Hi. I'm jon.404, a Unix/Linux/Database/Openstack/Kubernetes Administrator, AWS/GCP/Azure Engineer, mathematics enthusiast, and amateur philosopher. This is where I rant about that which upsets me, laugh about that which amuses me, and jabber about that which holds my interest most: *nix.
RIP x86
I've had a goofy x86 pizza box for over a decade, some early PIII with 256 MB RAM. It has a couple of odd features, namely it boots off of CF and has dual on-board NICs, that made it a nice firewall machine. I got it when the ISP next door to the company I was working at went out of business, and the network guys didn't feel like hauling all the gear off.
Only problem is, it is the only 32 bit machine in my inventory, and I've been putting off upgrading it. Luck has it, fate chose for me that I'd need to upgrade. My trusty 32 bit OpenBSD box finally bit it a few days ago.
I purchased an ancient Dell R200 on ebay (you know the listing...1x dual core, 2GB RAM, no HDD, for a song), popped in a SATA drive I had laying around, and copied my configs off of the CF to the new machine after installing 5.8-STABLE (amd64, of course...sweet).
I'm going to miss that old pizza box. It was a dependable machine right up until the last few days. Hardware like that (especially intel 32 bit) is somewhat rare.
But even though I'll miss the pizza box, I have a fun machine (with considerably more CPU power, RAM, storage, etc...) to use over the next few years, but probably no where near as long as the last one...I plan on upgrading this box at some point to trunk a 10G link to my 3560...and I somehow doubt this machine has the capacity (not to mention, the PCIe slots haha) to pull that off.
That will have to wait for another day, though. Today I'm just happy to have stable internet again =)
Only problem is, it is the only 32 bit machine in my inventory, and I've been putting off upgrading it. Luck has it, fate chose for me that I'd need to upgrade. My trusty 32 bit OpenBSD box finally bit it a few days ago.
I purchased an ancient Dell R200 on ebay (you know the listing...1x dual core, 2GB RAM, no HDD, for a song), popped in a SATA drive I had laying around, and copied my configs off of the CF to the new machine after installing 5.8-STABLE (amd64, of course...sweet).
I'm going to miss that old pizza box. It was a dependable machine right up until the last few days. Hardware like that (especially intel 32 bit) is somewhat rare.
But even though I'll miss the pizza box, I have a fun machine (with considerably more CPU power, RAM, storage, etc...) to use over the next few years, but probably no where near as long as the last one...I plan on upgrading this box at some point to trunk a 10G link to my 3560...and I somehow doubt this machine has the capacity (not to mention, the PCIe slots haha) to pull that off.
That will have to wait for another day, though. Today I'm just happy to have stable internet again =)
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