[frgeek-michiana] Re: Lab Notes, Dec. 4, 2003
- From: Richard Zimmerman <csxt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:17:25 -0500
A live tesing server as a end table...... Hmmm truly Geek Chic! I hadn't
thought of it that way but I like the idea! Get some groovy led's for it and
turn it into a piece of art???? Na, it's too beefy for that! Should be able to
start on it this weekend
Goose
P.S. This email also testing to see if I'm making it to Free Geek for not!
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:57:44 -0500
Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lab Notes, Dec. 4, 2003
>
> Present: Goose Zimmerman, Tom Brown; 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
>
> :: HP Turbine
>
> It's out of the boiler room and temporarily planted in Goose's living room.
> We borrowed the hand truck from the SA tool room -- it made the move a
> whole lot easier and safer. Goose lives up a long flight of stairs.
>
> :: Dualing Debbies
>
> Goose is borrowing the Turbine to experiment with SMP on Debian. He
> couldn't find SMP kernel debs so we dug into Google. Persistence paid like
> an honest bookie. Goose now knows where to find Intel 686 SMP debs.
> Sometimes two minds *are* better than one.
>
> Why bother installing Debian on the HP Turbine? To test SMP on a Debian
> system, improve the performance of the Turbine (if possible) and to demo
> email and file service on Linux for Goose's employer. At the end of the day
> FGM gets an easy to maintain Debian server to do something or another with.
> Don't you love it when a Brit news analyst says, "At the end of the day..."
>
> Along the way Goose and I reviewed the differences between Debian stable,
> testing and unstable. We also discovered debian.org's package servers are
> down. Hacked again? No problem. There are plenty of U.S. mirrors. Like
> dozens, dude. We also determined the HP Turbine makes a terrific end table
> in Goose's apartment. The latest in geek chic.
>
> :: LTSP on Debian
>
> Well, we didn't get this done. Maybe next time.
>
> :: The Alpha Male, Spare Parts and Scrap
>
> Goose relinquished the Alpha Male (Alpha 150) box. He swears there is no
> way in hell to get Aolserver running on it. It's damned as a dev box for
> OpenACS projects. But the Beast from Boston runs Debian stable and makes a
> decent low volume file/print server. Cobalt Qubes are much less robust and
> serve whole workgroups. The only problem with the Alpha Male, aside from
> the fact it isn't Intel inside, is the puny scsi hard drive -- 2 gigs are
> not enough. As Letterman would say, "Is it scrap or is it something?"
>
> Goose disassembled some drives a while back so we'd have a better idea what
> is recyclable and of value in them. The de-manufactured scrap returned to
> the lab along with the Alpha Male.
>
> :: Next Thursday Lab
>
> Probably not until January.
>
> Tom
>
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