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I've had a *nix machine to call my own for a long time. | I've had a *nix machine to call my own for a long time. | ||
It started with my parent's cast-off 386 that I swear had a crack in the motherboard. I | It started with my parent's cast-off 386 that I swear had a crack in the motherboard. I painstakingly installed slack via floppy. This was the year I returned to Toronto from university in Waterloo. 1995 maybe? | ||
At university I had the 386, but it had windows 3.1 on it, and I didn't use it much at all | At university I had the 386, but it had windows 3.1 on it, and I didn't use it much at all; no network connection. I think I had tried to get FreeBSD running on it, but failed miserably. | ||
And besides I had the university computer labs I could use. They were way better | And besides I had the university computer labs I could use. They were way better, Especially when the Pentium 75 labs were opened. | ||
So I returned to Toronto and had this 386, and had a job at | So I returned to Toronto and had this 386, and had a job at University of Toronto surveying the systems and network. | ||
By day I would wander the halls of UofT and return to a cubby hole of a desk to swap floppies | By day I would wander the halls of UofT and return to a cubby hole of a desk to swap [http://www.slackware.com/] floppies I was writing; so that by night , I could sit in front of _my own_ computer, and swap floppies and light up a slackware machine. | ||
I did eventually get it to ppp+ chap in | I did eventually get it to ppp+ chap into university of toronto stuff. \o/ | ||
From where I got a job at an ISP at younge and maitland: On-It Cyber Cafe. It was an ISP in a box, with a pastry desk. Pretty hilarious in retrosepct. We had a lone sun micro system, like a spac 20 running netscape suite : EMail , web service , ldap , radius, _integrated_ , _slick_. I did manage to login to that system, a bank of 24 cardinal modems. | |||
== Jing == | == Jing == | ||
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I've had a *nix machine to call my own for a long time.
It started with my parent's cast-off 386 that I swear had a crack in the motherboard. I painstakingly installed slack via floppy. This was the year I returned to Toronto from university in Waterloo. 1995 maybe?
At university I had the 386, but it had windows 3.1 on it, and I didn't use it much at all; no network connection. I think I had tried to get FreeBSD running on it, but failed miserably.
And besides I had the university computer labs I could use. They were way better, Especially when the Pentium 75 labs were opened.
So I returned to Toronto and had this 386, and had a job at University of Toronto surveying the systems and network.
By day I would wander the halls of UofT and return to a cubby hole of a desk to swap [1] floppies I was writing; so that by night , I could sit in front of _my own_ computer, and swap floppies and light up a slackware machine.
I did eventually get it to ppp+ chap into university of toronto stuff. \o/
From where I got a job at an ISP at younge and maitland: On-It Cyber Cafe. It was an ISP in a box, with a pastry desk. Pretty hilarious in retrosepct. We had a lone sun micro system, like a spac 20 running netscape suite : EMail , web service , ldap , radius, _integrated_ , _slick_. I did manage to login to that system, a bank of 24 cardinal modems.
Jing
FIXME
BOAW
Moose
pemberton DC
Athena.quadratic.net
put athena out of service.
Keres
Basement server - so much less tuff going on.
abit of a mess, mostly forgotten , centOS 7.
Ran public services for a bit, but public stuff has all been moved to the clust ( AWS ).
