Hell, I ran O2K on my Toshiba P75 laptop with 16MB of RAM, and except for the fact that PowerPoint transitions didn't work well at all, the hard drive was getting thrashed, and O2K programs (especially Word) GPFed a lot (not enough RAM for it to stretch out, I guess), it worked pretty well...
Actually, I have seen it on 128MB, and it was ALMOST usable. I say almost because the boxes were loaded with spyware. Of course, I did find an almost clean install, and then I wiped a whole classroom and reloaded with Windows 2000 (under teacher's orders), and noticed a MAJOR speed improvement. I'll also second the 512, if you're doing anything other than checking e-mail, though.
Is there a 486 board that'll take somewhere between 128 and 512MB RAM? We can test this theory out, you know... 486DX-33 (I'd get a 25 for this test, but...), 512MB RAM, PCI graphics card (probably a Radeon), a 3-4GB HDD, and Windows XP. How will that do?
Believe it or not, Windows XP will actually run well enough to perform benchmarks on on a P100, if THG is to be believed (they usually are not, but...) They also said that it could theoretically run on a slower CPU, all the way down to a 486DX. IIRC, with a nVidia GeForce (oh, hell, it was a high end card about 6 months ago - I forget the number), it pulled 14.5FPS in Quake 3 Arena. Not bad for a P100...
Actually, my school just got a new HP inkjet for the front office that flips their logo both vertically and horizontally, but only when it's in the orientation that they want. Trying to flip it so that it shows up on screen wrong but on paper right doesn't work either.
Opera 7 is NOT spyware. The Inquirer found out that it was connecting to PGP, thought "Oh, shit, Opera's spying on my PGP keys!", and ran with it. They then looked a bit closer, and found that it was a legit connection via Outlook that the author set up (from Opera to Outlook) himself. Also, if you're referring to the new ad system in Opera 7.2x, that's not spyware if it clearly says that some information will be sent, and if you're paranoid, go with the graphical ads.
Think about it - most of Sprint's phones, a good portion of Nextel's phones, some AT&T phones, and most likely some T-Mobile, Cingular, and Verizon phones have J2ME support. My AT&T Nokia 3100 was a free phone, and it has J2ME (I need a data cable or their pay-out-the-ass mMode service to add apps, though). I think there are some J2ME developers here on/. who could help you out. Come to think of it, I want to see a J2ME implementation of BZFlag (it would be radar-only - cell phones don't have THAT much horsepower nowadays).
If only I knew Java......then I'd code a BZFlag radar-only implementation for J2ME (my phone's a Nokia 3100 - SMALL ass phone), and frag even when I'm away from a PC (no, really - the secret to BZFlag is watching the radar, and glancing out the window, not the other way around like most people do).
They have always been able to read standard barcodes (except Code 39 is only supported by earlier units), but that's how to kill the encryption and just get a barcode.
Directions on the USB cat are at: http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/cuecat/usb/
Might as well get the PS/2 cat and a USB adaptor, unless you don't use a PS/2 keyboard.
Actually, I think it's RAM and a good OS. Windows needs about 400MHz and 256MB of RAM to work well on the Internet. Me? I run a P233MMX with 96MB RAM on Linux, and it ran flash stuff FINE (pr0n mpegs don't do so well, but...)
They wanted high end chips like the Prescotts, Northwoods, and AMD64 chips. VIA and Transmeta aren't even close in clock speed OR IPC to either Intel or AMD. VIA is slow because they're running old fourth-generation (read: 486) architecture, with sixth-gen instructions (think Pentium III, actually). Transmeta is slow because they're emulating an x86 - they've probably got very high VLIW IPC, but their x86 IPC is what counts.
677? Surely you mean 667, right? Also, last I heard, it was a 733. It's halfway between being a Celery and being a P3, as it has a 133MHz FSB (P3 feature), but only 128K cache (ala Celeron).
Umm... KDE 3.1.3 on Mandrake 9.2 starts in about 30 seconds. I know that sounds bad, but come to think of it, my rig is a P233MMX with 96MB RAM, and there's a bit of a delay on starting the X server (which takes 15 seconds to get to KDM) from the nVidia driver.
I think I found it - this guy got a Thunderbird? Well... (he said he cancelled his order on the Commell when he got his Thunderbird)
The best ones are by far the Radisys (because it's Micro ATX) and Commell. Radisys won't give me prices (that thread mentions that he needs to get quantities of three or more, and through a company), and a Commell reseller is charging $395 for either the Mini-PCI or Mini-AGP (used primarily in Dell Inspiron 8000 series) version (I have heard that that's better than the Thunderbird). As for the PowerLeap, it'll be released this quarter, according to the e-mail I got.
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Hell, I ran O2K on my Toshiba P75 laptop with 16MB of RAM, and except for the fact that PowerPoint transitions didn't work well at all, the hard drive was getting thrashed, and O2K programs (especially Word) GPFed a lot (not enough RAM for it to stretch out, I guess), it worked pretty well...
Actually, I have seen it on 128MB, and it was ALMOST usable. I say almost because the boxes were loaded with spyware. Of course, I did find an almost clean install, and then I wiped a whole classroom and reloaded with Windows 2000 (under teacher's orders), and noticed a MAJOR speed improvement. I'll also second the 512, if you're doing anything other than checking e-mail, though.
Is there a 486 board that'll take somewhere between 128 and 512MB RAM? We can test this theory out, you know... 486DX-33 (I'd get a 25 for this test, but...), 512MB RAM, PCI graphics card (probably a Radeon), a 3-4GB HDD, and Windows XP. How will that do?
Believe it or not, Windows XP will actually run well enough to perform benchmarks on on a P100, if THG is to be believed (they usually are not, but...) They also said that it could theoretically run on a slower CPU, all the way down to a 486DX. IIRC, with a nVidia GeForce (oh, hell, it was a high end card about 6 months ago - I forget the number), it pulled 14.5FPS in Quake 3 Arena. Not bad for a P100...
There was the one benefit that Gopher wasn't ever commercialized (or easily commercializable), so that meant more content, less ads.
128K RAM? I don't even think the DOS BOOTLOADER would like that!
and all images inside out and upside down,
Actually, my school just got a new HP inkjet for the front office that flips their logo both vertically and horizontally, but only when it's in the orientation that they want. Trying to flip it so that it shows up on screen wrong but on paper right doesn't work either.
Opera 7 is NOT spyware. The Inquirer found out that it was connecting to PGP, thought "Oh, shit, Opera's spying on my PGP keys!", and ran with it. They then looked a bit closer, and found that it was a legit connection via Outlook that the author set up (from Opera to Outlook) himself. Also, if you're referring to the new ad system in Opera 7.2x, that's not spyware if it clearly says that some information will be sent, and if you're paranoid, go with the graphical ads.
BTW, Windows XP has a time sync client built in. Also, I used Argosoft Time Synchronizer when my primary box ran Win2K.
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It clearly says baddies, not babbies.
Think about it - most of Sprint's phones, a good portion of Nextel's phones, some AT&T phones, and most likely some T-Mobile, Cingular, and Verizon phones have J2ME support. My AT&T Nokia 3100 was a free phone, and it has J2ME (I need a data cable or their pay-out-the-ass mMode service to add apps, though). I think there are some J2ME developers here on /. who could help you out. Come to think of it, I want to see a J2ME implementation of BZFlag (it would be radar-only - cell phones don't have THAT much horsepower nowadays).
If only I knew Java... ...then I'd code a BZFlag radar-only implementation for J2ME (my phone's a Nokia 3100 - SMALL ass phone), and frag even when I'm away from a PC (no, really - the secret to BZFlag is watching the radar, and glancing out the window, not the other way around like most people do).
http://oilcan.org/cuecat/decrypt.html
They have always been able to read standard barcodes (except Code 39 is only supported by earlier units), but that's how to kill the encryption and just get a barcode.
Directions on the USB cat are at: http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/cuecat/usb/
Might as well get the PS/2 cat and a USB adaptor, unless you don't use a PS/2 keyboard.
Hell, what kind of a computer user doesn't have some sort of JRE (Sun or MS, anyway) installed?
Except it's B&W, have you looked at a MS SPOT watch?
In the US, digital watches are as easy to find as analog (sometimes easier), and there are so damn MANY of them.
AFAIK, A64 is the cheapest (except for possibly Northwood), and the coolest (ditto on Northwood).
Actually, I think it's RAM and a good OS. Windows needs about 400MHz and 256MB of RAM to work well on the Internet. Me? I run a P233MMX with 96MB RAM on Linux, and it ran flash stuff FINE (pr0n mpegs don't do so well, but...)
When my local paper starts doing comparisons on PC hardware, then I'll consider computers mainstream.
That's the AMD64 - Prescott works with current P4 boards, which have a real northbridge.
They wanted high end chips like the Prescotts, Northwoods, and AMD64 chips. VIA and Transmeta aren't even close in clock speed OR IPC to either Intel or AMD. VIA is slow because they're running old fourth-generation (read: 486) architecture, with sixth-gen instructions (think Pentium III, actually). Transmeta is slow because they're emulating an x86 - they've probably got very high VLIW IPC, but their x86 IPC is what counts.
Damn Small Linux only takes the first couple mm of the CD (50MB)... maybe you could throw one of those.
677? Surely you mean 667, right? Also, last I heard, it was a 733. It's halfway between being a Celery and being a P3, as it has a 133MHz FSB (P3 feature), but only 128K cache (ala Celeron).
Umm... KDE 3.1.3 on Mandrake 9.2 starts in about 30 seconds. I know that sounds bad, but come to think of it, my rig is a P233MMX with 96MB RAM, and there's a bit of a delay on starting the X server (which takes 15 seconds to get to KDM) from the nVidia driver.
I think I found it - this guy got a Thunderbird? Well... (he said he cancelled his order on the Commell when he got his Thunderbird)
The best ones are by far the Radisys (because it's Micro ATX) and Commell. Radisys won't give me prices (that thread mentions that he needs to get quantities of three or more, and through a company), and a Commell reseller is charging $395 for either the Mini-PCI or Mini-AGP (used primarily in Dell Inspiron 8000 series) version (I have heard that that's better than the Thunderbird). As for the PowerLeap, it'll be released this quarter, according to the e-mail I got.