[thechat] Suggestions?

Morgan Kelsey morgan at morgankelsey.com
Fri Dec 6 12:01:45 CST 2013


Rollerskates
On Dec 6, 2013 12:39 PM, "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at hp.com> 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?
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> BTW - I would especially appreciate workable ideas for how to make her
> "go" and do stuff!
>
>
> 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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