FTFY

I think this is the sentence in the license agreement that convinces people otherwise:
"Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded Software."
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

Installed Yggdrasil on my awesome new 486, 8 Megs of memory, 250 meg drive with the cool "ftape" tape drive.

Anyway, to shrink its memory footprint, I recompiled the kernel with no networking. When I noticed that there was still networking code in it, I took matters into my own hands and started ripping out all the networking code that remained.

After I compiled and booted THAT, it was noticeably smaller! But stuff like X quit working. Phooey.

ASR-33? Off my lawn, punk. Fancy terminal-connected-to-the-computer boy.

My IBM 029 Card Punch soldiers on and has the added bonus of providing scorecards for cutthroat domino games and bookmarks for when I'm busting massive core dumps. And I can load up bitching programs on the drum.

And it's even "green"! After you're done with one side of the card, you can turn it over and punch the other side.

Count your blessings. A page on the Atari 800 was only 256 bytes.

Here's THE book on efficient flying of a piston engine, but there is some applicability to driving:

"The Logic of Flight, The Thinking Man's Way to Fly"
http://www.propellersexplained.com/

It's recently written by Jack Norris, who (among many other things) was the technical director of the Voyager round-the-world flight. He knows more about efficiently running a piston engine through the air than anybody ever.

Here's a brief summary:
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/080825asi.html

The key in long-haul driving is balancing engine efficiency against drag. Since drag goes up as the square of velocity, doubling your speed causes a quadrupling of drag. That's why driving more slowly, as long as you're in the top gear and running the engine efficiently, saves fuel.