Comments on: One week at 100Mhz: I found a desk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Testing a theory of usability « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-43646 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:53:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-43646 [...] you’ll remember that, about a year and a half ago, I shoved everything into the closet and ran at 100Mhz for a week. This is not an attempt to reproduce that experiment, particularly because after that stunt, living [...]

]]> By: Crux and Awesome at 120Mhz, 16Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-40149 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:11:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-40149 [...] WPC11 until I can get the system into a condition I like. Performance is about the same level as the 100Mhz machine was … in other words, a 20Mhz difference does not offer a magical improvement in [...]

]]> By: What’s to like? « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-39829 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:44:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-39829 [...] And as I mentioned then, things have only gotten better. Steering clear of X and anything related has slimmed the system down to nothing without losing a sliver of function, made my system far more reliable, and taught me a thing or two about using still older machines. [...]

]]> By: An apology, and an update « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-39362 Sun, 17 May 2009 12:01:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-39362 [...] I reconsidered the fact that really, I was just using a 550MHz machine to do the same things I did back in February, for a week or [...]

]]> By: How could I have forgotten « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-39191 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:50:03 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-39191 [...] Silly me. How could I have forgotten — and not just recently, but months after I spent a full week at 100Mhz, and more than a month after relinquishing X on another machine — that there’s a site [...]

]]> By: Offsite: NetBSD on 450Mhz K6, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38837 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:54:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38837 [...] , Linux , Ubuntu If you were at all amused, or shocked, or maybe even slightly traumatized by my weeklong adventure at 100Mhz, you might keep an eye on the Lightweight Linux blog, which is documenting a similar experiment: [...]

]]> By: One week at 100Mhz: Hardware hopscotch « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38532 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:18:28 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38532 [...] Set up Ubuntu for speed « One week at 100Mhz: I found a desk [...]

]]> By: anjilslaire http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38530 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:29:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38530 Killer.
I was just thinking this last week, that using Linux has sharply curtailed my hardware buying habits th last few years. My desktop is certainly not *ancient*, being an OC’ed Athlon XP 2500+ to 3200+, 2gigs of ram and an NVidia 6600GT.
This system has been running for ~5 years like this.

But back when I was on Windows, I would have upgraded my desktop long ago, probably to a dual-core 64bit monster something or other. Running Linux though, the system never slows down or degrades in any way performance-wise, so it’ll probably live on like this for few more years yet, unless the motherboard dies.

That being said, I do have a shiny new Dell Mini 9 for mobile computing running Intrepid i386 with Netbook Remix, but It’s my 1st laptop for myself and I plan on seeing how long it lasts, having cost me only ~$400 USD.

Good job on keeping these old machines running. Hopefully mine will be useful well far the next decade as well.

]]> By: zmjjmz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38529 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:31:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38529 That’s hardcore.

]]> By: Luca http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38528 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:10:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/one-week-at-100mhz-i-found-a-desk/#comment-38528 Looks cool, I love your old-skool entertainment too! Best of luck!

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