[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

[Jay Woods]

I've just finished the cycle of getting rid of the 486s and replacing them 
with P100s (which came free except for the enormous effort of relearning how 
to boot up and install Slackware 4.0 from floppies because there were no 
CD-ROM drives and the power supply was too small to add them). 

On Sunday 09 May 2004 10:10 pm, OBrien, Timothy (Omaha Linux Users Group - 
OLUG) wrote:
> <quote who="Dave Hull">
>
> >> >>> phil at brutsche.us 5/6/2004 >>>
> >>
> >> thehaas at binary.net wrote:
> >>
> >> How many people are going to sit around with their current machines for
> >> 3 years?  I know I won't.
> >> --
> >>
> >> Phil Brutsche
> >> phil at brutsche.us
> >
> > Three years? Before I had two kids to support a three year replacement
> > cycle was
> > more than reasonable. Now, the fastest Linux server in my basement is six
> > years
> > old and still working fine. Even my laptop is closing in on 3.5 years and
> > I
> > won't be replacing it anytime soon.
> >
> > Within the next year, my work will be throwing machines away that a
> > superior to
> > the hardware I'm running at home. I feel a dumpster dive coming on.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Hull
> > http://insipid.com
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I second that - my P233 and P650 desktops and my P333 laptop are running
> fine. But when that dumpster dive happens, let us know will ya Dave? =)