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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Lee Forrest wrote:
> > The computers Sindi has are all, literally, pieces of junk.
>
> So are mine.  In fact BasicLinux was designed specifically
> for those pieces of junk.

MacMillan Contemporary Dictionary 1973.

junk:
1.  old or discarded material...that can be put to some use.
2.  Informal.  anything regarded as worthless or useless.

I am putting all my computers to good use.  They are all old and some were 
discarded but most were given to us to reuse, pass along, repair if 
necessary and recycle if nobody could put them to use (definition 2).

The 1.4GHz appears to have dead onboard USB.  A friend gave us his old IBM 
(needed repair of the motherboard and replacement sound/video more 
compatible with BL3 than the i810), with a USB 2.0 card in it which I am 
putting to use (it works in DOS but not linux - ????).

> > Gateway makes good stuff. So good that they don't even have
> > to advertise.

They do google sponsored links, does that count?

>  People with more recent hardware may find that some
> of it does not work with BasicLinux.

I have tested out lots of different sound and video and network cards 
(among the junk people give me) and I use the ones that do work with BL. I 
look for things with dates prior to 2000.  We are only using computers 
with the more common full-height slots so can replace the onboard stuff 
that is quirky or too new.

It would still be helpful to get this very common (from 2000 on) i810 to 
work right in BL.  Sound works (somewhat) with both libraries.

> Cheers,
> Steven

Sindi