swap file

[Michael Havens]

Thanks..... I needed some good news. One of my cars was stolen Christmas eve. 
Merry Christmas!

On Tuesday 26 December 2006 2:27 pm, stu wrote:
> On Monday 25 December 2006 9:55 am, bmike101 at cox.net wrote:
> > Thanks for informing me of the drawbacks of my idea of using the
> > pendrive. I suppose it isn't a good idea seeing as how you only get a
> > limited number of writes to it.
> >
> > About the  solidstate drives: I guess i have a wish list now:D
> >
> > Seriously though my dad says they have memory on PCI so I will look into
> > that.... then hesaid he would give  me his computer after he finished
> > digitizing all of his vinyl. It is a Presario with 256M  of RAM and an
> > AMDK7. Hmmmmmmm, presario isn't known for it's Linux friendliness is it.
>
> 	I wouldn't be too sure of that! I have an old Presario K6 that is useless
> running Windows because the Compac drivers are unobtainable. Even though it
> was *designed* to run Windows '98. It gets stuck with default "safe mode"
> graphics resolution (640x480), the sound card doesn't work, and it can't
> find either the modem or ethernet card.
> 	This same computer is Fully Functional running Linux, and even runs
> surprisingly quick for it's age.