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jmcunx OCC 1

My Old Computer Challenge # 1 Notes

Links to Solene's Challenge Pages:

OCC # 1 (gemini)

OCC # 1 (https)

My Notes

I decided to join the Old Computer Challenge using a Thinkpad R51e. Below, you can see a screen print and information from neofetch.

neofetch screen print (gemini)

r51e on thinkwiki (https)

Workaround for Download Failures

As you can see above, it exceeds the original requirements. It matches on everything except for memory. In the print I had reduced the memory to 1G, but doing that caused the CPU Temperature to peg at 80C (175F) when doing minor activities. So I chickened out and re-added the 1G to bring it back to 2G.

So yes, I "cheated" a bit, but being card carrying wimp I had no guilt. Actually it was not really cheating since I was using a system built around 2005. Maybe with more time I can come up with more rationalizations :)

I never used the R51e for such a long period of time, but I do use it every once in a great while for nostalgia and to backup important files. A friend gave it to me a few years ago. She moved to a MAC and it was sitting idle for quite a while. If you look at it, you would think it was brand new, she really took good care if it.

Hardware Items

The WEB

Other Items

Wireless

Edimax Wi-Fi 4 802.11n Adapter for wireless (amazon/https)

Creative BT-W2 for Bluetooth Audio (https)

Links about the Challenge

OCC # 1 plus links to other participants (gemini)

KuchiKuu Page Inspired me to create this page (https)

Comics I need to see everyday, all works fine with dillo

XKCD (https)

Sherman's Lagoon (https)

BC (https)

Heathcliff (https)

Frank and Ernest (https)

Bloom County (https)

Echos of Blue Mars -- is my favorite music stream site. Usually I stream via mplayer.

Echos of Bluemars Main Site (http)

Link for use with mplayer (http)

Epilogue

So far, this is working fine, I do notice a moderate speed difference when compared to my usual daily system. But all in all, for me, this is still a usable system.

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