[wplug] laptop decommisioned

Henry Umansky hmust2+ at pitt.edu
Fri Jan 2 12:07:09 EST 2004


Moment of silence for a fallen brethran...............May peace and 
brighter circuitry be waiting for you on the other side!!!!

--On Friday, January 02, 2004 8:56 AM -0500 Rick Smith <rick at rbsmith.com> 
wrote:r

> WPLUG'ers,
>
> Yesterday I decommisioned my laptop, which served me well for 6 1/2 years.
> It's a Toshiba 205CDS powered by a P100.  It's main OS was Linux from my
> first day of possession.
>
> It started out with Redhat 4.2, and was upgraded to RedHat 5, 5.1, and
> 5.2, and that's where it stayed.  Early on, I upgraded RAM to 40M, and
> disk to 2G, then 6G.  The kernel finally topped out at 2.0.39 after a
> long stint at 2.0.32 . I bumped it up this year to 39 to handle CIPE and
> wireless services.
>
> The box's down fall were twofold: weight (7lbs) and battery life (3
> minutes).
>
> The computing power was fine for what I need.  That some labels were worn
> off a number of keys was not a problem.  The 800x600 DSTN (not wide angle)
> screen worked well enough.  And a perfectly working suspend means it
> started up quickly from where I left off.
>
> WPLUG was there for almost all of the journey.  The machine had never
> attached through ethernet until Rob Dale typed incantations and it
> sprung to life -- connected to the Doom server.  He also convinced it to
> act as an NFS server to aid in Alex installing to a machine that had no
> CDROM.  The case proudly displayed a Penguin sticker provided by Jeremy
> Dinsel.  And daily I made use of 'screen', and later 'kibitz', both
> learned about from Mark Sikora.  When the 6G drive was new, a partition
> was reserved for putting a different distro on at every installfest that
> I could make.
>
> It will be missed.  Thanks for being part of it all.
>
> -- Rick
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