Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:33:43 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: "setantae" <setantae@submonkey.net>, "questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: home pc use Message-ID: <007d01c1740a$52cdd280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <004901c17287$9eff56d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@atkielski.com] >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:25 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jan Grant >Cc: setantae; questions >Subject: Re: home pc use > > >> The problem is that the people that suspect >> hardware and aren't willing to swap it out >> are protecting their feelings of affection >> for some piece of hardware, somewhere. > >Or they just don't want to spend large amounts of money buying >hardware they'll >never again use just to disprove something that is already extremely >improbable. >If hardware were free and didn't require taking PCs apart to replace, the >situation might be different. > You can't tell me that most computer users at the level of FreeBSD usage don't have access to a string of other systems, and don't have friends and family that they can borrow stuff from, and don't know how to take apart their computer. I know with my own family that I'm the first avenue of technical support for them. And if they don't - well this is one of the things that user groups are good at. There's also that little website called Ebay that has a ton of this kind of stuff for peanuts. You don't HAVE to replace your motherboard with a brand-new top-o-the-line Wonkulating Grokulator to prove an incompatability, a cheapo Pentium 200 works fine too. Computer hardware is almost free you just got to use a bit of imagination. Hell I read in the local paper the authorities are up in arms about all the old computers and their toxins that are ending up in the landfill. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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