[dba-Tech] R.I.P. Guinevere

[Rocky Smolin]

You sure?

" fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in
Plato's works Timaeus and Critias"

" Atlantis eventually falls out of favor with the gods"

In Critias: "But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods;
and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body
sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared
in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is
impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and
this was caused by the subsidence of the island."

Not auspicious. 

How about Athena: "the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration,
civilization, law and justice, mathematics, strength, war strategy, the
arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Minerva is
the Roman goddess identified with Athena.[2] Athena is known for her calm
temperament, as she moves slowly to anger."

Real jack of all trades, that one. :)


r


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 9:24 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] R.I.P. Guinevere

Hi Arthur

I'm with Rocky. Since you have replaced the motherboard - how could you? -
only the skin is back of your old darling.

By the way, I thought for a name for our main server doing not much more
than hosting all our virtual servers, thus hidden for daily use. "serverone"
was a little boring so I decided for "atlantis".

/gustav

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af
Arthur Fuller
Sendt: 28. oktober 2016 18:00
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: [dba-Tech] R.I.P. Guinevere

My ancient HP Millennium computer appears finally to have bitten the dust.
She has performed superbly for -- I can't even remember, now, something like
20 years. Since I bought her, I've done a couple of upgrades (replaced the
motherboard, added a hard disk, and of course the usual OS upgrades.) Now
she powers on and I can hear the fan running, and the hard-disk light
blinking, but nothing else happens.

I'm going to try a couple of things over the weekend. First is to see if I
can boot from an Ubuntu disk, and if that works, then I'm totally prepared
to make her a Linux woman, Since I no longer write code for a living, but
just as a hobby, most of the Linux stuff I do is just simple email and
browsing.

The ethical dilemma I'm facing is that to repair her might cost more than a
refurbished desktop from my favourite store. I just recently purchased a
refurbished Lenovo for my best friend Audra's birthday, and her boyfriend
kicked in 50%, so net, net, net it cost us each about $60.

I'm torn between emotion and economics. It might ultimately be cheaper to
replace Guinevere, but that sounds more like a Trumpism than I'm comfortable
with. Until recently, she has performed admirably. Even despite her mere 4
GB of RAM and about 500 GB of disk storage, she has performed very well and
I don't want to pull the plug.

The computer I work on every day is called Avalon. And I also have a tablet
called Lancelot. You may be able to guess from whence these names derive.

What should I do about Guinevere? Emotions or economics?

--
Arthur 

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