I went to primary school in the 70ties. Fountain pens or pencils were not allowed, only ballpoints. My mother thought it was stupid and talked the teacher into allowing me to use a fountain pen. Calculators were around but we were still tought the art of doing calculus in the head and on paper. Still use that a lot.

Thanks, I enjoyed the interaction.

It's a Dell (with xp) and the mb only takes 2GB. I have been promised a Core-i5 machine with 8GB (refurbished Dell win win7), don't know when that arrives, but for now I'm programming with this one. Can't wait till I actually start earning money, wich should be soon (I guess that's being selfemployed for ya).

I have 2GB of ram in a P4, and usually 2.5-3GB in swap. When the swap gets over 4GB (Firefox seems very happy to do that) the system gets too slow to work with. Not sure what would happen if I turn swap off. I probably would see lots of out-of-memory errors and have to use the reset button often. On Linux I've been told, a bit of swap can actually speed up a system by freeing up ram for disk caching.

and http://askubuntu.com/questions...

I read up on the subject and decided that reducing the swappyness to 1 rather than turning it off would be the best idea on *nix systems. Not sure what to do on Windows.

Sorry, forgot to mention it was on Linux 1.2.x

I tried "no swap" long ago, on a 386 with 5MB ram, but then the system would hang when the memory got full.

AND having to deal with dreadfully slow storage for that time.

They reveal themselves when you reverse the polarity on the deflector shields.

I have my swap on a ramdisk (ducks)

I wish you lots of fun developing the rest.

But big sequentually accessed files like video or music are perfect for a hardddisc, It's random access & thousands of little files where SSD's shine because of zero seektimes.

One series is made in Indonesia, the next in Malaysia, the next in Mexico, parts from different subcontractors etc. They all bear the name Seagate but they're not all equal.

Seems like a really interesting product. Anyone else noticed the 2TB variant has much higher seek times 12ms (for the mechanical part) than the one with 1TB (10ms). (Wich seem to be still slower than the 8ms in 80GB drive in my P4)