20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
4:29 p.m.
At 04:29 PM 6/19/2005, Tony Duell wrote:
There is for me. Period. I am not using things I don't understand and
can't repair.
The exrta costs, over the cost of the PC, are
things like the broadband
connection (I am not going to try to download a 10Mbyte file with a 14k4
modem...), the equipment to maintain and repair the PC (things like a BGA
rework station, a faster 'scope and logic analyser than the ones I
already have, etc), and, of course, a house extension to put said PC in.
There's no need to repair the hardware of a PC. If you're as frugal as you indicate, and can leave the house to rub
shoulders
with other computer users, you will find an unending stream of
cast-off free-or-nearly-so PCs from three PC generations
I've never found such people. The only remotely PC-biased hacker I know
actively collectes 486s and later to run linux on. So he's not going to
be a source od machines.
(four-five years) ago. As for the price of digital
information:
it's about time, it's about space.
I don't undersntand that comment.
If you want to continue the frugal theme, doesn't your public
library offer free high-speed Internet access?
I don't think it's free, and they have restrictions on what you can look
at. Specifically, no copyrighted stuff without the permission of the
copyright owner. So technically bitsavers is out, and the librarians are
the sort of people to notice this and complain.
-tony