RE: How many computers do you own? (kudra: missing old computers)
by kudra (Vicar) on Jun 15, 2000 at 18:54 UTC
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If only this question had been asked last month before I
cleaned out the old machines (a move is coming soon).
:-(
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by cciulla (Friar) on Jun 15, 2000 at 19:45 UTC
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This begs a follow-up poll (or at least, another geek purity test) -- "Of the computers that you own, how many are operational?"
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I'm still using WordPerfect on my NEC laptop with a blazing 6MHz processor and 20Mb disk drive. I don't know if that counts as running, though. The clock can't handle dates after 1990.
Oh well, even if I don't count that one, I'm still at 10+.
Follow-on polls:
How many of your computers run PERL?
How many of your computers are connected to a network?
How many of your computers are connected to more than one network?
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Well, most of mine havn't been turned on in 10-15 years, but they are in boxes so I guess they COULD function. donn't have a disk drive for the commode-doors though.
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by Shendal (Hermit) on Jun 15, 2000 at 18:54 UTC
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Hmmm...
If my third computer is separated out into four bits, how do I count that?
If I hack into a website and change their webpage, do I indeed "own" it?
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inclusive?
by mcwee (Pilgrim) on Jun 15, 2000 at 18:57 UTC
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Oh man... what was I thinking? I forgot the PDT! (personal digital toy) I wonder if I should have counted the cell phone? It has a computer in it. Hmmm....
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oh yeah, the celly-telly def. counts. What about my robot assistant? He has a seperate computer to control the eye-beam lazer-tazers and flame thrower, so would he be, like, 2 computers?
the real question, of course, is whether I can, in good faith, count my bionic hip.
The Autonomic Pilot; it's FunkyTown, babe.
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Or the dishwasher, or the brand new car, or the nintendo game, or...
/wonko : P
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I counted my brain... (they didn't say WORKING computers.)
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 16, 2000 at 21:32 UTC
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what about emulators? or how about a virtual
network of emulated machines on one machine? | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
(jcwren) RE: How many computers do you own?
by jcwren (Prior) on Jun 15, 2000 at 19:01 UTC
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Does "own" mean plugged in and running?
--Chris
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2000 at 19:42 UTC
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Well, I counted my Amiga 500, my commode-door 64 & 128 my pentium system and my PDA. only one is actually running, plus the PDA. numerous fragments don't count, presumably. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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and i counted my HP 48gx, that counts, right?
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Rats, my first post and I failed to login after purging all my cookies. (an e-emetic?)
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by Snowdog (Sexton) on Jun 18, 2000 at 00:08 UTC
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Damn,
didn't count the Commadore 64. then n64 for that matter either.
Gandalf tea Wednesday.
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by wogglebug (Sexton) on Jun 19, 2000 at 20:56 UTC
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4 computers, 4 installs of Perl - I'm not counting my TI-99,
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Ah, but how many DIFFERENT installs of Perl are there? Do you have ActivePerl for Windows on one, 6 on Linux on another, and 5.003 on the third? Or are they all the same version?
- Ozymandias
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But I havn't found Perl for the Palm Pilot yet.
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RE: How many computers do you own?
by Jonathan (Curate) on Jun 19, 2000 at 16:59 UTC
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Do dual boot Win98/Linux PC's count twice? each way 2 machines and 4 perl installs. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
RE: How many computers do you own?
by le (Friar) on Jun 15, 2000 at 18:53 UTC
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I wonder what this poll has to do with Perl ? | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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Well, don't you have perl installed on all of them???
#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!
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2 of my 3 have perl. The laptop blows, so I never use it ... hence, no perl - ( laughs ).
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Sure, but I still don't see the reason.
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