On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:58:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:09, Seneca wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:01:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:20, Seneca wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:39, Seneca wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:50:32AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > [snip] > > > > The standard 6 are already in use for other stuff (and yes, I do know > > > > about ^Z), and I need X anyway to connect to a proxy. > > > > > > Ah, well. You mean the way that Netscape connects thru web proxies? > > > > Not just any web proxy, but one that requires me to login, and requires > > java and javascript to do so. > > Sounds like MS Proxy 2.0.
Not MS Proxy, but a different windoze proxy, Wingate. > > > [snip] > > > > > and that must count for something, even if the swap files _are_ > > > > > getting seriously excersied. > > > > > > > > The swapping has turned this system into a cron-operated alarmclock. > > > > > > ???? You mean that, every X hours, there's so much disk activity > > > that it wakes you up? > > > > That's right, and it's a better alarmclock than the purpose-built one > > than I have. It also is a good heater. (furnace traditionally breaks > > down on the coldest day of winter, and this laptop, with the help of a > > single 60W lightbulb kept my desk area comfortably warm) > > What a bummer. Can you add more RAM? Did you say that you are > using a Pentium? Wait, you're the one who isn't allowed to upgrade, > right? Well, it's more like can't afford to, and not allowed the unused systems. However, I've figured out how to work around the permissions problem. Now it's all a matter of time, cabling, and de-windozing, and I'll have my own network of old pentia heating my room, not because of overloading (hopefully), but because of all the power supplies. As an aside... what is the current rating of an average household circuit in North America, 12A? This is not a homework question, the only course that this could have been one for was last semester. I just don't want to accidentally trip any breakers with the pentia. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
