Really, really down in the slowzone

[elfs]

Well, I put the hard drive from Kusanagi (the P3/1GHz/1GB box) into Lain (P2/266/128MB), and the difference is, well, hellish. I'd forgotten just how slow this machine was. And to think that it used to be one heck of an improvement over Brick, which was a P1! I can run Thunderbird, but only if I choose to run absolutely nothing else. I've dropped down into console mode, and am using Emacs the old-fashioned way: no mouse, no windows, no widgets, no gadgets, no menus. Just me and the keyboard.

I'm currently backing up the hard drive onto a USB enclosure drive so that when my new computer comes in (and yes, I've already bought one, a T60/1.83GHz I2C/3GB) I'll be able to restore my accounts from backup onto its bigger drive.

This... isn't that horrible, actually. It's annoying, and I can't watch movies, and the battery's so old it barely works as a UPS, but I can do the essentials. I can even read LJ, albeit uncomfortably through lynx.

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[mouser.livejournal.com]

Well, I put the hard drive from Kusanagi (the P3/1GHz/1GB box) into Lain (P2/266/128MB), and the difference is, well, hellish.

Um - well, the difference between a brick that sits there and a brick that's at least sliding down a hill has to be good though...