Actually its available ever since the switch to PCI from Nubus, which happened slightly after the PPC switch. 61xx, 71xx, and 81xx (and possibly others?) are Nubus based and do not have Open Firmware. Not intending to be nitpicky:)
Maybe I wasn't paying attention enough when scanning the comments so far, but I don't think I've seen this. What'd be more fun to play with and/or be more useful after you've hacked it? A linux box or a windows box? It's like deciding whether to go after a piggy bank or a bank vault. Thicker crunchy outside perhaps, but a creamy center that is several orders of magnitude yummier...
Well, at ISU, they do the Krb4/Krb5/OpenAFS/Hesiod thing, so everyone has a krb login, a home dir in afs space, and account info in hesiod. Where I worked my supervisor and myself (mostly him) set up a lab full of linux boxes that would authenticate against the krb servers (with PAM), grab AFS tokens, and the whole shebang worked pretty darn well.
I've played w/ it some on my own time and its not terribly hard to set up the very same services on a linux box, although I can't claim to have been host to large numbers of users;)
On a side note, I've been messing w/ a custom login authenticator plugin and a hesiod-ified NetInfo that I put togther and can do the same thing with my OS X box. One day I may even finish it... If anyone else is interested, gimme a holler and I'll work more on it - have been letting it languish for a wee bit.
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Sounds suspiciously like some fool crossed the streams.
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Actually its available ever since the switch to PCI from Nubus, which happened slightly after the PPC switch. 61xx, 71xx, and 81xx (and possibly others?) are Nubus based and do not have Open Firmware. Not intending to be nitpicky :)
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Maybe I wasn't paying attention enough when scanning the comments so far, but I don't think I've seen this. What'd be more fun to play with and/or be more useful after you've hacked it? A linux box or a windows box? It's like deciding whether to go after a piggy bank or a bank vault. Thicker crunchy outside perhaps, but a creamy center that is several orders of magnitude yummier...
Amen brutha.
Methinks correct capitalization or none at all works best. Offtopic perhaps, but flamebait? I think not...
Actually, the vast majority of college students are just too poor to do that. You can buy an alarming amount of ramen noodles for the price of a CD.
Although you could probably send a package or two of ramen directly to the artist and everyone would come out ahead...
Forgot to mention this, but the student body is around 25k + faculty and staff, so their setup is fairly decently sized.
cheers,
luphus
Well, at ISU, they do the Krb4/Krb5/OpenAFS/Hesiod thing, so everyone has a krb login, a home dir in afs space, and account info in hesiod. Where I worked my supervisor and myself (mostly him) set up a lab full of linux boxes that would authenticate against the krb servers (with PAM), grab AFS tokens, and the whole shebang worked pretty darn well.
;)
I've played w/ it some on my own time and its not terribly hard to set up the very same services on a linux box, although I can't claim to have been host to large numbers of users
On a side note, I've been messing w/ a custom login authenticator plugin and a hesiod-ified NetInfo that I put togther and can do the same thing with my OS X box. One day I may even finish it... If anyone else is interested, gimme a holler and I'll work more on it - have been letting it languish for a wee bit.
cheers,
luphus
Sounds suspiciously like some fool crossed the streams.
What about all of those unfortunate H1B Tech Mastercard workers? Did anyone think about them???