It is amazing - the transformation of computers since my first exposure
in 1983. My first experience was intro to computers - Fortran
programming using punch cards. It was 1985 before I saw a full screen
editor. In 1986 I bought a Commodore 64 that had 64kb of RAM. It was
plenty powerful to automate book keeping and other useful stuff. In 87
I bought an 8088 with an upgrade to 640kb of RAM. It had two disk
drives, a 14" monochrome monitor, and a 300 baud modem. I acquired a
copy of dBaseIII and I was having the time of my life. The next year I
bought a 20MB HD. I thought I had arrived.
I am a purist in so may ways. I struggle with the business vs purist
approach. I've argued in the past that it is better to spend $50 more a
month on hardware than it is to spend hours each month trying to make
something more efficient. From a truly business stand point it is more
efficient to make up the difference by spending a little more on
hardware than man hours.
Case in point. I am a lamp dev. I am looking at Drupal for a future
project. Most would consider Drupal bloatware. I think at a minimum it
is a recourse hog. If all things were equal I would rather build the
app from scratch and make it as efficient as I can. The interesting
thing is I might be able to get Drupal to do what I want in half the
time. That equates to a lot of savings. The cost will be that it will
require a server that cost $50 more a month.
It amazes me the amount of power it takes to run modern apps. My main
box is an i5 with 8GB of RAM. That is a lot of power. I assume it will
be viable for 7 - 10 years. Maybe in it's latter life it will not be my
primary workstation, however it surely could be a test server or
something along those lines.
On the other hand it amazed me when I was able to build a mail server
running Centos 5 and Qmailtoaster on an old laptop running a 1Ghz
Celeron w/ 256MB of RAM.
On 2014-06-22 00:32,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> To me bloat would be a bunch of daemons eating resources to the point
> of exhaustion.
> I installed KDE (had not done it in years) and seems to hug less
> resources now.
> Still testing...
> ET
>
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>
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> Dennis Kibbe writes:
>
>> techlists@phpcoderusa.com writes:
>>> What a great rant!! I was on my way to look for a video on HULU....
>>> I
>>> enjoyed this much more.
>>
>> LOL I've enjoyed it as well. "Bloat" is one of those words that get
>> thrown
>> around without really knowing what it means. (no offense to OP) If I
>> see the word in an article I want to know how the author measures
>> "bloat." To me bloat would be code loaded into memory that is never
>> executed. dennisk
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