Posted by J.O. Aho on 06/10/07 06:51

Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jonathan N. Little"
> <lws4art@centralva.net> writing in news:f19e1$46676a5f$40cba7ad$17832
> @NAXS.COM:
>
>> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>
>>> My browser came back up - here you go:
>> Where did it go? ;-)
>>
>
> It got bogged down with its day to day business. It's particularly slow
> in the morning (like me), when it's recovering from virus scans, getting
> email, and finishing some nightly backups.

Virus scan? what's that?

> I'm actually going to get a new system and network this one to it. This
> system has three hard drives, the oldest of which is a geriatric 7. It's
> pretty much maxed out, hence the need to get a new machine --- that I can
> put more drives in and abuse just as much --- HA HA HA!!!

I have an old Sparc, it was a top of the line in 1997 or something like that,
but today it's utterly slow, specially it's IDE, but something that is quite
fun is to net boot it, as you get better performance to read the data over NFS
shares than over IDE. Another neat thing you can do with an old computer is to
use it as a terminal, then the X Windows System is run locally and the rest on
the remote machine, and it feels like you have a completely new computer, even
if it would be older than you ;)


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//Aho

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