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____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 23 June 2008 00:04 : \____
> On Jun 21, 2:15 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Harnessing the power of 'clouds'
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>> | It is not unusual to find the computer you bought only a couple of years
>> | ago cannot handle the very latest software,
>
> It's not unusual if you use Windows. Now you have to upgrade to
> Vista, ie throw out all your old hardware and buy new stuff. But I've
> kept several old (ca 2000) computers running on Linux. I have
> upgraded the OS every few years on the old hardware. It was necessary
> to increase the ram, and I have installed some extra (now cheap) hard
> drives. And BTW I've never had Linux crash on me.
Well, computers don't crash. Windows does.
Have you ever had a treadmill pulling something like a BSoD while you run?
Probably not. Systems are built to run, not to wobble or be "good
enough"... "most of time".
Going through some offices and hallways I sometimes see BSoDs or left-alone
Windows computers with fatal error messages. In years of using GNU/Linux over
here I never came to my desk only to find the box misbehaving.
> but there could be an answer to the
>> | problem so long as you are connected to the internet.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | if ("if"=inv("fi")) print("foo/bar")
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