[Sussex] Scary PC fry-up

[Geoff Teale]

Sorry to hear that Angelo,

.. you can't let these women get on top of you... .er.. well.. 
actually.  I think I'll leave that topic alone..

Rest assured though, the only people who need worry about more and more 
CPU time are people doing very complex visulisation or very large data 
processing tasks.  Oh.. and Gentoo users.. ;-)  ...and of course C and 
C++ developers (I have a project that takes over an hour to compile on 
my dual Xeon :-(  ).

I saw one company (Penguin Computing) advertising AMD 64 machines as 
being particular good at starting emacs quickly.  _ would suggest that 
using emacs -nw -q (and having a sensible .emacs file) would garner a 
better response.    Some people would suggest using vi - but they are 
foul and deformed with extra fingers fused to their keyboard for hitting 
ESC and Colon.  Normal people simply have mind probes to allow them to 
think : "Meta-X-Meta-F"  ;-)

-- 
Geoff

Angelo Servini wrote:

>Grrr the one disadvantage of getting married next year!  In consequence I
>have shelved my plans for building my next dream PC!
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>Me is envious.
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>Never mind ... someday!
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>Cya
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gareth Ablett [mailto:Gareth.Ablett at itpserve.co.uk]
>>Sent: Monday, 28 June 2004 12:01
>>To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
>>Subject: RE: [Sussex] Scary PC fry-up
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>>Hi,
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>>>So the outcome is happy & I've made a technological leap from an AMD
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>>K6 300 MHz CPU / 5.2 GB HDD /
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>>>128 MB RAM to a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz CPU / 80 GB HDD / 512 MB RAM.
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>>:) I had the same sort of problem about 2 months ago and 
>>upgraded from a
>>Duron 900 to a AMD 64 3200+ it sure is good to have a computer that
>>doesn't take a day to compile something.
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