Hi Folks, As mentioned in another mail just composed, I run Mozilla on a somewhat puny laptop. I also have Firefox installed, which is a much more compact and nippy program. The main reason I still keep running Mozilla is that I have a massive collection of bookmarks on Mozilla, built up over the years, and also an assortment of auto-login data for certain websites (userids & passwords), and an unknown number of cookies also accumulated over time. Not forgetting sundry plugins. In order to switch cleanly and conprehensively over to Firefox, I would need to transfer this lot from wherever Mozilla looks for it to wherever Firefox would look for it. I have not succeeded in sussing this out. Nor do I wish to re-create it all by hand! Any tips? (Are the two even totally compatible in this respect?) With thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-May-05 Time: 13:38:52 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:39:02PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
So, as far as installing Linux is concerned, and running ordinary applications, pleae don't think you need to get anywhere near 1GB RAM for things to work.
Heh, just to add a thought to the mix, my desktop has 1.5GB of Ram mainly because I upgraded it to 1GB for Doom 3 in Linux (which the extra Ram did help a bit) and a friend of mine had a couple of 512 MB sticks of Ram lurking around doing nowthing so he gave them to me which took me up to the 1.5GB (only 3 memory slots in my desktop). Anyhow, after this thread came up today i decided to see how much ram my machine was using, it turned out that I was using ~700 Megs of 850 (about 50% of this was cached so not really "in use" either)... After a bit of investigation I realised that when I installed Ubuntu a month ago I didn't notice that the default kernel doesn't have highmem support so the machine had been running with "only" ~800 megs ever since. A quick grab of a highmem kernel and I'm back at 1.5GB, (currently 50% used and half of that is cached) but tbh, nowadays I don't notice how much ram i'm using :) Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem newbaby!! http://quinophex.org/newbaby/
On Sunday 08 May 2005 1:39 pm, Ted Harding wrote:
The main reason I still keep running Mozilla is that I have a massive collection of bookmarks on Mozilla, built up over the years, and also an assortment of auto-login data for certain websites (userids & passwords), and an unknown number of cookies also accumulated over time. Not forgetting sundry plugins.
There is a settings import wizard in Firefox but on my version at least it appears to be broken. Not sure about the other stuff but moz keeps its bookmarks in a bookmarks.html file in the user profile. You can also import/export this file in the Bookmarks manager. I have a script that uploads mine every week to a location in webspace I have. That way I can access a reasonably up to date version of my local bookmarks from anywhere. I would have thought that selectively copying files and folders from your mozilla profile directory would work, some of the stuff in there will be version or installation specific so you will have to get Firefox to create it's own fresh profile first and then copy in the stuff you want to keep. I think the auto complete stuff may be in formhistory.dat although I think the auto-login data could be somewhere else. Also bear in mind that some of your extensions may be Mozilla or version specific.
On Sunday 08 May 2005 1:39 pm, Ted Harding wrote:
So, as far as installing Linux is concerned, and running ordinary applications, pleae don't think you need to get anywhere near 1GB RAM for things to work.
I meant to add that my sub notebook (Fujitsu P1120) has 256MB and is not officially upgradeable (I could get busy with a soldering iron and try fitting higher density chips in the hope that the northbridge can address them correctly) But to be honest for what I use if for 256MB is enough and it's too nicer a toy to bugger up with a botched hardware hack. Anyway the real bottleneck with that machine seems to be the Transmeta CPU
On Sun, 08 May 2005 13:39:02 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote: <snip/> I know I need
little further up on developing stuff with Java, since Eclipse kindly asks 758Mb of RAM for ease.
[...] Anyway Tatsuhiko, in answer to your question you don't need 1GB of ram unless applications or tasks you are performing require it. Personally I have 1GB on a 64bit machine here, but half of that is currently being used to run virtual machines and it is still running fine.
Just adding my bit to endorse Wayne's view here. Linux can install and then run well on much less than 1GB RAM.
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(You will have guessed that I am running Linux on old kit. Linux is splendidly adapted to run on primitive hardware.)
Best wishes, Ted.
I am a c/c++ developer, but I spec 1.5 GB RAM as the minimum for eclipse based Java development with a single OS. With Xen, or User Mode Linux and eclipse I should imagine you need more. Regards Owen Synge PS have you tried python yet? Its more OO than C++ and Delphi.
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