Re: What do you do with your old computers?

HeyBub <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:13suapdaaku1v30@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Linux has (according to the last statistics I've seen) 0.86% of the
desktop
> market. But, given your proclivity for breathing life into expired
> non-living things, you might be quite comfortable with a knock-off of a
> 40-year old operating system designed by a money-losing division of the
> telephone company and enhanced by troglodytes who earnestly believed the
> DOS-command line was not archaic enough.
>
> If you're not using Vista, then you're suckin' hind tit.
>
> And I'm not just saying that because I'm a Micros~1 stockholder.
>

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> Your earnings are negligible because you spend your productive hours
> refurbi****ng antiquated computers, electric typewriters, and manual
> butter-churns. If I had that much spare time, I'd stand on the side of
the
> road with a sign: "Will work for ***."
>
> It's much more efficient just to pay for three minutes.
>

Man, you are making far too much of this. (Or is it another "joke" that
I'm
too dim to see?)  PD decribed a useful process which has enhanced his
knowledge and made more use of what he's got.  In the abstract, the more
you
know the better off you ALWAYS are: even if right now you can't tell how
it
will be useful.  But you seem to be taking offense at the notions that
anybody should jib at spending money when they don't want to (and don't
have
to), and that people want to know for themselves.  You should probably
live
in Huxley's "Brave New World" where the mantra is "replace, not repair". 
If
I have a choice of consultants, I'll take the one who has messed his hands
up like this as well as worked with the latest and greatest over the one
who
hasn't.

PL