Geek stuff
Dec. 19th, 2005 11:47 amSo, I've migrated back to Firefox 1.0.7 from Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5 (aka "Deer Park") was too slow on my Linux laptop, which is a pretty small machine; it used (I might say abused) the canvas widget far too often, resulting in that last layer of abstraction that slows everything down to a crawl.
I also think my Palm V/m500 has finally started to show its age. Despite being reliable for the past five years, it has now crashed seemingly at random, taking all of its data with it. I'm now doing daily backups in the hopes I don't lose anything.
And I installed DOSEmu on my desktop. Is doing a full-blown emulation of an x386 with SVGA and SoundBlaster really the best way to provide access to ancient games like Powermonger and Dark Forces? I mean, other than actually running DOS, which would be, um, archaic.
I also think my Palm V/m500 has finally started to show its age. Despite being reliable for the past five years, it has now crashed seemingly at random, taking all of its data with it. I'm now doing daily backups in the hopes I don't lose anything.
And I installed DOSEmu on my desktop. Is doing a full-blown emulation of an x386 with SVGA and SoundBlaster really the best way to provide access to ancient games like Powermonger and Dark Forces? I mean, other than actually running DOS, which would be, um, archaic.
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