Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-29 Thread Victor Churchill
 Oh well .. best use the other effort then.
 Reads a bit oddly though :-(

 Maybe I though Windows didn't deserve a whole sylable :-

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OK now that we are sufficiently OT maybe I can steer the thread
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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-24 Thread Graham Bleach
2008/10/24 Richard Danter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Not so much RAM since this is an embedded device, but it is darn fast! :o)

A four socket quad-core embedded device? That would burn a hole in my pocket ;-)

G

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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Victor Churchill
2008/10/23 Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Sorry about this, but I'm just *so* impressed by the box I'm working on
 today...
 [8*processor, 32Gig]

 *Jealous*

Just wait a few more years, you'll have one in your pocket ;-)
(A job interview not _that_ many years ago, I was so impressed ...
that machine had a _whole_ gigabyte! ;-)
Moore's Law seems to have been suffering a time-dilation effect lately...
(actually,no. I think I mean the opposite of time dilation - whatever
that is called.)

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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Stimpson
Vic wrote:
 Sorry about this, but I'm just *so* impressed by the box I'm working on
 today...

 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor
 processor   : 0
 processor   : 1
 processor   : 2
 processor   : 3
 processor   : 4
 processor   : 5
 processor   : 6
 processor   : 7

 $ free
  total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
 Mem:  329088401600764   31308076  0  733081132400
 -/+ buffers/cache: 395056   32513784
 Swap:  8191992  08191992

 *Jealous*

 Vic.


   


Check out http://www.eurocom.com Their top of the range laptop has that
;) It is about $7000 tho! *grins*


Cheers,
Paul.



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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Sorry about this, but I'm just *so* impressed by the box I'm working on
 today...

 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor

Congratulations, you won today's UUoC award!

S.

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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:26:42 +0100
Victor Churchill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello Victor,

 I think I mean the opposite of time dilation - whatever
 that is called.)

Compression or contraction would appear to be suitable antonyms.

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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
 Just wait a few more years, you'll have one in your pocket ;-)
 (A job interview not _that_ many years ago, I was so impressed ...
 that machine had a _whole_ gigabyte! ;-)


Eeee! That's noothin'..When I were a lad. I remember the time when I
first encountered a whole megabyte, on a single disc drive! It was in a box
about the size of a bedside cabinet.

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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Chalk
Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sorry about this, but I'm just *so* impressed by the box I'm working on
 today...
 
 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor
 processor   : 0


Don't tease - show us the rest of the specs!

Nick.

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Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread john lewis
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:10:55 +0100
Chris. Aubrey-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Just wait a few more years, you'll have one in your pocket ;-)
  (A job interview not _that_ many years ago, I was so impressed ...
  that machine had a _whole_ gigabyte! ;-)
 
 
 Eeee! That's noothin'..When I were a lad. I remember the time
 when I first encountered a whole megabyte, on a single disc drive! It
 was in a box about the size of a bedside cabinet.

I remember my first IBM PC had a whole 16k of memory on the m/b

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