HP 300

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue May 22 20:12:24 2001

Jarkko Teppo skrev:

>Quoting Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>:

>> jarkko.teppo skrev:
>>
>> Tell that to the braindamaged ROM in my 380. Shame on you, HP!

>In what way it's braindamaged ?

It won't use a serial console, unless told so via a HIL keyboard. If I had a
HIL keyboard, I would not need a serial console.

>> 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.

>Without getting into details it's an interesting experience trying
>to get a netblock these days. Most likely you can lease a /32 for
>kazillion bucks a month. RIPE isn't softening up with IPv6 however,
>if you want a block of your own you need to be peering with three
>other providers. Life's hard.

I really object to how everything costs and arm and a leg on today's net.
Unless it's financed via ads and popup windows, which is no better.

>> >> 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?

>I love NFS as much as the next guy but if you start adding stuff
>like NFS, why not have vnodes (well, you better have!) and once
>you have vnodes why not start supporting different file systems...
>A bit much for a PDP :)

Why not support different file systems? And what is a vnode?

>So choice is good. My current testing gateway to the internet is a
>486-75MHz, 8/500MB with NetBSD-1.5 and Lucent WLAN card.
>The basestation is somewhere within 1 km. I'm rambling, better stop.

I've got some metres of "broadband" above my door. One day, it will go into my
flat. OTOH, I don't see any reason to use all that fancy firewalling or NAT
stuff.

>To get back to classiccmp, I'm going to check out a pile of Altos
>machines tomorrow, Altos 686 and other models. All had their hard
>drives ripped out.

What is an Altos?

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
"Auf Sparc-Maschinen ist Linux weit weniger gut. Auf Maschinen mit sun4
Architektur ist NetBSD etwa 30% schneller. Wer auf so einer Maschine
Linux faehrt tut es aus ideologischen Gruenden oder kennt nichts anderes."
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Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 20:12:24 BST

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