Re: Maintaining the Salvation Army terminal server

i have a suspicion that what happened to you is what
has happened to me i dont know how any times.
anchorage (alaska in general) has extremly dirty power
coming down the power lines. yes, i know, you prob
have it plugged into a surge protector. trouble is,
most surge protectors only last at most 6-12 months in
anchorage, then the protection is gone, all you have
left is a power strip, no protection. most are built
on a depletive type technology, every time it gets hit
with a spike, it witles a little bit away at it. in
someplace like california they get hit with a spike
every couple of weeks or so, and the surge protectors
are good for a couple of years. in anchorage, its
about 6-12 times every day im told. they dont last
long under those circumstances. there is a good line
that lasts though, im told the military uses them and
they are build differently, a brand called
transtector. harry used to carry them at alaska used
computers back when i worked there, lou at alaska
micro systems might also still carry them. trouble is
they start out at like $125 and up. well worth it
though if you can afford it and really need to protect
something from anchorage power. i never could aford
them and my boxes were alway frankenstien monsters
that were old and slow, free parts i scrounged up.
when a spike comes down while loading an os it can
scramble something in the load. all i could do is wipe
it clean and reload. usualy that worked good unless
there was something wrong with the hardware. i dont
know how many times ive had that happen.

                kurt

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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:54:10 -0800
From: Ayden
Subject: Re: Maintaining the Salvation Army terminal
server

I love slack aswell, 9.1 it was...there was nothing i
couldn't do with
9.1, it was like the, "uber-fuck-all" system, never
crashed a single
time. But when i installed 10.0 one night, within the
first hour i had
already crashed xorg. From then on, it crashed around
once every 2
days.. There were some errors that i felt were kind of
silly, like if
you wanted to run mozilla from the binary:
mozilla-bin, you couldn't do
it. I had several custom scripts that would pass
options to the binary,
so this alarmed me. Finally it took me adding the libs
to ld.so.conf
and running ldconfig, or, making a link between
/usr/lib/mozilla-something and /usr/lib/mozilla so
that it could find
the correct libs.

It was just little things such as that, i got the over
all impression
that it was rushed, very little testing before it was
released. I did
trouble shoot, but i was never able to figure out the
reason i was
having so many troubles with crashing. I checked the
md5sums of the
cds, they checked out, i tested my memory with
memtest86+ it checked
out. There wasn't any errors that i could see of, just
seg faults. The
only thing i can think of, it may have been trouble
with optimizations.
However, i do not deal with slackware 10 any more....
I'm an OS X man
now!

whitham

                
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Received on Mon Oct 11 10:09:20 2004