Re: SunBlade 1000
"Jarto Nieminen" <[email protected]>
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2008/8/22 Sandwich Maker <[email protected]>: > " From: "Lewis, Ben \(Ben\)" <[email protected]> > " > " >Downloading Solaris 10 CD ISO's (I don't have a DVD burner) over a > " >512/512 DSL is damn slow though... argh! > " > " That was the trouble I had, the download took ages. > > how impatient you youngsters get! ;^> queue up the d/l, then > walk away and do something else for a while! Bah. Any youngster who actively uses BitTorrent or something similar doesn't mind waiting for a while. :P > back in the late '80s, the project i was on required regularly > downloading fresh 1Mb system builds over a serial line. this took > several hours, and for some reason we didn't have any error > correction, so you could spend all day and still not have a good load. > > -fast- modems were 1200 and 2400 baud. > > more recently, but before i got my 768/128 dsl, i downloaded s8 isos > over a dialup; even at v.34 speeds it took several nights. now that > was slow! > > " I managed to > " download all 5 .iso files and cat them together into one big file to > " burn onto DVD. However even though that DVD would boot, the installer > " told me it couldn't find the files for the second disk so I ended up > " burning five separate CDs. Heh. In 1998 I was the luckiest kid on the block with one of the first ADSL lines in the city. 8/1Mbps. The ISP didn't sell anything slower. This was good. I have ADD. :) Anyway, back to the subject of pimping out a Sun Boxen. I have a project to overclock a dual 300Mhz U60 and install water cooling. Naturally the case will be gets a make over (a necessity already due to the water cooling.). ... At this point I was a bout to ask where should I look for instructions on how to overclock an U60 but I'll JFGI first. Hopefully this won't end up being another project left half done. ________________________________________________________________________ > Andrew Hay the genius nature > internet rambler is to see what all have seen > [email protected] and think what none thought "The difference between Insanity and Genius is success." -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best regards. Jarto Nieminen * HAM Radio: OH8GDK - - - - - - - - - - - - - Of course it runs NetBSD! http://www.netbsd.org/