[CoLoCo] Death of a Desktop

[TJ Heaney]

My condolences for your loss,

When is the funeral?

On Dec 12, 2007 11:23 AM, Dave Vanderploeg <dave.vanderploeg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Last Saturday I went to plug an iPod into my desktop so I could add some
> Christmas songs. There was a bit of a static pop and then the system
> shutdown, unfortunately it never came back up. After some testing I
> determined that the motherboard had died. It was an oldish system, but still
> decent. It had 64bit processor, the MOBO was a socket 754, which are
> apparently a little hard to come by now. Money is a little too tight in
> December to rush out and pick up a new PC, so I decided to get out an older
> system. My old system has an Athlon 2200, with a gig of ram and 128mb PCI
> (not PCI-Express) video card. So I installed Ubuntu, enabled the Nvidia
> driver and now I've got it running fairly fast WITH Compiz.
>
> Imagine doing that with Vista, downgrading to system thats years old. Not
> only were there no license problems, but I have the advanced graphics that
> you need a cutting edge PC to use with Vista. Its not fast enough for most
> games, but at least I have access to all of my files until I can buy a new
> PC.
>
> Dave
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