5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
3:52 p.m.
Don Y wrote:
The pagan rites
of solaris installations, running with diag-switch?=true
and of course swapping parts. :-)
And maybe sacrificing a 386 or two. >;-)
just kidding.
Amazing how a few computers meets with disdain... yet
a
closet full of *shoes* doesn't! :-/
(and shoes are so BORING! Hell, if it doesn't have blinkenlights,
what good is it??)
Yeah, we all have our hobbies.
Yup. I have mine on a small UPS so that I could dial
out, etc.
even if there's a power outage. But, we have so few outages
here (and never any of more than 30 minute duration) *and*
I now have laptops to throw at that problem so it's kind of
just taking up space... :-(
And old laptops with somewhat weak batteries can be
considered to have
their own built in UPS's. :-)
With a build in ethernet port, and two PC cards, you can create quite a
nice router. Just set them up
to not go to sleep when you close the lid, and you're set.
I had hoped NetBSD would eventually bring their
support up to a
level that would let me replace Solaris on that box (since NBSD
seems pretty respectable on older SPARCs) but that hasn't yet
happened.
Yeah, the custom hardware is a bit difficult to find drivers for.
I got rid of
most of my sparcs, but held on to a few interesting
ones... For a short while, my house was "sparc-henge."
Makes one wonder what sort of rituals took place on the equinox...