From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 2:34:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4330937B41A for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:34:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fANAXhR32669; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "Jan Grant" Cc: "setantae" , "questions" Subject: RE: home pc use Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:33:43 -0800 Message-ID: <007d01c1740a$52cdd280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <004901c17287$9eff56d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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