[wlugkc] Re: How you all do at Pembroke Sale? About to Go SMP! Slack 10.1
- From: Richard Eiken <raeiken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wlugkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
Running Suse at home, but I still have a slack7 server
in operation ( 3+years) It has made my life easier.
See you at the BBQ.
-Rich
--- Robert Gambrill <robertgambrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering if you and yours made it to the
> pembroke clothesline sale?
>
> I (as always) made out like a bandit. I got a RAD
> remote control robot,
> a HP 4e Travan
> SCSI tape unit (with 3 8gig tapes), an AirZooka, a
> TI-83 calculator
> manual, a Rubik's
> snake, a Rubik's like Octahedron puzzle
> thing(haven't solved it yet), a
> copy of the "Signet Science Series" book "Crystals
> and Crystal Growing",
> yet another text on "Switching Theory Methodology"
> and (get this) a set
> of Realistic minimus 7 metal speakers (which tie in
> perfectly with my
> subwoofer) complete with wall mounting brackets, all
> for under $25.00 bucks!
>
> The AirZooka and the RAD RC Robot have seen much
> service keeping my cats
> in line.
>
> Cat jumps on top of the TV while you watching your
> favorite show? No
> problem! The
> AirZooka delievers a harmless blast of air from up
> to 20' away.
>
> Or, Cats decide to start meowing at 4:00 AM because
> their food dishes
> are empty (the ones you fill at 6:00 PM and 8:00 AM)
> and want you to get
> up?. No Problem, just turn on your RAD robot and
> have it chase them
> around for awhile, they'll forget all about bugging
> you!
>
> Seriously, That Robot is just crying out to be
> hacked. It has two tank
> treads, a waist that tilts up
> and down, two arms that open and close, a missle
> turret that rotates and
> fires and a voice link
> that lets you speak into the remote and have the bot
> say things like
> "Obiwan, your our only
> hope.."
>
> My main PC is down right now, I just got a gigabyte
> GA-6BXD dual P3
> Mainboard and am in
> the process of installing it this evening. Will
> write again with my
> thoughts on S.M.P under
> GNU/linux.
>
> Lastly, as some of you may have heard, Pat
> Volkerding was recently ill
> and has recently
> returned to work. I figured I'd buy the latest
> slackware from
> slackware.com so as to support them direct (as
> opposed to buying it
> heavily discounted on the sale table like I usually
> do).
>
> Anyway, I made a copy for Bot (complete with disk
> labels decorated with
> subgenius art) and
> if anyone else wants a copy let me know. I know
> everyone else has either
> gone debian or
> suse but I still like my comfortable old slack!
>
> Hope you are all well, maybe we can get together
> next thursday if you
> all have time!
>
> Robert
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