Subj : Re: Trust?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : ocorrain
Date : Sat Aug 27 2005 12:37 pm

Russell Shaw <rjshawN_o@s_pam.netspace.net.au> writes:

> 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;)

And dodging the drop-bears. *shudder*

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Tiarnán

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