There goes eighty days' uptime.

[reddragdiva]

Another two 256MB DIMMs installed, and the MP3 drive and CD-ROM are now accessible. Yet to attempt the video card, but that can wait. KDE runs a lot better in 640 meg, you know. Mozilla, fat-arsed bastard that it is, loads thirty-odd tabs without thrashing. I'm almost missing the sound of the hard drive swapping its little brain out while my screen seizes for two seconds every time I click something.

Give your computer the gift of memory. As much as it can fit. You will both be much happier.

Plugged the wheelmouse back in, but I like the trackball a lot more. Just wish it had a third button. And/or a wheel.

Off sick again today, probably off sick tomorrow. This sucks.

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[hythloday.livejournal.com]

Give your computer the gift of memory.

dmesg | grep MEM
1024MB LOWMEM available.

Amen to that, brother.

Have you tried something like this (http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=zcpd&id=1990407241)? I really like them for everything except Quake3

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

wimps.

$ dmesg | grep -i MEM
real mem = 66695168 (65132K)
avail mem = 56590336 (55264K)
using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory

That's on the *server*.

For my next trick, I will write an LJ client in NewtonScript!

[redcountess]

Well, the trackball was bought for me to use, as my hand hurts using a normal mouse after a while, but the pc I was using in Hendon has an old mouse socket and so not only needed an adaptor for that to serial, but then serial to usb, of which we had both, but then windows98 would not recognise it!

[reddragdiva]

Mm. I don't like controlling the ball with my thumb. I'm surprised I like the trackball I have, actually, because I've never liked them before. This one I control the ball with my index and middle fingers, left-click with thumb and right-click with little finger.

I'd prefer an optical trackball - this one accumulates gunk faster than a normal mouse.