Comments on: Issues of perspective

By: Once again: Don’t do it « Motho ke motho ka botho

Once again: Don’t do it « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:23:53 +0000

[...] I know it’s an issue of perspective. Old, to me, is something clunking along in the i486 bracket. And anything after 2000 is beyond [...]

By: Guillermo Garron

Guillermo Garron — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:34:13 +0000

I have a Lenovo T60 which also old, It has 2 Gigs in RAM.

I run Arch Linux with OpenBox on it, and as far as I can see, it just does all I need it to.

I can not imaginge anything faster, as my tasks does not need any more speed.

So, I think just like some of the other commenters said, you only should have what you really need. Keeping this old computers running even help the world. (Keeping it green).

Nice article by the way.

By: d

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:28:23 +0000

only 1 day left
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX88-Laptop-Computer-Accessories-/250686298199

By: There are no ugly GUIs « Motho ke motho ka botho

There are no ugly GUIs « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:51:15 +0000

[...] in discussions like this one, because they’re usually the ones that make me wonder if my ideas are out of whack. But any thread that asks why so many people choose ugly or text-based interfaces needs at least [...]

By: Favorite computer myths « Motho ke motho ka botho

Favorite computer myths « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:22:34 +0000

[...] that a quad-core, 12Gb, dual drive, dual video card machine — something along the lines of this, which probably required its own power substation just to idle — is somehow more efficient [...]

By: pkm

pkm — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:37:00 +0000

Agree
I find it fascinating the waste thats going on. The marketing is certainly powerful.
If the parts were more recyclable, or you could replace laptop LCDs like a PC lcd screen with generic connectors it would be another issues.

Id be happy with a modern day zx88 sinclair. Ie keyboard + <200mhz SBC. the LCD is the tricky part to DIY.

By: Lessism over minimalism « Motho ke motho ka botho

Lessism over minimalism « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:02:23 +0000

[...] down so sharply that its function becomes questionable. Or it may be that shift in perspective that I mentioned myself, a few months ago, where I’m pointing to the usefulness of contemporary software on [...]

By: éric

éric — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:06:30 +0000

Please do continue shouting out about low performance systems and how to best make use of them. Although I have 3+ GHz systems on my desks, and they are used to the limit (computational design work), I spend several hours each day on a netbook (600 MHz)!

The funny thing is that the tools that work best on the netbook work just as well on the high powered systems: my working environment (essentially ratpoison + emacs + org-mode) is the same regardless of the power of the system and I love it.

Thanks for all your posts, by the way!

By: A cascading effect « Motho ke motho ka botho

A cascading effect « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:02:32 +0000

[...] matter, which is a fact I am comfortable with. It does mean, however, that I made an effort before boxing up my 600m to make sure I didn’t need anything burned to CD or DVD before it left the [...]

By: vespas

vespas — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:19:51 +0000

i agree with what you say, but i think the argument goes both ways: people have done entire phds at the commandline and so on, but if you can have the newer machine (sometimes even for free, you’d be amazed at what people throw away: I recently got a mint-condition dell ‘for email and browsing’ *for free* that turned out to be a 3.2GHz p4 with 2gb ram…) then why not?