Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sun Jun 10 02:55:26 CDT 2012
Hi Arthur -- You sound a bit depressing, don't give up! In fact (if you believe MS) Win8 should run just fine on 1GB box: Have a look "Reducing runtime memory in Windows 8" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspx Yes, JWC has a great hardware environment but is it a must have for every developer to be competitive these days? I suppose it's not. For example, I'm staying currently outside St.Petersburg city, in a village and I'm using here a mere mortals DELL Inspiron 9400 with Win7 Ultimate 32bit, 3GB RAM, 300GB HDD, a GSM modem and a 850GB backup HDD connected via USB2. That's it. And I feel rather comfortable developing .NET Framework and MS Office apps running all over the world. I usually have three VS instances running keeping opened solutions with multiple projects as well as MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, dozen Google Chrome tabs and some other software... And I'm using such a "poor man" system for almost a year now - trying to get the highest ROI from hardware investment possible :) I have other hardware but I have found I don't need it for my current customers projects. Yes, keeping a couple of displays connected to one development box would help to speed-up a bit, and I'm planning to get them connected but again, that's it: that's all a developer using MS modern development tools would need to work efficiently on a broad range of application software project types. Not all of course: I can't develop SharePoint projects on my system, nor can I develop games for WinPhone7... But on my 32bit system I'm developing software, which runs fine on customers' 64bit systems... Yes, I do plan to get purchased i7-driven box this fall but just because my DELL Inspiron 9400 is getting a bit old - it's 5 years old currently... Once again, don't give up Arthur! Thank you. -- Shamil P.S. BTW, the Euro 2012 Football championship started a couple of days ago, and you're a football fun AFAIK. Did you see Denmark football team did win The Netherlands' one - first time in the last 50 years? (Congrats to Gustav! :) Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:29:13 -0400 от Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: > Obviously I am far and away out of my league in this discussion, so I think > the best policy is to shut up and watch the intelligentsia wage their wars. > I can't afford lunch tomorrow, let alone another computer. I'm happy for > you people who can, seriously. I am not suffering techno-envy, my stupid > little two boxes one running Mint and the other WIndows 7 Ultimate, that's > all I have and it shall suffice. I read stuff from JWC and he's got more > boxes and RAM on them all than I could ever dream of, but that's ok. He > works hard and makes money and all that is totally OK. Not a problem in the > world with his doing well. I mean, if anyone in this community has given > back, it's JWC! He has done more for this community than pretty much anyone > else I could name. > > All that said, I have only two boxes, one dedicated to Mint 11 and the > other to Windows 7 64-bit. with a mere 4 gigs of RAM in both. This is the > sad story of my life. Oh, I forgot. I have a KVM that enables me to swap > from this box to that, since I cannot afford separate keyboards, mice and > monitors. so I have to swap among them, but hey, KVM is pretty cool, given > my extremely limited resources. I'm about to purchase a third box, and my > KVM can actually support that new baby and two more. And the best thing is > that my heating bill is included in my rent, so in theory I could have 100 > computers here, and not pay even a nickel extra in rent or hydro bills. Woo > hoo! In addition, I'm probably not going to live even 24 more years, so > that's that. Call me Toast. I'll be off this planet soon. > > A. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >