Subj : Re: Trust?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Pascal Bourguignon
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 01:15 pm

Russell Shaw <rjshawN_o@s_pam.netspace.net.au> writes:
> Around melbourne, the council has hard garbage pickups where everyone
> dumps whitegoods on the nature strip. I've collected enough hardware
> to make dozens of fully loaded pentium class PCs that work fine for web
> browsing. Debian runs great on them;)
> Even if you had to buy 2nd-hand components from a pc market, you can
> make a web capable pentium pc for easily less than US$50.

And this in a remote place on a remote continent whose habitant live
in trees.  So imagine how easy it should be to garbage-collect
top-notch computing hardware in the middle of the Silicon Valley!


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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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I meant to do that.

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