I had to retire my original email address today. So, my email address from 1994 is now forwarding to /dev/null.

On Saturday, I got finally got my pair of 3Com Audreys from tigerdirect.com. I started work on Sunday attempting to get root on them. After several failed attempts with a (faulty?) sandisk card. I borrowed a cf card from Bruce Winters, flashed both of my audreys, and then I was in business. After loading the DaveC image via compactflash, the Audrey was super functional. The coolest thing that I tried out was mounting a windows cifs share, and playing some mp3s on it. I’m working on getting a full qnx distro mounted on that thing. Then, I can get a telnet server, and a local / remote xterms going on.

Now running the 2.4.13 preemptive Linux kernel.

I just got back from the AMD Extreme Performance Project at the Mall of America. I estimate between 500-750 people actually showed-up for the event.  AMD handed out 50 processor / mobo combos, one Athlon XP 1800+-based Falcon Northwest system, and a ton of T-shirts.  They gave tickets out for the drawing up until around 6:15 AM this morning.  So, you had to be up before the crack of dawn to be a part of the “project”.    They would draw 10 winners at a time, and then have some audience participation stuff.  I guess the highlight of the audience stuff is when they had a joke-telling competition, and some wise-guy volunteered and told the joke:  “Pentium 4,” and hopped-off the truck. I added a page of pictures this morning.

I’m now running stable with the preemptive 2.4.13-pre6 linux kernel. The rml preemptive 2.4 patches are here.

This is a program that allows you to use yahoo messenger, irc, icq, & msn, aim all at the same time. Download it at:

http://www.trillian.cc/

Redhat 7.2 was released today with a whole lot of new features, namely ext3, grub, and kde 2.2.1. I have a couple of wgets fired up downloading the iso images now. I also find it a bit too much of a coincidence that Redhat 7.2 was released three days before Windows XP is scheduled to arrive…

Here are some mirrors for Redhat 7.2:

redhat.com
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc1.iso
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc1.iso
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc2.iso

sunet.se
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc1.iso
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc2.iso
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc1.iso
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc2.iso

linux.nssl.noaa.gov
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc1.iso
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc1.iso
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc2.iso

jungle.metalab.unc.edu
http://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc1.iso
http://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc2.iso
http://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc1.iso
http://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-SRPMS-disc2.iso

ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu
It appears the gatech’s ftp is hammered at the moment. You may want to try their site at some point.
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/.

Over the past few months the price of computers has become obscenely low… I remember buying 128 MB memory in 1999 for like $60. That was amazing! Now, it’s just crazy with 128 MB DIMMs going for like $9! At any rate, It’s definitely a buyer’s market out there. Here’s some asinine cheap computer that I’m building:

You probably notice, no CDROM, no sound, no keyboard/mouse, and no floppy drive. That is intentional. You absolutely don’t need a floppy drive or a cdrom for an OpenBSD box. I have a CDROM drive that I temporarily use in a new machine just to boot the box into OpenBSD and install version 2.9. As for the input and output (keybord, mouse, monitor), all you need is either a KVM switch or a copy of AT&T’s VNC (free). I imagine that one would be able to build a 10-node beowulf cluster of machines of this class for about $1000 in a years time.

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