Subj : HP fun and games
To   : ROY J. TELLASON
From : THURSTON ACKERMAN
Date : Sat May 21 2005 09:28 pm

RJT>THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT>RJT>I once took a couple of drives out of one box (a P200 at that time)
RJT>RJT>and plugged them in to an other box (a 486 at that time) and it
RJT>RJT>booted right up,  and worked.  Slower,  but it worked...

RJT>TA> Enjoyed this discourse again, already, thank you Roy. My eldest son
RJT>TA> is also retired now, so I sent him my 80 GB HD with SuSE 9.0 to
RJT>TA> upgrade to 9.3 for father's day. In the mean time I bought me a MCI
RJT>TA> PowerSpec 1405 with linspire for $99.00 after rebates (until
RJT>TA> 05/22/05 when you open a new Visa credit account if you'd like).

RJT>Sounds like a deal to me!

RJT>TA> Didn't buy the linspire CNR for another $99 (I am a cheap-skate
RJT>TA> even when buying for myself 8-).

RJT>No reason you should pay that kind of money if you're already using SuSE...

RJT>TA> Where do you find the best place to acquire linux programs please ?

RJT>It depends on what you're looking for.  Much of the activity these days see
RJT>to consist of system programs,  utilities,  and languages,  but there are a
RJT>some end-user type applications out there.  Have you looked at freshmeat?
RJT>have a pretty nifty setup,  if you see something of interest you can get em
RJT>notifications on it,  when updates come out and such stuff.

I didn't get enough time to investigate "GRAMPS" for my genealogy
interests; but KMail, etc., seemed very useful for communications
to this old Ham radio op that spends most time here and/or on the
internet. I used to get some satisfaction challengeing PETSCI and/or
CPM to get one of these boxs to do some simple this or that; now I
just want the box to do what I need done when I incite it's mouse.

Ciao, Ack
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