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Stardate: 20230709.1721 | |
Location: The occ Lab | |
Input Device: Sun Ultra 10 (voltesv) | |
Audio: aNONradio M E M O R E X | |
Visual: CDE | |
Emotional: hunger? | |
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OK, this is going to be more challenging than I thought. The drive | |
runs fine, but I can't easily install much. Getting things to work | |
seems so hard, like back in the day. All of these dependencies and | |
missing software is taking me back to beginners mind. Kinda sux0rz | |
when I just want things to work so I can do old computing and it's | |
not. Then again, now that I think about it, this was how it was | |
before. I think I just did not mind it so much then since I did not | |
have a reference of the computing of now on now's technology. | |
Stardate: 20230709.2145 | |
New or updated software is not going to happen on the Sun Ultra 10. | |
Too much time has been spent trying to find a way to install a | |
different OS or even install/update packages. The existing tools | |
will have to be used the best I can. | |
An external 19" Samsung flat CRT has been added for the display. | |
The keyboard is a Sun Microsystems Model Type 6 keyboard with a | |
Sun Model Crossbow mouse tethered to it via 8-pin mini-din. It | |
even has a mouse ball, but no scroll wheel. The keyboard layout is | |
so different from the usual ones I use. It will take some time to | |
adjust. No USB ports either. | |
To help fill in the gaps, I have added the Asus eeepc 701, | |
which qualifies with 1 CPU and <=512MB RAM. It is running AntiX | |
Linux distro. An external mouse, keyboard, and square Shuttle LCD | |
has been added. | |
Since this set up is taking some space, I decided to repurpose the | |
computer desk my aunt wanted disposed. This definitely helps so | |
I won't have the OCC stuff mixed in with the work stuff (I work | |
remote.) | |
There are about 90 minutes left until the challenge begins for my | |
time zone. Not much left to do to prep and I think I have what I | |
need on these machines. Shutting down and rebooting the Ultra 10 | |
will be kept to a minimum during the occ since there are all these | |
incantations I need to express each time the machine is restarted. | |
Here's a link to the occ section of my projects area: | |
occ_23 | |
gopher://booji.mutated.net/1/projects/occ_23 | |
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