On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:47 -0500, MK wrote: > ric moore brags: > > >> ps. you are not BURNING a new kernel, you are COMPILING one. but > >> call > >> it "rolling" and you might be ok > > > > heheheh, back when I would install the latest and greatest on my 486 > > DX2/66, rolling did not have the eclat of the word "burning" as it > > took forever, made my head hurt and my eyes burn from watching it. > > But, back when, the speed up was noticeable when I did that. > > wow, thanks for this piece of etymology, i thot you waz just ignorant. Ha! You thought right! I thought I knew some stuff, but it seems even those points bear scrutiny! > i do seem to remember watching text scRoll for hours, it seemed cool at > the time and gave me some to eat noodles. You had better luck that I as I would make some ignorant mistake, the kernel either didn't make right or didn't work at all, and then I'd edit my mistake and do it again. I usually got it right on the third, forth or fifth time. <huge grin> But, I stuck to it. I'm good at that. > > What's got me into a > > kernel "compiling" mood is that playing a movie DVD and my system > > talking to the serial port to my stinkin' modem ain't cutting it. > > Damn, you would think an Athlon64-3200, running a 32bit OS with 2 gigs > > of memory could handle it. It happens whether I use Xine, VLC or any > > other player. > > well ric i am running a P4 with 440 megs, downloading (thru a serial > port), writing this in balsa, and ignoring "dodgeball" on xine plus a > few other things and everything runs peachy with less than half the > memory used and the CPU @ 30-70%. I almost always run root. I'd be > pissed off if i couldn't customize the kernel, it may bear some > responsibilities. Is this when you play a DVD?? For whatever reason, it hogs the hell out of the system, but top doesn't show a huge anomaly. <swears again> I think a kernel rolling session is coming. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
