On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, John R Pierce wrote: > >> geez, its a 10 year old pentium-4, and not even a late p4, a middle aged >> 32bit-only one.... put it out of its misery, its been living on >> borrowed time for the last 5 years. > > You mean since it was two? > > Even when I have income, > I get annoyed about little mysteries that make things just not work. > I do not have any income, > so I also get annoyed at these little expenses that pop up occasionaly. > Apparently just to annoy me. Perhaps John meant Get a Real Computer. On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: >> >> Even when I have income, >> I get annoyed about little mysteries that make things just not work. >> I do not have any income, >> so I also get annoyed at these little expenses that pop up occasionaly. >> Apparently just to annoy me. > > You are taking this way too personally. Things don't get old and > break just to annoy you - it happens to everyone. Realistically, even > if you fix the power supply or whatever the cause is this time, it > won't be long before something else goes. That refurb box would at > least advance the odds a few years. Realistically, my abilities and my income circumscribe what I can and what I should do. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods