Arelor wrote to Tracker1 <=-

There's definitely some hard press to try to get something running that
low on resources with a modern desktop. There was some options in
Windows XP that let you use a fast USB or other drive as extension
memory. Not sure if you can still do that in Windows or Linux.

Yes, it's called ReadyBoost, it acts as a disk cache if memory serves.

I was testing some setup for deployment yesterday. I used a workstation
of 2 GB of RAM and a processor so cingeworthy I am not going to ashame myself by giving its specs here.

I used a Thinkpad T42 for years with Lubuntu. 1.7Ghz single-core CPU, 2 GB
of DDR RAM, 5400 RPM PATA drive, later updated to a PATA SSD. It did everything I could throw at it except for full-screen video. It was a little choppy.

Best damn keyboard on a laptop, ever. Best industrial design on a laptop,
IMO. The T4x series were a high-water mark for 4:3 laptops.






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On 9/22/2021 8:42 AM, Nightfox wrote:

Really wanting to switch back to Linux (PopOS), but also wanting to
try some AI up-scaling for video, that's limited to Windows. May have
to stick a second drive in again so I can dual-boot cleaner.

Is it Topaz Video Enhance AI by chance? I've been using that on and
off since about April last year to do some video upscaling. I've
considered switching to Linux for a long time but haven't due to
software, and now Topaz Video Enhance AI is one reason why.

That would be the one... been meaning to play with it, I have some DVDs
that don't have HD versions that I'd been wanting to upscale, though
dual boot should work for the future... also, not sure how much I'm
willing to deal with the secure boot in windows, and if it will/won't
work in Linux for me.

How has it been working for you... now that I have a 3080, hoping it
will chew through it relatively quickly.
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knightbbs wrote:

nobody uses instant msging anymore.

Shame actually. I got on the net in 1996 and ICQ and IRC were my main means of communication. I loved getting the oh-ow sounds when logging in, having people reach out to me and exchanging messages.

I used ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger...I still remember my ICQ number, and it's only 7 digits :)

I'm pretty bummed YIM shut down, that was a decent messenger. In the end I
used some multi-messenger program, I forgot which, but then people started moving away and using FB and snapchat and stuff. I don't have a snap, or a tictok...well, I do because I had to post something for a contest, but other than that I never use them.

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Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: Nelgin to knightbbs on Thu Sep 30 2021 02:14 am

knightbbs wrote:

nobody uses instant msging anymore.

Shame actually. I got on the net in 1996 and ICQ and IRC were my main means of communication. I loved getting the oh-ow sounds when logging in, having people reach out to me and exchanging messages.

I used ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger...I still remember my ICQ

did you purposely not quote the date so i couldnt call you a necroposter
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Nelgin wrote to knightbbs <=-

I'm pretty bummed YIM shut down, that was a decent messenger. In the
end I used some multi-messenger program, I forgot which, but then
people started moving away and using FB and snapchat and stuff.

There was a golden age where GAIM (and it's later incarnation, Pidgin) were
a part of work and play. I had a security chat on SILC, some friends on
Yahoo, work used AIM (with a proxy so we could connect when the net was
down), I had a Jabber server running, and other friends elsewhere. Skype
even worked, if only for chat. I'd even had it plugged into Synchro.net's
IRC network.



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Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: Nelgin to knightbbs on Thu Sep 30 2021 02:14 am

I used ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger...I still remember my ICQ number, and it's only 7 digits :)

I used to use ICQ too, and I remember mine as well.

I'm pretty bummed YIM shut down, that was a decent messenger. In the end I used some multi-messenger program, I forgot which, but then people started moving away and using FB and snapchat and stuff. I don't have a snap, or a tictok...well, I do because I had to post something for a contest, but other than that I never use them.

I'm bummed that pretty much all the major messenger services have shut down (I think ICQ still works, but it's not the same as it used to be). And I don't think Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, etc. are quite the same.

Years ago, Microsoft merged MSN Messenger into Skype, and then all my MSN Messenger contacts disappeared (they didn't get migrated to my Skype contact list). I was bummed about that.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nelgin on Thu Sep 30 2021 07:20 am

There was a golden age where GAIM (and it's later incarnation, Pidgin) were a part of work and play. I had a security chat on SILC, some friends on Yahoo, work used AIM (with a proxy so we could connect when the net was down), I had a Jabber server running, and other friends elsewhere. Skype even worked, if only for chat. I'd even had it plugged into Synchro.net's IRC network.

I liked those multi-chat clients, but I noticed sometimes they didn't seem to work well all the time with all the different chat protocols. I knew a couple people who used Pidgin & similar, and sometimes it seemed their chat app would report me online when I wasn't or vice-versa. Or sometimes I'd try to send them a file from my chat client and they couldn't receive it, etc..

Nightfox

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

seem to work well all the time with all the different chat protocols.
I knew a couple people who used Pidgin & similar, and sometimes it
seemed their chat app would report me online when I wasn't or
vice-versa. Or sometimes I'd try to send them a file from my chat
client and they couldn't receive it, etc..

It was nice to be able to use end-to-end encryption with pidgin-OTR - and
this was 2007 or so!


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Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: MRO to Nelgin on Thu Sep 30 2021 08:38:02

did you purposely not quote the date so i couldnt call you a necroposter

It only just showed up here so either something got something stuck and finally send it out, or someone dumped a lot of dupes that were so old I didn't have them any more so no idea.

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Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: Nelgin to MRO on Sun Oct 03 2021 04:55 pm

Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
By: MRO to Nelgin on Thu Sep 30 2021 08:38:02

did you purposely not quote the date so i couldnt call you a necroposter

It only just showed up here so either something got something stuck and finally send it out, or someone dumped a lot of dupes that were so old I didn't have them any more so no idea.

what kind of setup do you have there? synchronet isnt that hard and you shouldn't have that problem.
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