[TriLUG] Installfest

Reginald Reed reginald at cisco.com
Mon Apr 22 08:25:18 EDT 2002


I know its not very grassroots/*nixish, but I have a spare firewall
appliance that I'll bring with me.  We should also try to remember to
bring a few power strips!

--Reggie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin - The 
> Alchemist - Sonney
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:52 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Installfest
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 07:29, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > IGNORANCE ALARM (claiming it for myself, not accusing you 
> of it) - I 
> > know in the Solaris world anyway that most non-Sun hardware 
> won't work 
> > on an UltraSPARC.  I haven't played with Linux on SPARC 
> enough yet to 
> > know if I can just slap a cheap-o SMC ethernet card in 
> there and have 
> > it work the way it does on x86.  I'm learning the hard way 
> to not take 
> > for granted that things will run under Linux/SPARC as 
> easily as they 
> > do under Linux/x86.
> 
> Hmm. Good point. 
> 
> > Worst case, I'll just have to pack my OpenBSD firewall.  ;-)
> 
> c'est la vie *grin*
> 
> > Wish me luck.  I'm about to go ask my financial advisor for $200 to 
> > spend on computer parts (including a CD-R to put in the 
> Ultra 5 plus 
> > some blank media).
> 
> And how is Mrs. Hedemark today? *grin*
> 
> Go ahead and get an RW. Last time I bought a drive, the 
> CD-ROM and CD/RW were priced the same. 
> 
> Although, for me, the LG IDE DVD/CD-RW at Best Buy is 
> tempting, since at last check it was under $150. Although it 
> may not work with the Sparc, since it's IDE....
> 
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