On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:41:32AM -0500, Chris Mauricio wrote: > On Monday 01-31-2005 12:09, Lan Barnes wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:46:57PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:30:12PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake > thusly: > > > > Whoa! Heretical! Old systems are the best! Homegrown > > > > firewalls, log servers, DMZs, honeypots....the list is endless! :) > > > > > > They also have a tendency to turn into unreliable frankenbox nightmares > > > too. Maybe ok for home use depending on what your time is worth and > > > whether you need the learning experience or not. > > > > One of my lessons learned is when to just buy it :-( > > > Certainly when you are setting it up for someone else to use. Friend of a > friend, Neighbor, Grandma... you become defacto tech support. For myself, no > problem, but I'd rather not troubleshoot hardware on top of the myriad of > issues associated with newbies learning. > > Do your grandma a favor. Don't saddle her with a 5 year old computer and > monitor, especially if she'll be running windows. > > C.
None of my "grandma" (elderly or disabled) users runs windows and all of them are _very_ price sensitive, and grateful for what they can get. (Both my own grandmothers are long dead.) You're dead on about occasional HW support calls related to old stuff. Linux really doesn't need much SW support. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
