OEM Guys and Poor Customers

This is in response to guys in the Internet who solicit a fix or fixes to the global and gullible customers.

If you ever fallen to the media hype, do not blame anybody but thyself.

OEM guys built the hype.

The next big thing on the horizon type.

Then they pocket out the big profits from the gullible and global customers.

Most of these guys have made their own mistakes in purchasing the wrong stuff.

Then as an escape route write big pieces in the Internet, not peer reviewed as such.

My advice is simple.

If you have a PC or Laptop that has outgrown your needs, give it for recycling.

Do not give it to your Granny or Aunty.

All items in this world are disposable and computers,too.

If they are doing the fundamental work but not 3 D games, keep them and use them for basic work, till  they are ready for the attic.

It is not the hardware at fault but the Windows software.

Dish Windows Out and use Linux and the Linux looks after the hardware  for decades.

That is of course if you have an attic, which I do not.

I had 13 computers (13 is a lucky mathematical number for me) fully functional while I was testing Network architecture at home.

I am a doc not a computer guy and acquired this skill in New Zealand when they went to Unix in the hospital network administration and  I saw all the pitfalls entailed , firsthand with even Unix which was platform based then.

This was even before Windows 95.

I wanted to buy a computer as the last in my shopping  list before leaving NZ and the good vendor there and my wife discouraged that effort and instead I bought an Atari game console.

The entire faculty had 8 computers then and only three could access, the Internet.

So at my pace I acquired my skills on hardware.

All of them, IBM computers with solid framework.

Cheap secondhand purchases (bought a server also for Linux testing with 128  IBM dedicated RAM and could not find another RAM for upgrades, for my office room).

So if you buy cheap or secondhand stuff once the time is out the recycling is the only way out and Ceylon does not have a policy on this important principle.

Mind you, I tried an Apple Globe, that came secondhand from Japan.

All in Japanese and no instruction book.

I booted it with a CD or USB stick with multiple Linux distributions before buying it.

I erased  the hard disk and installed Redhat 5 and it was very slow.

What a mishap I have to deal with as a Linux guy.

I think I was using Redhat 8, three or four years of uptime in Linux then, in my PC before Fedořa came in for a kill in my interest in Redhat altogether.

Within three months I lost interest in Apple, and it was a display piece far out of my reach.

I did not try BSD on it but surely it would have booted it.

As for hardware CD ROM jammed once and I could not take the CD out with its open and closed button not working.

I had to.fiddle with the CD ROM.

I tried booting Debian (3CD set) instead of Redhat (6 CD set I had misplaced somewhere but I found it one year later) and with it's  limited RAM it won't boot Debian but Debian CD warned me of its faults.

I gave it to a guy who was interested in hardware but not Linux.

He could not find an Apple bootable CD in Ceylon.

That was its life journey from Japan to Ceylon to JUNK.

Mind you, our politicians are good even importing hospital refuse including bed linen from Europe and one of them became fabulously rich.

One of them now owns a TV channel in Ceylon and ran as a presidential candidate to cover up his tax returns.

This is a country for rogues, all one has to do is to give a thumping donation to another rouge on saffron clothes and all his bad deeds are cancelled and conveniently forgiven and forgotten for good.

Thanks to Coronavirus it has put an end to these shoddy deeds.

Only cricket board is left to swindle left, right and center and we can hold even IPL in Ceylon for Indians with or without Coronavirus.

I do not buy a brand new stuff when they come to the market especially the computers.

I assemble my own to my own taste and having waited for  a few years, especially untill the prices are showing a downward trend.

By the way, the first computer for my son with 4 MiB RAM is right in front of my bed as a souvenir.

So when the time was right, I dismantled the entire network leaving only two 32 bit computers with data in them (only one with window duel booting).

Since they were secondhand stuff for testing, I did not have any special affection or affliction except the RAM total which I pull out immediately.

I keep all the RAM and a few good DVD writers and gave the rest to my vendor who has become a life long friend.

I have this connection with the pet fish vendor,too who is a very good paddy farmer.

In fact, I germinated about 20 paddy seeds, today, he gave me for experimentation.

The heavy monsoon rain pouring down might wash away the seeds to the drain,  I believe.

Then, I went for a gaming PC and a handy window box for my wife saying it is a widow box soon with Windows rapid upgrading cycles.

What it means is they are putting out untested stuff to gullible users to deal with their entire life.

This PC has multiple Linux distributions and I installed Debian 10 on the SSD two days ago.

Working fine.

I use SSD for operating system  and the  data chunks are  on IDE.

Rapid and frequent writing on SSD will shorten its shelf's value but not running or trading the system files.

Laptop is defunct due to No Data on my Wincle and Broadband.

I am incarcerated not by default but by Coronavirus paranoia and I cannot go out and pay money for extra data to download TrueOS.

Blockdown or Lockdown is operational now even in Kandy.