Comments on: So long, old friend

By: How to finally say goodbye « Motho ke motho ka botho

How to finally say goodbye « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:34:22 +0000

[...] will admit however, that I have sent machines into the ether because they were doing jobs they weren’t really suited for. Calling your Pentium II an entertainment center is one thing, but really [...]

By: The OpenDisc, and graphics puzzles « Motho ke motho ka botho

The OpenDisc, and graphics puzzles « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:09:52 +0000

[...] me was graphics performance on some of the games I’m used to playing from the days of my Inspiron. That video card — a wise old 64Mb GeForce 440 Go — ran some stunning graphics at a [...]

By: Compiling effortlessly … sort of « Motho ke motho ka botho

Compiling effortlessly … sort of « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:22:20 +0000

[...] performance hit. That’s strange to me because on other hardware, for example my long-running Inspiron, compiling or building a kernel more or less precluded using the machine outside of very trivial [...]

By: Debating a machine with few merits « Motho ke motho ka botho

Debating a machine with few merits « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:16 +0000

[...] used to be annoyed to have to pull out a drive, plop it into a modular tray and jack it into my old Inspiron, but that was a dream compared to pulling the hard drive out of [...]

By: Issues of perspective « Motho ke motho ka botho

Issues of perspective « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:54:12 +0000

[...] this evening, a 1.4Ghz Celeron was fast, in much the same way a 2Ghz AMD64 was fast, or even a 1Ghz Pentium III was fast. I considered it a twin miracle of hardware superiority and my miserly tendencies to come [...]

By: The mysteries of life « Motho ke motho ka botho

The mysteries of life « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:54:23 +0000

[...] made a brief offer to buy it from the owner (after all, I am sort of on the lookout for a high(er)-end Pentium machine to do some compiling with), but apparently there is some [...]

By: Returning to Musca « Motho ke motho ka botho

Returning to Musca « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:37:42 +0000

[...] (need?) to use more applications without losing space on the screen. After four or five years at 1600×1200, I’m afraid even 1024×768 isn’t good enough for me if I have to use GUI-based [...]

By: When “fast” is less than 600Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

When “fast” is less than 600Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:25:26 +0000

[...] Crux Linux , Linux , Ubuntu Leave a Comment It’s been an interesting downshift, sending off the 1Ghz Inspiron and relying more heavily on the Thinkpad. It’s running Crux against the framebuffer these [...]

By: ajlec2000

ajlec2000 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:17:53 +0000

If “black” refers to the case I’m proud to say mine has a beautifal faux woodgrain inlay on the lid.

By: Ubuntu as a selling point « Motho ke motho ka botho

Ubuntu as a selling point « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:57:11 +0000

[...] 2009/10/03 Ubuntu Leave a Comment One thing I didn’t mention when I had my little sob session for the Inspiron, was that I was also sending the Pavilion out the door for the last time. My attachment to it was [...]