26 Jun
2013
26 Jun
'13
2:18 p.m.
On 6/26/2013 12:13 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Well, yes. Saying that, although I can drive, I
don't. I have never
owned a car and neither of my motorbikes has run in 5-6yr now. I live
in one of the cities with the best public transport systems in the
world; I don't need to. When the weather's OK, I mostly cycle --
bicycles being something else Tony doesn't approve of.
Not trying to sound
dismissive, but I truly cannot relate. The day I am
too old to drive and cannot pass the test and thus must surrender my
license will be, I am sure, one of the saddest days of my life.
It's impressive to understand the other perspectives.
I offered Tony a free dual-CPU Athlon machine, preconfigured with
Linux. He didn't want it; no schematics, so he couldn't fix it. I
said, don't worry, I'll give you a lifetime warranty -- if it goes
wrong, I'll come and fix it for you. But how, he asked? You can't
solder, you can't use a 'scope. I don't need to -- I'll just replace
anything defective. It's a PC. It's disposable and built of disposable
bits.
I know it's off topic, but if someone is looking for a good home for a
machine newer than P4 @ 2.4GHz, I could provide one, I could provide
one. Yes, I can buy a new PC, but my needs are not that great. That
said, the current machine is a frankenmachine (the mobo from a Del 4600
stuffed badly into a Dell 4550 case, RAM is maxed at 2GB, as I recall).
More memory would be a blessing for VM work.
Pics of the brain transplant:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/301324_4432336390840…
My pipe dream is finding some cheap older rack units, as someone gave me
a nice Compaq full size rack (with the smoked glass doors) and it seems
only appropriate that it at some point house our linux "server" :-)
Jim
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