Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
> I have to say this.  I worked at a computer place in the late 80's.  Back
> then a 25Mhz CPU was fast as lightening.  Hard drives were maybe 100MBs.
>  Memory, lucky if you have a 1 or 2Mbs.  Now look where we are.  I'm still
> trying to play Steve Jobs and imagine where we will be 20 years from now.

I've got a 157MB hard drive at home. My bio-dad gave it to me earlier
this week in a stack of hard drives he was getting rid of.

As for 80s computers...our first home computer was a Tandy RLX 1000. I
convinced my mother to spend our savings on it, as I'd gotten hooked
on programming with an Apple ][ at school. Kinda proud of her; she
picked up programming quickly, took a few classes, really took to
databases, and now she's a manager in the IT department at the local
community college.

>
> I'm real bad to download videos.  I have been working on NCIS here the past
> few weeks.  I try to get HD when I can.  One day I hope to hook my TV up to
> my puter.  I have a HDMI connector on the video card and my TV has a couple
> on the back of it.  I just don't know yet how to make them work or if they
> work already.  I need to test that one day.

It's really, really easy if you've ever done multimon under Linux.  A
television on that HDMI port will behave pretty much like a DVI
monitor.

>  Anyway, if I get enough stuff
> downloaded, I could in theory suspend DirecTv for a month or two.  Put the
> money on some bills.
>
> Oh, I use downloadhelper to get the videos.  It stopped working with
> Seamonkey 2.4 so back to using Firefox right now.  It keeps crashing tho.
>  Still scratching my head on that one.  ;-)
>
> Hulu works with Linux huh?  I got to remember that.  I did know that Netflix
> didn't tho.  I thought about trying it but they went up.

Hulu works, Netflix doesn't. Amazon may, but if you have a network
glitch and their server doesn't realize you're not pulling data any
more, you have to wait a while before you try again. At least, that
was my experience with them a bit over a year ago. (Real annoying when
you go to show something to a group of friends on a/v night. Kills the
mood and flow.)

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