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“… in other news, pigs were seen flying by … ”
Since I no longer have to work at The Office, I brought home my workstation
with the intent of using it to replace my aging home system linus.
> processor : 0
> cpu : 486
> model : Am5x86-WB
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> stepping : E
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid : yes
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu
> bogomips : 66.56
>
Yes, it's probably ten to twelve years old by now (in fact, I'm using it
right now to write this very entry), and while still usable, it is getting a
bit long in the tooth and now is as good a time as any to replace it.
The intent was to use my workstation to replace two computers (the
aformentioned linus and my firewall, janet, a 33MHz (megaHertz) 486) and a
switch, since I have this four-port ethernet card.
After mucking about for a few hours today (and ripping my favorite shirt in
the process—sigh), I've come to the conclusion that I can't replace the
switch, since the four-port ethernet card doesn't work with modern Linux
systems (in a weird twist of fate, it would probably work in the current
linus since it's still running Linux 2.0.39—to say that the drivers for this
card haven't been updated is an understatement—the card itself is over 13
years old). I was, however, able to munge up a 2GHz (gigaHertz) system with
three network cards and an additional IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics)
controller (the intent here is to just dump the drives in linus into the new
system, plus some other drives from some other computers around the house; I
think I'll end up with six drives in the system).
While I'm not finished yet, I did however take the old drive out of tower, my
first webserver [1] and slapped it into my new computer. Odd seeing the state
of the site from four years ago (back when Mark [2] still had a blog), and
hey, I can always use an additional 17G (gigabytes) of space. Lord knows I
paid enough for it [3].
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/06/24.1
[2]
http://www.gladesoft.com/
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:1999/12/09.2
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