* cf. The Verger, short story, part of Quartet, W. Somerset Maugham. I mean.. if there be Perlmonks -
we Needs a hierarchy too, less'n we wants ta be IWEThey-were.. un-Hip to th' dance.

See, it's like this -
I gots me a New (just nicely burned-in past infant mortality) soulless-Machine!
All ... thanks entirely to a Real non-gender-specific Sweetie\ufffd; none 'other' than Our very own Scott (er, K.)

{snorfle}

It is one (very fine) thing to pass on a nice clean box, one with no cola stains, roach burns or kick marks, (say, from whomping the fascia over some dumb standard Doze cockup..) yep, that's a Lot.

But it's quite a hearse of another pallor - when all the stuff is reloaded fresh, n'patched, tested for all manner of floating spores - - and

Wait!! There's More:
the sucker triple-boots into Ubuntu AND Mepis (plus its native Beastware version) !!
It speeds along faster than 1000 Megacycles/sec. 1000X my first CP/M. (And no vacuum tubes, even.)

So, natch I am Whelmed at such generosity of labour, along with all the rest.
Must. think. of a suitable means of retaliation, while exploring all the crannies.

Should I find that I Can.. (and also will) reformat enough CP/M neurons, free some grey-cells for adsorption of the /-lore AND retain enough \\-lore to get by on the Edsel systems too - - I can sorta imagine the day-o ~ ~

{swirly puce mist, small puffs of overheated Canola oil..}

when moi might help support...

The New Standard for Fully-Conscious Transcendental Geeks
(in all 11 dimensions):

Cthulhubuntu Linux


ie Thanks! Scott
(Read the story - ya might just like bein a Verger | rich: take yer pick ;-)


Ashton