Adventures with Computers
Archive for November 2000
I’ve just bought 128 MB of RAM extra for my machine. That brings the total amount of RAM up to 256 MB. If you count the 64 MB on my V7700, then the total is 320 MB :-)
So now I’ve finally got rid of the swap-file. Nice. I can now play Quake and have a bunch of Eterms and Emacs open at the same time.
You bet!
I’ve just bought the Linux-version of Quake from a Danish reseller of Lokigames, called linuxspil.dk. And it plays beautifully :-)
With my new V7700 GeForce2 Ultra graphicscard from Asus, I can play the game at a resolution of 1600×1200 under Linux (just as I can under Windows). I think it’s nice to see, that the hardware manufactures are finally providing desent drivers for Linux.
Yesterday I stumbled across something called Domino Day 2000. It turned out to be an attempt to break the world-record in making a chain-reaction. Over 3 million domino bricks tumblet over — it took about 100 minutes.
70 students had been working for 7 weeks to make it possible, and then it’s all over in just one and a half hour :-) It was quite funny to watch, though.