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Re: Ubuntu Autopreviewing .MP3's

____/ High Plains Thumper on Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:21 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Anonymous on Wednesday:
>>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Just now I hovered the mouse over an MP3 icon in the
>>>>> default Nautilus 2.18.1 file viewer.  File started to
>>>>> play immediately, but only as long as I hovered the
>>>>> mouse over top the file icon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Neat!
>>>> 
>>>> You think that's a good thing?  So just because I move my
>>>> mouse, a song starts to play?  How annoying.  Yes, i'm
>>>> sure it can be turned off, but still... what a fucking
>>>> stupid idea.
>>> 
>>> Awwwwww.... Poor jealous little Wintard.
>>> 
>>> *snicker*
>> 
>> FS fragmentation -- You think that's a good thing?  So just
>> because I save files, a hard drive is torn to piece?  How
>> annoying.  Yes, i'm sure it CAN'T be turned off, but still...
>> what a fucking stupid idea.
> 
> Oh yeah, about as stupid has Erik's Vista test on a 500 MHz PC
> with 256 MB RAM.
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/
> 043a1386c0c4daeb
> 
> or http://tinyurl.com/372cu8
> 
> Vista used 69% of the RAM leaving 79 MB for applications. With
> that amount of RAM he'll be able to run top notch applications
> such as Notepad, perhaps Wordpad (MS Write) on a light file, may
> be even Solitaire.
> 
> That wasn't stupid, it was moronic.
> 
> Beryl runs fine in 256 MB memory.

I'm running KDE 3.4 at home on just 256 MB of RAM. Been fine for over 2 years
now.

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