Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:59:06 08/31/01
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On August 31, 2001 at 11:50:20, stuart taylor wrote:
>On August 31, 2001 at 07:57:05, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2001 at 07:37:33, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>>
>>>Could someone please give me an alternative url to download the CCC monthly
>>>archives?
>>>It seems the "http://ccc.ugate.net/pub/" just doesn't work.
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Alvaro Cardoso
>>
>>
>>Because of an electrical problem, we have been running off a generator
>>for the last 2 weeks. Every night the generator is turned off, so
>>the archives, which are housed on a computer on our premisis, cannot
>>function. I think it will be up and running, along with our electricity,
>>by the end of next week.
>>Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games)
>
>That looks like you're worthy of great applause for being a service to the
>public with use of high tech in our computer age, when you can't even be sure of
>electricity.
> (I've just recently purchased an Athlon 1.4 Ghz, and I hope that to be my last
>cpu upgrade for many years, if not for ever [unless I have some big business
>ventures which makes it clearly stupid and suicidle not to].
> All I need is that, and a few good working components and to take care of the
>equipment, and then I can live a productive simple life without all the hazards
>of high tech etc. and can concentrate on what's really important. Or am I just
>dreaming? Why? must I either be up to date with high tech with the money and
>time to support it, or leave it alone completely like a hermit? Is there no
>middle path? Anyway that's the connection which the above subject triggered in
>my mind).
>S.Taylor
You can try hard to resist, but there are big companies out there working even
harder to make your A1400 obsolete in two years.
If you think about it, a P100 was more than enough to achieve a lot of data
processing activities. Are we really doing any better with more than 15 times
this processing power?
If you are not using Windows 95 anymore, did you try to understand why you could
not use it anymore? What about the OS of two years from now that will FORCE you
to throw your A1400 to the trash and buy a 3GHz computer? If you could still be
using or you are using Win95, what about Windows 3.10? Can you mention good
technical reasons for not using it anymore?
Christophe
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