2002 Remembrances

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 23:25:11 -0500
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm waiting for the version that has those particular problems fixed.
> Then it will be  a very nice printer daemon. That manual intervention
> that you mention is just fine... unless you've got to walk a mile to
> kick the box that's hung...

I don't get "hung boxen"....  If there's a CUPS problem, it's nothing that
can't be fixed with SSH or WebMin.  I liked COL because KUPS was great. 
ssh got me to the box, KUPS allowed me to GUI admin CUPS from remote (X is
a wonderful thing)


> 
> > > * Built my first real performance computer; msi kt3 ultra, xp
> > > 1600 at 2000+ water cooled.
> > > 
> > > * Paid off the mortgage on our house... It's like being born again.
> > > Imagine having an extra $1000.00 a month in your pocket. :')
> > 
> > This is where I get SUPER jealous on both counts.  You must have done
> > something right to have the house paid off by 46.  My wife and I are
> > refinancing taking the 26 years on our mortgage and rolling them into
> > a 15 year, paying off one piece of land and the school loan.  At 29
> > years and 4 days, we're working on it :)
> 
> It's a tough row to hoe, you want to know the secret?
> 
> What we did was; lived like hermits and put every spare dime we had
> against our mortgage. And I mean every single one... Any day you want a
> tip on how to make a dime cry... just ask.
> 
> It's been one big nut cracker, but now it's over. Would I do it all
> again? Hell no...  :0)

heheheh.  We aren't that religeous about it, but we do a lot of
common-sense "pay now, live later" types of things.  Like buying cars with
cash, doing a lot of stuff ourselves and not doing a lot of stuff :)
My gaming PC, as I've mentioned before, is a Celeron 300A overclocked to
450.  After many years of great usage, I am going to squeek out $1000 from
taxes to purchase the components I need to do video-capture/editing and
some other gaming...  Possibly other stuff which I can write off as a
business expense like a KVM switch.  We'll see.
Then the 450 becomes a server or other retasking.  But obvoiusly since I'm
looking at spending that kind of cash, I'm not the dime-squeezer....