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Torpenhow Hill is a hill about 200 metres above sea level in Cumbria in north west England on the side of which the village of Torpenhow is situated, close to the A595 between Cockermouth and Carlisle. The hill is located at grid reference NY206390.

Its main claim to fame is that its name is a tautology: “Tor”, “pen”, and “how” all mean “hill” in different languages; the first two are Brythonic and the last Anglo-Saxon. Therefore “Torpenhow Hill” means “Hillhillhill Hill”. The theory is that successive residents took the previous residents’ name for the hill and added their own word for hill.

The local pronunciation of “Torpenhow” is IPA: /ˈtrʊpənə/.

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Roma, 8 luglio 2008

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USB RAM

[10:47:27] <geckosenator> do they make usb ram?
[10:47:37] <geckosenator> I guess even 480mbits is too slow
[10:48:01] <J4k3> pci-e 16x would be an acceptable add-on card speed for memory
[10:48:11] <geckosenator> I have a laptop
[10:48:20] <geckosenator> it has to be either pcmcia or usb
[10:48:31] <J4k3> why can't you just buy the proper ram for it and snap it in there?
[10:48:52] <geckosenator> maybe I can
[10:48:56] <J4k3> if the laptop is too old/crusty to support a decent quantity of ram, you need a newer laptop
[10:48:57] <geckosenator> but then it is not easy to remove
[10:49:05] <geckosenator> the laptop has 512 megs
[10:49:08] <J4k3> you don't want to take it back out
[10:49:11] <geckosenator> but if I put more ram in, it will use more power
[10:49:16] <J4k3> usually theres an access door on the bottom
[10:49:23] <J4k3> or you have to take the keyboard out
[10:49:25] <geckosenator> I'm running on solar power
[10:49:29] <J4k3> which can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 hours
[10:49:35] <J4k3> depending on skill and the laptop model.
[10:49:45] <geckosenator> hmm
[10:49:52] <J4k3> add a bicycle
[10:49:55] <J4k3> pedal harder
[10:50:02] <geckosenator> I would rather just have a pcmcia card that I stick in and it gives me like 4 gigs more ram
[10:50:15] <J4k3> way too slow to be useful
[10:50:15] <geckosenator> heh
[10:50:22] <geckosenator> how slow is it?
[10:50:27] <geckosenator> I just need it to record movies
[10:50:39] <geckosenator> since my hard drive is 28 megs per second is actually too slow
[10:50:59] <geckosenator> well maybe it isn't if I drop the resolution, I don' thave enough cpu to compress on the fly though
[10:51:58] <Fear_cult> quadcore fool
[10:52:08] <Fear_cult> or atleast phenom
[10:52:12] <geckosenator> if I had a quadcore I would probably have enough ram
[10:52:25] <geckosenator> maybe I will just take short clips of 10 seconds or so then splice them together
[10:52:31] <Gigs> they used to do that
[10:52:38] <Gigs> you could get an ISA card with ram
[10:52:41] <Fear_cult> noo
[10:52:44] <Gigs> it was real real slow
[10:52:48] <Fear_cult> geckosenator, are you out of slots?
[10:52:57] <geckosenator> I have 2 pcmcia slots
[10:53:08] <geckosenator> but one is needed so that I can get usb ports
[10:53:17] <geckosenator> so I have a free one for ram
[10:53:34] <Fear_cult> i meant ram slots not pcmcia
[10:52:38] <Gigs> you could get an ISA card with ram
[10:52:41] <Fear_cult> noo
[10:52:44] <Gigs> it was real real slow
[10:52:48] <Fear_cult> geckosenator, are you out of slots?
[10:52:57] <geckosenator> I have 2 pcmcia slots
[10:53:08] <geckosenator> but one is needed so that I can get usb ports
[10:53:17] <geckosenator> so I have a free one for ram
[10:53:34] <Fear_cult> i meant ram slots not pcmcia
[10:57:10] <J4k3> well
[10:57:31] <J4k3> ISA wasn't really that slow compared to the CPU on an 8088/8086/286 level machine
[10:57:39] <J4k3> it wasn't til the 286/12 did anyone really care.
[10:58:04] <geckosenator> I just need it to be faster than the harddrive
[10:58:21] <geckosenator> the harddrive is like 20 megs/second
[10:58:44] <geckosenator> maybe I can have a raid array of like 3 drives on external usb

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