Cant beat wired networks for security and also speed, laptops aren't designed to be as powerful as desktops anyway, my pc goes on and around 8.30 most mornings and stays on till around 2am, most laptops will have bitten the dust long ago given that duty cycle, 7 days a week 52 weeks a year.
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Totally agree with networking. I HATE wireless networks with at the level of ISIS's treatment of captives
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Not my f$%& problem. They don’t like the laptops I give ‘em, they can go git their own PC.
Totally. My eldest is happy with her T440 now. If she isn't then it's tough bananas. It's that or SFA.
Never had the SparcServer, but I do have most Sparc architectures;
Sparcstation IPC (my first Real Computer, ie. Big-Endian and not a PC)
Sparcstation 5
Ultrasparc 1 (with 3D card and red logo, that is the fast one @200MHz)
Ultrasparc 5 (also with 3D card but IDE drive.)
SunBlade 150 (with 3rd party GE card and dual 120G IDE drives, the largest possible)
Sun Netra 1
Sun Netra T1405 (An ultra 60 in a telco chassis. Definitive boat anchor material, 6HE, lots of steel. )
Sun T5220 Niagara-class.
All are in storage, sort of got disgusted with working in the sunos ecosystem when Oracle killed the Real SUNW.
Nowadays it is all PC's. Main compute in colo is an old Dell 1850, with a Supermicro storage server adjacent. At home, another Supermicro is file server (FreeBSD, zfs and OpenAFS) with a Dell 710 as Vmware host. The 1850 and the storage node are both going to be replaced with a Dell 610 (96G RAM, 24 thread CPU, yay!) running FreeBSD and vm hypervisor. Round tuit supply, allowing, that is.
The network is the complicated part
I've got a 7200 router, and 5 different Cisco switches around the house and datacenter^W^Wgarage (but with raised flooring! Gotta have it!) and the wireless is built with Cisco gear too, 2702 access points and a WLC in vmware.
Definitive, major, obsolency overkill. Sort of fits in this thread, I suppose.
Nice collection
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. Good to hear of some more Unix geeks
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SPARCserver was usually just a label stuck to a normal desktop. Shipped with more RAM and no monitor. The only exceptions were the SS1000E and SS2000E which were XDbus based (backplane) based on something Xerox came up with when they wanted more oomph. Cray actually sold a machine, the CS6400 which used the same architecture so it was like having a small Cray in your room!
My favourite machine was the SPARCstation 2 (pizza box IPX). Standard SIMs, standard SCSI, standard AUI, standard RS232.
Peak "home network" I had a Sun E450, a Compaq Deskpro AP230 running OpenBSD as a router, a home built PC as main desktop and a Sun Ultra 10 desktop. That was fun.
Now it's all in AWS! Cheaper, faster and you only have to pay by the hour
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Cant beat wired networks for security and also speed, laptops aren't designed to be as powerful as desktops anyway, my pc goes on and around 8.30 most mornings and stays on till around 2am, most laptops will have bitten the dust long ago given that duty cycle, 7 days a week 52 weeks a year.
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My private machine, a 2015 Macbook Pro 13" is on 24/7. Has been since I bought it, used, early summer 2016.
With the exception of the keyboard on later models, Apple portables are very, very reliable machines. My work machine, a 2018 MBP 15", has that keyboard. It is not nice. But it's been on or in suspend since the day I was handed it, August 20 2018.
The plastic laptops with "design" people are fooled into buying at large electronics chains are another story. Horrible crap.
I had a 2013 MacBook Pro until recently. The power supply exploded and I fell asleep one night and it slid down my leg and popped the screen. Oops. Replaced the screen and decided to just buy another one. So I bought a 2018 MacBook Air. And they keyboard packed in
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... back to the "spare T440".
My office machine, which I never use because I don't go in, is an HP Z-series. Think it's a Z4.
Agree with plastic laptops. My mother in law forced my father in law to buy one because she thought the T420 ThinkPad I built for him was dull. They learned that lesson the hard way
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. Fecking blue POS HP thing with 32Gb of SSD and only upgrade is an SD card slot
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Anyway today's jobs:
Firstly, I need to shift a couple of items on eBay which as much as I love I don't use and I can't justify collecting stuff until I've moved into a house with some room in it.
Secondly, printing a 3d topographic map of Eyjafjallajökull volcano for a school project. Biggest print yet at 14 hours. Has been going for 4 already.
Thirdly, I'm spending some time in FreeCAD so I can make some proper feet for the mid 80-s HP chassis' with modular tilt/stand feet.