On 21.03.15 10:54, Russell Coker wrote:
In the past there have been LUV members offering high end P4 systems for free and not getting takers. If you can attend LUV meetings then you might ask if someone has such a system to spare.
Ah, now that's an ingenious way to encourage greater meeting attendance. :-) I might put up my hand at some future offer - though the crazy low price for Rick's nifty little find: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157574 might just beat that to the punch. The board specs don't mention board power consumption, but some of the associated glossy bumpf does indicate a 15W CPU. Since we've been on the topic, I tried a locally bought DVD, but Debian's "Movie Player" rejected it as "encrypted". I may at some stage try to figure that out. It'd be nice to know how to do this stuff. But for what I do: vim, mutt, a bit of avr-gcc, and a look at the ABC and BBC news sites each evening, the old clunker is amply sufficient so far. I'm only replacing the old drives because they're flagging themselves as "end of life". Erik --
It may not work well for you since it sounds like you're always in terminal Vim but I thought I'd pass it along.
No, I don't believe in GUIs. - Arvid Warnecke, on vim-use ML.