the adventures of an artificial texan
Thanks to a kind soul, I’ve been fiddling around with this since earlier this week:
A Dell Mini 9, refurb from the Dell Outlet. 1024×600 screen, 16G solid-state disk, and an Atom N270 CPU. I’ve upgraded it to 2G of RAM, and just today installed the “US-International” keyboard to have a more “standard” layout.
I [...]
Mark Williams Coherent 4.1
running on QEMU 0.10.0 w/KQEMU 1.4
running on Ubuntu 9.04
running on VMWare Fusion
running on OSX 10.5.7
I think I need professional help.
Picked up an Asus EEE 4G tonight at MicroCenter. The Houston store had four in stock, clearance-priced at $202 each (down from $349).
So far, I’m impressed. This will serve as an excellent mobile terminal for SSH and web browsing, and possibly as a serial terminal using a Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter.
The factory Xandros Linux [...]
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS ™ C2900XL Software (C2900XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5.2)XU,
MAINTENANCE INTERIM SOFTWARE
Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 17-Jul-00 17:35 by ayounes
Image text-base: 0×00003000, data-base: 0×00301F3C
ROM: Bootstrap program is C2900XL boot loader
switchname uptime is 4 years, 42 weeks, 4 days, 20 hours,
46 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is “flash:c2900XL-c3h2s-mz-120.5.2-XU.bin”
cisco WS-C2912-XL [...]
Playing around with VMWare Fusion on the Mac tonight.
Running Windows XP, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all at the same time, and I still have more than 600M of RAM free.
Early Sunday afternoon, there was apparently a power and/or UPS failure in the datacenter at my office. By 5pm, most of the systems were back up except for one that I’m responsible for.
Fire up the VPN, hit the ILO remote console (one of the few things that makes using x86 systems as [...]
I’m out of the office in VMware training this week.
Update: I took pictures of the training facility, mostly to show off the weird artwork in the hallways and the “no smoking” sign right next to an ashtray.
Went to CompUSA tonight and bought another gig of RAM for the MacBook, intending to upgrade it to a max of 2G (I currently have 1.5G in it).
Got home, installed the RAM, powered up the system – OSX sees all 2G. Great! Then I powered down, put the memory slot cover back on, [...]
I hereby submit my entry for the “Redneck Server Enclosure of the Year” contest, complete with audio, video, and pictures.
and boy, is it LOUD. Not just loud, but uncomfortably loud.
My wife is still asleep in bed, so I shut it down before the extended POST finished – so I don’t have any idea yet if it quiets down after boot (like a SB1K does).
I’m going to have to setup [...]