16 Dec
2011
16 Dec
'11
6:01 a.m.
On Dec 13, 2011 11:42 PM, "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
Working on & playing with are different things.
As for toasters: occasionally I turn it upside down over the compost bin &
tap it a few times to get the crumbs out. Anything else stops working, I
recycle it & get a new one.
That's more maintenance than I'd be willing to do to a TV set or landline
phone too...
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> On 12 December 2011 16:58, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
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> > In article
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=A0 =A0Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
writes:
I quite enjoy dabbling with new Linux GUIs and so on, but TBH, no. I
stand by what I said. But I am frankly sick of learning new systems
now.
Really?
Because for me, learning about new systems is about the only thing
that keeps my job interesting and keeps this hobby interesting. And many more I can't call to mind.
I'm tired of it.
I find this a somewhat curious attitude for a regualr on this list (Note,
to avoid the flamage, I am saying that _I_ find it curious, not that
you're in any way wrong). One of the things about classic computers is
that they're not all the same, they run differnet OSes with vatious
command lines and GUIs. So learning obscurew OSes is certain;y one reason
to get invovled with classic computers.
I want my computers to just /work/. I expected
all the complexity and
That's whay I run classic machiens (Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but only
somewhat).
[..]
want and that just do it, with no more
maintenance than a toaster.
Now leetys see... That means you want to take the case off and lcean out
the crumbs every couple of months and replace an element and adjust the
control mechanism about once a year... Or at least that's my experience
of toasters.