JEAN PARROT wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JP>         
 JP>          Good day to you, Roy.

 RJT> I wonder if anybody even makes one that has a "real" keyboard...

 JP>  Well, this one has a real KB, not virtual to say the least. A few
 JP> years  ago, 2, on eBay, I got 4 KBs from IBM, french ones, suited
 JP> me fine,  full size too and they had that round PS2 connector.

I meant full-sized...

 RJT> What'd you do with the old ones?  :-)

 JP>         As I was "upgrading" I passed them on to friends c/w moral
 JP> and         technical support. They are all still working.

Ah well.

 RJT> I was surprised a little bit ago when things started getting sluggish
 RJT> to see that I was using over 100M of swap!

 JP>  I never keep more than 2 PRGs on the taskbar. If not needed, I 
 JP> close it. Also had a good look at my Startup folder and 
 JP> deactivated all that I did not need to start on booting.

 JP>  But we are all different.

I'm talking about my linux box,  so taskbar doesn't apply,  but all I was
running was my browser and email client.  Apparently something in the
browser has a memory leak...

Gotta try some other software one of these days.

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