Cognitive Dissonance and Linux

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:55 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

| > Can I have your old computer?   :-)
| >
| > I seem to remember you have high-end machines and I bet it can be
| > repaired.  Perhaps a new optical drive.
| >
| 
| um, not if there are blown caps.  that's a motherboard problem...
| matt

Yeah, well, I didn't read very carefully.

Chris defends my position (thanks!), but the fact is I didn't read.

There was a period a number of years ago when a lot of motherboards
had quickly-deteriorating capacitors.  A tale of intrique (industrial
espionage that wasn't good enough).

If the motherboard is a victim of that problem, the whole system is
probably not of great current interest.

If you don't know the story, I think that is is worth learning
because it could hit you.  This seems like a reasonable summary.  If
it isn't fix it!

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague>
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