wrote:
> You seem to have a long standing concern for
> performance. Before you=20
> spend a lot more time chasing theories, rumors and
> other stories, I=20
> think you need an objective, relative to your real
> world, system for=20
> measuring performance. Gut feel when crunching
> files is not a good=20
> basis for spending money. And , when you find such
> a system, send me a=20
> copy and you can compare your good stuff to my cheap
> stuff.
>=20
> But then, I am all for buying stuff "just because".
At this point, it's kinda academic, because most of
the components have already been bought. Just a
couple missing items, here and there. In addition to
the Tower redo, I bought (for very little money, on
Ebay) what is to be a sort of understudy / backup for
the Shuttle -- but that one has not arrived yet. I
also inherited a TP A21 with plenty of mileage on it.=20
Several SCOUG members -- such as yourself -- have
long worked with a number of computers, whereas I've
basically just had one or two, of which only one was
fully operational at any given time. That is not
enough margin against something going down
catastrophically, so I'm trying to diversify.=20
Shortly, I expect to be hip deep in projects. =20
Today I shrank the W2K partition on the TP from 19G
(out of 20 total) down to 10, and we'll soon see what
eCS 2.0 RC4 makes of the remainder, as a target. From
my past experiences with the eCS installer, and your
findings strongly favoring a blank HDD for eCS
installs (which I think is substantially correct), I'm
not expecting a whole lot. But I spent hours today
imaging the W2K partition, so how far wrong could it
go ? (I'll tell you: the first time I tried to image
that partition, I burned out a TP battery and the
adapter / transformer brick. It was all running off
of wall current, of course.)
Jordan
=20
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