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From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Google Summer of Code
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:10:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060417201018.GA2564@XTL.antioffline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d71d9718a9cf25ce5dda7957322eb6ad@akira.nop.cx>

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:03:54PM -0700, Tim Wiess wrote:
> > Google - sending the software world back to the stone age.
> > My 2Ghz 1Gb RAM workstation struggles to allow me to read email with
> > gmail...  amazing how far backwards we can go!
> i think your workstation has some serious unrelated issues.
> a pII 450 i have can load gmail just fine.

Likewise. Piii@533 and 256M ram (ecc, so I haven't thrown in just
another dimm) won't run FF fast (does anything?) but gmail runs at
tolerable pace and doesn't seem to be heavier than shuffling ordinary
web pages.

It is down a lot. My excuse for using it is testing, catching mail
from people that insist on attachments etc.

--
"What do you mean? A handgun is a standard tool for a sysadmin, isn't it?"
		-- Kurt M. Hockenbury, Scary Devil Monastery


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-17 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-17 19:08 uriel
2006-04-17 19:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-17 19:21 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-04-17 19:48   ` uriel
2006-04-17 19:51     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-17 20:03     ` Tim Wiess
2006-04-17 19:57       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-17 20:10       ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2006-04-17 20:21       ` uriel
2006-04-17 22:48         ` Lou Kamenov
2006-04-17 22:57         ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-18  0:56         ` Dan Cross
2006-04-17 21:16       ` Enrique Soriano
2006-04-17 21:25         ` [9fans] How low can you go? Michael Baldwin
2006-04-17 21:36           ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-04-17 21:58             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-17 22:13               ` Don Bailey
2006-04-17 22:58                 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-17 23:07                   ` Don Bailey
2006-04-18  9:04               ` William Staniewicz
2006-04-18 17:21                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-18 17:46                   ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-18 17:56                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-18 18:09                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-18 21:03                       ` Dan Cross
2006-04-19 10:19                         ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-04-19 12:16                     ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-18 18:50                   ` lucio
2006-04-17 22:35         ` [9fans] Google Summer of Code Devon H. O'Dell
2006-04-17 22:17     ` Andrew Simmons
2006-04-17 22:37     ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-04-19 14:27       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-04-18  5:24 ` ems
2006-04-19 14:07 ` Rian Hunter

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