[geeks] retro magazine fun (SysAdmin)

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:56:43PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:06:35 +0200 (IST), Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > What made the IBM PC successfull is that it turned microcomputers from
> > a "geeks toy" into a commomdity. 
> 
> Even today, you can regard most computers with the exception of
> thin clients as "geek toys". How many normal people want to be their own
> system administrator ? How many normal people know how or why to
> defragment a disk ?

Apparently many normal people want that punishment, if the numbers of
people doing it is any indication.  Though defragging seeme to be viewed
by many people as either a) time to go back to the store, or b) time to
bribe the local dork that they ignored in HS.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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