[rescue] Being jobless

[rob]

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:17:48AM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
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>>>Why not start a little 1 machine ISP. Apart from creating the inital
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>>software 
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>>>set, which YMMV the only other thing you'll need is a decent amount of 
>>>bandwidth and transit (and IP allocation). With good luck you might make 
>>>enough to pay for the electricity/bw and make a little on the side.
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>>Is it even economical to run a 20 proc S2000 in a commercial setting?  I
>>seem to recall some really big numbers for OS license fees being mentioned
>>a week or so ago.
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>I think the OS license fees would pale in comparison to the monthly
>electricity bill.
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>Would it not cost at least $200 per month to keep it running, let
>alone cooled?
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Well exactly. As sickening as it is to say, old (and even not-so-old) 
computers are just big heavy, time and energy sapping junk. It broke my 
heart to see my 486/SCSI/VLB/DiamondStealth64 get junked. Fully working 
and running *BSD. But at the end of the day I had to keep asking myself 
WHY KEEP IT!

Having said that, it was a PC. I'm not chucking out my Octane, Indigo2 
or 2 Indys. Then again, I'm not even thinking about buying a Challenge  ;)

Cheers,

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Rob Fielding
rob at dsvr.net