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Skriven 2007-02-06 21:06:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Re: We can bash
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey WAYNE!

 MK> Feb 06 19:28 07, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> I'll take it.
 WC> Figure out how much.
 WC> Zero cash until the 3rd of the March as I'm currently operating
 WC> on three dollars in the checking account.

 MK> email me your mailing address and I'll send what I have when I get the
 MK> chance. At the moment I don't have a way to test them but last time I
 MK> looked they were all good.  I doubt very much I'll ever use them now.

 WC> This isn't like a Matrox video card big bucks item.

 MK> Nope.  However some of the ones I have were worth a fortune when new.
 MK> Now? Nobody wants them.  PC-100 and 133 are still in use in these
 MK> parts.

For Abilities of Florida job retraining I parted with 25 dollars for 
a 16 Meg stick.


At Computer Craft.
I still work at recall for rehab.

 WC> Do I need a Matrox video card for command line applications
 WC> not employing video or graphics?

 MK> Definetly not.  That would be wasteful.  I doubt you'll even need a
 MK> monitor or keyboard once it is humming along but I'd keep those close
 MK> at hand for when you do.

I was being cute.
I'm a real stinker.

 WC> I think I might try Linloader out of DOS just for the
 WC> challenge of mucking about.
 WC> Something different to do.

 MK> Last time I checked it worked okay.  That was ages ago.  Even ran

Me too.
Back at Abilities for the two to three weeks before some 16 YO busted
my back circumventing my attempts to return to the work force.

The rest of the time was spent on COBOL.
Bleck

 MK> across a simular thing for Windows that would shut it down and then
 MK> boot up to linux just by clicking it's icon.  My cousin liked that but
 MK> I never found a use for anything I had going at the time.

I can shut down Windows, rm -r windows, fdisk, shred

 WC> Shoot, I was hoping for some insurmountable problems as Linux
 WC> seems to dispatch with them rather quickly.

 MK> Usually.  Now if the apps could keep up we'd have something for sure.

 WC> If I'm going to install Linux it's getting fdisked and formatted
 WC> anyway.

 MK> Good plan.

 WC> Sure I'm keeping DOS but not Mickeysoft DOS but rather
 WC> Freedos as in the disk image Paul Rogers sent me :-)

 MK> I haven't seen that for ages.  The last time I checked it had booting
 MK> issues but ran okay in dosemu, which is another thing I haven't seen or
 MK> used in ages.

All it need do is satisfy my odd desire to play around and to load Linux.
I'm a very, very weird individual you know.

 WC> I'll manually select the packages to install rather than do the full
 WC> boat.

 MK> Sounds like a plan.

 WC> I really, really miss that place.
 WC> Well, I miss the dog.

 MK> I can relate.


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