[CentOS] died again

Sun Dec 8 20:55:29 UTC 2013
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>

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