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Skriven 2010-04-21 15:21:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: people say i'm obsessed
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

Hello Maurice.

 > doesn't think much of the lifting capacity of the atom.

 MK> Depends what you're comparing it to.  For my evil demented purposes I
 MK> am looking at capacity per watt - or perhaps better put, bang for the
 MK> buck - and finding it to be quite attractive.  

Well I require a bit more due to my computer being my sole source 
entertainment center outside of books from the public library.

I will when I go upscale limit myself to the somewhat lower power
AMD dual core at 65 watts rather than the power hungry quad core.

I mean enough is enough.

No T.V. in the apartment at all, at least no converter box for the two as I
gave that away to someone.

I can and do access the PBS.ORG web site and watch numerous science, political
and one news show there.

Unfortunately Charlie Rose is due to go off the air at the end of this month
:-(
He's the ONE U.S. reporter who seems to have garnered the respect of Greg
Palast.

However Charlie Rose has maintained he will retain a web presence on PBS.ORG

The quality of that presence as yet to be determined.

 MK> Having said this, my
 MK> favorite toy at the moment is the Xeon.  Definetly more bang there but
 MK> a single cpu alone costs many more times than a number of complete Atom
 MK> based systems so potentially they could gang up on the Xeons.

I've seen the Atom priced at about the cost of my upgrading 
the IBM ATX full tower to a multicore AMD with motherboard and 
memory.

My power supply already upgraded and adaquate for that upgrade.

I can appreciate the idea of both going green as well as being able to 
operate off the grid however should the power go down.

If it were a viable option in my circumstance I'd go for both
an Atom comparable system and a multicore AMD system but that isn't in the
cards.

 > he also mentioned he doesn't do much programming much anymore.

 MK> Getting lazy and spoiled in his old age.  I recall him saying way back
 MK> when that he quit doing backups when he realized he could access a
 MK> large number of sites worldwide and find copies of his work.  Nice work
 MK> when you can get it eh?

Well I think he's contributed quite a lot and deserves to take it easy and
actually I can also appreciate his viewpoint on accessing his O.S.
from mirrors the world over.

I do backup but it's not all that necessary as my bookmarks, text files
and a few other essentials are backed up in a tarred and compressed file attach
sent to three of the three email addresses I currently use.

Bright House offers me four more email addresses but that's a bit 
overdoing it.

The oddest thing I found on Mr. Torvalds web site was his having some
difficuties
with aspects the later releases of the operating system he initiated.

Like Mr. Torvalds I too can access his O.S. and for that matter your
32 bit mini-install.

Even a complete wipeout here wouldn't be a disaster of any real
consequence.

Less than a day for absolute and complete recovery.

Yup, my few text files and bookmarks alone contain ALL the
the urls for every single bit of added software and where to retreive
it with wget if required.

And none of tha tedious Windows registration, service packs, this and that
update 
and still it remains vulnerable requiring reinstallation.

Often every few weeks in my experience due to it's inherent instability
and vulnerability.

Today I cannot even imagine that I started out doing online banking
with Netscape 2.01 on a DOS 5.0 - Win 3.1 box.

I used Win 95 for a week and didn't like it, Win 95 for two weeks and disposed
of it.

Someone was kind enough to send me a Knoppix CD and I didn't get much traction
with
that however than you came along suggesting Slack and I'm 100 percent
happy with it.

They say Windows 7 is pretty good but by comparison I just cannot imagine that
being the case.

Let's see the cost comparison:
$140 U.S. versus FREE.

Difficult choice ;-)

Oh yes and one last thing.

I'd actually began installing an ISO saved to the hard drive on a partition
and it compiled the kernel with me only needing to alter lilo.conf
to have made it operational however chickened at the last so as to not risk 
blowing it and losing my internet access. 

That was back when the Nvidia video card was in and I'd no way to boot to a 
rescue CD due to it blocking that option in the BIOS with it's own version
of a BIOS that conflicted with the existing one on the motherboard.

I can't believe I actually bought that monstrocity.



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