Comments on: More successful networking purchases http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Two possible, maybe, could-be kernel bugs « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-44052 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:50:39 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-44052 [...] from the past year, just about everything axnet-driven I have used in the PCMCIA category has either fallen silent when traffic peaked at a certain level, or caused lockups or metaphorical digital [...]

]]> By: Debating a machine with few merits « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41874 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41874 [...] a machine with few merits Published 2010/02/04 Linux Leave a Comment My “newfound” philosophy regarding leftover parts is taking a sideways step these days, and making me reassess the less-than-a-month-old-to-me 560e I [...]

]]> By: steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41845 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:37:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41845 I had this same revelation some time ago.

I recently got given a NEC LL550/T that had Vista on it, runs Ubuntu (with GNOME) like a greased pig on a waterslide. My server is a 500MHz P3 toshy laptop and i still hack about on it, but when Ubuntu is this fast, why would I regress?

]]> By: Josh Miller http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41844 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:40:35 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41844 Old hardware can always be useful!.

I’ve got so much crap these days. One day I hope to have an office of some sort where I can set things up and putz with them more.

The oldest/slowest I have access to Is I beleive a 286 or 486 desktop PC.

]]> By: anonymous coward http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41840 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:01:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/more-successful-networking-purchases/#comment-41840 I also dislike getting rid of hardware unless it’s proven to be broken or not useful to me anymore. Like those QIC-80 floppy streamers including tapes full of backups. Or a probably still working Gravis Ultrasound card. Or iomega ZIP drives incl. those (backup) disks with whopping 100 MB of space. And so forth.

The problem in my case is that it’s perfectly possible I’ll actually restore mentioned backups. One fine day. Linux keeps that possibility open. Or maybe in the case of the floppy streamer, I might still have the original win95 harddrive or an image of it around… ;)

PS: Aluminum? Hah! You just gave away a tiny bit of information about yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Present-day_spelling
Just kidding ;)

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