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Free Multias (Pay Shipping Only)
Richard Fifarek noticed an odd little note on the Linux Store's website. Apparently they are giving away Free Multias. Just pay shipping ($30) for a free Multia.
link is giving away Multias. My multia ran Slashdot for the
first few million pages. Nice little machines. Very cute. Ran
Linux quite nicely.The folks over there said that you guys have managed to crash their e-mail/web AND phone system. So-let 'em catch up. A phone system. Heh.
I got my Firecracker about a week after I ordered it. And I had no trouble getting off the Briana the Voluptuous X10 Price Slasher mailing list.
BTW, at www.worthdist.com they have IBM Home Director X10 starter kits for $10 + $5 shipping. It includes a universal TV/VCR/X10 remote, a lamp module, a CM-11 2-way computer interface (much better than the firecracker, since you can pick up X10 signals with your computer), and another one of those RF/appliance modules. I got mine about 3 days after I ordered it...
yeah, heeh lol, sorry, I forgot to mention that :) It is a nice piece of information to have ;) Thanks :)
Just found this article (Sunday) and I am wondering about what exactly premium price equates in US$s? I need to purtchess a cheap system for someone and I think I have an EIDE or similar HD so the sticking point is the ram.
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is that a freaking Powerbook??
Network - AUI, 10bT, 10b2. Pick one. :)
Is it possible to use both simtaneously?
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I wonder if I will get one, his voicemail is already full. Oh well.
I just looked into internal IDE 2.5" HD's at Dirt Cheap Drives. $150 seems like an awful lot for only 4 gigs.
:-)
I figure I could get one of these puppies to boot over my home network with a floppy drive and a few megs of parity memory (~$37 for 16MB). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would assume these devices use regular floppy drives.
There seems to be some interesting info here:
http://www.multimania.com/multia/
According to google there once was information on digital's website, but it would appear that digital has finally become one with that evil, unsupportive hardware empire, aka Compaq.
Compaq can make monitors (and that's about it
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No more than you can use both the 10bT and 10b2 ports on a cheap nic.
But it does have two pcmcia slots, and you can put a cheap pcmcia nic in one
This is just like television, only you can see much further.
While these boxes are dirt slow, they are great platforms for testing the portability of your code. Since they are both big-endian and 64bit all the size and byte order problems are covered.
And it's damn cool to tell people that you own an Alpha.
(btw, for those of you getting one, external SCSI is the only way to go, $50-100 for a drive and $30 for an enclosure.. and no heat problems).
Granted, I might just be an idiot. This was my only experience with alphas, so it was a whole new world for me. But I was trying to get Linux to run on it, and that I'm familiar with. I did read a lot of similar experiences on Usenet around that time, though (there was a whole crop of these things cheap on ebay), so I'm inclined to think maybe they are just a bitch to set up.
I did hear later that the guy got Digital Unix to run on it. He had a brother-in-law that worked for DEC, or something. No way could many of us afford a licensed copy of DEC Unix. :-)
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Is this another one of the "free as long as you can deal with our advertising" type promotions?
Okay. So no hard drives, RAM, etc., that's understandable. But since I know squat about Alphas, a few questions:
/. readers are going to have them all bought up rather quickly.
What kinds of RAM/HD do they tolerate? Can I stick an IDE drive and some EDO RAM in, or do I need to buy funky Alpha-based hardware?
Can anyone think of a good reason not to buy one?
I have a feeling that, if I want one, I'd better hurry, as
Thanks.
Wow, I wrote this a long time ago.
Sorry, i guess I was temporarily blind or something...
My ass is so broke I cannot even come up with $30 for one of these babies. Grrr.
Multias are really slow by today's standards, and require some pretty expensive add-on hardware to function properly. You're probably better off buying a second hand Pentium and putting Linux on it. The only attraction would be the nice case - oh, and of course "Alpha" bragging rights :)
I got mine about a week after I ordered. I would say it was worthwhile for the ~$6 I paid for shipping and handling. I can atleast turn of the lights in my room from this thing.
Anyone see their PIA system yet? I can't seem to find any picture of it on their web site.
I ordered mine on 6/23 and it was shipped on 7/6. It didn't come from Seattle, but from Cluster NJ. Took quite awhile to recieve.
