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lha_user:
Hi,

I just wonder if someone can advice me on to install (or not) TC on
an old Dell Latitude laptop (Latitude CPi).
I have 256 mb ram and can set a swap of say, 500 mb.
I am currently running DSL on this laptop with a CF instead
of HD, and it works quite OK.
As more and more websites I use are using flash and all kind
of memoryhugging gadgets. I must either throw away the laptop
or try to use TC in order to have Flash.

Q1: I doubt that 256 mb + swap is enough for a smooth working of
Opera and Flash and a few other basic tools, like ndiswrapper
for my PCMCIA WIFI card and so on. Right or wrong ?

Q2: I know that this Dell have problems with ACPI and some
bugs in its BIOS. When running TC 2.10 I can see in dmesg that
there are indeed a couple of errors concerning this.
Anyway, TC is running fine from CD so my question is: should I bother ?

(most anxious about the fan control but my guess is that the (buggy) BIOS
will handle that....)

Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome !

curaga:
1) Depends on what flash thingies you use. Games should be fine, as should short videos. Longer videos might have trouble.

2) If they don't affect usage, you can ignore them.

If you're only thinking of youtube, you can do without flash with an userscript. The one I'm thinking of changes the vid to a wmv embed, and adds download links.

thane:
I'd be interested in hearing more about the userscript.

Flash works poorly on my TC box (Pentium III) and YouTube etc. seem to be making it more and more difficult to download content to play locally.

curaga:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771

Should work in all major browsers, I use it in Opera. I don't have mplayerplugin or similar, so I only get the download links, but that's way better than normal youtube ;)

thane:
Thanks.

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