Wow, this is going well. OSX has restored some of the excitement I remember from my beginning days on the web. Two thumbs up. Proselytizing will now begin in earnest, so watch out if you have to spend any time with me in the near future.
It turns out I didn't have the latest (10.1.1) version of X. I grabbed that this morning after Chris, from the on hiatus mors.ante.servitium, reminded me.
I'm running this on a 400 mhz G3 iMac and speed is not too bad. But it is slow at times, especially when resizing windows. I only have 128 megs of RAM in this machine, so perhaps bumping that will help. I'm sure a G4 would do better, but this is what I have for the moment. In any case, I use Mozilla as my main browser, so I must not care too much about blindingly fast user interfaces. It's funny how if I like a technology on a theoretical (philosophical? ethical?) level I am willing to cut it a lot of slack. Probably there is some loose thinking in there, but that's how it is. On the other hand, the first time I was annoyed by Microsoft or Real I banished them from my world forever.
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It turns out I didn't have the latest (10.1.1) version of X. I grabbed that this morning after Chris, from the on hiatus mors.ante.servitium, reminded me.
I'm running this on a 400 mhz G3 iMac and speed is not too bad. But it is slow at times, especially when resizing windows. I only have 128 megs of RAM in this machine, so perhaps bumping that will help. I'm sure a G4 would do better, but this is what I have for the moment. In any case, I use Mozilla as my main browser, so I must not care too much about blindingly fast user interfaces. It's funny how if I like a technology on a theoretical (philosophical? ethical?) level I am willing to cut it a lot of slack. Probably there is some loose thinking in there, but that's how it is. On the other hand, the first time I was annoyed by Microsoft or Real I banished them from my world forever.
- jim 12-17-2001 5:53 pm