Spring Ultra 5

Yeah, so it’s the Friday prior to Spring Break and I decide to skip class and go to Surplus. Hmm, it was more interesting that usual. Some guy started to yell at me since I was eyeing a HP server he bought. It already sold!!! Damn, I didn’t want that x86 floor server anyway (it looked at least 10U and had wheels). Wandered to the back near the place where the guy who’s name I never get but who knows me. There it was, a Sun Ultra 5. To make a long story short, I was carrying out an Ultra 5 under my arm along with a Type 5 keyboard and mouse in my bookbag, while my wallet was five dollars lighter and my head wondering if the guy was right about the video not possibly working. Meh, he either didn’t have a keyboard plugged in or pick a wrong monitor (Sun doesn’t really support non-Sun products for it’s own products). Anyway, if video doens’t work, I always have serial console, I mean I’m not going to use it for a workstation. Hmm, what the hell was I going to use it for? Ehh, minor details, anyway, come on, five dollars! Now the only thing to decide is what OS am I going to put on it. I have narrowed it down to Solaris or Linux, all though, I heard Linux is crap on non-x86 arch. Maybe it yoddling for BSD. Err, I have to decide.

I find it funny how I have more Sun machines than Macs which is more than x86. (3 vs 2 vs 1). I think I’m going to build a Windows box sometime soon since I need to use that crap for some of my classes.