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To: Nemer who wrote (44320)	3/30/2001 9:24:51 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

Hate to see your method of "fixing" was to give the dualiedealie the heave ho Recall, however, that this has been going on in one form or another since June. The Law of Diminishing Returns has an application for this. Trading has a basic tenet, applicable in business to a lesser extent, that there comes a time when you cut your losses and write the investment off. Regardless of the monies spent, when you estimate the time spent repairing the device it is impractical to maintain it. I know, certainly, that there are many that have tried to help (and still do, one fellow called his whiz-kid W2K son Wednesday and promised to drag him over. But it's an intermittent problem so it would be just a coincidence that it would crap out when he is here) but the thing is, unless you have dealt with it over a period of months as I and my son have, you cannot appreciate the problem. It is not simple. If it were, then certainly it would have been cured by now. I doubt that there is any that are able to fix it. The machine is just too specialized as you infer; it's like a Ferrari. If it is not tuned up every week it fails to perform. On the other hand, the pieces of junk I purchased last week are just grunt machines. Cannon fodder, if they fail they shall get tossed aside and replaced. Much more logical. As for the compatibility, the box was purchased "off the rack" from Dell. This is their system, right down to the Rambus memory. The only compatibility problem would lie in the software. The software vendors all state they comply with W2K. So the suspect is the DP and/or the INTC CPUs. In any event, as I mentioned the software is coming off it gradually to see if one or another is in fact causing the problem. If any given software is causing it, I suspect NSW. That is now off the machine, I hope. In any event, we are both sick of it, I'm certain everyone on SI is sick of reading about it, my son appreciates Linux far more and I think wistfully of my old Apples.....any one of which still works dating back to 1978. I wish there was good trading software written for Linux, but that probably isn't going to happen. The answer may simply be to trade off the Business pages of the New York Times.