What burden? Maybe we will make the computer and send it to the poor people of Kosovo then. These are spare parts coming together to help a friend.
Let us help - you have helped us all at one time or another. M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: It's dead jim The saying goodbye to FA would be to allow Judith to keep the relationship with MM and get in the news that we get from them if I have to go to NA. I don't want FA or the community to suffer if I have to make the move. Like I said, I'm going to try to get the computer another way rather than have the community chip in. I appreciate the support and all but I don't want to put any burden on anyone if I can help it. > Mike - > > Instead of all this talk about saying goodbye to FA, which you are > free to do if you want to, it sounds like you are in a tight spot and > could use a hand. You should tell us what kinds of parts you need. I > am betting we all have enough stuff sitting around in our collective > sparesbins to build several systems. > > I have an AMD 1600+ built on top of a K7 Pro LE mainboard, for > instance, that has onboard audio and USB, supports USB to USB > networking, and can accept up to 1.5 GB PC133 SD RAM. The thing is > just sitting around right now, and it's still in warranty. > > I believe I also still have several 512 MB SDRAM chips sitting around > too, and a 300 Watt power supply, multiple NIC cards, several obsolete > Geforce 3 > cards, some 10-20B IDE hard drives, two or three CD Burners, a > DVD-ROM, a zip drive, a bunch of logitech Web cams, multiple > keyboards, mice, infrared > sensors, PDAs w/ craddles that just need batteries, wires & cables > (some of > which have funny plugs that are not supported by anything anymore), > etc. And > this is just in my closet. > > I would be happy to be part of a community initative to get Mike back > up and > running. Mike, I have to ask, was any of your stuff still covered > under warranty? I was able to replace my motherboard after it was > fried recently no questions asked. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:30 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: It's dead jim > > > Well, when it rains it truly pours. As many of you know, my computer > went down last friday. I've been trying to make due with this tiny > laptop (literally tiny) and hating it. Just got the results back. > Catastrophic failure of everything except the CPU. No ram, HD, MB or > anything else. This > also means that all my data for the last half dozen years or so is probably > lost unless I can get it recovered. Add to that a small issue that the pain > I've been having is colitis. This all sucks. :( > > The timing is the worst possible and it may force me to do some > drastic things. I'm going to offer myself to Macromedia for some sort > of paying position (like making sure their email works properly). If > that doesn't work > (which I really don't expect it to) then I'm going to see about > seperating myself from FA and then offer myself to New Atlanta. I > don't want to do it, > but... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
