27 Jun
2013
27 Jun
'13
11:42 a.m.
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
recreation and for interest. I actually /use/ newer kit -- not
current, not cutting-edge, because I can't really afford it and
begrudge spending money on IT kit.
E.g. my current machine -- which I have just successfully turned into
a Hackintosh, running Mac OS X 10.6.8 -- is a 3GHz Core 2 Quad Extreme
with 8GB of RAM. The graphics card was given to my by a friend (it was
a cast-off: a dual-DVI nVidia GeForce 250 with 256MB of VRAM). The
only paid-for part of it is its 1TB hard disk; all the rest (IBM Model
M keyboard, now supplemented with an Apple Extended Keyboard II), the
two 19" LCD monitors, their cables, the lot, /everything/ was free.
The mouse was a Yule present from my mum, about a decade back.
My point being, PCs are disposable. I have no interest in tracing
faults down to a component and desoldering it and replacing it,
because this machine has a net worth of about the price of a pint of
beer. It's not worth my time. If it dies, I'll use an older slower one
for a while until another half-decent freebie comes along. They're not
collectable, they're not interesting and they have little sentimental
value. They're junk: when they wear out, they get tossed in skips.
("Dumpsters" to American-speakers.)
Well, I don't like waste, so I take them out of skips (real or
metaphorical), fix them and use them.
The PC I offered you is now being used by the teenaged stepdaughter of
a friend of mine in Walthamstow, BTW. Yes, it has some issues, but it
was a good solid high-end machine in 2002 and it's still usable now
(with loads more RAM than it ever used to have and a big SATA drive in
it. Cost, ooh, about a curry: say ?30.)
As I offered, I'd fix it for you. Yes, by board-swapping, but if it
works, what's wrong with that?
NB: the above question is rhetorical.
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. Since I live in the same city, I think that expalins
why I don't feel the
need to drive.
Non sequitur.
I don't live in the sea. I don't use boats often. I still learned to
swim as a child and do it regularly for fun.
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
that this is a good choice, though.
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.
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