My Computer Crashed & Burned

Half-nutz wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

I thought maybe the secondary content (automation programming) may be of interest to you at some point in the future.

I put in a fresh power supply in all my machines once a year, before they die. Power supplies are cheap and getting a hotter version for the same low cost is just gravy.

Such, as your experience, is why I build my computers vs buying an off the shelf model. Off the shelf machines are ok for students maybe, but for a work level machine you can do much better building your own.

The small things, like never installing Vista at any point.

off the shelf computing is lame.

BD, A computer's age is 7x, just like dog years.

Michael:

Well, you wouldn't drive a 5,000 HP Double A fueler to the 7-11 just to get a half-gallon of milk, would you?

For E-mail & newsgrouping, a cheap off the shelf computer works just fine. I don't do any serious CAD/CAM work on my home computer.

I would !!!

leaving the 7-11 in style scores huge points!

BB, I have never done just email and newsgroups, forgive me.

Michael wrote in news:vRYFj.496$ snipped-for-privacy@news01.roc.ny:

Off the shelf units are junk, imho. The absolute cheapest crap they can get to actually run long enough for you to get it home.

If you ever decide to run Gibbs V9 at home it will need 4 gigs of RAM according to Gibbs VAR "Gibbs God".

Jon Banquer San Diego, CA

Hehe...

Funny how sometimes even the simple 2 word response results in such entertainment value no ?

( Eat your heart out Kirk anyone mentioned "soup kitchens" lately )