On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:59:43 +0930, George wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 18:54 +1300, Dene Maxwell wrote: 
> > wow...lotsa suggestions
> >  
> > Running FG 0.9.8
> >  
> > unfortunately running it on my partners PC and she gets all "anti"
> > when I download anything new (blames my downloads for win98me's
> > flakey performance).
> >  
> > I am anticipating some money soon and intend getting a Dell
> > Dimension 9100, Intel Pentium 4 Processor 630 with HT technology
> > (3Ghz), 128Mbyte ATI radeon x300SE hypermemory graphics, 250Gbyte
> > HDD, 1024MB SDRAM, XP Home edition.

..kick out Wintendo, spend the money on an extra Gig or three of ram.  

> > This might leave me enough to get a yoke/pedal set from the 'States
> > at approx $US500 ( $NZ700). I would like to try dual boot with Linux
> > on this set up.
> >  
> > Just to give something back in the way of a good laugh.... what are
> > my chances of running FG 0.9.8 on a P1 166Mhz with a S3 Trio64V+ PCI
> > (765) (1Mbyte) with 100MB DRAM?

..100MB?  96+4???    Use that box as a firewall: http://ipcop.org/

..or, if you go for Debian Sarge Linux, use your old box as a scenery
_etc_ server.

> The S3 isn't OpenGL compliant (AFAIK) to begin with. :-)
> 
> > When y'all stop laughing I do expect comments along the lines of " a
> > snowball has better chances in HELL!!!"
> 
> Hmmm, I don't think that anyone a has modelled snowballs for
> flightgear. Also where can we get a METAR for hell from? :-D
> 
> Sorry to be flippant but I couldn't resist.

..uhuh.   Don't _ever_ ask for snow balls etc unless you really really
want them, because somebody might actually act on doing them.  ;o)
 
> You might want to consider compiling fg_server and see how it runs on
> that machine though.
> 
> George Patterson
> 


-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



_______________________________________________
Flightgear-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Reply via email to