No POWER today
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I have decided that I will  not torture my Raptor Blackbird system this
weekend. I have had  no plan to do any serious stuff so  I have seen no
point in running a 3GHz POWER9 system just to run the Firefox.

I have actually  surfed and e-mailed on my Ubuntu  Touch Tablet (the BQ
M10). Actually,  the UbPorts people  are working  hard and it  is going
better and  better (and not  slower and slower  how it is  common among
mainstream mobile platforms)..

But ten I have  decided to finally solve my SGI O2  problem (as you may
read in the other post). I still did not repaired the CD-ROM but I have
tested the RAM. Thus now I have  768 MB of the Random Access Memory. It
is  shared  between  the  graphics  and  the CPU  but  still  it  is  a
considerable amount (the SGI  O2 has the 1024 MB limit).  The 768 MB is
still four time more than was size of  our first home PC in 1994 and 24
times more that the maximum possible RAM  size of that PC (it never had
more than  8 MB, though). IF  I am not mistaken  I did a lot  of useful
work on this particular computer (I still have its case and PSU but the
internals were replaced by a Pentium ones). So it should be enough!

So I have been able to return to do serious work on my Silicon Graphics
workstation.. Actually, I  just surf some pages in  the Firefox, tidied
up some spreadsheets (in the SC, of course!) and have find out that the
Ted text editor has a spell checker  (good find, after 15 year from its
installation - for some reason I never  expected that it can be here so
I probably never opened that menu...). I also have been updating my FEA
software to the last version and so on.

I  have been  using the  XMMS  for some  music. First  I tried  several
on-line radios  (the ORF Radio  Wien, the  AnonRadio, the ZX  Radio and
others) but none  of then was compatible  with my mood. So  I have been
playing music from my collection.

Well, I'm cheating  a bit - I also  run my GPD Pocket laptop  - it sits
under my 1600SW LCD and is controlled  from the O2 with use of the x2x.
Obviously, it is not possible to access modern e-mails and e-shops from
the O2's ancient Firefox.  The version 3 might by OK but  the TLS is an
unsolvable problem.. :-(