Comments on: Building the Imperfect PC http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2005/12/17/building-the-imperfect-pc/ Keith on XML, Publishing, Ruby, Birds, & San Francisco Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:05:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Colin http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2005/12/17/building-the-imperfect-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Colin Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:30:13 +0000 http://kfahlgren.com/blog/?p=6#comment-4 So after I gave Keith my old favorite (svelt) P'book G3, which he fixed merely by putting a new HD in it, I was the recipient of one of Keith's old computers (a huge pile of generally unusable parts) and a huge monitor. I had the pleasure of storing this machine/part-pile once before when I kept it in my college dorm room for the year he spent in york. Much like then, my recent experience went something like this: "boy, I thought I knew a lot about computers, but I cannot figure this Linux thing out...I mean, it won't boot, won't connect to the internet, and I can't locate any files on the HD." At which point I realize: "ah, ALL 3 HD's are corrupt, the NIC is old and doesn't play nice with my router, and these four jumper pins must have come from SOMEWHERE..." Much like my G3, (although I was pretty excited to reclaim some storage space!) I was sad to see this old computer disappear: I have fond memories of playing Goldeneye on the nice monitor while eating Cheez Doodles, and even though I only got the damn thing to boot up 3 or 4 times, I did consume my fair share of porn while it was up and running. (And the DHCP thing, thats the damn NIC....) So after I gave Keith my old favorite (svelt) P’book G3, which he fixed merely by putting a new HD in it, I was the recipient of one of Keith’s old computers (a huge pile of generally unusable parts) and a huge monitor. I had the pleasure of storing this machine/part-pile once before when I kept it in my college dorm room for the year he spent in york. Much like then, my recent experience went something like this: “boy, I thought I knew a lot about computers, but I cannot figure this Linux thing out…I mean, it won’t boot, won’t connect to the internet, and I can’t locate any files on the HD.” At which point I realize: “ah, ALL 3 HD’s are corrupt, the NIC is old and doesn’t play nice with my router, and these four jumper pins must have come from SOMEWHERE…” Much like my G3, (although I was pretty excited to reclaim some storage space!) I was sad to see this old computer disappear: I have fond memories of playing Goldeneye on the nice monitor while eating Cheez Doodles, and even though I only got the damn thing to boot up 3 or 4 times, I did consume my fair share of porn while it was up and running. (And the DHCP thing, thats the damn NIC….)

]]> By: keith http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2005/12/17/building-the-imperfect-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-3 keith Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:26:44 +0000 http://kfahlgren.com/blog/?p=6#comment-3 So, just to follow up, here are some of the problems I've had: "Unable to find device nnode for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted." (20Gb WD) "I can't figure out your DHCP because I suck!" -- Ok, I made that one up, but it isn't discovering my network config via DHCP even though every other machine I've ever had here has (5+). So, just to follow up, here are some of the problems I’ve had:

“Unable to find device nnode for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!
The creation of filesystems will be aborted.” (20Gb WD)

“I can’t figure out your DHCP because I suck!” — Ok, I made that one up, but it isn’t discovering my network config via DHCP even though every other machine I’ve ever had here has (5+).

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