On 22/01/2008, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/22/2008 08:10 AM, Scott Castaline wrote: > > > Also keep in mind that these systems that have been replaced due to M$ > > upgrades, that are finding their way to landfills contain lead, mercury > > and other toxic materials that seep into the water table. > > Along those same lines, I've 3 perfectly good systems running right now > that I recovered from a school's 'recycle' bin that they'd tossed; > supposedly because they didn't meet Windows Vista specs. They are > 2.4Ghz/40Mb/256Mb systems with Intel motherboards. Added some memory > (384/512/1G), reformated & installed linux, and on one even kept Windows > as a dual boot machine (for troubleshooting), and they all run like a top. > > Recovered another 1.6Ghz/40M/128Mb system; added some memory, an > additional hard drive (again recycled), tuned it up w/linux & my son's > family are quite happy with their 'new' system :-) Note: I'd had them on > OOo for the past two years under Windows - and they are *very* happy > with the linux version. >
Very good. That's what's so great about Vista: Linux users don't even need to pay for our hardware anymore! Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
