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 1RJmhC-0003jb-HR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:42:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06D4B21C08A; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B8621C032 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so831145bkb.40 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:40:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rqr0ckpbgS2i6qhzWDWCCLI0biaDAfsV7q3e+RuN8cE=; b=QcXsgbf8L26QNJL7hdjMksBKQki9wornTmPz3e2lay7ChGuUKxpBtOAEjraiy/dB3f lUDBRsbyvWLzWxhue30RCbbbG2Vxmfj9EwX03QurkvS6CZyjCBHuE+qqI8aHBYUl4dRk Ja1cF56Sf4D2V/6hrQ9mNRK7vLWgVrglEw7Jc= 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 Received: by 10.204.13.131 with SMTP id c3mr2440761bka.10.1319809254929; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.37.16 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:40:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4EAA93D0.9000906@gmail.com> References: <4EA9130A.6070807@gmail.com> <2251997.4gxL5gE8u7@localhost> <4EA9952A.4030909@gmail.com> <4EA9A7CB.7060403@binarywings.net> <4EAA2B50.8030103@gmail.com> <4EAA93D0.9000906@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:40:54 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed. From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 02d89a7518c955206f0eadf42987ebe2 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> > I have to say this. =C2=A0I worked at a computer place in the late 80's. = =C2=A0Back > then a 25Mhz CPU was fast as lightening. =C2=A0Hard drives were maybe 100= MBs. > =C2=A0Memory, lucky if you have a 1 or 2Mbs. =C2=A0Now look where we are.= =C2=A0I'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. =C2=A0I have been working on NCIS here t= he past > few weeks. =C2=A0I try to get HD when I can. =C2=A0One day I hope to hook= my TV up to > my puter. =C2=A0I have a HDMI connector on the video card and my TV has a= couple > on the back of it. =C2=A0I just don't know yet how to make them work or i= f they > work already. =C2=A0I 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. > =C2=A0Anyway, if I get enough stuff > downloaded, I could in theory suspend DirecTv for a month or two. =C2=A0P= ut the > money on some bills. > > Oh, I use downloadhelper to get the videos. =C2=A0It stopped working with > Seamonkey 2.4 so back to using Firefox right now. =C2=A0It keeps crashing= tho. > =C2=A0Still scratching my head on that one. =C2=A0;-) > > Hulu works with Linux huh? =C2=A0I got to remember that. =C2=A0I did know= that Netflix > didn't tho. =C2=A0I 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.) --=20 :wq