26 Jun
2013
26 Jun
'13
1:52 p.m.
The thing is, I understand that he is absolutely
swamped in kit as it
True, and I am likely to be moving soon, $deity help me...
as and has no room to take any more... well, not
unless he *really*
wants it, badly enough to get rid of something else. He thought he
would not have space to work on something as big as a 20" iMac G5 and
wanted to come to mine to do it. Which is fine, except that I live a
mile from the nearest Underground station, which he feels is too far
to walk, especially with a toolkit.
That is not quite what I said. I am not near the undergroud, but I did
offer t ocome by bus (I routinely take a portable toolkit to HPCC
meerings, so gettign it to you wouldn;'t have been any worse). I seem to
recall you could tell me the nmearest bus stop or something. In cany case
we couldn't agree on a time.
Ask him to
teach you how to solder
[in exchange for teaching him to drive?]?
The key difference is that I don't want to be able to. I /can/ do Well, yes. Saying that, although I can drive, I
don't. I have never
owned a car and neither of my motorbikes has run in 5-6yr now. I live
in one of the cities with the best public transport systems in the
world; I don't need to. When the weather's OK, I mostly cycle --
Since I live in the same city, I think that expalins why I don't feel the
need to drive.
bicycles being something else Tony doesn't approve
of.
I have spent my life avoiding unnecessary physical exercise. THat is not
goign to change.
I offered Tony a free dual-CPU Athlon machine, preconfigured with
Linux. He didn't want it; no schematics, so he couldn't fix it. I
I seem to recall that this machine, or perhaps oen of the other ones you
offred me, had some 'issues'. Without schematics, or without soem idea as
to what was goign on, I had no hope of understnading why, and if said
issues could later affect me.
I prefer a slow, reliable, machine to a fast unreliable one.
said, don't worry, I'll give you a lifetime
warranty -- if it goes
wrong, I'll come and fix it for you. But how, he asked? You can't
solder, you can't use a 'scope. I don't need to -- I'll just replace
anything defective. It's a PC. It's disposable and built of disposable
How do you propose knowing which module is defecive iwthou the use of
test equionment?
bits. But no, this is not how he believes in repairing
stuff, and
there's no room for a PC, anyway -- he prefers to use internet caf?s
for the WWW. He does not have broadband or a home network, apparently.
Correct.
-tony