I took Belle to the vet yesterday because her back legs are becoming more and more unreliable and it turns out she has neither arthritis nor hip dysplasia (well, a tiny little bit in one hip, but surprisingly little). She has some inflamation around her spinal column which her body is reacting to by building extra bone which is pinching off the nerves going to her back legs. So it's good news because it doesn't hurt her, and there are some drugs which can help bring the inflamation down to minimize further damage. And as long as nothing more goes wrong with her she could live another six months to two years, depending on how well she reacts to the anti-inflamitories. So I guess that's good news.

Thanks Alison! I'll be at Chili's tonight.

-Strictly for my ninjas

Damn I missed the lava lamp!

P, as far as Linux goes I'm very happy with it's RAM usage and responsiveness. Best thing is that it doesn't lose responsiveness over time like windows. For instance my computer has now been on for... 7 days, 23 hours, and one minute (according to the "uptime" command) and it's working just fine.
Best things about Linux: RAM usage, mplayer, reboot-less installs, command line, free.

Worst things about Linux: having to learn to do the same stuff all over again but differently, inefficent (or just annoying) hardware usage (ie. sound card can only be used by one program at a time...).

I don't think hardware is really an issue.

I have 64MB in a Celeron II 333 and Im running Fedora 2. It runs really well, but when I had it running a graphical interface it was chunking along... but thats ok since I only need command line as I run it as a server. I would imagine the real Linux users have much, much better computers and that Linux runs very smoothly for them.

Paras, I know this isn't E-Bay, hence no prices. I dunno... maybe I'll go visit E-Bay, but I don't trust this compy... besides, unless I missed a big description of what this message board is supposed to be 'about' I thought I could post things like this... anyway, they're free.

Anyway, Albert, the lava lamp is free... and since you asked first, it's all yours. Are you going to be at Chilis tomorrow? I can bring it by tomorrow night if you'd like.

Perhaps the question that is closer to the purpose of my query is how do you like the responsiveness of Linux with the ram your computer has.

Most Blunted? :P

Par, Beck, and anyone else using Linux. How much ram does your Linux computer have?

Alison what price must be paid to obtain that lava lamp?

-Stictly for my ninjas

eric, I got a $10, 17" monitor. Other than odds and ends, though, not a lot.
Alison, this isn't eBay.
Percy, my guess is that one has 168 pins, and the other has 144 pins. One would assume that a 168-pin RAM card will not fit into a 144-pin RAM slot.

i think Just Blaze, aka America's Most Blunted, aka Percy P would be interested in that lava lamp.