19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
7:47 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
And if you screw something up, you get him to faceplant!
I never screw up, so I never saw the faceplant. ;-)
Sometimes I get the faceplant because I intentionally make my
instructions too general, and he fails on the parts I've not given Mr.
Smitty file-system permission to frobnicate.
I think the entry level for these machines is about $2.5-3K.
Probably a p520 Express. I'm thinking the 4.7GHz or thereabouts, and load
it up with disks and RAM. It's "just a home server."
That's about $5k before discounts. Maybe $4k after? Pretty good for
the buck.
Peace... Sridhar
On
server-grade OSes, at some point you cover all the basics. There's
no dancing babies to be had in smit.
But there's a little running guy! Myself,
I've decided I'll be getting a brand new IBM server next year
for my home network. Natch, it'll be running AIX, not Linux, so I can
use all the RS/6000 and Apple Network Server software and such I've
accumulated over the years.
What kind of machine are you getting? Any idea?