[rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 01:12:10 (-0500), James Sharp wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)
>
> Yes, but I'm also trying to alleviate the pop-* problem on the gf's
> computer...she insists on using Windoze & IE.  yes, I'm trying to break
> her of that nasty habit.

Good friends do not allow their friends to run M$ software....  :-)

But then again I guess all's fair in love and war!  ;-)

> And quite franky, Mozilla SUCKS on every machine I've run it on.  Its
> bloated and its slow.

It's a heck of a lot faster and smoother to use than Nutscrape 4.x is.

> From anything to a 466Mhz DS10 to a 1.4GHZ Athlon to a 195Mhz R10K
> machine, its been unusably slow.

You obviously have other major tuning or overload problems then --- I
happily run multiple copies of it on a measly P-II 300MHz with only
320MB of RAM.  My SO is even using it for e-mail and NNTP and she seems
quite happy with it (and that machine runs a load of other jobs too,
including my emacs sessions!)

Although normally I would say that you should try to remember to use
separate CPUs for your Xserver and your X11 clients, I will also note
that one of my colleagues runs it happily on a P-II 400MHz machine with
only 128 MB of RAM, and in conjunction with the Xserver (i.e. right on
his workstation).

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