[Sussex] [OT] Snow

[Geoff Teale]

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 17:11, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> When did that happen? I'm back in Crawley and I didn't see any snow!
> Altho I've had the curtains closed all day and I've been talking online
> (msn4lin is wonderful, Microsoft think I like them!) and I've been
> watchin the news...

It was around lunch time, for about 2 minutes.. plus I'm in East Grinstead.  
The altitude makes difference ;)

> I have decided that TightVNC rocks.  Over the last three days using a
> combination of SSH, TightVNC and a wireless LAN, I have installed Gentoo
> on my *nix box from a different partt of the house! :)

Nice. 

As Sarah is working from home today she has her work laptop.  It really creaks 
under WindowsXP -  click on start, wait 10 seconds, menu appears... , still 
it's only a PIII 800 with 256MB of RAM, it's not really fair to expect that 
to run a GUI is it.. 

.. meanwhile, I'm working on Sarah's OS X 10.2 iMac (because she's got her 
laptop hooked up to my lovely 18.1" TFT screen) running against the Beast via 
a remote X Session (the new apple X11 is much better than XDarwin IMHO), so 
this little G3-600 iMac, also with 256MB is simulationously running two GUI 
layers (one of which is being hosted on a remote machine across a 10-Mbit 
network) and it is still kicking the Windows machines butt for speed of 
response, ease of use and prettiness!

-- 
GJT
Free Software Foundation
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