[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[Jim Lynch]

On 02/10/2012 02:04 AM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 02:51 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:51 PM, mike at trausch.us
>> <mailto:mike at trausch.us>  <mike at trausch.us<mailto:mike at trausch.us>>  wrote:
>>
>>      On 02/09/2012 12:36 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>>      >  Read the last sentence of mine that you quoted. Hard drives can be
>>      >  connected in the same way. Shocking, but true.
>>
>>      Unless we're talking about some REALLY new hardware with USB 3, there is
>>      *no* way on this planet I could actually work off of USB.  I'd rarely
>>      get anything done, as much I/O as I tend to need to do in my work.
>>
>>
>> well, duh! You're using emacs !
> It is less that I am an emacs user (I would run that from a flash drive
> without any issues whatsoever) and more the fact that sometimes I have
> to process 100+ GB data sets which are simply only economical on hard
> disk drives.
>
> Hell, Thunderbird eats up more disk I/O resources than Emacs ever does
> (or probably will).  Evolution, too.
>
> 	--- Mike
>
I don't want to speak for the other Jim, but I read his post as more of 
a jab than an attempt to solve your problem.  We have been trading barbs 
WRT the vi vs emacs discussion.  :)

Jim.