27 Jun
2013
27 Jun
'13
12:33 p.m.
On 27 June 2013 20:24, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Sorter maybe (which is not nexessarily a bad thing). Less pleasent, I
doubt it.
THis may be hard to accept but some pople hat exerxise. I am one of them
(I know plenty of otehrs). Now, if I did your recoemended <n> hours of
exercise a week, can you be sure that my life will eb extended
sufficienrtly for me to have the same totla number of hours doing what I
enjoy? Of course not. Even if you ignrore accidnets like the fact I could
eb run over corossing the road tomorrow, or might accidentally conenct
myself acorss the mains. Even with otu that you can;t know how long I
will live.
And FWIW, I knew a couple of pople who dropped dead while doing exercise
and know of a lot more. I'll take my chance, thank you...
I vehemently disagree with every single thing you say in that post,
but this is not the time or the place. I have no particular desire to
persuade or convert you to anything. You may feel the same; I don't
know. But if you are trying to, you are failing. :-)
But this is off-topic, unproductive, and quite liable to escalate to
invective or at least frayed tempers. I suggest that we just agree to
disagree.
And if and when I have some spare cash again, I am still more than
willing to offer you financial remuneration if you would be able to
help me to fix various of my 1990s computers. Snag, at the moment, I
can't afford it.
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On 26 June 2013 21:52, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
/Run/ the old hardware, yes. But it's a toy, something I do for
To run it at all, it ahs to work. And you say below that you dislike
waste, so presuambly, when it fails you would like to repair it or get
it rpaired.
There are very few, if any, companies that repair classic computers (if
anyone knows a way to make a living doing that, please let me know...).
There are plenty of people who will help out with the diagnosis of the
fault, but i nthe end you ewill have to fix it. WHich means a bit of
soldering.
The key
difference is that I don't want to be able to. I /can/ do
Oh, OK... Taht makes a lot of sense.
Well, apart from the fact that you do seem to want to run the old
hardware (for all your interest is primarily software). And I regard
soldeirng sa being na important skill for that.
As I offered, I'd fix it for you. Yes, by board-swapping, but if it
works, what's wrong with that?
Waht, apaert from the fact it doesn;t work?
OK, let me give you an analofy. I beleive that you are a vegetarian (you
said so at one point). There is absolutely nothing wrong with that IMHO
(even though I eat meat), I fully respect your choice. It's your life,
you should live it as you feel you should.
But how ywould _you_ feel if sombody kept on saying 'Oh, go on, you'll
like this steak'. Becasue that's _exactly_ how I feel when people offer
to fix my things by boardswapping. It is against the way I choose to live
my life.
NB: the above question is rhetorical.
Not so. You said that you don't own a car, you don't need one because the
local public transport is adequate for your needs.
I have access to the same public transport, since I live in the same
city. By much the same argument I don;'t deel the need for a car either.
Which is why I;'ve nto learnt to drive.
Since I live in the same city, I think that
expalins why I don't feel the
need to drive.
Non sequitur. I have spent my life avoiding unnecessary
physical exercise. THat is not
goign to change.
Then your life will be shorter and less pleasant, and you will not be able to do things that you would otherwise like
to do, because being
sedentary is unhealthy. But it's your choice. Do not try to make out
WHo ever said anything about being sedentary?
that this is a good choice, though.
So you can look at a defective maching and tell me which part has failed?
Considerign the number of times I've started tracign a fault in totlaly
the wrong part of the machine, I do not velive it's possible to detarmine
which module is faulty without doing tests. No matter how much experience
you have How do you propose knowing which module is
defecive iwthou the use of
test equionment?
By using 25y of skill and experience and extensive practical knowledge
of PCs. I am offended at the suggestion that I am incompetent at my
job, actually.