[tech] Console boxes.

[Ian McKellar]

On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:34:34PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:07:57PM +0800, Barnaby Brown wrote:
> > Live from the Palace Hotel Ballroom, Anil Sharma wrote:
> > 
> > Sure. Good idea. No use to me, but plenty of people seem to want fridge
> > it.
> > 
> > > 	- 1 FreeBSD box
> > 
> > Absolutely. FreeBSD is useful to have. And it's such a bland flavour,
> > most everything you learn on it is transferrable to other unixes, unlike
> > Linux which teaches you lots of horrible Linux hacks.
> 
> I like this... we're all too scared to have a good look around Ben's
> FreeBSD boxen, so put one out for mass destruction. *hmm*

Yeah. I had one for a while. It was fun while it lasted. It made me like
Debian more, so it was a good influence :-)
> 
> > > 	- 1 Windows NT box
> > 
> > Not useful per se, but wouldn't be such a bad thing. NT exists. We may
> > not like that, but many people would like at least a fridge passing glance
> > at NT, especially for career purposes.
> 
> ..and for demonstrating how l0phtcrack works. 

.. and writing outlook/ie viruii
.. and writion BO2K plugins
> 
> 
> > > 	- Linux 3D box (with G400)
> > 
> > Whack a G400 into mermaid.
> 
> I don't think the G400s come in PCI...

yah. we need an AGP box which means slot 1 (or 2 or A).
> 
> > > - non x86.
> > > 	- Solaris box
> > 
> > Do we have one available to users?
> > But what do the users care anyway? Users should stay away. Superusers
> > should gibber lots and run back to FreeBSD. Either way, we should have
> > one.
> 
> The Sparc2 ? Or buy a classic from CWR. Much nicer.

We're going to try to buy a IPX (correct me if I'm wrong - a lunchbox anyway
for this purpose).
>  
> > > 	- Dec with more memory.
> > 
> > Does Digital Unix come under one of those cheapo not-for-profit
> > licenses? Would do wonders to flesh out our collection.
> 
> Yes - DU/Tru64 5.0 has a hobbyist license.
> Get the fscking committee to buy some more RAM.. we've got two Alphas
> in the clubroom.. one's got low RAM and sucketh, the other has no RAM
> and does nowt.

Please get us a quote or something so we can actually make a decision. Also
as good as the deals from usenet are, we're slow at making decisions, so if
you can let us know what RAM is needed, where we can get it and what it will
cost, we can decide on spending the money.
> 
> > > A FreeBSD box will let people bitch about the OS and have a reason.
> > YM "bitch about Linux and have a moral high-ground". HTH.
> 
> Yeah, the linux=UNIX malady is somewhat ill. 

Yes.
> 
> I may very well be selling the Indigo2 RSN, which is half the reason it
> hasn't materialised in the machine room. IF we move NFS to something else,
> then mola the Sparc is probably useful as a hackbox.

*nodness*

A solaris user box for people to play on and familiarize themselves would
be good.

Ian

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