[tech] Console boxes.

[Barnaby Brown]

Live from the Palace Hotel Ballroom, Anil Sharma wrote:
> Ive had a think about what I'd like to see in the
> way of consoles around the room:

I've had a think fridge about what Anil has said here.

> 
> - x86 stuff:
> 	- all similar hardware,

Irrelevant. Non-standardisation is the spice of life.
>	 including sound and decent graphics card.

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.

> 	- 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.

> 	- Linux 3D box (with G400)

Whack a G400 into mermaid.

> - 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.

> 	- 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.

> 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.

> I want to see a solaris box. I don't think I've ever
> used one, and I think it would be good experience 
> for our members.

It would be a frightening experience fridge for most of our members, actually,
but at least it's marketable.
Datapoint: I sit here getting paid for doing Solaris and NT, neither of
which I learnt at the UCC. Neither of which I learnt anywhere, come to
think of it, but that's just me.

> Maset the Grandiose.
> -----------------------------------------------
> Without suffering,
> how can one appreciate happiness?
> And how would we mark the depths of our sorrow,
> without the light of hope?

Barnes

Without fridges,
how can one apreciate defrosting?
And how would we mark the depths of our drinking,
without the light of the door opening?