Back down in the slow zone...

[elfs]

I've shut down the laptop untl the part it needs can arrive.  In the meantime, I'm back down on the desktop, which is a 2001-model with a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, and an annoying tendency to drop characters from the keyboard during I/O.  It also sometimes misses a 'keyup' event, which can be seriously deleterious since I use the ALT and CTRL keys a lot, and more often than I'd like the machine suddenly starts acting as if it's in some weird modality I didn't request.  Hitting the key seems to help.

It's gonna be a long week.  This machine is so small I can run one of Thunderbird, Liferea, or Firefox at any given time, so if you send me email and I'm even slower than usual, you'll know why.

Comments

[ewhac.livejournal.com]

Misses key-up events!??! Dude, what the hell are you running? There should be no excuse for dropping input events. Ever.

Is it a PS/2 keyboard or USB? Who makes it? How old is it?

And as for 1.2GHz and 512MiB of RAM, I ran Debian with that config quite happily for two years (before the Sony laptop crapped out) and never experienced resource shortfall. Of course, I wasn't running Liferea; and I use Mutt, not Thunderbird. But I could fire up The GIMP alongside Firefox and not notice any problems.

You're not running full GNOME, are you?

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Speaking of communications...

I still want to try that new recipe I mentioned, but it's too much for just the two of us. Let me know when y'all can come over for dinner this week?

Count Your Blessings

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still running on a 1997 Dell Dimension 333MHz Pentium-II maxed out at w/384MB of ECC memory and 2 6GB hard drives. It runs Win98 SE, MSOffice 2000 Pro, Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, and Firefox 2.x -- although obviously not all at once. I've written all my stories on it, designed my book covers, run the Visual Studio 6 IDE, an older version of Dreamweaver, Acrobat, as well as some other apps -- and done this with the original 4MB video card running at 1280x1024. I even played Myst nicely enough through Myst III. And to date it has been rock solid. One can do a lot with seemingly obsolete hardware and a little bit of skill. The sad thing is that for the price it cost then, I could have the most killer Alienware system sold today when adjusted for inflation.

--DB_Story