On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:06:09AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 23:25, Hal Duston [email protected] wrote:
I'm pretty sure that NASCAR doesn't have ABS, power steering, radio, etc. I'm also pretty sure they run, and drive.
I don't know any NASCAR drivers personally, but I doubt they'd even actually want to drive their race cars to work every day and run errands, and do normal people things. I googled it, and they do have power steering, and more radio communications equipment than most consumer cars. ABS is forbidden by regulation, which almost sounds like they want to have crashes...
charon is also a specialized computer that I don't use for every day work.
Granted this isn't a 200mhz Pentium Pro (it's older and slower), but it does what I need.
root@charon:~# uname -a Linux charon 2.6.23.9 #1 Tue Dec 4 17:23:50 CST 2007 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
That's nice. I especially like that ram count. Here's mine: [bcrook@Zero ~]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4065004 4035912 29092 0 19576 2597740 -/+ buffers/cache: 1418596 2646408 Swap: 2031608 0 2031608 [bcrook@Zero ~]$ ps aux | wc -l 332 [bcrook@Zero ~]$ netstat -tuan | wc -l 226
iostat: avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 24.77 0.00 3.91 3.31 0.00 68.00
You must not ever edit home movies, photos, or use openoffice, or firefox, or flash player, or pidgin, or compiz I take it. You're just a special guy then. Because everyone else wants a more engaging experience. I use GNU screen, and vim and bash every day. They're great, but they don't pass the 'mom test'. I'm interested to know what "desktop environment" you use, of if you use X11 at all. Screen resolution?
Gnome, generally, but yes, I was the last one to go X11, you can ask any of the other "oldtimers" and they'll confirm that.
[root@pxe-client ~]# xdpyinfo |fgrep dimensions dimensions: 1600x1200 pixels (342x256 millimeters) [root@pxe-client ~]#
That work for you? When I have to choose between eating and computing, it isn't a decision I have to think about. This machine was also the subject of a curbside discount.
Thanks, -- Hal