limitations.
An OS too! ;) > I remember a few years back, I had a multi-boot box with Win 98 (or > ME) / 2000/ and Linux > > and I upgraded from 768 MB of RAM to 1 GB which rendered Win 9x > inoperative ( unless you know how to jump through some hoops, find a > knowledge base article on it if your must ). I was going to consider claiming the proffered 512 PC133 stick if Neil hasn't already done so. > unsigned double long would work? is that the ansi standard? I learned > 'c' from the first edition of k&r and never got into the new stuff ( > but have a copy of 2nd ed ). uint32_t goes to 4GHz easily enough, uint64_t (if defined) will go up to .. well, a lot more. =) > >(If someone has a > 6 GB HD that they've declared obsolete, I can give it > >a good home in a system being assembled for a new college student out of > >some of my old parts and a couple of new ones that I probably wouldn't > >have needed had I seen this thread two weeks ago..) > > I have two candidates for you to consider: > > an 18 GB Hard drive ( was not working last time I tried it) > > and > > a 26 GB Hard drive ( worked about 3 months ago ) > > Are you attending the meeting tomorrow? I should be. Bob brought me a 20 GB drive that also "worked when last spun up".. I haven't tested it yet, may not get the opportunity to. Will probably bring the whole system to euglug tomorrow. May bring more than one. =) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
