[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!


Bill wrote:

> and -j 3 compile option, I can churn through serious amounts of code, 

what's -j 3??


> Hehe... Seriously though, occasionally when nearly full rebuilds are 
> needed/desired, I let it run overnight(never bothered to measure total 
> build times), unattended unlike other systems that shall remain nameless....
> 

one thing i neglected to mention: i was running gentoo on a laptop, and 
I'm allowed to run linux at work.....so i'd start an update, then have 
to interrupt to shutdown (or suspend) to pack up and go somewhere, to 
then repeat the vicious cycle.


> Ahhhh....it's nice to not have a 5-year old system! My previous system 
> was a PII350 only about 14 months ago....so I'm sure I'll be with this 
> machine for many years, well into it's obsolecense. And the thing that 
> made me give up my PII 350 was not the 800-Mhz system at work, it was a 
> dual-Zeon running Microsoft OS. The 800Mhz system's GUI environment was 
> "stickier" than my old 350 but with the Xeon system it was too much of a 
> disparity for me to bear. The GUI was snappy and with the help of GNU 
> tools on WinNT at work, I was not having as much fun on the 350 as I 
> used to. Now I have plenty of CPU time for the forseable future....more 
> than enough to keep "mprime" running cintinuously in the background 
> searching for mersenne primes ( www.mersenne.org) taking occasional 
> time-outs to compile my code and do "emerge --update world" every once 
> in a while.
> 
> It is late and I'm sure I'm rambling and mispelling like crazy, hope you 
> get a chuckle out of this.

definitely :)

man, all this talk about gentoo is making me nostalgic, now i must 
resist the urge to give it another go! arrrrghh.....

dave

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