Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:24:11PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Hi All! > > I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while > and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a > new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need a home workstation t

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Hi All! I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need a home workstation that is going to be used primarily for writing and

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:24:11PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Hi All! I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Well ... I don't want to get into Intel vs. AMD (until the AMD Quad > Cores are out, anyhow) :). But I can't conceive of running a processor > that fast in Linux with only a GB of RAM, and I can't conceive of > getting "on

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread Neil Gunton
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well I would certainly prefer 2 or 4GB ram on a new system. Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance, but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB in my desktop at the moment, and that's useful for when I'm running

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 22, 2007 02:37:41 pm Neil Gunton wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Well I would certainly prefer 2 or 4GB ram on a new system. > > Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance, > but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB > in my deskto

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-05-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:37:41PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance, > but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB > in my desktop at the moment, and that's useful for when I'm running > VMWare, but that'

Re: Installing flash plugin

2007-05-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 01:00 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On May 22, 2007 12:18:04 am José Alburquerque wrote: > > Hi. I recently read the "Plugin" thread started on 5/4/07 that explains > > that in order to use the flash plugin the nspluginwrapper can be used. > > I was able to install the pack

Re: Installing flash plugin

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 22, 2007 11:46:34 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 01:00 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On May 22, 2007 12:18:04 am José Alburquerque wrote: > > > Hi. I recently read the "Plugin" thread started on 5/4/07 that > > > explains that in order to use the flash plugin the nspl