Like
Frankenstein, this page has been partially revived. It
died sometime around November 2000, because I'd run out of time to even
come close to maintaining it. Now I've got some more free time on my
hands, and it's back (sort of).
New!!! Hurd screenshot Take a look.
NEW!!! Slashdot Meetup Pics!!!!
Anyway, a bit about me, I suppose....
Contact Info:
- AIM: SMBergeron, IFightMIBs, HomieOPathic
- ICQ: 5909618
- MSN: wtarsean, radioslavecnu
- Yahoo: idiotnot, radio_slave
- An essay on
why you shouldn't send Word Documents as attachments in e-mail. (I
normally don't even bother to read them)
Some sites I
frequent.....
My Stable of Computers. (My computers are *always* somewhat for sale. If you're interested in one, mail me, and we'll talk.)
- Sun IPX. I got this for Christmas last year, and I'm actually not quite sure where it is at the moment. 40 MHz processor, 16MB of RAM, small SCSI HD. And yes, it's the size of a shoebox.
- Apple IIgs's. I wanted a couple. I ended up buying a lot of 24 at a county-wide auction. I've managed to sell most of 'em off via eBay.
- 608030 Macintosh, I think. It's slow. It makes the neato Mac chime when you power it on. I don't have a keyboard or mouse, or monitor to use with it. I bought it intending to use it as sort of a network appliance running *BSD, but it's got a weird Appletalk net port. I just need to ditch this one.
- Gateway 2000 Pentium 66. This was my first PC, the one I started using Linux and OS/2 on. It was originally a 60, which I overclocked a gigantic 6 MHz. It's in pieces on my bedroom floor at the moment. If I ever get around to getting my website setup, it may be a co-lo web server.
- Gateway 2000 Pentium 90. It's got an Evergreen Tech (Winchip) proc upgrade, so it now runs at 180 something Mhz. I figured out how to jumper it so it now runs at a swift 200 MHz. It's still painful to use due to the slow memory bus and disks. It won't even play nice with a PCI ethernet card.
- AMD K6-2/400. I built this machine after I got fed-up dealing with the P66 as my router/firewall. It plays nice with PCI Network cards. I think I initially spent about $250 building it (mobo, proc, and case). It ran with a five month uptime until I left for Washington last summer. This past spring, I had a drive failure so I made some major mods. It's now a halfway respectable machine. But it's still running RedHat 7.2 and forwarding IP packets. It also runs the Waste of Time.
- Gateway PIII/500. I got this machine to replace the P66 in summer '99. It's my desktop PC. Currently has 128M of RAM, Win2k, and isn't even at my house at the moment. A friend is borrowing it. I haven't used it much since I got my laptop.
- Compaq Presario 710 Notebook. About halfway through my final semester of college, I decided that I needed a notebook. I *almost* bought an iBook that was on clerance at CompUSA. They made me wait forever to get a salesperson to quote me a price on the Mac, so I went to Best Buy and bought the Compaq. It works, sorta. This is not a book made for Linux. It sorta runs WinXP okay. Seriously thinking about ditching it. AMD Duron 1GHz, 256M, 20gig, DVD, modem, NIC. Actually, I take it back. This is a good notebook for someone who wants to run Windows. Me? I *don't* want to run Windows most of the time.
- Power Mac G3/350. This is currently my mistress. I picked it up for a song on eBay, wanting something to run OSX on. OSX is *everything* it's cracked up to be. Anyone who has used both Windows, and appreciates Unix will love it. Instead of getting a nice Sun for my next purchase, I think I may get a kick-ass Mac. Okay, so it's not real fast. But then, neither is my PIII anymore. I really started getting into computers using Apples and Macs, and I've really gotten back into it. Oh, and it runs linux, too, in case I get bored looking at the pretty pictures.
- Home-built AMD AthlonXP 1800+. I built this kind of under duress. I needed a standard PC that works. It served in that capacity for a few months, until I was able to bring it home. It's now doped up with SCSI disks. Runs several different OS's. Helps heat my bedroom.
- Sun SparcStation 10. eBay again. Fifty bucks. Dual processor. 128M of RAM. May end up being a machine I colo somewhere. Seems swift enough for webserving tasks.
Stuff I run......
Stuff on the radio that I like to listen to....
Presets on my AM radio:
- 790 WNIS, Norfolk
- 850 WTAR, Norfolk
- 1140 WRVA, Richmond
- 1310 WGH, Newport News
- 1210 WPHT, Philadelphia
- 770 WABC, New York
- 880 WCBS, New York
- 870 WWL, New Orleans
- 1510 WLAC?, Nashville
- 1450 WVBA, Va. Beach
Stuff I've setup.....
The Waste of Time.
What else really is there to say? Oh, I like beer, I drive a Jeep. I'm single. I like odd music. I created this page in vi. Really. And yeah, it does suck, but it works flawlessly in Lynx. It was last updated on 3 Jan. 2003.
