[Geeks] Sun Kit is just BETTER

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Thu Jun 13 13:45:24 CDT 2002


On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:39:11AM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> It's our new server!  Hot swappable drives with a bay in the front (well,
> except for the boot disk.  Why would you ever need to get at it?).  Nifty
> front panel display of system status (that was nigh useless).  Lovingly
> handcrafted from closed-cell foam!  Wheels sticking out to the sides so
> you couldn't mount them next to each other.  An _external_ connection to
> the disk bays using a short external SCSI cable (though this saved me once
> when I had to cross-connect the drives from an E150 to an E450 next to
> it).

Even worse, ours was a 'Netra NFS'.  Anybody got the .au files around of
"THE SUN NETRA INTERNET SERVER IS NOW AVAILABLE", etc?  Scared the SHIT out
of me at 3am once when one of them spontaneously rebooted.

"ACK!  WHO THE FUCK IS TALKING IN HERE?"

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
mrbill at mrbill.net 
Austin, TX        



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