Subj : Re: Trust?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Russell Shaw
Date : Fri Aug 26 2005 03:59 am

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> 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!

and that's after fighting off the feral koalas and dislodging
the redbacks from the keyboard;)

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