I live off my laptop. Fully tweaked I can my Vaio gentoo to run for 3 1/2 hours on a charge. That's fine for a bus ride, but for a long car trip I need a power inverter. I would really like to have something that could last a plane ride, or be like my Clie and just get plugged in and backed up at night.
I don't have extravigent needs. Emacs, TCL, MySQL, occasional OpenOffice. All right, I do bust out Win4Lin to do work with MicroSlog Office and AutoCAD occasionally. I used to run Win98 on a 200Mhz laptop, and that was acceptable.
My present laptop runs at 800Mhz (500 on battery.) It's boatloads more than I need. What would make me happy is more battery life, and top shut up that damn fan.
What do you need the solid state drive for? Drop in a network bootable rom on the network card and netboot the sucker. The Kernel loads of TFTP and the file system over NFS.
Completely diskless, and cheap.
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Samba file server.
Samba throws open a hell of a lot of threads. (At least on my network of 200 people.) A cluster with each node posessing an external network port would be able to split the threads across dedicated processors. Not too useful for me, but if someone was trying to serve a few thousand clients at a time, that would be useful.
Though I'm curious how anyone can work in a confined space like that, let alone be a genious. Hope it was at least something midrange size, but even then you would need to be a contortionist.
CmdrTaco needs to update his vocabulary. If the subject is alive before the procedure, but dead afterward -- that's murder! Or at least a malpractice lawsuit.
Cell phones aren't that bad. When I'm in the mood to be particularly dispicable, I put on my best South-West asian accent and demand to know where they got my number from.
My other favorite trick is having people on speed dial who are in the same room. Nothing like making a co-worker dig through his pockets, or root through her handback for a ringing phone.
Then there is also the joy of ringing someone and telling them you are going to be late, as you turn around the corner and there you are.
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I live off my laptop. Fully tweaked I can my Vaio gentoo to run for 3 1/2 hours on a charge. That's fine for a bus ride, but for a long car trip I need a power inverter. I would really like to have something that could last a plane ride, or be like my Clie and just get plugged in and backed up at night.
I don't have extravigent needs. Emacs, TCL, MySQL, occasional OpenOffice. All right, I do bust out Win4Lin to do work with MicroSlog Office and AutoCAD occasionally. I used to run Win98 on a 200Mhz laptop, and that was acceptable.
My present laptop runs at 800Mhz (500 on battery.) It's boatloads more than I need. What would make me happy is more battery life, and top shut up that damn fan.
Hmmm. Like robotics?
Completely diskless, and cheap.
Samba throws open a hell of a lot of threads. (At least on my network of 200 people.) A cluster with each node posessing an external network port would be able to split the threads across dedicated processors. Not too useful for me, but if someone was trying to serve a few thousand clients at a time, that would be useful.
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I was just sick of training people to F8 here, and F2 there, and tab-tab-tab till you enter, NO one more tab, and then ...
So long as it's Mozilla.
(My stuff is simplistic to a fault. It looks different in everyone's browser, but it's usable.)
DOH! Sweet side, SWEET side!
Or pick a genre that would make people google to find out what the reference is. Like, droids from Silent Running, or the space-ship Yamato.
Coward, come out and correct me like a ... well ... whatever form of life you are.
Is that a mobo in your pocket, or a are you just glad to see me?
FrostedWheat, you are on my sweat side today.
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Should I be worried?
Amateurs.
Though I'm curious how anyone can work in a confined space like that, let alone be a genious. Hope it was at least something midrange size, but even then you would need to be a contortionist.
Put another way, if you assembled a car from parts sold at retail prices a Saturn would cost more than a Hummer.
Hey you can poke an iYe out with that.
This is apple. It's an iTopsy.
Must not have had a good lawyer.
No, the battery is covered by the plastic housing of the case. Well, at least until you take the case apart.
Well at least you can recharge the battery on the ipod and get another few hours of enjoyment out of it. Unlike the lapdance.
No, it's a 0.1 Megaflops.
Which will come with a copy with Half-Life 2.
Nah, probably a Newton 120.
My other favorite trick is having people on speed dial who are in the same room. Nothing like making a co-worker dig through his pockets, or root through her handback for a ringing phone.
Then there is also the joy of ringing someone and telling them you are going to be late, as you turn around the corner and there you are.
Phones are so much fun!