Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)
Took NT close to 30 minutes to boot on that box, thats all we loaded. we pushed the swap onto the second disk and everytime you moved the mouse you could see the second drive led come on :) brett William Rice wrote: > > I would try but the powerswitch on my 386sx laptop is broken. > > One question. How long does it take to turn the machine and get the databse > all the way up? Three weeks? > > Will > > >===== Original Message From Brett Geer <brett@brabys.co.za> ===== > >I thnk a new category 'Bravery Level' should be added. > > > >Ok, lets see someone beat this. > > > >NT 3.51 Workstation > >386dx-40 > >5MB ram > >2x 100mb hdd's > > > >The machine had no case. > > > >Don't anyone say NT 4.0 since the initial release would not install > >on less than 12MB of ram. we tried. > > > >brett > > > >William Rice wrote: > >> > >> In article <3a40aa73.11758998@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, > >> obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) wrote: > >> > In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:08:05 +0200, Brett Geer > >> > <brett@brabys.co.za> broke a vow of silence to utter: > >> > > >> > > > >> > >> I only run NT on my laptop, and I'm signed up to a campaign in the > >> company > >> > >> to allow field staff to run Linux and VMWare. > >> > >> > >> > >> 10 is really S80/V-class/E10K/O2000 territory. I'd rate this place > >> about a > >> > >> 7. > >> > > > >> > >I think we'll add another level (11) ... showoff level. > >> > > > >> > >We've seen the people here with > 8 processors, more gb of ram than > >> > >the rest of us have disk space. Disk cache hardware with more ram on > >> it > >> > >than my machine has for the system. > >> > > >> > My last site was: > >> > > >> > 1x Sun E6500, 12 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR primary and transaction server) > >> > 1x Sun E4500, 10 CPUs, 4GB RAM (HDR secondary and query only server) > >> > 26x Compaq NT, 4 CPUs, 4GB RAM (web servers) > >> > > >> > Also about 3 E4500's as dev and test boxes, plus more 450's than you > >> can shake a > >> > stick at. > >> > > >> > I'd definitely rate them an 11. :-) > >> > > >> > > >> > >> So where would Linux on a Cyrix 333 with 7.30 UC? 32 MB of RAM put me? > >> 1 4 GB hard drive > >> > >> Will > >> > >> Sent via Deja.com > >> http://www.deja.com/ > > > >-- > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... > > rm is forever > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. > >Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 > >Fax. +27 31 717 4001 > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach > >for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* > >last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` > >now I fear I have no answers > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from > Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at > http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail > account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------