JOHNJWILSON wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Last  tag!....." on 08-09-05 13:36

 -> EVERYTHING is new, and no one should expect you to be an expert
 ->  overnight. Take your time with it, and more and more of it will make
 ->  sense. If you need to get out of a mess, you could do worse than a
 ->  fido guy to fix you up in no time.
 ->
 JO> Yeah, yeah, that's what my marrage counciler kept telling me...

Maybe you needed a fido guy to fix her up... Er, you up! 

 -> I just moved my #3 machine, and now it doesn't want to boot Windows
 -> ... ->  mismatches, and on, and on...
 ->
 JO> (Violin hitting c# minor...)

More like a viola alternating between semitones, ala Jaws!

 JO> Yea, I have a grumpy Windows, that dislikes being awakened...OR put to
 JO> sleep.

If you have the stomach for it, and I suspect you do, give Linux a
 whirl. There are 'LiveCD' versions that let you try before you buy,
 and the price is for free.

 JO> When they said the Honda 350 was 'an old ladies bike, but it
 JO> will go on forever' I bought it.

Granny John! 

 JO> When they said Windows ME might be alright for an old lady...
 JO> I bought it. I've had it for years now with zero problems.
 JO> I do kinda miss Win 3.11 booting to DOS and if you HAFTA
 JO> play with pictures zap to windows. I got pretty good at BASIC and
 JO> I will NEVER be any good in any of the languages they have kicking around
 JO> now...

Me, W98SE. When the HD craped out with the OEM version on it, MS was
no longer producing it, and couldn't bring themselves to ship me a
complimentary CD for my troubles. A local burned me a 98 CD, and that
seems to run everything but the USB burners. I find it as precarious
as balancing an elephant on the head of a pin, though, and heavily
dependent on the third party memory managers, and crash interceptors
to run with any grace. 

Linux is like the Energizer bunny next to Duracell's 8.4V, 9V battery.

 -> Being Linux,...

 JO> Here the clouds begin to form (similar to an anathetic...(my spell
 JO> checker obviously does.'t work)

NOT! <-;

 ->  fit/meltdown, and it'll be SNAFU around here again. <-;
 ->
 JO> Hey that reminds me of my early ham days...:-)

It sounds like the later days were better then? 

 -> Thinking about it, #2 has been rather funky too. Time to dynamite the
 ->  mess, and start from scratch again. 
 ->
 JO> I've built ham transmitters...but I've done nothing more than
 JO> THOUGHT about it. Cripes! ONE solder joint and you ruin millions
 JO> of them thing-a-ma-jigs! And I know past and beyond all theological

Do the ones built in your head work better than the ones you build on
 a bench? (Visions of tuning systems composed of hubcaps, and
 potatoes...)

But do you *really* need a jig to build one? (Wondering what the other
Nine Hundred, Ninety Nine-Thousand, Nine Hundred Ninety Nine jigs
would be for.)

 JO> beliefs that, should I try, having the voltage switch on the motherboard
 JO> just one teeny place off, the hard drive will belch smoke before shooting
 JO> like a rocket out of the back of my machine. My kick-ass machine
 JO> of five years ago (One _GIGABYTE! 250MB of RAM! Holy cow!)
 JO> is now a pittiful sluggard the object of scorn by all computer maga
 JO> who insist on you getting a gig of RAM, over clock your P4 to
 JO> 8GHz so you can properly play Halo III.
 JO> Grrr. Nuthin wrong with 'Dancing Demons' Those where the days...
 JO> (And My LaSalle ran great...)

Hey, my #1 just trashed its 20G hd, and was degraded to a 6.4G
one. The SODIMM *is* a quarter G, but because it *isn't* a 16X16M
unit, I can only see half of that. Because it relegates a bit to video
production, I can only use that much less for operations... I dare not
try W'XP on it, as even some Linux distributions will not load into
that *little* memory. Gone are the days when 32M of RAM were the envy
of the whole block!

 -> Not a problem. Dumb looks still being free...
 ->
 JO> If they wern't I'd be broke.

If I could charge for them, I'd be rich! 

 JO> I'm an 8-bit kinda guy, and -cripes!- it's now a _64_ bit town...

Shoot... I'm an analog guy, trying to barge forth in a digital world! 

 JO> Cheers! (Not NOW, stack 'em up for when you're REALLY ready.)

No wonder I have a drinking problem.  (Just rinsed out a bottle
yesterday.) Time to start on the case of beer. (PARTY!!! ;-)


... Dave, put those Windows disks down..Dave... DAVE!
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