Re: Future releases of Debian
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:02:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > tolerances. When was the last time you had a motherboard, or CPU, or
> > network card, or a video card die because it was "too old"? This stuff
> > isn't exactly perishable. It lasts long beyond its obsolescence in most
> > cases.
>
> About a year ago a venerable GeForce 256 of mine had a D/A failure
> causing bad video output. I neglected to recycle it and left it on
> the workbench. About six months ago a newer video card had the fan on
> it die. I was able to salvage the fan from the first and fix the
> second with it. Just two weeks ago another newer video card fan
> died. Wish I had a source for those thin pci card fans...
Not a single one of my video cards has a fan on it. :-)
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- mdz
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