[SunRescue] Geek art and rolling blackouts

[Chris Byrne]

Ahhh life in California. Other than the weather and physical environment
(ocean, mountains etc..) this place just sucks sometimes don't it.

Of course I'm lucky, I live across the street from the police station, there
are three different hospitals on my block, and a BART station. Thus far I
haven't been hit at all, even though yesterday all of the blocks around mine
are. I asked the complex managers and they said that for as long as the
complex has been there they havent had a rolling blackout effect them. I
have a feeling that our small grid is on the exempt list. Of course that
doesn't mean I dont have all of my systems on heavy duty UPS's

on the geek art front, tae a look at  (shameless plug) my wifes site at
www.supergoth.com and click her art pages. My wife is a freelance (read
works mostly for free)artist, specializing in comic book, rpg, and anime
art.

Chris Byrne
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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Peter L. Wargo
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 07:21
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Geek Art (was: Re: [SunRescue] What to do...)


Back at NCGR, we had the entire SA suite (big office with four cubies)
decorated with old boards.  Most were Sun4 or Sun3 VME, I also remember a
PPRO motherboard that pissed me off, a Supercard-1 (i860) VME card, and
bunches of other dead/bon-dead items.

As far as Sun2 stuff goes, I have a bunch stashed with a friend in New
Hampshire, I was considering having it shipped out here (CA) at some
point.  Didn't know there was a Sun2 porting effort underway, I'd love to
see one up and running again...  Of course, given the power situation out
here...  (We had rolling blackouts here in San Diego yesterday.)

-Pete

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Peter L. Wargo
pwargo at basenji.com
Owner/operator of basenji.com.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

>
> Well, for the fun of it, I might could use a sun2 cpu card and enough
> ram to get it going.  I have a sun2 controller.  There has been some
> recent work on getting a sun2 NetBSD port up and running.  That sort
> of critter might make an interesting companion to my MVII crate.

> Hey, it's good art-deco wallpaper, right?  Truest form of Geek Art....

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