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Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Upon reflection, that may have been sarcasm.
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Karen's mother got a new computer recently, as her old one died. I took the carcass off her hands, replaced the motherboard (leaky capacitors), CPU (slow) and hard drive (many, many bad clusters), and installed Linux on it — which brings the score up to three Windows and four Linux machines.

Karen's reaction to the new addition: "Oh, good. 'Cause we don't have a computer in the bathroom yet."


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Hah! I understand her thinking! We have 2 laptops, 2 desktops in the bedroom (one a linux), one in each boys room (one windows, one mac). My husband wants my Dad's old machine, so he can turn it into another linux box...
Posted by Apollonia on 28 Feb 2006 09:18
I was offered an old DEC server from a Florida DL office I upgraded; I was going to put Linux on it... until I turned it on: 200MHz Pentium Pro with 32MB RAM. (My Linksys NSLU2 has better specs than that, and it was just a network storage device when I bought it.)

But, yeah, I know where she's coming from too. It's amusing to have a bigger network at home than the one at the last place I worked, but I'll probably move the better hardware over from my current Linux box onto the new one and retire the old one, since the new one has a faster CPU.

Posted by Godfrey on 28 Feb 2006 10:47
The first step is admitting you have a problem.

Did you ever consider yourself an electronic necromancer?
Posted by Lunchbox on 28 Feb 2006 13:54
A computer in the bathroom is better than a phone in there. At least no one can hear what you're doing... unless you want them to.
Posted by Lisa on 28 Feb 2006 19:05
Hey, thanks to a wireless router and my Nokia 770, I don't need a computer in the bathroom. :-)

Posted by Godfrey on 1 Mar 2006 06:15