Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-19 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 18 April 2012 20:14:45 Indulekha wrote: > There is a special appeal in the challenge of keeping obsolete > machines alive, and a unique form of satifaction in not indulging > in the rampant consumerism that surrounds us too. +1 :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18:16PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message > <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: > > > On 16/04/12 21:34, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > > To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. > > > Or actu

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Indulekha
Dom wrote: > On 17/04/12 21:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message >> <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: >> >>> >>> I realise that I'm not going to be able to keep these machines >>> running for much longer, but I'll keep trying for as long as I can. >> >> ..d

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Easthope
On Wed, April 18, 2012 10:35 am, Dom wrote: > These little machines take about 30W max, are only used for an average > of an hour a day. As for running costs? Peanuts. Heat output? Barely > noticable. > > My main laptop is slightly newer and about 10x the power. I have other > systems, but nothing

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Dom
On 17/04/12 21:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: I realise that I'm not going to be able to keep these machines running for much longer, but I'll keep trying for as long as I can. ..do the math on power, maintenance e