Entry 1: I am so bored

As I typing this, I am work in my student jobs/gig in the Computer Science lab at Colorado State

University (the poor quality picture above is me in the lab)

I could be working on my project, well actually I am working on one project, I am eating my Ultra10's 333 Mhz

Ultra Sparc Processor's cycles with mencoder (Mplayer encoder, see a future entry, “Fun with Mplayer on Linux and beyond” or something), anyway I would like to break my recently bought HP9000 J210 running HPUX.

A professor at CSU (colorado state) says that HP-UX is the worse Unix implementation he every saw, I have

no idea if that is true. But I will be interesting to see :|)

You see I like unique hardware.

Here is a sparse list of my proud hardware (all of it power on and is useable):

These have been the focus of experments

My Favorite Machines:

Suns:

Sun Ultra 10 – 333Mhz Ultra Sparc 512 Mb (50ns) HD: 80Gb, 120Gb, Host name: ultra OS: Solaris 9

Sun Ultra 5 – 270Mhz Ultra Sparc128Mb HD: 4.3 Gb 8Gb Host name: nausicaa OS: Solaris 9

SparcServer 20 – 2x50Mhz SuperSparc 75Mhz SuperSparc-II 128Mb HD: 4Gb 2.1Gb host name: furition OS: Solaris 9

SparcServer 1000 – 8x85Mhz SuperSparc-II 1248Mb HD: 4x4.5Gb host name: balor OS: Solaris 8

Dec Alphas

5xAlphaStation 4/266, 253Mhz 64bit-Alpha processors (debian Linux / Tru64

HP-Precision Architecture

HP9000/715 100Mhz PA-Risc 112 Mb ram HD: 2x1 GB OS: HPUX

HP9000 J210 2x120Mhz PA-Risc 256Mb Host Name cae7 (to be renamed Iron Horse) OS: HPUX

X86

HP Proliant 6000 2x200 Pentium Pro 256Mb HD: 4 x 9.1Gb (Raid 5) 2 x 4Gb (Raid 1)

Well, that is all for now.