Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase.

On 12/31/24 11:34 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

Ten years from now, if Usenet lasts that long, they will still
be spewing their standard idiotic refrains over and over.

Oh I bet that. I've seen with my own eyes problematic individuals in sci.physics stayed exactly the same for more than two decades!
I post, and sometimes read, in COLA because a couple of my computers began to have linus on them, and now my main computer (optiplex 7050 micro form factor) has linux on it. So to a little extent I've got myself involved with linux.
Speaking of OptiPlex 7050, I bought this one from craigslist for about $75 a year or two ago, and listen to this: Today, after I dropped some forms and stuff in Social Security Office, before driving back home I went to a couple of thrift stores to buy some computer mouse and, yes, another computer monitor. My tomcats have ruined this one and part of the screen now has suprmodern art over it in various colors :) It'll be trashed tomorrow.
I got a monitor for $15, and then guess what I saw there. Among the few modems there, one looked like a micro optiplex like mine. I picked it up and it _was_ an Optiplex 9020 micro form factor, tagged "$12"!... the modems there were also all $12 each, so the Bozo who priced them must've thought this one was a modem. Hahhahhahh :-)
Of course I bought it and came home and found it in perfect working condition with 4 core i5 cpu, 12 gigs of ram, and 300 gigs HD :)
It has Windows 10 on it but I cannot pass the admin password requirement, so I'll just install linux over it. Haven't done it yet cause I'm quite pooped today.
9020 is about 3 years older than 7050 (2014 and 2017 respectively), but is still great to have linux on it. It'll be my backup linux computer. I have two other Optiplexe towers that have linux on them but they're flaky. Sometimes power up and sometimes don't. Haven't got to throw them away yet.
The micro form factor optiplex does look like a modem. Hehe :)
Happy new year. I woke up after only 2 hours of sleep to get ready to go to the damn SSA office. But the bombs and fireworks and stuff that some neighbors are right now busy blowing up around me doesn't let me and my cats get rest.  Hopefully after midnight they stop, but that's not guaranteed.