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Old 28th May 2009
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I'm actually quite used to people not getting the distinction between X Windows System / X11 and things X.Org/XFree86; for me it is much the same as the difference unix-like and Solaris / AIX / etc.

Being quite young to a culture that is quite old (comparatively), a study of computing from the days when a PDP-1 was the new chick, all the way to the modern area. It was kind of necessary to reduce odds of putting my foot in my mouth.... but hey, I love history and being accurate when possible (and have tasted my foot to often).


@DrJ / even further OT: Some time ago I coded a test to profile several different but similar solutions to 1 problem. It worked fine on a small data set (bigger then real world), taking only a few moments to execute with nice results. So I increased it to a progressively heavy data set and set the machine crunching away, so I could review the results under different chokes before settling. When the laptop started to overheat ~15min later (high CPU use and lots of swaping etc), the arithmetic of what I had changed finally started catching up to my brain, and I stopped once estimated run time for the new tests exceeded 8 hours and kept rising because of the data to be processed -- and for the first time understood why real work stations are such exquisitely crafted beasts! Some scientific needs for processor time must be insanely heavy loads....
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