HP 300

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue May 22 08:34:35 2001

jarkko.teppo skrev:

>On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:08:03AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> jkunz skrev:
>>
>> Of course, 15 year-old PCs won't fail either. The machines which did fail
>> in their first fifteen days are long gone, and that goes for all platforms.

>That's quite true. Though in the case of HP I don't think that they've ever
>failed:) The *best* computers I've seen/had/used so far. Not like Sparcs with
>those pesky idprom problems (I've got a 330 in need of surgery).

Tell that to the braindamaged ROM in my 380. Shame on you, HP!

>> >This is the way life goes. NetBSD is a living system. It grows, new
>> >features like IPv6 (that will become mandatory), wscons (that is
>> >reasonible), RAIDframe, Softdeps ... are "bloating" the system. This is
>>
>> Why should IPv6 be mandatory? Isn't that supposed to be
>> backwards-compatible as far as end clients are concerned, and isn't it my
>> business what I run on my network?

>Way OT but as a fellow NAT-suffering european you ought to be cheering and
>jumping for IPv6. As always, your network is your network and I don't think
>that anybody cares if you ran the whole thing on top of serial muxes with
>multidrop slip encapsulating chaosnet and XNS but I want IPv6 on everything
>that I have:) Actually I just played my first ever IPv6 Quake-game last week
>with end-to-end native v6 only. I sucked.. and I was the only player.

I've never suffered NAT, I just suffer a modem and high telephony costs.
What I worry about is whether IPv6 will work on all my machines. Then I
worry that IP numbers will be too long for me to remember.

>> And why shouldn't one expect NFS support from 2.2BSD?

>hmm, the gains aren't worth it ?

Aren't the advantages of NFS apparent?

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Sagt, ist noch ein Land, au?er Deutschland, wo man die Nase eher r?mpfen lernt
als putzen?
--- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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