From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 02:39:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4531065672 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:39:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E148D8FC17 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:39:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5N2dHpB006362; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:39:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Gatten Message-ID: <20090623023914.GC20245@thought.org> References: <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F081@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793F081@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:39:23 -0000 On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:21:33PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > How fast is it though? Fast enough, or will the r/w/access times make > everything slow? Not all SSD is created equal. Ah, yes, that was the key to this site, then. it said that with their newer, faster speed--i think at least double--the response time moved from a slow crawl to a walk. i use konq because it has festival as a builtin. --after a hard day, there are times when the last thing i want to do is read-with-eyes some dense, boring document or man page. solution is to mouse-swipe and have it read to me. o/wise, i'd use firefox3 like most people do. i'll post this page if i ever find it again; share the good news. > > There's a "new" SD format too - up to 2TB.... Prolly within a couple > years, or maybe someone will get some federal stimulus funds and > manufacture it sooner! After all, it could help us solve the "Climate > Change" issue, that's always a good way to get money.... > man, truer words never spoken! do you have a url with this new SSD info. this really would help save energy since there are so many hard drives spinning [[Everywhere]] just burning up the gigawatts. this could very well go-viral.... no stim money needed. but then i dont know, honestly, because i dont know what these guys need. but, for sure, i'm going to have a min of a 64G SSD in some notebook this year. probably this summer. :_) gary > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 6:08 PM > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: you're not going to believe this. > > > you guys aren't going to believe what i just found on the web > for > the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the "900"]. it was for the 9- and > 10-inch screens. i was using konq which just segv'd so i am > taking a break and thought i'd share this. > > last night, i could barely believe the ten-inch with a 40GB SSD. > these mini-notebooks take two memory chips. they just plug in. > i was googling around and found they have 32's and even 128's. > so you can get 64 or up to 256Gigs of solid state disk ... > not in a year or two (or five or six), but now. > > i'll double and triple check to make sure this isn't a sham, but > they had a thing on you-tube... Oh, and next time i see the > speech therapist, i'll lug my hugmongous thinkpad and demo what > i've done with my scripts and flite.... > > 8 kilobux for a Doze speech dev my butt. with berkeley unix and > open source tools, you can have it for a few hundred bux. > > gary > > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php > The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > >
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