[rescue] [geeks] Last Call - Ultra 5/10 parts
Mouse
mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Mon Mar 10 22:45:34 CDT 2014
> The list was built on the "rescue" conceit. The idea that we could
> take dumpstered systems and make them useful again is pretty empty in
> 2014.
It is? I do it regularly. I snag machines on their way out and put
them to work doing useful things. I just recently set one up as a VPN
endpoint at work.
> The Oracle deal has killed patch availability, killed opensolaris,
> and slowly strangled the hobbyist scene.
Only for Suns.
Admittedly, that's a substantial loss, though more so for many of you
than for me. Patch availability is irrelevant if you don't care about
the OS being patched (which I don't, Solaris and all other
closed-source OSes). The major thing Oracle killed that I personally
care about was the chance of getting hardware documentation for things
like the cg14's DMA engine or the SUNW,rtvc.
> At this point we are all historians. There's no "rescue" for SPARCs,
> only roles in zoo exhibits.
Oh? So the uses I'm making of my SPARCs don't count, or what? (My
routine screens-and-keyboards, at home and at one of my workplaces, are
SS20s with cg14s and type-3 keyboards.)
> That's OK with me, I guess. I'm glad we persist.
So am I, mostly. But, sometimes, I feel as though I should just walk
out on the ice floe; the world no longer wants people like me.
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