new puter

By anders pearson 17 Mar 2003

my friend prasanth has been doing his rotations for medical school for the last year and will be doing them for another year or so. about a year ago, he foolishly went out and bought a custom made dual 1GHz pentium machine without thinking that he would be travelling to a different city every 6 weeks for a long time to come and having a big desktop machine wouldn’t be very convenient. unsurprisingly, it’s remained in storage almost since he bought it.

so this weekend i bought it off him for cheap. this works pretty well for both of us. by the time he would get to use the machine it would be way obsolete so instead he got to convert it to a bit of cash that he can put towards a laptop which will travel better. my old computer is a 400MHz celeron that i bought in 1999. i run linux and don’t really play video games so i don’t feel a strong need to have the fastest machine on the planet. still, 400MHz is feeling slower and slower every day as everyone else around me upgrades (although realistically, with all the performance improvements that have been made to the linux kernel, my 400MHz machine has actually been getting faster and more responsive since i bought it). moving up to a dual 1GHz machine is a pretty significant improvement for me.

so <a href=”http://www.gentoo.org/“>gentoo</a> is installed on it and kde is compiling while i’m at work.