Yesterday I was attempting to fix Euclid, my old Athlon 1800+ machine. Windows had been updating itself, and had suddenly become very erratic in its booting behaviour.
At one point Ms Rhapsody said something like 'maybe it just doesn't want to boot', and that got me thinking.
I decided that the very last thing I wanted was a conscious machine with a mind of its own. I wanted my PCs to be simply tools, and ones that did as they were told rather than ones that updated themselves with unwanted patches, phoned home every so often to verify software licences and got in a huff if I was ignoring them for a few weeks :o)
...And having just switched the bl***y thing on to have another look at it, the silicon sod is now working perfectly. Switch-on, boot and ready to go in under a minute.
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At one point Ms Rhapsody said something like 'maybe it just doesn't want to boot', and that got me thinking.
I decided that the very last thing I wanted was a conscious machine with a mind of its own. I wanted my PCs to be simply tools, and ones that did as they were told rather than ones that updated themselves with unwanted patches, phoned home every so often to verify software licences and got in a huff if I was ignoring them for a few weeks :o)
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