Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:54:00 -0600 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ONeQwNG6nb3WnhAk+b8gnws/iKiDG2VlHNcfRzokYvJunu/H6D Cancel-Lock: sha1:CGOz2YRiRHMQf0WU7b0mKHKku3k= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4468 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594797 sci.physics:833232 On 09/28/2021 10:08 PM, Branimir Maksimovic wrote: > On 2021-09-29, rbowman wrote: >> On 09/28/2021 02:55 PM, Clutterfreak wrote: >>> And of course he was no businessman :) Neither am I. He'd left the max >>> 24g RAM and the graphics card in it intact. His concern was that this >>> jewel doesn't go to waste. With the new S-something he'd purchased this >>> one would go to waste with him. >> >> 24GB of DDR2 isn't exactly in high demand unless you're nursing a >> vintage box. > > Well, you can sell a piece :P >> >> > > Probably make out on it too. I bought one of those $10 computers from a YWCA sale and found obsolete components are insanely expensive. I went to one of the local computer shops and asked what they did with old, small hard drives since the BIOS wouldn't recognize anything too big. They weren't ecologically aware so all the drives, old RAM, and so forth went into the dumpster.