HP 300

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed May 23 09:06:49 2001

Iggy,

     I have some HP-HIL keyboards. Contact me off-line if you still need one.

       Joe

At 02:12 AM 5/23/01 +0100, you wrote:
>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."
>Aus: de.comp.os.unix.misc, "Was ist schneller?"
Received on Wed May 23 2001 - 09:06:49 BST