From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1F73nC-00034B-00 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:52:30 -0500 Received: (qmail 31214 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Feb 2006 21:51:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:51:59 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: A Linux Laptop including speech? Message-ID: <20060209045159.GA31190@localhost.localdomain> References: <7.0.1.0.0.20060205151441.01b9d5b0@voyager.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20060208173039.02eb4db8@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> <20060209030827.GB9201@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060209030827.GB9201@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:52:31 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you've got the hd space, why not make a swap file or a swap partition? It won't be as fast as physical RAM but it will still allow you to run more software at a time. Greg On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:08:28PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Well, I have a Pentium M12d by Hitachi and unfortunately, it is a dog. > It only has 16meg of memory and I'm hard pressed to find additional > memory for it. I got it for what I thought to be a pretty good deal a > couple years ago. It's fun to play around with but it sure is slow. It > runs Slackware reasonably well but I really need to find that extra > memory since Linux generally likes the more memory, the better. I > really like the Hitachi keyboard; I think it is the best layout I've > seen in a laptop. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6spv7s9z/XlyUyARAmjNAKCHpASqOJnB+G7tE7p2eRsX6HY5GwCfZvOO CkWEULpEM4yTPlibFKOO9uQ= =3AEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----