sk8r-365 wrote:

> If it's the channel, well ... you'll know what to buy
>


I bought 13 of these identical school district junkers for $5.00 each,
and wound up with 13 that still worked!

After adding a $2.50 CMOS battery to each, they are worth $7.50 now. ;-)

I wouldn't put any money into them since I am really only running two
24/7. If I wanted, I could buy an ISA or PCI IDE controller card, but
that probably would be too much.

The original light bulb that went on above my head spelled out Beowulf. ;-)


> Good plan. FYI, if you're not already aware - I've seen that you *are*
> savvy - a LiveCD doesn't need the HD to be attached to operate. Instead,
> it'll be forced to run in RAM alone. Some, like Ubuntu, don't even make
> a ramdisk and the HD is entirely ignored. This is the _only_ means by
> which I test them as a Sabayon DVD wrote to all user's /home/.mozilla &
> .mozilla-thunderbird directories over writing browser Home pages to
> theirs and all email settings were gone.
>


Yuck! Sounds like my recent problem of Suse 10 renumbering my UID when I
set it up to use a common /home partition on a multiboot with five
distros that got along together (Fedora Core 3, Ubuntu 6.06 and 7.10,
Debian 3.1 and 4.0).


>> Time will tell, and it certainly takes time.
>>
>
> It will and I wish you good hunting.


Thank you.


--
John

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The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can't do. The GPL sounds like it was written by a human being, who wants me to know what I can do.