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On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:48:24AM +0000, b.n. wrote |
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> Ehm. Perhaps it's me being dense but: who cares about unused code? Ok, |
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> you have unnecessary, unused code sitting on your HD: where's the |
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> problem? You never see it. |
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A year ago, I was using a 1999 Dell (128 megs RAM, 450 mhz PIII) as my |
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main machine. I still have it around as my emergency backup. KDE |
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"runs" (would you believe crawls) painfully slowly on that machine. |
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Using blackbox plus fbpanel, it's perfectly OK for most stuff, except |
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that it drops frames on "internet TV" and working with 2560x1920 digital |
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photos in Gimp is "leisurely". On my AMDK8, in 32-bit mode, it screams. |
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Old DOS games run faster under DOSBOX than they did on a 10 mhz AT. I |
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have the original floppies for Chessmaster 3000. It does *NOT* run |
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under Wine. At work, they were throwing out some old stuff, including |
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real Windows 3.1 floppies. I installed Win3.2 under DOSBOX, and it runs |
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Chessmaster 3000 just fine! |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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