[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

[Kurt Huhn]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:38:35 -0500
Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> So ... what _am_ I going to do with it?  I'm not much on graphics, and
> it doesn't have a framebuffer, anyway.  It's only 10baseT, so massive
> fileserving would seem unlikely.  I know some of you guys have _big_
> stuff at home, and I'm not just talking McGuire and his Cray.  I need
> a story here, so give me some ideas, and, while you're at it, some
> real-life examples of what you do with your BigStuffAtHome.
> 

I don't have any *big* iron at home, but if I did, I'd use it for
fileserving, learning Java, honing my PHP skills, diving into Postgres,
and a whole bunch of stuff that you *can* do on a workstation, but is
much more pleasant to do on a server.  The fact that it would be a piece
of Big Iron, or even Medium Iron, is the icing on the cake.  Running a
Challenge or an Origin in your house is soo much cooler than anything
else, and *my* wife tends to agree - once she understands it.

-- 
Kurt                 "I am not aware that any community has a right to 
kurt at k-huhn.com       force another to be civilized." 
                                                   --John Stuart Mill