Re: Trolling the Goss.
- From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:21:47 -0700 (PDT)
On Sep 10, 2:39 am, Tina_H...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:
Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Won't a lot of this work on one virtual PC setup, maybe on Linux?
Don't let yourself be confused by someone who habitually doesn't get
it.
The question was solely for the computer that's then connected to
internet, to start with running windoze (nothing to do with the DOS
computer, and only later OS/2, once I know how to do that).
No that that matters, because I asked what _hardware_ would be
required for what I want to do online, and what speed is needed to
do it.
The rest only turned up in a digression about connecting different
computers. Nothing to do with the initial question (explicitly so;
only one, and no more, computer is to be connected to internet), but
some people don't get digression.
Well, not if she doesn't want to do it that way.
As mentioned, I'll look at Linux if it can replace windoze for what
I need it for. Job applications (to print), and some moderately old
windoze games. I want neither, because neither does what I want.
Windoze is crap, and all I know about Linux is that it wants
permissions for every fart.
If you install Linux, you can give yourself permissions to do
anything. But good practice is to give yourself a limited-rights
access account for everyday work in case things go wrong.
Incidentally, recent Windows editions finally got around to doing the
same thing, which has made life difficult if your software was written
assuming that you and it can do whatever you like to the computer.
That's less of a problem with Linux tools.
You could consider using a new small-size off-the-shelf Windows
computer instead of building yourself the standard kind of box, as I
think you were proposing. Less clutter. Later I can tell you which
came out ahead on a recent test shown on TV - I wrote it down at
home. These are devices that would fit in a handbag, although only
with nothing else in the handbag and not for any very useful reason
(you'll still use a regular monitor and keyboard and mouse), and
little or no room for expansion e.g. no internal CD/DVD/BluRay disc
reader/writer.
A modern PC's performance depends greatly on RAM size, especially with
Windows. Two gigabytes may be enough, and also may be the point where
you have to be specific about Windows memory management functions
(there's a "switch" but I think it may be used to allow more than two
gigabytes per program, which usually is more than yoo need but I was
reading about "Microsoft SQL Server"), but get as much RAM as you can,
within reason. Yes, this is much more than your DOS machine uses, but
can you control your DOS machine by voice?
Linux usually comes as a nearly-free DVD including applications, such
as OpenOffice.org which is a professionally capable editor. You can
also get OpenOffice.org - free - for Windows, Mac, and - possibly, and
with some compromises - OS/2. Probably not easy, but would you want
it to be?
<http://porting.openoffice.org/> for that. It does have a "modern"
appetite for computer memory.
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