From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPZNK-0007kv-2Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:09:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C03D1C0E7 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EC31C061 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 11:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so377918ywl.40 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:41:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=U3unpba00UW6tMMuUQw56vMt0X8+YwmHbFrBOToJ1J4=; b=GJTc6iA3oJAjKMP2eDFcBmJ0+j3q6wK/TBVzFuIfn9KGAtpqXhCK3HwnD6s7eR3aHM ZOaFt/AGouznh2593vR2tP9+pXVHE+PkW3hLWMc16g5v6Gw3EawymWUjv8jjYUUX8Als J09jQHO2O13fw7n6kEmX9Ptr88WG5PYp+PuYQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=wvaffroReYvBPKwmq//bMXIaCa618v+1dV7O93MqCFoEnobCCWbbUnIUzetHAHRNMm EPb1vDaHvEEpWRJqGqxioplYkva6cD0sCWQJ2qaLNcEh/KLrOxcK7AYvtxZJW1dA3FUY r+qlk7IrG8jkBDfJ2xXxAAgIhVzNOkES5CT7E= Received: by 10.236.192.162 with SMTP id i22mr937141yhn.139.1306410060176; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:41:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari.merseine.nu (adsl-72-152-78-99.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.78.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a5sm860600yhj.0.2011.05.26.04.40.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 May 2011 04:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:40:54 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5 Message-ID: <20110526114054.GA939@gaurahari.merseine.nu> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f7dfe145d381a22e9588b6f011b3a4da On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:00:02AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote: >=20 > I don't know how good "exmap" is, but my personal experience is quite > different. Between Fall 1999 and Summer 2007 I had a Dell Dimension > with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of *SYSTEM RAM* (no not the video card= ). > It was actually quite usable to the very end, with Blackbox WM, and > running a few apps. Meanwhile, KDE (and GNOME for that matter) would > take forever to load and make the system crawl after that, even with 1 > or 2 apps loaded. >=20 It's always like that with hardware though. My first computer=20 was a 1987 Mac SE, eight (8) MHz CPU, maxed out to 4 MB RAM. Two 800MB floppies plus an external 250MB HDD (huge for the time).=20 Ran Mac System 6.0.8, I used it for multitrack audio recording and=20 "desktop publishing" (sounds quaint now, huh?) into the '90s. Of course, it had absolutely no security and only a poor illusion of=20 multitasking... :) For the time it was great, but what we have now is much more=20 flexible, capable, and secure. The business of ever-increasng=20 consumption of computing resources is probably unavoidable, barring=20 some major advance in coding. =20 --=20 caveat utilitor =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2= =9D=A4=20