On 2004-05-13, Jan Alboszta <janek@usunto.gwozdzie.dhs.org> wrote:

> Not so stone age. You would pay a fortune for it, ten years ago!

I pretty much did ...$1800 out the door while it was still bleeding edge.
On the upside, the Sony 17" monitor still works as good as the day I bought
it.

> I got it with soundblaster awe 32(this 32 is probably for length, 32cm)

No, 32bit technology. Still a good card.

> I already thought about xfce, but it still needs countable seconds to
> start firefox....

I think that's because firefox still uses that gecko engine thingie (does
it?). I notice non-gecko web browsers (galeon, Konqueor, etc) boot almost
instantly. I cut Mozilla's boot time from 18 secs to about 8 secs by
disabling KDE's aRts sound server autoboot.

nb