[ILUG] tip for those of us new to debian...

[Paul O'Malley]

kevin lyda wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:23:39PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
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>>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ruairí Newman wrote:
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>>>On a list that Niall O'Broin is a member of... >;)
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>>Well, seems we have a few minutes to kill before the flame war - 
>>while Niall waits for his Emacs to finish booting..
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>a few minutes to boot emacs.  now you're just being silly.
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>niall doesn't have an 8 processor amd64 box with 32 terrabytes of ram.
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>kevin
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You'se are all bein' silly now I tell yez.

Don't you know he has it running on a cluster of machines. He just
exports the terminal across some international boundries. Now I know you
are all thinking 'sure but how do you write to the local hard drive',
well he nfs mounts the local hard drive so emacs can write to it.

Dearie me your very slow :)

Regards,

Paul O'Malley