Comments on: OLPC dual booting

By: StalePhish

StalePhish — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:08:41 +0000

My old web and FTP server was a 1995 HP Pavilion with 96 MB RAM and it ran just fine!

By: Miles

Miles — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:22:59 +0000

l approve of this post.

gh0stly:

Agree, if win2k boots it will be plenty quick.

Isn't the real speed problem the embedded Geode and speed of the secondary storage? Not the ram. l could be wrong.

By: James

James — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:44:21 +0000

Not sure I would agree with you wolf — maybe the site admin is trying to decide whether to ban Miked or not, and seeing dozens of “we hate miked” comments would sway him towards booting the little dickwad. I know which way I’d cast my vote…

On the same topic, why aren’t we seeing the “full” Weblogs Inc comment system as used on Engadget etc? I have to do confirmation emails for every comment, plus we can’t “report” comments like the ones we’re talking about in an automated fashion.

By: Gh0sTly

Gh0sTly — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:17:16 +0000

if they got XP to boot, they can get Windows 2000 to boot, and 256mb is PLENTY of RAM for Win2k. Install Win2k on one of these, and they we will talk.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:17:15 +0000

no offense miked_hater, but how is your spamming any different than miked’s? If you have some qualm with his actions, by all means, elaborate, but counter trolling is still trolling in itself.

By: Man On Fire

Man On Fire — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:25:44 +0000

XOs look nifty, but they lack the horsepower for most power users. the AMD geode in there doesn’t quite cut it IMHO, even running lightweight GUIs like XFCE.

By: j_j

j_j — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:50:09 +0000

...#4

miked hasnt approved or disapproved of this post yet.

on the other hand, 256mb for XP isn't too bad, wait till they try running vista.

By: miked_hater

miked_hater — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:54:09 +0000

BAN MIKED FOR LIFE! WHAT AN ASS!

By: Yuffie

Yuffie — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:08:18 +0000

wtf?
I'm running XP on 128mb of RAM here and my computer is faster than most.

try disabling services and stuff.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:36:19 +0000

Anytime I see an olpc and the mention of sugar, I think of System of a Down.

I play Russian roulette everyday, a man's sport,
with the bullet called life, yeah mama called life (sugar).

Don't ask me why.

By: Kt

Kt — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:29:33 +0000

Yeah, just pour that salt into the open wound Hackaday,.. Thanks a lot.