My Slowly Dying Computer · 2006-08-28
My desktop computer is slowly dying.
Fortunately, I have a laptop, so can get most things (e-mail, web, office stuff) done.
Unfortunately, my desktop has four times as much RAM as my laptop and about three times the clockspeed, so I do all of my development on there. My desktop is also about twice as old as my laptop and the motherboard is slowly dying. It’s been going for a while, but the rate that it’s collapsing is increasing.
The side effect of all of this is that I can’t get any Minilith development done because there isn’t a single Java IDE that will run acceptable in the paltry 256MB of RAM that my laptop has. Beyond that, it’s taking me time to back everything up off of my desktop and onto other computers or removable media.
Once I order an external HDD and some extra RAM for my laptop, and rescue my project off of my other computer, I’ll try to get rolling with it again just in time to start taking classes. On that note, if anyone is interested in helping me develop Minilith, get an account on Sourceforge . Then send me an e-mail (umdhub at gmail dot com) with your name on Sourceforge and I’ll add you onto the project. We’re working in Java, but even if you just want to learn the language, we can get you started with writing test constructs and build you up from there.
