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On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 00:36 +0100, James Holland wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 has a new memory allocator that</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">makes it quicker than FF2.</FONT></TT><BR>
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I was waiting for Mint Linux (or is that Linux Mint??) to version change, must go and check if that has happened. I find the "all installed by default" media playback stuff so nice on Mint I shifted allegiance to it from Xubuntu some time back, despite the larger memory hit of not using XFCE4 (and XFCE's minimalist elegance which I must admit I rather like and still use on the lower specced 700 and 800mhz/512mb computers which litter the house on the 6.06 Xubuntu derivative.<BR>
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Though having bought a bucnh of 49 quid Fujitsu-Siemens 2.8ghz P4s second hand those loyal veterans are up for Oxford freecycle Real Soon Now as soon as I load up the software on the replacements - should arrive Thursday unless Parcelforce f***s up again - they lost the last lot of 3, and smashed the plastic fascia and bent the case so I had to cut it off the first one delivered. <BR>
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I asked them not to use Parcelforce again but they've got a contract. They aren't getting the first one back - I'm keeping that for spares like proprietary PSU and as a caseless messabout computer under the desk propped up on end for, err, messing about on like playing with different linux distros and keeping an XP partition available somewhere to use as and when needed, which is rare indeed. They can send a Parcelforce Inspector here to see the remains of the mangled case and warped chassis - the machine has nil market value and will just be chucked in the recycle bin whereas it has some residuary use value to me for some years despite being mangled and bent (and thus saving some embedded environmental cost). <BR>
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Until such time as the bent motherboard finally fractures a track inside it somewhere. I daren't straighten its chassis frame out, that will be sure to break a contact - its out by nearly a centimetre! It wasn't dropped, it was THROWN off the back of a truck to be so distorted, as its a pretty solid piece of kit.
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