[tech] Console boxes.

[David Manchester]

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*

> > 	- 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. 


> > 	- Linux 3D box (with G400)
> 
> Whack a G400 into mermaid.

I don't think the G400s come in PCI...

> > - 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.
 
> > 	- 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.

> > 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. 

> > 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.

We COULD make it a frightening experiance fridge - anyone object to a 4/330
with Solaris 2.5.1 ? :)

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.

Cheers
/dave
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