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Nice to see how far you've come Phil .... not read the whole thread but see you have been busy ... I must get mine built again sometime ... well done ...

I knew some cleaver arse would bring that up

I thought about it, but I'm not cutting pennies am I? So no wasted material for the equation....

Nice try,

Just in case someone pipes in with pennies are not pure copper..

Even mild steel is now around £8-10 a meter. Metal doesn't come much cheaper than that.

A meter of 16mm brass (can't find copper but it will be dearer) (I'm guessing the size of a 1p coin as I don't have one !!) costs around £35. Say a penny is 3mm thick? (guessing again, but will be close enough) You would get 333.333333333 pennies to the meter, Value of pennies £3.33, value of brass ...

david C wrote:I can still beat it with my 2 washers for 4 pounds from SME

Eh?
And what on earth were these at £2 each?

I don't know, I couldn't find any clues...?

What I will do it load a fresh install and have another go.
This time avoiding gnash like the plague.

The only things I loaded where adobe flash and gnash. Maybe the uninstall of gnash left something behind?

Since today by the sound of it

Unfortunately, it started slowing down after just a few hrs to a crawl. Only way out was to re-boot and then it would be fine again for a while. I also lost the ability to select text for copy/paste and grabbing the scroll bar was no longer possible. ( I seem to remember Paul complains of this?) Not...

Hi Nick,

Yes it must be very frustrating for the developers, I wasn't knocking them, merely passing on my experiences.

Did the top thing, nothing much hogging the CPU now, If the speed remains as it is now then this computer will be quite usable.

Well the speed of this computer was starting to become ridiculous, so I had a hunt around the net for info on gtk-gnash It turns out it's to do with flash and brings many peeps comps to it's knees. Funny that cos it's origin is open source? Apparently Adobe's flash player is the one to have. I have ...

I see release 8.04 is now superseded already....

Better not try that one eh !!

Thanks Ed, Yes, these machines are old aren't they :shock: But they are in good condition and work perfectly, be a shame not to use them when so many in the house want internet access !! NOBODY is getting anywhere near my main laptop for ANY reason :evil: Not top speck but pretty amaising all the sa...

Thanks Nick, It certainly seems Ubuntu is not for the older laptops. Shame as i have two of these and one other. That is, Two of 500Mhz Pentium 3 coppermine with 256mb memory installed (max memory for these machines is 512Mb) and One 700Mhz P3 with 256Mb of memory (max memory for this machine is 256...

Just took another look at the system monitor and noticed 3 instances of gtk-nash running at 24% each, I don't know what they are but should there be 3 of them at the same time?

Thanks Nick, he's quite an achiever that chap !! Been using this laptop with Ubuntu for around 2 weeks now and have made some observations. It is quite nice to use, Layout is good with some nice little features. But this poor old laptop really is struggling with it. Linux reports that there is 249mb...