Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:29:24 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: enough about linux and microshit Message-ID: <4.1.19981105132823.00b3a4e0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <3641930C.21A69E98@airnet.net> References: <Message from beef@cybertouch.org of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 01:46:00 EST." <199811040647.BAA22068@freedom.cybertouch.org> <4.1.19981104192449.00a89cf0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981105004234.00a89e00@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 05:59 AM 11/5/98 -0600, Kris Kirby wrote: >Drew Baxter wrote: >> Loki is: >> 12:45AM up 9 days, 9:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >> >> Odin is (My Solaris X86 POS): >> 12:44am up 12 day(s), 8:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01 >> >> As it goes, my NT box has a high uptime, but freakishly crashed the other >> day. It's because it doesn't do anything.. I do make world once every week >> or two, so the FreeBSD box doesn't last long. > >I feel so cheated. After I sent out that message and was composing >another, my machine Page Fault'd and rebooted. Beware of overclocking, >processor fans, and especially flaky hardware. Thos will kill a decent >FBSD system any day. They can make a great UN*X, but the machine is only >as good as the hardware. :-/ My next machine *won't* be cheap parts. >-- >Kris Kirby >UAH Mail <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> >Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> >------------------------------------------- >TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. My Solaris box is a converted CTX from Damark.. We won't get into that. The FreeBSD box is a PII-333 (boxed) on a Supermicro P6SBA in a SC701A case, running at regular clock.. It can do a kernel in a little under 2 minutes, really nice machine. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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