pinned to the mat by technology, page-4

Thanks for you comments Atomou and Stomtajora.

The computer being put out to pasture is a five-year old e-Mac that had developed several problems after I put it on an AWA and worked it almost to death.

Kevin and Julia have promised to do something about workers on AWAs (who are being ground into dust with callous and ruthless efficiency) but computers are still fair game for keyboarding pounding capitalists like me.

I don't know if you've had anything to do with Macs - but they're more like a religion than an operating system. The new i-Mac is the fourth Mac I've owned since retiring in 1995.

My attitude towards clunky, virus-prone Gates products is they're better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick - but not by much.

Ever since my 20 year-old son junked his i-Mac (that I had bought several years ago) and got into bed with one of those heathen Gates products - we pass each other in the hall but don't speak unless we have to!

Fortunately the encounters are mercifully brief:

Daddy: "Turncoat!"
Son: "Mac-Addict!"

I did cough up for his new computer - but only because he needed it to run Gates-oriented programs for his computer-game design course at Canberra's Academy of Interactive Entertainment.

But I must admit Stephen's whoopy-do computer does have an awful lot of grunt - not as much as 12 Clydesdales - but a lot nonetheless.

He stripped both side panels off it so two extra fans he bought could help the installed fans blow air through the thing fast enough to prevent the 1000 watts it draws from melting the Graphics Card if it overheated.

Is that the Snowy Hydro Authority?
Open the sluice gate to Turbine Four.
Stephen is about to fire up his computer."

When all else fails...



... try group therapy.