Chuck, your words are an inspiration to us all!!!
Hey, even sh*t is useful as fertalizer and other things.
Creative minds hack their solutions!
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>From: "chuck's list account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Multiple recipients of DuoList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Duo] Hacking Hardware and Mothering Maillists (was: 2300/300 crusade
why?)
>Date: Thu, Jul 29, 1999, 5:02 PM
>
> Fellow Duolisters,
>
> Hacking hardware in and of itself can be really, really enjoyable. I
> love looking at the japanese pages showing the hacks that have been
> done to the 2400. They kick butt! I want one. I laud the folks that
> are actually going to try dropping a 300mhz cpu in a duo. (Its the
> classic tinkerer tradition, like putting a porsche engine in a
> beetle!) Go for it folks: take pictures, document the process for
> posterity.
> Jeremy Wood's original rant was just that: a rant. Like any good
> conversation, no mailing list could exist without the occasional
> rant. When I read it I did so with the assumption that his tongue was
> planted firmly in his cheek (a good stance to take with email
> anyway.) At the core though was a valid question: Why hack "obsolete"
> hardware to make it more "modern" when it is probably not justifiable
> costwise since it would be easier, less risky, etc to just buy a new
> machine? They'll never be a satisfactory answer to that one other
> than:
>
> To some such an attempt seems silly, to others it sounds like fun.
>
> It boils down to a basic difference in outlook.
>
>
> As for some interpreting his post as rude, offensive, whatever ON
> LIST... leave that to the list mom (yeah, he's on vacation, but that
> doesn't give us all the license to act on his behalf!) I manage a big
> list myself (mac-mgrs, many of you are on it too) and nothing chaps
> my hide more than folks publicly trying to do my job for me. Nothing
> kills a list faster than off-topic noise and nettiqutte squabbles.
> This is Eric's list, let Eric do the mothering.
>
>
>
> -chuck goolsbee
> seattle, wa
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