[Sussex] Scary PC fry-up

[Gareth Ablett]

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Geoff Teale [mailto:gteale at cmedltd.com]
 Subject: Re: [Sussex] Scary PC fry-up
 
> 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"  ;-)


Hmm you don't like Vi then LOL.  

I'll see how Gentoo compiles on AMD64 come Tuesday when my 1mb ADSL line
is activated. :D



Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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