On 2007-03-27, John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>* Make your next upgrade cycle one that involves OS X... oh wait, that
>>requires new hardware as well... Linux is already here... and it doesn't
>>require a new PC... and being free, it ensures that there are no schemes to
>>force you to buy anything.
>
> I fear that the days of the computer recyclers are numbered. I was
> just staring at my pile of old Super Socket 7 500MHz machines
> and am having second thoughts about scraping them.
I have 2 500MHz machines in service. One runs ClarkConnect and proxies
junior's web activity, does DNS for the network and does some proxying
for me. The other is running linux for the boy. It was mine until a
couple of weeks ago, and the $SON was playing games from a 1GHz laptop.
But the laptop was overheating and had to be retired. So he gets the
old clunker to play with when the lovely and gracious Mrs. AB isn't
actively forcing him to use his Mac.
I also have 2 133MHz laptops in service in the basement. One runs
leafnode for me. The other does my mail.
Why run these things? Because I can, and because they do the job. _NO_
version of Winders could do what they're doing on that same equipment.
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Microsoft: The company that made web surfing dangerous.
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