Actually, would anyone be interested in bartering a Linksys WAP54G for a measly gig of old slow DDR-1?
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:27 PM, AJ ONeal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sold-my-car-to-pay-summer's-tuition means: I'm broke. > > Besides, I don't think I need 2gb to do the kind of stuff that I do. 1gb is > more than I thought I'd ever need. I upgraded from 512mb by mistake when I > ordered RAM for someone's system that only supported 256 modules. If it > weren't that VMs are much more convenient, I'd still dual-boot. > > I've gone from being a ricer ( > http://tinyurl.com/696cta/www.funroll-loops.org/) to a more conservative > perspective - assuming my buy-it-now urges don't get the better of me. (I > got my Bondi Blue Clamshell iBook up and running again, btw.) > > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On May 18, 2008, at 11:01, "AJ ONeal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I only have 1gb RAM in my system and when I'm got firefox with 20 >> > tabs open, OOo, gnucash, elcipse etc (I'm not a big fan of the red x >> > in the corner of the window, I like to leave stuff open until the >> > time I use it) sparing 384mb for a VM slows down my system. I guess >> > I could close apps that I'm not using... >> >> Ram is so cheap these days. Do yourself a favor and spend the money to >> upgrade to at least 2 gb. Or better yet 4. A windows vm runs best >> with 1 gb dedicated to it, in my experience. >> >> It's relatively easy to create and boot a vmplayer image that uses a >> raw partition. It's likely a tad faster than virtualbox. >> -------------------- >> BYU Unix Users Group >> http://uug.byu.edu/ >> >> The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their >> author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >> > > > > -- > AJ ONeal -- AJ ONeal
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