Since it seems like your idea of six machines hasn't been shot to hell
enough yet, I think I'll point out some other things. First off, Jester
sucks. I know you're just starting your life away from mom and pops,
but you'll soon realize it. They are the filthiest, nastiest, most
prison-like place to live in Austin. The facades are all horribly ugly,
and as most Jester people know, the guy who designed it also designed
Alcatraz. Even the electricity in that place is screwey. For example,
whenever I shut down my computer, my stereo gets louder.... I would
imagine that the dorm plugs are not designed to accomodate six computers
pulling power on them. You've got like two outlets on each side of the
room. You'd have to have like multiplug strip plugged into multiplug
strip to accomodate 6 computers, a monitor, assumably a printer, hub,
etc etc etc. I'd imagine that you'd throw a breaker or start a fire
sooner or later. Keep in mind that Jester is the BIGGEST dorm in the
WORLD. There was another one in Russia that was larger, but it burned
down. So, do us all a favor since housing around campus is hard enough
to find without the largest public dorm burning down, and don't bring
six freaking computers into Jester. Put all of your HDs in one machine
and sextuple boot or whatever with lilo/syscommander/whatever you have
to use, and if you don't have the HD space, buy bigger ones, they're
cheap.
Yours Truly,
George Winn
Kjohn Sasitorn wrote:
>
> Wow... in my day (which wasn't very long ago), we only had time to study...
> It'd be nice to have time to do some outside of class programming. My
> suggestion to you is to bring one of them if you want. (or bring all and not
> hook 'em up to resnet). Have you seen your dormroom? It's very small and I'm
> sure your roommate won't like the idea of having five additional
> computers... Think about the space requirement for your six and his one
> computer (a total of seven). We had to sacrifice a mirror in the room to put
> our tv up! Good luck fitting them all. Let me know if you actually do. That
> way next time when people claim my car/apt is too cramped, I'll use you as
> an example!
>
> -ks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Sportsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 9:13 AM
> To: Kjohn Sasitorn
> Cc: Brian Swick; Siglinux
> Subject: RE: Resnet Policy
>
> I do use them all. One is a sparc 5 running solaris 7, another an indigo 2
> running irix 6.5, an x86 running openbsd 2.5, another x86 running redhat
> 6.0 linux, an x86 running windows98, and a laptop running NT. I need all
> of them. It's kinda hard to program asm 370 on x86 architecture, kinda
> hard to do bsd socket programming from a windowz box, and kinda hard to
> play games from an obsd machine. I need all my machines :)
>
> Nathan
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Kjohn Sasitorn wrote:
>
> > There are public regularly updated statistics on http://resnet.utexas.edu
> (I
> > think that's the site...) There are even snazzy charts so anyone can see
> > usage patterns... I DL'd a redhat iso in the middle of the night and
> noticed
> > a spike the next morning on the chart. A friend of mine decided to run a
> > server, and after about a week online, he had a constant gig constantly
> > moving... Needless to say. he was contacted and given a warning... (I
> think
> > probation was next)... If you have 6 computers, why hook them up if you
> > don't use them really? Why does anyone need 6 computers in a UT dorm
> room??
> > All the dormrooms are tiny... I barely fit one.
> >
> > -ks
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Swick
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 2:10 PM
> > To: Nathan Sportsman
> > Cc: Sig Linux
> > Subject: Re: Resnet Policy
> >
> >
> > Bandwidth is a big deal on a campus with 40000+ students. Resnet offers 2
> > ports per room and they don't want people sapping bandwidth on an already
> > saturated network. Breaking policy = port shutoff and additional
> > punishments if they see fit. They do monitor traffic and usage pretty
> > heavily so tamper with it at your own risk. If you ask me, screwing with
> > computing resources isn't worth a year of school probation. Trust me on
> > this one.
> >
> > Brian Swick
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nathan Sportsman wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This comming fall I'll be attending UT as a freshman and staying in
> > > Jester. I've look over some of the policy guidelines for using UT's
> > > network. One of the big no no's they mention is not extending the
> ethernet
> > > port beyond its current capabilites including hubs, routers, etc. Why
> and
> > > is this really a big deal? I have 6 machines that I plan to network
> > > together using linux and ipchains as the front end box to allow
> > > the rest of the machines access to the Internet. I'm not going to use
> any
> > > of these machines as a server, and setting this up isn't going to take
> > > away anymore of UT's bandwidth. So is this really a big deal, and if it
> is
> > > what are the penalties if your caught? I saw something mentioning
> shutting
> > > off your port?!?
> > >
> > > Nathan
> > >
> > >
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