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Oct. 25th, 2001 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioOur file server has been slowly degrading, which isn't surprising given its age. So Dani's been shopping for a not-too-expensive replacement (found one on eBay for $150). It doesn't have to be all that studly, after all; it's replacing a P133. :-)
Dani and I don't like where the Windows monopoly appears to be heading (XP sounds like it'll be too annoying for words). We've been meaning to set up a box with Linux for a while to see if that's a viable alternative for us. (The hesitation has always been at the sys-admin end; we're both comfortable as Unix users.) So we figured that we've got some wiggle room with the new box (don't have to decommission the old one until the new one's happy), so we'll install Linux on it and see if we can set it up in a way that makes us happy.
(Aside: I assume there's a way to set up things like telnet/ssh and ftp daemons so that they're accessible to other machines on our LAN but *not* ones on the other side of the Linksys. I hope this is a common-enough scenario that the documentation helps.)
So Dani headed out to CompUSA a few days ago to pick up a copy of RedHat, because it's worth paying for something you can download for free sometimes just to have the media and manuals and stuff. The current version is 7.2, but he couldn't find it on the shelves. He did find a copy of 7.1.something (most recent), and it was priced at 1 cent. 1 cent? He picked it up and asked the folks at the desk if it was priced correctly. This caused an employee huddle for a while. The eventual conclusion was that it was a mistake, but they posted it so they had to honor it -- once. He was allowed to buy a single copy, and they then made that price posting go away. Works for us. :-)
Dani and I don't like where the Windows monopoly appears to be heading (XP sounds like it'll be too annoying for words). We've been meaning to set up a box with Linux for a while to see if that's a viable alternative for us. (The hesitation has always been at the sys-admin end; we're both comfortable as Unix users.) So we figured that we've got some wiggle room with the new box (don't have to decommission the old one until the new one's happy), so we'll install Linux on it and see if we can set it up in a way that makes us happy.
(Aside: I assume there's a way to set up things like telnet/ssh and ftp daemons so that they're accessible to other machines on our LAN but *not* ones on the other side of the Linksys. I hope this is a common-enough scenario that the documentation helps.)
So Dani headed out to CompUSA a few days ago to pick up a copy of RedHat, because it's worth paying for something you can download for free sometimes just to have the media and manuals and stuff. The current version is 7.2, but he couldn't find it on the shelves. He did find a copy of 7.1.something (most recent), and it was priced at 1 cent. 1 cent? He picked it up and asked the folks at the desk if it was priced correctly. This caused an employee huddle for a while. The eventual conclusion was that it was a mistake, but they posted it so they had to honor it -- once. He was allowed to buy a single copy, and they then made that price posting go away. Works for us. :-)
Re: I am amused
Date: 2001-10-25 08:46 am (UTC)