Just to let you know....

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Hi all! I just need to let you all know that I won't be around for a
while as my computers seem to be dying of old age. My other computer
died and it's a motherboard problem (it is 3 or 4 years old and that
doesn't include previous shelf time), my second computer died and it
appears the hard drive finally gave out after the many times I had to
restore a windows 2000 ntfs installation. I am using someone else's
computer to write this message right now. I am pretty bummed about not
being able to visit this and other newsgroups regulary now becuase of
my computers giving out. I will be taking good care of my pets in the
mean time (forever in other words since my
fish/turtles/plants/invertebraes/snails have priority now) and will see
you all probably once in a while but more likely in a few months after
I get new parts. Good luck to you all - I will miss you all, and I look
forwad to coming back. Oh, and of course - later! ;-)

[NetMax]

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Hi all! I just need to let you all know that I won't be around for a
> while as my computers seem to be dying of old age. My other computer
> died and it's a motherboard problem (it is 3 or 4 years old and that
> doesn't include previous shelf time), my second computer died and it
> appears the hard drive finally gave out after the many times I had to
> restore a windows 2000 ntfs installation. I am using someone else's
> computer to write this message right now. I am pretty bummed about not
> being able to visit this and other newsgroups regulary now becuase of
> my computers giving out. I will be taking good care of my pets in the
> mean time (forever in other words since my
> fish/turtles/plants/invertebraes/snails have priority now) and will see
> you all probably once in a while but more likely in a few months after
> I get new parts. Good luck to you all - I will miss you all, and I look
> forwad to coming back. Oh, and of course - later! ;-)


I hope you get it all sorted out Daniel.
--
www.NetMax.tk

[Steve]

Used computers are quite cheap these days. For e-mail and newsgroups I'm
using a surplus-store IBM desktop purchased 3 years ago for $150
Canadian, on which I'm running SUSE Linux. Initially I had to add a
network card and some memory, and last year I got an 80 GB hard drive to
replace the original 3GB drive. I already had an old monitor.

The Linux was almost free, and the most expensive thing is the Internet
service. It's worth a try if you're a little bit tech-savvy. Very stable!
Steve

NetMax wrote:
> > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>
>>Hi all! I just need to let you all know that I won't be around for a
>>while as my computers seem to be dying of old age. My other computer
>>died and it's a motherboard problem (it is 3 or 4 years old and that
>>doesn't include previous shelf time), my second computer died and it
>>appears the hard drive finally gave out after the many times I had to
>>restore a windows 2000 ntfs installation. I am using someone else's
>>computer to write this message right now. I am pretty bummed about not
>>being able to visit this and other newsgroups regulary now becuase of
>>my computers giving out. I will be taking good care of my pets in the
>>mean time (forever in other words since my
>>fish/turtles/plants/invertebraes/snails have priority now) and will see
>>you all probably once in a while but more likely in a few months after
>>I get new parts. Good luck to you all - I will miss you all, and I look
>>forwad to coming back. Oh, and of course - later! ;-)
>
>
>
> I hope you get it all sorted out Daniel.

[Alpha]

Depending on the power of your previous computers, you might want to
consider:

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/cto_dimen2400?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

....and just replace everything.