| TommyT | Hope things are going well for folks... I haven't checked the logs to see if anyone has been around lately. | 03:27 |
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| TommyT | Anyone actually here tonight? (I can't stay so I don't know why I'm bothering...) | 03:29 |
| kwadroke | I'm not here | 03:30 |
| TommyT | oops sorry to bother you then :-) | 03:31 |
| kwadroke | I'm not sure if anyone else isn't here | 03:31 |
| kwadroke | :) | 03:31 |
| kwadroke | long time no see | 03:31 |
| TommyT | ya... things have been tough around here. my wife has been sick, and now her mother is sick, too! | 03:32 |
| kwadroke | that sucks | 03:32 |
| TommyT | I do have some things I'd like to chat with folks about, but I'm getting the "come to bed" texts earlier than usual since she is sick. | 03:32 |
| TommyT | Do you use Thunderbird for email? | 03:33 |
| kwadroke | no | 03:34 |
| kwadroke | using Gmail at the moment, but thinking of switching | 03:34 |
| TommyT | I use Gmail for Gmail but T'bird for everything else | 03:34 |
| TommyT | but it doesn't coexist with Chrome very well on a 1GB RAM netbook. | 03:35 |
| TommyT | at least I THINK that's the limiting factor | 03:35 |
| TommyT | The whole thing bogs way down. Seems processor-bound. Either alone is OK (not great). | 03:35 |
| kwadroke | chrome's sandboxes are nice, but it starts to eat memory | 03:36 |
| kwadroke | fast | 03:36 |
| TommyT | That is probably the problem. I always have 6-10 tabs open and I know it makes new processes for each one | 03:36 |
| TommyT | the latest Thunderbird seems to have some performance issues, too, so between them it's painful | 03:37 |
| TommyT | The netbook is an Acer Aspire One something-or-other and the RAM is not easy to get to. Not impossible (youtube directions say) but just enough I haven't cracked it | 03:38 |
| kwadroke | I have 7-8 tabs pinned on my desktop at work and it can take up all my cpu and memory sometimes | 03:38 |
| TommyT | this desktop system in my office does great with lots of things open, but it has... (looking) lots of ram... don't know how much | 03:39 |
| TommyT | 3gb RAM and two 2.80gb pentium cores | 03:40 |
| kwadroke | I think it's mostly a cpu problem for me, it's an old single core cpu | 03:40 |
| TommyT | it makes a huge difference. The netbook has two 1.8ghz (sorry mistake above) cores | 03:41 |
| TommyT | I bought a junk single-core 1.8Ghz machine at Luyet the other day for a project for $35 and it just isn't the same. :-) | 03:42 |
| TommyT | they are really nice -- Debian fans | 03:42 |
| kwadroke | really... Is that the place on oak> | 03:43 |
| kwadroke | ? | 03:43 |
| kwadroke | I need to get about 6-7 junkers | 03:43 |
| TommyT | I have been intending to take them an Alt install disk (Ubuntu) so they can see it is Debian underneath. Yes, Oak & Harkrider | 03:43 |
| kwadroke | ok. almost went by there the other day | 03:43 |
| kwadroke | just show them apt-get, if they are truely debian fans, they'd know | 03:44 |
| TommyT | about a month ago they had a passel of these Optiplex systems. OK but not much better than the junker I was replacing. | 03:44 |
| kwadroke | I have a game I need the computers for, but unfortunately it's a windows game | 03:44 |
| TommyT | Ya these $35 systems come with Windows XP "skinned" with their logo | 03:45 |
| TommyT | Or maybe it was Windows 7... I never looked | 03:45 |
| TommyT | I wiped the drive as soon as I got it... then wondered if I would regret it if I need a BIOS update | 03:45 |
| TommyT | this is one of the models the Dell linux BIOS tools don't work on | 03:46 |
| TommyT | It also was very picky about RAM; I had to try twice before I found some cheap stuff to get it up to the max 2Gb | 03:46 |
| kwadroke | you know if they have more? | 03:47 |
| TommyT | When I bought this one they had three on the floor and said they had bought a pallet of them | 03:47 |
| TommyT | But now that I think about it I probably bought this in December | 03:47 |
| TommyT | Or early January | 03:47 |
| TommyT | They are definitely a better place to buy junkers than Family computer on Front st. | 03:48 |
| TommyT | I went into Family one day and they were showing me a Dell; wanted $75 for it. They bought it from the hospital. I said "I bet you could get some interesting viruses from that." they said "Not after WE take care of it!" I said (coughing) I meant HUMAN viruses. | 03:49 |
| kwadroke_ | lol | 03:50 |
| kwadroke_ | some reason my connection died | 03:50 |
| TommyT | does it failover to a different account? | 03:50 |
| kwadroke_ | I went there a couple weeks ago looking for a AT-PS2 adapter | 03:50 |
| kwadroke_ | took me 5 minutes for them to understand | 03:51 |
| kwadroke_ | no, on the webchat client | 03:51 |
| TommyT | My theory is the guy who runs it started the business because a spouse wanted him out of the house. He smokes a LOT, so everything smells of smoke. | 03:51 |
| kwadroke_ | yeah, I noticed that | 03:53 |
| TommyT | Well, I still have to go wash some dishes etc. Good to chat with you; Check out Luyet; I was reasonably happy for my $35. | 03:53 |
| kwadroke_ | yeah, might go by there tomorrow | 03:54 |
| kwadroke_ | cya laters | 03:54 |
| TommyT | seeya | 03:54 |
| kwadroke | ugggh, keep getting bumped | 04:16 |
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