So... here I am in the DC area (this house used to be in the country 20 years ago... now its nearly city!) anyway... I just got a computer online (now to get a linux box running!) To make a long painful story short, Ive fried my good computers (and 4 hard disks) on bad electricity... (old house, no grounding/old fusebox melting down!)
Im down to really crappy old computers (yes sub 200mhz computers!) but I do have broadband internet access! anyway... on to the surprise part.... I brought one hub, but forgot to bring the powersupply for it (DOH!) I went to some thrift shops to see If I could find a cheap power supply for it, no luck :( but I did find an old pentium 133 comptuer for $15! so I got that (hey... why fry good hard drives when you can fry a $15 computer instead!) (thats not the surpise... keep reading!) So I walk into a Radio Shack to get a universal power supply... After sorting through the many various ones, I find one for about $15 (this is the cheapest one I find... one is $40!) but Im thinking heck... for $20-30 I can get a new hub or switch... so I ask the guy if they sell hubs or switches... they point me to the right area, but dont have any on the shelf... so I tell the guy, and and say hey... I hate to spend $15 on a power supply if he has a hub or switch I can buy for not much more and they guy goes in the back and pulls out 8 port switch that looks like its been in the store for a year or more (and reshelved more than a few times...) I think he couldnt find it in the comptuer for the price, so he sells it to me for $10 (hey now thats quite the bargain (but not the surpise... read on!) I get home hook it up, it works just fine... now the surpise! It comes with a copy of Turbo Linux!!!! who would have guessed that when you get a switch, you get linux! Im not a big fan of turbo linux, and wont use it, but I did think it was really cool it came with linux :) well... I have a lot of stuff to do... but thought Id share my most recent linux find :) Jamie _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
