On 24 Dec 2008 02:15:40 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

On 2008-12-23, Don Foreman wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:46:09 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Don Foreman wrote:

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Do you regard a 'puter as a shop tool? (I do)

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Not to mention VISTA, and device drivers that are not availible to
the end user for their SATA CDROM & DVD drives.

I can't find anything about Vista to recommend it. My son will be
converting the box to XP. I'm too lazy to learn Linux and we have a
bunch of legacy apps that run under Windows.

Why not at least try installing Linux in the old machine which
you are retiring.

You say "why not", I say "why". I just want my 'puters to do what I
wanna do. I'm not motivated to learn computer science any more than
dentistry or Farsi. I'm getting quite lazy in my dotage and I'm
lovin' it.

I did walk 2 miles today and then spent an hour doing
rearrangement/relocation of some minor snow so I'm not yet dead lazy.