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Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase.

From	Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase.
Date	2024-12-31 21:16 -0600
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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.

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A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2024-12-28 18:00 +0000
  Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-28 13:08 -0500
    Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-28 13:43 -0500
    Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 19:34 -0500
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 19:46 -0500
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 02:31 +0000
        Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-01 07:33 -0500
  Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-28 21:48 +0000
    Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-28 22:24 +0000
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-28 17:31 -0500
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-28 17:18 -0600
        Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-29 18:27 +0000
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-29 13:17 +0000
        Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-29 14:14 +0000
          Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-29 15:03 +0000
            Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-29 15:47 +0000
              Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-30 19:13 -0500
    Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-29 01:02 +0000
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-28 19:37 -0600
      Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-28 21:31 -0500
        Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-28 21:36 -0500
          Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-29 07:08 +0000
          Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-29 07:12 -0500
            Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-29 13:19 +0000
              Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2024-12-29 08:50 -0500
            Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-30 08:41 +0000
              Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2024-12-31 17:34 +0000
                Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 12:37 -0500
                Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 13:36 -0500
                Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 13:43 -0500
                Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 21:42 -0600
                Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 22:48 -0500
                Re: A New Machine Progresses. The Shakedown Phase. Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 21:16 -0600

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