Stupid me

Posted on November 20, 2006

I lost my iPod 3 month ago, I was disappointed – 300$ is a lot of money. Anyway today the metro was late, so I decided to clean my backpack, and I found it in the most unused pocket. I never even thought to look for it there. That’s good news.

The bad news is somehow I managed to break my Sun Ultra 60 workstation. And I am still puzzled why and how it broke. The story goes like this: I bought two 450 Mhz CPUs, 2GB of RAM and a new video card. Installed the hardware, found that I need to update firmware, uninstalled new, installed old, decided to test is everything is ok. Power-cycled. No video signal. Power-cycled. Video is ok, but after the memory test it just stops responding. I think that because I left jumper in WRITE position, firmware got corrupted during the test. But I can still access command-line when I hit Control-A. So unless I can restore it, I lost 100$ on parts I can’t anymore.

Now that I don’t have workstation I’m thinking about buying something new like Dell Dimension 9200 for 1400CAN. But I’m not sure how well Solaris will work on it. I could buy new SUN workstation, but even thought they are better in almost all aspects I can not afford extra cost now.

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