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Leonard, Phil Phil.Leonard at dsionline.com
Thu Mar 18 15:17:27 CST 2004


>it's better to sit back and troll than pull a slashdot move like that =]
>
>on the other hand, so its not completely off topic... anyone running on
>sparc64's? if so, why would vi be seg faulting when trying to open 'large'
>files, 10mb or so? is it just me having this problem? i've google'd like
>madd and can't find anything useful on the subject.
>i'm starting to miss vi!
>i think the problem just started last week or so.. havent really upgraded
>anything that SHOULD have broke it. opening smaller files work great. hm.
>other than that, the ultra 10 has made a great replacement for my 1.4ghz
>athlon xp.
>also.. what is there cool to do with a load of ultra 1's?
>originally i planned on sticking gentoo+openmosix on em, but didn't really 
>read the
>FAQ's on sparc prior, since there are none/not yet ported. now i'm stuck
>with 7 or so ultra 1's that i really can't find anything useful to do
>with. sort of afraid to power them all on anyways, with the current load 
>in the
>basement, hah.

How about put distcc on them.  If you are running gentoo that would certainly help on emerge's.

Speaking of sparc64 and gentoo, anybody running gentoo on an E4500 or similar?

Philip




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