Wargo does a rant (was Re: [geeks] Cool Mac deals...)

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:07:15PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 5 year old (guess) Lexmark keyboards (the "Gawd thats a heavy keyboard"
> models) are my favorites - if you ar eserious, you have spares against
> "inovation"!

I grab both those and Northgate Omnikeys at the local goodwill for
$5 each when I see them.

> I tried to install the Solaris Companion Software CD using the GUI, and it
> hung, repeatedly on several systems. It is a know problem with an
> incompatability with older versions of Solaris.

Uhm.. thats why it only comes with Solaris 8?  

> Older Versions of Solaris meand any release of Solaris released before
> April, 2001! Bung-holes - could they figure out a patch? In their defense,
> pkgadd works fine...

Never had a problem with it myself.  I only use it to install GCC, which I
then use to re-compile gcc from scratch.  I dont like trusting other people's
binaries.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX