<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">> We don't have Vista-bloat, so if we're environmentally-conscious (or just poor, or both), we can keep old gear afloat nearly forever and put it to some useful purpose, or dig up old hardware and run a Linux kernel on it and make it do something, instead of buying new crap that requires raping the earth and/or indigenous peoples.<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">> <br>> -ken<br><br>The only problem with old gear is power consumption. I don't know what's<br>worse from a purely ecological point of view. Most power is still<br>generated from non-renewable sources.<br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Philipp<br><br>The high-tech solution to the elements/minerals problem is nuclear fusion. With the
exception of hydrogen, it's where all the other elements/minerals came from in the first place.<br><br>Best,<br>Stephen.<br></div></div>
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