Re installing XP on Sony

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote: No, it is not anywhere near on topic and probably won't be for a long time. That is so true. But it is also true that there are a million other resources on the internet to get the sort of information one needs to work on PCs, the least of which is Google. The point is that if I went onto a PC mailing list and asked someone to help me troubleshoot my Commodore 64, I would probably be ignored, possibly even laughed off, and rightly so. We have a very special mailing list here with a specific character, which is of great value to people in this hobby. If we allow really common, unextraordinary PC maintenance issues to be discussed any old time someone wants to bring them up even though there are an infinite number of tools and resources available only a few clicks away, we'll lose that unique character, and subsequently most of the people who currently inhabit this space who are valuable resources for the hobby. Folks have used the list in the past to ask PC related problems, but that has been in situations where they have already exhausted all other resources, or they are in a serious pinch and needed immediate information, and they always explain this. This has been a rare occurence as most people respect the character of the mailing list and its members. Jim's issue could've been answered after 5 minutes of Googling. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]