On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Nalin Savara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another use: > since you're anyway not currently using it you can give it to some > under privileged child or to some worker for his /her children.. > > Giving away something is often better than trying to extract every > paisa of value.. > > Though ofcourse it may not appeal to you and it's possible you may > have to give it to some one not from your own caste or strata of > society.
First, this is a 10 year old machine we are talking about. It's worth less than you can imagine. Second, do you really want a child's first contact with computers to be in the form of Damn Small Linux? That's what is running on it now and with no CDROM/ethernet and no support for booting from anything apart from the hard disk, it will be extremely hard for any non-geek to install something decent on it or to maintain it. Plus did I mention yet that its ageing graphics chip is now rendering all output with a greenish hue? The prehistoric monster impression complete, we will lose an impressionable young mind to the clutches of Microsoft the moment it's exposed to a windows based machine. I'm all for education and charity but let's be pragmatic. This machine is much more useful serving as a headless backup/data server under my desk than being a first computer to someone else. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
