Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers
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My first Linux install was on a 386-33. I still have the steel full-sized AT
case around here somewhere... The hardest thing was figuring out the
monitor's frequencies for Xwindows, since at that time they were not
autodetected what so ever.
In one way it was quite nice: I could read all the boot messages. It was easy
to see where there were problems, if any.
Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log
doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them
as they went by, especially when I see something "Gee, that doesn't look
right..." and poof it's gone.
With one motherboard upgrade (K5-133) that same system ran for 8 years as my
http/smtp/dns server, until some spammer used my domain as their fake "from"
address and overwhelmed the poor thing. It was time for it to come down
anyway... oh well.
Curt-
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Treason! http://blog.mises.org/archives/007926.asp
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