[thechat] Suggestions?
Roger Austin
raustin3 at nc.rr.com
Fri Dec 6 11:59:28 CST 2013
I hear that Ubuntu makes a nice, easy to use OS.
---- "Luther wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> My home machine finally gave up the ghost this week. She had been limping along for quite some time ... the sound card quit a long time back ... bsod once every month or two. But now the hard drive boot seems to have gone completely pear-shaped ... soooo ... she's pretty much dead in the water.
>
> I have managed to wrangle a nice newish workstation. (No no. Really. She is one VERY sweet gizmo! Shiny too!) However ... she has a few ... "issues"; namely:
> * She's a 'desktop' form factor, while everything else in the house (with the exception of my recently departed machine) is a laptop.
> * She has no operating system whatsoever.
> * Her BIOS is, most unfortunately, set up so that she can *only* boot from the hard drive. You cannae point her to boot from CD-Rom or USB. ;-(
>
> But hey! Other than all that, she really is a crackerbox of a machine!
>
> <scratches head />
>
> Ummm, suggestions please?
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> BTW - I would especially appreciate workable ideas for how to make her "go" and do stuff!
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> Thanks,
> RonL.
>
> (So far the best suggestions have been --- "Why don't you go outside and have a nice run instead?" and "You know you really should spend more time playing your guitars!" --- which, while most encouraging, don't help me check FB or watch cute hedgehog videos.)
>
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