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More than a week ago, I received a Jury Summons from Middlesex County. No good, as I don’t live in Middlesex County. Sent the form back, checking off “No [ ]” by “1. Are you a resident of Middlesex County?” [sic].
Got one today for Somerset County. Still no good, but for a reason I simply can’t check off a box for. The idea that I have to miss class for four days doesn’t seem all that great (the summons is for “4 DAYS/1 TRIAL”).
Update: Somerset County has excused me from service this time.
Sun Ray Blog: More than meets the eye
Oh man, I want one.
So I finally install SunOS 4.1.4 (the last of the BSD flavored SunOSes). It wasn’t too bad, in fact the only difficulties that I had to deal with was the fact that format (SunOS/Solaris’ disk partitioner thing) on 4.1.4 deals with cylinders and blocks (versus megabytes, or hell, even kilobytes). After much pain, I realized that format has some “default” layout for some disks (namely the ones shipped with Sun boxen), which allowed me to make a sane disk layout without having to remember how the hell the cylinders and blocks worked out.
I was able to do a full install on the 400 MB disk. The full install includes SunView awesomeness, which I’m not able to experience (I don’t have a monitor on this system and am doing everything via serial console).
The last task is to get Y2K patches. Yes. Y2K. You heard me right the first time. If you know where I can get the patches for SunOS 4.1.4 (sun4m), please contact me. Everyone seems to mention them and say they are one some random ftp site, which no longer has them.
Update: I was able to find a site with an old SunSolve CD posted up (it’s contents is searchable). There I was able to get a list of patches then go to the real SunSolve and download them. My date is finally correct!
By the way, if anyone actually wants the 4.1.4 CD, send me a message, and I’ll post up the image. Someone else was kind enough to give me the image, might as well do the world a favor (if you can call it that).
Update: I’m stupid, Sun has the latest patch report for 4.1.4 on their patch site. Just didn’t look hard enough. Oh, and they still have all the patches.
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