Your preferred text editor and terminal?
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So many topics to be schismatic about - so hard to decide.
So many topics to be schismatic about - so hard to decide.
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Mine is the MS Trackball Explorer, which goes for $200-$300 on ebay since MS no longer makes them.machinebacon wrote:^ Hey, i use one too! :) Logitech T-BB18 -- of course trackballs do NOT count as mice :)
It's about 10-12 yrs old and works like a champ. It's about the only thing MS did worthwhile... Why did they quit making them?
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^ Duh, exactly because they worked so well for ages.
There's never any need to upgrade or replace something that works for ever.
So there's no cash in it. Ergo it has to be sold at a decent price to begin with to offset the 2 or three inferior trackballs over the same time as you've owned yours.
You've heard the (old) story about VCR's stopping working a day after the warranty has ended.
There's never any need to upgrade or replace something that works for ever.
So there's no cash in it. Ergo it has to be sold at a decent price to begin with to offset the 2 or three inferior trackballs over the same time as you've owned yours.
You've heard the (old) story about VCR's stopping working a day after the warranty has ended.
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^ My thoughts exactly, wux.
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Actually - yes I remember you talking about your old Hi-Fi gear still rocking after 30 odd years. Find me an Aiwa multidisc thing that made it past three years.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Really funny, we had a Fisher VCR, made in the early 1980s, I believe it was 1983 or so. Meanwhile, I bought a Grundig VCR somewhere around 1995. Guess which one broke in around 2000, and which one still works.
Really funny, we had a Fisher VCR, made in the early 1980s, I believe it was 1983 or so. Meanwhile, I bought a Grundig VCR somewhere around 1995. Guess which one broke in around 2000, and which one still works.
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wow, never realised it was actually a credo.
I'm glad we are on the forefront of planned sustainability (in computing)
I'm glad we are on the forefront of planned sustainability (in computing)
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The BBQ says: as long as it builds, it will run on any old iron. I will always make it work on anything like an IBM Txx. If people need something more progressive, there's a lot to choose from...
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^I'd like a LinuxBBQ port to my Palm m515 that I keep docked next to my buggy whip ;)
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heheheh, you were the one that brought up 15 yo technology 8p
oh PS. for your 18 yo palm pilot -http://www.uclinux.org/
oh PS. for your 18 yo palm pilot -http://www.uclinux.org/
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"A human being should be able to... butcher a hog..." -Robert Heinlein