Re: [9fans] kernels

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

John "Iron Bar" Mackin would have approved.

brucee

On 3/11/06, Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> > 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 on
> 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
>