Hobart John
My
Computer Systems updated
This is part of my current setup made up of old computers (PCs) and my new 2.4GHz PC.
I advise people who are new to computers not to obtain new high speed (read expensive) systems to do what most newbies need. If you have plenty of money to spend, that's fine. If you want to edit movies, play fast games, print big pictures, show movies then a fast PC or Apple is required. But for the rest of us an older slower computer is adequate.
I use Pentiums.
A 400MHz, a 350MHz and now a 2.4GHz system. Two of the older PCs have 92Mb of RAM.
The 350MHz one is my main Internet PC as I use GNU/Linux XANDROS. This PC I use to evaluate software before installing on another computer. It may seem strange but I have XANDROS V2 installed on the two hard drives so I have dual boot.
The 400MHz is my archiving PC to write/burn data to CD ROMS running M$ Win 98 and M$ XP.
I have another P$ 2.6mHz unit with GNU/Linux-Mint and M$ Windows NT 2000 on it at the moment.
The 2.4GHz is where I design these Web site pages. I also triple boot it into either GNU/Linux Xandros (presently), M$ Windows 98 or M$ Windows XP. I have installed a Leadtek Capture card in it so am now capturing Video from family VHS tapes. I have installed a DVD Writer on it which is for my family video captures. During August I installed a SCSI controller board and two SCSI hard drives, one of 17GB and the second of 36GB capacity. So this PC now has four harddrives and two optical drives. If anyone reading this has bigger SCSI drive for sale please send me an E-mail, the address is at the bottom of this page.
For my DTP and image editing work I usually use the this PC in GNU/Linux SuSE using Scribus and The GIMP or sometimes both M$ Windows 98 and XP systems, the VDU (monitor) is a 40cm (17inch) unit. The photo above shows our son John working at it. I purchased the box at a Sunday Computer Market new less VDU for $499.00. I installed GNU/Linux SuSE and both M$ Windows an W XP OS myself.
My software at May 2009.
Operating Systems, GNU/Linux Xandros, DOS, MS W98 and WXP. Also at the moment Xandros.
Applications.
WP OpenOffice.Org, 602Pro Text, Linux K-Word.
DTP Scribus, GreenStreet Publisher, OpenOffice.Org.
DB MS Access, OpenOffice.org, K-Office.
Spreadsheet OpenOfficeOrg, OpenOffice.org.
Web Opera, Linux Konqueror, Linux Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and M$ Internet Explorer.
E-mail PopCorn, JB Mail, Linux K-E-Mail and Linux Eremove.
Genealogy Personal Roots.
Image Editing click to read about The Gimp, Irfanview.
OCR TextBridge.
Web Design OpenOffice.Org, 602Pro Text.
Sound Winamp, Audacity, Ahead Nero Wave Editor and a couple of Ripping applications. Linux XMMS and others.
Video MAGIX, Linux Totem, Kafiene, VirtualDub and others.
Recording (burning) to CD-R/RW Ahead Nero and Linux K3B.
Video capture LeadTek, Ulead Video Studio V8 and Virtual Dub and MAGIX Movie Editor Pro (MMEP). More about editing video here.
I have many others including utilities as most of us have but no games other than the Linux Mandrake and MS little built-in ones. Many people know that I do not use Microsoft Operating Systems if I don't have to which means I also use GNU/Linux instead. The same applies to applications.
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"JCED09" Updated27. May 2009 . using OOo