I have a Dell Inspiron 4000. With the second battery I get about 8 to 9 hours in Linux. The one disadvantage is the 2nd battery shares a slot with the cdrom and the floppy, so you can have only one of the three at a time.
Back in high school, I fixed computers for most of my friends. My one friend's father was a heavy smoker, and they had a cat. Talk about a nasty combination. The tar from the smoke coated the inside of the computer with sticky goo, which then got coated with cat hair. They had a harddrive and a cdrom fail on them. Of course I can't prove that that caused it, but I still refuse to work on anyone's computer if they smoke and have a cat.
Not only does this help the large recording agencies by giving them money stolen from people using cdrs for innocent reasons, it also helps them maintain their power. Any independent musicians trying to promote themselves with self-produced recordings now has to basically pay the record companies for the privelege of trying to compete with them.
Anyone else find it odd that it costs about $500 to add 128M of RAM? At least that was the only difference I could see between the small and medium configs.
Any 215'ers remember Chaotic Order? I used to call all of the boards in the upper bux/mont part of 215. What was the name of the cool one running WWIV who's name started with an I?
>Just imagine if Taco was 10 years younger, and instead of playing the game and meeting people, he just stayed at home. The result would be >no Slashdot!
Except, the original game was played on BBS's and therefore was played while staying at home as well.
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The beauty of Unix and its deriviatives(ie Linux) is their high level of customizability. If you have a device dedicated to a specific application, and you want a dedicated OS, you could write your own, or you could start with unix/linux kernel source and customize from there. That is in fact what many embedded device makers do. After all, who would want to run life support equipement on windows:)
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Well, we'll see what Sean O'Conner thinks of this :). Hit .625 megs/sec, and the box is toast.
I have a Dell Inspiron 4000. With the second battery I get about 8 to 9 hours in Linux. The one disadvantage is the 2nd battery shares a slot with the cdrom and the floppy, so you can have only one of the three at a time.
Well, they were teenagers back in the 80's. I'm sure they're old enough to work now.
Back in high school, I fixed computers for most of my friends. My one friend's father was a heavy smoker, and they had a cat. Talk about a nasty combination. The tar from the smoke coated the inside of the computer with sticky goo, which then got coated with cat hair. They had a harddrive and a cdrom fail on them. Of course I can't prove that that caused it, but I still refuse to work on anyone's computer if they smoke and have a cat.
Not only does this help the large recording agencies by giving them money stolen from people using cdrs for innocent reasons, it also helps them maintain their power. Any independent musicians trying to promote themselves with self-produced recordings now has to basically pay the record companies for the privelege of trying to compete with them.
Anyone else find it odd that it costs about $500 to add 128M of RAM? At least that was the only difference I could see between the small and medium configs.
Any 215'ers remember Chaotic Order? I used to call all of the boards in the upper bux/mont part of 215. What was the name of the cool one running WWIV who's name started with an I?
Except, the original game was played on BBS's and therefore was played while staying at home as well.
The beauty of Unix and its deriviatives(ie Linux) is their high level of customizability. If you have a device dedicated to a specific application, and you want a dedicated OS, you could write your own, or you could start with unix/linux kernel source and customize from there. That is in fact what many embedded device makers do. After all, who would want to run life support equipement on windows :)