[KLUG Advocacy] One year anniversary

[Robert G. Brown]

>>>> Sadly, my uptime has suffered from a number of little problems,...
>>>That is in large part due to crappy PC hardware.
>>Not realy, I'm not sure what you mean, actually. I attribute one to my 
>>bumping into a (perfectly good) power switch, and another to a 2 inch
>>segment of wiring that I installed in '98, which was defective. Not the
>>whole box, only one $1.98 component.
>I've never had much luck with the Gateway/BestBuy's of the world.  They
>eventually kerplunk with a segmentation fault or some kind of kernel
>panic,  usually attributable I think to RAM errors.
Which is NOT the case with any of the machines I was talking about. I
really don't buy "retail" PC's at all; they either used utility boxes
from HP or IBM, or they're built custom.

>>>Only one of the above boxes what would classically be considered a PC.
>>Which?
>[root@natches root]# uptime
>11:09pm  up 108 days, 14:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>Its just a locally assembled box using some AMD chip and PC100 RAM.
Ah, one of yours, OK.

Of the three machines here, One (that got bump) is a cheapo firewall box, 
which otherswise runs fine. One is a machine built here (bad power cable 
segment and all), and the third is an HP Vectra box that is just rolling
along, running Postgres, BIND, NNTPCache, and some applications I've 
written.
							Regards,
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