[TenTec] Basic question - Long

[Tommy]

2 bad sum folks aint got no humur....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Weber" <kd9bo at mac.com>
To: <tentec at 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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