Arlen Holder
news alt.comp.freeware, wrote:

But, it took me a whole afternoon on a i5-2520M laptop with
8GB of ram, and during that time everything else on the machine
became almost totally unresponsive.

Truth be told, all DIYs are "idealized" in that they take longer
than the person said they did, where my initial efforts also took
longer.

I just said an hour as a guess, but I let it run and so the
elapsed time
was overnight but I didn't calculate exactly how much time was
idle so I "assumed" about an hour of actual actions (but it was
likely longer).

In reality, I agree with you that it takes longer, so double that,
or triple that or something, but Diesel's assessment of '20
minutes' is just dead wrong, and unachievable, I would think.
(Diesel is always trying to prove how smart he is so take anything
he says with a grain of salt.)

Incorrect. Are either of you familiar with 8th and now, 9th gen
unlocked Intel processors? You both might want to educate yourselfs a
bit. Lookup the specs to an i7-8700K and tell me I'm full of ****,
again. Not only that, but I've got full (as in, actually have it)
100mbit cable modem to house and office. I'm not ****ing in the wind
on DSL or wifi here, I've got real bandwidth and I'm about to have
1gbit capacity at both places very soon. Essentially as soon as the
new modems get here and I install them.

I have no desire to prove I'm smart, so I have no problems
admitting when I screw up, or when I'm wrong, or when I'm ignorant
of something, so you can trust me more than you can trust most
people who can't admit when they're stupid.

You might want to use a dictionary and lookup the word stupid. Then
lookup the word, Dumb. Everyone suffers from the latter in something,
but, if you suffer from the former, there's no fix for that. And I
can't very well do what I've done for a living (decades) if I were
stupid.

If I were to have a gun put to my head, I'd assess the time at,
oh, a "few" hours, so the "whole afternoon" seems reasonable to
me, as it does have to download and then unpack a _lot_ of stuff
the first time around (and the Google site is super
sloooooooooooooooooow where it gets stuff from).

The processor appears to support HAXM, but
I missed the place to check to install this.

I first had HAXM (whatever that is) turned on by Android Studio by
default, and then I had to turn it off so when I re-installed
Android Studio (which takes less time than the first install
because the SDK is already there by then), I turned off the HAXM
(whatever that is).

Your box can't support HAXM regardless of you having it turned on, or
off. And you call me stupid? Yea.. okay.

I have no idea what HAXM is, by the way, and I didn't google it
because HAXM isn't what I want to do right now. If you have a clue
what HAXM is, and how to tell if my machine has it, that would be
useful, but don't go to any trouble unless you already know
offhand as I could look it up.

You *can't* 'do HAXM'. it's NOT a feature of AMD, **** for brains.
It's an Intel thing.

The zip files from Google take a looooooooooong time to download.
I just walked away and came back later, so my _elapsed_ time was
likely as long as yours was (I didn't actually count the time).

Because of your particular connection to the internet, it took so
long. I'm using full on 100mbit here. My dl/ul speeds are nothing
like yours. I could easily (as in, seriously, easily) overload your
connection and saturate your happy ass with a simple ping flood and I
wouldn't even notice the loss of bandwidth. I wouldn't actually do
something as trivial and lame, but, I could. easily enough.

Can I ask the spec of your old desktop?

Sure. Ask anything. We can help each other.

My old desktop has 16GB of RAM, so that's the one good thing, and
it's Win10, so that's another good thing, but everything else is
just old. It's an HP Pavilion P6230, 2.6Hhz, AMD Phenom2 CPU, with
an Nvidia graphics card. Nothing fancy.

*puke* it's a pile of ****.


If we can work together on something like this, or if others have
a suggestion, it would be nice to get a handful of interested
folks to pick a SIMPLE action (like ring a bell) and then work
together toward that goal.

You might be able to do that, if you can keep your unprofessional
personal attacks at bay.



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