From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38789.128.165.0.81.1142047896.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <20060311031408.D8333B4973@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> References: <20060311031408.D8333B4973@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:31:36 -0700 Subject: Re: [9fans] kernels From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a-11.EL3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 12b6c088-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > interesting, i haven't had any problems with the Big Red Switch. > although i can't boot plan9 from cd. This L440GX+ thread is just killing me. I had 128 of these dogs in 1999, and the bios was so bad that it caused me to start the linuxbios project. I'm hearing about lots of nice bugs on these boards, that I never suspected, and I'm glad I didn't have to deal with them. I had all kinds of creative ways of disposing of these boards when they fried. My favorite was to take an 8" long piece of railroad rail I had (approx weight 25 lbs) and do a competition: if the L440GX+ was dropped o= n the rail, or the rail was dropped on the l440GX+, who won? Also, of course, angle of entry of the rail could be investigated, as could drop height, ... the possibilities were endless. Ah, the L440GX+ ... may it burn in pennsauken. ron