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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Tough Decisions-- the retirement of a Machine

Posted on 15:42 by Unknown
Today, for my oldest laptop, the one I dedicated to office use, I marked each project it is attached to through BOINC to no longer receive tasks.  As such it is my plan to retire the machine, and hopefully let it live out its remaining days peacefully.  The real question is what prompted this decision?

For one I am not in a position to pump much money into old machines just to keep them working,
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