Very Computer

Then again, the CPU has been pegged at 100% for eight hours.
Maybe it would have gone smoother if I had bothered to use
local storage instead of an NFS mount for the files?  I did
nice lame at +10 but maybe more would have been a good idea.

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Quote:> Although I gotta admit that FreeAmp didn't drop a note.
> I suppose it might have had to do with running grip to rip
> and compress about 30 CDs while burning the resulting MP3
> directories onto CD and doing QA by playing them with
> FreeAmp.  Since this required babysitting I read and surfed,
> and frankly the UI seems a bit sluggish.

> Then again, the CPU has been pegged at 100% for eight hours.
> Maybe it would have gone smoother if I had bothered to use
> local storage instead of an NFS mount for the files?  I did
> nice lame at +10 but maybe more would have been a good idea.

But, I gotta boot to the Windows partition on occasion.

Boy have I got a story to tell, but later.

Chris

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A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
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