Probably stupid question, but

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 25 August 2013 12:27:57 Gene Heskett did opine:

> On Sunday 25 August 2013 07:40:17 Ali Linx (amjjawad) did opine:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> > > While I think about it, whats the max memory a P4 can handle?
> > 
> > What is your CPU? P4 3.06GHz? P4 3.00 GHz?
> > Is it 32bit or 64bit?
> 
> 64 bit refuses to install, and 2.4Ghz seems to be the claimed cpu speed.
> CPU id in the bios is F41 IIRC, so no clue if it has the F_DIV bug or
> not.
> 
> > On Terminal:
> > 
> > sudo lshw -C cpu
> 
Short form: Intel P4, version 15.4.1 2.8Ghz, width 32 bit, clock 800mhz

And it wasn't crashed.  Yippee!

> I'll have to do that from its own console, apparently it doesn't have
> sshd running.
> 
> > > It has 512 megs in it  now and I have 2Gb of the same speed DDR 400
> > > memory and its
> > > very unstable, won't live long enough to get memtest started.
> > 
> > I do have two machines with 512MB RAM. One is Desktop P4 @3.06GHz with
> > 512MB RAM and the other is ASUS F3F Laptop Intel Due Core with 512MB
> > RAM. I have NO problems with these whatsoever. THE heavier system they
> > have is Xubuntu 12.04. I do treat them so well and feed them LXDE
> > systems only. I don't test anything else on them except Xubuntu.
> > 
> > Lubuntu can breathe new life into an old machine even with 512MB RAM.
> > Now, 13.10 has zRAM enabled by default, it is even faster. However,
> > 13.10 still not yet final, it is under test but you can install zRAM:
> > 
> > From Terminal:
> > 
> > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zram-config
> > 
Done that, no clue what its doing though.  And htop doesn't show it as a 
process, but I've not rebooted.

But the flashplayer I downloaded yesterday must have been contaminated, so 
I deleted it and went back to the site where FF refused to display the 
stuff but had a get flash icon.  Doing all this as root.  Then I searched 
thru the prefs and nuked the choice of dpkg for that since its a .bin file, 
or was yesterday.  Set it back to "always ask".  But it insists on sending 
it to an application, no choice to download so we can sudo sh ./file and 
install it.  I am assuming a root bash session but I can't get it to do 
anything, not even show a link I could send to wget.

So how does one go about coaxing adobe to disgorge the correct .bin 
containing the .deb?  Clicking on the read EULA doesn't get me anything but 
adobe's legal home page, no EULA to read like it did yesterday at the same 
place.

Thanks Ali.

Cheers, Gene
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