Re: What do you do with your old computers?

"tlmfru" <lacey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> HeyBub <heybub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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
>

Thanks for the sup****t, Peter.

I agree with you regarding which consultant I'd rather have, and I 
emphatically agree there is no such thing as "useless knowledge".

(There may be knowledge you haven't found a use for yet... but you never 
know. :-) I once won a quiz show and  a holiday in Fiji just because I 
happened to retain a piece of otherwise completely useless trivia from
years 
before. I've never forgotten that "Hallellujah!" feeling when the compere 
asked the question, and I realised I knew the answer... :-) My Dad, now
long 
deceased, installed in me the "yearning for learning" and I have kept it 
throughout my life. I believe it is sinful to not want to know, and I try
to 
be a righteous man... :-)).

I think HeyBub (a self-confessed MS stock holder) was a bit piqued at my 
attack on Vista. He has a wicked sense of humour and his posts are always 
worth reading. I'm sure there's no malice in it :-)

Pete.
-- 
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."