On Thursday 28 October 2004 00:04, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 20:28, Allen wrote:
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:22, Randall R Schulz wrote:
If it's more important to you to keep from buying more capacious computing hardware, then you'll have to do with the software of yesterday.
RRS
I use Vi, Mutt, and links. And sometimes X. None of these are new.
Good for you. You can write plain text files, read and send plain text mail and sometimes see graphic images. Woo-Hoo!
Is there an actual reason you even own a computer?
Curiosity my dear Watson. Don't forget I can talk on IRC, I love Irssi, and I use AIM with a text client. I do load X sometimes, but I'm trying to train myself to be an admin, and I'm sure you know that admins rarely have a GUI for everything. I have a machine with an AMD XP 2600 + with Slackware, Free BSD, and Windows XP on it for homework, this box which is SUSE 9.1 Professional, with a 128 MB Nvidia GE Force FX card which is the one I'm typing frmo now, and yes I run this in text mode, lol. Right now I've loaded up X too look over a few things and check on homework, and then next too this I have an HP Pavilion, the first computer I ever owned, which has X loaded on Slackware 10, and XMMS playing my play list. All Nvidia cards because well, I like them. The machine with the 128 MB card also has half a gig of RAM, and an Intel 2.40 GHz Processor, and a few months ago I actually got PC-DOS too run on it. Which seems stupid, I know, But I wanted too see if it would actually work on this hardware. It did. Of course it only found 2 GBs of disk. Then my Laptop is a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz M, 512 RAM, Nvidia GE Force FX GO! card *Heh shocking huh?) and all of these have DVD Drives, and CD-RWs except the Laptop which only has DVD, because well, it doesn't need a CD-R, it has a NIC. I do what I do because it seems like a fun project, like when I made a little MP3 LAN. It's something every hobbyist has done because they enjoy it and I do too. Now I've watched you on this list before, and you seem too know what you're talking about, and you're one of the people I don't consider incompetent, so why do YOU have a computer? I explained why I don't use X all the time, I have too learn to go without it so I can get a good job because I'm tired of working in restaraunts. I'm a hell of a cook, but I don't want too do that for my living.