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Re: SETI@Home?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:06:49 GMT
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On Sun, 30 May 1999 23:56:52 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
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> Bloody awful but also bloody useful. I'm actually going to get my
> boss to send me to a new Linux admin class I got an e-mail about, but,
> for the most part, MS certification (and experience) is a lot more
> valuable where I live than Linux experience.
True, unfortunately. linux experience will get you jobs in the
genertal unix field as well, though.
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> > That works. Buy an old 386 with at least 8 megs and 100 megs, need no
> > fulltime screen, keyboard, floppy, or CD drive.
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> Heh.
386DX/40, 12 meg, 100 meg, cheapass Netcard. And it runs sendmail for
me, so I can have as many email addresses as I want ;)
> Most of my Linux boxes haven't been up anywhere near that long, but at
> least part of that reason is I'm so freaking used to rebooting after
> installing damned near anything that since I'm doing any config stuff
> as root anyway I just rattle off shutdown -r now without really
> thinking about it. I guess I have reloaded the inetd stuff manually a
> time or two, but I've been trained for so many years that a reboot is
> a good, and mostly useful thing, so I do it anyway.
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
Reboots are not a Good Thing in linux - for one thing, if you made a
mistake, you now no longer have a root window open to fix it. For
another, you'll automatically fsck the disk every so many times you
reboot (10 reboots standard, IIRC, mine is set at every time)
> Well, I probably won't have to resort to either one for a while. Even
> as much as I overdo my computer hobby I can't legitimately justify
> have 4 times as many machines as there are people in my household.
<DSW>
*looks around and counts*
Main PC, proxy, Archimedes A5000, NT box (box in the transitive sense
- all the parts minus a case), other box, 286 laptop, in the other
room: A3000 Archimedes, old XT, Two working BBC microcomputers, one
Osborne System/1 (Z80-CP/M), my father's PC and my mother's laptop.
Makes 13, or _slightly_ more than 4 times the 3 people in the
household.
</DSW>
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> In other news, I have almost got my new Tecra8000 completely setup and
Tecra8000?
> configured. Running NT on it (plenty fast on a 366 with 128mb) mainly
I can't imagine using the words "NT" and "fast" in the same sentence
without negation. Even with 128 megs.
> because it's the best OS that's truly supported on it. I did find a
> guy who had gotten Redhat 5.2 to work, even with X, on his, but I'm
> not quite up to the hacking he had to go through to do it.
Is this Tecra thing so proprietary?
Jasper
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| (...) Maybe, but I don't *want* a job playing with Unix all day. (...) Yep, definitely has its advantages. 'Course, I already have as many as I want, and a lot more than I could really use. I don't really like the thought of depending on a machine (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Bloody awful but also bloody useful. I'm actually going to get my boss to send me to a new Linux admin class I got an e-mail about, but, for the most part, MS certification (and experience) is a lot more valuable where I live than Linux (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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