I used a old Radio Shack EC-4020 scientific calculator. They were about $100.00 back in 1985 and 1986. Thing has more features than this computer, well less the 19" monitor anyway. Most buttons have three and four functions and it is programable so you just have to fill in the variables. The darn book is three times bigger than the calc.

OOo has a calculator? Let me go see this one. Hmmmm, all I got was a spreadsheet. That it?

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Its about time you get you a new calculator

NO WAY!!!! I like that thing. They don't even make them anymore. I can program that thing faster than I can boot my Gentoo, that's pretty darn fast.

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By looking at your computer specs that is very dang fast

can we PLEASE not have any more posts that comment on peoples sigs, it's getting annoying

20 seconds from Grub to login and 45 seconds from boot to GUI. I don't have kdm set up to load auto.

Last post about my sig. I'm trying to figure out why my UDMA133 drive is running at UDMA100 anyway.

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I forgot you don't like sigs.. cheer up pal

Slack does that on my notebook :} ... not KDE, though ;)



Cheers,
Tink

unimaginative
Yeps mate.
Can't you all stick strictly to the topic of the thread. Stop putiing in things that don't have anything to do here.
Hey? What's wrong with falling a bit out of topi now and then? Have you read the entire thread? *don't think you have* There's several pages that i've seen that's got nothing with this topic to do at all.
I don't think that it shule be free for all to write whatever they want to write down. But cut some slack. Comments on signatures or what you put in is just the same. It all helps to keep this thread alive and kicking.

Freakygeek55
All i can say is : Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Just to point out, by you telling us to stay on topic.. you are off topic.. and thats also the fun of message boards to get on and off topic.. you can get some good talk going..

Freakygeek55
That was actually an attempt on irony...
*can't stay on-topic no matter how hard he tries*
I'm a natural there

Well 45 seconds from grub to fully booted into kde, and me typing in my password and starting kdm, is not to bad. It is a lot better than Mandrake 9.1 which is pretty bloated.

Sorry off topic but, it just happens. We are a curious group here. We are learning things about each others rig and such. I learned he has a mean laptop, they are usually slower than desktops.

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I am the same way..

i thought you were a slow typist, seems to me it would take a minute or 2 just to get logged in...haha, it takes me 45 mins(that's right not seconds, mins, just to remember my password) not to mention the time it takes to type and actually loggin. i don't think i could boot any machine in less than an hour...ha!

Should I this

and let the GUI start up on it's own. I can also get it to login automatically so I don't have to do anything but wait.

I may do that anyway. I'll post the results. I can always type rc-update del kdm default to go back.

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