First, a lot of these boxes have very tired cmos batteries. They won't boot if the battery voltage is too low. They use a standard 4.5 volt battery, and in my case i ended up taping together three AAA batteries.
Second, these do indeed run hot. I had one running at about head-level on top of some other equipment. The experience was not unlike blowdrying my hair. But there are some things you can do to improve the situation.
Most importantly, run these in vertical configuration, processor end up. This is the side with more holes drilled in the casing. These all came from the factory with a metal bracket to hold them upright, but some are now missing them. Mine is missing that bracket.
Also, you may notice there's two wires leading out from the fan clipped to the side of the power supply with a little dark thing about the size of a match head attached. This is a temperature sensor, and in many cases these are no longer effective. If you clip those wires, the fan will spin at it's top speed instead of relying on a temperature reading from the sensor. This, in addition to running the system in the vertical position, often overcomes overheating problems.
You can put just about any PCI video card that will fit in these, if you have the right riser card for the job. But the xfree86 ports to linux/alpha don't support nearly as many cards as the intel version. The Matrox mil2 is very popular in these. I have a #9 motion 771 in mine. s3 vision 968. It barely fits.
If you want a little more oomph in an alpha, computersurplusoutlet.com in vegas is selling 266mhz alpha-pci motherboards for $150, including the processor. These, like the multia, are a 21064 processor, and none too fast, but they are a bit snappier. They need +3.3v supplied from the power supply in addition to the usual voltages - it would be possible to modify a cheap ATX power supply to supply the regular AT voltages and the additional 3.3v, and thus avoid buying the hugely expensive power supply ComputerSurplusOutlet tries to pawn off with it.
standard disclaimers apply, I don't work for anyone, blah blah blah. (well, i have a job, but, you know.)
This is just like television, only you can see much further.
I've ordered several times from X10 recently (camera, firecracker, wireless video, etc.), and all orders have arrived almost immediately. You just weren't lucky.
I bought one of these 9 months back for 90$
I only have 16 MB of 72-pin true parity ram and i i can't seem the get FreeBSD running on this machine though i have had NT running on it. The docs say that 24MB is required for this machine... anyone run in to similiar problems?
Anyway i went through an interesting ordeal getting nt up on this machine... (i got to splice scsi cables so i could hook a more than one device onto the machine and i used the power supply from an old 5 1/4 external floppy drive to power the cd rom).
-dox.... dox@pezdispenser.net Email me if you have suggestions to do with this box:)
p.s. This would make a great IRC box on a friends dsl:) for those of us who aren't lucky enough to be within range:(
Multias only support 166 & 233Mc 21066 processors, not the 21064. You might be thinking of the AlphaStations, which use the 21064(A) line.
First of all, I remember the big deal with all of the Multias a while ago (januaryish?) and apparenty some people got them to work and others turned them into paperweights. I noticed that they were selling tech support for $25 an hour...which is cheap as tech support goes, but you will probably need it.
Anyway, here is the thing that really bugs me. The Linux Store is selling linux boxes as its main product apparently. Makes me wonder why I get this:
[~]>telnet www.thelinuxstore.com 80
Trying 216.160.206.18...
Connected to www.thelinuxstore.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Location: http://216.160.206.18/index.htm
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:39:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:39:08 GMT
ETag: "076d79aacafbe1:51c2"
Content-Length: 1476
Hmm...I would be skeptical about their commitment to be honest. As a business, I wouldn't buy from someone who didn't run the product they sell, makes me question the quality of the product. Like when Microsoft didn't upgrade to IIS 3.0 on www.microsoft.com until 6 months after it came out.
My Slashdot account is old enough to drink...
It is a bit slow compared to my main box, but it's been quite a bit of fun getting it running.
I first installed RH 6.0 on it, and most recently I installed Debian 2.1 just for kicks. My main problem has been getting X to work properly.
Unfortunately, it never arrived and he has been too busy to track things down with the company... If it is the came company, I hope that if you pay the shipping you really will get the machine.
I know it sounds radical, but I don't buy anything off the net unless the company uses some type of *nix for their server. It's disgusting how many "linux sites" use M$ for their web server and ordering.
Also, I look at any "job opportunity" links and see if *nix is a strong requirement. If it says "VB and NT", I go shop somewhere else.
