Subj : Remmina RDP
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon May 13 2024 07:57:00


Hi Ky!

 > sort of needed a 'play' machine to experiment with without screwing up
 > my primary machine.
 KM> That's always good. And you know one stays when you keep using
 KM> it. :)

It won't just be taking up space?!


>
 > I'm using a few around 25 year old machines as Frontends for playback of
 > the recorded shows.  Did swap the hard drive to a SSD and max out the
 > RAM if I hadn't already.  I know a couple of the machines that max is 8
 > GB.  Zip right along!  ...One machine for certain has reached it's
 > maximum OS: will run Ubuntu 20.04 but not 22.04.
 KM> Nah, only old enough to vote... 8GB capacity arrived with the
 KM> Core2Duo in 2006.

So maybe closer to 20 -- almost like presenting a false ID!  ...One of 
the old-enough-to-vote is the one where it says it can use 8 GB (4x 2GB)
but it is picky and only wants 6 (2x2GB and 2x1GB).  A while back did a 
bit of experimenting: moved the 2GB pairs around, memory testing, etc.  
Nope: only wanted 6 GB and played possum at 8.


 KM> And yeah, the Core2 and 8GB is now the practical divide between
 KM> "still generally useful" and "just too durn slow" but they're
 KM> starting to fall out of "useful" for all but these limited
 KM> specialty tasks that don't need a lot of horsepower (for modern
 KM> values of "a lot").

 KM> https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than
 KM> -you-at-every
 KM> hing.html

Well, modified that to what looked right, even 'hing' to 'thing' - page
not found but did give me some interesting-looking options so clicked.
....Did eventually find the article: cut off the alot- stuff and read a 
couple of quirky articles and the third or fourth one down is what was 
looking for.
                 
Copy and paste:
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-a
t-everything.html

Looks the same. <shrug>  May have been those eagle talons.

But since this was about old computers and their horsepower (so that's 
the engine revving -- thought it was just a cooling fan gone hyper) the 
older computers are gradually being replaced by the new, sleek, 
Raspberry Pi's.  The RPi4's seem to be quite fine for my MythTV 
Frontend usage (playback of recorded OTA shows).  I'm expecting the RPi5
to be even better but right now can't check: explanation is a little
complicated but boils down to RPi5 wants Bookworm and MythTV v31 wants 
Buster.  (Anyone wanting details post.)



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