Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week So I'm frantically sorting and purging, (Possibly) Dumb question: Why, if the new place is at least as big as what you have now? cha-grin Umm, because I have *piles* of journals that I've been meaning to scan/sort/read, not to mention a box or 4 of stuff that was supposed to be sorted through from the *last* move...I don't want to move all of it again! Rob, David, Erik, Dave -- thanks for the input; will do. Debbi whose younger cat thinks all the boxes and bags are fun new hiding pouncing features, but whose older cat obviously remembers something of the last move, and is rather anxiously pacing about, looking perturbed __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions (addendum)
And thanks to William too! (Knew I just shoulda said Thanks everyone for the advice...) Debbi Journal-Purging Fool Maru ;) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
Deborah, -Macintosh Performa 6220CD/75 16/1 GB This is a really old, really slow machine with hardly any memory or disk space. Even in its day, this was only a middling Mac. Despite my status as a dedicated Mac zealot for most of the 20 years they've been around, I wouldn't recommend this machine. It's based on the first-generation PowerPC chip, and it only runs at 75MHz, meaning it's at least ten times slower than a decent Mac today. My own 266MHz beige PowerMac mostly sits around collecting cat hairs because it's just too slow. Really, I wouldn't even recommend giving it to a school or other non-profit, it's so anemic. -Hewlett Packard Pavillion 6535 designed for Windows 98, w/ Intel Celeron sticker This one has (I think) a 466MHz processor, which is about half the speed of a mid-range PC today. Again, despite the fact that I worked at Apple for seven years and still bleed six-color blood, I'd go for the HP (where I *also* worked for seven years, but it's just not the same...) in a minute. Sincerely, Dave David M. Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-551-0427 Connect to the Conversation -- Identify Influencers, Topics and Trends ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
On 27 Jan 2004, at 2:03 am, Dave Land wrote: My own 266MHz beige PowerMac mostly sits around collecting cat hairs because it's just too slow. Too slow for some things, but I have one of those working very nicely as a server running 24/7 under Mac OS X 10.2.8 . It has Apache and MySQL and a MUSH and an RSS news aggregator and Syslogs my firewall too. It manages months of uptime at a stretch (between security updates) - my only concern is that its original 6GB HD, which must be about six years old, will fail. It was only about ten years ago that a 100MHz Pentium with 32MB of RAM running NetWare and Oracle served the entire department I worked in ... so a 266MHz G3 with 512MB RAM is a way powerful server :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. - Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1984. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Moving: Irregulars book questions
I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. reverent mode Manna from heaven. Truly. So I'm frantically sorting and purging, and must now ask the computer-saavy here what I should have last month: I've been given 2 computers for home use (primarily I'll use for word processing and a little email, don't care about games or fancy graphics; use the T1 line at the office for serious research): -Macintosh Performa 6220CD/75 16/1 GB -Hewlett Packard Pavillion 6535 designed for Windows 98, w/ Intel Celeron sticker I'm thinking the HP, especially since I haven't worked with a Mac before - any opinions? (Or merely hysterical laughter? ;} ) Books-gifts received: to read or not to read/keep/move? -Greg Bear's _Slant_ (inclined to try unless told to toss) -L. Neil Smith's _Bretta Martyn_ (going to pitch unless it gets *significantly* better than the first 3 chapters - tiresome decadent old lizards with nekkid virtual-slave female 'servants' --oh, pu-LEEZ). I will be checking my email every few days, but won't have time to do much interacting/non-urgent research until I've completed the move. TIA- Debbi She Who Must Now Pack At Warp Speed Maru ;) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
- Original Message - From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brinl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:08 PM Subject: Moving: Irregulars book questions Books-gifts received: to read or not to read/keep/move? -Greg Bear's _Slant_ (inclined to try unless told to toss) Its quite good once the story gets moving. -L. Neil Smith's _Bretta Martyn_ (going to pitch unless it gets *significantly* better than the first 3 chapters - tiresome decadent old lizards with nekkid virtual-slave female 'servants' --oh, pu-LEEZ). It would make more sense if you have read Henry Martyn beforehand, but it is also quite good and shows how good Smith can be when he wants to. BTW, Smith lives near Ft Collins, Co. He's a pretty nice guy if you're not discussing politics or philosophy thereof, but that's not all that common an occurrence. G (The guy is definitely a true believer) xponent Recommends The Crystal Empire Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote: Books-gifts received: to read or not to read/keep/move? -Greg Bear's _Slant_ (inclined to try unless told to toss) It is more or less a sequel to _Queen of Angels_, so you may want to read that first. They are both worth reading. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. reverent mode Manna from heaven. Truly. Wow. Good for you. -Macintosh Performa 6220CD/75 16/1 GB Don't know... -Hewlett Packard Pavillion 6535 designed for Windows 98, w/ Intel Celeron sticker Hey, don't laugh! I still use Windows 98. (It's familiar, and later versions are not much better for what I do.) I bet it would be fine. Books-gifts received: to read or not to read/keep/move? -Greg Bear's _Slant_ (inclined to try unless told to toss) Read. Pretty good. ---David ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
On 26 Jan 2004, at 10:08 pm, Deborah Harrell wrote: So I'm frantically sorting and purging, and must now ask the computer-saavy here what I should have last month: I've been given 2 computers for home use (primarily I'll use for word processing and a little email, don't care about games or fancy graphics; use the T1 line at the office for serious research): -Macintosh Performa 6220CD/75 16/1 GB Discontinued in 1996. 75MHz PowerPC 603 CPU. Worth about $30. A 'horrible architecture' to 'be avoided at all costs' :) http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/x200.shtml You could run MkLinux on it, but even then the serial ports don't go above 9600bps making it rather slow on the internet... -Hewlett Packard Pavillion 6535 designed for Windows 98, w/ Intel Celeron sticker Introduced in 1999 (?) 466Mhz Celeron CPU. Probably a bit more useful than the Performa :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again. -George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions
At 04:08 PM 1/26/04, Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. reverent mode Manna from heaven. Truly. So I'm frantically sorting and purging, (Possibly) Dumb question: Why, if the new place is at least as big as what you have now? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Book questions
On 11 Jan 2004, at 4:49 am, G. D. Akin wrote: Has anyone read Kim Stanley Robinson's Orange County trilogy? I have. Are they worth reading? I found the third (_Pacific Edge_ the Utopian version of Orange County) very dull. But _The Wild Shore_ and _The Gold Coast_ were quite good. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. - Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1984. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Has anyone read Kim Stanley Robinson's Orange County trilogy? Are they worth reading? George A ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
