Comments on: I have made a mistake http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LovingitlikeLinux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-45070 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:24:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-45070 Check this out for the benefits of keeping hold of “old” machines:

I`m currently being threatened with bailiff action any day because of a corporate “clerical error” that I`m trying to put right.

“The captain”(IBM t43 1gb ram Thinkpad-Ubuntu 10.4) and “The first mate” (Elonex 1.6 ghz 500mgb ram-Xubuntu 10.4) safely stashed at mother`s,leaving me with “The cabin boy”(a 1999 “something” pent3 650 mhz 180 mb-was running vector linux stroppily and buggily,but just guess my pleasant surprise when I installed ubuntu 9.04(no higher ubuntu though?) and it works operates only maybe 10% slower than the Elonex :)

All told,I`ve not spent a penny on box hardware in my 3 year computing career and downloaded terrabytes of films and other goodies,and I can rest easy that if my door gets busted in,only the little abused cabin boy gets carted off :)

The corporate thieves can kiss my astrolabe thanks to the wonders of Linux and their own brainwashing of the masses.

]]> By: Favorite computer myths « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44655 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:22:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44655 [...] you’re saying before you say it: Is my 14-year-old Pentium laptop, with an AC adapter pulling roughly 40W, really much more of a drain than your dual core desktop machine? I doubt it. And this page doubts [...]

]]> By: Andy C. http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44234 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:40:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44234 Too bad I live in Romania. Noone gives out free “broken” computers here and second-hand computers are horribly overpriced.

]]> By: As long as it works, keep using it « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44199 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:48:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44199 [...] needs to shout that at you repeatedly, because if it can’t convince you to buy a new machine every six months, it won’t make any money. [...]

]]> By: Joseph George http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44036 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:40:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44036 Mr Botho, someone seems to have hijacked your blog. It just doesn’t seem right – this post couldn’t be written by the same person. ;-)
Joseph

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44028 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:41:12 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44028 I’ve got a (currently-not-assembled) Pentium II system that has an oversized heatsink, with no fan, so even the mid-range Pentium II systems didn’t QUITE require a fan directly on the CPU.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44026 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:53:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44026 The Pentiums didn’t have fans to start with, ever. I’m stretching my memory back quite a ways, but fans in PCs — short of power supply fans — really weren’t necessary in commonplace household desktop computers until the Pentium II, if I remember right.

I once had a Celeron desktop that was totally fanless and completely silent, and I couldn’t tell if it was on or off sometimes. But people are probably tired of hearing me talk about it. …

]]> By: Benj1 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44025 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:26:06 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44025 @kmandela

im intrigued, did the computers come without fans, or did you just rip them out, and if so was there any reason for you to think they wouldn’t fry, or was it just hope and the consolation of being able to ‘rescue’ another pc from the rubbish heap if it did?

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44021 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:16:09 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44021 +1 to this, with the added point that both of the Pentium machines I have now are completely fanless and perfectly silent, with power supplies rated around 40W (I’m using watts = volts * amps, since neither one is explicitly labeled … tell me if there’s a better formula ;) ).

]]> By: ajlec2000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44020 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:12:55 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/i-have-made-a-mistake/#comment-44020 Right on. Now lets see if I can come up with a cdrw for my Latitude D610 and make this a perfect day.

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