Sebastian Smith wrote:
All,
This is in referrence to Bill's email regarding computer parts.
I'd like everyone to submit a list of computer components they'd like to
get rid of. We'll design machines from this list, and then, at a RLUG
meeting, build and install the machines.
Here is the list (add your stuff to it):
Processors:
- 850Mhz Athlon Thunderbird
- 700Mhz (I think) Athlon Thunderbird
Motherboards:
- Abit KT7A-RAID
RAM:
- 1x 256MB DDR (can't remember clock rate... I can look it up later)
- 1x 256MB PC133
- 1x 256MB DDR SODIMM (Can't remember clock)
HDD:
- 1x 40GB WD
- 1x 40GB Seagate
Video Cards:
- 3x ATI Rage AGP
NIC:
- 4x 10/100Mbps
Power Supply:
- 1x 400W Antec
Cases:
- 1x Very tall POS Biege
Monitor/LCD:
- I have several at work... I'll see if I can get rid of them
I think that's all I have. Add your stuff.
- Sebastian
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I don't know what to say to this outpouring of kindness. I'm
dumbfounded. What touches me, too, is that the results of your
considerations might be some help for others who might be in similar or
even worse situations than I.
My current computer was made from parts I accumulated when I was in a
little better health, over four years ago. The processor is a used one I
picked up from someone on the Web. It's a Celeron, though I don't
remember the speed, but it's sufficient to do all I need. The video card
is going out and the hard drive has developed a high-pitch scream. I
have an old CD writer in it that I use to burn iso's, to try out Linux
distributions, which is, for the most part, how I spend my days. (The
only luxury in our budget is a $14.95 DSL line that my wife won't let me
be without because she knows how important all this is to me.)
My wife has a 200 mhz computer I put together and she uses that for her
e-mail and correspondence. It groans like constipated old crone but it's
usable for her. I tried to put Linux on it, but it won't handle any but
the smallest systems, and then, not very quickly or well.
A very kind friend from grade school has given me a Website and the
space to run it on his business server. So I'm liking very much learning
about simple Web pages and I'm still trying to find useful things to do
with it, though I must say, open source and Linux weigh heavily in its
content.
The other primary use of my computer is communicating, via my sister, to
my mother, who is in a rest home at is 90 years old. I have five
children, 15 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren (actually, I
think they're all great. They're all far away and my e-mail is the joy
of my life.
And recently, I have come to love the activities of the RLUG and am
trying to find useful things that I might contribute, though I'm
disabled and couldn't make it to meetings.
I'm sure I've explained all this at one point or another, and it IS
embarrassing to write openly like this. It is not that I am computerless
at the moment, so much as it is the fear that the day might come soon
when I would be. And right now, most of my life is funneled, in one way
or another, through the Internet, hobby, hope, family, friends, news (my
doctors don't allow to watch TV news, but that's an entirely different
story, so I read it on the Web).
I'd been having trouble relating to humanity when we moved to Quincy a
little over three years ago, very ill, very disillusioned. But what I've
seen in this town, in this area of California and Nevada, has helped
restore my faith. The gestures of so many people who would try to help
some some old guy they don't even know, spend their valuable time
considering my problems, instead of on something important, really
reaches to the deepest recesses of me and rearranges my thinking.
You are all too kind, all of those who have written. I don't know what
to say, and I've said far too much already. I feel like I'm in the eye
of a storm and I really don't know what to say.
I hope that thank-you is sufficient for now. I hope there's a way I can
express my thanks better at another time.
With great appreciation and thanks,
Bill
--
"I get tons of people stopping me in the street in Cape Town again, but
instead of asking 'what's weightlessness like' they want to know about
Open Source. The answer to both questions? 'Liberating.'"
Mark Shuttleworth, the multi-millionaire who paid for a ride into space,
and who is giving away Ubuntu Linux for free.
Web site: http://life-and-times.net (This, too, is life)
Blog: http://www.life-and-times.net/blog.html
AIM: trogon gigas
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