I also scan the IT magazines and look for M$ stormtroopers, like the head of IT at a major online bookseller. (Hint: It's NOT amazon...)
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Are there BIOS chips for the network card available anywhere that will allow diskless/NFS bootup? That would be real sweet! If there is code available for an EPROM available, I might be inclined to build a burner myself! :)
This is totally off topic, but is there a command in Unix that will tell you which flavor and version you are currently running? I'm telnetting so there arent any visual cues, and when I login, it just says "welcome", instead of Digital Unix or whatever. Sorry about the offtopic but I'm kinda desperate.
Just a couple of places you can get info, in case you are interested in getting one of these Multias and putting Linux on it.
http://www.alphalinux.org has lots of great Alpha and Linux/Alpha docs, news, and links.
The Linux/Alpha mailing list hosted by Redhat is an excellent source of information, too - go to http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/axp-list/ for a searchable index.
AlphaPowered,
Craig
well, they already can boot over the network (this thing is a PC with workstation features). you can have it use bootp to get it's IP address, then TFTP the kernel. if the kernel has root-NFS stuff enabled then yes, it can boot the rest of the way off of that. that's the majority of what i did to do the over-the-network installation...
Hehehe... Funny...
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I don't see why they need to wait till the Linux version of Cold Fusion is out. They could do everything they're doing now with PHP and it doesn't seem like they have very complex scripts to port (the site seems to consist of 5-6 scripts total). Why not use the same tools as the community that you're serving? I'm alwyas leery of people who won't use their own product.
I'm going to be getting an AMD486DX3/100 back from a loan in a few days. I've got 24MB of RAM ( I don't expect to be able to use any of it in an Alpha :( ) and a Quantum 2.5GB 3.5" EIDE drive in it. I've also got a standard desktop 3.5" floppy drive lying around.
:)
FWIW, that RAM consists of one 16MB 72pin SIMM, with 8 1MB 30pin SIMMs. I don't know about parity on any of them.
I'm planning to put FreeBSD on this thing and use it to power my own domain with services off my DSL line.
Would it be feasable to grab one of these things instead?
Could someone who knows these systems please tell me everything I would need to make a headless server box. I have a spare screen/keyboard lying around for the setup.
Also, how well does FreeBSD currently run on these things? It's been too long since i've used it.
Oh, and just to piss people off : FIRST POST!
By that I mean this is my first post to slashdot, up until now i've just been a lurker.
Totally off-topic, but why do I have to add [BR]s to my sig to get it to show right in Plain Old Text preview?
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http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url
/invalid_url was not found on this server.
Not Found
The requested URL
Apache/1.3.6 Server at homepages.msn.com Port 4890
They had a noted earlier this year that the only reason they were hosted on NT servers is because the Shopping Cart software used only ran on NT. They then claimed that a port to Linux was in the process and they should be on Linux soon. So much for soon.
Don't blame me, teach me!
The NetBSD folks have put together a FAQ about the Multia, which includes information on a part that needs to be replaced to help avoid heat death.
Note that this is a fairly slow machine, mostly due to the very slow memory controller in it; DRAM access is about one half to one third the speed of a Pentium at the same clock speed.
In terms of disk and stuff like that, if you get one just to play with cheaply, you can just net boot it (at least under NetBSD).
cjs
The world's most portable OS: http://www.netbsd.org.
(Sending a Multia like this down the Ecuator would be... ahn... something like $100 or more!)
Cesar Cardoso can be found at cesar at zyakannazio dot eti dot br (or at least I believe so)
when i turn on my multia (bought it new, when it was new... oh well, i've done dumber things.) i get an error message in the SRM that says that the arc cant be loaded, any ideas on what to do?
snagey@usa.net
... I booted up my diskless multia. First time its been turned on since may 2nd (according to syslog). It makes a nice foot rest (it even heats your feet for free!). I got the box from onsale a while back for $50, it came with ram and floppy ohwever. Being the cheap bastard I am, I really havent added any hardware to it. Its currently running redhat 5.2 with nfs for a root disk. All it does, when its up, is run rc5des, it gets about 90 some kkeys/sec, to give you an idea of a performance rating. My old 486 dx2/66 got around 60 kkeys/sec.
These seem small enough for a car, can they run mp3's without downgrading the sound?
It's possible that they are not hosting the website themselves, but outsourcing it to an ISP or web hosting company - in which case they would most likely not have a choice over which web server is used to serve up their pages.
I'm all for Linux/Apache, etc. but I think you're jumping to conclusions by saying that they're dishonest because whoever hosts their website is running NT+IIS.
Indeed. In fact, they don't seem to have even looked at their own site from a Unix box. That's why it's full of font tags setting the face to Arial. On my Netscape, that renders as Courier, because unsurprisingly, Arial (being a Micros~1 font) isn't available. What they should be doing is specifying alternative fonts like Helvetica and a generic font family (in this case, "sans-serif").
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
I've been trying to call them now for several minutes, and no one answers the phone. I guess they are slashdotted. This is only second-hand information, but a friend of mine who tried to order them earlier this morning reported that their sales crew didn't know what he was talking about when he wanted to order the multias.
I'm not much to spend money on geek toys, but I've got a 2gig 2.5" IDE drive sitting around doing nothing, so I figure it's not that much money that I'd have to spend. If only I could successfully call them on the phone...
This may be a first, I think their phones have been Slashdotted. Busy signals, no answers, a voicemail system that will take no more calls...
I feel for the receptionist right now..
I've given up networking to become a monk. Worrying about my immortal soul was less stressful than providing 100% uptim
Are those minature toasters next to your dell?
I know their speakers but they look alot like little toasters.
=^)
-w/k
-Jelly Musher, King of the Wompas
For what it's worth, here is a picture of my UDB multia. I stuffed this puppy with a 4gig Seagate SCSI drive (ignore the 2gig Quantum shown), 96mb of parity RAM (maxed), and a self-wired external SCSI connector.
The system does run pretty hot (makes a very nice hand warmer in the winter). It's about the equivalent speed of a Pentium 90/100. It's currently running Red Hat 5.2 and is being used as an NFS server for mounting home dirs on the LAN, but I'm going to convert it to a dedicated web/database intranet server. Ocassionally I run rc5 and seti on it, although it's a dog of course. :)
Has anyone gotten the PCMCIA slots to work? It would be useful if I could put in a 10/100Mbit PCMCIA ethernet card. If you have, what's your experience with performance/problems?
-phillip
I was told by the rep that they only had ones with upgrades. When I told him I didn't need any, he said "Hold on; I think someone is canceling." He then came back and told me that I got the last bare-bones unit. I'm curious if anyone else was told this.
after business hours :-(
I just got an answering machine
"Become who you are." -Nietzsche
If you really want a Multia do a search on EBay. You can find some full systems for fairly cheap--it'll save you a lot of headache in the long run [rather than finding all the missing parts].
I was thinking about getting a Multia just for Alpha bragging rights, but I checked out the NetBSD page and it mentions a few times on how the Multias aren't really reliable, run really hot, and in general aren't a good deal. Adding the correct memory would probably be much more expensive than it's worth too.
I'm typing this from a Multia, so I suppose I know enough about them to get them running. You'll need:
:)
* True parity SIMMs (in pairs). In other words, not EDO. These SIMMs come at a premium price today, though you can usually pick up some on Ebay cheaply.
* Floppy drive - this is (I think) a standard laptop floppy. You'll likely want to have one available for the install.
* Hard drive. My Multia uses an internal 3.5" SCSI drive. They can use 2.5" SCSI drives or 2.5" IDE drives as well, though I've heard you have to update the firmware to get the IDE working.
* Keyboard/mouse - Normal PS/2 stuff.
* Video - 256 colors, pretty much any res/refresh rate you want Normal VGA connector.
* Network - AUI, 10bT, 10b2. Pick one.
* Serial - semi-standard. You should be able to hook a modem up with a normal 25-pin cable. There's a funky cable available that can split up the port into two ports.
* Parallel - standard.
What you can put inside depends on what riser card you get. One allows for an internal 3.5" drive. The other allows only a 2.5" drive, but also provides on PCI slot.
-- Rick
I have a nice little UDB sitting next to me. You can see a picture of it here and I also have some information on my experience w/installing RH 5.2 on it here :)
They are a great machine and cheap. Get one just to say "I have an Alpha"
Would it be able to run OpenVMS for Alpha?
I paid $300 for a Multia about 2 years ago. Here are my observations:
... If I can get one tomorrow, it's going next to my bed.)
1) Not a great desktop machine. The last time I checked, there wasn't a version of Netscape (or any other quality browser) that runs on Linux Alpha.
2) Runs slow, and pretty hot.
Would I do it again? YES! (In fact, I will if I can get through tomorrow with all the other Slash'ers no doubt calling in.) The machine does run Linux quite nicely, and it has made a WONDERFUL gateway for my DSL modem. It's been 100% reliable. (I think they would also make a pretty nice little X client
They're in a great little form factor, and you should see the jaws on the techies drop when I tell them that I'm running my home's firewall on an Alpha box.
HOW SWEET IT IS!
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I bought one of these for ~$70.00 a while ago with no floppy. It _is_ possible to install Linux on this machine without using a floppy disk or even pre-loading anything onto the HD you are going to use! I installed RH5.2 on it completely over the network. It isn't all that difficult, but if you want instructions send me an e-mail...
Dan Moore
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You could always do something constructive with procmail though.. either bounce it straight back or stick an EXITCODE in or something :)
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I mentioned this last time Multia's showed up on Slashdot, and figured it was worth mentioning again. I have a couple of them. At $30 bare, they're not necessarily a good deal. They take true-parity RAM. Its not that easy to find, most parity RAM today is not true-parity. Trust me, they won't work without it. I've tried.
Obviously you can't do much without the floppy drive. Figure $30 to get one from a place like Starship Computers. Most Multia's I've seen recently being sold do not have an external SCSI port, so you'll have to figure out a way to jam a harddrive in the case. Don't put anything too expensive, Multia's are space heaters, it won't last very long. You might be able to put a IDE notebook drive, but you'll need to find a cable that works with the smaller IDE connector.
Have I mentioned that they're SLOW? A 166 mhz Multia is a LOT slower than a 166 Pentium. *MUCH* slower. Can't say that too many times. *MUCH* *MUCH* slower. Most of the 166's were not socketed, so you can't even upgrade them to the older 233 processor (which again some places like Starship Computers sometimes are selling on onsale.com)
They're interesting to have to be able to play with an Alpha, and you'll have the honor of telling people you've got the slowest Alpha on the block! FIgure on spending another $300 or so to get anything useful out of it, and useful is a relative term. I run secondary DNS and DHCP on one. I ran a print server for a while using Ghostscript, but it took the poor guy five minutes to rasterize a page.
I don't usually respond to off-topic posts but I wanted to throw my comments in on this one. I got my X10 stuff within two weeks. Sorry to hear that I'm the exception rather than the rule...
I also started getting more SPAM emails from them than I ever imagined possible. I think they send out nearly two messages a day. HEY X10, NOT A GREAT WAY TO MAKE FRIENDS! Of course I'll opt-out when I'm on the net and actually remember, but in the mean time, it sucks.
-Derek
www.thelinuxstore.com runs on NT.. I just thought this was interesting.
bash# lynx http://www.slashdot.org >>/dev/geek
Check for yourself: http://www.netcraft.com/w hats/?host=www.thelinuxstore.com
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bash# lynx http://www.slashdot.org >>/dev/geek
Matt on IRC
Hey All,
./'ed ! Please bear with us as we attempt to catch up on the backlog of calls and emails. We are setting up a web based order page for the Multia's at www.thelinuxstore.com.
Just wanted to let everyone know...Due to a weekend posting on slashdot about our Multia Giveaway, our phone system has be
Due to the overwhelming response, we may need to limit orders to 1 Multia per order.
Thanks for all your interest and support. Don't forget to stop by our booth at linux world expo and see our new PIA unveiled !!
Steve Hindle
Director of Linux Product Development/CTO
The Linux Store
www.thelinuxstore.com
Stephen Hindle
Director of Linux Product Development/CTO
I think I have one of these, which I got for free, but it sounds like an Avanti system. The Multias are the UDB.
i have one of these at home. yes, it does run a bit hot, but thats fine. have had no problems with redhat other than the documented bug with the installation. aside form that, every time i log on to my pentium i have it bring up a remote X session to it, just need to change the wm thats running on it now. have yet to figure out how much video ram the thing has though.
Yes, they'll run OpenVMS. You need to be part of the OpenVMS Hobbyist program (basically a member of DECUS). Also it requires some unsupported patches. NOTE: You can only run OpenVMS on a Multia in a Hobbyist configuration.
:^)
I think it supports the video, but I don't believe it supports the sound board.
Personally I prefer the AS500 I bought to run OpenVMS after the Hobbyist program started supporting OpenVMS on the Alpha
Actually, at the bottom of those x10 spams are a quick link that you click on sending you to their "unsubscribe" page. Don't even have to confirm it.
I live only 300 miles from Seattle, ordered my firecracker last Friday. Have yet to see it. Normally stuff from Seattle gets here in 3 or 4 days, not more than a week.
-nicole
So I am not the only one. . .that is good to hear. Good luck!
If you can find them, the AlphaStation 200's are a much better deal and are of higher quality.
The AS200's come in 100, 166, 233, and 266Mhz variations. All are 21064 or 21064A-based.
One upside is that the AlphaStations are officially supported by OpenVMS, while the Multias are not (originally meant as NT boxes only).
I work at an ISP where we use multias running NT (blah -- what a waste..but anyway) for both name servers, two internal proxy servers, a VPN server, i think one other random thing.. ;)
In any case, these machines are ROCK SOLID. One of our name servers had been up for more than a year recently when we had to unplug it to physically move it..I can't recall one of them ever going down unless we (A) took it down on purpose (B) bumped the external SCSI cables (they don't like that) or (C) tried to do more than one thing at a time under NT.
They do run hot, but in an HVAC environment this is not problem -- we have 5 or 6 standing up side-by-side on a single 19" shelf and they stay cool enough to run fine. I've seen them run fine in normal room-temperature environments too -- just be careful not to burn your feet if you put it under the desk.
I will note, however, that I was unsuccessful getting RedHat 5.x or NetBSD to work on my personal Multia..RedHat had random core dumps and BSD crashed every few days..might have been I got bum hardware, though. I did have some luck installing a recent rev of DEC Unix (new enough to say Compaq in places, but not Tru64)..but then never left it up long enough to say for certain it was stable.
Speed-wise, it wasn't anything impressive. I'd say unless you can get your hands on some 'Tru64' (ugh, if ever needed marketing be shot..) to run on it, they're probably not worth the hassle.
Call X10 directly and nag them! It took a month for them to send me mine. The Sales Associate will be very nice to you, I think the problem is with the ordering system to Shipping system but that's just a guess.
Neil Cherry - Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I got my X-10 stuff after about 2 or 3 weeks.. And have yet to receive a single slab of spam from the company (this is almost a month later now). Methinks the order-taker misspelled my e-mail address. =)
-Lime
OT, but anyhow...
i've been looking over the hobbyist OVMS program. does 7.2 come with the POSIX pak (UN*X tools and the bourne shell), or is it straight DCL now?
I have sent two emails to the email address listed on their webpage and received no response back. I guess that's the nice way of saying you won't be receiving one.
Anyone able to get the PCMCIA to work under Redhat 6? I'd rather not use a PCI NIC 'cause that's where the 3.5" SCSI lives now. I futzed with the external SCSI connector to hook that baby up. These little things rock.. Just replace the stock fan & run it on the side & heat's no prob. I'd still like to find a replacement CPU & mess with overclocking (hey what's this 300mhz jumper?? :-) ) Sure beats the 486-66 Im using for a firewall right now.
I was just wondering if anyone else was overbilled? I had an extra $96 tacked on for memory when I did not ask for it.
I emailed the guy listed on the web page twice, as well as calling him. Never received any reply. I have a feeling these boxes were gone after the first hour the ad was posted.
Try
:o)
http://www.x10.com/removeme.cgi?emai l@host.com
(replace email@host.com with the email address the spam is coming to, duh)
to get removed from the x10 spam.
I'd rather get a NLX case/MB and use standard PC hardware. I don't like the idea of scrounging for obscure (and likely expensive) hardware to get a free box working. Of course, anything free is cool, so I may have to get one anyway...
BTW- I've read that older Mac hard drives work well in the Multias...
--Lenny
This one is still pretty cheap, and it's got everything you need except an HD. http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=137722173