[Imc-tech] Front windows machine...

[Paul Riismandel]

PLEASE don't touch the HP!  Dave Young is setting it up as a file server!

Thanks Mike Perry for figuring out what was wrong with that front machine!

--Paul

At 01:09 PM 7/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Thus spake michael dean brunelle (brunelle at students.uiuc.edu):
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > not too sure what's been going on with the computers in the back - I did
> > what I could with what was there, but haven't been in in a few weeks; I'm
> > not sure if my schedule's going to allow me to drop by anytime soon.  I'd
> > say, yeah, pitch the slow box and use that HP(?) that we got in a couple
> > of weeks ago (not sure about NIC card status - I had tried a couple
> > without much success-our component stockpile is about as reliable as our
> > system collection).  Anyway, if you need me for something specific, let me
> > know; otherwise, I'll see y'all when I see ya.
>Alright, I foudn the problem. The bios was setup horribly unomptimally
>(cache was disabled, IDE was non-DMA, etc...). I fixed that and it's
>MUCH better. I'm going to go ahead and put Linux on it.
>
>As per the HP, I don't see it back there.. what type of system was it?
>Maybe we can steal some of its ram and put it in the one in front. Right
>now, the one in front a 180Mhz Pentium with 256K cache and 32 megs of ram
>(4 sticks of 8). A little more ram and it should be lightning quick.
>
>
>--
>Mike Perry
>Hacker in Chief
>fscked.org enterprises, inc
>
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