Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sun Jun 10 04:17:53 CDT 2012
There's another proud Dane here, FYI :) Hans On 2012-06-10, at 12:55 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > 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 >> > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com