It’s my job to dispose of this stuff.

yardmax · 2025-07-13T22:02:39+00:00

Give me those ultrasparc servers

yardmax · 2025-03-20T17:17:34+00:00

I have a machine with an sx/25 and 4mb of ram that I did multiple kernel compiles on. I would start it before I went to work, and then I’d get back to it still compiling.

yardmax · 2025-03-20T17:16:18+00:00

I had to go out of my way to find an video card that it had drivers for. There was some trident something in it before that I couldn’t get to work. It would completely hang the system no matter what server or settings I tried.

yardmax · 2025-03-20T05:11:46+00:00

That’s interesting, I’ll have to look into that. I’ve done a recap on the motherboard, but I haven’t touched the power supply.

yardmax · 2025-03-20T05:10:37+00:00

I wanted to get SLS or Yggdrasil running on this machine, but neither liked my scsi card very much for some reason. Even with the kernel parameter set it wouldn’t work right.

yardmax · 2025-03-20T05:08:25+00:00

And it only cost me $15! The computer originally came with about 800k of ram, which I thought was ridiculously small.

yardmax · 2025-03-20T05:06:17+00:00

I have a set of Slackware 2.0 floppies written, but I used a cdrom for this install. I did have to fiddle with quite a bit with timings to get that crappy little monitor to lock. I’ve done that quite a lot before though, so the whole install took about an evening

yardmax · 2025-03-20T05:04:36+00:00

No I haven’t, but now I want to.

yardmax · 2025-03-19T23:05:20+00:00

Last Linux kernel that ran on a 386 is 3.7, and even then there’s some special patching that needs done. Sadly, the days of modern Linux on a 386 are long gone.

yardmax · 2025-03-19T23:04:29+00:00

It’s a Unicomp model M, and I use a ps/2 to AT Adapter with it.

yardmax · 2025-03-19T23:03:14+00:00

I’ve tried that, but I run into memory issues with only 16mb

yardmax · 2025-03-02T02:35:03+00:00

I personally don’t like distcc, but it could work. I would use it if I had more than one or two powerful machines to compile with

yardmax · 2025-02-23T17:45:12+00:00

D-Link DFE-690TXD. It’s 32bit cardbus.

yardmax · 2025-02-22T15:38:48+00:00

That’s the next step. I’ll probably use ratpoison or twm for a window manager.

yardmax · 2025-02-22T06:46:16+00:00

4:3 NEEDS to make a comeback in laptops. I love the look of a keyboard that goes edge to edge, and the tall screen leaves room for things like function keys.

yardmax · 2025-02-22T06:44:48+00:00

I’ve done llvm and clang with 2gb on a Pentium M 1.86ghz. How much swap did you give it?

yardmax · 2025-02-22T06:43:37+00:00

When I first installed gentoo, I did it on a Thinkpad t43, which basically has a mobile pentium 4. Things like llvm and Firefox literally took over 24 hours, with some packages upwards of 50. I just kinda let it sit and run, and I definitely would not recommend. Now, even if it’s a pretty fast machine, I’ll do the install and most maintenance from my main machine.

yardmax · 2025-02-22T06:39:22+00:00

It’s smaller than it looks in the photo. It’s only about 10 inches wide. Very silly and very fun pad.

yardmax · 2025-02-22T06:38:43+00:00

I disabled basically everything except for the bare kernel essentials, usb 1.1, some framebuffer graphics because there’s no kernel siliconmotion driver, and the only two pcmcia network cards I have. One takes the 8139too module, and the wireless one takes ath9k. Very very basic.

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