At 05:20 PM 1/26/03 -0000, you wrote: >> I was just in a mood and giving you a poke. > >Ah, fair enough; I must remember to return the favour sometime. *grin*
Sorry, at times I can't resist the temptation. ;-) [...] >> There has been an attempt to clarify this on FIDO recently. Linux users >> 'testing' Knoppix for minimum installs have existing Linux swap files >> onboard and Knoppix will detect this file and use it. [...] >> Knoppix has a way to create a >> VM swapfile on a FAT partition but as yet no one has mentioned if this will >> execute at the start to aid those with no swap file and not enough memory >> or this is 'after the fact' and therefore of little use to those with >> limited memory. :-) > >I'll give that a go as well and let you know. I would appreciate any additional information that I can add to my "Knoppix" webpage. I don't want to send people up the wrong alley. >> I guess I should get out more and peek into dumpsters huh? I wonder at >> times why people 'see' this and walk away. [...] > To be fair, a lot of the >things I see being junked are advertised on the second-hand newsgroups here -- >"Free to good home or we're taking them down the scrapheap" basically. I don't see that around here. :-\ >> When I was told to toss an AT&T 6300 into a dumpster I put it >> in my car, got a signed letter saying it was 'salvage', and used >> it for 15 years after that. > >Yep, I've done similar in the past -- [...] >Haven't used the 1640 since I last released an update to the GEM Desktop >(August 2000 I think) and haven't needed to use an 8086 since then. Shame >really. I was depressed when the AT&T finally got beyond the point of repair with reasonable effort. I had three of them and was swapping parts. >> With recent motherboards having onboard sound, video, etc. I would >> guess they are being dumped when these fail and there aren't enough >> slots or a way to disable the onboard functions and replace them. In >> a sense these are 'junk' but they were junk when they were manufactured >> IMO. > >I agree; my current workstation has integrated audio (thankfully the video is >on a AGP card) and network (although that's a good chipset and I've added >another card in the meantime quite happily), and if the audio fails I'm not >sure if I can add a new card. Certainly couldn't use the integrated speaker >off it, as far as I can tell. Again, a shame, but this machine will be good >for years to come (dual-processor kit is *very* nice, and it's SCSI throughout >too). Sounds good so far. >> We _may_ have alternatives some day to use more efficient hardware if the >> bloat and ineffiencies of Intel platforms becomes more obvious to everyone. >> I know, overly optimistic, but I can dream? > >I quite agree; the ever-increasing clock speeds are evidence enough IMO. I always thought the clock speeds would make this obvious but instead users are 'overjoyed' at each new faster CPU. :-\ Heat being the 'enemy' of electronics you would think this would make people have second thoughts. I guess awareness of electronics is not wide-spread. [...] >Perhaps when Itanium finally surfaces it'll show 64-bit x86 is a lot >more resource-intensive than, say, the UltraSPARC chips, and then we'll find >people thinking twice about building Intel-based machines. I had expected more from Motorola. Haven't heard much about Motorola since they stopped selling modems. Texas Instruments fouled up the QC on a gov contract and seems to have never fully recovered. Charles.Angelich "DOS Ghost" Tech Website : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Music,Photos,Stories,etc. Website : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ Default Browser HomePage : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/homepage.asp To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
