On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Ben wrote:
Bookmarked until the next PC crash!
Why on earth do people use systems like that? Unbelievable.
Most of them can be tamed by replacing the hordes of leaking
electrolytic capacitors (wikipedia: Capacitor Plague) on the
motherboard, then wiping the HDD and installing some form of Linux.
It's worked three times for me... No guarantees for others, I just use
*nix-type OSes because I don't like the swiss-cheese security (if it's
even *that* good.. wire mesh probably has less holes) of Windoze.
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Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk