12.04.2006 09:14
long time, no blog
Some time since I set anything down in this blog! A tremendous amount of change has occurred and I have not made the time to sit down write on this again. This stems in part from the fact that my nb install on the other machine is broken and it keeps inserting double entries and erasing the last entry. I don't remember what happens here.
Either way, we have moved clear across the country. The old Alpha with OBSD on it survived the move. I managed to copy over the mail from the machine for backup, but didn't need it in the end. Got here and turned on the machine and, with a little encouragement, the machine booted in OBSD again like nothing had happened. I still have trouble getting it to boot into OBSD once in a while, like when I have to shut it down for the incompetent electricians. We now have the Alpha running in our back 'Library', so I don't hear it or get the heat from it. Sure would be nice to replace it with something more efficient to help reduce electrical usage and our bill!
I've moved away from OBSD and Mac, using Solaris 10 at work. This started because of the effective hype over Solaris and because I liked the idea of being able to use my computer from anywhere, the thin client idea . Of course I have yet to set that up, and in fact, I cannot connect via that mechanism from the Mac! Eventually I will get it working, probably first the Global Desktop solution from them. It has been a painful transition that I will get into later in more detail. Suffice to say that a lot of time was lost and Solaris is much more complicated than OBSD. More later.
Either way, we have moved clear across the country. The old Alpha with OBSD on it survived the move. I managed to copy over the mail from the machine for backup, but didn't need it in the end. Got here and turned on the machine and, with a little encouragement, the machine booted in OBSD again like nothing had happened. I still have trouble getting it to boot into OBSD once in a while, like when I have to shut it down for the incompetent electricians. We now have the Alpha running in our back 'Library', so I don't hear it or get the heat from it. Sure would be nice to replace it with something more efficient to help reduce electrical usage and our bill!
I've moved away from OBSD and Mac, using Solaris 10 at work. This started because of the effective hype over Solaris and because I liked the idea of being able to use my computer from anywhere, the thin client idea . Of course I have yet to set that up, and in fact, I cannot connect via that mechanism from the Mac! Eventually I will get it working, probably first the Global Desktop solution from them. It has been a painful transition that I will get into later in more detail. Suffice to say that a lot of time was lost and Solaris is much more complicated than OBSD. More later.