2 bad sum folks aint got no humur....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Weber" <kd9bo@mac.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
> Golly Gee!
>
> You built your own computer??? Really??? You went to the beach,
> brought home a bucket of sand and made your own chips? Mined and
> smelted your own copper? Designed and built your own microprocessor?
> Mined your own iron ore, made steel, rolled it into sheets to make
> the chassis?
>
> Or did you plug a bunch of prefabricated subassemblies into a
> prefabricated motherboard, mount them into a prefabricated case with
> a prefabricated power supply.
>
> Lighten up already. None of us build our own computers.
>
> Sheesh!
>
>
> > > Don't stop...since we can't talk about the Orion firmware
> >> on the Ten Tec
> >> reflector...we can bash computers!
> >
> >ok.
> >
> >> Yep, it was Gates who once said that...I think that was >
> >> way before there
> >> was an orange..er..an apple...
> >
> >Apple existed way before gates.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hmmmm...where can I get some Apple software that will run
> >> 385 servers
> >> spread
> >> across the country...that will NOT fail?
> >
> >Try BEA.
> >
> >
> >And, oh yes, don't try to have those windows
> >servers actually try to do something other than
> >the occasional file sharing. They will crash.
> >I have seen systems that repeatedly crashed
> >windows (NT) because they could not service
> >requests fast enough, then recompile those
> >systems for unix without one line change
> >and have the unix boxes run at 35% cpu
> >utilization. Windows is ok if you don't
> >actually use it, or need to make changes.
> >maybe.
> >
> >
> >
> >>What COM ports? Only reason we
> >> need
> >> COM ports now is to run ham software.
> >
> >So, how is the support guy gonna connect?
> >Most sites still need to have the warm
> >fuzzy feeling that they can hang up the
> >telephone rather then opening their network
> >up for remote connects.
> >
> >
> >> OH yea, I've been running WinXPpro
> >> on
> >> my three home made PC's also for three years with NO
> >crashes.
> >
> >I refer you to my earlier comment about actually using it.
> >
> >> By the
> >> way,
> >> did you build your MAC?
> >
> >No, I didn't have to.
> >What exactly did you actually build?
> >
> >this is fun..
> >
> >73,
> >bill w6eet
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>
> --
> Steve Weber
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