Sometimes, Apple rule.

[Jay Vaughan]

$200 bar tabs weren't that hard to acrue in LA .. Plus pooltable  
rental, bowling after hours, some quarter stacks at videoland, a few  
jays burgers and a taxi ride home .. Not so hard to go for $300 .. Of  
course the 90's were good like that..

;
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ibi sum
::: top quotin' from the pocket :::

On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:33, "M-.-n" <nostromo at arkaos.net> wrote:

>
> God man, you had quite a budget for a night out :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
> [mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org]On Behalf Of Jay Vaughan
> Sent: vendredi 24 octobre 2008 13:25
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: Sometimes, Apple rule.
>
>
> Yeah man it's sort of true you can upgrade to a newer netbook now for
> what used to be a good nights out budget .. Bombs away on the bigger
> guns, let's see the lower priced hardware rock the box.
>
> ;
> --
> ibi sum
> ::: top quotin' from the pocket :::
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:16, "M-.-n" <nostromo at arkaos.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the extensive report. Very good to know.
>>
>> As for U:Remix, you might be totally right as I'm still running a
>> minimal
>> 512k. I'm currently toying with the idea of getting a new one, not
>> because
>> of power issue but rather because the eee keyboard hurts my wrist.
>> If so,
>> I'll probably refactor my 701 as a minimal consumption server in the
>> house.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
>> [mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org]On Behalf Of ibi sum
>> Sent: vendredi 24 octobre 2008 13:06
>> To: Music-bar
>> Subject: Re: Sometimes, Apple rule.
>>
>>
>>> Yeah, the keyboard is the very bad part of the EEE and the Aspire's
>>> one
>>> looks a lot better.
>>>
>>
>> Its really a lot, lot better .. for me anyway.  I can write code with
>> the Aspire1, whereas the EEEPC .. not so easy, or comfortable.  Last
>> night I wrote 2000 lines of code with the Aspire1, and its starting  
>> to
>> look like its going to be my Linux hacking/development machine for  
>> the
>> next 6 months ..
>>
>>> How's the situation with the mouse buttons ? they have kind of a
>>> wierd
>>> position.
>>
>> The position of the mouse buttons suck, its really a fact.  I have to
>> work out what to do about this ..
>>
>>> And what distro do you run on it (unless you bought one with
>>> windows; arf
>>> arf arf)
>>
>> Right now I'm putting up with the Linpus (worst distro name ever)  
>> that
>> came with it, if only because I feel sorta pervy (in a good way)  
>> about
>> learning yum when all my professional life these days is either
>> build-from-source or .deb pkg mgmt, and to be honest I'm not finding
>> it all that difficult to get over my RedHat bigotry in this instance;
>> all the important stuff installed easily enough (Inkscape, dev tools,
>> seq24, zynaddsubfx, sooperlooper, Audacity, etc.) and I have gotten  
>> my
>> code compiled and running easily enough.  One thing I do need to  
>> chase
>> down is how to get a RT- enabled kernel setup, thats a bit of a
>> nuisance.  But I like having an ultra-minimal config - certainly its
>> nice to be running xfce happily again, and the machine really does  
>> fly
>> along at doing what I need it to do, which right now is building
>> kernel modules and hacking on SVG-based user interfaces and related
>> documents.
>>
>> One negative on the Aspire1 though: it only sees 1.5gigs of RAM, this
>> is a BIOS limitation, and the BIOS appears to be pretty much orphaned
>> in terms of support.  There was an upgrade recently, but it doesn't
>> address the arbitrary RAM limitation, alas .. just some power
>> management issues, which admittedly were good to have (longer battery
>> life==good).. but I hope the RAM limit goes away, coz I don't wanna
>> waste 512megs in the environment I'm using the Aspire1.
>>
>> Either way though, you gotta appreciate the netbook revolution that  
>> is
>> pushing Linux into the hands of people who really stand to benefit
>> from using it these days.  I can't tell you how pleased I am to see
>> kids using netbooks, installing apps through synaptic, and having
>> ultra-clean, well-maintained systems for the price of a pair of  
>> Nikes'
>> .. to be honest it really makes me proud, especially when its mostly
>> teenage girls telling me about the features they love at the local
>> Saturn while I browse the netbook aisle, almost every week, to see
>> whats new..  quite a nice thing, maybe, about living in Vienna, is
>> just how computer literate the young folks seem to be.
>>
>>> BTW. Ubuntu remix is WAY to hungry for decent use on the 701. I
>>> really
>> like
>>> the concept but it's simply not made for something of that power
>>> level.
>>
>> Well the guy who has my EEEPC now is quite happy with it, but that
>> might be because of the RAM upgrade, and actually I was helping him
>> out with it a little last night and sorta lusted after its goodies
>> (love the interface to be honest) again .. so I don't really agree
>> with you here.  I haven't found it to be a dog, actually.  How much
>> RAM you got?  2gigs in my ol' 701 and it is pretty pimp I have to  
>> say.
>> No problems firing up Inkscape, a fat document or two, leaving
>> Audacity open in the background, running some torrents too, etc.  The
>> system load just gets managed quite nicely - though I would hate to
>> see how the same levelling would work with less RAM..
>>
>> j.
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